Song of the Day 10/22: Faith No More, “Falling to Pieces”

From all reports, Donald Trump has gone from sounding like the guy at the end of the bar to the guy who lives under the bridge. It won’t cost him any votes, of course, but it does bring up the prospect of an epic power struggle among Republicans should he win. It will be a mad scramble, just like Trump’s brain.

Faith No More had a weird career. They hit their popular peak in 1989 with the LP “The Real Thing,” their first with singer Mike Patton. Their aggro post-punk approach got them lumped in with bands like Poison and Guns N’ Roses, which they hated so much they put out an experimental follow-up just to alienate such fans. “Falling to Pieces” was released as a single and just eked into the Hot 100, but the band soon refused to play it in concert. Faith No More broke up in the late ’90s but reunited briefly a decade later. COVID upended a planned tour in 2020, and Patton later backed out for mental health reasons, so the band might be a thing of the past.