// 010 // SLAP BASS HAPPY // FROM OUT OF NOWHERE // FAITH NO MORE

Faith No More's album 'The Real Thing' was another one of those hot tapes that got passed around from person to person.  It sounded kind of different to the usual metal stuff we were listening to - almost poppy, which as you will recall was a no-go area for us - but it was okay, because Metal Hammer and Kerrang were writing about them.  They even *gasp* sang love songs.  

This album is one of those super-nostalgic records - one that sound tracked an exact moment in time - the summer between finishing my GCSEs and starting my A - Levels.  Without coming over all 'Stand By Me' it was a great summer, filled with great friends with stupid nick-names (Bod, Bish, Bobo, Crip, Taff...) my first (unrequited) crush and that time we went to see a dead body but got hassled by Keifer Sutherland...

Also, hanging out watching Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes and being exposed to music videos for more or less the first time - ones that you couldn't find anywhere else and certainly weren't shown on Top Of The Pops, which never showed any metal anyway (apart from the odd Iron Maiden track) and suddenly VHS tapes were being traded as eagerly as C90s.