I don't care what year this CD actually came out - this is album of the year in '06 in my books. Between the ridiculous groove of "Mouth to Mouth" and the amazing grace and electronic haze of "Stripsearch", I've been having a really hard time taking this out of my CD player; I usually only take it out to put it into a different player.

But yeah, go buy this. Seriously.

Everything Mike Patton touches is golden.  If you like that cd (And Faith No More in general), look up the following bands (Mike Patton has had something to do with all of them):

Mike Patton
Tomahawk (Hard rock)
Mr. Bungle (Experimental and quirky)
Fantomas (Experimental)
Peeping Tom (2006, check this out it's really good stuff)
The Dillinger Escape Plan (Mathcore/Hardcore) -- He sang vocals for the Irony is a Dead Scene EP before he once again moved on to do his own thing.  His influence on the group and their music is clearly audible in their Miss Machine LP from 2005, and hands down the best release of 2005 as far as music goes

~jb

Yeah, Patton is amazing! I have Peeping Tom and other FNM CDs, but I haven't rocked the Tomahawk yet - the next disc on my "to get" list. However, I will say that Disco Vilante by Mr. Bungle is the most beautifully vile album I've ever heard. I should check out that Dillinger album ASAP...

Also, did you drop jaw when you heard "Sucker" for the first time on Peeping Tom?

My jaw dropped on that whole album. 

Tomahawk is a bit non-standard Patton.  It's pretty much just straight rock with not much experimenting. 

Dillinger Escape Plan, be forewarned, is very heavy intricate hardcore, lots of screaming etc (mathcore, some call it, because of the intricacies of the instrumentation) and though the styles may have similiarities with pattons work, the sound is not what you'd be used to if you are more into the experimental techno side of his work =p.  It is still amazing nonetheless.

So then, just to humor the uninitiated, why don't you guys tell us more about this Patton? Instrumentalist or vocalist? Indie or mainstream? That sort of thing.

Mike Patton is a revolutionary vocalist and songwriter. He was in the band Faith no More for a while and then decided to explore other "options", which gave him a reputation for doing a whole bunch of wacky and experimentalistic shit. He collaborated with a ton of people, from Norah Jones to the Xecutioners to Dave Lombardo (drummer for Slayer) and about a million others in between.

I'm not being sarcastic when I say that most vocalists (that aren't awful) are either ripping Patton off or are giving him credit for being one of their main influences. Basically, Patton = the best. Ever.

He's a vocalist, kind of mainstream indie if that means anything.  You can check up more info than I can tell you about him here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am … d0yl18xpzb

He has a rather prolific career and is rather well received and renowned amongst ... whatever that community is.

~jb

I've got one of his collaborating project albums and a few albums that feature him, also heard some of that bungle stuff, but man I didn't know he collaborated with so many artists. I'll check it out soon.

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Heh, I don't know if I'd use the word "refined" on this guy...Seems he's quite the showman.

(taken from wiki)

During the 1992 Angel Dust tour with Guns N' Roses:
At one show in Lisbon, Faith No More invited the audience to throw garbage on stage. Patton then rummaged around and ate some of the trash.

At another show in South America, the crowd was throwing empty plastic water bottles at Faith No More. Someone threw a bottle on-stage that had urine in it. Mike Patton opened the bottle and poured the contents over his head, plunging the entire audience into shocked silence.

Patton defecated in an orange juice carton and then sealed it and returned it to Axl Rose's tourbus vending machine.

During the MTV Music Awards performance of Epic in 1990, Patton flopped around on stage like the controversial dying fish from the video.

At a 1995 concert in Chile, the excited crowd began to spit on Faith No More. Patton encouraged this and even invited people to spit in his open mouth while singing. Patton stated in a recent interview he would love to come back to Chile (2006).

During a European tour, Patton defecated on a park bench in front of Kensington Palace.

Patton became notorious for talking about his sexual habits in the press. He was also photographed wearing a t-shirt bearing the image of a man engaging in glory hole fellatio and self-masturbation with the slogan "Girls are OK--but they're not the real thing."

During a Faith No More concert, Patton took off his boot, urinated in it, and then drank it.

Patton regularly did flips while singing on stage. He often landed on his back, but would get right up and continue singing without interuption.

Patton and Faith No More were famous for showing their disdain for MTV, on MTV. This can be seen in the Hanging with MTV performance during the Angel Dust era, where the band continuously interrupted a flustered VJ while she was trying to introduce Guns N' Roses' November Rain.

Patton, (whilst with Faith No More) during their encore, played their classic tune EPIC at the Phoenix Festival 1993, Stratford upon Avon, Mike whilst singing - urinated all over the security staff at the front of the stage, infront of a 58,000 strong crowd.

In 2002, Patton, this time fronting Tomahawk at the London Astoria, again exposed his penis and urinated on a bunch of photographers. Officials at the venue were horrified, but Patton claimed after the show that it was merely a squirting d---o he'd shoved in his pants before going on-stage. The admission seemed to satisfy the press. However, in a recent interview Patton was asked if it was real or not and was quoted as saying, "There's a dick. There's piss. You do the math."

Yeah, Patton is an animal.

It's also really interesting to see the band's eventual progression from "The Real Thing" to "Album of the Year". Personally, I like the later stuff better, but that's just me.

Edit: found this video on YT showing FNM busting up the VJ's lines on an old school MTV show. Typical Patton tomfoolery. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qd0tUrpSLZM

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Corgan pwns Patton

lol that's funny.  Melodramatic whiny d-bag.  Only guy who's more melodramatic and whiny is Thom Yorke.  Cry more.

All I meant is that musically, he's more talented. Artistically I believe the same, but that's more of a subjective thing. Complaining about Corgan's "whine" is the most cliched of complaints about Corgan, very 1995 Btw, I never said Patton wasn't incredibly talented.

Tomahawk is mostly crap, sadly. Pretty much the same with Album of the Year, so I think you'll like Tomahawk too.

Everything by Mr. Bungle is pure genious. Everything by Fantômas is either pure genious or intriguing crap. Patton's just like that, everything he's a part of is either wonderful music or complete shit, and of course this seems to depend on the person. His collaboration with X-ecutioners was cool, and Peeping Tom continues in the same intriguing line of experimenting on MTV music styles. Also his solo albums and the project with Kaada are really good too.

I have to repeat, though, FNM only had two excellent albums, Angel Dust and King for a Day, the rest are more or less uninteresting crap, no matter how I try to listen to them.