Edge of the World - Faith No More
This was one of the first albums I ever owned. I’d bought the tape after the copy I was borrowing was finally, after months, asked to be returned. Back then, barely a teen, I only had enough money to buy a tape once every few months, so when I got one, I’d play it again and again and again and again. It was actually that way up until college. Explains why I do that to this day, just put on an album I get and listen to it all the way through, repeatedly, until I’m tired of it.
This album probably also explains my weird tastes, to a large extent, as it’s comprised of early nü-metal, hard rock, a metal cover, a ballad, basically a mash of various states of rock, all housed in the same album.
This track was the “slow jam” of the album. It’s unlike any of the other songs, and yet, with Mike Patton on vocals, that no longer seems so odd, diverse as his tastes are. It’s simple, elegant, and if you listen to the lyrics, downright freaky.
It’s also a song that, over fifteen years later, still sounds just right.
