We Care a Lot
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| Studio album by Faith No More | ||||
| Released | November, 1985 | |||
| Recorded | Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, California | |||
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| Length | 34:51 | |||
| Label | Mordam | |||
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We Care a Lot is the debut studio album by American rock band Faith No More, originally released in November 1985 and distributed through San Francisco-based label Mordam Records. On the original vinyl release, the band is credited as "Faith. No More." on the album's liner notes, back cover, and on the record itself.
The title track "We Care a Lot" was later rerecorded for their follow-up album Introduce Yourself and released as their first single. This later version of the song was incorrectly listed as the original and the album Introduce Yourself was also listed as the début in the sleeve notes for some subsequent releases, such as the 1998 compilation Who Cares a Lot?.
The band is known to have re-recorded only one song from We Care a Lot in the studio with current singer, Mike Patton, on vocals. "As the Worm Turns" was recorded during the Angel Dust sessions.
However, a number of live recordings of songs from this album with Patton on vocals have been officially released over the years.
A later recording of "We Care a Lot" (from the album Introduce Yourself) is used as the theme song for the Discovery Channel's show Dirty Jobs, hosted by Mike Rowe.
The band initially started recording the album without backing from a record label and, after pooling their money, recorded five songs. This gained the attention of Ruth Schwartz (who was then forming the independent label Mordam Records) under which the band (after receiving the finances to do so) finished and released the album. It was the first official release for both the band and the label.
The album was recorded in a short space of time on a low budget. In a 2015 interview, bassist Billy Gould reflected "There are probably things we could have done better, but at the same time I think that the performances were pretty damned good. And that had to do with us keeping focused and needing to work within those budget restrictions. We rehearsed quite a lot before we went in to record, so we were ready."
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