We care a lot (about this vicious cycle we're stuck in)
Do you ever hear a song that reminds you so specifically of a time in your life that the hair on the back of your neck stands up? Happened to me last night, when through random chance this song came up on my playlist. I owned the vinyl new and at some point in the CD shift, I had the album burned to CD. I haven't listened to it in probably ten years. Listened to it five times last night, thinking about our five-year Fiasco in Iraq anniversary. Sure, when Faith No More released this song, we weren't in the first Gulf War yet, but in the spring of 1991, I was volunteering as a DJ on the college radio station and whenever we ran news about the Desert Storm invasion, I used to play this song. Said something to me about a whole gamut of problems. 17 years later it still does. Some of the cultural references are dated, but we've still got the same batch of crap going on: war in Iraq, chaos and death in Darfur, shuttle disasters, New Orleans, HIV, drugs and guns. (And wasn't Faith No More kick ass when Chuck Mosely was their singer?)
We care a lot
about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
about the NASA shuttle falling in the sea
We care a lot
about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
We care a lot
about disease, baby, Rock Hudson, rock
Yeah!
Well it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it
We care a lot
about the gamblers and the pushers and the geeks
We care a lot
about the smack and crack and whack that hits the streets
We care a lot
about the welfare of all you boys and girls
We care a lot
about you people 'cause we're out to save the world
Yeah!
Well it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it
We care a lot
about the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines
We care a lot
about the NY, SF, and LA PD
We care a lot
about you people
We care a lot
about your guns
We care a lot
about the wars we're fighting,
gee, that looks like fun
We care a lot
about the Garbage Pail Kids, they never lie
We care a lot
about Transformers 'cause there's more than meets the eye
We care a lot
about the little things, the bigger things we top
We care a lot
about you people, yeah, you bet we care a lot
Well it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Well it's a dirty song but someone's gotta sing it
Comments
LOL I had this (or maybe I still do) on a tape that my friend TB made me in, I dunno....1986? But yeah, I liked this much better than that kook Mike whatever his crazy ass is that my friend was in love with (birds of a feather, you know)
Trying to think of what song I posted a couple months ago that was frighteningly still relevant like this one.
Didn't Chuck get kicked out for getting into a gunfight with the rest of the band on an Airplane or something equally strange?
Mike Patton always struck me as friendlier, but even more strange than Chuck.
I think the problem wasn't the singer, it's the band.
As for the song, itself: almost as sarcastic as a Waitresses song, but not as sarcastic as an issue of Ben Is Dead.
...and I'll skate to the beach, and look better getting there!
So, I take it you like "Anne's Song" too?
My only problem with Faith No More was their unpredictability. Don't get me wrong, I like a few surprises, but too many time signature changes in one four minute song and you're listening to a bad Frank Zappa cover, you know?
Still, in the late 1980's FNM seemed like a more enlightened alternative to the Red Hot Sex Offenders....
As for the pantyhose and shoes only ....bleah ....