- alternative rock, rock, alternative metal
- 83 min
- 20 tracks
- Liberation Records
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by American rock band Faith No More, released on March 13, 1995, by Slash and Reprise Records. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. The album showcased a variety of musical genres, with Rolling Stone calling the result a "genre shuffle". King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime spawned three singles: "Digging the Grave", "Ricochet" and "Evidence".
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Character
Spare, contemporary, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- The Austin Chronicle3/5 ★
- The Buffalo News3.5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyC−
- Los Angeles Daily News2.5/4 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- Q3/5 ★
- Record Collector5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone2/5 ★
- Select3/5
- Spin6/10
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Tracks
- 1Get Out2:18
- 2Ricochet4:29
- 3Evidence4:54
- 4The Gentle Art of Making Enemies3:29
- 5Star A.D.3:24
- 6Cuckoo for Caca3:43
- 7Caralho voador4:02
- 8Ugly in the Morning3:06
- 9Digging the Grave3:05
- 10Take This Bottle4:59
- 11King for a Day6:36
- 12What a Day2:38
- 13The Last to Know4:28
- 14Just a Man5:37
- 1The Morning After3:43
- 2Das schutzenfest2:60
- 3Malpractice4:02
- 4RV (live)3:51
- 5A Small Victory (Youth remix)7:21
- 6Absolute Zero4:07
20 tracks, 83 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Faith No More
- Label
- Liberation Records
- Released
- 1995
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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