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Fort Minor vs Faith No More - Remember Epic
Mixed by DJ Topcat
Fort Minor is a hip-hop side project created by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park . The group's first album is entitled The Rising Tied . The Rising Tied is the first project from Fort Minor, the album was released on November 22 , 2005 through Machine Shop Recordings . As of May 14, 2006, the album has sold 189,000 copies. Recording the solo album late into 2004, and first words came in December, when he mentioned the album out of context in interviews. In addition to the confirmed artists already on the bill for the album, Shinoda is rumoured to have met with Snoop Dogg , Ice Cube , Musiq and more. As well as producing the CD, Shinoda played every instrument on all the tracks that made it into the final cut (minus the strings). An exclusive listening party of 5 of the impending tracks was held on April 13 , 2005 with an audience of all the most credible online hip-hop press. All of the music on The Rising Tied was composed , produced and mixed by Shinoda alone. Only two other members of the Linkin Park band are involved with The Rising Tied ; guitarist Brad Delson helped do the A&R work for the album and DJ Joe Hahn was featured on one song. The Rising Tied was released on November 22 , 2005 with the song "Petrified" believed to be the lead single in the U.S.; as for the UK & Australia, "Believe Me" was the single. The following is the confirmed tracklisting on The Rising Tied :
Faith No More was an alternative metal / rock group that formed in San Francisco , California in 1982 and disbanded in 1998 . Their music combined elements of heavy metal , pop , rap and funk . Faith No More formed in 1982 out of the ashes of Faith No Man , a band formed and headed by Mike "The Man" Morris. Roddy Bottum , Mike Bordin , and Bill Gould left Faith No Man. They chose the name Faith No More at the suggestion of a friend (as "The Man" was no more ). After cycling through a few guitarists, the members recruited Jim Martin . A number of singers were tried, including a six month stint by Courtney Love as confirmed by Mike Bordin in a 1997 interview . An airing on San Franciso Public Access TV has since surfaced of her performing with the band during their alleged "Goth phase". Chuck Mosley would later became the band's full time singer and appeared on their first two records. A well known song from this era is probably " We Care a Lot " satirized the prevalence of charity -related rock efforts such as Live Aid and " We Are the World ". The band gained a reputation for serious infighting and friction. In a notorious interview [ citation needed ] in 1987 , Mosley claimed that Martin had hit him with a bottle, and there were frequent rumours of physical confrontations between band members. Indeed, in a short history of the band in one issue, the British music newspaper Melody Maker observed that the band's internal relationships had descended into "pathological hatred". Bordin in particular seemed to be very much the "whipping boy" of the band and the butt of numerous cruel pranks and practical jokes. It is doubtful that the band would have stayed together had they not been successful after their second album, Introduce Yourself . Mosley was fired in 1988 , and replaced with singer Mike Patton , who was singing with his old high school band Mr. Bungle . Patton dropped out of Humboldt State University to join Faith No More and went on to record the Grammy award winning album The Real Thing . The Real Thing (or TRT for short) has been described as "not quite early Brian Eno joins Led Zeppelin and Funkadelic ." [1] The video for "Epic", which featured slow motion footage of a fish flopping out of water, received extensive airplay on MTV in the summer of 1990 , despite provoking anger from animal rights activists. That same year, Faith No More gave memorable performances at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards ( September 6 ) and on Saturday Night Live (December 1). Faith No More displayed a distinctly experimental bent on their next album, Angel Dust . One critic writes that the album is "one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label," [2] and another writes that "'A Small Victory', which seems to run Madame Butterfly through Metallica and Nile Rodgers … reveals a developing facility for combining unlikely elements into startlingly original concoctions." [3] Angel Dust featured the singles "Midlife Crisis" and "A Small Victory", as well as a re-recording of the theme to the film Midnight Cowboy . Later pressings of the album also included their cover of the Commodores classic "Easy", which in some parts of the world became the band's biggest hit. Angel Dust , though not as successful as TRT in the U.S., sold 700,000 copies there, and did manage to outsell TRT in many other world charts. In Germany, for example, the record was certified Gold for sales of more than 270,000 copies. Along with heavy airplay of "Easy" and "Midlife Crisis", the album became a bit of a sleeper hit in the U.K., South America, Europe and Australia. After touring to support Angel Dust in the summer of 1992 , longtime guitarist Jim Martin left the band during the early stages of recording their follow-up, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime in 1995 . He was replaced by Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance , who also left soon after; just before the band was to begin their world tour. Spruance was replaced by Dean Menta , the band's keyboard roadie. KFAD/FFAL remains the band's most heavily criticised album, varying in styles and moods from heavy and slow to spasmodic and jazzy. KFAD/FFAL did however sell acceptably in the U.K., Germany and Australia. In the U.S. the album failed to get any sort of attraction or following, slipping out of the charts quickly. Sales (about 1.5 million) were below that of Angel Dust . The band accordingly decided to cut their world tour short by 4 months, deleted the singles "Gentle Art Of Making Enemies" and "Take This Bottle", and released a 7 x 7-inch box set of singles that included the B-sides and some interviews between the songs. Album of the Year was released in 1997 and featured yet another new guitarist, Jon Hudson , who was a former roommate of Billy Gould. The album debuted much higher than expected in some countries, for example Germany (#2, later going gold) and Australia (#1, going platinum). In an additional 12 countries in Europe, it went either gold or platinum. In the U.S. the reaction was slow for the album; however, just as interest was picking up on their tours and album they called it a day. Singles "Ashes To Ashes" and "Last Cup Of Sorrow" had minimal success. Electro-tinged ballad "Stripsearch" was released as a single in various countries (excluding the U.S. and U.K.). "She Loves Me Not" was cancelled as a single which was a little indicator of their imminent break-up. In April 1998 , after 16 years as a band, Faith No More dissolved. This text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia articles "Fort Minor" and "Faith No More".
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