Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos is a greatest hits retrospective compilation video album by American rock band Faith No More. It was released on video home system following the band's April 1998 breakup and is a companion to the greatest hits album Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits.[1]
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| Released | February 23, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1986–1998 | |||
| Genre | Alternative metal, experimental rock, funk metal, alternative rock, avant-garde | |||
| Length | 89:14 | |||
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| Director | Various | |||
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The VHS was originally scheduled for release on February 9, 1999,[2] but was delayed to February 23, 1999.[3][4] It was issued by Slash Records and London Records via Polygram Video in Britain and Europe, and Slash Records and Reprise Records via Warner Reprise Video in North America.[5] In 2006, Rhino Entertainment re-released the video on DVD, packaged as a double disc with You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy under the title Double Feature: Live at the Brixton Academy, London (You Fat Bastards) / Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos.
The release contains nearly all of the band's music videos, with the exception of ones for "Ricochet," "Another Body Murdered," and an alternate video for "From Out of Nowhere". The first half of the video is taken directly from Faith No More's 1993 VHS release, Video Croissant (from "Midlife Crisis" to "Easy"), which covered footage from the band's first three Slash Records releases, Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing, and Angel Dust. The second half includes videos from the band's (at the time) final two albums, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime and Album of the Year. It also includes a music video for "I Started a Joke," which was produced to promote the Who Cares a Lot? releases in 1998, and a live video of "This Guy's in Love with You," which was performed by the band on their last tour.
Critical reception
edit| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [6] |
Billboard's Catherine Applefeld Olson describes the release as a collection of "some of the band's most attention-grabbing, groundbreaking clips." She also praises the inclusion of miscellaneous content that "devotees of the band will savor […] like scraps of gold."[1]
Denise Sullivan of AllMusic mainly deplores the track listing order which puts the "worst" music videos "first". However she still notes some "bright spots" on the collection, such as the "uncharacteristically high-budget clip for 'A Small Victory.'"[6]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Director(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Midlife Crisis" | Kevin Kerslake | ||
| 2. | "Epic" |
| Ralph Ziman | |
| 3. | "Falling to Pieces" |
| Ralph Ziman | |
| 4. | "Anne's Song" |
| Tamara Davis | |
| 5. | "We Care a Lot" |
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| 6. | "Surprise! You're Dead!" |
| Billy Gould | |
| 7. | "From Out of Nowhere" |
| Doug Freel | |
| 8. | "A Small Victory" |
| Marcus Nispel | |
| 9. | "Everything's Ruined" |
| Kevin Kerslake | |
| 10. | "Caffeine" (Live on Hangin' with MTV) |
| MTV | |
| 11. | "Easy" | Barry McGuire | ||
| 12. | "Digging the Grave" | Marcus Raboy | ||
| 13. | "Evidence" |
| Walter A. Stern | |
| 14. | "Stripsearch" |
| Philip Stoltz | |
| 15. | "Last Cup of Sorrow" |
| Joseph Khan | |
| 16. | "Ashes to Ashes" |
| Tim Royes | |
| 17. | "I Started a Joke" | Vito Rocco | ||
| 18. | "This Guy's in Love with You" (Live on MTV Europe) | MTV | ||
| Total length: | 1:21:00 | |||
- "Stripsearch" and "This Guy's in Love with You" are not listed on the back cover or tape sticker.
- The cover states that the running time is 120 minutes, however, the correct running time is 81 minutes.
Personnel
editCredits are adapted from the compilation video album's liner notes.
- Faith No More
- Billy Gould – electric bass guitar, backing vocals
- Mike Bordin – drums, congas, backing vocals
- Roddy Bottum – keyboards, backing vocals
- Chuck Mosley – vocals (tracks 4–5)
- Jim Martin – electric guitar, backing vocals (tracks 1–11)
- Mike Patton – vocals (tracks 1–3, 6–18)
- Trey Spruance – electric guitar (audio only, tracks 12–13)
- Dean Menta – electric guitar (tracks 12–13, 17)
- Jon Hudson – electric guitar (tracks 14–16, 18)
- Production
- Jigsaw (London) – graphic design
- London Records – packaging design
References
edit- ^ a b Applefeld Olson, Catherine (February 13, 1999). "Home Video". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 42. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "New Releases". Reprise Records. December 2, 1998. Archived from the original on December 2, 1998. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
- ^ "New Releases". Reprise Records. January 28, 1999. Archived from the original on January 28, 1999. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
- ^ "Faith No More Resurface on Home Video". MTV News. January 14, 1999. Archived from the original on April 21, 1999. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
- ^ "Summer music forecast: Fair skies". Quad-City Times. February 4, 1999. Retrieved May 31, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Sullivan, Denise. "Who Cares a Lot: Greatest Videos Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
External links
edit- Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos at AllMusic
- Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos at Discogs (list of releases)
- Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
