Album · Faith No More
King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime by Faith No More
King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime is an album by Faith No More, released in 1995. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Evidence”, on 1 list with a best position of #29.
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, Faith No More's fifth album, came out on Slash and Reprise in March 1995, and it was their first without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton's bandmate in Mr. Bungle, stepped in to play on it, while Andy Wallace produced. The sessions were hardly smooth: the band were in a car accident, and keyboardist Roddy Bottum was absent, shaken by the deaths of his father and of Kurt Cobain.
What came out the other end is a gleeful mess in the best sense, a record that careens from genre to genre like the band are channel-surfing: Patton crooning, then shrieking, Billy Gould's bass and Mike Bordin's drums pounding away underneath. "Digging the Grave", "Ricochet" and "Evidence" were the singles. Reviews were mixed at the time, with the genre-hopping held against it, but later critics came round, and it has since turned up on a number of best-of lists.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evidence | 1 | #29 | – | 1995 | |
| 2 | Digging the Grave | 1 | #91 | – | 1995 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.