“Falling to Pieces” by Faith No More

"Falling to Pieces" was the third single Faith No More lifted from The Real Thing, their third album, and it's the band in full funk-metal swing: Mike Patton on lead vocals and lyrics, over music Roddy Bottum, Billy Gould and Jim Martin wrote together. Bottum's keyboards, Gould's bass, Martin's guitar and Mike Bordin's drums fill out the lineup, and Matt Wallace produced it with the band and mixed it.

It got to 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 40 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, but the band never warmed to it. At the 1993 Phoenix Festival Gould introduced it as the last time they'd ever play it, and it barely surfaced again until a Rio de Janeiro show in 2009; years later he flatly dismissed it as a song that bores them on stage.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.