“From Out Of Nowhere” by Faith No More

"From Out Of Nowhere" was the first single Faith No More pulled from The Real Thing, their third album, in 1989, and the first to put Mike Patton's voice out front. Roddy Bottum and Billy Gould wrote the music, Patton wrote the words, and the band produced it with Matt Wallace, who also engineered and mixed. Bottum's on keyboards, Gould on bass, Jim Martin on guitar and Mike Bordin on drums.

Britain was slow to catch on: released there on 30 October 1989, it missed the chart altogether, then came back on 2 April 1990, after "Epic" had broken through, and climbed to 23. It got two very different videos as well: in the first, Patton sports sunglasses, a black undershirt and camo shorts; in the second, the cut that made the home-video releases, he's in a black-and-blue coat over spandex shorts.

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