“Last Cup of Sorrow” by Faith No More

"Last Cup of Sorrow" sits third on Album of the Year, Faith No More's sixth studio album, and went out as a single in August 1997, after "Ashes to Ashes". Billy Gould and Mike Patton wrote it, with Patton on lead vocals, Gould on bass, Jon Hudson on guitar, Roddy Bottum on keyboards and Mike Bordin on drums. Gould produced it with the band and Roli Mosimann, who also mixed. The vocal has a trick up its sleeve: Gould said Patton sang through an old Telefunken tube mic and they crushed it with heavy compression.

Joseph Kahn's video borrows from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, a film the band loved, and was shot in San Francisco in mid-1997; the single's artwork nods to the film's original poster too. It reached 14 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

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