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“We Care A Lot” by Faith No More

From the album We Care a Lot (1985)

“We Care A Lot” by Faith No More appears on 33 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1987 and 2025. It was first released in 1985 on the album We Care a Lot. Its best result is #29 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1987. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #44 alternative song of 1987, #630 alternative song of all time and #338 of the '80s.

33countdowns
11stations
#29best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1987–2025years charted

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"We Care a Lot" is the title track of Faith No More's 1985 debut album, and the band never let it go: the song exists in three officially released versions spread across three different albums. The original came first, with music by Roddy Bottum and Billy Gould and words by Bottum and Chuck Mosley, and it is filed under funk metal.

Two years later the band re-recorded it with new lyrics for Introduce Yourself, where it served as the lead single and reached No. 53 in the UK. Then came a third life: a live take with Mike Patton singing, captured on Live at the Brixton Academy in 1990 and put out as a single in 1991. Patton liked to rewrite the words and toss in ad-libs whenever he sang it, the same way he treated "Chinese Arithmetic".

It became a fixture of the band's shows, trailing only "Epic" as the song they played most often in concert.

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

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1987 29 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1987 107
1987 40 WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987 99

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1988 405 Live 105 Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) 501
1988 109 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988) 200
1989 444 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) 495
1992 250 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992) 299
1994 353 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994) 497
1994 58 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1995 339 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995) 500
1995 224 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1996 377 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) 500
1996 488 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1998 309 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) 488
1999 401 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 199 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 579 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 200 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 200 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 200 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 450 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 145 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2003 379 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1375 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 379 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 145 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2005 380 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 700 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 436 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 394 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 279 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2021 762 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s 909
2023 400 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850
2025 556 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800

Also listed as: We Care a Lot; we Care a Lot; We Care a lot.

Charting alongside it in 1987

Best songs of 1987 →
  1. 1Girlfriend in a ComaThe Smiths
  2. 2With or Without YouU2
  3. 3Dear GodXTC
  4. 4Why Can't I Be You?The Cure
  5. 5StrangeloveDepeche Mode
  6. 6Lips Like SugarEcho and the Bunnymen

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