Caca Volante News

Are you jealous of your west coast friends and their Coachella tickets? Here’s a way you can fill that FNM void:
A Small Victory, the east coast’s best (and only) Faith No More tribute band, will be performing on Friday, March 5th at Connolly’s Klub 45 room in Manhattan. Details follow below. We may not be the real thing, but we’re the next best thing.
When: 3/05/10, 10pm
Where: Connolly’s Klub 45 Room, 121 W 45th St (between 6th and 7th Aves)
Cover: $10
www.myspace.com/asmallvictorynyc
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Playing their first show in the US since 1997, Faith No More has been confirmed to play the Coachella festival on Saturday, April 17th.

No word yet on additional US dates.

No, that’s not a joke, there’s yet another Faith No More greatest hits album coming out June 1st, and it’s really called “The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits.”

CD 1 – Fully Remastered Tracks

• The Real Thing
• From Out Of Nowhere
• Epic
• We Care A Lot
• R’n’R
• Kindergarten
• Caffeine
• Land Of Sunshine
• Be Aggressive
• Midlife Crisis
• A Small Victory
• Everythings Ruined
• Evidence
• Digging The Grave
• Ricochet
• Ashes To Ashes
• Stripsearch
• Easy

CD 2 – B-Sides, Covers and Rarities

• Absolute Zero (B-side on ‘Digging The Grave’ single 1995)
• The Big Kahuna (B-side on ‘Ashes To Ashes’ single 1997)
• Light Up And Let Go (B-side on ‘Ashes To Ashes’ single 1997)
• I Won’t Forget You (Rarity previously released on Who Cares A Lot? Greatest Hits album 1998)
• The World Is Yours (B-side on ‘I Started A Joke’ single 1998)
• Hippie Jam Song (Rarity previously released on Who Cares A Lot? Greatest Hits album 1998)
• Sweet Emotion (Given away with Kerrang! Magazine in 1989)
• New Improved Song (Given away with Sounds Magazine In 1988)
• Das Schutzenfest (B-side on Evidence Single 1995)
• This Guy’s In Love With You (B-side on ‘I Started A Joke’ single 1998)

iTunes Exclusive Tracks

• Spanish Eyes (B-side on ‘Ricochet’ single 1995)
• I Started A Joke (Single released on Who Cares A Lot? Greatest Hits album 1998)

If you want a copy for free, Thrash Hits is giving away five copies.

Thanks to mik kime for sending this along.

Liberal political commentator, Rachel Maddow, mentioned Mr. Bungle on her MSNBC show yesterday.

She was talking about disambiguation and Wikipedia. If you type in “Vanity Fair,” she says, “You can find an entry on the magazine, or the book… or Mr. Bungle’s Vanity Fair, which isn’t their best work…”

I haven’t found a clip of this online yet, but if someone finds one, please send it along and I’ll attach it to this post.

Many thanks to Steve Hart for providing the context in which the band was mentioned.

Update: Allan Sheard sent over the URL to the video.  The mention comes within the first minute or so.

This morning Billy shared a photo of their rehearsal space.

Roddy drove up to San Francisco from Los Angeles today to rehearse with the band.   He promised photos when he arrived and posted these shots of the individual members on TwitPic.  This is the closest we’ve gotten to a reunion photo so far.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD recently recorded a cover version of the BLACK SABBATH classic “Paranoid” for the new Warner Music Group release “Covered, A Revolution In Sound: Warner Bros. Records”, which came out on February 24. [...] AVENGED vocalist M. Shadows told U.K.’s Metal Hammer magazine that the band originally wanted to cover MR. BUNGLE’s 1991 track “Strubb [sic] (A Dub)” for the compilation before settling on“Paranoid”. “We were very excited to cover a song from MR. BUNGLE, but then we were told that there was a list of songs that we could cover, not choose anything Warner’s had put out,” Shadows revealed.

Was this because Warner Bros. still hates Mr. Bungle or just coincidence?

Via BLABBERMOUTH.NET

Twitter has been around for over two years, but it seems to have reached critical mass recently.

Billy Gould (@mrgould) started using it to communicate about the Faith No More reunion.  Then Roddy Bottom (@roddybottom) joined.  Even Chuck Mosley (@chuckmosley) has an account now.  With the launch of the new website, Ipecac Recordings (@ipecacrec) is now on Twitter as well.

I often come across things of interest, but don’t get around to posting them until it’s old news or I’ve forgotten about them entirely.  So, with the recent popularity of Twitter, I realized that I can send out tweets much more frequently and more timely than I can update this site.  So for fresh content, follow @CacaVolante on Twitter.

If you weren’t able to get a copy of the March 11th issue of Kerrang!, here’s a composite of the article:

Thanks to “Mr John” for the scans.

I try to keep up with what’s going on with the FNM reunion, but to make sure you get all the information, there are a couple of other blogs that you should be reading, if you’re not already.

• stubbadub by Josh Hessel
  News about WoM, Ipecac, Mr Bungle, FNM & related bands & musicians
• Faith No More 2.0 by Adrian Harte
  All about the Faith No More reunion

If there are other blogs actively covering the Faith No More reunion, please let me know.