A Small Victory?

Evidence
Faith No More
King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime [1995]
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Thru' These Architects Eyes
David Bowie
Outside [1995]
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Here's a couple "rock" tracks - and out of utter coincidence, they are both from 1995.

Faith No More has a huge following. I knew who they were even before I began listening to them, somehow I ended up with a huge Faith No More euro-tour poster in my room when I was 10 years old, go figure. It wasn't until I reached college [at 18 years old] that I really started listening to them via a few good freshman year buddies. And though 'Easy like Sunday Morning' was played each and every Sunday [to the assured annoyance of our dorm neighbors] - it was King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime that really held the true rotation [funny enough, it battled Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity for the most played album of that time and place]. 'Evidence' was a tough choice as my favorite track on the album, duking it out only with 'King for a Day.' Almost all Faith No More fans have now migrated to listening to Mike Patton's insane antics under the moniker of 'Mr. Bungle' - some of it's just annoying samples of car doors slamming - but other moments ['Desert Search for a Techno Allah' comes to mind] are pure genius.

David Bowie. Wow, how the hell do you introduce the man? I think that it was best done in the movie Zoolander, right before the 'walk-off' ["it's a walk-off Billy Zane!]. I can't really say that I am a true fan of Bowie - I really like the guy - but I didn't pay any mind to him until he released Outside in 1995. Outside was a completely different kind of Bowie album - at the time the man was reinventing himself by associating his work with the likes of Trent Reznor - being the fan of Reznor that I was, I learned about Bowie. Like I said, Outside was different - the entire album is a narrative of a murder mystery starring Bowie as the main character, Detective 'Nathan Adler.' It's a dark story about sex-crime, murder, minataurs and 8 men with metal parts. It was supposed to be the first chapter of 5 - alas, these subsequent chapters never appeared. The musical style is a bold departure from Bowie's former work - and produced with a very industrial attitude [which is why I gravitated towards it to begin with]. 'Thru These Architects Eyes' is a melancholy track which feels like you're driving through a rainstorm and eventually driving out of it - by far, my favorite track on the album. I would recommend picking up this album just for the neat little story alone which is printed on the album art just like a book, only the last page holds the disk itself.

As always, Enjoy.