King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by the rock band Faith No More, released on March 13, 1995, by Slash and Reprise Records. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. The album showcased a variety of musical genres. King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime spawned three singles: Digging the Grave, Ricochet and Evidence.
King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York. Writing and rehearsing the songs for the album took eight to nine months, although half of this time was also spent finding a replacement for Martin. Recording for the album took an additional three months, for which the band hired producer Andy Wallace. Wallace had previously worked with Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Slayer. The band used art from Eric Drooker‘s graphic novel Flood for the album’s cover and those of its singles.
Tracklist:
- Get Out
- Ricochet
- Evidence
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
- Star A.D.
- Cuckoo for Caca
- Caralho Voador
- Ugly in the Morning
- Digging the Grave
- Take This Bottle
- King for a Day
- What a Day
- The Last to Know
- Just a Man
Bonus tracks - Absolute Zero (Japanese bonus track)
- I Started a Joke (Brazilian bonus track) (Gibb brothers)
- Evidence (Spanish) (Argentinian bonus track)
Faith No More
Mike Patton: vocals
Trey Spruance: guitars
Billy Gould: bass, guitars
Roddy Bottum: keyboards, guitars
Mike Bordin: drums
Production
Andy Wallace: producer, engineer, mixer
Clif Norrell: engineer
Chris Laidlaw: assistant engineer
Howie Weinberg: audio mastering
Melinda Maniscalco: art direction and design
Robin Whiteside: production design
Eric Drooker: illustration
Marko Lavrisha: photography
