King for a day POLL for a lifetime

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May as well. Overall the weakest of FNM's post-Real Thing releases IMO. Some great tracks, but it doesn't at all cohere as an album.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Digging the Grave	3
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies	3
Ricochet	2
Just a Man	1
King For a Day	1
What a Day	1
Cuckoo For Caca	1
Evidence	1
Take This Bottle	1
The Last to Know	0
Ugly in The Morning	0
Caralho Voador	0
Star AD	0
Get Out	0

― chap, Friday, 27 March 2009 01:33 (seventeen years ago)

The correct answer is probably Ricochet. Probably.

― chap, Friday, 27 March 2009 01:42 (seventeen years ago)

weakest? got to disagree with you there. it's a very close tie with angel dust for their best album, imo. so many goodnesses here...could easily be get out, gentle art, cuckoo, ugly, king for a day or last to know.

but I'll go with my first instinct and say just a man, even though the fade-out is something of a travesty. especially when you consider how amazing the live endings of that song were.

― m the g, Friday, 27 March 2009 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

Haven't heard this since 199?-whatever. A quick run through the amazon.com samples reminds me I used to listen to "Digging the Grave" a lot while delivering pizzas.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 March 2009 09:07 (seventeen years ago)

The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies.

Saw them on their 1997 tour, they were still awesome even though the momentum had waned.

― Marty Innerlogic, Friday, 27 March 2009 11:52 (seventeen years ago)

"gentle art" although yeah I think this is a brilliant album. i didn't pick up on them during angel dust or whatever but this was my jam in 95 or whenever it came out

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 March 2009 11:55 (seventeen years ago)

"digging the grave" is amazing too!

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 March 2009 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

just a man.

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Friday, 27 March 2009 13:43 (seventeen years ago)

i listened to this a lot when i was first getting drunk at 12 years old.

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Friday, 27 March 2009 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

i need to dl this, think i only have it on cassette

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 27 March 2009 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Still my favorite of theirs and I think it's 100% because Trey Spruance plays on it. "Cuckoo for Caca" got the young dumb me where I needed to go back in the day, but I think I'll vote for the title track today.

― Lie Bot, Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

not a very good album. hmmm, haven't listened in a few years, so it's a bit strange looking over these tracks that i used to know so well and feeling totally removed them. the track i regard the most favourably these days might even be 'digging the grave'. used to love the track 'king for a day', but i think of it now as a bit gimmicky and forced.

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 2 April 2009 05:19 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 2 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Cuckoo for Caca all the way. You can tell it's Patton wanting to be Patton. YEEEEEAAAAAGGGHHHH

― splattergories (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 April 2009 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

ten years pass...

I think the work from home delirium is finally kicking in. Sitting here listening to this album and turning every song into an ad jingle. 'Evidence' into 'Efferdent', 'What a Day' into 'One a Day' (for the good people at Centrum). It's sick. It's just sick.

― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 March 2020 19:09 (six years ago)

one year passes...

Increasingly I think the answer might be The Last to Know. Just an excellent hard rock song, and I'm sad it didn't get any votes.

― chap, Thursday, 27 May 2021 11:07 (five years ago)

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