30 Years Ago… Faith No More, the weirdest rap-rock funk-metal-everything-at-once band on Earth were on the radio with their cover of “Easy” by The Commodores.

30 Years Ago… Faith No More, the weirdest rap-rock funk-metal-everything-at-once band on Earth were on the radio with their cover of “Easy” by The Commodores.

A cover that - & this was the biggest shock – was virtually a carbon copy of the original!

The drums patter at exactly the same time. Mike goes “ooh” before the choruses, the same as Lionel does. They do they same freaky guitar effect straight after “I wanna be high”.

I know it sounds funny but it just sounds the same as the 1977 original!

Sure, when Mike goes “EW!” just before the guitar solo it sounds as though he’s reacting to someone farting. This is not the impression one has ever gotten from anything Lionel has ever done. Which is why although the two recordings sound the same, they don’t FEEL the same.

Lionel, with all his Lionel-ness, makes “Easy” feel like what it actually is: a song about breaking up, but not really caring that much. Mike Patton makes it sound like a hangover. Or that hazy feeling you get when you smoked too much weed last night. “Easy” is an 8