Epic
Faith No More
The Real Thing (Slash / Reprise, 1989)
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Part 4 of 5 4 in WK?’s weeklong look at Faith No More. Sorry!
Finishing off the week on one of Faith No More’s biggest tracks, “Epic” isn’t a question so much as an inevitability. It’s been pulled for Hip-Hop’s sake before (1:35), but never for an entire track - why not? It’s big, iconic, brazen, uncompromising - the kind of sound that’d make a track before Kanye ever showed up to the party. Bringing his flow to this is simple, like doing math on your fingers.
The track is primed for his arrival, no matter what he’s looking to do. Want to keep it upbeat? Chop up the intro chords (one or all), lay some supporting synth work, and go to town. Need a softer sound? Play with that piano in the outro for maximum emotional impact. The dude could straight-up Flo Rida the chorus, changing “you” to “I” and removing the “can’t,” and this shit would hold together.
A truly enterprising engineer might even pull a full a cappella for the song with a copy of Rock Band 2 and “No Fail” mode enabled - which opens doors that we won’t even dare to go through.
We’ll keep our fingers crossed in ‘09.
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