Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos

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Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos British and European cover art.
Video by
ReleasedFebruary 23, 1999
GenreAlternative metal, experimental rock, funk metal, alternative rock, avant-garde
Length89:14
Label
DirectorVarious
Faith No More chronology
Video Croissant
(1993)
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos
(1999)
Live at the Brixton Academy, London: You Fat Bastards/Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos
(2006)
Alternative Cover
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos North American cover art.

Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos is a greatest hits retrospective compilation video album by American rock band Faith No More. It was released on video home system following the band's April 1998 breakup and is a companion release to the band's greatest hits album, Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits.

The VHS was originally scheduled for release on February 9, 1999,[1] but was delayed to February 23, 1999,[2] by Slash Records and London Records via Polygram Video in Britain and Europe, and Slash Records and Reprise Records via Warner Reprise Video in North America.

The release contains nearly all of the band's music videos, with the exception of "Ricochet," "Another Body Murdered," and an alternate video for "From Out of Nowhere". The first half of the video is taken directly from Faith No More's 1993 VHS release, Video Croissant (from "Midlife Crisis" to "Easy"), which covered footage from the band's first three Slash Records releases, Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing, and Angel Dust. The second half includes videos from the band's (at the time) final two albums, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime and Album of the Year. It also includes a music video for "I Started a Joke," which was produced to promote the Who Cares a Lot? releases in 1998, and a live video of "This Guy's in Love with You," which was performed by the band on their last tour.

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

Billboard's Catherine Applefeld Olson describes the release as a collection of "some of the band's most attention-grabbing, groundbreaking clips." She also praises the inclusion of miscellaneous content that "devotees of the band will savor […] like scraps of gold."[4] Denise Sullivan of AllMusic mainly deplores the track listing order which puts the "worst" music videos "first". However she still notes some "bright spots" on the collection, such as the "uncharacteristically high-budget clip for 'A Small Victory.'"[3]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Faith No More, except where noted.

  1. "Midlife Crisis"
  2. "Epic"
  3. "Falling to Pieces"
  4. "Anne's Song"
  5. "We Care a Lot"
  6. "Surprise! You're Dead!"
  7. "From Out of Nowhere"
  8. "A Small Victory"
  9. "Everything's Ruined"
  10. "Caffeine" (Live on Hangin' with MTV)
  11. "Easy" (Lionel Richie)
  12. "Digging the Grave" (Mike Bordin, Billy Gould, Mike Patton)
  13. "Evidence" (Bordin, Gould, Patton, Trey Spruance)
  14. "Stripsearch" (Patton, Gould)
  15. "Last Cup of Sorrow" (Patton, Bordin, Gould, Jon Hudson, Roddy Bottum)
  16. "Ashes to Ashes"
  17. "I Started a Joke" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb)
  18. "This Guy's in Love with You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (Live on MTV Europe)
  • "Stripsearch" and "This Guy's In Love With You" were not listed on the back cover or on the tape.

Directors: Kevin Kerslake – Track 1 & 9
Ralph Ziman – Track 2 & 3
Tamara Davis – Track 4
Bob Biggs – Track 5
Jay Browm – Track 5
Billy Gould – Track 6
Doug Freel – Track 7
Marcus Nispel – Track 8
MTV – Track 10 & 18
Barry McGuire – Track 11
Marcus Raboy – Track 12
Walter A. Stern – Track 13
Philip Stoltz – Track 14
Joseph Khan – Track 15
Tim Royes – Track 16
Vito Rocco – Track 17

References[edit]

  1. ^ "New Releases". Reprise Records. December 2, 1998. Archived from the original on December 2, 1998. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "New Releases". Reprise Records. January 28, 1999. Archived from the original on January 28, 1999. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Sullivan, Denise. "Who Cares a Lot: Greatest Videos Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  4. ^ Applefeld Olson, Catherine (February 13, 1999). "Home Video". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 42. ISSN 0006-2510.

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