Everything's Ruined
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| Single by Faith No More | ||||
| from the album Angel Dust | ||||
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| Released | November 9, 1992[1] | |||
| Recorded | January – March 1992[2] | |||
| Studio | Coast Recorders, Brilliant (San Francisco, California) | |||
| Genre | Funk metal[3][4][5] | |||
| Length | 4:34 | |||
| Label | Slash | |||
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| Producer(s) | Matt Wallace | |||
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"Everything's Ruined" is a song from American rock band Faith No More's fourth studio album, Angel Dust (1992), and the final single to be released from the album's original track listing. The single was released on November 9, 1992, and charted at number 28 in the United Kingdom.
Music video
The music video, directed by Kevin Kerslake, features the band (and occasionally four children) singing, blue screened over stock footage ranging from wildlife shots, baseball games and a wide selection of other clips. The band at times interacts with the clips, like fleeing from a seemingly-giant tortoise.
Billy Gould addressed the intentional cheapness of the video in a 20th anniversary Q&A on the Faith No More Blog:
The Videos for "Midlife Crisis" and "A Small Victory" seem to have both have [sic] high concepts and big budgets while the video for "Everything's Ruined" does not. Why was it that the video for "Everything's Ruined" (arguably the best song on the album) was so goofy and easy to produce?
The easy answer is, Warner's spent the video budget on "Small V" and "Midlife" so that when it came time to "Everything's Ruined" there's wasn't much left (!!). It was our idea to take this further and make a video as cheap as humanly possible, in one of those video booths like they had at county fairs, where you sing and dance in front of a blue screen. We didn't quite get to do that, but we got it as close as possible.[6]
Accolades
| Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q Magazine | United Kingdom | "100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever!"[7] | 2005 | 75 |
Track listings
UK Part 1
- "Everything's Ruined"
- "Edge of the World (Extended Live Mix with Bass Solo)" (St. Louis, September 18, 1992)
- "RV" (Live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992)
UK Part 2
- "Everything's Ruined"
- "Midlife Crisis" (live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992)
- "Land of Sunshine" (live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992)
Europe
- "Everything's Ruined"
- "Easy" (live from Munich, November 9, 1992)
- "RV" (live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992)
Charts
| Chart (1992) | Peak position |
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| Australia (ARIA)[8] | 63 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[9] | 28 |
Footnotes
- ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. November 7, 1992. p. 19.
- ^ "YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ^ Christopher, Michael (June 8, 2017). "25 Years Ago: Faith No More Confounds and Thrills With 'Angel Dust'". Diffuser.fm. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ Grech, Aaron (July 20, 2020). "Members of The Black Dahlia Murder, Shearwater, Fever 333 and Intronaut Join Two Minutes to Late Night For Quarantined Cover of Faith No More's "Everything's Ruined"". mxdwn Music. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ "'Angel Dust': Behind Faith No More's Mind-Bending Alt-Metal Classic".
- ^ "Billy Gould Answers Your Questions About Angel Dust". June 9, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ^ "Q Magazine - 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever!". Rocklist.net. March 2005. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
- ^ "Faith No More: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
