- F - Faith No More, Frankie Goes To Hollywood

We care a lot  from second album Introduce Yourself and From Out of Nowhere on the follow up The Real Thing are the classic must have tracks from early Faith No More. Normally I'd always recommend picking up all of the first releases however to get a good feel for San Francisco's funk rockers I'd pick Who Cares a Lot a greatest hits collection (just make sure you get the limited edition double disc version).

I'm not a fan of rap music and sort of hoped it would go away after Run DMC and possibly the Beastie Boys, unfortunately it still continues and in fact seems to be necessary to include in every pop track. I'll of course make the odd exception as I trawl through my collection and Faith No More can metal rap to their hearts content. I can also thank Faith No More for getting me as close to Lionel Richie as I ever want to be with the strangely wonderful cover of Easy.

There will always be novelty bands and manufactured bands and one hit wonders, occasionally the hype works and there's the odd classic trying to break out. Whilst not quite one hit wonders, Frankie Goes To Hollywood did only manage one classic album, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition or for the full Frankie marketing genius also get Twelve Inches which as it says on the cover is the remix 12" versions across two discs. So how many times can you re-package one song? Well there are at least 20+ mixes of Relax readily available and master producer Trevor Horn claims there are over 200 mixes.... Ok it is a classic but how many versions do you really need? Did I ask that? ( I'm up to 12 versions of the Rocky Horror Show)