Angel Dust released

Faith No More displayed an even more experimental effort on its next album, Angel Dust , released in June 1992. One critic wrote that the album is “one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label” and another that the single “‘A Small Victory’, which seems to run Madame Butterfly through Metallica and Nile Rodgers […] reveals a developing facility for combining unlikely elements into startlingly original concoctions.” Aside from ” A Small Victory ” (which received a nomination for Best Art Direction at the MTV Video Music Awards ), the tracks ” Midlife Crisis ” and ” Everything’s Ruined ” were also released as singles for Angel Dust in 1992. The album included a re-recording of the theme to the film Midnight Cowboy , and later pressings included a cover of The Commodores ‘ ” Easy “, which in some parts of the world became the band’s biggest hit after being released as a single in 1993. Angel Dust charted one spot higher on the Billboard 200 than The Real Thing , but was not as commercially successful in the United States, selling 665,000 copies there. It outsold The Real Thing in many other countries. In Germany, the record was certified Gold for sales of more than 250,000 copies. The album also matched the sales of The Real Thing in Canada (Platinum) and Australia (Gold), and surpassed it in the Netherlands, France, Russia, and the U.K. Worldwide sales are around 3.1 million copies. Patton subsequently said that “in a lot of parts of the world Angel Dust did better [than The Real Thing ]”, adding that they eventually started spending more time touring overseas than in the United States.