It is considered being one of the most influential records of the 1990s up today.
Originally, the band intended to record 19 songs, finally ended up with 17, some of them were not officially titled at that time, and here we go with the working titles:
* Shuffle/Triplet (Caffeine)
* Madonna (Midlife Crisis)
* Macaroni and Cheese/Country Western Song (RV)
* Arabic (Smaller and Smaller)
* F Sharp (Kindergarten)
* I Swallow (Be Aggressive)
* Japanese (A Small Victory)
* Action Adventure (Crack Hitler)
* The Sample Song (The World is Yours)
* The Carpenters Song
* The Funk Song
TRACKLIST
1. "Land of Sunshine" (music: Gould/Bottum; lyrics: Patton) – 3:44
2. "Caffeine" (music: Gould/Patton; lyrics: Patton) – 4:28
3. "Midlife Crisis" (music: Bottum/Bordin/Gould/Patton; lyrics: Patton) – 4:21
4. "RV" (music: Bottum/Patton/Gould; lyrics: Patton) – 3:43
5. "Smaller and Smaller" (music: Gould/Bordin/Bottum/Wallace; lyrics: Patton) – 5:11
6. "Everything's Ruined" (music: Gould/Bottum/Patton; lyrics: Patton/Gould) – 4:33
7. "Malpractice" (music & lyrics: Patton) – 4:02
8. "Kindergarten" (music: Gould/Martin; lyrics: Patton/Bottum) – 4:31
9. "Be Aggressive" (music & lyrics: Bottum) – 3:42
10. "A Small Victory" (music: Gould/Bottum/Bordin/Patton; lyrics: Patton) – 4:57
11. "Crack Hitler" (music: Gould/Bottum/Bordin; lyrics: Patton) – 4:39
12. "Jizzlobber" (music: Martin; lyrics: Martin/Patton) – 6:38
13. "Midnight Cowboy" (Barry) – 4:12
14. "Easy" (Richie) – 3:04
15. "As the Worm Turns" (music: Bottum/Gould/Mosely; lyrics: Mosely) – 2:39
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SPECIAL TRACK NOTES (found on Wikipedia)
# The lyrics for "Land of Sunshine" include lines from fortune cookies and Scientology's personality test
# "Caffeine" as well as "Land of Sunshine" were written while Mike Patton was doing a sleep deprivation experiment
# "Smaller and Smaller" was never performed live, and the only time "Malpractice" was performed live was during The Dillinger Escape Plan/Mike Patton collaboration.
# "Malpractice" contains a sample of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8, as performed by the Kronos Quartet.
# "Be Aggressive", written by Roddy Bottum, is about "swallowing" during oral sex. Roddy later stated "It was a pretty fun thing to write, knowing that Mike was going to have to put himself on the line and go up onstage and sing these vocals."
# The intro to 'Crack Hitler' features a sample of Iris Lettieri - a Brazilian actress whose voice Mike Patton had become enamoured of whilst on tour - reading a flight announcement. (Iris Lettieri has been the voice of announcements at Galeão/Antonio Carlos Jobim Airport in Rio for over three decades).
# In South Korea the vinyl album had several tracks cut through tough censorship. The tracks are in a different order, and "Caffeine", "RV" and "Crack Hitler" are omitted. "Midnight Cowboy", is, however, included, despite having been left off the original US and UK versions.
# The tracks "Crack Hitler" and "Midnight Cowboy" are omitted in Holland, Brazil, Colombia and some UK pressings
SINGLES
1992: Midlife Crisis; A Small Victory
1993: Everything's Ruined; Easy
LYRICS
* see blog
BONUS DISCS
FREE CONCERT IN THE PARK
* came out as the 2nd and 3rd pressings of the Australian release and contains 4 tracks from a free concert in Germany, Münich (Nov 9, 1992)
TRACKLIST:
1. "Easy" – 3:06
2. "Be Aggressive" – 3:42
3. "Kindergarten" – 4:44
4. "Mark Bowen" – 3:16
MIDLIFE CRISIS 12"
* released with Limited Edition UK vinyl's as a Double Vinyl Pack, it was also released as the "Midlife Crisis" single a week prior to the albums, the first disc (with or without the bonus disc) lacked the tracks "Crack Hitler" and "Midnight Cowboy" in addition the track "Smaller and Smaller" appeared as the last track.
TRACKLIST:
1. "Midlife Crisis (The Scream Mix)" – 3:56
2. "Crack Hitler" – 4:39
3. "Midnight Cowboy" – 4:13
WOODPECKER FROM MARS
This disc was a promotional release on Limited Edition pressings of Angel Dust in France. On the back it reads "ne peut etre vendu separement offert avec l'album 'angel dust' dans la limite des stocks disponibles".
INTERVIEW DISC
This disc was a promotional release on Limited Edition pressings of Angel Dust in Europe released on August 24, 1992 (Cat no. 828 321-2), and was also released separately in a slimline case (Cat no. FNMCD3). The questions were printed inside the packaging with answers on the CD lasting 18:41.
TRACKLIST:
1. "Woodpecker From Mars" (Live from Norwich, 1990)
2. "Underwater Love" (Live from Brixton, April 28, 1990)
AN ALTERNATE COVER OF THE 6 TRACK PROMO CD
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