Faith No More – "Falling to Pieces" (1989)

Anticipatin' the end

Losin' the will to fight

Droplets of "yes" and "no" 

In an ocean of "maybe"

2 or 3 lines lives in an ocean of “yes” and “no” – not in an ocean of “maybe”!

To wit:

Here’s a screenshot of a text message I recently received from my cellular carrier:

And here’s my response:

When I hear back from them, I’ll quote paragraph #1 from my terms and conditions, which reads as follows:

The party of the first part [that’s me] will not be bound by any updated terms and conditions that the party of the second part [that’s T-Mobile] purports to unilaterally impose by sending text messages to the party of the first part [that’s me again].

That’ll teach ‘em!

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That was not the first run-in with an evil corporate behemoth that I had this week.

Shortly before drafting that electronic missive to T-Mobile, I had a rather difficult experience at my local Marathon gas station.

You can read all about it in the next 2 or 3 lines.

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I bought The Real Thing, which Faith No More released in 1989, at a used record store in Philadelphia.  

I commuted to a job in the “City of Brotherly Love” – a three-hour drive from my family’s home in the Washington, DC suburbs – for a couple of years in the early 1990s.  I spent four nights a week there with very little to do other than watch TV, read, write, and listen to CDs.  (That was back in the Dark Ages, boys and girls – by which I mean before the internet and smart phones.)

I bought a lot of CDs at that used record store.  Unlike used LPs, used CDs sounded just as good as brand new ones.  So I loaded up on Faith No More, Metallica, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and a number of others.

The Real Thing is a great album – “Epic” is one of my favorite songs of all time, but it’s not the only winner included on The Real Thing.

“Falling to Pieces” is one of those winners, but I had forgotten about it until I heard a snippet of it on the soundtrack of Black Hawk Down, a 2001 movie about the 1993 battle between U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators and Somali militia in Mogadishu, Somalia.  

Click here to watch a video featuring scenes from the movie – one of most harrowing movies I’ve ever sat through – accompanied by “Falling to Pieces.”

Click here to buy “Falling to Pieces” from Amazon.