martindavey87
As far as live albums go, ‘Live At the Brixton Academy’ can only be rated as “okay”. Released in 1991, this comes off of the success Faith No More had with previous studio outing ‘The Real Thing’. You can certainly feel the energy radiating from the band, with confident and charismatic performances, especially by vocalist Mike Patton, but sadly, the sound is far from brilliant, and as such, I think most fans are better off just listening to the studio albums.
There’s also not really much here to entice repeated listens. They play the songs, the crowd applause, Mike Patton says something, onto the next song. The set list is pretty good, with all the major hits present, but again, overall, there’s just nothing particularly memorable about this disc.
One best kept for die-hard Faith No More fans. And even then, I doubt many of them listen to it that often.
