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Digging the Grave

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Released
  
28 February 1995

Length
  
3:04

Format
  
CD single, vinyl

Label
  
Slash

B-side
  
"Ugly in the Morning", "Absolute Zero", "Get Out"

Recorded
  
Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York

"Digging the Grave" is a song by Faith No More, released as the first single from their fifth studio album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, in 1995. Like the rest of the singles released from the album, it failed to chart in the US. However, the song became the band's fourth-highest charting single in the United Kingdom.

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Release

The song was released as a single on 28 February 1995, before the release of King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. That March, the band appeared on the British television program Top of the Pops to promote the single, later performing it on MTV Europe, Canal+'s Nulle Part Ailleurs and The Jon Stewart Show. The single reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the Australian ARIA Charts; becoming the 91st most-played song on Australian radio that year. The song was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in the Season 11 episode "Being Frank" , in addition to the soundtrack of the 1996 Italian film Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo. A video for the song was recorded, directed by Marcus Raboy, who was credited as Alan Smithee. The video featured Roddy Bottom, the band's keyboard player, on guitar; and was later included on the collection Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos.

Covers

  • 36 Crazyfists covered the song for the Kerrang! compilation High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock and as a bonus track on their 2004 album Rest Inside the Flames.
  • Sentenced covered "Digging the Grave" on the limited edition version of their 1998 album Frozen.

    • Track lists

    Blue vinyl 12" single

    1. "Digging the Grave"
    2. "Ugly in the Morning"
    3. "Absolute Zero"
    4. "Get Out"

    Standard edition/promo 12"

    1. "Digging the Grave" – 3:05
    2. "Ugly in the Morning" – 3:09
    3. "Absolute Zero" – 4:09
    4. "Cuckoo for Caca" – 3:43

    Limited edition

    1. "Digging the Grave" – 3:05
    2. "I Started a Joke" (Bee Gees) – 3:00
    3. "Greenfields" (The Brothers Four) – 3:46

    Limited Australian edition

    1. "Digging the Grave" – 3:05
    2. "Ugly in the Morning" – 3:09
    3. "Absolute Zero" – 4:09
    4. "I Started a Joke" (Bee Gees) – 3:00
    5. "Greenfields" (The Brothers Four) – 3:46

    Personnel

  • Mike Patton – vocals
  • Dean Menta – guitars on "I Started a Joke" and "Greenfields"
  • Trey Spruance – guitars on all other tracks
  • Billy Gould – bass
  • Mike Bordin – drums
  • Roddy Bottum – keyboards

    • References

    Digging the Grave Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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