Released May 1, 1995 Label Slash Records | Length 4:28 | |
B-side "I Wanna F**k Myself",
"Spanish Eyes" Format CD single, vinyl, cassette Recorded Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York | ||
"Ricochet" is a song by Faith No More, released as the second single from their fifth studio album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. It has been stated that it was written the day of Kurt Cobain's death and is sometimes titled "Nirvana" on the band's setlists.
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Release
Although the band state that the song was written in April 1994, it was not played live in concert until a show in Windsor, England on 28 February 1995, almost a year later. It was released on 1 May 1995 as the second single from King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. The band appeared on American talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien to support the single. The song was also included on the soundtrack to the 1996 PlayStation game Fox Hunt. The song peaked at number 27 on the UK charts and number 58 in Australia.
A video for "Ricochet" was filmed, consisting of backstage and concert footage recorded in Paris. The video was directed by Alex Hemming, and produced by Derin Schelsinger. It is one of only two that does not appear on the later collection Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos, along with that of "Another Body Murdered".
Reception
In reviewing King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, Rolling Stone magazine described "Ricochet" as being one of the album's "best cuts", calling it "a portentous anthem" comparable to "Epic". Both the San Francisco Chronicle and New York magazine praised the song's lyrics, the former describing them as "enigmatic, sarcastic, provocative and incisive".
Track lists
‡Live from The Forum, London, March 13, 1995.
†Live from The Palladium, Los Angeles, April 27, 1995.