| "Land of Sunshine" | |
|---|---|
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| Promotional single by Faith No More | |
| from the album Angel Dust | |
| Released | 1992 |
| Recorded | January–March 1992[1] |
| Studio | Coast Recorders & Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California |
| Genre | Funk metal[2] |
| Length | 3:43 |
| Label | Slash |
| Composer(s) | |
| Lyricist(s) | |
| Producer(s) | Matt Wallace |
"Land of Sunshine" is the opening track to Angel Dust, the fourth studio album by the American rock band Faith No More. It was released as a promotional single in 1992 along with "Midlife Crisis" and has been compared in its opening style to "From out of Nowhere", the opening track and first single from the band's previous studio album, The Real Thing.[3] The song's lyrics contain, amongst other things, questions from Scientology personality tests, with one of them, the question "Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?", being described by Tom Sinclair of Rolling Stone as "the perfect tag line for Angel Dust".[4] The song was one of the three key songs picked out by Robert Christgau from the album in his review, the two others being "Midlife Crisis" and "Midnight Cowboy".[5]
- ^ The Making of Angel Dust, Mike Bordin interview. MTV. Retrieved December 22, 2007
- ^ "10 Essential San Francisco albums". Treble. May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
- ^ Moses, Peter (December 1992). "Interview with Mike Bordin". negele.org. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
- Raggett, Ned. "Angel Dust - Overview". allmusic. Retrieved December 17, 2008. - ^ Sinclair, Tom (September 3, 1992). "Faith No More: Angel Dust : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 16, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "CG: Artist 449". Robert Christgau. Retrieved December 17, 2008.