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Mike Patton was the singer for Faith No More, most prominently, and also Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Dillinger Escape Plan (for an EP), Lovage, General Patton vs the X-ecutioners (or however they spell that), a couple of John Zorn projects and a couple of solo records. Oh, and Tomohawk.

He's a little eccentric, in a bloody good way. On his first album with Faith No More, they covered Black Sabbath's War Pigs. When people started going to see them to hear that song, they switched their nightly cover song to Lionel Ritchie's Easy, to piss people off. He's done some brilliant stuff over his long career - Mr Bungle's California being one of his best records. Try downloading the song "None of Them Knew They Were Robots".

Anyway, he's a big fan of lounge singers and people like Burt Bacharach (sp?), so sounding like an 80s hair band is no surprise. However, you can't quite take things at face value with him. I believe he got insulted when someone claimed he was doing these things with a sense of irony, because he sincerely likes the things he's emulating, but there definitely seems to be an element of irony whether he'd like to admit it or not. Faith No More also did a cover of the Bee Gees' I Started a Joke that makes me laugh every time I hear it because his vocal performance is so over the top it's awesome.

Blah blah blah ---> me.