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Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos British and European cover art.
Video by
ReleasedFebruary 23, 1999 (1999-02-23)
Recorded1986–1998
GenreAlternative metal, experimental rock, funk metal, alternative rock, avant-garde
Length89:14
Label
DirectorVarious
Faith No More chronology
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits
(1998)
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos
(1999)
This Is It: The Best of Faith No More
(2003)
Faith No More video chronology
Video Croissant
(1993)
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos
(1999)
Double Feature: Live at the Brixton Academy, London (You Fat Bastards) / Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos
(2006)
Alternative cover
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos North American cover art.

Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos is a greatest hits retrospective compilation video album by American rock band Faith No More. It was released on video home system following the band's April 1998 breakup and is a companion to the greatest hits album Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits.[1]

The VHS was originally scheduled for release on February 9, 1999,[2] but was delayed to February 23, 1999.[3][4] It was issued by Slash Records and London Records via Polygram Video in Britain and Europe, and Slash Records and Reprise Records via Warner Reprise Video in North America.[5] In 2006, Rhino Entertainment re-released the video on DVD, packaged as a double disc with You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy under the title Double Feature: Live at the Brixton Academy, London (You Fat Bastards) / Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos.

The release contains nearly all of the band's music videos, with the exception of ones for "Ricochet," "Another Body Murdered," and an alternate video for "From Out of Nowhere". The first half of the video is taken directly from Faith No More's 1993 VHS release, Video Croissant (from "Midlife Crisis" to "Easy"), which covered footage from the band's first three Slash Records releases, Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing, and Angel Dust. The second half includes videos from the band's (at the time) final two albums, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime and Album of the Year. It also includes a music video for "I Started a Joke," which was produced to promote the Who Cares a Lot? releases in 1998, and a live video of "This Guy's in Love with You," which was performed by the band on their last tour.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]

Billboard's Catherine Applefeld Olson describes the release as a collection of "some of the band's most attention-grabbing, groundbreaking clips." She also praises the inclusion of miscellaneous content that "devotees of the band will savor […] like scraps of gold."[1]

Denise Sullivan of AllMusic mainly deplores the track listing order which puts the "worst" music videos "first". However she still notes some "bright spots" on the collection, such as the "uncharacteristically high-budget clip for 'A Small Victory.'"[6]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Director(s)Length
1."Midlife Crisis"Kevin Kerslake 
2."Epic"
  • Faith No More
Ralph Ziman 
3."Falling to Pieces"
  • Faith No More
Ralph Ziman 
4."Anne's Song"
  • Faith No More
Tamara Davis 
5."We Care a Lot"
  • Faith No More
  • Bob Biggs
  • Jay Brown
 
6."Surprise! You're Dead!"
  • Faith No More
Billy Gould 
7."From Out of Nowhere"
  • Faith No More
Doug Freel 
8."A Small Victory"
  • Faith No More
Marcus Nispel 
9."Everything's Ruined"
  • Faith No More
Kevin Kerslake 
10."Caffeine" (Live on Hangin' with MTV)
  • Faith No More
MTV 
11."Easy"Barry McGuire 
12."Digging the Grave"Marcus Raboy 
13."Evidence"
Walter A. Stern 
14."Stripsearch"
Philip Stoltz 
15."Last Cup of Sorrow"
  • Patton
  • Gould
Joseph Khan 
16."Ashes to Ashes"
Tim Royes 
17."I Started a Joke"Vito Rocco 
18."This Guy's in Love with You" (Live on MTV Europe)MTV 
Total length:1:21:00
  • "Stripsearch" and "This Guy's in Love with You" are not listed on the back cover or tape sticker.
  • The cover states that the running time is 120 minutes, however, the correct running time is 81 minutes.

Personnel

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Credits are adapted from the compilation video album's liner notes.

Faith No More
Production
  • Jigsaw (London) – graphic design
  • London Records – packaging design

References

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  1. ^ a b Applefeld Olson, Catherine (February 13, 1999). "Home Video". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 42. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ "New Releases". Reprise Records. December 2, 1998. Archived from the original on December 2, 1998. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
  3. ^ "New Releases". Reprise Records. January 28, 1999. Archived from the original on January 28, 1999. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
  4. ^ "Faith No More Resurface on Home Video". MTV News. January 14, 1999. Archived from the original on April 21, 1999. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
  5. ^ "Summer music forecast: Fair skies". Quad-City Times. February 4, 1999. Retrieved May 31, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b Sullivan, Denise. "Who Cares a Lot: Greatest Videos Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
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