"Everything's Ruined" is a song from American rock band

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's fourth studio album, '' Angel Dust'' (1992), and the final single to be released from the album's original track listing. The single was released on November 9, 1992, and charted at number 28 in the United Kingdom.

Music video

The music video, directed by

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, features the band (and occasionally four children) singing, blue screened over

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ranging from

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shots,

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games and a wide selection of other clips. The band at times interacts with the clips, like fleeing from a seemingly-giant tortoise.

Billy Gould William David Gould (born April 24, 1963) is an American musician and producer. He is best known as the bassist of Faith No More. Biography Early years Gould was born on April 24, 1963, in Los Angeles, and he is of Scottish and Hungarian desce ...

addressed the intentional cheapness of the video in a 20th anniversary Q&A on the Faith No More Blog:

''The Videos for "Midlife Crisis" and "A Small Victory" seem to high concepts and big budgets while the video for "Everything's Ruined" does not. Why was it that the video for "Everything's Ruined" (arguably the best song on the album) was so goofy and easy to produce?''

The easy answer is, Warner's spent the video budget on "Small V" and "Midlife" so that when it came time to "Everything's Ruined" there's wasn't much left (!!). It was our idea to take this further and make a video as cheap as humanly possible, in one of those video booths like they had at county fairs, where you sing and dance in front of a blue screen. We didn't quite get to do that, but we got it as close as possible.

Accolades

Track listing

UK Part 1 # "Everything's Ruined" # "Edge of the World (Extended Live Mix with Bass Solo)" (St. Louis, September 18, 1992) # "RV" (Live in Dekalb,

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, September 20, 1992) UK Part 2 # "Everything's Ruined" # "Midlife Crisis" (live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992) # "Land of Sunshine" (live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992) Europe # "Everything's Ruined" # "Easy" (live from Munich, November 9, 1992) # "RV" (live in Dekalb, Illinois, September 20, 1992)

Charts

Footnotes

{{Authority control Faith No More songs 1992 singles 1992 songs Music videos directed by Kevin Kerslake Songs written by Billy Gould Songs written by Jim Martin (musician) Songs written by Mike Patton Songs written by Roddy Bottum Slash Records singles