Music Tuesday #047: Easy

The quintessential Sunday morning song is without a doubt "Easy" by, as I thought for a long time, Faith No More.  It is a song which throws me back to one of the last songs the DJ played at a weekend party (at 3AM in the morning) which we organized with our class just months before we would split up and enroll in various higher education studies.  At that time when the song played the lights turned on and we were confronted with a huge mess we still had to clean up before we could go home.  Do you recognize that feeling of being knackered, slightly drunk and very sweaty but extremely happy about how the party turned out to be?  Well that is welded in my mind to the song by Faith No More.

As with more and more things I believe to know, I turned out to be wrong about that song being an original by Faith No More.

Easy was written by Lionel Richie and recorded with the Commodores in 1977 on the Motown label.  Apparently it was recorded in Alabama where Lionel Richie lived and not in the city of Detroit which is what I think of when hearing a Motown song.

Faith No More little known fact:  they covered Easy during the recording of their biggest album "Angel Dust" so that they could play that instead of the traditional Balck Sabbath's "War Pigs" cover they used to do.  Allegedly they did this to piss off heavy metal fans attending their shows.

The Commodores - Easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DSVMDmzCcA

Black Sabbath - War Pigs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w