"Digging the Grave" is a song by Faith No More

Faith No More

Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...

, released as the first single from their fifth studio album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by Faith No More, released in 1995. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. The album showcased a greater variety than the band's usual heavy metal leanings, with Rolling Stone calling the end result a...

. Like the rest of the singles released from the album, it failed to chart in the US. However, the song became the band's fourth-highest charting single in the UK.

Release

The song was released as a single on 28 February 1995, before the release of King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. That March, the band appeared on the British television program Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

 to promote the single, later performing it on MTV Europe

MTV Europe

MTV Europe is a pan-European 24-hour entertainment cable and digital television network launched on August 1, 1987. Initially, the channel served all regions within Europe being one of the very few channels that targeted the entire European continent...

, Canal+

Canal+

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's Nulle Part Ailleurs and The Jon Stewart Show

The Jon Stewart Show

The Jon Stewart Show was a short-lived talk show hosted by comedian Jon Stewart on MTV. It premiered in 1993 and became the second highest-rated program on the network behind Beavis and Butt-Head....

.. The single reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

, and number 12 on the Australian ARIA Charts

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

; becoming the 91st most-played song on Australian radio that year. It featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head

Beavis and Butt-Head

Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge. After seeing the short, MTV signed Judge to develop the concept. Beavis and Butt-head originally aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997...

in August 1995, and was included on the soundtrack of the 1996 Italian film

Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

 Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo. A video for the song was recorded, directed by Marcus Raboy

Marcus Raboy

Marcus Raboy is an American film and music video director.Since the early 1990s, Raboy has amassed a large number music video credits directing music videos for Mary J...

, who was credited as Alan Smithee

Alan Smithee

Alan Smithee was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to...

.. The video featured Roddy Bottom, the band's keyboard player, on guitar; and was later included on the collection Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos.

Covers

• 36 Crazyfists
  36 Crazyfists
  36 Crazyfists is a four-piece metal band originating from Anchorage, Alaska. They are now based in Portland, Oregon. The band's name comes from a Jackie Chan movie, Jackie Chan And The 36 Crazy Fists...
  
   covered the song for the Kerrang!
  Kerrang!
  Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...
  
   compilation High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock
  High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock
  High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock is a Kerrang! covermount CD released on May 31, 2006, featuring many older rock songs, covered by newer rock artists.-Track listing:#"Start Today" - Fall Out Boy...
  
  and as a bonus track on their 2004 album Rest Inside the Flames
  Rest Inside the Flames
  Rest Inside the Flames is the third album by metalcore music group 36 Crazyfists. It was released in Australia on June 10, 2006, and in Europe and the UK on June 12, 2006. The album was released in the US on November 7 via the band's new North American label, DRT Entertainment...
  
  .
• Sentenced
  Sentenced
  Sentenced was a Finnish heavy metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years. The band formed in 1989, in the town of Muhos, Finland, and broke up in 2005.-Early years :...
  
   covered "Digging the Grave" on the limited edition version of their 1998 album Frozen
  Frozen (album)
  -Limited Edition:# "The Suicider"# "Dead Leaves"# "For the Love I Bear"# "Creep" # "Digging the Grave" # "Kaamos"# "Farewell"# "One with Misery"# "Grave Sweet Grave"# "Burn"# "Drown Together"...
  
  .

Track lists

Blue vinyl 12" single

1. "Digging the Grave"
2. "Ugly in the Morning"
3. "Absolute Zero"
4. "Get Out"

Standard edition/promo 12"

1. "Digging the Grave" – 3:05
2. "Ugly in the Morning" – 3:09
3. "Absolute Zero" – 4:09
4. "Cuckoo for Caca" – 3:43

Limited edition

1. "Digging the Grave" – 3:05
2. "I Started a Joke" (Bee Gees
   Bee Gees
   The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
   
   ) – 3:00
3. "Greenfields" (The Brothers Four
   The Brothers Four
   The Brothers Four are an American folk singing group, founded in 1957 in Seattle, Washington, known for their 1960 hit song "Greenfields".-History:...
   
   ) – 3:46

Personnel

• Mike Patton
  Mike Patton
  Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
  
   – vocals
• Dean Menta
  Dean Menta
  Dean Menta served as the guitarist for the rock band Faith No More from 1995 to 1996. Menta had been a keyboard tech for the band and was recruited to handle guitar duties after Trey Spruance declined to tour for the album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. He appears in their videos for...
  
   – guitars on "I Started a Joke" and "Greenfields"
• Trey Spruance
  Trey Spruance
  Preston Lea Spruance III or "Trey Spruance" is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as the leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3 and for his work as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle...
  
   – guitars on all other tracks
• Billy Gould
  Billy Gould
  Billy Gould is an American musician and producer. He is noted for playing bass in the band Faith No More.- Faith No More :...
  
   – bass
• Mike Bordin
  Mike Bordin
  Mike Bordin is the co-founder and drummer of rock band Faith No More. He is also known for playing with Ozzy Osbourne. As a left-handed drummer, he notably plays with a right-handed kit with his ride cymbal on the left...
  
   – drums
• Roddy Bottum
  Roddy Bottum
  Roddy Bottum , is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist for the San Francisco rock band Faith No More...
  
   – keyboards

Charts

Chart	Peak
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	16
ARIA Charts ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	12
RIANZ Charts	16
French Singles Chart	23
Swedish Singles Chart	39
Norwegian Singles Chart	11