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Although Mike Patton found fame and fortune as the singer for Faith No More (with their 1989 breakthrough release THE REAL THING), he was first a member of Mr. Bungle. Instead of quitting his former band when he accepted FNM's vocal offer, Patton decided to keep both projects going simultaneously. In the wake of FNM's big success in the early 1990s, Mr. Bungle was signed to Warner Bros., who issued the band's self-titled debut in 1991.
Mr. Bungle was far more abstract and all-over-the-place than Faith No More, with little regard for conventionality, song structure, or any sort of borders between musical genres. Strange ditties such as "Quote Unquote," "Slowly Growing Deaf," "Egg," and "My Ass Is on Fire," have are bizarre creations that inhabit their own weird world, and they've become classics to fans that appreciate the band's musically proficient absurdity.
Vlad Drac is actually Mike Patton of Faith No More.
Recorded at Different Fur, San Francisco, California in 1991.
Mr. Bungle: Vlad Drac (vocals); Scummy (guitar); Theobald Brooks Lengyel (alto & baritone saxophones); Bar (tenor saxophone); Trevor Roy Dunn (bass); Heifetz (drums).
Additional personnel: David Shea (scratches); Yeesus Krist, Maximum Bob, Kahli, Jennifer (background vocals).
Q (9/91) - 3 stars - Good - "...a highly compulsive, strangely coherent debut..." Mr Bungle Mr. Bungle Songs Mr. Bungle Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews It's that good period
As you can see by the reviews before mine its all 5 stars and it deserves to be. This band had it all! This CD is the craziest funniest coolest and most unbelievable music out there. Made scary carnival music cool before those "Wicked Clowns" with their legions of 12 year old wannabes existed. Technically this band has got to be among the greats. Buy this CD!
Submitted by Tim (Utah)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 2 found this helpful. Best of Bungle
Get this album. Theres "music", theres "experimental"... then there's BUNGLE. One satisfying listen, whether its the slow ominous chugging of Quote Unquote, schizophrenic organ play in Stubb (a dub) or the extremley infectious ska like groove in Carousel, its a purchase you won't regret. And drummers, get a load of Heifetz's snare drum! DAMN! These engineers are talented men. The mix is divine.
Submitted by www.myspace.com/harveyhawke (Alberta, Canada)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No The musical genius that is Mike Patton
this is one of the greats !!!! only if you could get a hold of thier prior 4 albums . This CD is a soundtrack for an Acid Trip !!!! Words cannot explain.
Submitted by a reviewer (San Antonio,TX,USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No DERANGED FAIRGROUNDS AHOY!
Wow. Well this is pretty bloody good isnt it? It does seroiusly remind me of deranged circuses and fairgrounds, clowns chasing people with knives. And puppets. With knives. An anarchic combination of just amazingly weird/good stuff really. yes. with knives.
Submitted by diabolus_in_musica666 (Canterbury)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No The good old days
I remember Mr Bungle way back in the day. Back when they played the craziest sh*t to date. Much of that sh*t is on this album. They even have background noise from the Bungle House in Humboldt on squeeze me macaroni. If you like crazy all-over-the-place music, this is your sh*t. Even if you don't buy it anyway, it is funny as hell.
P.S. Go Humboldt/Del Norte!
Submitted by a reviewer (Humboldt, CA, USA (The Bungle House))
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Purchase Mr. Bungle CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Faith No More Angel Dust CD (1992)
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Just as Faith No More acquired its long-sought-after mainstream success, the band decided that fame wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The group knew that the majority of its new fans would expect the follow-up to THE REAL THING to tread on similar sonic territory, and boy, did this new pop audience have another thing coming! Like many classic albums, upon first listen, 1992's ANGEL DUST is hard to digest in a single sitting. In fact, it almost sounds like artistic suicide--there are few obvious pop hooks, and the music is far more complicated than earlier material.
But after a few more spins, ANGEL DUST finds the right receptors in your brain, and simply pummels the listener. Vocalist Mike Patton truly came into his own on this release, oft-times singing from the standpoint of different characters (as heard on "R.V." and "Be Aggressive"). While several tracks defy description--the harsh "Jizzlobber," "Malpractice," for example--the FNM of old can be heard in its full glory on such tracks as "Caffeine," "Land of Sunshine," "Midlife Crisis," and "A Small Victory." ANGEL DUST remains Faith No More's greatest achievement, and one of the best rock releases of the '90s.
Recorded at Coast Recorders and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California.
Personnel: Mike Patton (vocals); ...
| | Faith No More King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime CD (1995)
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Faith No More's fifth full-length effort, 1995's KING FOR A DAY/FOOL FOR A LIFETIME, was the band's most straightforward work to date. Trey Spruance, the guitarist for FNM singer Mike Patton's side band, Mr. Bungle, who replaced Jim Martin after ANGEL DUST, fit in perfectly with the band--as proven by such highlights as "Ricochet," "Evidence," "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies," "Digging the Grave," and the epic title track. Unfortunately, Spruance's tenure with the band was short-lived--he departed just prior to the start of the album-supporting tour.
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Recorded at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York.
Personnel: Trey Spruance (guitar); ...
| | Mr Bungle Disco Volante CD (1995)
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Taking cues from Frank Zappa, Carl Stalling and John Zorn, and dabbling in styles as disparate as lounge, death-metal and downtown jazz, Mr. Bungle create a schizophrenic sound unlike any '90s major-label band save for The Boredoms. Yet where The Boredoms approach their music from two specific sources (free jazz and punk), Mr. Bungle easily triple or quadruple that figure when listing their influences. As with other genre-bending progressive music, the obvious question is do they pull it off?
On DISCO VOLANTE, they do quite nicely, thank you. Whether it is on the Middle East-inflected "Desert Search For Techno Allah," or on complex pieces like "The Bends," Mr. Bungle use hypnotic sounds, jarring noise and tight playing to convey their drug-soaked and semi-insane point of view to the world. The juxtaposition of styles works well--both from track to track (the extra heavy "Everyone I Went To School With Is Dead" is followed by the lounge jazz number, "Chemical Marriage") and within a single song ("Merry Go Bye Bye" leaps from a '50's rock sing-along to death-metal meltdown). Lyrically, Mr. Bungle piece together as many strange images as they do musically--"Carry Stress In The Jaw" quotes extensively from Edgar Allen Poe, while "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" seems to be written in a language all its own.
Tough to listen to but rewarding, Mr. Bungle place themselves alongside groups like The Melvins, Praxis and Naked City, all trying to push the sonic envelope further out.
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| | Mr Bungle California CD (1999)
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With CALIFORNIA, Mr. Bungle has largely ditched its infamous jazz/thrash/circus sound (especially evident on the group's first album) for an even more varied cinematic aesthetic that both embraces and gleefully subverts traditional pop structures. Simply put, this is probably as accessible as Bungle is bound to get, and the results are amazing in both their inventiveness and scope. (As stated in the album's tongue-in-cheek press release, CALIFORNIA shows "evidence of a rock band pretending to have roots in rock music.")
Opening with the lounge-laced "Sweet Charity," the album soon shifts to the sci-fi rockabilly/swing stylings of "None of Them Knew They Were Robots" and then to the crooning melodic pop of "Retrovertigo." On other dynamic compositions such as "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" and "Goodbye Sober Day," Bungle's quick-change genre-hopping is surprisingly seamless, with vocal gymnast Mike Patton acting as the conductor, narrator, and tour guide. "Pink Cigarette" is pure pulp-mystery music, while "The Holy Filament" wouldn't sound out of place on the BRAZIL soundtrack. Although these songs are ridiculously layered with hundreds of instrument and vocal tracks, CALIFORNIA doesn't sound overly complex, revealing only the finest of Mr. Bungle's warped yet playful traits.
Recorded at Coast Recorders, Division Hi-Fi, Forking Paths Studio and Different Fur, San Francisco, California.
Personnel: Mike ...
| | Fantomas CD (1999)
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The first project Mike Patton worked on after the April 1998 breakup of Faith No More was the all-star Fantomas. Heavy metal fans everywhere salivated at the lineup of Patton on vocals, the Melvins' Buzz Osborne on guitar, ex-Slayer Dave Lombardo on drums, and Mr. Bungle's Trevor Dunn on bass. But as longtime fans have come to learn long ago, always expect the unexpected with Patton-related projects. The band's self-titled debut (the first for Patton's record label, Ipecac) is far from your conventional rock; composed and produced entirely by the singer, the songs serve as a soundtrack to a comic book's story line. At nearly 43-minutes in length, Fantomas is comprised of 30 chronologically numbered "pages"' instead of songs. While it's an unconventional album, it's also a completely original one, especially when compared to the blah and predictable alt-rock of the late '90s. Patton uses his voice as an instrument with often amazing results (singing nonsensical syllables instead of words); few singers have the talent or know-how to pull off such highlights as "Page 1," "Page 19," "Page 21," ...
| | Tomahawk Mit Gas CD (2003)
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When Faith No More emerged in the early '90s, who'd have guessed that singer Mike Patton would eventually leave their secondhand-Chili Peppers sound behind for such a wide variety of innovative musical projects? Creating wildly eclectic, experimental, and unclassifiable music with both Fantomas and Mr. Bungle, Patton has consistently exceeded expectations. If Tomahawk veers closer to Patton's rock-star past, it's only in comparison to the extremes of his other work.
While the aggressive tone of the heavy guitars and ...
| | Dave Barker Prisoner Of Love CD (1996)
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| | Sizzla Rastafari Teach I Everything CD (2001) (Import) United Kingdom
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Among the most outspoken voices of the conscious dancehall movement, Sizzla has used his brand of spiritual reggae as a response to the generally bawdy themes of much modern Jamaican music. RASTAFARI, as may be expected, focuses heavily on Rastafarian culture; in particular the subjects of repatriation and ...
| | 34 Satellite Stop CD (2002)
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The grit of 34 Satellite's debut album carries over on Stop, but here it serves as the energizing ingredient in a welter of Wall of Sound, throwback grunge, and sharp-eared pop tunefulness. Marc Smith's guitar focuses and ultimately defines the band's sound, from the gentle arpeggiated intro and explosive follow-up on "Elijah St. Marie" to the carefully crafted lines that lace through "Charleston"; an Edge influence shows in Smith's pursuit of maximum effect through minimal gestures, but Smith isn't above throwing in the occasional screaming lick as well. Around this core the band builds their arrangements, at times with barely audible synth additions, as on "Charleston," but most dramatically in the string quartet that rises like a seductive apparition from Mark Boquist's no-nonsense backbeat on "Longest Day." Overall 34 Satellite plays with enthusiasm tempered only slightly by premonitions of maturity; Marc Benning shows a developing ability to write and deliver real-world lyrics, and the band's consistency at framing his performance suggests that this combination has real staying power. They know how to rock without blowing all their energy or overwhelming their material. Tom Petty and R.E.M. learned this same lesson early in their careers, a fact that confirms Stop as a solid second step. ~ Robert L. Doerschuk
Check out the 34 Satellite E-Card ... it rocks! http://www.34satellite.com/ecard34 Satellite STOP was awarded the "2002 Best Power-Pop Recording" by the Denver Westword."34 Satellite shine truer and brighter than the trite bands and pop stars that falsely glitter and litter the musical universe." -- Amplifier Magazine"34 Satellite's songs come from the perspective of dreamers, travelers, and the broken-hearted. In other words, real people who have real hopes, fears, problems, and stories. But also it works because - plain and simple - it rocks." -- PopMatters Magazine - Chicago, IL"Benning's smart, sharp lyrics and the band's infectious pop-rock sonic blast set it apart from the hot running pack." -- The Flagepole - Athens, GA34 Satellite are living in the right now.Their music makes you wonder what it might be like to walk in their shoes, to be where they are, living the late night and isolation and camaraderie of a rock bank. It's the sound of opening doors, traffic lights, and electricity. The individual roadmaps that brought the band together were full of twists and turns, but became meaningless at their first show at TT the Bears in Boston.Guitarist Marc Smith brought his black Gibson ES 135, bassist Mike Santoro brought his Fender P Bass, and drummer Mark Boquist brought the loudest snare he could find. Marc Benning brought the words and the voice.So what was it that pulled them together? Listen to the song "Wishing Well", from their 2000 release "Radar". Straightforward lyrics mask the complex emotions underneath, while explosions of distorted guitars and drums burst free. Benning's teeth-clenched vocals express the kind of pain that makes hope itself agonizing. The song hints a connection to other mavericks - from the Beatles to Crazy Horse to the Flaming Lips - and speaks so forcefully that it's hard to imagine any other band attempting it. 34 Satellite makes this type of colossal sound. It's earned that vast territory through a great deal of hard work and the luck of each member finding one another."Radar" was enthusiastically welcomed by both college and AA radio, and tracked at over 200 stations nationwide. The band spent eight months of ...
| | Delgados Hate CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Zenology CD (1995) (Import) 4 Bonus Tracks; Japan
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| | Status Quo Colour Collection CD (2008)
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