Mr. Bungle - Mr Bungle
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Free Music Review: YES
Hit: 5 Stars
The product of madmen, Mr. Bungle's debut combines elements of funk, jazz, thrash metal and ambience to create one of the most insane rock records of all time. Each song is incredibly different, and not one rock n' roll formula is followed. There is no verse-chorus-verse flow to the album, but it certainly flows, full of audio clips and spoken word interludes, soft musical transitions between "songs" and drawn out endings on a few tracks. It's catchy and full of humor, it'll make you laugh and cry and laugh until you cry and then vomit up any idea of conventional music, which is essentially what they did. Mike Patton's vocals are much like they sound on The Real Thing (Faith No More) not so much like the rest of the stuff he did with them. This album came out around the same time, Mike was young, but he was experimenting with his vocals a lot more than he did with FNM, for they actually had some singles on the Real Thing. Mr. Bungle's debut album doesn't have any pop single material, but it's a record you'll never find anywhere else. It's like circus music, or like a circus rather, in that you'll ride until you get sick, and then jump right back on the ride begging for more.Free Music Review: TAKE THE RED PILL
Hit: 5 Stars
The first 30 seconds says it all....
you hear somebody snoring...
...you imagine yourself snoring peacefully in your warm safe bed at around 3 or 4 in the morning.
Suddenly your window shatters into a thousand pieces and you wake up, gasping for breath, scared sh-tless. "W-T-F???"
Dark figures are surrounding you, gagging you, tying you up and placing a dark bag over your head... and you find yourself dragged out of the safe confines of your conventional musical tastes, kicking and sceaming,
held hostage in a carnival theme park from hell.
You have just been Bungled!!!
You will feel nauseous at first,
you will feel both disoriented and claustrofobic,
your stomach will not be able to digest more than a mouthfull
at a time...if you try to, you will be vomiting your regrets.
You will not be able to comprehend all that surrounds you...it will take you time...
But you are no longer in the world of safe and warm
and tasty mediocrity...you are now in the terrifying, ugly,
and disgusting world of true creativity...and there is no way back.
Free Music Review: Mr Bungle
Hit: 5 Stars
Iv'e listened to many a thing including faith no more, frank zappa, slipknot, slayer, joe satriani, steve vai, brian may, metallica, ac/dc, guns n roses, pantera i could go on forever... mr bungle was a gateway to a differant type of music and power and force that few bands could achieve so well. they combined all cultured music and would seemlesly combine it into an interwoven collage of metal and a circus theme then a jazz and a load of mess then back to metal etc. they changed my onlook on some music but i accept all musics and mr bungle can help show what lies out there. this is not a common music and the majority of people hav't heard of it, and the ones who have can slag it off immediantly after hearing 10 seconds of it. i recomend this entirely and only 5 stars because i could't put 20! this is an ultimate experiance. also pantera and faith no more are very heavy and i would recomend them any day. if you like heavy metal slipknot and slayer; you either love em or hate em. and some old classsics like zeppelin, deep purple etc are also worth a look. excellant album and may not be out of the cd player for quite some time!Free Music Review: Psychotic Genius
Hit: 5 Stars
When I learned that Mike Patton had another band (this was in 1991, now I know he's got several other bands, such as Tomahawk and Fantomas) I was curious. Nothing could have prepared me for this. Mr.Bungle amazed me with their rapid shifts of styles in their songs, going from all-out thrash to soul, to funk and whatnot in a matter of seconds! It really swept me off the ground, because it takes great musicians to accomplish this, even though on first listen, or to the uninitiated, it could sound like it's not serious - like it's just comedy or something. Lyrically, yes, but musically it's way serious. You gotta have chops. Me being a bassist, I read an interview with Mr.Bungle's bassist, Trevor Dunn, and he plays acoustic bass and electric, and he practices a lot, especially...get this - Classical music!! That says a lot about the musicianship required to play this. If you like to be challenged by artists, look no further. Their other cd's are very different, but always unique and brilliant. This, their first, remains my favorite. Pure psychotic, neurotic genius.Free Music Review: ride my carousel into life's jail cell
Hit: 5 Stars
Fusing elements of slapstick humour, heavy metal, funk, vaudevillian carnival music, and various other oddball styles, Mr. Bungle creates an incredibaly bizarre-as well as sometimes disgusting-album. The overall result is something so strange and goofy that it makes similar artists such as Ween look like child's play. Themes of grotesque characters, sex obsession, and absurd nonscence are discovered throughout the mixture of constantly shifting tabs, which make up no real sound structure. The most repulsive yet amusing tracks are 'The Girls Of Porn' and 'Squeeze Me Macaroni', which are kind of self-explanatory. The darkest songs are probably 'Stubb (A Dub)', a ballad about a dead dog, and 'Dead Goon', which is about the drunken downfall and demise of a clown. My favorites, however, are the catchy "Carousel" and the half punk/half soft "Slowly Growing Death". Essentially, this is great intellectual writing hidden behind a hodgepodge of zaniness.