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Mr. Bungle
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Track Listing
- Quote Unquote
- Slowly growing deaf
- Squeeze me macaroni
- Carousel
- Egg
- Stubb (A dub)
- My ass is on fire
- The Girls of porn
- Love is a fist
- Dead goon
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #79210 in Music
- Released on: 1999-06-19
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Explicit Lyrics
Customer Reviews
terrifying and eclectic
If you think music should be about unsettling and frightening people as well as uplifting them, this is the album for you. Whilst it proves to give us a bit more access into the thoughts of Mike Patton than we really need, his voice is certainly at its best here; at times soulful and sweet, at others simply deranged. John Zorn provides farmyard alto sax and produces the album superbly - some of the sounds here are truly remarkable. Check out the bizarre stereo panning towards the end of Dead Goon.
Things start well with Quote Unquote, a scary and bizarre meditation on the troubled psyche of John Travolta which is also laugh-out-loud funny. Who can resist Patton crooning "It's the time, it's the place, it's the motion" over swirling horror-movie synths? Carousel is an amusing and menacing ska/heavy metal track about the inherent spookiness of fairgrounds. Elsewhere, all kinds of musical styles are mixed and matched; thrash metal, lounge jazz, Mantovani, surf rock, fusion. The flirtations with funk-rock are now very dated but luckily they're shortlived.
Quotes from David Lynch's Blue Velvet are littered throughout the album and it's surprising the man himself hasn't repaid the compliment and used some of this music for his own movies - it would seem the perfect soundtrack. True, bands like Slipknot and Limp Bizkit probably wouldn't exist without this album - but don't let that put you off.
Weird... But Great!
This album is certainly one in a million... and with this album, Mr. Bungle dodge every single category of music that people try to pin on them. From the very funny lyrics on 'The Girls Of Porn' to Mike Patton's strange carousel-sounding chants on 'Carousel', every single track on this album is brilliant in its own way. The strangest bit in the album has to be near the end of the last track, where headphones are a must - the music and Mike's voice slides alternately from one speaker to the other, and trumpets can be heard from what seems to be the distance.....
A flawless masterpiece
This debut album was miles ahead of its time when it was released more than ten years ago. Its influence can be heard in other lesser bands, but it still stands head and shoulders over anything released by anybody since.
Oozing with talent and style, it takes the listener on a ten track voyage of acid-funk-thrash metal-spaz jazz-ska effortlessly blended with dark and aggressive but equally humorous lyrics, sung by a vocalist whose range spans from sweet soulful pop to death metal opera. Great melodies, great hooks, it's pure art.
Kill anyone who tells you otherwise.
