This song is about the guitarist Trey's dog whom died. This is one of my faves by them. When I hear Bungle, I hear a lot of Zappa. As for suggestions, I recommend Carousel, None of Them Knew They Were Robots, Desert Search for Techno Allah and or My Ass Is on Fire.
Thank you so much for checking out the video and for the recommendations! I've added them all to the list and look forward to checking some of those out soon.
I absolutely LOVE this one, it just has this whole story and feels shorter than it is. Despite it being a silly song about a dog it’s just so indescribably beautiful. One of the first songs I ever heard from bungle and it STILL gives me chills
Thank you for reacting to my favourite Bungle song, I absolutely love everything about it and glad to see you enjoying it too, also you should check out a live version of this sometime, Bungle are amazing live, I have some great live performance on my YT if you ever want to react to any 😎 I would recommend more songs but you literally can't go wrong with Bungle no matter what song you choose ❤️ but having said that please can you add Travolta-Quote/Unquote to your list for my friend Erv, it's his jam 😎 And by the way that last part you heard was actually the beginning of the next song 'My Ass Is On Fire' be sure to check that one out too 😉
You're so welcome! 😊🤘 Thank you so much for checking out the reaction and for directing me to more material! I've got those tunes on my list and definitely look forward to checking more out from them soon.
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! I've got both tunes added to the list and look forward to checking them out some time in the near future.
Thank you for being the journey into the avant side of modern music!!!!!! There is plenty of more Bungle to enjoy. And then you have all of the side-projects like Secret Chiefs 3, Umlaut, Fantomas, etc… You, sir, are in for a treat. (And dudes comment about Cardiacs was on point. Check out the track Jibber ant Twitch off the 1984 album the Seaside)
Thank you so much for checking out the video and for the recommendations! Definitely looking forward to checking more of this stuff out, and have added the tune to the list. :)
Awesome when I feel like music is becoming too formulated I get depressed from it and the only cure sometimes is Mr. Bungle. It's a shame people don't often get it!!
Hi, Jonathon! :) Everyone here is watching with enthusiasm how you react to Mr. Bungle again, including me there, so don't be surprised if a couple of us continue to follow you, staying with high expectations for your future involvement with this band.:) For now, I won't recommend anything new, because others have already suggested a lot, and that's great ... :) I'll just deal with the statistics for a moment, hahah, and I'll say that you've already managed to react to 1 song from each of the 3 official album of Mr.B. Yey!:) When I say “official,” I mean of those from the 90`s, right, not including last year’s new one, which is actually a re-creation of their early 1986 demo, a total and pure thrash-metal fire, but several people here have already informed you about this, so it's okay ... :) We won't hurry, we'll get to that, I think it's important for us now that you first react to their experimental side, formed and matured, and there will be time for you to witness the whole early, prehistoric original sound, cool? That being said, I think I promised you earlier that I would share with you a brief insight into those 3 albums, their main characteristics and the like, so that in a way you get a rough idea of what can be expected from everyone... and I will now fulfill that promise. :) Don`t worry, it`s not like Frank Zappa's opus, like a hundreds of records, hahah...Nope, there are only 3 of them.:) Let's begin? :) OK. Here we go. 1. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (1991) OH, the year was very promising for cross-over bands and funk-metal in general, we could say that it had already started to spread in the year `89, thanks to Faith No More itself, among other bands of that time (such as Fishbone, Nomeansno, Living Color...), but nothing could prepare the world for such a cross-experimental sound when Mr.B. came up with this record. :) With a grotesque clown on it`s cover, many will be deceived expecting somehow coherent funk and cheerful sounds... Yeah, there is some of that too...But the overall impression could not be compared to anything that was heard until then... Dark lyrics, dark moods, sudden changes of tempo, rhythm and music genres became a recognizable credo of this band, since everything else was very strange and unrecognizable! But in spite of everything: they did it! They presented a new philosophy of music to the world, showing that a song could withstand a hundreds of significant interventions, and still manage to maintain its true form - a song. :) Critics were divided: some were thrilled to hear such heavy-loaded constructions of songs, others considered them for a joke and pointless rubbish...But Mr. Bungle easily went through this Scilas and Charybdis.:) And gained a cult of followers, including yes - Brandon Boyd from Incubus (he was a kid at the time, but Mike Patton and Mr.B. `did it` for him)! :) The jocularity and silliness of these songs, often brought to the limits of parody, cynicism and a taboos, actually served as a mask for the seriousness of the lyrics, and for their original view of the world, from which the whole absurdity of living could originally be illustrated by - circus and carnival imagery! :)) This remained their second main feature, the one that many have tried to imitate since then, with more or less success, but never as good as they managed. ;) This included wearing grotesque masks and janitor`s clothes around `91/`92. alive, at concerts (look what Slipknot did later), but also very different gear and bizarre costumes. :) But amazing music was still the center of everything, not just fooling around, like kids do in music today... Mr.Bungle had their own influences too, like Fishbone, and they took the idea to use trumpets and saxophones from them, but they have ever since done a whole new thing with it in their music. They also took a lot of the keyboards that surrounds them and transformed it, bringing it to a whole new, surreal level, which included using of samples from cartoons, movies, video-games, pinball, alarms, noises of various kinds, many of which were self-made, mostly by Patton and the guitarist Trey Spruance.;) Their multi-instrumentalism came to the fore. The genres on this album, which was generally considered `funk-metal` album, were too broad to fit this definition! :) There is mostly Ska, Circus, then Funk, Metal, Reggae, Rap, Jazz, Disco, some Latin sounds like Samba, Rumba, including attempts to parody some of them, like Jazz, Blues, etc. Most of these things, with the exception of heavy metal riffs, can be heard in this song you just reacted to, because it was a song from this album. :))) Congratulations! :) BTW, the album begins with a song called "Travolta", a great demonstration of all the skills and genres mentioned above, including metal, a strange and bizarre anthem against conformism with the famous actor as the central figure of ridicule, but at one point they had to change the title to "Quote Unquote" because Travolta's lawyers threatened to sue them if they didn't ...Mmm. :) 2. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (1995) Named after a ship of the main villain from James Bond movie "Thunderball" ...huh? did you know that? :)...which also means "Flying Saucer" on Italian, and what do you say to that? :))) .... this album is literally that: a strange, alien machine, wherever you look: from its interior to its exterior! :)) An amazing work of art - no less and no more! :D Imagine yourself trying to get through the open door of some alien spacecraft? :) You'd be terrified at first, wouldn't you? :) Well, that`s the sound of the opening song from this album: a bunch of strange noise and outer-dimensional cacophony, rolled into a skeleton of what should be some kind of slow, death-metal song with a disturbing title - "Everyone I Went To High-School with is Dead"...! :-/// That should be considered a `Fire baptism` for this album, although many simply skip this song ... And why not, our `cartoon` friends would like to encourage you to make any cartoon-gesture, and even just jump on next song - anything is possible and everything`s fine. :)))... But, like their debut album, this album is not less stranger, in fact - consider it radically wilder and crafted with even wider range of music genres, those that can only be taken as a `thought noun` for a simple, ordinary metal band of any kind. :)) So, this album includes such genres as: Salsa, Techno-Rave of the 90`s, Argentinian Tango, Ambient Synth music, Musique concrète, (french: `concrete music`, real noises of various non-musical objects), Oriental Middle Eastern music, Noise, old school Rock`n`Roll & Rockabilly, straight forward Speed Metal, Free Jazz, Thrash Metal, reference to old music from Hitchcock's movie of the 40's, 50's and 60's ... and ofc ... Cartoon music! :) Gee, it seems that the imagery of "Carnival and Circus" can be linked to this album only through those small glimpses of such cartoon sounds and effects from time to time, because the kaleidoscope of those named genres makes the body of this album completely unrecognizable, like on a fast-speed conveyor belt of some kind... Impressions are extraordinary and often shocking, but a bit blurry, and that is the main feature of this album. ;) You can forget about the funky tunes and the groovalistic vibe of the 1st album; on this one, `the clowns` became darker, more serious, and why not say so - more artistic in the formalism of the songs. The paint on their faces simply fell, in all that rapid change of genre, releasing unusual monsters and "dogs" of the music world, strange for everyone, but not for themselves. ;) And they did it again, a little older but still young, with about 27-28 years on average! :) The paint on their heroic faces is still in traces there! :)) You could feel all this in their song that you listened to before this one: "Carry Stress in the Jaw + The Spy", since it`s from this album... :) Great! :) P.S. The review of the 3rd album and a conclusion of this post you`ll find when you click on the first answer on this comment just below it, since it was the only way for me to place the whole dmn thing here ... :))) Sorry for this inconvenience and tnx in advance.:)
3. Mr. Bungle - California (1999) These guys have a big gap between albums, just compare the years of release, but now it's clear that with so much material to go through - it wouldn't be possible in any other way ...! After their crazy debut album, and another, even wilder one, years passed in various engagements of the band members... As it is somehow a constant, not from the very beginning, but let's say - towards the end of the beginning, hahaha... Their talents are wild and they were engaged on many fronts and in many other bands, as you can guess... However, time brought a new challenge for these guys, because Patton and the bassist Trevor Dunn relaxed in some nice business with their famous friend and jazz-saxophonist John Zorn, who even produced and played a bit on Mr.B.`s first album! ;) The fact is: at that time, Zorn was into some nice, old Hawaiian chill-out music of the 50`s, and Patton & Dunn were special guests on his album of this music called "The Gift"... They had a pleasant experience, and that brought new ideas to the table. :) They were like this: what if we, unlike everything we've done so far with weird noise and violent music in general, filled with funk and trumpets from time to time, make a new album now that will consist entirely of beautiful, non-violent, big old, easy-to-listen genres of XX century? :D Since they like to challenge their audience and fans with their creative choices, and they still get applause for it, which just means they do a great job anyway, they decided to do so, and maybe to cool off a bit from the previous fame and (could be?) their sound at all? ...: / So - what did they do?:) They used non-digital, old analog recording technology...:) to produce an album with songs that are trying to imitate `the normal form` of pop-rock songs. It was as if the clowns had decided to paint the masks of normal human faces over their still-colored clown face. :)) But ironically, the paint of this `normal faces` couldn`t help but to fall like on the previous album, and yet now it shows the faces of clowns in a bits below it. :) In the same way, these new pop songs of theirs simply manifest their clownish nature in significant traces and disproportionate quantities, keeping them recognizable in their real but refreshed art. :) Mr. Bungle is not just an experimental-metal band; in many ways, it’s a real postmodern band! Nowhere is that more obvious than on this album. :) There are music quotes everywhere, relocated and set in a new way. ;) Here you can find the likes of: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Vangelis, Mikis Theodorakis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis P....; and what about modern jazz heroes like - Herbie Hancock and the Swiss electronic pop duo from the 80's called - Yello ? :) Fragments of music of each of these artists can be heard on this Mr.B.`s album, swaying you gently through their original labyrinth of thoughts, often colored in strange, melancholic and pessimistic mood, with lots of reference to a popular art and science, but also to occult and alchemy, since the guitarist is know for this philosophical aspirations and reads a lot of these books...In fact, he is interested in Pythagorean music theory and tries to practice it in his own band which is called "Secret Chiefs Trio" - basically he and some other members of Mr.B. but without Patton and with not much of a vocals (mostly instrumental music) and where he mostly utilities so called Arabian musical scale...but that`s another story.:) To cut a long story short, genres expected on Mr.Bungle`s album "California" - some sad but trilling look on this pronounced country, a symbol of luxury and a strange misery `by the sea` if not extracted by other means then through earthquakes and like..... ARE: Jive & Swing-Big-Band Jazz, Exotica, Surf-Rock, Electronic Pop, Landscape, Jazz , Motown, Soul, Doo-Wop, Evergreen, and Salsa again, but also Bossa-Nova, Gypsy music, A Cappella, Tribal throat singing, Techno-Pop, and Metal from time to time, sometimes in a blink of an eye, sometimes long enough to give you the feeling that Brazilian thrash-metal band Sepultura just ran into your room without any warning! :))) Many call this album a masterpiece! With that, the authors spat in the eye of the new decade, the new millennium, through the music and the lyrics they predicted a lot of what`s happening in this century and since then it can`t hold on to its pants ...:D Unlike the previous album, this one starts quite gently, with a song titled "Sweet Charity", with bongos and Hawaiian guitars, but the rest of the album is a sure roller-coaster, so ... Circus still prevails. :))) Although the first song you ever heard from them is from this album, Pink Cigarette - that`s right, with a weird evergreen manner and an imitation of normalcy, whatever it is, you organically felt there was more to it, and you’re right ...;) Continue with this musical treat, sorry for my long post, I hope it will help you and if so - I did it too! BYE!:)
@@boyhrn Well I do believe you said it all, I just have a couple of problems, like for real who are these people who said ST was pointless rubbish, I want names, whatever 😅 And you only mentioned Trevor Dunn's name twice 😲 Seriously his name should be in every sentence 😄 And I know you weren't talking to me but here I am with my emoji friends 😅
Hell yeah more Mr. Bungle! Glad you had fun, Patton really is king. I'd love to see you react to some Dillinger Escape Plan tracks, check out the song 'When Good Dogs Do Bad Things' as it features Mike Patton on vocals, absolutely wild track
Thank you so much for coming back to check out this reaction and for the Dillinger Escape Plan recommendation! I've got the tune added to my list and look forward to checking it out.
One of the best reactions to Bungle. Sounds like you get it. Avenged sevenfold, although I don't know much about them, made a song very bunglesgue. Can't remember the name but it was about having relations with a dead girlfriend! Lol
As a side note, many of the sound blips they use on this album are taken from an old Circus themed pin ball machine (can't remember the name). My cousin and I (rabid Bungle fans) discovered this one day while playing old obscure pinball machines in the late nineties. Our minds were blown.
The arrangements are always killer with Mr Bungle, but I definitely found Disco Volante to be at a whole new level of commitment by the band. You nailed it when you said this had some great hooks, but it's structurally pretty simple with fewer nuances and layers than carry stress in the jaw.
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! Awesome lol, I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination in regards to Incubus haha, but I used to listen to Fungus Amongus a lot and that is just what certain elements of this tune reminded me of.
True story my dude, never heard of them before they were suggested to me by a friend last year that I went to High School with. But they likely slipped my radar because I wasn't the biggest fan of Patton's after having seen a rough Tomahawk performance when they opened for TOOL back in '02, where the sound was terrible and Patton took it out on the crowd, spending the majority of the time insulting the crowd, who were booing -- it was just a bad experience that left a bitter taste in my mouth for a while, so I never subjected into the "genius of Mike Patton" as it were, and just saw him as kind of an arrogant jerk for a long time. But after having started the channel, I was reaching out to my fb friends for suggestions so I could check out stuff I'd never dove into before, and Mr. Bungle's "Pink Cigarette" was the track one of them suggested, so that was my first time hearing a Bungle tune (that can also be seen on the channel if you’re interested), and though I didn't hit it off immediately with that song, the farther I dug into some of their stuff, the more I liked. That said, there are still a lot of their tunes I need to check out; are there any songs by them you'd like to see a reaction to on the channel?
The whole album is genius, Patton and John Zorn are geniuses You should try one of many side projects by Patton like Peepin' Tom "you're not alone" here is a link if you mind th-cam.com/video/A5twjj9mbo0/w-d-xo.html
Hey come on now it's a fun song, are you telling me you've never jammed to Travolta 😅 Maybe it's not considered as creative as some other Bungle songs but it's still awesome 😎
@@sussychachi I know what you mean but it's someone else's favourite so I can live with that and I'll ask for SGD next time for ya, did you reequest it yet? love ya David ❤️
This song is about the guitarist Trey's dog whom died. This is one of my faves by them. When I hear Bungle, I hear a lot of Zappa. As for suggestions, I recommend Carousel, None of Them Knew They Were Robots, Desert Search for Techno Allah and or My Ass Is on Fire.
Thank you so much for checking out the video and for the recommendations! I've added them all to the list and look forward to checking some of those out soon.
Goodbye Sober Day!!!!
no its about a fat killer clown thats sneaking up behind you with a baseball bat
@Nicolette Nicotine 3/4 of their discography are classics
The zappa similarities are super interesting since according to a Q&A Trevor Dunn did, none of the guys in the band were huge fans of him.
I absolutely LOVE this one, it just has this whole story and feels shorter than it is. Despite it being a silly song about a dog it’s just so indescribably beautiful. One of the first songs I ever heard from bungle and it STILL gives me chills
That's how I always describe it, it's just so beautiful I don't even have the words, my favourite Bungle song ❤️
Best high school jazz band I’ve ever heard
Zappa too.
Thank you for reacting to my favourite Bungle song, I absolutely love everything about it and glad to see you enjoying it too, also you should check out a live version of this sometime, Bungle are amazing live, I have some great live performance on my YT if you ever want to react to any 😎
I would recommend more songs but you literally can't go wrong with Bungle no matter what song you choose ❤️ but having said that please can you add Travolta-Quote/Unquote to your list for my friend Erv, it's his jam 😎
And by the way that last part you heard was actually the beginning of the next song 'My Ass Is On Fire' be sure to check that one out too 😉
You're so welcome! 😊🤘 Thank you so much for checking out the reaction and for directing me to more material! I've got those tunes on my list and definitely look forward to checking more out from them soon.
@@JonathonThamesMusic Awesome, and your reaction was really great, definitely looking forward to more Bungle reactions from you 😎
This track and Dead Goon are probably my favorite songs from this album.
@@Therap1ssed I seriously couldn't even pick a top 5, the whole album is so solid and besides I change my mind every time I listen lol
‘Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz’ is a fun song, as is ‘Desert Search for Techno Allah’.
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! I've got both tunes added to the list and look forward to checking them out some time in the near future.
Desert search is an amazing song one of my favourites
Came here to second these 2 songs. Amazing.
Oh yeah. Ma meeshka is golden.
Thank you for being the journey into the avant side of modern music!!!!!! There is plenty of more Bungle to enjoy. And then you have all of the side-projects like Secret Chiefs 3, Umlaut, Fantomas, etc… You, sir, are in for a treat. (And dudes comment about Cardiacs was on point. Check out the track Jibber ant Twitch off the 1984 album the Seaside)
Thank you so much for checking out the video and for the recommendations! Definitely looking forward to checking more of this stuff out, and have added the tune to the list. :)
Tomahawk..... 101 north
I'm really enjoying your Mr.Bungle reactions, can't wait for the next one already!!!!
Thank you so much for checking out this one too Klara! I'll be doing another Bungle video soon and definitely look forward to checking more tunes out.
@@JonathonThamesMusic Oh that's great, you're in for such an amazing ride, not the slightest bit jealous 😊
Incredible song. Love reaction . Subbed .
Awesome when I feel like music is becoming too formulated I get depressed from it and the only cure sometimes is Mr. Bungle. It's a shame people don't often get it!!
Hi, Jonathon! :) Everyone here is watching with enthusiasm how you react to Mr. Bungle again, including me there, so don't be surprised if a couple of us continue to follow you, staying with high expectations for your future involvement with this band.:) For now, I won't recommend anything new, because others have already suggested a lot, and that's great ... :) I'll just deal with the statistics for a moment, hahah, and I'll say that you've already managed to react to 1 song from each of the 3 official album of Mr.B. Yey!:) When I say “official,” I mean of those from the 90`s, right, not including last year’s new one, which is actually a re-creation of their early 1986 demo, a total and pure thrash-metal fire, but several people here have already informed you about this, so it's okay ... :) We won't hurry, we'll get to that, I think it's important for us now that you first react to their experimental side, formed and matured, and there will be time for you to witness the whole early, prehistoric original sound, cool? That being said, I think I promised you earlier that I would share with you a brief insight into those 3 albums, their main characteristics and the like, so that in a way you get a rough idea of what can be expected from everyone... and I will now fulfill that promise. :) Don`t worry, it`s not like Frank Zappa's opus, like a hundreds of records, hahah...Nope, there are only 3 of them.:) Let's begin? :) OK. Here we go.
1. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (1991) OH, the year was very promising for cross-over bands and funk-metal in general, we could say that it had already started to spread in the year `89, thanks to Faith No More itself, among other bands of that time (such as Fishbone, Nomeansno, Living Color...), but nothing could prepare the world for such a cross-experimental sound when Mr.B. came up with this record. :) With a grotesque clown on it`s cover, many will be deceived expecting somehow coherent funk and cheerful sounds... Yeah, there is some of that too...But the overall impression could not be compared to anything that was heard until then... Dark lyrics, dark moods, sudden changes of tempo, rhythm and music genres became a recognizable credo of this band, since everything else was very strange and unrecognizable! But in spite of everything: they did it! They presented a new philosophy of music to the world, showing that a song could withstand a hundreds of significant interventions, and still manage to maintain its true form - a song. :) Critics were divided: some were thrilled to hear such heavy-loaded constructions of songs, others considered them for a joke and pointless rubbish...But Mr. Bungle easily went through this Scilas and Charybdis.:) And gained a cult of followers, including yes - Brandon Boyd from Incubus (he was a kid at the time, but Mike Patton and Mr.B. `did it` for him)! :) The jocularity and silliness of these songs, often brought to the limits of parody, cynicism and a taboos, actually served as a mask for the seriousness of the lyrics, and for their original view of the world, from which the whole absurdity of living could originally be illustrated by - circus and carnival imagery! :)) This remained their second main feature, the one that many have tried to imitate since then, with more or less success, but never as good as they managed. ;) This included wearing grotesque masks and janitor`s clothes around `91/`92. alive, at concerts (look what Slipknot did later), but also very different gear and bizarre costumes. :) But amazing music was still the center of everything, not just fooling around, like kids do in music today... Mr.Bungle had their own influences too, like Fishbone, and they took the idea to use trumpets and saxophones from them, but they have ever since done a whole new thing with it in their music. They also took a lot of the keyboards that surrounds them and transformed it, bringing it to a whole new, surreal level, which included using of samples from cartoons, movies, video-games, pinball, alarms, noises of various kinds, many of which were self-made, mostly by Patton and the guitarist Trey Spruance.;) Their multi-instrumentalism came to the fore. The genres on this album, which was generally considered `funk-metal` album, were too broad to fit this definition! :) There is mostly Ska, Circus, then Funk, Metal, Reggae, Rap, Jazz, Disco, some Latin sounds like Samba, Rumba, including attempts to parody some of them, like Jazz, Blues, etc. Most of these things, with the exception of heavy metal riffs, can be heard in this song you just reacted to, because it was a song from this album. :))) Congratulations! :) BTW, the album begins with a song called "Travolta", a great demonstration of all the skills and genres mentioned above, including metal, a strange and bizarre anthem against conformism with the famous actor as the central figure of ridicule, but at one point they had to change the title to "Quote Unquote" because Travolta's lawyers threatened to sue them if they didn't ...Mmm. :)
2. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (1995) Named after a ship of the main villain from James Bond movie "Thunderball" ...huh? did you know that? :)...which also means "Flying Saucer" on Italian, and what do you say to that? :))) .... this album is literally that: a strange, alien machine, wherever you look: from its interior to its exterior! :)) An amazing work of art - no less and no more! :D Imagine yourself trying to get through the open door of some alien spacecraft? :) You'd be terrified at first, wouldn't you? :) Well, that`s the sound of the opening song from this album: a bunch of strange noise and outer-dimensional cacophony, rolled into a skeleton of what should be some kind of slow, death-metal song with a disturbing title - "Everyone I Went To High-School with is Dead"...! :-/// That should be considered a `Fire baptism` for this album, although many simply skip this song ... And why not, our `cartoon` friends would like to encourage you to make any cartoon-gesture, and even just jump on next song - anything is possible and everything`s fine. :)))... But, like their debut album, this album is not less stranger, in fact - consider it radically wilder and crafted with even wider range of music genres, those that can only be taken as a `thought noun` for a simple, ordinary metal band of any kind. :)) So, this album includes such genres as: Salsa, Techno-Rave of the 90`s, Argentinian Tango, Ambient Synth music, Musique concrète, (french: `concrete music`, real noises of various non-musical objects), Oriental Middle Eastern music, Noise, old school Rock`n`Roll & Rockabilly, straight forward Speed Metal, Free Jazz, Thrash Metal, reference to old music from Hitchcock's movie of the 40's, 50's and 60's ... and ofc ... Cartoon music! :) Gee, it seems that the imagery of "Carnival and Circus" can be linked to this album only through those small glimpses of such cartoon sounds and effects from time to time, because the kaleidoscope of those named genres makes the body of this album completely unrecognizable, like on a fast-speed conveyor belt of some kind... Impressions are extraordinary and often shocking, but a bit blurry, and that is the main feature of this album. ;) You can forget about the funky tunes and the groovalistic vibe of the 1st album; on this one, `the clowns` became darker, more serious, and why not say so - more artistic in the formalism of the songs. The paint on their faces simply fell, in all that rapid change of genre, releasing unusual monsters and "dogs" of the music world, strange for everyone, but not for themselves. ;) And they did it again, a little older but still young, with about 27-28 years on average! :) The paint on their heroic faces is still in traces there! :)) You could feel all this in their song that you listened to before this one: "Carry Stress in the Jaw + The Spy", since it`s from this album... :) Great! :) P.S. The review of the 3rd album and a conclusion of this post you`ll find when you click on the first answer on this comment just below it, since it was the only way for me to place the whole dmn thing here ... :))) Sorry for this inconvenience and tnx in advance.:)
3. Mr. Bungle - California (1999) These guys have a big gap between albums, just compare the years of release, but now it's clear that with so much material to go through - it wouldn't be possible in any other way ...! After their crazy debut album, and another, even wilder one, years passed in various engagements of the band members... As it is somehow a constant, not from the very beginning, but let's say - towards the end of the beginning, hahaha... Their talents are wild and they were engaged on many fronts and in many other bands, as you can guess... However, time brought a new challenge for these guys, because Patton and the bassist Trevor Dunn relaxed in some nice business with their famous friend and jazz-saxophonist John Zorn, who even produced and played a bit on Mr.B.`s first album! ;) The fact is: at that time, Zorn was into some nice, old Hawaiian chill-out music of the 50`s, and Patton & Dunn were special guests on his album of this music called "The Gift"... They had a pleasant experience, and that brought new ideas to the table. :) They were like this: what if we, unlike everything we've done so far with weird noise and violent music in general, filled with funk and trumpets from time to time, make a new album now that will consist entirely of beautiful, non-violent, big old, easy-to-listen genres of XX century? :D Since they like to challenge their audience and fans with their creative choices, and they still get applause for it, which just means they do a great job anyway, they decided to do so, and maybe to cool off a bit from the previous fame and (could be?) their sound at all? ...: / So - what did they do?:) They used non-digital, old analog recording technology...:) to produce an album with songs that are trying to imitate `the normal form` of pop-rock songs. It was as if the clowns had decided to paint the masks of normal human faces over their still-colored clown face. :)) But ironically, the paint of this `normal faces` couldn`t help but to fall like on the previous album, and yet now it shows the faces of clowns in a bits below it. :) In the same way, these new pop songs of theirs simply manifest their clownish nature in significant traces and disproportionate quantities, keeping them recognizable in their real but refreshed art. :) Mr. Bungle is not just an experimental-metal band; in many ways, it’s a real postmodern band! Nowhere is that more obvious than on this album. :) There are music quotes everywhere, relocated and set in a new way. ;) Here you can find the likes of: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Vangelis, Mikis Theodorakis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis P....; and what about modern jazz heroes like - Herbie Hancock and the Swiss electronic pop duo from the 80's called - Yello ? :) Fragments of music of each of these artists can be heard on this Mr.B.`s album, swaying you gently through their original labyrinth of thoughts, often colored in strange, melancholic and pessimistic mood, with lots of reference to a popular art and science, but also to occult and alchemy, since the guitarist is know for this philosophical aspirations and reads a lot of these books...In fact, he is interested in Pythagorean music theory and tries to practice it in his own band which is called "Secret Chiefs Trio" - basically he and some other members of Mr.B. but without Patton and with not much of a vocals (mostly instrumental music) and where he mostly utilities so called Arabian musical scale...but that`s another story.:) To cut a long story short, genres expected on Mr.Bungle`s album "California" - some sad but trilling look on this pronounced country, a symbol of luxury and a strange misery `by the sea` if not extracted by other means then through earthquakes and like..... ARE: Jive & Swing-Big-Band Jazz, Exotica, Surf-Rock, Electronic Pop, Landscape, Jazz , Motown, Soul, Doo-Wop, Evergreen, and Salsa again, but also Bossa-Nova, Gypsy music, A Cappella, Tribal throat singing, Techno-Pop, and Metal from time to time, sometimes in a blink of an eye, sometimes long enough to give you the feeling that Brazilian thrash-metal band Sepultura just ran into your room without any warning! :))) Many call this album a masterpiece! With that, the authors spat in the eye of the new decade, the new millennium, through the music and the lyrics they predicted a lot of what`s happening in this century and since then it can`t hold on to its pants ...:D Unlike the previous album, this one starts quite gently, with a song titled "Sweet Charity", with bongos and Hawaiian guitars, but the rest of the album is a sure roller-coaster, so ... Circus still prevails. :))) Although the first song you ever heard from them is from this album, Pink Cigarette - that`s right, with a weird evergreen manner and an imitation of normalcy, whatever it is, you organically felt there was more to it, and you’re right ...;) Continue with this musical treat, sorry for my long post, I hope it will help you and if so - I did it too! BYE!:)
@@boyhrn Well I do believe you said it all, I just have a couple of problems, like for real who are these people who said ST was pointless rubbish, I want names, whatever 😅 And you only mentioned Trevor Dunn's name twice 😲 Seriously his name should be in every sentence 😄
And I know you weren't talking to me but here I am with my emoji friends 😅
This album turns 30 years old today!
Hell yeah more Mr. Bungle! Glad you had fun, Patton really is king. I'd love to see you react to some Dillinger Escape Plan tracks, check out the song 'When Good Dogs Do Bad Things' as it features Mike Patton on vocals, absolutely wild track
Thank you so much for coming back to check out this reaction and for the Dillinger Escape Plan recommendation! I've got the tune added to my list and look forward to checking it out.
You taught me a lesson mama .... fabulous.
Mr bungle doesn’t have any bad songs they’re all great and interesting too me. Sacred music for me!
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! Great take on Bungle! :)
Yeah you just can't go wrong with Bungle, every song they ever made is perfect!!!!
THANKS MOM!!
It’s been like 30 years since I’ve heard this album. Good pic.
THANKS MOM !!!....and thanks for the bungle reactions
i had this song stuck in my head all day yesterday and i felt fucking insane but its so fun idc
Enjoyed watching your anticipation building 😁
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! I'm glad you enjoyed it :).
One of the best reactions to Bungle. Sounds like you get it. Avenged sevenfold, although I don't know much about them, made a song very bunglesgue. Can't remember the name but it was about having relations with a dead girlfriend! Lol
Was it them who covered Retrovertigo?
You’re thinking of A Little Piece Of Heaven
As a side note, many of the sound blips they use on this album are taken from an old Circus themed pin ball machine (can't remember the name). My cousin and I (rabid Bungle fans) discovered this one day while playing old obscure pinball machines in the late nineties. Our minds were blown.
Cyclone was the table. I loved this game. It is all over the song Carousel
@@trevorhouck3148 Yes, that's the one. "Ride the ferris wheel"
Goosebumps the tv show: the album
great vid, bro \m/
I also love Carousel. It's amazing 🤩
i think i know what im going to send mom on Mother's Day.
I knew you would like them.....good man!!
Thank you so much for coming back to check out this video! Definitely a good recommendation for my taste in music, very good call. Thank you!
Great reaction. The track "Desert search for techno Allah" from their 2nd album "Disco Volante" is genius. It's definitely one you should try.
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! I've got that track added to the list and look forward to checking it out soon.
The arrangements are always killer with Mr Bungle, but I definitely found Disco Volante to be at a whole new level of commitment by the band. You nailed it when you said this had some great hooks, but it's structurally pretty simple with fewer nuances and layers than carry stress in the jaw.
Volante is my fav by far. It's hauntingly beautiful.
I definitely got a bit of a Mr. Bungle/FNM vibe from early Incubus. Solid reaction
Thank you so much for checking out the reaction! Awesome lol, I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination in regards to Incubus haha, but I used to listen to Fungus Amongus a lot and that is just what certain elements of this tune reminded me of.
It's like trying to analyze Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invintion!
Love it. About treys dying dog. One of the best
I listened to fungus amungus also when this came out
I can’t buy this guy has listened to Mr Bungle before. How can a music lover not be aware of them? Still great track.
True story my dude, never heard of them before they were suggested to me by a friend last year that I went to High School with. But they likely slipped my radar because I wasn't the biggest fan of Patton's after having seen a rough Tomahawk performance when they opened for TOOL back in '02, where the sound was terrible and Patton took it out on the crowd, spending the majority of the time insulting the crowd, who were booing -- it was just a bad experience that left a bitter taste in my mouth for a while, so I never subjected into the "genius of Mike Patton" as it were, and just saw him as kind of an arrogant jerk for a long time.
But after having started the channel, I was reaching out to my fb friends for suggestions so I could check out stuff I'd never dove into before, and Mr. Bungle's "Pink Cigarette" was the track one of them suggested, so that was my first time hearing a Bungle tune (that can also be seen on the channel if you’re interested), and though I didn't hit it off immediately with that song, the farther I dug into some of their stuff, the more I liked. That said, there are still a lot of their tunes I need to check out; are there any songs by them you'd like to see a reaction to on the channel?
Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas.
The whole album is genius, Patton and John Zorn are geniuses
You should try one of many side projects by Patton like Peepin' Tom "you're not alone" here is a link if you mind
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Patton is great but bassist Trevor Dunn is the person who wrote pretty much all their songs.
Anyone else get Bohemian Rhapsody vides from this song? =)
Listen to ars moriendi i like to think it gave system of a down their style lol
fugus amogus
What about your beard. It's Awesome.
Thanks for checking it out and for the beard compliment lol
Don't jam to Travolta quote jam to a more creative song first like slowly growing deaf,. :)
Hey come on now it's a fun song, are you telling me you've never jammed to Travolta 😅 Maybe it's not considered as creative as some other Bungle songs but it's still awesome 😎
@@roxannemitchell4119 i think its overated track xD but i do jam to it on car drives just i prefer the more faster pace tracks :3 hugs roxy
@@sussychachi I know what you mean but it's someone else's favourite so I can live with that and I'll ask for SGD next time for ya, did you reequest it yet? love ya David ❤️
@@roxannemitchell4119 late reply but love you Roxy muah:D