This album is best listened from first to last song in it's entirety. It's one of the strangest albums of all time, and they would perform these songs note for note live. One of my favorite tracks is the last one on the album. "Merry Go Bye Bye." I saw them on the Sno-Core tour like a thousand years ago. They opened the show, and it was with Incubus and System of a Down. (before Incubus really puss'd out their sound) The crowd was full of metal heads, and Bungle could have easily gave the audience what they wanted in the heavy arena, but instead played a lot of stuff from California and Disco Volante. I've never seen a more confused audience in my life, and there was only a few hundred people in attendance that actually came to the show mainly for Bungle. The overall audience HATED Mr. Bungle, because they all wanted a mosh pit. After about 40 minutes of this type of wacky music, they end with a Merry Go Bye Bye (which has a moshpit moment) and tease the audience with some Deicide just to prove THEY ARE THE HEAVIEST BAND THERE! The whole audience was like.. "Why didn't they just do that instead?" .... because Bungle loved to fuck with audiences that weren't theirs.
Yeah, live, it was so awesome watching them switch instruments and/or pick up additional instruments during songs while staying TIGHT and not missing a note.
Mr. Bungle started in thrash with their Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny demo. Lst year's remake/release is so friggin tight. Patton, Spruance and Dunn recruited Dave Lombardo and Scott Ian to join the band. Would love to see your reaction to that album.
So glad you enjoyed this one, iit's such a fun song but I remember it being one of the more difficult tracks to get into when I first heard the album so very happy it was pleasing to your ears, another great reaction and so glad you gave props to Danny Heifetz the drummer, he's totally in a league of his own in my opinion, especially the way he can change styles so easily, again thank you ❤️
An old friend of mine said he played the song in his class in college as part of a semiotics presentation and he had never seen a whole crowd jump scare before.
Not sure how many Mr. Bungle-fans know about this, but Ma Meeshka Mow Swoz is a cover of a song from the 1950s called ‘Tamboo’. This is the song, if you’re interested in comparing them: th-cam.com/video/GFxf7MxpVhs/w-d-xo.html
Mind Blown!!! I had always thought this song was inspired by Raymond Scott -- had no idea this was a cover. Check out this Raymond Scott song from the late 30's... th-cam.com/video/-jastEtNhGk/w-d-xo.html
It's 100% inspired, and covered a lot of it, but I would still use more the terms "inspired by" since a lot of the track isn't in the original though. But yeah, absolutely mind blowing that it's not more well-known.
I got this album on tape for 50p in a virgin megastore bargain bucket in the late 90s. Best value bit of media i ever bought for hours of entertainment. 😅
When I bought this in 95 it sat on my shelf for 10 years because of how whack it was. Picked it up one day and was awed. I’m still gonna go with raging wrath as my go to bungle band.
This song can also be seen as a bit of a precursor to another Patton project, Fantomas, which was a cult "super-group" that put out four albums, only one of which included any real words from Patton as the vocalist. A very fundamentalist view of voice-as-instrument. You should check out Fantomas' version of the theme from "The Godfather"!
Haha, awesome man! So rare to actually find a fellow Lantern fan, and the fact that you're a Bungle fan as well is golden. So sorry for taking forever to get to your comment. Thanks for subbing brother, I hope you enjoy the content.
Cool you managed to pull this off, man! :) And how about the lyrics, great message, huh? :... ))) Yeap, in addition, this linguistic acrobatics is a consequence of singer`s and guitarist`s interest in occultism (words?), yet presented in a cartoon style, which, as we know from before, is one of their most prominent features. :) Therefore, the atmosphere of the song looks like some creepy, old, horror-occult movie and from some - seemingly equally old - cartoon show... :) Those strange words, which Patton invented, always sounded like Russian to me, I have to admit!.. :) Mow Skwoz sounds like Moscow, eh?...:) And the whole song looks like a musical burlesque, a brutal comedy that the Russians mastered in the early years of 20th century, both in the movies, the theater and the cartoons...:) Don`t know who exactly Russian Buster Keaton was, but - you get the point...:D There is also a strange similarity with this period and this country through the use of harmonies, especially on the guitar (you remember those jazz diminished notes / chords in that solo by Spruance?) ... It`s so typical for, lets say, Django Reinhardt and gypsy jazz from the 1920, right?.. :-) So,... were you able to recognize some genres in this loony tune? :)) Well, according to above, you could clearly find traces of some good old Dixie, like in those saxophones yeah?...:) Well, with a slight oriental note, since Russia is the east, even for me, hahah.. :) Dunno, but I guess they used, like, the original Hammond keyboards on this, to get that old sound, there`s a xylophone, played by their extra member since this album, a jazz vibraphonist named William Winant, and he`s giving them a good punch-line... :D And ofc, a funny, creative samples activated via keyboards are a must for this band. ;) Hey, you took this pretty well! :) I remembered when I first heard this, I opened my jaw and was like `wtf is this..?!` :))) but in a good way:) Just keep going! Good job. :)
Its illustrative of how different tastes in music can be from person to person, that I loved every song on Disco Volante and never liked anything on the self-titled debut. I like everything on California alright, but none of it even 50% as much as Disco Volante and the Easter Bunny thing isn't my cup of tea either.
That’s how I feel generally as well, I was introduced to DV before anything else, and California is a lot easier to listen to casually but the Self Titled or their older tapes are a bit lost on me personally. I’m a huge fan of SC3 too and I think that’s lent to how much I was into DV when I was a kid, go hard or go home stylistically for me.
The weird songs on California are top tier, but the more straightforward songs are some of the only weak stuff Bungle's put out. The re-made thrash demo is worse.
so, I remember you not so much liking Pink Cigarette, your first Bungle reaction. It comes from their third major label release, California. I wonder how you'd do if you tackled that album again, after now being indoctrinated into the more immediately deeply wacky early major label period. know that it is a very musically sophisticated album, but deceptively very perverse. it should be known diving in that it's an album that is very much in reference and tribute to "easy listening" music, but especially it's darker and more experimental aspects, very much influenced by the likes of Brian Wilson, Serge Gainsbourg, Henry Mancini, and Scott Walker. anyway, now that you are more "in", I'd be interested in further reactions :)
I didn't necessarily dislike Pink Cigarette; it's more so that it didn't really excite or energize me as a listener because I could sense that the musicianship behind the song was very strong, but that the approach to the song itself from that standpoint is intentionally stripped down and subdued. Though I had never heard Bungle before this listen, I could sense that the band behind the song had a lot more to throw at me in terms of the eccentric, energetic, and experimental sides of music that I really tend to cling to as a listener, so it's more so that I was just enticed to go out and discover the Bungle music that held no bones about delivering those elements.
If you watch a live performance of this piece you will see that keyboards/synths, samples, guitar effects, and a lot of mallet percussion is used on this song.
This album is best listened from first to last song in it's entirety. It's one of the strangest albums of all time, and they would perform these songs note for note live. One of my favorite tracks is the last one on the album. "Merry Go Bye Bye." I saw them on the Sno-Core tour like a thousand years ago. They opened the show, and it was with Incubus and System of a Down. (before Incubus really puss'd out their sound) The crowd was full of metal heads, and Bungle could have easily gave the audience what they wanted in the heavy arena, but instead played a lot of stuff from California and Disco Volante. I've never seen a more confused audience in my life, and there was only a few hundred people in attendance that actually came to the show mainly for Bungle. The overall audience HATED Mr. Bungle, because they all wanted a mosh pit. After about 40 minutes of this type of wacky music, they end with a Merry Go Bye Bye (which has a moshpit moment) and tease the audience with some Deicide just to prove THEY ARE THE HEAVIEST BAND THERE! The whole audience was like.. "Why didn't they just do that instead?" .... because Bungle loved to fuck with audiences that weren't theirs.
Yeah, live, it was so awesome watching them switch instruments and/or pick up additional instruments during songs while staying TIGHT and not missing a note.
And I saw that SnoCore thing, too (Deftones was also in the lineup)! When I saw Bungle, Patton was dressed like a geisha.
Mr. Bungle started in thrash with their Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny demo. Lst year's remake/release is so friggin tight. Patton, Spruance and Dunn recruited Dave Lombardo and Scott Ian to join the band. Would love to see your reaction to that album.
Now wrap your head around the fact they do this stuff live…exacty as is.
So glad you enjoyed this one, iit's such a fun song but I remember it being one of the more difficult tracks to get into when I first heard the album so very happy it was pleasing to your ears, another great reaction and so glad you gave props to Danny Heifetz the drummer, he's totally in a league of his own in my opinion, especially the way he can change styles so easily, again thank you ❤️
I still to this day enjoy watching the “jump”. I have been playing this for people and friends for years just for the reaction😂😂
An old friend of mine said he played the song in his class in college as part of a semiotics presentation and he had never seen a whole crowd jump scare before.
This song sounds how mushrooms feel.
Disco Volante is the best Bungle
A wild wacky creative bungle song yey
Fantastic choice, this song is so damn good 😎
Was waiting for the end of the song reaction - did not disappoint
I got this album on vinyl, I am a huge Mr bungle fan but hadn't heard this song till I dropped the needle, great song
Not sure how many Mr. Bungle-fans know about this, but Ma Meeshka Mow Swoz is a cover of a song from the 1950s called ‘Tamboo’. This is the song, if you’re interested in comparing them: th-cam.com/video/GFxf7MxpVhs/w-d-xo.html
Oh wow!!! Why is no one talking about this? It is definitely a cover song and there's no mention of it anywhere.
Mind Blown!!! I had always thought this song was inspired by Raymond Scott -- had no idea this was a cover.
Check out this Raymond Scott song from the late 30's... th-cam.com/video/-jastEtNhGk/w-d-xo.html
I’ve been listening to them for years and had no idea. Thanks.
@@krautgazer More a variation on a theme than a cover.
It's 100% inspired, and covered a lot of it, but I would still use more the terms "inspired by" since a lot of the track isn't in the original though. But yeah, absolutely mind blowing that it's not more well-known.
Danny Heifetz is a god damn beast.
I got this album on tape for 50p in a virgin megastore bargain bucket in the late 90s. Best value bit of media i ever bought for hours of entertainment. 😅
Great reaction and super happy you enjoyed the craziness of this awesome song!!! these have to be my favourite lyrics ever lol
Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz
Ghfuah blal he chaduduh chee hugh weh chee keh xooo hee hoh
Ooo cikeetah xoo xeh
Eooh le hugx yerheggkkk
Ryzl ou hueau
Pppddtdptdtt pppddtdptdtt
Ue ue fhay goouuhf o lltt chteee
Huucgcgudoo wuad!
Chugaouh!
Poodah paytahy poodah paytahy poodah poodah paytahy paytahy paytahy poodah
Poodah
Fea dugh toog fax
Fea dugh toog fax
Farrag
Geesh
Zssu
Guum
Bom
Beez gbazgen mauz gaysh
Bal gonskunn geez woazch
Ma meesken loas gouase
Geez gonskunn boz mosquiez
Heh tzt oly huht
Ma meeshka mow skwoz
Owm ftt lguf hahg
Foo oo oo oo
Puooo bieczkaireeaux
Rrrd t ch kee bbst seay tssm klt aaaox
Skadulehmedomgaswesh
Goaduleh skeecs schoadulen mosqelaszz
Beez gac goasgun
Monsquaz
Zoo ma mah manut mamoyugh
Xi maa hea doo dauy dohdoyugh
Tszeettaa ba doa bau koyugh
Ma magh max maynot nolnoyugh
Szi deah daddoobaught byugh
Xi daa tdey gkao gho gkoyughfouuu
Soan schwedea dn zewa tdieap
Soan schwedea dn zewa tdieap
Dtoyeum dtoyeum dmdipdihdeaudaht zdwitihdihttumptditutiua
Soan schwedea dn zcwa tdieap
Soan schwedea dn zcwa tdieap
Bboawogh c wha fftyk onsk oooeeh oooeeh yeefm loolt msten
Ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
Feydea tdn fa
Feydea tdn fa gaugh
Gzcc gmn ooo
Ma meeshka mow skowz
Ma meeshka mow skowz
Soan schwedea dn skatdieap
Soan schwedea dn skatdieap
Sktoyeum sktoyeum sktoyeum dmdipdihdeaudaht zdwitihdihttumptditutiua
Soan schwedea dn skatdieap
Soan schwedea dn skatdieap goodeadogit goodeadogit glddehgoot
Fea dugh toog fax
Fea dugh toog fax
Farrag
Vaah
Yoo
Ee
Hrrea kcun bahg bumpt
😁
I saw this tour in the mid 90s. With the right chemicals. It hurt my poor brain.
Keys, percussion, strings.. highly skilled bunch.
They used piano and xylophone i believe that's sticks that hit the metal bars lol
When I bought this in 95 it sat on my shelf for 10 years because of how whack it was. Picked it up one day and was awed. I’m still gonna go with raging wrath as my go to bungle band.
You sould listen to this track, live... its amazing.
Great reaction, very insightful and I’m glad you’re enjoying the Bungle tracks you’ve checked out so far!
Clinton Bar is the keyboardist, Danny Heifitz plays drums, also the singer Mike Patton uses a couple of small midi keyboards to play samples.
Spruance does keyboard stuff, too. At least, live he did. The few times that I saw them.
Bungle are geniuses
Merry Go Bye Bye please oh please
I always thought of the entire Disco Volante album as an audio comic book.
Fun fact about this album, I’m pretty sure it was stated that no song had less than (76?) tracks.
You need to find some live versions of these Bungle songs you’ve heard
This song can also be seen as a bit of a precursor to another Patton project, Fantomas, which was a cult "super-group" that put out four albums, only one of which included any real words from Patton as the vocalist. A very fundamentalist view of voice-as-instrument. You should check out Fantomas' version of the theme from "The Godfather"!
If you really wanna go deep, "Tomawk" is another band, and Trey played in "The secret chiefs" if you really wanna go down the rabbit hole
Love this tune
ack, 6 hours.... I want it now
Found your channel. Nice to see some real bungle reacts. Make sure you do raging wrath.
Wtf! I found my twin brother, you like Green Lantern and Mr Bungle, subbed!
Haha, awesome man! So rare to actually find a fellow Lantern fan, and the fact that you're a Bungle fan as well is golden. So sorry for taking forever to get to your comment. Thanks for subbing brother, I hope you enjoy the content.
Cool you managed to pull this off, man! :) And how about the lyrics, great message, huh? :... )))
Yeap, in addition, this linguistic acrobatics is a consequence of singer`s and guitarist`s interest in occultism (words?), yet presented in a cartoon style, which, as we know from before, is one of their most prominent features. :) Therefore, the atmosphere of the song looks like some creepy, old, horror-occult movie and from some - seemingly equally old - cartoon show... :) Those strange words, which Patton invented, always sounded like Russian to me, I have to admit!.. :) Mow Skwoz sounds like Moscow, eh?...:) And the whole song looks like a musical burlesque, a brutal comedy that the Russians mastered in the early years of 20th century, both in the movies, the theater and the cartoons...:) Don`t know who exactly Russian Buster Keaton was, but - you get the point...:D There is also a strange similarity with this period and this country through the use of harmonies, especially on the guitar (you remember those jazz diminished notes / chords in that solo by Spruance?) ... It`s so typical for, lets say, Django Reinhardt and gypsy jazz from the 1920, right?.. :-) So,... were you able to recognize some genres in this loony tune? :)) Well, according to above, you could clearly find traces of some good old Dixie, like in those saxophones yeah?...:) Well, with a slight oriental note, since Russia is the east, even for me, hahah.. :) Dunno, but I guess they used, like, the original Hammond keyboards on this, to get that old sound, there`s a xylophone, played by their extra member since this album, a jazz vibraphonist named William Winant, and he`s giving them a good punch-line... :D And ofc, a funny, creative samples activated via keyboards are a must for this band. ;) Hey, you took this pretty well! :) I remembered when I first heard this, I opened my jaw and was like `wtf is this..?!` :))) but in a good way:) Just keep going! Good job. :)
Its illustrative of how different tastes in music can be from person to person, that I loved every song on Disco Volante and never liked anything on the self-titled debut. I like everything on California alright, but none of it even 50% as much as Disco Volante and the Easter Bunny thing isn't my cup of tea either.
That’s how I feel generally as well, I was introduced to DV before anything else, and California is a lot easier to listen to casually but the Self Titled or their older tapes are a bit lost on me personally. I’m a huge fan of SC3 too and I think that’s lent to how much I was into DV when I was a kid, go hard or go home stylistically for me.
The weird songs on California are top tier, but the more straightforward songs are some of the only weak stuff Bungle's put out. The re-made thrash demo is worse.
Yer wierd. Off to the camp with you.
dude Frank Zippo became Jonathon Zippedy Zorn
Oh, send love to my first post one more time, chief, I was correcting the misspelled... :/ :))) Just to be clear in here... :D
tnk u. :)
so, I remember you not so much liking Pink Cigarette, your first Bungle reaction. It comes from their third major label release, California. I wonder how you'd do if you tackled that album again, after now being indoctrinated into the more immediately deeply wacky early major label period. know that it is a very musically sophisticated album, but deceptively very perverse. it should be known diving in that it's an album that is very much in reference and tribute to "easy listening" music, but especially it's darker and more experimental aspects, very much influenced by the likes of Brian Wilson, Serge Gainsbourg, Henry Mancini, and Scott Walker. anyway, now that you are more "in", I'd be interested in further reactions :)
I didn't necessarily dislike Pink Cigarette; it's more so that it didn't really excite or energize me as a listener because I could sense that the musicianship behind the song was very strong, but that the approach to the song itself from that standpoint is intentionally stripped down and subdued. Though I had never heard Bungle before this listen, I could sense that the band behind the song had a lot more to throw at me in terms of the eccentric, energetic, and experimental sides of music that I really tend to cling to as a listener, so it's more so that I was just enticed to go out and discover the Bungle music that held no bones about delivering those elements.
Samples.
If you watch a live performance of this piece you will see that keyboards/synths, samples, guitar effects, and a lot of mallet percussion is used on this song.
Good luck trying to figure out who's playing keys, they all do...
Listen to mr bungle , desert search for techno allah