Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle was an American experimental band from Eureka, California. The band was formed in 1985 while the members were still in high school, and was named after a 1950s children's educational film regarding bad habits which was later featured in a 1981 Pee-wee Herman HBO special. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid to late 1980s before being signed to Warner Bros. Records and releasing three full-length studio albums between 1991 and 1999. The band toured in 2000 to support their last album before going on hiatus; ultimately revealing that they had dissolved in 2004. Although Mr. Bungle went through several line-up changes early in their career, the longest-serving members were vocalist Mike Patton, guitarist Trey Spruance, bassist Trevor Dunn, saxophonists' Clinton "Bär" McKinnon and Theo Lengyel, and drummer Danny Heifetz.
Mr. Bungle was known for its distinctive musical traits, often cycling through several musical genres within the course of a single song. Many of its songs had an unconventional structure and utilized a wide array of instruments and samples. Live shows often featured members dressing up and an array of cover songs. An ongoing feud with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis escalated in the late 1990s, with Kiedis removing Mr. Bungle from a number of large music festivals in Europe and Australasia.
Mr. Bungle (album)
Mr. Bungle is the eponymous debut studio album by American band Mr. Bungle. It was released on August 13, 1991, through Warner Bros. Records. The album contains many genre shifts which are typical of the band, and helped increase the band's popularity, gaining them a reasonable following and fanbase. The fact that Mike Patton was gaining fame from Faith No More may also have been a contributing factor to this. The album cover features artwork by Dan Sweetman, originally published in the story, "A Cotton Candy Autopsy" in the DC Comics/Piranha Press imprint title, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children.
Background
The first track, "Quote Unquote", was originally titled "Travolta", referring to John Travolta, but had to be changed for legal reasons. However, Travolta's name is still spoken in the song. The first few minutes of the Lunchroom Manners instructional video, where the band got its name, can be heard at the end of "Love is a Fist".
Musical style
AllMusic called the album a "dizzying, disconcerting, schizophrenic tour through just about any rock style the group can think of, hopping from genre to genre without any apparent rhyme or reason, and sometimes doing so several times in the same song." The website described Mike Patton's lyrics as "even more bizarrely humorous than those he used in Faith No More", and "also less self-censored".
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ALBUMS
- 1999-11-22: Anaheim, CA, USA released: 1999
- California released: 1999
- 1995-12-02: The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA, USA released: 1995
- Disco Volante released: 1995
- Mr. Bungle released: 1991
- Disco Volante Demos released:
- 1999-11-10: Recher Theatre, Baltimore, MD, USA released:
- 1992-03-20: Gothic Theater, Denver, CO, USA released:
- Sno Core 2000 released:
- Sydney, Australia 10 released:
- 2000-08-19: Bizarre Festival, Weeze, Germany released:
- 2000-02-13: Rochester, NY, USA released:
- 2000-02-02: Minneapolis, MN, USA released:
- 2000-01-19: Ventura, CA, USA released:
- 1992-03-26: Chicago, IL, USA released:
- 1999-11-23: House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA, USA released:
- 1991-01-13: Berkeley, CA, USA released:
1995-12-02: The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA, USA
Released 1995- 24.000 Baci
- Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead
- Muscoli Di Velluto - The Bends~Aqua Swing
- Desert Search For Techno Allah
- Chemical Marriage
- Love In Space
- Ei Raat Tomar Amar
- Travolta
- Merry Go Bye Bye (instrumental)
- Platypus
- The Bends~Panic In Blue
- Loss For Words
- Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz
- Love Dance Of The Saroos
- The Secret Song
- Carry Stress In The Jaw
- Cold War
Sno Core 2000
- What the World Needs Now
- Chemical Marriage
- Desert Search for Techno Allah
- Sweet Charity
- Ars Moriendi
- Goodbye Sober Day
- Air-Conditioned Nightmare
- Drug Me
- None of Them Knew They Were Robots
- My Ass Is on Fire
- Algoherm
- Zelda Theme
- 2nd Floor Dungeon
- Creeping Death Inc. (Various Covers)
- We Are the Champions
- The Bends (live)
- Wicked Game
- Let Me Out
Sydney, Australia 10
- Ei Raat Tomar Amar
- Violenza Domestica
- The Secret Song
- Phlegmatics & Cold War
- Tower of Strength
- The Bends: Love on the Event Horizon
- Chemical Marriage
- Desert Search for Techno Allah
- Improv & La Lucertola
- Platypus
- The Bends: Panic in Blue
- Der Zinker
- After School Special
- Slow Satoh
- Slayer Medley
- Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz
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Goodbye Sober Day
by: Mr. BungleYour lips say one thing
But the drugs say another
How can I massage
This intergalactic ulcer?
Goodbye sober day
Goodbye sober day
Hello milky way.
Pin my ear to the wisdom post
Hang me up and drain me dry
Mend my shipwrecked spirit
Lift the veil from my eyes.
Goodbye sober day.
The years grew wings and flew away.
Ghosts of the past become barbarians...
...Of the future.
And I still pity you
Because what you said was true.
Goodbye sober day
Hello milky way.
May your sun be blown out just like a candle
And may your sea burn like tar
May your sky be rolled up like a scroll
May your blue moon drip with blood.
What would they say
If you went up in smoke?
If I dug you up
And then made soup of your bones?
Goodbye sober day
Goodbye sober day
Goodbye sober day
Goodbye sober day
Goodbye sober day
Goodbye sober day
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