Your choices: a) Get bit by "Winonas Big Brown Beaver" ...or...b) "Squeeze (Mike Pattons) Macaroni"
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 May 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 May 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 May 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Primus - cartoony-&-just-wrong (R. Crumb stylee), rhythmically beyond-adventurous, hillbilly prog punk funk with more energy than all the coal-burning factories in Kentucky
Bungle - sickeningly all-over-the-place metal-infused world music madness, with traces of everything from doowop to klezmer to hard bop to muzik concrete to Mike Patton shitting in the corners of clubs
The only things they really have in common is that they both make very tweaked music and they both were very good at incorporating their (sometimes SICK) senses of humor into their emotionally versatile & often very dark music. And they're both from California. And they're both on "hiatus", but not officially broke up.
However, I believe I have determined a side I can take here...and that would be the side of Mr. Bungle, for the following reasons:
A) Primus had one very talented songwriter. Bungle had THREE in Mike Patton, Trey Spruance, and Trevor Dunn; each of which VERY talented writers in their own right.
B) Bungle did much better in the "how bout we not put that song on the album" category, whereas Primus' albums were occasionally marred by a couple "meh, why don't we go ahead and put that song on their too?" selections.
C) Primus was kinda a one-or-two trick pony (which has a lot to do with why Claypool is doing so many other different things these days), whereas Mr. Bungle was more a google-gazillion-trick pony.
Of course you choose two of my favorite bands EVAH for this. If you had said "TS: Primus vs. Mr. Bungle vs. Fishbone", my head would've LITERALLY EXPLODED.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)
*head explodes*
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)
What musical elements equate "fundamental worth"? And which of these particular elements are the musical groups Primus & Mr. Bungle lacking?
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Once you get past that first (major-label) Mr Bungle album, the two can't really match up. I mean, christ, where the fuck does anything those other folks have done get anywhere NEAR _California_?
Say, that reminds me. I should pop down to the local used store to get those two Faith No More records on me lunch hour. Hmm.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)
Haven't had my coffee.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)
California is some of the best produced music I've heard in a long time. It is beautiful.
Great song writing too.
Disco Volante amazing-but only for the brave.
― fytyhr, Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― shane, Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)