mr bungle broke up :(

Well, "California" did make a fine swan song, though. But damn, I was wondering when all those guys could get the fucking time for all their music, be it Bungle, side projects, etc.

Secret Chiefs 3 is putting out like 3 albums this year.

http://www.underdog-online.com/index.php/article/articleview/55/1/8/

cod < mr. bungle

(also salmon < mr bungle, and trout < mr bungle)

I've since seen 'em one more time for their "California" tour, and that was grand.

...though Patton has been more prolific than ever in recent years, he hasn’t released any singles or videos since Faith No More’s demise. He adds, “Videos cost money. We would rather use that money to make more records or pay bands big fat royalty checks or get hookers and steaks.”

Their first album is MONSTROUSLY AWESOME.

Yup yup yup.

"Egg."

that's a good record. but the nasal patton vocals still strike me as odd to this day. i actually think they work really well on 'the real thing'.

The Real Thing was awesome, especially the title track and Underwater Love.

The Mr. Bungle debut actually scared me so badly during my first listen - during Stubb (a Dub) that I took it out of my cassette deck and hid it in my closet for a year.

when i saw faith no more live, 'surprise you're dead' was the highlight. the crowd went nuts

Disco Volante is MONSTROUSLY AWESOME.

It's one of those Trout Mask things where after you listen to it about 15 times it goes from "huh?" to "best shit ever."

I would never listen to a song by this band because of their name.

It's one of those Trout Mask things where after you listen to it about 15 times it goes from "huh?" to "best shit ever."

^^^ very true, only 15 should really be 2

I was allowing for people who are slow to catch on to keep trying.

I would never listen to a song by this band because of their name.

Um, explain?

I mean it's not like they're called Rockists Who Shit On Your Faggy Dance Music.

He buys records for the sleeves.

kind of closed minded there, chuell chowser.

Yeah, they even have a song called "Desert Search For Techno Allah"!

All but the truth - forget
And from this union cup
We will drink wine tonight

Qiyamat qiyamat a tawil'
Qiyamat qiyamat insan al kamel

Haqiqat itself is drunk
So drinks the Hidden Imam

Pride of the peacock angel
Under the feather veils

Dark tresses under the black light

The name just sounds like something I don't want to hear. Like, people who would identify themselves as Mr. Bungle are probably on a very different wavelength.

yah i dont think you'd enjoy any of their work tbh. you might enjoy some of trey's (the guitarist) bollywood influenced house music he's made through the years.

The band's name was taken from a children's educational film devised to teach children good manners and hygiene, which was featured in a Pee Wee Herman HBO special in the early '80s. A puppet named Mr. Bungle was the main character, used to represent the kind of person no clean, polite child would wish to be.

Used to be one of my favorite groups. I rarely listen to it anymore, but when I do it's usually a handful of songs from California.

xpost: I was about to say what marmot said. Considering how obscene their lyrics were for the time, I found it a clever and appropriate name.

To wit:

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LALA
LALALALA

sorry

BLAHBLAH
BLAHBLAHBLAH BLAHBLAH

"Stubb (A Dub)" is one of the greatest things ever recorded.

oh fuck I DREAMT ABOUT DISCO VOLANTE LAST NIGHT, i dreamt that i was living in a computer game based upon the album. it was one of the coolest dreams i've ever had.

tonight i shall listen to the album again.

I disagree with the up-thread assessment of Patton's "nasally" voice. I still think we have yet to hear another, more talented voice as daringly or creatively used (to say nothing of his brilliant/absurdist lyrics, esp. on Mr. Bungle) - in rock, anyway.

Although I can see where someone might get put-off by the band name, once you're acquainted with its "cinematic" source (sampled extensively on the first LP) - you might also find, as said above, Mr. Bungle is a very clever and appropriate name: http://www.archive.org/details/lunchroom_manners

"Phil had good manners. He didn't want to be like Mr. Bungle..."

for some reason i see mike patton as the jack black of music. insufferably smug, MB fans are generally the worst people on earth

Yeah, we pour oil down storm drains, tap on the glass at the aquarium, and when we go out for sushi, we don't pay.

jack black is the jack black of music, foo'

disco volante on repeat. awesome. closing section of 'desert search for techno allah' absolutely resplendent. 'ma meeshka mow skwoz' beyond incredible. etc.

'desert search for techno allah' is seriously great.

it also somehow manages to perfectly convey the mind-melting music in just five words! i mean, does it not just sound EXACTLY like the title?

def. I always kinda wished the secret chiefs made a whole album like 'desert search', since lots of tracks from that project seem to be working off of a similar template. the sc3 d&b tracks were especially disappointing since they already felt pretty dated 10yrs back when trey dropped 'em. not that I don't love sc3! but that tabla outro on 'techno allah' - yeah, it's something special.

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not that the first one isn't great, obv

yeah I'm kinda realising this - it's not as GOOD but it's hella fun, and about half the tracks are stone-dead stunning

disco volante and california are terrifyingly lucid fever-dreams and i treasure them dearly

my skin shrivels a little bit every time the words "funk-metal" and "mr bungle" appear in close proximity.

sjokes, bruv.

even so.

brrr.

i'm the biggest bungle fan there is, and there's no denying that first album was funk-metal, come on now

it has elements of funk-metal, sure, among many other things.

though it is by far the funk-metalest of the three.

'funk metal' makes me think of mordred.

note to self: stop saying funk-metal.

Fettle.

MUNK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqiUwKihVo

Do you remember
We called you family?
Now you're underground
We call you memory

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HC4sFgy-q/?igshid=bwytdxnmwkd4

Reunion shows performing the Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny demo with Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo? Select dates in stupid cities far from where I live.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/mr-bungle-playing-1986-demo-at-first-shows-in-nearly-20-years/

Caught last night's show -- ridiculously good. Just classic 80s underground metal with Ian and Lombardo giving it all extra heft. Logically, when they started it was by covering, mostly straightforwardly, "Won't You Be My Neighbor," with Mike in a red sweater. Later, they did a complete on-the-level cover of "Summer Breeze."

*jealous*

Caught last night's show -- ridiculously good. Just classic 80s underground metal with Ian and Lombardo giving it all extra heft. Logically, when they started it was by covering, mostly straightforwardly, "Won't You Be My Neighbor," with Mike in a red sweater. Later, they did a complete on-the-level cover of "Summer Breeze."

― Ned Raggett

uh, you may not have been paying complete attention to the lyrics patton was singing if you thought it was completely on-the-level, just sayin' :)

https://mrbungle.bandcamp.com/

"Doesn't matter what part of the political spectrum you are on, everyone at some point has said 'Fuck the USA'. The closest thing we have to a universal sentiment," says Spruance.

Not sure about this one chief. Fun cover tho

This version of Mr. Bungle is
Trevor Dunn
Mike Patton
Trey Spruance
Scott Ian
Dave Lombardo

if it's patton, spruance, dunn and your granny on bongos etc

Thrash lives and Mr. Bungle is its prophet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5ZKKxqUzY

great. as if this year couldn't get any worse.

that ruled. I for one am happy they are back and shredding harder than vacating consulate

that was a pretty good Slayer homage.

lol didn't know Lombardo was in the band ...

Easter Bunny Ruelz

Wanna a/b compare it to the demo vers

like this is better thrash than most vets from that actual era put out

how is Bowel of Chiley compared to this

lol that's RHEA PERLMAN on "Anarchy Up Your Anus"?

I think Patton asked her to do it. He has a very long-lasting friendship with Danny DeVito, who was married to Rhea Perlman. So it was kind of an easy thing to bring up, but I don't think anyone could've thought of a better person to do it because her voice was exactly what we needed for that.

Covering Van Halen’s ”Loss of Control”

Warning: don’t sit too close or your face will melt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31yd2JMLSc

still remember when dude touched my friend Sandy's butt at a Death Grips show ... and Sandy came over to our friend cluster near the back and exclaimed, "Mike Patton just touched my butt?!" Sorry, this will forever be what Mr. Bungle is most associated with for me.

Mr. Bunghole

was the record he did with Jean-Claude Vannier any good?

The current Mr. Bungle lineup is INSANE, catch this current tour if you can

:)

Yeah seeing said lineup just a few weeks before lockdown was one of those retrospective 'whew at least I saw that happen!' moments.

Is it still the usual three, plus Scott Ian and Lombardo?

A Mr Bungle being investigated in the disappareance of his girlfriend: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-rocker-allegedly-missing-girlfriend-18559664.php

yikes

"not cooperated". yow

(obligatory "bungle up the investigation" joke here)

https://i.postimg.cc/MGCWmLXN/00175478.jpg

Theo Lengyel arrested for murder of girlfriend

Theobald “Theo” Lengyel, a former member of the California art-metal band Mr. Bungle, has been arrested for the murder of his girlfriend. Local ABC affiliate KRCR reports that police in Capitola, California arrested Lengyel yesterday after the remains of Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani were discovered in a Berkeley park. According to police, Lengyel was taken into custody without incident.

Police had already named the 54-year-old Lengyel a person of interest in the disappearance of the 61-year-old Kamakaokalani, who went missing early in December. Human remains, believed to belong to Kamakaokalani, were discovered in Tilden Regional Park, though DNA evidence hasn’t yet confirmed it. Lengyel and Kamakaokalani were formerly married, and Lengyel has previously been investigated for domestic violence. In 2017, the same year that they divorced, Kamakaokalani filed a restraining order against Lenyel.

Fuck.

This is such a sad story.

in case anyone is interested in that story, more is documented here. based on this reporting, it seems possible (and will likely be the defense story) that the death was accidental and happened during a fight, and he freaked out and didn't know what to do after he pussied out on killing himself when burying her body. he seems like an exceptionally strange dude. I can't imagine what this train ride from Portland back to the bay area with his brother was like when he was refusing to actually talk about what happened.

https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/06/13/courts/alyx-herrmann-murder-case-lengyel-held-to-answer/

Ok, well, if that was going to be the defense story, it's fallen apart now that they found a 3 hour recording of her murder on her phone. Guy is going to prison for the rest of his life.
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/09/28/courts/alyx-herrmann-recorded-her-murder-prosecutors-say/

jesus christ. awful

yeah, this story is really ghastly

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-rocker-sentenced-strangling-girlfriend-19901196.php

25 years to life; I'm actually shocked he wasn't given life w/out possibility of parole though I'm pretty certain he will never get out.