mr bungle broke up :(

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:

xpost

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.

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

-- Spencer Chow, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:22 (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

Um, explain?

-- Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:25 (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

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

-- Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:25 (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

zing of '07?

zing of the century

I only searched 'mr bungle' because I wanted to see what people made of California. Then I discovered the above and realised that there really was nothing more to say. :D

this is really sad to me :(

-- chaki (chaki), Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:28 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

its realy sad he was a guitarist

That's hardly Ned's best zinger.

I’ve never listened to Mr. Bungle because of their terrible name.

congratulations. tell us more.

hey i'm playing w/willie winant next week, who's on disco volante and california!

(and all true mr bungle fans will be sure to isolate "i'm playing w/willie winant" into perpetuity)

congratulations. tell us more.

I also find their fans to be annoying.

haha I never saw them in concert, I think I was lying so Ned would talk to me

I haven't listened to California in FOREVER. It is still my favorite album; I can hear it all in my head if I try. REEEETROVERTIGOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

I'll never forget riding the bus in high school, listening to their first album, this douchebag guy who wanted to but in on everybody's shit was all "what are you listening to" and I let him listen and he was like "what is this clown funk bullshit?!" and THREW my headphones back at me.

I still have trouble believing it was the same band responsible for the Betty Crocker fuck song that would go on to record something as gorgeous and epic as "Sweet Charity" or "Goodbye Sober Day".

i just listened to 'california' all the way through :D still not sure if it's better than DV though. gotta decide for that POLL

its not.

That's hardly Ned's best zinger.

I was gonna say...

Bungle ruled....

I didn't get DV the first time but grew to appreciate it over time

"Clown funk bullshit" made me laugh.

It's like... almost an hour later, I've been to the record store and the supermarket... and "clown funk bullshit" is still making me laugh. Way to make my day, nickalicious.

I think I was lying so Ned would talk to me

story of my life on ILM ^^^

"Clown funk bullshit" is probably the best description of Mr. Bungle possible given the limitations of the English language.

My favorite band when I was 13/14. That lasted 'til I was about 18. I got into a real Mike Patton kick. Then I just stopped listening and haven't been able to even deal with the idea of his personality/voice.

I was reading Mark Prindle's site last night, though, and ended up DLing the early tapes (OU818, Bowel of Chiley). The embarrassing thing is that I was singing along to "Squeeze Me Macaroni" in no time.

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.