MR BUNGLE: The Weirdest Band Ever.
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What is the strange history of Mr Bungle? I cover Mike Patton, Faith No More, their beef with Red Hot Chili Peppers and more.
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0:00 Intro
2:46 Early years of Mr Bungle
5:42 First album
9:58 "Disco Volante"
12:30 "California"
15:04 Red Hot Chili Peppers beef 
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There's some REALLY weird bands out there. Ween comes to mind, Goblin Cøck, also there are some necro metal bands that are really out there. Or a whole genre of cultist music, literal cults that have bands or cults that were created in honor of bands or artists.
Thanx!
try some nekrogoblikon @@RedceLL1978
@@RedceLL1978you mean like Edgar Winters' Scientology album? Lol.
"If he'd stop doing drugs, I feel like he could out-dance me." 24 years later and it's still a mic-drop.
😂👌🏾
Anthony Kiedis accusing Mike Patton of copying him, is like a spork accusing a Swiss army knife of copying it.
Hey, watch yourself. Don't diss sporks. Sporks and Swiss Army Knives fulfill different roles and respect each other for it. There's nothing wrong with sporks. Once the SAK has the can of beans open, then it's the sporks turn to help you eat.
Fair analogy. Mike Patton is easily in the top 20 singers who did rock music of all time.
@@calgakispict3652 The idea that you can think of 19 better singers has my brain in a knot
Dont mention spork too loud in the prescence of anthony kiedas, if he thinks theres a spork, he may try to use the it to cook up his smack.
@@wedaringu667going on technical ability alone? I would place Mike easily in the top 3 alongside Robert plant and Dio. Just for the hell of it I’ll tack on Geoff Tate in his prime, midnight, Jon Arch, Matt Barlow, and Rob Halford close behind. That is if we exclude genuinely skilled post-hardcore and metalcore singers like Danny Worsnop and Anthony Green . I don’t like asking Alexandria but I respect the hustle and the guy has an insane range. Also his performance of the price of beauty is fucking goated. And Anthony Green is why that area of the hardcore scene is packed with countertenors who come close to Anthony but still don’t quite measure up (except for maybe Craig mabbit with respect to technical ability while ignoring subjective appeal, because his voice, while strong and controlled and versatile, is why I can’t get into early blessthefall or anything escape the fate has done since they kicked Ronnie out). As for subjective taste, I can think of a ton of other singers I listen to far more often and find much more enjoyable but I recognize as being very simplistic in their techniques. Like I love Ozzy era sabbath but damn if he didn’t have a natural talent as a performer he’d be a nobody
I live in the same neighborhood as Mike Patton's parents. When trick or treating with my kids I hit them up and said "is Mike Patton your son?" His mom was looking at me weird and defensively said "yes, why?" and I told her I was a big fan. She lightened up quickly and told me she just got off the phone with him earlier that day. She then complimented my choice in music. Ha!
Nice! I met Mike at a benefit show for the Fukashima victims. I was one of the 3 stagehands working that day. He was super nice. We had a long conversation while outside smoking (which was still in fashion at the time). I mentioned Mr Bungle and he looked all sheepish and said "Yeah... sorry about that." LOL
Thats rad.
I don’t know why, but this is just so heartwarming and sweet. 😁
Mike's dad Pat was my PE and driver's ed teacher at Mckinleyville High School back in the late 80s.
That's amazing.
Props to Mr. Bungle. That trolling of Chili Peppers was outstanding.
He didn't mention the best part of that show: the participation of the ghost of Hillel Slovak 😂
RHCP really sound like assholes... getting mad enough to ruin another band over some vaguely perceived theft of "vibe" or whatever and escalating to mockery that they should have taken as a joke.
@@WobblyBits_Xi thought it was peppers cut them from the line-up from their tour because mr bungle were gaining popularity. People were liking mr bungle more than chili peppers. I can see why they were pissed
Hype isn't life
@@WobblyBits_Xi just cant stand their lyrics. Their actual music is really good, very funky and awesome but its ruined with Anthony dribbling his nonsense all
I remember a friend giving me Disco Volante, and telling me "listen to this, it makes Primus sound like a normal group".
And he was right. :D
Primus sucks
@@whlewis9164 skeeters suck, too
It’s a masterpiece. Took me a month of non stop playing to get it but one of my all time favourites
That's one of the greatest compliments a band can get!
For almost 30 years, I've felt like the only Mr.Bungle fan and I've only met two other people who knew who they where. Them getting a video in 2023 warms my sick little clown heart.
They’re also playing Milwaukee festival as the big headliner this year
There's dozens of us, dozens!
Wore my Mr Bungle shirt to Trader Joe's and the woman helping me got so excited. Pointing, "Mr. Bungle!!" They're out there.
I saw them a bunch of times on the California tour as a young teenager. It was the perfect outlet for my ADD without Adderall.
@@sharktooths😂😂😂 I'm here too
I always thought it was pretty clear that Patton was making fun of Kiedis in Epic, not "copying" him. Which is even funnier that Anthony wasn't spart enough to catch on.
If anything I felt like he was emulating, and possibly mocking Chuck on that first album. Possibly because it was expected that The Real Thing have some connection to the previous FNM material. Once FNM gave him more creative power he went in his own direction. Just my interpretation.
I came here to say this! In those early videos, Mike was parodying "rock star front men" of the time, including Keidis but also Corey Glover of Living Colour.
I'm fine with him mocking Anthony, but him possibly mocking Core makes me sad.@@JadeDude1973
@@JadeDude1973 Yea, some of his mannerisms for that were very Living Colour!
@@JadeDude1973Angelo Moore from Fishbone too!
Music aside, when Tomahawk played the 9:30 club Mike came out when we were having a post show meeting and shook each staff members hand and thanked us. No other band ever did that in the hundreds of shows I worked. Respect for that.
Mike loves to meet his fans too. I talked with him at a small club in NJ on the first Bungle tour before the show. Then he put on his leather mask and the rest is history 🎉
A band like Mr Bungle will not sell much but the music will inspire a lot of other musicians and artists. That's why avant garde artists are so important.
I was thinking about the same thing. Mr. Bungle, along with other bands like Godflesh, Melvins etc., are the weirdos that are first to break new musical ground, in order to inspire a new wave of bands that will define the future of music...
Directly inspired Pinkly Smooth
A musicians musician.
Well said
QUALITY over QUANTITY!!!!
One of the most surreal experiences I've had at a concert was seeing Mr Bungle at Knotfest Chile last year, at one point Mike sang a really soft and soothing version of Violeta Parra's Gracias a la Vida, only to immediately follow it up with fucking Territoy by Sepultura. And everyone loved it.
That's fucking awesome!
Must be nice!😅 That's the reason I'm not a bigger fan. "Epic" was nothing special to me when it popped, but "Angel Dust" was my shit, though i never could stand cover of "Easy". I knew if i ever went to a show it would be mixed up like that & that's the last thing I want at a thrash show!!! Now a full album of in that "Easy" vein I could probably appreciate, but I cant stand that shit in thrash so have been done with FNM/Patton ever since. I actually roadied for them one night in Nashville in the late 80's before Epic hit big, but it was a tiny club & they didn't play any fukn easy listening!😅 Like say, this out of envy, not hating. I've been blessed to see the Ramones & I've been blessed to see Leonard Cohen, but I'm glad I didn't see them trade songs on stage. It would be a bi-polar nightmare for me!😅
✌️🌎❤️
@@satyadasgumbyji8956when I'm watching tv, I like to switch the color and saturation and contrast constantly. I'm not allowed to hold the remote very often.
I was there man, what an awesome show, lo más grande🔥
@@satyadasgumbyji8956 He did Easy when I saw Fantomas in DC, and the chicks were SWOONIN'!!!
The fact that Mr Bungle is even brought up on Fox News is more wild than the band itself. Did I die and hit bizarro consciousness?
That segment was something else, they had Oderus Urungus from Gwar on something like 8 times
Greg Gutfeld’s favorite band is The Melvins so he’s a big fan of Patton and the alt metal scene
Greg Gutfeld loves everything from G.G. Allin to Thrash Metal Band Powertrip. When Riley
Gale(Powertrip) died, Gutfeld mentioned Riley and said "Rest in
power, my friend"...
Gutfeld had a show Redeye where he'd have Gibby from Butthole Surfers as a regular guest
Red Eye was awesome. They had Pavement, PiL, Electric Six, and - in my favorite episode ever - Devo's Gerald Casale doing his Jihad Jerry. Gutfeld's only redeeming quality is his excellent taste in music.
I remember seeing Tomahawk open for Tool in 2001. Mike Patton has always been a fave. Whether it’s Mr. Bungle, Faith no More or Fantomas, Mr. Patton’s the man 🤘
Oh man I saw that tour too and it's one of those shows that will live with me forever.
Don't forget Lovage. Don't sleep on Lovage.
I was in a band with Chuck Mosley (original FNM singer) long after his time in Faith No More. And i got to meet Mike a few times. Dude was as weird and as cool as you’d imagine.
Chuck wasn't the original. Three before him, including Courtney Love.
@@spencerallen9456When Chuck and Jim turned up. That was Faith No More.
You were in Cement or VUA?
that's great to hear
That's amazing! Which band?
Did you ever get to play We Care A Lot with Chuck, or would that have been a no-go at the time?
Song's been in my head for years and just won't leave, I would have loved to have seen it live.
Mike Patton is the Gen X Final Boss
and the stage is the most impossible rhythm game ever
I specifically went to SnoCore to see Mr.Bungle.
Watching people mosh to "Air Conditioned Nightmare" and (If memory serves me) throwing a wrench into the whole thing by following that up with "Pink Cigarette" was a sight to behold.
People who were beating the shit out of each other were suddenly arm and arm swaying back and forth to the beat.
I saw Mr. Bungle in 1992 in Dallas, TX at a venue that doesn't exist anymore. It was the first show I'd ever attended that I genuinely thought my life might be in danger.
I heard the first album in the early 90s back in high school. My friend gave it to me because "it's too weird for me but you'll like it because you're a weirdo". Damned if Dave wasn't right.
Dave is always right, good work Dave 👍
Right!! :)
Thankfully, I had a couple "Daves" in my life as well!
Dave’s not here
😂@@larsonfamilyhouse
Patton is the most talented vocalist of the last few generations. His EP with Dillinger is prob my favourite thing he's done.
Pig Latin is a great song off that e.p.
Love that EP
Kyo of the band Dir en grey is def in that conversation. I can't think of the best song to showcase his range, but from all the most extreme death metal shrieks and growls to weird avantgarde noises and just downright beautiful dramatic or calm singing he can do it all. Maybe he song Uroko shows quite a good portion of it...
@muenchhausenmusic Dir en Grey is great too. About a decade ago I found one of their shirts at goodwill. Unfortunately it is dust now.
yes
My son’s first tattoo was Mr. Bungle and I couldn’t be prouder ❤️🥺
Patton the best frontman of all time. Best vocals too.
The first time I had ever heard of Mr. Bungle was in 2000. I saw them open up for the Sno-core tour with the likes of Incubus and System of a Down. Bungle came out dressed like cashiers and Swiss girls and such and it was the weirdest, greatest thing ever. I went out and bought their album “California” soon afterwards.
That was an epic album.
@@6j6666Dude, Retrovertigo? That song rules!
Fantomas toured the 2009 Big Day Out and did the set dressed as cricket players. Patton had a plastic cricket bat and encouraged the crowd to throw water bottles at him, which we did. It was Trevor Dunn's birthday on the Adelaide leg and Patton got the crowd to sing happy birthday. He said we sounded Chinese.
California is incredible
@@CodeNameV13 I saw Tomahawk open for Tool in Sacramento years ago. Those first few bass notes of God Hates a Coward resonated in my chest while I was walking up to my seat. Honestly one of the most unforgettable live music experiences I've had. But anyway Mike came out wearing an L.A. Lakers jersey, in the stadium where the Sacramento Kings play, just talking shit about the Kings; it was hilarious. It was a rad show but they basically got "TOOL"ed off the stage towards the end.
Mike Patton is a creative genius
Without a doubt.🤘
What kind of drugs did he do...
@@carpediemarts705 None, he wanted to stay free of all the bullshit that destroys bands.
He is without a doubt a musical genius!
@@jamierose6046 ok. He doesn't do drugs.
But hear me say,
"Man, what drugs does he do?"
Drop creative, just genius, it's cleaner.
Mr Bungle is the modern day Captain Beefheart, a musicians band for insane people.
Modern day Zappa
same genre
Agreed!!
@@joaquinlezcano2372there are a number of mistakes with this comment, but for the sake of argument I’ll just put Mr Bungle with experimental or avant-garde and assume that’s what you mean
@@wyattcole5452 experimental rock is a genre. Trout mask replica and California are both experimental rock
There are two types of people in this world: those who love or at least respect Mr Bungle, and those who can be safely ignored. That is all.
This.
And a good day to you, fine sir!
Agreed.
I think Mr Bungle is one those rare bands that can mix multiple genres in one song and make it feel all natural or without feeling forced. Only the greatest are able to pull that off. All 3 albums are master pieces
What about the 4th?😢
@@regulardadhere8832 Re-recording old demos? Meh
@@regulardadhere8832 Seriously... I think a lot of Bungle fans don't like that album because it isn't what they wanted but it's what the band wanted to do and I fucking love it.
Listen to Naked City by John Zorn and you will understand that Mr Bungle was just a cog in a wheel...
@@BrynJones42hoodad naked city is awesome but a whole different vibe
I was absolutely OBSESSED with them and was fortunate to see them live a few times. Great job on the history of one of the most underrated and overlooked bands.
My daughter played on Tomahawk’s drums at our old studio when they were writing their hopefully upcoming second album. She’s now realizing how cool that was.
I love Faith No More for a lot of reasons, and one of those is that I got the joy of knowing Mr. Bungle's music. I was 14 when bought Disco Volante, It was pretty difficult to find their albuns here in Brasil 🇧🇷 ,and it blew my mind! Amazing!
Mr Bungle are one of my all-time favorites, more people should get into them. This is a great way to introduce them to a younger audience. Thank you, Finn! 🙌
got into them in 1993. I listened to them so much I had MRBUNGLE on my license plate in high school.
I had a crush on this weird chick in high school who used to always wear a Mr. Bungle t-shirt. When I finally listened I was like wtf was she smoking? Then I realized the good stuff, she was smoking the good stuff.
I saw them in a bowling alley in Omaha in maybe 1993. They did a slowed down, heavy af version of "Stroke Me" by Billy Squier ( maybe?) It was such a fun show. The gimp suit was just epic.
As long as you dont compare their albums to eachother, they are all amazing in their own ways. Never go in expecting something.
Spoken like a true Bungle connoisseur 🤘
Yeah, with Bungle, I always expect the unexpected, sometimes that even surprises me.
Just bought tickets for the Berlin show, and that is exactly how I’m gonna go there… let’s see what happens 😁
My best friends favorite band was mr bungle while I was in love with the mars volta. He just absolutely loved mr bungle and unfortunately passed back in 2014, before channels like this existed. Since his passing mr bungle has come up many times in many ways such as this AWESOME video and I just wish he was here to see the praise being heaped upon these guys, finally getting the credit he knew they always deserved.
If you like mr. Bungles first record you owe it to yourself to check out cardiacs. These guys influenced mr. Bungle.
I saw Mr Bungle in 1987 at the Humboldt State cafeteria. They opened for D.O.A. I remember thinking they were for SURE never going to go anywhere. But they had vibe.
Patton is one of the best vocalists and frontmen of all time. Full stop.
Lovage isn't metal at all but it proves Mike can really croon like the old timers
If you haven’t done so yet, listen to Mondo Cane… absolutely brilliant
The Dillinger Escape Plan EP with Mike Patton was what hooked me into them, and seeing them live at their final NY Shows with him was one of the best live shows I’ve seen.
I always kinda figured Tomahawk was the side project. Or maybe Fantômas was but maybe it was FNM. Patton has done a lot of interesting stuff with his time
They were massively influenced by Cardiacs. That's where the bizarre transitions came from
This band came into my life about 2 weeks before the world was transformed by Nirvana. It insulated me in a Mr Bungle force field & convinced to try to play music, saving up money to buy a bass. I figured if I suck I can still mash metal with other stuff & still create stuff better than alot of what people listened to. Most people I loaned the MB album to listened and said it was too weird. It felt like Twin Peaks. My brother was lucky enough to find Raging Wrath and that copy dub transferred to every Mr Bungle listener I knew in the 90's. Check out Secret Chiefs 3 also if u dig it.
Their 1st album was an absolute masterpiece. I remember when it first came out.
I agree and to me it is crazy innovative. I don’t get the hate and shame for it. Carnival is an earworm I’ll never forget!
Slowly Growing Deaf, Carnival, Quote Unquote, etc. All bloody brilliant.
Egg
@@ignoblesavage5559you mean Travolta. F Scientology and their lawyers.
@@jadedandbitter right? I bought it in 1991 IIRC, & it SAID Travolta. I just use the other bc that's what most people younger than me are familiar with.
I love the fact that this video has 220,000 views in a month, which means that there's alot more of us that love this band than any of us expected :) Carry Stress In The Jaw is one of my favorite songs, period.
That scream. Oh yeah
When someone asks what it is like having ADHD, I say "It's like a Mr.Bungle Album"
Ha! That's why I.live it so much
Being a fan of Mr.Bungle, feels like being a Skinny Puppy fan, not many other people I know like them, but when you do meet those people, you have a sort of instant connection
Funny! I was in university from 91-94 and I was really getting into both Bungle and Skinny Puppy during that time period.
Skinny Puppy 🤘
Love both...
S Puppy= Awesome!
Saw Skiinny Puppy Nov 18, and it was one of the best shows I've seen in many, many years! Catch the final tour if you can!
It's probably no coincidence that Faith No More's most experimental, jazziest and eclectic release (and my favourite), KING FOR A DAY, was released during the same year as the headfuck that is DISCO VOLANTE, with Spruance playing guitar on both.
'King For A Day' is alright, but Mike ends most songs by just screaming the song title. Once you realise that, it's impossible to unhear it.
Well I guess 2 or maaaaaybe 3 out of 14 songs is "most" of 14
The screaming is true tho@@jumhed994
@@jumhed994 LOL that's how my friend once described Biohazard, but it's the chorus: "Name of the song, name of the song! It's the motherfuckin' name of the song, yo!" Anyway the non-screamy stuff on KFAD is amazing.
@@jumhed994 Oh, my good Goodness. "Most songs" are just two, Ugly In The Morning and What a Day. Adding the other songs where Patton ends up screaming, maybe we can reach four...out of 14.
Yeah, I disagree with this. The two that TrivellaORama mentioned feature this, but none of the others do. I do hate it when the chorus of a song is just the title of the song and nothing else (some exceptions obvs) @@jumhed994
Back in high school I got my metal head friends to listen to California and they were instant converts to weird world of Mr. Bungle, just something strangely relaxing about that album, Goodbye Sober Day! :P
I think INCUBUS is a big enough band that deserved a mention along with the others influenced by Mr Bumgle. Even their album Fungus Amongus had Mr Bungle written all over it.
thanks to your hint I listened to that album for the first time. no doubt...
I agree. Fungus Among Us, Enjoy Incubus, and S.C.I.E.N.C.E. are all blatant Mr. Bungle worship and they even toured with Mr. Bungle in 1999.
Yeah, I remember reading in an interview something like "We were trying to be Primus and Mr Bungle at the same time".
@@illegalaryan8400in 1999 they toured with bucket head and primus
We need a tier-list of Finn's sponsors
Very punk rock indeed. About as punk as Tom DeLong's freemason logo.
Raid Shadow Legends is S Tier… change my mind…
Big fan of Finn's acting in the factor promos lol
@@chrissteiger4199cuz being punk rock means to be perpetually broke and irrelevant.
Cry
Haaaaaahaha Facts!!!
California is an incredibly creative album
"Retrovertigo" is my favorite Mr. Bungle song.
These guys and Primus were a huge influence on Incubus in their younger years. Part of what made those first 4 incubus albums so damn good
Yes!! Also huge influence on Slipknot.
Incubus in their early years always sounded like a watered down Mr. Bungle. I liked them but their first album was really on the nose with that influence.
@@leescuderi8331 I agree - it’s pretty obvious. But man it’s a great record
New Skin was a great song. Whole first major album was good.
Dude, THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this video. FNM is my favorite band of all time and Bungle fell into my lap when I was discovering FNM in the late 80's. Bungle deserves so much more recognition than they have ever gotten and folks like you doing videos like this really help expose more folks to them.
The Real Thing was the first CD I ever owned. Got it in late '89 for my 13th birthday. Not long after, someone asked me "Have you heard Mike Patton's *other* band?" Bungle blew my fragile little mind.
Anthony Kiedis is to Mike Patton as a five year-old with broken fingers and a one-stringed ukulele is to Eddie Van Halen.
Omg lol!! That’s just the best!
Apples and Oranges
Agreed
My Mr. Bungle CD is so old, the first track is Travolta. When the album released, I was just getting into Zorn and the guy at the CD shop was like...check this out.
So we went to see them play and the opening act was The Deli Creeps. One of the greatest shows I've ever seen and my introduction to Buckethead. Absolutely jaw dropping.
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
Dude I bet the Deli Creeps killed it. Super cool.
Seeing them live in South America was just something I had never expected to happen. Yet, they played Knotfest Brasil in the same day of the World Cup finals, to which Mike Patton deliberately said "good morning, Argentina". It was about 5pm when that happened. If it were any other band the audience would have gone insanely angry, but being Mr. Bungle it was pretty reasonable
Best Music Video ✅
Very understandable ✅
Very epic music ✅
No bad words ✅
No inappropriate images ✅
What?
Finn got it apparently lol
Rev and Syn from Avenged had a band in high school called Pinkly Smooth. Rev played keys and sang. They sounded just like Mr Bungle
Pinkly was more polished and accessible.
Mike Patton has more talent in a single eyelash than Anthony Kiedis has in his entire body.
Really good video and my mind goes to: A quote often attributed to music producer Brian Eno is: "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
We used to call Mr. Bungle Jazz Metal
Pretty much all of Patton's side project are weird in a good way. If you are into Mr. Bungle also check out Fantômas, another one of Patton's side projects. I also recommend to dive into the genius world of Cardiacs, which could be seen as a British version of Mr. Bungle.
Mike was a huge fan of Tim's work... RIP Mr Smith x
Ive just started getting into your vids and it feels like a channel i’ve waited forever for lol, this genre defined my teenhood and it feels so surreal hearing someone so knowledgable and well researched talking about it- nostalgic af- Thank you for the hard work!!
I caught them live in Spokane, Washington back in 1993. I had listened to their album quite a bit up to that point and was looking forward to seeing them live. They did not disappoint. I mean, where else could you hear a grindcore cover of Billy Squire's "The Stroke"? At a Mr. Bungle concert of course! Genius! One of the funny things about the debut album was the funny little samples of what sounds like a carny barker and some cat noises that I actually recognized! They were off of a pinball game that I had killed a lot of time on when I was in college that had a big circus theme and had all these funny sounds and voice samples; "Round and round she goes!". Classic!
Finn “ I first heard this band 3 years before they started making music” Mckinty
Didn’t realize John Zorn had been around since the beginning. One of the strangest producers out there. Everything on his Hips Road Project series is absolutely unique and insane. Some good, some very questionable.
Don’t even get me started on Naked City…lol ❤❤❤
He was a major influence on the self titled album and even played on sax on some of the tracks.
I saw Bungle in 91 on the tour for the first record in New Orleans at a place called New Orleans Music Hall or something like that. We were randomly visiting from Pensacola, and we saw the flyer for the show on the wall near Decatur and Esplanade. Me and my 2 friends were Bungle fanatics. We couldn't believe how lucky we were. We were shitting ourselves. We were immediately then on a mission to find acid.We had to have acid for the show. We just had to. We started walking around the Quarter and we saw a guy that certainly didn't look like an acid dealer, but he had a cute girl with him so we went up to him and started talking. The FIRST PERSON we just asked for acid had some. This is a true story. This happened. The planets lined up that night. The first bands were really cool and weird. Sprawl and Grotus. Bungle came on and we witnessed something that to this day is hard to describe. The thing I remember the most is that Mike got VERY angry at a kid wearing a NIN shirt. He was swinging his mic like a mace and really trying to hit the guy. He was like "there's that mfer right there! No one's thrown you out of here yet mother f'er??" and like seriously trying to hurt this kid. People were holding him back. It was the most abrasive and destructive and angry set I have ever seen. They would play 5 minutes of pure noise just flopping around and banging on shit and people were ANGRY as fuck and Mike was mocking us, screaming "you LIKE this bullshit! You PAID to see this bullshit!" Then w/o even a 4 count or anything they would just break into "Egg" or whatever and the crowd would instantly start swirling into a pit and all the rage and disgust would disappear instantly and we were singing along and amazed by their virtuosity. After close to 1000 live music shows in my life, that first Bungle set was def a top 5 experience for me. I've seen them 4 times now, most recently at Sick New World. It's different now but still great. I'll never miss a Bungle set. I'll be driving to Atlanta is May for my 5th show.
They were a huge influence on Mastodon as well. That's probably the only current modern band where you can hear the obvious influence.
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What the hell? I literally started digging for Mr. Bungle content yesterday and this pops up? Madness! Love it
Disco Volante is a damn masterpiece, and a master class in musicianship
And "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" encapsulates the entire album better than any other track. The centerpiece of the masterpiece, if you will!
I go back to the self titled a lot more often, though. Stuff like Dunn quoting Jaco Pastorius on Dead Goon, that jangly riff and sick time changes on My Ass is on Fire, and everything about Slowly Growing Deaf? Just perfection, ear candy.
@jadedandbitter I've missed that reference over a thousand listens, what/where would you say references Jaco?
@@TheFarbeys the bass line is VERY reminiscent of Jaco's in Teen Town. Not the same, but definitely influenced by.
I highly recommend everyone to buy the moon child trio, hemophiliac records with zorn, Dunn, patton. They are some of the most batshit records ever and cemented my opinion on Patton being the greatest vocalist. On a side note diamanda galas album litanies of Satan seemed like a massive influence on Patton and I highly recommend it.
I have loved Mr Bungle from the first moment heard Chemical Romance from another uni student in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, in 1996. I bought all their albums and I absolutely love their self-titled first album. Its concept is marvellous and it is SO MUCH FUN!!! I have seen them live every chance I get, the next time being March 2024 in Brisbane. O Happy Day!!!
I describe Bungle as Carnival music meets horror film soundtrack....
One of the greatest bands ever, thanks a ton!
It took a while, but I absolutely love all 3 og records at this point. California still my fave, Disco Violante still surprises after tons of listens, and self-titled is stupid eclectic fun.
Regarding their debut self titled album Mr Bungle, I couldn’t disagree with you more. It’s a brilliant album & top 10 all time classic. I carry no mental scars.
I saw them on the snocore tour in Spokane. Completely blown away by Puya and Mr. bungle. Never heard of them before and changed my 16 year old brain. 🤯
I listened to FaithNoMore and discovered Mr.Bungle when I was a teenager in the early 90's. It's jarring to hear someone on youtube talk about them because they've been like a dirty secret. All 3 albums are brilliant.
I was stationed in Mannheim, Germany the early 90’s and came home on leave. First thing I did was hit the record store. I saw Mr. Bungle’s CD cover and thought…wow, this looks insane. I grabbed it along with about 25 other CD’s. When I got to my car, I put in Mr. Bungle and Squeeze Me Macaroni was the craziest song I had heard, that wasn’t on Dr. Demento. Love the Bungle. As a side note…you should have seen the reaction when I was back in my unit. We would have stereo wars on the weekends and each floor or room would compete. I put on Bungle and cranked that through my McIntosh system with a pair of Cerwin Vega AT100’s and a pair of AT80’s. Beer and tunes 🤘🤘🤘
Finally, I big channel like yours talking about this legendary band. One of most influential bands ever. The 90s really had everything from big mainstream bands to bands like Mr bungle and Faith no more. Mike doesnt care about glory but good to see his work being appreciated even to this day.
This is actually the first time I’m hearing about the beef with RHCP. I can totally see the similarities and it makes me hate the Chili Peppers that much more.
You hate the Chili Peppers that much more because you can see the similarities that made Kiedis accuse Patton of copying him? I mean let's be real here, he was straight up doing a mid-80s Kiedis impression in the Epic video. Not saying it's good or bad, but it's blatantly obvious.
RHCP sucks. You should do a deep dive on the beef. It's hilarious.
Listen to the monolog Neil Hamburger did opening for Mr Bungle. Its a dig at RHCP. It's absolutely hilarious.
Both bands are great. Kiedis being the worst part of the Chili peppers... but I mean, RHCP doesn't suck at all! I mean, John Frusciante?!? C'mon..
living rent free in Anthony's head
not to be confused with Richard Head
I was at the Bungle halloween show at Clutch Cargo's in Pontiac where they mocked RHCP. It was hilarious.
California is god tier album.
Disco Volante was the hardest album to get into by Bungle but is definitely a favorite.
I bought Disco Volante after only having heard (and loved) a few tracks off the self title album. I just figured I liked what I had heard, but the store I was at only had Disco Volante on the shelf (I dont miss those days) so took a chance on it. What a surprise that was..
Thanx for this one Pat, I still remember getting my 15-yo hands on the first Bungle LP and listening to it three times in a row, I couldn't believe that music like that existed, to me it sounded like someone excavated the deepest crevices of my tormented teenage mind and turned it into art.
Who is Pat?
I am glad the creator beat me to the question that I am sure we are all asking. Who is this mysterious and magnificent Pat?
A friend of mine called the 1st album Clown Stomp. I remember being like "Holy shit you can do this?!?"
This is Finn McKenty not Pat Finnerty
I was gonna ask the same question. Who be Pat?!?!?
Anyone said anything about the Saxophonist in this band getting arrested for killing his girlfriend? Weird timing dude.
A couple people have already said it but check out Cardiacs, huge influence on Mike Patton as well as Devin Townsend and Shane Embury, and easily one of the most criminally underrated
Imagine an oddball prog-punk hybrid with elements of medieval English folk music and deep-seated childhood trauma having a bad acid trip at the circus. It's a bit like what would happen if you locked Frank Zappa, King Crimson and The Specials in a recording studio with a mountain of cocaine and then forced them at gunpoint to make a punk record
Good call :)
I was at that show in Michigan. It was on or right near Halloween. That’s why they dressed up as the RHCP. It was fucking awesome lol
Thanks for this! Been a fan of them for quite a long time. I was at the infamous Pontiac "Halloween" show and of course it will go down as one of my favorite concerts. It was honestly a very funny show to attend at the time.
I found out about them because I was introduced to Dog Fashion Disco, which someone described as their "spiritual successor" at once point (and I see why, though DfD and Mr.B are pretty unique and creative in their own ways).
At one of the many DFD shows I’ve been to, one of the guys in the band told me that a few of their early tracks are pretty much blatant ripoffs of FNM songs
What id give to get another Dillinger album, or even another EP with Mike on vocals. A more mature Dillinger rather than early years Dillinger like the last EP they did.
I feel that Ben listened to tomahawks Mit Gas and was heavily influenced and changed the DEP sound after that.
@@get_me_the_bonesaw3029 That buildup on Bird Song...epic
With the David Lynch comparisons, Mike Patton is a big fan of David Lynch, so much that David Lynch is one of Mike Patton’s influences. Mike Patton was also influenced by Bad Brains, The Residents, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, the actor Steve Martin, GG Allin, and Frank Zappa.
Enrico Morricone, famous composer, noted for his work with director Serpico Leone.
Eureka is not just some small nice tourist town, It is the washed up remnant of boom bust industries, lots of hard drugs, and home to a lot of good strange people. It's incidence of property crime is among the highest in the country per capita and one of the top ten highest for rural communities
I read somewhere that it was a fishing town where the fishing industry had died...
It's like the logging and mary jane industry- still alive but not what it once was. @@JadeDude1973
These descriptions make me think I’d LOVE this band. BTBAM’s Colors (I) and the Parallax EP and Album are my favorite “metal” albums, and this idea of “sudden/abrupt genre shifting” makes me really excited
You are correct, Colors 2 is infused with it
I saw BTBAM play on Parallax 1 tour in 2011 and Tommy had a Mr. Bungle "California" sticker on his keyboard. Check out John Zorn's Simulacrum and Chaos Magick projects too.
I could swear that anytime I feel I need to do a deep dive on an iconic name in music I’ve never paid much attention to, Finn manifests a video specifically for me so I don’t have to. Cheers 🥂
Mike patton is an absolute god and an amazing frontman.
I got in trouble for taking my neighbor's Mr. Bungle CD without asking (stealing). My mom was more upset at the song titles than anything 😂
I remember that the first song I played was Girls of Porn (because I liked the title). It was a serious mind fuck at 13 years old. The moaning, the heavy guitars THEN funky sax 😮 I loved it.