Mr. Bungle's California C or D?

As for Tomahawk, they're much beter live than on that record. They actually did this 10min+ drone rock thing when I saw em, so I'm hoping their next one is bit more unconventional.

Oh, and it's on their self-titled first proper album, with the creepy clown on the cover. John Zorn produced that one, btw.

listening to "Chemical Marriage" right now, and it still cracks me up this many years later.

Chemical Marriage is a Hermetic term, by the way. Disco Volante is loaded with Hermetic axioms (that's the occult for you stupid types) and I would like to know why. The songs are just goofiness, so why pretend they are deep and mystical?

Strikes me that virtually everything Mr.B did was designed first and formost to fuck with people. That you've spent time scratching your head about this means they've succeeded, I suppose.

lol JJ wants to have this album's babies

There's one more hoooour until you will find me deeead

3 analog 24 tracks chained together. That has probably not happened since.

best album ever, perhaps. apart from disco volante.

pink cigarette is a great song. is it supposed to be an an homage to david lynch? cuz it sounds like an even more warped bad-acid-trip version of Julee Cruise.

Just listened to this a coupla times today, the CHAKCHAKCHAKCHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKA*RIFFFFFF* bit in Goodbye Sober Day is my new favourite bit, but this is always subject to change.

That's taken from Indonesian kecak music. Buy a kecak CD and just hear that CHAKCHAKCHAKCHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKA bit all day!

This band got better with every album for real.

Well I just listened to Disco Volante right thru again and I'd quite possibly dispute that, but the last 2 are simply titanic (and the 1st one merely very very very good)

My old roommate was a big Mike Patton fan, I never understood why. Mr. Bungle reminds me of this:

oh good cameron carr is here

This album is absolute magic from beginning to end. So many chills inducing moments, including:
"Save me, the heavens have opened, I'm coming home sweet charity"
The fiddle riff at 0.53 in Ars Moriendi
"From the skyscrapers down to the submarines"
When the extra-layered vocals come back in after the freak-out instrumental in The Holy Filament
The chorus of RetroVertigo ("staring into glassy eyes, mesmerize")
All of Pink Cigarette

Cameron, if that's what you think Bungle sound like you've probably only listened to the first album, and not very closely at that. YouTube Pink Cigarette and give it a listen, you'll be astounded by the difference.

that video is like if cardiacs were really bad and unimaginative, which is not a universe i want to be in

This is one of those albums I always thought I'd like but have never heard.

If Naked City covering Pet Sounds seems like something you'd like, you should check it out. I was a fan from the first album onward and caught the California tour with an early incarnation of Dillinger Escape Plan opening. So good.

does patton smoke crack or what? listening to this now

this is mr bungle's pop album muahahahahaha

Same guy who engineered this recorded my last album. He's freakin awesome.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/mr-bungle-california-20-year/

This never been polled?

Goodbye Sober Day would surely take it

(or Pink Cigarette...maybe you should poll it after all!)

Now I'm POLLING truth is a ruin: Mr Bungle's 1999 masterpiece "California"