So yep. Mister Bungle. Fuckin weird group, some of the most out-there, avant-garde bullshit ever put to record was by them. This album is not that - it’s actually rather boring by comparison lmao. Crossover thrash and a bit of a harsher vocal performance from this band’s demo days, but just rerecorded, AND they got Dave Lombardo on drums, not to mention Scott Ian from Anthrax on rhythm guitars.

Linking the best song from the bunch, with a rather unfortunate name, but the main riff is really infectious. Album is definitely for fans of stuff like S.O.D. and not for fans of the usual Mr. Bungle affair.

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  • Redfox8@mander.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Thanks for sharing, not familiar with this. I know some Mr Bungle (great band!) & get Mike Patton’s creative style ( broadly a cutting/satirical social commentary), and see that in the song titles here (‘Anarchy up your anus’ is so Patton!). So not musically similar to the later quirky stuff, but see Fantomas for another heavy Patton creation. A lot of his FNM input was skirting mainstream sounds with original or alternate themes and styles. He doesn’t pin himself down to a genre, but uses music to reflect the lyrical meaning. It still amazes me how musically ‘accomplished’ so much Mr Bungle music is given they were at high school.

    • Myr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      I also just had a friend recommend me Fantômas and I’m checking out their Director’s Cut album, it’s a fuckin trip man. Mike Patton is one hell of a talented individual and I’m finding a lot of his stuff is hit or miss for me, but I see the vision, these trippy visions lmao. I’m noticing Mr. Patton roped Lombardo into quite a few projects, and it’s rather interesting to discover this years after the fact.

      • Redfox8@mander.xyzEnglish
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        12 days ago

        I don’t know all his stuff, but it is very varied from what I have heard. I should go back to Fantomas again, got the first album but didn’t take to it, so know what you mean re hit n miss! But yeah, Patton just goes for it, so rarely get that variety and creativity from an individual.

        Yeah I dip in and out of who does what with whom, so was interesting to see those two help out with the re-recording of Mr Bungle stuff, but makes sense - same era, same scene.

  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 days ago

    This is from the first Mr. Bungle (or the re-master/re-release), and it is actually a great thrash album. None of the other Bungles albums are thrash IMO. Patton’s various projects are all over the place (thrash, rock, trip-hop/hip-hop, opera, general-experiment-weirdness), but I tend to like nearly all of them.