Born @ the beginning of Gen X, I was always the oddball Black chick that listened and enjoyed something in EVERY MUSIC GENRE you could/can think of. Music is the water of life !!!
I'm loving it too! It's great to see someone discover stuff and enjoying exploring it. Especially when as a young guy I obsessed over this album for years... its a masterpiece. So its great seeing how he's loving it too.... even though it's not easy listening by any means!!
@@edybocman76 Well pardon me ol CHAP......... one must forgive my gluttonous zealotry of words and emojiness but just the mere THOUGHT of Mr Bungle and Primus at the same time kinda makes me do that shit ..........a data input overload short circuit kinda thing that happens to us hardcore fans who grew up listening to such musical badassery !! A side affect of grandiose musical genius and perfectionism👌😉😁✌ AND PRIMUS STILL FOOKIN SUCKS!!!
Patton is so diverse, he has worked with hip hop artists, done entire concerts in italian 50s pop song style, voiced zombies and creatures in movies and shows, did the entire sound track to crank (1 or 2 cant remember) the dude is amazing
He has so many good bands. Peeping Tom, Tomahawk, Fantomas, General Patton vs The X-Ecutioners, Bungle, FNM, Lovage, Mondo Cane, I'm probably forgetting a few but all i can really say it's, damn.
Jamal, if you like Patton's rendition of "Easy", you should check out his other project, Mondo Cane, a collection of 1950s-60s smooth Italian pop songs with full orchestra. I recommend the concert recorded live at the Holland Festiival in Amsterdam 2008 and some of the more upbeat songs: "Deep deep down", "Urlo Negro", "20Km Al Giorno" and "Yeeeeh!"
And to make it easier. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YRjKlZiGHQI.html The audience was not aware of what an amazing treat they were in for. Simply amazing show. "Beautiful" doesn't even do it justice....
Saw them in sf at the hardly strictly bluegrass festival. Brilliant. I have seen many of his projects. Still trying to figure one out. They opened for Built to Spill at Bottom of the hill late 90s or early 2000s. It was him with a ton of vocal effects, a drum machine, and a guy on noise slide guitar.
Trevor Dunn is an underrated God-Tier Bassist!! Dead Goon is the song where he REALLY goes off on some next level(for its time) Bass riffs!! Aldo, Dead Good would be a great next video!!! It's SUPER dark.
@@johnwhite8847 It's one of mine too. Why can't Bungle stop Bungling around and write record release another 3 Bungle albums? That's not a big ask. Now with Ipecac it would be perfect
@@jmpsthrufyre it's sad that the closest we've had to a Bungle album in the past 20 years is arguably Oddfellows by Tomahawk, which of course is not nearly weird enough.
@@johnwhite8847 That or some of Delerium and Suspended. I still have hope. California will NOT be the last. If it is it is and what an is to end with. But I think there's at least one more offering left.
After listening to this album for damn near 30 years, it's great to see your reactions to the music that's been stuck in my head that entire time. Once it's in there, you can try to get it out, but you'll never succeed. Just sit back and let it take over your entire being. And be sure to check out the rest of the album and the rest of their catalog. You Will Not Be Disappointed
Patton's the King! You can see by my profile picture, i'm a fan 😁. I suggest Mr Bungle "Retrovertigo" and "Pink Cigarrete" Those 2 are more "normal" songs from Mr Bungle if you can call that to any Bungle song lol.
Agreed. "California" is one of my all-time top albums. The other Mr. Bungle stuff is more of a novelty. Sort of a joke. But _California?!?!_ That record haunts me.
Hell yeah! Carrying Stress in the Jaw, The Desert Search for the Techno Allah, Retrovertigo, Air Conditioned Nightmare, Ars Moriendi, Goodbye Sober Day.... All are great songs!
I love watching your videos. But never did I think I’d hear you critique a friend! My friend was the original drummer for Mr. Bungle. They all went my high school. Great band!
I will never forget my first time listening to My Ass Is On Fire, which was my introduction to the band. I couldn't stop laughing the whole way through.. I thought it was some of the most craziest/brilliant music I have ever heard! You can never forget something that.. Mike Patton is a genius!
After all the GEMS you've uncovered, I still never imagined you landing on Mr. Bungle! You have THE most open mind musically, Congrats on your findings. Next is "Goon" from Mr. Bungle
That album is a pure masterpiece! If you REALLY want to appreciate it, listen to it while driving on long, desolate, tumbleweed-filled roads in the Southwest. We did that once and stopped at a really creepy gas station in the middle of nowhere Arizona and pumped gas to "Goodbye Sober Day". There were strange characters hanging around the gas station looking like someone dragged them through dry sagebrush and hung them out on barbwire to tan their skin. It was a moment I will never forget.
“What the hell just happened?” The product of genius & insanity. A friend turned me on to this album in 1992. When he was talking about this band, he said,”It’s Mike Patton’s side project, way different from Faith No More. Think speed metal with a horn section!” I said, “Ok definitely checking this out!” Listening to this album with just the instruments alone along with the samples sprinkled in is just well put together insanity, and then Mike Patton’s vocals over that, only Patton could really have the multiple personalities vocal style that could fit the different facets of this band musically. Other than that, it’s fucking crazy, which is awesome!
You asked “Is he in hell?”, the answer is yes - at least mentally and emotionally imprisoned. Think of a clown. Always wears a smiley face and has to be happy and outgoing. But what if you’re having a bad day? What if some kid just stuffed his ice cream in your pocket? You have to bite it back and choke on it. The frustration and inner turmoil must be epic. Add to that, this guy is having a mid-life crisis “Impotence, ...,clumps of hair in the sink”. The entire album is thematic and as interesting as each track is, you really can’t listen to them out of context of the entire album. I don’t want to spoil anything in case you decide to do more reaction videos, but LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE ALBUM! Mike Patton is a fantastic vocalist and he is surrounded by a group of excellent musicians who all share the same goal in creating something completely original.
Saw them in San Francisco last Saturday they did the raging wrath of the Easter Bunny cover to cover. It was fucking Awesome! Face melting metal for an hour and a half. In the middle of the show they play summer breeze just the way you hear it in your head then back to metal!
That one and "Flashback" from the same show (it was on an Australian tv show, iirc). That version of "Flashback" is one of those songs/performances I desperately wish I'd written/performed.
JAMAL, , check out another Patton band PEEPING TOM "We're Not Alone" from thrRollins Show. See him work his version of a pop band. Also PEEPING TOM doing "Desperate Situation" from Marvin Gaye live in Prague. You will Love It!!
Same. In fact, first time I ever heard Bungle was at a live show when they were touring this album. All I knew about them before that was that Mike Patton wore a Mr. Bungle t-shirt in FNM's "Epic" video and I read somewhere that Bungle was his band in high school. I had no idea what to expect and that show blew my mind WIDE open. Since then, I've seen them (and Faith, Fantomas, etc) a bunch of times and have been lucky enough to chat briefly with Mike on a couple of occasions after shows. I'm sure I came off as an idiot and asked some dumb questions but he was super cool. Favorite musician of all time, hands down.
I have never heard of this band, I have never heard this song. I would not have listened to the whole thing by myself. Would have given up too early. But thanks to this video I listened to the whole song. I actually like this song. It intentionally abrasive. It changes key and rhythm and uses rests like notes. Thanks for this video.
@@jeffsutter5982 You will definitely appreciate it if you enjoy Primus. Mr Bungle self titled is a musical maze of odd meters, genre splicing and circus inspired metal madness. So genius.
This is fun with Acid music. Mike Patton's voice has so much more range than these 2 songs show. I can't wait to see them on Monday at Brooklyn Steel 🤘🏽
@@SpaceCattttt They just recently reformed for a short tour, I've heard they have Scott Ian from Anthrax playing and the great Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Fantomas fame on drums, but Patton, Dunn and Spruance are playing under the name. Their first show on the tour sounds like a brilliant troll, everyone went to hear their...er...hits I guess, as much as Bungle has "hits", but they played the entirety of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, one of their early demos, and some off kilter covers. My great regret is that they're playing a handful of shows, none of which are anywhere in Canada where I live...I would kill to see this band live...
@@andrewhussey4538 According to Wikipedia, they're only playing 3 shows? I don't know, but a tour would be better!! Lots of people get pissed off when they pay to go and see a show, and the HITS aren't played. But come on! If you want to hear the hits, then FNM will play them for you. If you want to see Patton and Co, then the point is that you never know what you're going to get. Like fucking chocolate, Forrest! I went to see Fantomas and people were booing because......it was too experimental and not catchy enough. Same thing when I saw Blur! They refused to play any of their singles that night, and the pitchforks soon came out in force! And I was like, the fuck, you have the bloody hits on the albums. Here's an opportunity to hear something new and unique to this night, and you choose to get pissed off about it? Idiots!
@@SpaceCattttt Yeah, the same happened with Dream Theater ages back, they had a gig somewhere and used (if memory serves) the anniversary or something to play Metallica...I think it was the entirety of Master of Puppets because it was such a foundational album for the members of the band and all sorts of people got really upset. Most were cool with it, hearing virtuoso level musicians playing stuff that moved them when they were young as a point of respect to the band they loved and people were upset because "I paid to see a dream theater show, not a cover band". Really don't get the Fantomas thing...what the hell are you even GOING to a Fantomas show if you are bothered by experimental music? That's pretty much their entire schtick, if someone wants to hear catchy songs with Patton go see a FNM or Peeping Tom show, but if you know the band enough to buy tickets and then get upset when they play like Fantomas, what the hell...that's like paying to go see a BB King show and then getting pissed off because it's all blues music, that's what he did. I'd absolutely kill to see Fantomas, I've been playing guitar for about 25 years and I can't describe how difficult it would be playing a whole set of songs with that level of variation...they're even more off the wall in some ways than Bungle, flipping styles mid-song on a dime multiple times over, keeping all that straight in your head is just amazing, one person losing their place for a moment would throw the whole thing off, you'd need to know your songs and scales inside out and backwards and just be incredibly well rehearsed or it would be a nightmare. I'm hoping this mini-tour is in anticipation of something longer, I was a bit young when Bungle was around, there was nothing like what we have today where I can follow a band and be notified right away when a show came around, you just would stumble across something in Kerang magazine or on a flyer announcing a show if you were lucky, or by word of mouth and then pray you could get your parents to pay for a ticket, that it wasn't sold out and then get to the show so I just never had the luck...but if they decide to do a full tour then I am so fucking on that when they come here
What you listened to was a band way ahead of thier time, with the freedom to blaze thier own trail...this band gave birth to bands like limp bizkit, korn, slipknot, lincoln park and more. Very powerful, but smart enough to stay under the cookie-cutter radar of everything that followed because it was never about being mainstream, but about undermining the BS pop culture corporate garbage everyone is used to. And more! Check out the faith no more cover songs video!
I got the rare chance to see Mr. Bungle live and was amazed. I figured this was a studio band that couldn't pull this off live, and was wildly surprised and impressed by the the whole band.
@@ryanlarocque2571 and scream "... And just let the ji-sm flyy!" Then look up embarrassed as I hear myself echoing through the aisles of the (now quiet) grocery store 😬😂
other good ditties: Chemical marriage, Sweet charity, Desert search, Carry stress in the jaw, The air-conditioned nightmare, Pink cigarette. Their second album is the most creative thing I've ever heard
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The look on your face when he started singing redundant! holyshit! I'm in tears over here. You need to do the rest of the album on video too
So glad you've finally got to the Bungle... Hope to see some reactions to the recommendations from the California album. Completely different aesthetic.
One of the most amazing rock albums made. So happy you're checking it out! If you listen to the entire album it is simply exhausting. Mike Patton's voice work is phenomenal
Mr. Bungle were extremely inspired by an underground British band called Cardiacs. (Not The Cardiacs just Cardiacs). They were described as their own style of music called Pronk meaning progressive punk (a term they rejected.) but they were easily this insane and weird if not even far weirder. You can’t possibly imagine unless you’ve heard a bunch of their music. Mike Patton was a big fan. I adore Cardiacs.
MIke Patton is da man! He's the singer for another band that you did a reaction video on Faith No More). He has the widest vocal range of any rock / pop singer (six octaves)! He's just an incredibly talented wild man with a broad range of musical styles. Also, he's a SF dude.
I never thought about their music being dark, it always made me laugh. You can tell by the groove of the album that they were having a blast, the time of their lives.
LOVE IS A FIST! One of there BEST songs. IMO Great reaction! Interesting and great to see people Open mindedly reacting to Mr. bungle I was raised on them as a kid first hearing them when I was in high school in the early 90s Mike Patton and Mr. bungle are definitely one of a kind!
Jamel just opened the door and shrieking, howling, crooning jazz-synth-rap-funk-metal-soul-blues-pop explodes out of it... Jamel attempts to close it back up...
I saw a Top Ten list of lead singers who can "sing you to sleep and scare you to death" and Mike Patton was definitely on that list. A truly underrated voice.
Your reaction is exactly what is to be expected. lol This particular album is a crazy mix of jazz, metal, rap, video game and pinball sound effects, human noises, movie clips, porno lines and sounds ("Girls of Porn" will blow your mind) and more. The album was inspired by a comic book called "Cotton Candy Autopsy" (go look up that bit of insanity some time)...and the whole album is intended to have a circus vibe. It is essentially a way for the artists to just experiment and try really out there musical ideas. You have an incredibly open mind when it comes to music, and that is the perfect place to be at when listening to Bungle. An open mind and a sense of humor...and let them take you on a crazy musical journey.
@@nathanberner7725 I wrote the lyrics out on notebook paper so I could sing along and memorize them. I was 14 yrs old when this came out. My mom found them in my desk drawer, got pissed and confiscated all my cassettes for a week.
Here are some Bungle tracks you should check out: The Air Conditioned Nightmare off of California, Squeeze Me Macaroni off of their self titled, and Desert Search For Techno Allah off of Disco Volante.
In high school, my art teacher was the drummer in a jazz band I played trumpet in; at any point in a song, I'd be able to turn to him and say "my ass is on fire" and he'd immediately switch up his drumming to the off-beat cymbal pattern found at 5:21 It probably goes without saying, but Mr Preston was a cool af teacher.
As a good listener of their works, I have to answer this : M. Bungle is an experimental groupe of music, who tried in their works to marry opposite kind of music all together. Begin to discover their universe by listening the first album is hard ; it's a hard one, a strange mix of circus, metal and rapcore, with numerous breaks inside that can lost the most endurant listener. I think you should try to listen the last one, California, more easy to apprehend, and debut with songs like "Sweet Charity" for the smoothy waves, or "Goodbye Sober Day". :) Good listening !
Also you check out his other projects like Fantomas and Peeping Tom, They have some awesome original songs +cape fear/across 110th st. covers. . Absolutely Top Notch!!
Got to see them once, in 92 NYE Primus, Mr.Bungle , and the Melvins. I think I remember Mike drinking piss out of his shoe? Amazing, even held up to Ministry, Helmet, Sepultura, a week earlier on dec.23.
I'm 42, and I've had to buy several copies of this album because I kept wearing them out. It's beyond bizarre to see Mr. Bungle getting this attention all of a sudden. You're not the only one reacting to this lately. Weird wild stuff.
There are two more Mr. Bungle albums plus Fantomas albums to listen to and experience. I bought this album in 1991 when FNM was big and wanted to hear more stuff with Mike Patton. It was a shock to hear back then and glad to see its still a shock in 2020. If you want to hear more of Mike Patton singing soulfully, check out his band Peeping Tom, only one album but it was brilliant. He has been in quite a few bands over the years. Dead Cross is the most recent, there was another rock one called Tomahawk, he was the singer for the band Dillianger Escape Plan for a little while and he did an Italian Opera project called Mondo Cane as well. That stuff is beautiful to listen too on a lazy Sunday post football season when you are making dinner for your lady.
That movie and scene in general is like a car crash. Its so disturbing, yet you cant turn away. "What are you drinking?!! Heineken??!! Fuck that shit!! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!"
OMG I cant believe you did this song! Wow thanks! "Dead Goon" is another good one or "Girls of Porn" but all their transitions dont make much sense without the other songs around them. Your reaction was hilarious. Its like getting hit with a musical truck
Lmao yeah that takes you into *Girls of Porn,* which is another wild track along with *Squeeze Me Macaroni* 🤣 These guys are craaazy. True originals. Mike Patton has an incredible vocal range 🤘
