MR. BUNGLE - "Stubb A (Dub)" (Reaction) 

Best high school jazz band I’ve ever heard

This song is about the guitarist Trey's dog whom died. This is one of my faves by them. When I hear Bungle, I hear a lot of Zappa. As for suggestions, I recommend Carousel, None of Them Knew They Were Robots, Desert Search for Techno Allah and or My Ass Is on Fire.

I absolutely LOVE this one, it just has this whole story and feels shorter than it is. Despite it being a silly song about a dog it’s just so indescribably beautiful. One of the first songs I ever heard from bungle and it STILL gives me chills

‘Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz’ is a fun song, as is ‘Desert Search for Techno Allah’.

Thank you for reacting to my favourite Bungle song, I absolutely love everything about it and glad to see you enjoying it too, also you should check out a live version of this sometime, Bungle are amazing live, I have some great live performance on my YT if you ever want to react to any 😎 I would recommend more songs but you literally can't go wrong with Bungle no matter what song you choose ❤️ but having said that please can you add Travolta-Quote/Unquote to your list for my friend Erv, it's his jam 😎 And by the way that last part you heard was actually the beginning of the next song 'My Ass Is On Fire' be sure to check that one out too 😉

Awesome when I feel like music is becoming too formulated I get depressed from it and the only cure sometimes is Mr. Bungle. It's a shame people don't often get it!!

Thank you for being the journey into the avant side of modern music!!!!!! There is plenty of more Bungle to enjoy. And then you have all of the side-projects like Secret Chiefs 3, Umlaut, Fantomas, etc… You, sir, are in for a treat. (And dudes comment about Cardiacs was on point. Check out the track Jibber ant Twitch off the 1984 album the Seaside)

You taught me a lesson mama .... fabulous.

This album turns 30 years old today!

THANKS MOM!!

I'm really enjoying your Mr.Bungle reactions, can't wait for the next one already!!!!

THANKS MOM !!!....and thanks for the bungle reactions

Mr bungle doesn’t have any bad songs they’re all great and interesting too me. Sacred music for me!

i had this song stuck in my head all day yesterday and i felt fucking insane but its so fun idc

It’s been like 30 years since I’ve heard this album. Good pic.

Incredible song. Love reaction . Subbed .

Hi, Jonathon! :) Everyone here is watching with enthusiasm how you react to Mr. Bungle again, including me there, so don't be surprised if a couple of us continue to follow you, staying with high expectations for your future involvement with this band.:) For now, I won't recommend anything new, because others have already suggested a lot, and that's great ... :) I'll just deal with the statistics for a moment, hahah, and I'll say that you've already managed to react to 1 song from each of the 3 official album of Mr.B. Yey!:) When I say “official,” I mean of those from the 90`s, right, not including last year’s new one, which is actually a re-creation of their early 1986 demo, a total and pure thrash-metal fire, but several people here have already informed you about this, so it's okay ... :) We won't hurry, we'll get to that, I think it's important for us now that you first react to their experimental side, formed and matured, and there will be time for you to witness the whole early, prehistoric original sound, cool? That being said, I think I promised you earlier that I would share with you a brief insight into those 3 albums, their main characteristics and the like, so that in a way you get a rough idea of what can be expected from everyone... and I will now fulfill that promise. :) Don`t worry, it`s not like Frank Zappa's opus, like a hundreds of records, hahah...Nope, there are only 3 of them.:) Let's begin? :) OK. Here we go. 1. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (1991) OH, the year was very promising for cross-over bands and funk-metal in general, we could say that it had already started to spread in the year `89, thanks to Faith No More itself, among other bands of that time (such as Fishbone, Nomeansno, Living Color...), but nothing could prepare the world for such a cross-experimental sound when Mr.B. came up with this record. :) With a grotesque clown on it`s cover, many will be deceived expecting somehow coherent funk and cheerful sounds... Yeah, there is some of that too...But the overall impression could not be compared to anything that was heard until then... Dark lyrics, dark moods, sudden changes of tempo, rhythm and music genres became a recognizable credo of this band, since everything else was very strange and unrecognizable! But in spite of everything: they did it! They presented a new philosophy of music to the world, showing that a song could withstand a hundreds of significant interventions, and still manage to maintain its true form - a song. :) Critics were divided: some were thrilled to hear such heavy-loaded constructions of songs, others considered them for a joke and pointless rubbish...But Mr. Bungle easily went through this Scilas and Charybdis.:) And gained a cult of followers, including yes - Brandon Boyd from Incubus (he was a kid at the time, but Mike Patton and Mr.B. `did it` for him)! :) The jocularity and silliness of these songs, often brought to the limits of parody, cynicism and a taboos, actually served as a mask for the seriousness of the lyrics, and for their original view of the world, from which the whole absurdity of living could originally be illustrated by - circus and carnival imagery! :)) This remained their second main feature, the one that many have tried to imitate since then, with more or less success, but never as good as they managed. ;) This included wearing grotesque masks and janitor`s clothes around `91/`92. alive, at concerts (look what Slipknot did later), but also very different gear and bizarre costumes. :) But amazing music was still the center of everything, not just fooling around, like kids do in music today... Mr.Bungle had their own influences too, like Fishbone, and they took the idea to use trumpets and saxophones from them, but they have ever since done a whole new thing with it in their music. They also took a lot of the keyboards that surrounds them and transformed it, bringing it to a whole new, surreal level, which included using of samples from cartoons, movies, video-games, pinball, alarms, noises of various kinds, many of which were self-made, mostly by Patton and the guitarist Trey Spruance.;) Their multi-instrumentalism came to the fore. The genres on this album, which was generally considered `funk-metal` album, were too broad to fit this definition! :) There is mostly Ska, Circus, then Funk, Metal, Reggae, Rap, Jazz, Disco, some Latin sounds like Samba, Rumba, including attempts to parody some of them, like Jazz, Blues, etc. Most of these things, with the exception of heavy metal riffs, can be heard in this song you just reacted to, because it was a song from this album. :))) Congratulations! :) BTW, the album begins with a song called "Travolta", a great demonstration of all the skills and genres mentioned above, including metal, a strange and bizarre anthem against conformism with the famous actor as the central figure of ridicule, but at one point they had to change the title to "Quote Unquote" because Travolta's lawyers threatened to sue them if they didn't ...Mmm. :) 2. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (1995) Named after a ship of the main villain from James Bond movie "Thunderball" ...huh? did you know that? :)...which also means "Flying Saucer" on Italian, and what do you say to that? :))) .... this album is literally that: a strange, alien machine, wherever you look: from its interior to its exterior! :)) An amazing work of art - no less and no more! :D Imagine yourself trying to get through the open door of some alien spacecraft? :) You'd be terrified at first, wouldn't you? :) Well, that`s the sound of the opening song from this album: a bunch of strange noise and outer-dimensional cacophony, rolled into a skeleton of what should be some kind of slow, death-metal song with a disturbing title - "Everyone I Went To High-School with is Dead"...! :-/// That should be considered a `Fire baptism` for this album, although many simply skip this song ... And why not, our `cartoon` friends would like to encourage you to make any cartoon-gesture, and even just jump on next song - anything is possible and everything`s fine. :)))... But, like their debut album, this album is not less stranger, in fact - consider it radically wilder and crafted with even wider range of music genres, those that can only be taken as a `thought noun` for a simple, ordinary metal band of any kind. :)) So, this album includes such genres as: Salsa, Techno-Rave of the 90`s, Argentinian Tango, Ambient Synth music, Musique concrète, (french: `concrete music`, real noises of various non-musical objects), Oriental Middle Eastern music, Noise, old school Rock`n`Roll & Rockabilly, straight forward Speed Metal, Free Jazz, Thrash Metal, reference to old music from Hitchcock's movie of the 40's, 50's and 60's ... and ofc ... Cartoon music! :) Gee, it seems that the imagery of "Carnival and Circus" can be linked to this album only through those small glimpses of such cartoon sounds and effects from time to time, because the kaleidoscope of those named genres makes the body of this album completely unrecognizable, like on a fast-speed conveyor belt of some kind... Impressions are extraordinary and often shocking, but a bit blurry, and that is the main feature of this album. ;) You can forget about the funky tunes and the groovalistic vibe of the 1st album; on this one, `the clowns` became darker, more serious, and why not say so - more artistic in the formalism of the songs. The paint on their faces simply fell, in all that rapid change of genre, releasing unusual monsters and "dogs" of the music world, strange for everyone, but not for themselves. ;) And they did it again, a little older but still young, with about 27-28 years on average! :) The paint on their heroic faces is still in traces there! :)) You could feel all this in their song that you listened to before this one: "Carry Stress in the Jaw + The Spy", since it`s from this album... :) Great! :) P.S. The review of the 3rd album and a conclusion of this post you`ll find when you click on the first answer on this comment just below it, since it was the only way for me to place the whole dmn thing here ... :))) Sorry for this inconvenience and tnx in advance.:)

Enjoyed watching your anticipation building 😁

I also love Carousel. It's amazing 🤩

Hell yeah more Mr. Bungle! Glad you had fun, Patton really is king. I'd love to see you react to some Dillinger Escape Plan tracks, check out the song 'When Good Dogs Do Bad Things' as it features Mike Patton on vocals, absolutely wild track

Goosebumps the tv show: the album

great vid, bro \m/

I knew you would like them.....good man!!

i think i know what im going to send mom on Mother's Day.

As a side note, many of the sound blips they use on this album are taken from an old Circus themed pin ball machine (can't remember the name). My cousin and I (rabid Bungle fans) discovered this one day while playing old obscure pinball machines in the late nineties. Our minds were blown.

One of the best reactions to Bungle. Sounds like you get it. Avenged sevenfold, although I don't know much about them, made a song very bunglesgue. Can't remember the name but it was about having relations with a dead girlfriend! Lol

Great reaction. The track "Desert search for techno Allah" from their 2nd album "Disco Volante" is genius. It's definitely one you should try.

I definitely got a bit of a Mr. Bungle/FNM vibe from early Incubus. Solid reaction

The arrangements are always killer with Mr Bungle, but I definitely found Disco Volante to be at a whole new level of commitment by the band. You nailed it when you said this had some great hooks, but it's structurally pretty simple with fewer nuances and layers than carry stress in the jaw.

Love it. About treys dying dog. One of the best

I listened to fungus amungus also when this came out

It's like trying to analyze Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invintion!

I can’t buy this guy has listened to Mr Bungle before. How can a music lover not be aware of them? Still great track.

Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas Fantomas.

Since you've done the first 3 albums... Well, if you really want to cover all of their albums : they've re-done their demo as an album. I think it's too much straight forward thrash metal for what you're looking for with Mr Bungle. I'd go with a breakdown per album : 1) Self titled : Carousel (I stick with this pick !) 2) Disco Volante : Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz 3) California : Ars Moriendi Nice reaction ! :)

family

Anyone else get Bohemian Rhapsody vides from this song? =)

Listen to ars moriendi i like to think it gave system of a down their style lol

fugus amogus

What about your beard. It's Awesome.

The whole album is genius, Patton and John Zorn are geniuses You should try one of many side projects by Patton like Peepin' Tom "you're not alone" here is a link if you mind ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A5twjj9mbo0.html

Don't jam to Travolta quote jam to a more creative song first like slowly growing deaf,. :)