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Mr. Bungle is the self-titled debut studio album by American experimental rock band Mr. Bungle. It was released on August 13, 1991, through Warner Bros. Records. The album contains many genre shifts which are typical of the band, and helped increase the band's popularity, gaining them a cult following.

Mr. Bungle
Studio album by Mr. Bungle
Released	August 13, 1991
Recorded	1991 at Different Fur, San Francisco, California, United States
Genre	Experimental rock[1] funk metal[2][3][4][5] avant-garde metal[6] ska[6] jazz fusion[3][1][7]
Length	73:19
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	John Zorn
Mr. Bungle chronology
OU818 (demo) (1989) Mr. Bungle (1991) Disco Volante (1995)
Singles from Mr. Bungle
"Quote Unquote" Released: 1991

Content

The album cover features artwork by Dan Sweetman, originally published in the story, "A Cotton Candy Autopsy" in the DC Comics/Piranha Press imprint title Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children.

The album mixes a variety of musical styles, including ska, circus music, heavy metal, free jazz, and funk.[3] AllMusic called it a "dizzying, disconcerting, schizophrenic tour through just about any rock style the group can think of, hopping from genre to genre without any apparent rhyme or reason, and sometimes doing so several times in the same song." The website described Mike Patton's lyrics as "even more bizarrely humorous than those he used in Faith No More", and "also less self-censored".[8] At the time, the band's label Warner promoted the record as being Mike Patton's "seriously weird new project".[9]

The lyrics in the album are broad in themes, ranging from more comedic tones to dark and sexual references. "Slowly Growing Deaf" was "inspired by the ironic need to wear earplugs while listening to music and also people’s inability to listen", according to bassist Trevor Dunn, and also marked as the first song in the "Sleep" trilogy, with parts two and three being featured on the band’s second album.[10] "Squeeze Me Macaroni" is a song featuring strong sexual themes being illustrated through food metaphors. "Egg" is about asociality. "Stubb (A Dub)" is about Trey Spruance's dog, Stubb.[11] "The Girls of Porn" is about pornography and masturbation. "Love is a Fist" is about domestic violence. "Dead Goon" is about an asphixiophile, whose actions leads to the narrator’s death due to asphixiation.

Quotes from David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet are strewn throughout the album.

Critical reception and legacy

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Entertainment Weekly	D−[12]
Trouser Press	favorable[13]

The album received mixed reviews upon release. Entertainment Weekly gave the album a negative review, writing "Adjectives like 'puerile' and 'unlistenable' take on entirely new dimensions when applied to Mr. Bungle".[12] Trouser Press called it "one of the most ambitiously random, fractious records in recent memory" and "one of the finest records of its kind".[13]

In 2015, Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer praised the album, stating "I loved their last album, California, but their self-titled debut had the biggest impact on me. There’s a song on there called "Love Is a Fist" that's fucking crushing. That set the tone for us and what we went on to do creatively. They were completely outside the box and just didn't care – they satisfied only themselves. It wasn't about record sales, it was just about creating a band."[14]

Mike Portnoy, former drummer of progressive metal band Dream Theater named Mr. Bungle as one of his 10 favorite progressive rock albums of all time, as he wrote "It actually scared the shit out of me the first time I heard it. I literally had never heard anything that twisted and evil and joyful. It was just the most bizarre hour I had ever spent listening to music."[15]

Synyster Gates, from the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold, named the album as "one of the most incredible pieces of music [he] has ever heard in [his] life".[16] In 2021, Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd stated that he was a fan of the album when it was first released, remarking that he loved how "irreverent and disgusting and scary the music was."[17]

Track listing

All songs credited to Mr. Bungle. Actual writers below, according to ASCAP.[18]

Three more songs ("Mr Nice Guy", "Thunderball" and "Platypus") were also recorded for the album, but were cut at the last minute: "Platypus" later appeared on the band's second album, Disco Volante.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[19]

Mr. Bungle

• Mike Patton – vocals, keyboards, production (credited as 'Vlad Drac')
• Trey Spruance – guitars, keyboards, production (credited as 'Scummy')
• Trevor Dunn – bass, production (credited as 'Trevor Roy Dunn')
• Clinton McKinnon – tenor saxophone, production (credited as 'Bär')
• Theo – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, production (credited as 'Theobald Brooks Lengyel')
• Danny Heifetz – drums, production (credited as 'Heifetz')

Additional personnel

• Yeesus Krist – backing vocals
• Maximum Bob – backing vocals
• Kahli – backing vocals
• Jennifer – backing vocals
• David Shea – turntables
• John Zorn – alto saxophone on "Love Is a Fist", production [20]

Technical personnel

• Matt Murman – engineering assistance, digital editing
• David Bryson – engineering, mixing
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• Troy Blakely – management
• Stan Diamond – legal representation
• Kristin Yee – band management
• Anthony Lee – album sleeve design
• Lisa Wells – band logo typeset
• David Louapre – album cover and interior art
• Dan Sweetman – cover and interior art
• Jay Marshall – cover and interior art
• P. Earwig – inside double panel art

References

External links

• Mr. Bungle at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Mr. Bungle (Album)

Mr. Bungle ist das Debütalbum der US-amerikanischen Jazzcore-Band Mr. Bungle. Es wurde am 13. August 1991 veröffentlicht.

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- [en] Mr. Bungle (album)

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[es] Mr. Bungle (álbum)

Mr.Bungle es el disco homónimo de la banda estadounidense, Mr.Bungle. El álbum contiene las características típicas de la banda, como sus cambios constantes de estilo. Antes del lanzamiento, el grupo se presentó en muchas ciudades de la costa oeste. El disco ha vendido más de 100.000 copias. La formación es igual a la de su demo OU818.El grupo hizo mucho dinero en su tour de 1992, pero con una demanda de 5.000$ en daños. También lanzaron Quote Unquote como single, pero no obtuvo mucho éxito.

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[ru] Mr. Bungle (альбом)

Mr. Bungle (рус. Мистер Растяпа) — дебютный студийный альбом американской экспериментальной рок группы Mr. Bungle, выпущенный 13 августа 1991 года на лейбле Warner Bros. Records. Дебютная пластинка была спродюсирована джазовым эксперименталистом Джоном Зорном в студии Different Fur в Сан-Франциско, штат Калифорния. Альбом сочетает в себе большое количество разных музыкальных жанров, таких как: ска, цирковая музыка, хеви-метал, фри-джаз и фанк[6]. В то время лейбл Warner Bros. Records продвигал пластинку Mr. Bungle как «серьёзный странный новый проект» Майка Паттона[7]. В создании обложки альбома были использованы работы американского художника Дэна Свитмена, которые изначально публиковались в первом выпуске комикса «Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children» изданиями DC Comics/Piranha Press[8].

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