Talk:Mr. Bungle
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Opinions regarding Mr. Bungle
Removed
- Their music sounds playful and innovative to some and masturbatory and tiresome to others, and they have never found widespread commercial success, despite being fronted by former Faith No More singer Mike Patton, nor have they actively sought it. They were rumored only able to maintain their high production values because of guitarist Trey Spruance's considerable inherited wealth, but this has since been proven false ([ http://www.perfectpitchonline.com/v01i07/trey_spruance.php] ).
Mr. Bungle is Ok
Mr. Bungle as a band is Ok. The album California on the other hand, is probably one of the greatest albums ever... Disco Volante is sort of avangard, and the other material IS kind of masturbatory. But songs like Ars Moriendi, Goodbye Sober Day, and None Of Them New They Were Robots have a quality which is epochal to say the least. What does it mean to say that the band never had any commercial success?
- Is are Moriendi the song that sounds loke freaking Arabian Metal? To say that a band had commercial success would mean that they enjoyed vast television exposure but more importantly that they made a lot of money from their albums. 207.157.121.50 11:21, 14 October 2005 (UTC)mightyafrowhitey
Ahead of Their Time
I'm still struggling to decipher what you mean, mightyafrowhitey. But to dismiss everything Bungle produced, other than 'California' or 'Disco Volante', as mastubatory Bungle is simply ignorant. I'm going to assume you never listened to any of their 6 to 7 demos before their self-titled commercial debut? Such as:
Bowel Of Chiley
Excrement
Goddammit I Love America
Mi Stoke Il Cigaretto
OU818
Sudden Death
The Raging Wraith Of The Easter Bunny
http://www.cv.org/yellowpages/discography.htm
I suggest 'Mr Nice Guy' from 0U818
Title controversy
Removed, as the information was, a) incorrect, and b) cleared up earlier in the article. -al 05:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Articles
I am writing headlines to parts of the article that I feel should be seperated so a reader can get better overview. feel free to edit what I've done, I simply feel that it should be divided into sections for more accessability
Genres
Industrial is in the list of genres they played. Hell, they played a lot of shit, but I don't recall any 'Industrial' in there. Not the art school type, the rock type or EBM. I'm totally removing it. What does that word even mean!? I replaced it with surf rock, a genre they played constantly on California (doi). Gatesofawesome!
At Chapter "Major Releases" It says: "Their self-titled debut Mr. Bungle..." I would like to add, that the debut of Mr. Bungle is also mentioned by the name "I believe in sex and death"
Folks, the long list of genres strikes me as being a bit ridiculous. If there is one thing Mr. Bungle proves if you ask me it is the fact that the division of music into genres is a waste of time. Can't we just say they had their own style influenced by many different musical directions or something? --Vunzmstr 11:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed, this list is getting ridiculous. I think it's already too long as it is...I'm for having a few major influences in there that are defined the most strongly in their work, though, but I see no reason to have so many genres listed in one sentence. echidnae 21:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Kiedis feud section
It's a little excessive, 76.19.27.223 19:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- Why, because it goes into detail about a feud that lasted throughout Mr Bungle's career & had a major impact on the band? Explain why its "excessive".
Line-up
What was the line-up for Mr. Bungle? I mean, we know who were the members, but what was each one's duty? I'm assuming that Patton was lead singer and Dunn was bassist, but what about the others? Zouavman Le Zouave (Talk to me! • O)))) 12:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I would also like to ask why Shane Fenton (Fraggle) was removed from the Line-Up section of Mr Bungle? He was one of the principle songwriters and a guitarist with Bungle for quite some time. He is now based in Sydney, Berowra, Australia. (see [1] for info) (218.215.133.243 03:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC))
Catalog
"The four early pre-Warner Bros cassettes are not part of the band's official catalogue, and are considered nearly unfindable today. They are quite valued on eBay, with auctions ending in the triple digits. They are, however, downloadable from a semi-official ftp-server." That is not really true: the cassettes are out of print but that doesn't affect them being official
Regarding Mr. Bungle vs. RHCP feud
The reason Mr. Bungle was kicked off their 2000 festivals, was because in their parodies of RHCP they re-enacted the death of Hillel Slovak, Kiedis' and Flea's childhood friend and original RHCP guitarist, as a joke. You can view videos of this performance on YouTube
If I were in RHCP's shoes, I would do anything I could to crush that band. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bobbylong1 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
Semi-official FTP server?
When talking about the discography, an FTP server is mentioned. Maybe it would be wise to include a link to said FTP server? --129.7.154.124 00:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)