Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous

Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
Studio album by King's X
Released	May 23, 2000
Recorded	December 1999 - January 2000 Hound Pound Recording Studio and Alien Beans Studios
Genre	Hard rock, progressive metal, experimental rock, art rock
Length	44:54
Label	Metal Blade
Producer	King's X and Ty Tabor
King's X chronology
Tape Head (1998) Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous (2000) Manic Moonlight (2001)

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Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous is the eighth studio album by heavy metal/hard rock trio King's X, released in 2000.

Track listing

All songs written by King's X.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Fish Bowl Man"	4:28
2.	"Julia"	3:39
3.	"She's Gone Away"	4:37
4.	"Marsh Mellow Field"	5:30
5.	"When You're Scared"	4:26
6.	"Charlie Sheen"	3:51
7.	"Smudge"	3:52
8.	"Bitter Sweet"	2:13
9.	"Move Me"	4:58
10.	"Move Me, Pt. 2"	7:20

Personnel

• Doug Pinnick – bass/vocals
• Ty Tabor – guitar/vocals
• Jerry Gaskill – drums/vocals

Album notes

• Recorded and mixed by Ty Tabor
• Doug uses Yamaha Basses, DR Strings, Ampeg Amps and Seymour Duncan Pickups
• Jerry uses Yamaha Drums, Vater Sticks and Paiste Cymbals
• Ty uses Yamaha Guitars and DR Strings
• Misc. ramblings by Esther, Yuko, Joe and Dirk - Between some tracks on the CD there are tongue twisters in Dutch and Japanese. These were collected by the band on a European tour:
  • at the end of track 1: Acht-en-Tachtig-Prachtige-Grachten
    This is Dutch for "88 (achtentachtig) beautiful (prachtige) canals (grachten)."
  • at the end of track 3: Tonari no kyaku wa yoku kaki kuu kyaku da
    This is a Japanese tongue twister (hayakuchi kotoba) meaning "The adjacent (tonari) customer (kyaku) eats (kuu) persimmons (kaki) often (yoku)."
  • at the end of track 4: Zes-en-Zestig-Sinaas-Appel-Schillen
    This is again Dutch and means "66 (zesenzestig) orange (sinaasappel) peels (schillen)."
  • at the end of track 5: Hottentotten-Tenten-Tentoonstellingen
    Dutch tongue twister meaning "(an) exhibition of tents made by the Hottentots."
  • at the end of track 6: Chikushō, nante hidee sandoicchi da
    Japanese meaning "Damn (chikushō)! How awful (hidee) this sandwich (sandoicchi) is!"
  • at the end of track 10: Acht-en-Tachtig-Prachtige-Grachten
    See first tongue twister.

External links

• Official King's X Site, Accessed on July 11, 2005.
• Additional information about the album, Accessed on April 26, 2006.
• site francophone, Accessed on July 24, 2006.