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	Info and facts on 'Mr. Bungle'
		The band's third album, California, is certainly their most accessible album, with tracks such as Sweet Charity, Retrovertigo and Pink Cigarette firmly rooted in surf rock and pop (A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring) styles.
		Bungle is currently disbanded, according to its management and various band members.
		California (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) - 1999
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mr/mr._bungle.htm (352 words)

	Mr. Bungle - Satan Stole My Teddybear
		California is certainly one of the most oblique and difficult to comprehend albums to ever get much mainstream notice and is a paradox for being so specifically sugary on the surface and filled with vinegar on the interior.
		Bungle had actually been around for a long, long time but it wasn't until 1991 that they finally got a full album together to unleash on an unsuspecting public.
		Bungle has intermittently spent more than a decade constantly shifting and surprising their listeners with an ever morphing style motif that has stayed in the same place about as long as a four year old on a Fun Dip Sugar high.
	www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=774&showReview=true (1859 words)

	Mr. Bungle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bungle's albums as the music ventures into more complex and formal sonic territory.
		The band's third album, California, is their most accessible album.
		Bungle was an avant-garde, experimental musical group that cycled through several musical genres oftentimes within the course of a single song, oftentimes fusing radically different styles together seamlessly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mr._Bungle (351 words)

	Mr. Bungle - Mr Bungle sputnikmusic
		Bungle’s debut record was released around the same time as Mike Patton’s most famous project, Faith No More, was in the height of their career.
		Bungle, on of the most remarkable Patton projects, is the epitome of ADHD.
		While it may be frightening, and extremely peculiar, this album was a formidable, acquired listen that wasn’t all that bad.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=4284&genreid=5&styleid=18 (953 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Mr. Bungle - California
		Bungle albums - is that despite its utter refusal to conform to expectations, it still manages to be surprisingly accessible.
		California is an album by a band who refuse to be constrained by style and expectations.
		Bungle, in all its eclectic, disturbing, insane glory, is as well-recognized a band as it is.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=mb-cal (1264 words)

	Amazon.com: Disco Volante: Music
		Bungle is a Northern California band that obscures its true identity (it shares members with Faith No More) by prohibiting photos of its members and by using such funny names as I Quit (the drummer) and Uncooked Meat Prior to State Vector Collapse (the keyboardist).
		Bungle's genious is shown through composition, and though they are quite good with their individual instruments and obviously have a deep knowledge of theory, they do not flaunt their talents in any prideful, glamourous ways.
		Bungle musicians like to show off their classical, jazz, and worldbeat influences in fast, difficult passages that are technically impressive but never seem to go anywhere.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002N0B?v=glance (2518 words)

	MR. BUNGLE California review and MP3
		This is a great album to get if you are a fan of the group, or you want to be.
		This is not to say that it is a bunch of songs that don't change after a minute or two; it's just not a random and sparatic as "Disco Volante." This album also begins with a beach/surf song.
		Bungle didn't come without a few tricks up his sleeve.
	www.progarchives.com /Review.asp?id=31106 (152 words)

	Loudside.com :: Home to your latest trend
		Bungle's latest album, "California," was released on July 13, 1999.
		Bungle released "Goddammit I Love America!" Similar to "Bowel of Chiley" (described by band members as "a Fishbone rip-off"), but with a tighter sound, two of the seven tracks on "Goddammit I Love America!" would find their way onto Mr.
		Bungle album, you may find some of the band members' side-projects entertaining.
	www.loudside.com /bands?bandID=142 (794 words)

	Bungle Review
		It’s nine long years since I got the debut album from ‘Mr Bungle’ (the band featuring ex FNM vocalist Mike Patton) and tonight, at last I get to see what they can do on a stage.
		Mr Bungle have pretty much disassociated themselves with the funk metal madness of their early days and have developed and matured beyond all expectations.
		The fact that Mr Bungle had 7 members on stage meant that they could belt out a fine noise, but unfortunately it meant that the sound check went on, and on, and on.
	www.flashinghobo.com /bungle_review.htm (1365 words)

	Mr. Bungle
		Bungle's second album Disco Volante is a total departure from their first, and at some points during this release it can't even be grouped as music at all, let alone into a specific category.
		Bungle is a frighteningly strange phenomenon of the band, with its' most recognizable name being of course Faith No More frontman Mike Patton (the singer with unparalleled vocal diversity and psycho tendencies who was in fact in Mr.
		Bungle released their first proper album on Warner Bros. - their self-titled debut in 1991- which had a rather disgusting perverted lyrical focus combined with unpredictable heavily progressive and unconventional arrangements, fascinating and cryptic.
	www.geocities.com /mjareviews/mrbungle.html (2661 words)

	Mr. Bungle--California
		Bungle's third album, a marvelous, explosive and unexpected dive for the goodies.
		California is the aural memory of a one-off night spent driving aimlessly through the rough part of town.
		Most of the album drifts through the melancholy world of drunks and has-beens, all sliding from one bar to the next.
	www.penduluminc.com /MM/September99/rev099903.html (345 words)

	Mike Patton
		Bungle was formed by Mike Patton and friends circa 1985.
		These include two "experimental" solo albums on John Zorn's Tzadik label (Adult Themes for Voice in 1996 and Pranzo Oltranzista in 1997).
		His status on the charts helped secure them a record deal with Warner Bros They released a self-titled album (produced by John Zorn) in 1991, and the highly surreal Disco Volante in 1995.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mike_patton.html (429 words)

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		Bungle's new album is as joyful and picturesque as their last effort (1995's Disco Volante) was hostile and disturbing.
		Bungle has again gotten the upper hand in this game of "find the next way to out avant-garde the next avant-garde band." And if there was ever any doubt that they would always come out the winner of the game, California will squash it.
		Bungle has done it with a simple idea that only true artists like themselves can create: an art-rock album so art rock, it's not.
	www.lollipop.com /archive_temp.php3?content=issue49/49-04a-11.php3 (493 words)

	Mr. Bungle
		Bungle is an album so densely packed that one discovers new sounds on each listen, no matter how many times you've heard it.
		Bungle's debut was a sick affair brimming with artwork consisting of drunk and bloodied clowns and covering such lyrical topics as masturbation ("The Girls of Porn"), having sex with various foods ("Squeeze Me Macaroni") and a young boy hanging himself with his mother's underwear ("Dead Goon").
		The new sound of DV surely alienated some fans of Bungle's debut, while the label "funk/metal" was replaced by "avant-garde" or "experimental." But Bungle has no desire to be pigeonholed, regardless of how hip their current tag is. The band seems almost insistent on avoiding any predictions or expectations.
	www.furious.com /perfect/mrbungle.html (1428 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: California: Music
		With the self titled Mr Bungle album, the band embraced a funky sound and added their trademark quirkiness to it, be that musically,vocally, or lyrically and usually all three.
		Although most of this album is not as unique-sounding as the band's previous album, disco volante, the synthesis of different styles (ranging from boogie woogie to surf to death metal) and musical references (from the Beach Boys to Neil Diamond to the turkish band Taraf de Haidouks) used by Mr.
		The album can be seen as the perfect homage to the state of california; at times manic and crazy, at times blissed out and sunny, the ups and downs of 'California' accurately reflect the schizophrenic nature of the state itself.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002ZZ1Z (1201 words)

	hip online: artists: mr. bungle
		Bungle's California is perhaps the zaniest piece of work I've heard in a very long time.
		Bungle was Patton's first band, which he formed with high school friends.
		Their latest release, California, is as experimental as anything they've released to date, so experimental that it is certain to go over everyone's heads.
	www.hiponline.com /artist/music/m/mr_bungle/california.html (316 words)

	Mr Bungle - Remnants of Reason
		Each Mr Bungle album is an experience all it's own, and the S/T finds the boys still in their halloween motif, spitting out tales of demented carnivals, aged movie stars, dead family pets and rampant sexual antics with musical abandon, throwing everything into the pot and letting it boil way over.
		Often referred to as Mike Patton's "Side Project", that is completely untrue, Patton being in Mr Bungle when he was plucked from obscurity, and using his new found power to sign his hometown heroes.
		You can't, but amazingly enough, Mr Bungle is ten times more musical than their next effort.
	www.geocities.com /rofreezon/mrbungle.html (957 words)

	Estradasphere: Press
		Mr Bungle has achieved an almost cult like following in the past 13 years, and bassist Trevor Dunn acknowledged this phenomeon by addressing the crowd with, "thanks for stalking us." Indeed, fans had come from neighboring cities, states, and even Australia for the pre opening of Bungle's first tour in almost 3 years.
		The performance was a little out of practice, with signs of slight sound difficulties as Bungle experimented with songs from their new California release.
		Bungle open up for their concert, an event that turned out a packed house even before the sun had even set.
	www.estradasphere.com /press/bungle.html (659 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on California - Mr. Bungle at Epinions.com
		Bungle albums were too much for you to handle, but Faith No More was tame enough for you, this album may even make you glad Mike Patton parted with FNM and continued with Mr.
		Mr Bungle march on with their third release 'California' which also proves to be their best work yet.
		Bungle first released their self titled album, I heard it described as 'about the strangest thing you're even gonna hear.' That can be good or bad, on "Mr.
	www.epinions.com /musc_mu-326005/display_~reviews (745 words)

	Mr. Bungle
		Bungle's third album, California (Warner), continues the band's resolute goal to shun the bland mainstream - something they've been doing for some 15 years.
		Bungle, thanks to the monster hit "Epic." Since then, the Chili Peppers have taken the easy street to commercial pop while Mr.
		Bungle treat the world of music like an All-U-Can-Eat aural buffet from which any musical form is free to be thrown upon the plate, regardless of its origin.
	www.chartattack.com /features/99/bungle (647 words)

	Good-Evil Mr. Bungle - California
		Likewise, the hyperactive multiple genre shifts that existed on single tracks in their first two albums are now generally replaced by tracks that are more consistenly a melding of a genre and subgenres, or in some cases, a single genre.
		Mike Patton's vocal prowess is more central to this album than previously, and the vocals to no suprise are excellent and extremely varied (he is the only singer on the album).
		The mood swings that permeate the songs on their previous albums are subdued, and in some cases, absent.
	www.good-evil.net /reviews/music/mrbunglecalifornia.htm (508 words)

	Mr. Bungle: California: Pitchfork Review
		Bungle's eponymous major-label debut, advertised as a "Mike Patton side project," was just such an album, not to mention anything Faith No More put out after The Real Thing.
		Thus, California-- another one of those albums that you can't believe a major label had anything to do with.
		Bungle, if there is such a thing; each song is crammed with a dozen twists and turns through a dozen-and-a-half different genres.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/mr-bungle/california.shtml (476 words)

	Mr. Bungle's California
		Bungle were better when they were a ska band.
		This album is far from great but still pretty excellent.
		yeah, i would put it behind the other two bungle full-lengths, but i thoroughly enjoy almost every track, the ones listed especially so.
	www.lightblueextra.com /forums2/showthread.php?t=451 (434 words)

	Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Albums - Mr. Bungle: California
		Bungle's self-titled debut album came out in 1991, the band established itself as a freak band of Frank Zappa-esque proportions.
		Instead, the album is violently dragged through a Cali dream footstepped by shadows of Brian Wilson, Louis Prima, Dick Dale and, of course, Mr.
		Bungle freakouts, but this time the hurricane jazz and swanky metal riffs have slipped into the background.
	www.hearsay.cc /reviews/albums/03-01-08-99/MrBungle.html (248 words)

	Kaedrin Weblog
		Bungle's last album, California, which I liken it to a musical representation of schizophrenia (and this is downright peachy compared to their last album, Disco Volante), I think I can safely say that Patton really doesn't care what anyone thinks.
		Bungle), his fans, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and more.
		In this interview with Mike Patton, the frontman for the now-defunct Faith No More talks about his other band (Mr.
	kaedrin.com /weblog/archive/000524.html (242 words)

	Motherfucking Masterpieces: Mr. Bungle
		Bungle is all your previous concepts of sound jizzed back in your face.
		Bungle's presence probably won't really be felt on music 'til decades after it's release.
		If this album were to have a hit, of sorts, it would be track 8 - "The Girls of Porn." Starting off with an audio dub from a stag flick, the music kicks on on some musical accents highlighting the phrase "Six...
	www.acidlogic.com /mm_mrbungle.htm (1493 words)

	Home Recording dot com BBS - Mixdown inspiration
		Jazz God, John Zorn produced their first album and it is hard to beat, although thier other two albums are just as hard to put down...
		That this album, which most will agree is one of the best engineered in history, was mostly made at home.
		This album is the Beatles at their best (imho) and done on eight track.
	homerecording.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=14107 (1291 words)

	sonomu: California
		Mr Bungle remain the best kept secret in rock music; while their cult following is growing larger, particularly in the US, it's still rare to find anyone that knows their work (mind you, when you do, they're generally a major fan).
		Oh, just so that you know, Mr Bungle are playing a Millenium Eve show in San Francisco with Fantômas (the band Patton's put together with Melvins guitarist Buzz Osbourne, Trevor Dunn and one-time Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo) and the Laswell-Zorn-Harris power trio Painkiller.
		A friend put it to me that there are more ideas in California than many musical artists have in their entire careers.
	sonomu.net /text/~438 (366 words)

	Mr. Bungle
		California is perhaps the greatest single piece of music released in the 90s.The only other albums I think come close to this level of genius are “Angel Dust” or “The Holy Bible” by the manic street preachers.
		Bungle is a must-have, and any of his albums will do.
		Bungle, a band of music from San Francisco, is one of the most ridiculously smart, talented and bizarre bands in the rock and roll-style genre.
	www.markprindle.com /mrbungle.htm (5635 words)

	Trey Spruance - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		1999's California was Bungle's first attempt at penning songs that adhered to traditional song structures (in the stylistic vein of the Beach Boys and '60s surf movies), and the result was an album which is often considered to be the group's finest.
		Bungle went on hiatus after their ensuing world tour in support of California wrapped up.
		Bungle, the group issued their debut album, First Grand Constitution and Bylaws, the same year.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,531735,00.html (688 words)

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