History Music / MrBungle

* BitingTheHandHumor: "Carousel" includes the lyric "Will {{Creator/Warner|BrosRecords}} put this record on the shelf?". It's uncertain whether their SelfTitledAlbum was actually in danger of becoming a MissingEpisode, but they apparently felt they had to censor that lyric, as the album's liner notes don't include it in print, substituting part of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from ''{{Film/Grease}}'' instead.

* CoverVersion: Mr. Bungle, like Faith No More, frequently performed covers of songs that did not fit their style during their shows, including 90's pop ballads (like "Vision of Love" by Music/MariahCarey), cheesy 80's rock hits (such as "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy), or lounge pop classics (like "What the World Needs Now" by Burt Bacharach). Their most infamous cover set occurred on Halloween '99; in the midst of Patton's feud with Anthony Kiedis, the band performed a mean-spirited medley of "Around the World" & "Give It Away" and "Scar Tissue" & "Under the Bridge" by the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers, while simultaneously pretending to snort cocaine and shoot heroin, making fun of the Chili's past issues with substance abuse.

** The original demo version of "Anarchy Up Your Ass" included narration from ''Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House'', a Halloween sound effects record released by Disneyland Records, as SpokenWordInMusic - rather than have to license the sample from Disney for commercial release, for the 2020 version they had Rhea Perlman recite the same text and imitate the original narrator.

** ''The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo'' is straight-up ThrashMetal, only occasionally dipping into other styles for comedic relief. Considering that it's a re-recording of their first demo, and that it features [[Music/{{Anthrax}} Scott]] [[Music/StormtroopersOfDeath Ian]] and [[Music/{{Slayer}} Dave Lombardo]] on guitars and drums, it's not surprising that it sounds more like Music/StormtroopersOfDeath than any of Mr. Bungle's other LPs.

* BitingTheHandHumor: "Carousel" includes the lyric "Will Creator/{{Warner| Bros Records put this record on the shelf?". It's uncertain whether their SelfTitledAlbum was actually in danger of becoming a MissingEpisode, but they apparently felt they had to censor that lyric, as the album's liner notes don't include it in print, substituting part of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from ''{{Film/Grease}}'' instead.

* BitingTheHandHumor: "Carousel" includes the lyric "Will [[Creator/WarnerBrosRecords Warner Brothers]] put this record on the shelf?". It's uncertain whether their SelfTitledAlbum was actually in danger of becoming a MissingEpisode, but they apparently felt they had to resort to GettingCrapPastTheRadar with that lyric, as the album's liner notes don't include it in print, substituting part of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from ''{{Film/Grease}}'' instead.

** The original demo version of "Anarchy Up Your Ass" included narration from ''Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House'', a Halloween sound effects record released by Disneyland Records as SpokenWordInMusic - rather than have to license the sample from Disney for commercial release, for the 2020 version they had Rhea Perlman recite the same text and imitate the original narrator.

** ''The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo'' is straight-up ThrashMetal, only occasionally dipping into other styles for comedic relief. When considering that that [[Music/{{Anthrax}} Scott]] [[Music/StormtroopersOfDeath Ian]] and [[Music/{{Slayer}} Dave Lombardo]] provided guitars and drums on the album, it's not surprising that it sounds more like Music/StormtroopersOfDeath than anything Mr. Bungle has done before.

** ''Disco volante'': a truly avant-garde set wherin practically every minute sounds completely different from the next.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The title of "Quote Unquote" was originally "[[Creator/JohnTravolta Travolta]]." Warner, afraid of a lawsuit, asked that they change it. The result was them taking out the name and leaving the quotes, which were then spelled out. It should be pointed out that Travolta's name is still spoken in the song (as is Creator/PatrickSwayze's).

* RecordProducer: Even though Disco Volante and California were self-produced by the band, the first album had Music/JohnZorn produce it. He even did saxophone for "Love is a Fist".

* StylisticSuck: "Everyone I Went to High School with Is Dead" was intentionally made to be an uncatchy, unlistenable track. It's the ''lead off'' track of their second album.

Mr. Bungle was an experimental band from Northern California. The band was formed in 1985 while the members were still in high school and was named after a children's educational film regarding bad habits which was featured in a Pee Wee Herman HBO special in the early '80s. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid-to-late 1980's before being signed to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords and releasing three full length studio albums between 1991 and 1999. The band toured in 2000 to support their last album, but in 2004 they disbanded. Although Mr. Bungle went through several line-up changes early in their career, the longest serving members were vocalist Music/MikePatton, guitarist Trey Spruance, bassist Trevor Dunn, saxophonist Clinton "Bar" [=Mc=]Kinnon, and drummer Danny Heifetz.

In late 2019, the band announced that they would reunite for a series of reunion shows in February 2020. Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo joined them in performing the entirety of ''The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny'' as well as several cover tunes.

* CreepyCircusMusic: One of the numerous genres they explore. Songs in this style are usually circus-themed in some way ("Carousel," "Merry Go-Bye-Bye").

* BrokenRecord: In "My Ass is On Fire", in the last stretches of the song, the word "redundant" is repeated over and over again until everything goes full on insane.
** It even has a "Boring!" chant underneath it!

* AltumVidetur: "Ars moriendi" translates as "The Art of Dying".

** ''California'': has much of the same jarring eclecticism as ''Disco volante'', but is heavily influenced by pop from the 50's and 60's, and much like their self-titled debut, has plenty of catchier elements.

* ''OU818'' (1989, Demo)

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Mike Patton. It's perhaps worth noting that his vocal range is [[http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2014/05/digging-deeper-axl-rose-is-not-singer.html considered to be the highest on record]], being three whole notes past the singer with the second-highest range (Corey Taylor).

* UncommonTime: They have a few examples. "Egg" has a rather prominent section in 7/4. "Love is a Fist" contains sections in 7/4 and 11/8. "Slowly Growing Deaf" features a riff in 5/4. This undoubtedly isn't all.

* UncommonTime: They have a few examples. "Egg" has a rather prominent section in 7/4. "Love is a Fist" contains sections in 7/4 and 11/8. This undoubtedly isn't all.

* GratuitousItalian: ''Disco volante'' translates as ''Flying Saucer'', while "Violenza domestica" translates as DomesticViolence.

* ''Disco Volante'' (1995)

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] the puppet who didn't wash his hands in the ''Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners'' short parodied by Podcast/RiffTrax.[[note]]Though that ''is'' where they got their name, and a clip of the short appears as SpokenWordInMusic at the end of "Love Is A Fist"[[/note]]

* CreditsGag: The inside liner notes to ''Disco Volante'' credit Danny Heifetz and Theo Lengyel with writing "Nothing", which is a track title that doesn't appear anywhere else on the packaging. Some fans assumed this meant that the noisy jamming at the end of "Merry Go Bye Bye"[[note]]see ThrowItIn[[/note]] was officially titled "Nothing". However, the credit was just intended as a joke about the fact that neither Heifetz or Lengyel contributed to the songwriting on that particular album.
** Also in the ''Disco Volante'' liner notes, Danny Heifetz is credited with playing "a woodblock" under the pseudonym "I Quit". In [[http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1999/07.29/intbungl.html an interview]], he explained "I wasn't a very happy person back then. Plus I played the fuck out of that woodblock".

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "The Girls Of Porn."
* EpicRocking: Many of their songs are quite long. The longest on their three studio albums are "Egg" (10:39), "Dead Goon" (10:02), and "The Bends" (10:28). "Merry Go Bye Bye" could be considered to qualify if counted as one song with the HiddenTrack (12:58).
* [[AvantGardeMetal Experimental Metal:]] Unquestionably on their first demo and first two full lengths, but elements are present throughout their career.

* FakeoutFadeout: "Egg" ends with a repetitive heavy outro, culminating in two of these. The second is especially unexpected, seemingly adlibbed by the band in-studio, cracking up and stopping halfway through.

* HiddenTrack: The appropriately-titled "Secret Song" is unlisted on ''Disco Volante'', appearing on the same track as "Carry Stress In The Jaw". The LP version has "Secret Song" on a double groove with "Carry Stress In The Jaw", meaning you have to place the needle on the record a certain way to hear it. Also notable for Trevor Dunn [[StepUpToTheMicrophone stepping up to the microphone]] to sing [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall-breaking lyrics]] about how the rest of the band kept the song a secret from ''him'' and didn't let him play on it. [[note]] Which is actually true; he added his vocals after stumbling upon the recording[[/note]].

** "The Bends," "Goodbye Sober Day," and "My Ass Is On Fire."

** "Squeeze Me Macaroni" and "The Girls Of Porn": Upbeat funk metal with ''ridiculously'' explicit lyrics.

** ''Disco Volante'': a truly avant-garde set wherin practically every minute sounds completely different from the next.
** ''California'': has much of the same jarring eclecticism as ''Disco Volante'' , but is heavily influenced by pop from the 50's and 60's, and much like their self-titled debut, has plenty of catchier elements.

* RearrangeTheSong: While touring ''California,'' they started playing a significantly altered version of "My Ass is on Fire:" drum-n-bass loops and sections of wordless chanting were added, while much of the funk metal feel was gone, and the OverlyLongGag ending was skipped entirely. Their live sets otherwise always stuck to songs from whatever their current album was, rounded out with cover songs -- they must have decided that if they ''were'' going to start playing an old song again, they should try to make it interesting.

%%* RefugeInAudacity: Both musically and lyrically.
* RumpRoast: "My Ass is On Fire."

* SingingSimlish: Happens from time to time, particularly in ''Disco Volante'' with "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" and "Chemical Marriage."

* StylisticSuck: "Everyone I Went to High School with is Dead" was intentionally made to be an uncatchy, unlistenable track. It's the ''lead off'' track of their second album.

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Mr. Bungle was an experimental band from Northern California. The band was formed in 1985 while the members were still in high school and was named after a children's educational film regarding bad habits which was featured in a Pee Wee Herman HBO special in the early '80s. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid- to late 1980s before being signed to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords and releasing three full-length studio albums between 1991 and 1999. The band toured in 2000 to support their last album, but in 2004 they disbanded. Although Mr. Bungle went through several line-up changes early in their career, the longest-serving members were vocalist Music/MikePatton, guitarist Trey Spruance, bassist Trevor Dunn, saxophonist Clinton "Bär" [=McKinnon=] and drummer Danny Heifetz.

Mr. Bungle frequently incorporated unconventional instruments into their music, including tenor sax, jaw harp, cimbalom, xylophone, glockenspiel, clarinet, ocarina, piano, organ, bongos, and woodblocks. Overlying this were Mike Patton’s vocals, which often used death metal growls, crooning, rapping, screeching, gurgling, or whispering. The arrangement of their songs was also idiosyncratic, often lacking a structured song format and rotating through different genres ranging from slow melodies to thrash-metal. ''New York Times'' journalist Jon Pareles described it as music that “leaps from tempo to tempo, key to key, style to style, all without warning”. Some of the genres they utilized include {{Funk}}, Free {{Jazz}}, SurfRock, PunkRock, HeavyMetal, Klezmer, {{Ska}}, Kecak, Avant-Jazz, FolkMusic, NoiseRock, {{Pop}}, Doo-Wop, FunkMetal, ElectronicMusic, Swing, space-age pop and exotica, DeathMetal, {{Rockabilly}}, Bossa Nova, ProgressiveRock, [[CountryMusic Country and Western]], circus music, and even video game and cartoon music.

* RearrangeTheSong: While touring ''California'', they started playing a significantly altered version of "My Ass Is On Fire": drum-n-bass loops and sections of wordless chanting were added, while much of the funk metal feel was gone, and the OverlyLongGag ending was skipped entirely. Their live sets otherwise always stuck to songs from whatever their current album was, rounded out with cover songs - they must have decided that if they ''were'' going to start playing an old song again, they should try to make it interesting.
* {{Retraux}} : A subtle example- ''California'' was recorded on analog equipment, rather than digitally, in order to give it a sound more akin to music from the 50's and 60's, which the album sonically nods towards.

* RumpRoast: "My Ass is On Fire"
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Deliberately invoked by the title of their early demo ''Bowel Of Chiley''. When an unsanctioned re-release of the demo came out, it was mistakenly "corrected" into ''Bowl Of Chiley''.

* SequelSong: "Sleep (Part II): Carry Stress in the Jaw" and "Sleep (Part III): Phlegmatics" are meant to be part of a ThematicSeries that they started with "Slowly Growing Deaf", each with lyrics which play physical ailments for BodyHorror. The reason "Slowly Growing Deaf" isn't explicitly labeled "Sleep (Part I)" is that Trevor Dunn, who wrote the lyrics for the three songs, didn't initially set out to have a trilogy when he wrote it.

* SingingSimlish: Happens from time to time, particularly in ''Disco Volante'' with "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" and "Chemical Marriage".
* {{Spoonerism}}: A bootlegged video of an early high school talent show performance has the band playing in front of a banner reading "Bister Mungle".

* StylisticSuck: "Everyone I Went to High School With Is Dead" was intentionally made to be an uncatchy, unlistenable track. It's the ''lead off'' track of their second album.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Several examples from ''California'':
** The first half of "Retrovertigo", which could almost be called a PowerBallad.
** "Sweet Charity", "Vanity Fair", and "Pink Cigarette" - all three have moments that could be described as vaguely "sinister", but have nowhere near the amount of heaviness or bizarre left-turns you'd otherwise expect from the band.
** "The Holy Filament" could possibly be the most gentle song they've ever done. While it's middle section has some ominous sounds thrown in, the track on a whole is pretty pleasant to listen to.
* UncommonTime: They have a few examples. "Egg" has a rather prominent section in 7/4. "Love Is a Fist" contains sections in 7/4 and 11/8. This undoubtedly isn't all.