I liked your Halloween list. Here’s a couple more, Throbbing Gristle-Hamburger Lady, Samhain-Human Pony Girl and Earth Crisis- Earth a.d.
@DjinoGilbert9 сағат бұрын
You need to check out The Shift by Eye of the Enemy...I think you would enjoy it...
@Bluemoonfarm179 сағат бұрын
The ultimate break up song! Queensryche was my favorite band back in the day!
@palbence198113 сағат бұрын
i'm 42, still my favourite band all time
@Coronavirus-rt7fi13 сағат бұрын
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@l.a.hops77296 сағат бұрын
Thank-you!!!
@RengarTheSnowman13 сағат бұрын
This was my first experience with Orbit Culture! Will never forget that! Nice reaction!
@benoitrenaud51916 сағат бұрын
A well chosen introduction to one of the best bands of the 70's!
@WalkNeverAlone16 сағат бұрын
I'm so proud to be French!
@mirkocheljavi666817 сағат бұрын
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@blackcurtainshoen552417 сағат бұрын
Hi Mercyful fate - Night of the unborn please🔥
@FinbarrBegleyКүн бұрын
Gwan.. Up Orbit Culture 4 life! Orbit will conquer metal forever! this is real metal kids! heaven delight 😜 OC are natural habitat of virtuosity and proficiency via instrumentations more then most bands which is why they are well regarded within the music industry and don't receive flak from YT fanbase. OC are very meticulous in every detail in the way they want to communicate their music WW :) The lyrical themes "See Through Me" delves into the themes of depression, hopelessness, and identity. The song starts with the vocalist acknowledging the struggles they have gone through, reaching out for help, but finding no one there. The use of the metaphor of falling through dark days and trying to see through the clouds, but their sun is nearly dead, paints a picture of someone who is lost and trapped in their own misery. The chorus speaks of resilience and the vocalist's determination to fight whatever comes their way, while also acknowledging their past struggles and where they come from. The second verse delves deeper into the question of who is to blame for the vocalist's suffering. Is it themselves mistreating their own existence, or is it the earth coming against them? The vocalist feels stuck and is searching for answers to explain what's happening to them. They want to find a way out of this darkness and into the light. The bridge is a call to action, urging the vocalist to not let their suffering take over and harm others, and instead choose to resist and walk in the direction of the bright lights. The final line of the song, "we'll walk now," is a resolution to move forward and keep going despite the challenges ♫ 🇬🇧
@spongeBob77086Күн бұрын
when are these idiot commentators around the world going to realize that they need to shut their fucking mouths during the performance. they are there to plug the holes and ruin our experience. COMMENTATORS WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@halo5zeroКүн бұрын
You'll have to react to the mTV unplugged version. It's amazing
@jamesmyrick9083Күн бұрын
I think you did Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz already. It's a good example of the entire Disco Volante album. It's totally insane.
@dtpfeifferКүн бұрын
It's always cool when heavy bands sprinkle these types of songs in every now and then. It makes them hit harder because of the contrast with their normal style.
@PIEbla84Күн бұрын
They wrote the song for the ceremony
@865MfkrКүн бұрын
Dope af
@rickdeckard2240Күн бұрын
I'd add (as a french) that they specifically pointed and treated the "terror" time frame of the French Revolution*, around 1792-1794/95. After the royal couple was executed (caused by Louis XVI and the family's escape out of france stoped at Varenes in 1791) the french revolutionary assembly voted the end of the moarchy, then after a long time in prison, the execution of Louis and Marie-Antoinette, then the Revolution became more and more extremist and violent and self exterminating (every political citizen guilty of not being "enough" revolutioany would be guillotined..). At that time a popular revolutionary song was "Ah, ça ira!" (a calling to guillotine every aristocrat alive) and it's interpretated on the show by a decapitated aristocrat lady - most people assuming it's Marie Antoinette although nothing absolutely proves it's her - ironically singing the revolutionay song, her cutted head precisely, in her hands. For French people who know correctly the complicated years of the Revolution (1789-1795 , then chaos for a couple of years then the first republic, then Napoleon the first seizing power) they would get the reference in the show and maybe like me appreciate the humor and irony and musical brutality perfectly embodying the violence of that history time frame, but I guess everyone would just consider that the French Revolution is just chaos and any aristocrat guillotined, although it was much more complicated, and a quite long process. Edit : * a personal assessment / deduction : the Terror was significantly bloody (depicted by the red everywhere during the Gojira event and of course the heavy music) The other very interesting reference in that specific Gojira / Marina Viotti performance is the reference to the 2015 islamic terrorist attacks at the Bataclan, pointed out by the Paris flag on Marina's boat and its motto "Fluctuat Nec Mergitur" (shaken but never sank), but also of course a metal band performing over the Seine river and in front of that boat that proudly passes in front of the live band. That (I got it only afterwards) is an amazing detail. Personaly I find the cultural event with Gojira playing live at that genre of immensely global cremony amazing and new of course, but I'd also point out that it was a great ceremony in terms of variety in styles of music and cultural references.
@nilsbossiusklintenberg3623Күн бұрын
Aa h yes more Pain of Salvation!! I recommend ”Stress” by then
@rickdeckard2240Күн бұрын
even in France they commented (a bit less though) over this perforance. Of course there was no comment over Lady Gaga or Céline Dion ones. My god why during the live music performances can't tv people just shut up?!!
@hakanjonasson9517Күн бұрын
Love OC, nice reaction to an emotional contribution from this epic band! Hope you continue to go thru the Rasen album also when finished with the Redfog EP, you will find new darlings there too... 🖤🤘
They are masters of everything, even "ballads". Best band outthere for sure! Nice to listen to your reactions, thanks! Peter
@Angela-sq1jzКүн бұрын
I saw NIN live in 1994! It was amazing and my first real concert. Best show ever!
@johndoe-cd9vtКүн бұрын
The building where they sing is the real building where Marie Antoinette had to wait before her execution by guillotine. The building is called "La Conciergerie".
@mrdk3Күн бұрын
Actually Gojira were the only good thing in that ceremony
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@KisakusoКүн бұрын
Omg the english comentator is even worse than the french one lol. The "Oh shut up" got me a bit. 😂 And btw it was written especially for the olympics.
@jreverdy4Күн бұрын
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@serkering8712Күн бұрын
Marina Viotti , the opera singer, was a metal singer. Did you recognize the first notes of her song ? It's a version of Carmen (by Georges Bizet, french composer). The boat shape is the one in Paris armories.
@module79l28Күн бұрын
I've seen loads of reactions to this but none of them could come up with such a perfect video title like you did. 👏👏👏👏👏😉
@balistikfonfonКүн бұрын
Why Gojira is blurred ? copyright ?
@neonskepetunijeКүн бұрын
Eurosport kept blocking the video so unfortunately I had to blur it...
@balistikfonfonКүн бұрын
@@neonskepetunije i understand :). thank you for answer
@nonnodacciaio7042 күн бұрын
This reaction is so much better than all the others, at least you gave some opinions and read the lyrics. Most of the other are just "Wow so fast, many drums. Thanks guys for watching like and subscribe"
@olivierCVS2 күн бұрын
fall of the monarchy and declaration of human rights, vive la révolution !
@KnappRyan2 күн бұрын
The best 35 minutes of my life and that's a stretch 🤣 and I'd aprove the best self-titled album from beginning to end! tho I'd dispute "The Beatles" self-titled (1968) on illustrious Abbey Road: Their self-titled album was released in 1991, just a month and some days before Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Soundgarden released albums in 1991, and helped alternative rock become mainstream. Classifying Mr. Bungle’s debut album is very hard cause it’s all over the place, Their ability to genre swap is present in all of the songs off of their self-titled debut album. The 1st song of the album quote-unquote(originally called Travolta) is an unnatural metal jazz fusion filled with weird sound effects that hits hard. For the first 0:32 seconds, you hear nothing but snoring but at 0:33 you hear some glass break and then the musical madness ensues! The 2nd song Slowly Growing Deaf starts with a short but happy sounding instrumental that lasts for 4 seconds in the beginning but comes backs 3 more times during the song. The bass tone, along with the drums and guitar sound so beautiful in the cheerful part of this song. After the four seconds of cheeriness, the mood changes to a dark and depressing tone and it’s spectacular. Mike’s vocal on this track is outstanding! The grimness ends around 1:33 and it goes back to that beautiful cheerful mood in the beginning and when the song reaches 1:44 the tone switches to a doo-wop beach boys vibe and I love it a lot! Then it goes back to “normal” with the beautiful cheerful tone again and then it stops. Then you will hear video game samples thrown in there and then it goes back to the weird type of metal part again and it ends with a sample of 2 individuals using the restroom! The meaning behind this one was very interesting. It was inspired by the ironic need to wear earplugs while listening to music and also people’s inability to listen according to their bassist Trevor Dunn. The 3rd song Squeeze Me Macaroni, is a funk metal masterpiece with some hardcore punk and metal vibes thrown in there with a sprinkle of horns saxophones, and weird groans. The music transitions on this song are fab! I’m pretty sure we can assure me what this song is about. The 4th song Carousel is circus music with lots of horns and saxophones that switches to surf music and back. This one is filled with lots of weird noises and a sample of an Announcer at some carnival tells people to hurry and ride the carousel. The song’s main focus is about a Carousel with some lyrics mentioning their record contract with Warner Brothers at the time and clowns. I find it pretty fascinating and funny. The 5th song Egg is 10 mins and 39 seconds long!! This one I consider to be one of the harder songs from this album to listen to cause its genre swaps every so often. Swapping from ska/funk/metal/surf it’s so in your face, I appreciate that about this band a lot :) There are some references about the Wizard of Oz and I find that very interesting. Also, Mike’s vocals on this track were all over the place and it’s beautiful. The 6th song Stubb A Dub is a song about guitarist Trey Spruance’s dog dying. When his dog died Spruance refused to believe his dog was dead which is shown in the lyrics and the music until at the end of the song the character of Trey and his dog who Mike were singing about finally comes to term with his dog being dead. It’s a sad realization. The beginning of the song reminds you of a funeral and then it Switches to some weird circus underground and the music gets harder and faster and then it calms down and sounds like something you would have heard at a jazz concert or something. The 7th song My Butt Is On Fire is another one of those “high on drugs” songs, with the metal and horns instrumental giving you something to wonder about. I can’t make heads or tails about the lyrics besides Mike singing about his butt on fire but it’s an outstanding song either way. The 8th Song is very descriptive about certain topics. I appreciate the music behind it though. It starts as hard rock then jazz and funk and the cycle starts all over again. The 9th song Love Is A Fist is a weird song about Domestic violence and the samples in this one are very annoying and funny. The music is just some metal and horns together. The 10th and final song Dead Goon is about asphyxiophilia. The music behind this song is very obscure and diverse but very hard to listen to and enjoy. I don’t know what the lyrics were about Mr. Bungle is probably one of the most daring rock bands to ever release a commercial album, and served as inspiration to metal bands as diverse as Korn, Dream Theater, and Avenged Sevenfold. This album is a cyclone of influences, all informing and reinforcing each other to create a collage of genres that is at once repulsively unnatural and admirably cohesive. Even for fans of experimental music, this can be a difficult album to digest, but its shallower moments are rewarding enough to warrant repeat listens, and it becomes more impressive the more layers you peel back. Though its many indulgences may wear thin for some, only a band operating at an extremely high level of skill and talent could have pulled off an album like this. As a band defined by a dizzying array of influences, from funk to ska to avant-garde jazz, Mr. Bungle’s choice of covers reflects their earliest influence: death metal. In place of the playful mix of horns and circus motifs that define their debut album, here they redo “The Stroke” in the style of Godflesh, with vocals like Carcass. And it’s this cover song’s loony originality that embodies everything that earned Bungle a cult following. It’s not just a funny experiment. It’s actually good. Every time I hear it, after decades of playing it, I still bang my head to those devious guitar riffs. If Bungle felt stroked, maybe they decided to make a statement by turning one of the early-80’s biggest commercial hits into the least commercial form they could. Bungle knew they were original but could not have thought they’d be huge. Listen to them. They played ska-funk-circus-metal on an album whose insert features a drunk clown wielding a whisky bottle at a children’s birthday party. Genre distinctions meant nothing to Bungle. They liked what they liked, and everything could potentially blend into the other. It’s that philosophy that came to define Bungle’s sound as Patton and Dunn found other people who shared their eclectic taste. When Bungle released OU818, Patton was officially Faith No More’s their singer. Two weeks after joining, he’d written all of the lyrics to their next album, The Real Thing. When the record came out in June of ’89, it became a huge hit. The FNM experience taught Bungle an important business lesson: The more bands you’re in, the more income you have, and the more visibility. Each band can feed the others, and the feedback loop feeds you. Bungle and Faith No More were very different entities with different fan bases. Later Patton expanded further, collaborating with different musicians to form other bands such as Tomahawk and Fantômas, producing albums and doing one-off projects and recording with artists like Bjork. He embodies the term workaholic, thankfully, because he has a lot to say. The thing about the early ’90s is that there were so many different types of bands, and as an alternative kid, you could like them all. You didn’t just have to be goth or punk or rock ’n roll the way people tried to make you in the early 1980s. You could like this weird circus music, and Beck, The Cure, De La Soul, and Mazzy Star, and still love some GN’R. You’d get shit for liking headbanger music, but you could still get away with it. Some record stores gave customers a free bottle of Mr. Bungle bubble bath when they bought the record. Along with a glossy band photo, Warner Brothers sent radio stations and record stores written publicity material where the label’s business folks struggle to describe the band and its appeal: “Featuring such apocalyptic anthems as ‘Slowly Growing Deaf,’ ‘Love Is A Fist,’ ‘The Girls Of Porn’ and the terrifyingly original ‘Quote Unquote,’ Mr. Bungle by Mr. Bungle makes hamburger out of every cherished cow within rifle range...and cooks up something compelling, totally committed music in the process. Before the internet, that press photo was about all you could find about the musicians. Their identities were a black hole, and in that vacuum, they played a wise game: create a whole entertaining universe while concealing the truth. They weren’t the first band to wear masks. Since the 1970s, The Residents had done this, too, wearing giant eyeball helmets and other costumes to preserve their anonymity and keep the focus on the music, but Bungle took the idea to the Alternative Era. The masks helped them try to avoid promoters capitalizing on Patton’s role in the more visible Faith No More and trying to sell Bungle as Patton’s other band-like, Look, come see the singer of Faith No More in Mr. Bungle! So on this album, Patton went by the name Vlad Drac, and for fun, Spruance went by Scummy. Their music and tours always challenged listeners. They didn’t write pop songs like Blur and Nirvana. You couldn’t dance or often sing to them. They confused you and demanded patience and openness to something strange and new. That’s why Bungle never got more popular in the ’90s and only became legendary later. Faith No More - Patton's main band, which he joined in 1988 and with whom he found major success in the early 1990s.
@TPJN7772 күн бұрын
I remember as a 12yo kid listening to this and reading the album notes and credits to John Zorn. About a week later I ordered a John Zorn album, Naked City self titled to be precise. My life changed for the better on very first listen and music was so much more exciting
@TPJN7772 күн бұрын
I hope to hell you're doing Disco Volante next. That album is a masterpiece
@bjornbear68562 күн бұрын
Listen to the unplugged version from mtv... OMG chills every time
@jackhammer20022 күн бұрын
I have to recommend Down - Bury me in smoke. Or their entire NOLA album if you still do album reviews. Top to bottom it is 10/10.
@borkug15662 күн бұрын
Play the uncommented audio while you watch the commented video on mute :P
@lsu19922 күн бұрын
Later Honey we'll talk business later...
@BlackieNuff2 күн бұрын
I think you are going to like "Evil" from this same album. It starts out with a powerful gallop, changes pace to transition into the series of guitar solos that takes the song out to the end, but halfway through the solos, the pace picks up to a faster speed. It's got everything. But Gypsy, from the second album, is one of my top faves for its musical brilliance - powerful riffs, steady pace, wild vocals, and killer solos - all crammed into 3 minutes.
@BlackieNuff2 күн бұрын
That intro makes me think of some 16th/17th/18th century era, which fits cos a lot of that witchcraft stuff was prominent then.
@TheWhitestOfFangs2 күн бұрын
For your benefit, good audio without BS commentary! kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGtrrs2dg9G-pKw.html
@8kai122 күн бұрын
Very sexy reaction!
@derekk85232 күн бұрын
I hope you do the whole discography. They been fantastic from the start. Wings of dragons still one of my top 3 songs from them
@JGGuitarCovers2 күн бұрын
Watching in Scotland -- the british commentators would not shut up!!!
@Youtubeissokewl2 күн бұрын
Cutiepie
@TPJN7772 күн бұрын
Very true comment
@elodie24042 күн бұрын
I don't know which version you are listening to here as it is not the official version, some reverberations have been added, it is featured not any official versions of the song
@elodie24042 күн бұрын
"A Forest" is not the longest Cure song at all, it lasts 4:53... The longest Cure song (if I am not doing any mistake) is "The Same Deep Water As You" (9:19)
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I liked your Halloween list. Here’s a couple more, Throbbing Gristle-Hamburger Lady, Samhain-Human Pony Girl and Earth Crisis- Earth a.d.
You need to check out The Shift by Eye of the Enemy...I think you would enjoy it...
The ultimate break up song! Queensryche was my favorite band back in the day!
i'm 42, still my favourite band all time
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Thank-you!!!
This was my first experience with Orbit Culture! Will never forget that! Nice reaction!
A well chosen introduction to one of the best bands of the 70's!
I'm so proud to be French!
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Hi Mercyful fate - Night of the unborn please🔥
Gwan.. Up Orbit Culture 4 life! Orbit will conquer metal forever! this is real metal kids! heaven delight 😜 OC are natural habitat of virtuosity and proficiency via instrumentations more then most bands which is why they are well regarded within the music industry and don't receive flak from YT fanbase. OC are very meticulous in every detail in the way they want to communicate their music WW :) The lyrical themes "See Through Me" delves into the themes of depression, hopelessness, and identity. The song starts with the vocalist acknowledging the struggles they have gone through, reaching out for help, but finding no one there. The use of the metaphor of falling through dark days and trying to see through the clouds, but their sun is nearly dead, paints a picture of someone who is lost and trapped in their own misery. The chorus speaks of resilience and the vocalist's determination to fight whatever comes their way, while also acknowledging their past struggles and where they come from. The second verse delves deeper into the question of who is to blame for the vocalist's suffering. Is it themselves mistreating their own existence, or is it the earth coming against them? The vocalist feels stuck and is searching for answers to explain what's happening to them. They want to find a way out of this darkness and into the light. The bridge is a call to action, urging the vocalist to not let their suffering take over and harm others, and instead choose to resist and walk in the direction of the bright lights. The final line of the song, "we'll walk now," is a resolution to move forward and keep going despite the challenges ♫ 🇬🇧
when are these idiot commentators around the world going to realize that they need to shut their fucking mouths during the performance. they are there to plug the holes and ruin our experience. COMMENTATORS WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You'll have to react to the mTV unplugged version. It's amazing
I think you did Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz already. It's a good example of the entire Disco Volante album. It's totally insane.
It's always cool when heavy bands sprinkle these types of songs in every now and then. It makes them hit harder because of the contrast with their normal style.
They wrote the song for the ceremony
Dope af
I'd add (as a french) that they specifically pointed and treated the "terror" time frame of the French Revolution*, around 1792-1794/95. After the royal couple was executed (caused by Louis XVI and the family's escape out of france stoped at Varenes in 1791) the french revolutionary assembly voted the end of the moarchy, then after a long time in prison, the execution of Louis and Marie-Antoinette, then the Revolution became more and more extremist and violent and self exterminating (every political citizen guilty of not being "enough" revolutioany would be guillotined..). At that time a popular revolutionary song was "Ah, ça ira!" (a calling to guillotine every aristocrat alive) and it's interpretated on the show by a decapitated aristocrat lady - most people assuming it's Marie Antoinette although nothing absolutely proves it's her - ironically singing the revolutionay song, her cutted head precisely, in her hands. For French people who know correctly the complicated years of the Revolution (1789-1795 , then chaos for a couple of years then the first republic, then Napoleon the first seizing power) they would get the reference in the show and maybe like me appreciate the humor and irony and musical brutality perfectly embodying the violence of that history time frame, but I guess everyone would just consider that the French Revolution is just chaos and any aristocrat guillotined, although it was much more complicated, and a quite long process. Edit : * a personal assessment / deduction : the Terror was significantly bloody (depicted by the red everywhere during the Gojira event and of course the heavy music) The other very interesting reference in that specific Gojira / Marina Viotti performance is the reference to the 2015 islamic terrorist attacks at the Bataclan, pointed out by the Paris flag on Marina's boat and its motto "Fluctuat Nec Mergitur" (shaken but never sank), but also of course a metal band performing over the Seine river and in front of that boat that proudly passes in front of the live band. That (I got it only afterwards) is an amazing detail. Personaly I find the cultural event with Gojira playing live at that genre of immensely global cremony amazing and new of course, but I'd also point out that it was a great ceremony in terms of variety in styles of music and cultural references.
Aa h yes more Pain of Salvation!! I recommend ”Stress” by then
even in France they commented (a bit less though) over this perforance. Of course there was no comment over Lady Gaga or Céline Dion ones. My god why during the live music performances can't tv people just shut up?!!
Love OC, nice reaction to an emotional contribution from this epic band! Hope you continue to go thru the Rasen album also when finished with the Redfog EP, you will find new darlings there too... 🖤🤘
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They are masters of everything, even "ballads". Best band outthere for sure! Nice to listen to your reactions, thanks! Peter
I saw NIN live in 1994! It was amazing and my first real concert. Best show ever!
The building where they sing is the real building where Marie Antoinette had to wait before her execution by guillotine. The building is called "La Conciergerie".
Actually Gojira were the only good thing in that ceremony
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Omg the english comentator is even worse than the french one lol. The "Oh shut up" got me a bit. 😂 And btw it was written especially for the olympics.
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Marina Viotti , the opera singer, was a metal singer. Did you recognize the first notes of her song ? It's a version of Carmen (by Georges Bizet, french composer). The boat shape is the one in Paris armories.
I've seen loads of reactions to this but none of them could come up with such a perfect video title like you did. 👏👏👏👏👏😉
Why Gojira is blurred ? copyright ?
Eurosport kept blocking the video so unfortunately I had to blur it...
@@neonskepetunije i understand :). thank you for answer
This reaction is so much better than all the others, at least you gave some opinions and read the lyrics. Most of the other are just "Wow so fast, many drums. Thanks guys for watching like and subscribe"
fall of the monarchy and declaration of human rights, vive la révolution !
The best 35 minutes of my life and that's a stretch 🤣 and I'd aprove the best self-titled album from beginning to end! tho I'd dispute "The Beatles" self-titled (1968) on illustrious Abbey Road: Their self-titled album was released in 1991, just a month and some days before Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Soundgarden released albums in 1991, and helped alternative rock become mainstream. Classifying Mr. Bungle’s debut album is very hard cause it’s all over the place, Their ability to genre swap is present in all of the songs off of their self-titled debut album. The 1st song of the album quote-unquote(originally called Travolta) is an unnatural metal jazz fusion filled with weird sound effects that hits hard. For the first 0:32 seconds, you hear nothing but snoring but at 0:33 you hear some glass break and then the musical madness ensues! The 2nd song Slowly Growing Deaf starts with a short but happy sounding instrumental that lasts for 4 seconds in the beginning but comes backs 3 more times during the song. The bass tone, along with the drums and guitar sound so beautiful in the cheerful part of this song. After the four seconds of cheeriness, the mood changes to a dark and depressing tone and it’s spectacular. Mike’s vocal on this track is outstanding! The grimness ends around 1:33 and it goes back to that beautiful cheerful mood in the beginning and when the song reaches 1:44 the tone switches to a doo-wop beach boys vibe and I love it a lot! Then it goes back to “normal” with the beautiful cheerful tone again and then it stops. Then you will hear video game samples thrown in there and then it goes back to the weird type of metal part again and it ends with a sample of 2 individuals using the restroom! The meaning behind this one was very interesting. It was inspired by the ironic need to wear earplugs while listening to music and also people’s inability to listen according to their bassist Trevor Dunn. The 3rd song Squeeze Me Macaroni, is a funk metal masterpiece with some hardcore punk and metal vibes thrown in there with a sprinkle of horns saxophones, and weird groans. The music transitions on this song are fab! I’m pretty sure we can assure me what this song is about. The 4th song Carousel is circus music with lots of horns and saxophones that switches to surf music and back. This one is filled with lots of weird noises and a sample of an Announcer at some carnival tells people to hurry and ride the carousel. The song’s main focus is about a Carousel with some lyrics mentioning their record contract with Warner Brothers at the time and clowns. I find it pretty fascinating and funny. The 5th song Egg is 10 mins and 39 seconds long!! This one I consider to be one of the harder songs from this album to listen to cause its genre swaps every so often. Swapping from ska/funk/metal/surf it’s so in your face, I appreciate that about this band a lot :) There are some references about the Wizard of Oz and I find that very interesting. Also, Mike’s vocals on this track were all over the place and it’s beautiful. The 6th song Stubb A Dub is a song about guitarist Trey Spruance’s dog dying. When his dog died Spruance refused to believe his dog was dead which is shown in the lyrics and the music until at the end of the song the character of Trey and his dog who Mike were singing about finally comes to term with his dog being dead. It’s a sad realization. The beginning of the song reminds you of a funeral and then it Switches to some weird circus underground and the music gets harder and faster and then it calms down and sounds like something you would have heard at a jazz concert or something. The 7th song My Butt Is On Fire is another one of those “high on drugs” songs, with the metal and horns instrumental giving you something to wonder about. I can’t make heads or tails about the lyrics besides Mike singing about his butt on fire but it’s an outstanding song either way. The 8th Song is very descriptive about certain topics. I appreciate the music behind it though. It starts as hard rock then jazz and funk and the cycle starts all over again. The 9th song Love Is A Fist is a weird song about Domestic violence and the samples in this one are very annoying and funny. The music is just some metal and horns together. The 10th and final song Dead Goon is about asphyxiophilia. The music behind this song is very obscure and diverse but very hard to listen to and enjoy. I don’t know what the lyrics were about Mr. Bungle is probably one of the most daring rock bands to ever release a commercial album, and served as inspiration to metal bands as diverse as Korn, Dream Theater, and Avenged Sevenfold. This album is a cyclone of influences, all informing and reinforcing each other to create a collage of genres that is at once repulsively unnatural and admirably cohesive. Even for fans of experimental music, this can be a difficult album to digest, but its shallower moments are rewarding enough to warrant repeat listens, and it becomes more impressive the more layers you peel back. Though its many indulgences may wear thin for some, only a band operating at an extremely high level of skill and talent could have pulled off an album like this. As a band defined by a dizzying array of influences, from funk to ska to avant-garde jazz, Mr. Bungle’s choice of covers reflects their earliest influence: death metal. In place of the playful mix of horns and circus motifs that define their debut album, here they redo “The Stroke” in the style of Godflesh, with vocals like Carcass. And it’s this cover song’s loony originality that embodies everything that earned Bungle a cult following. It’s not just a funny experiment. It’s actually good. Every time I hear it, after decades of playing it, I still bang my head to those devious guitar riffs. If Bungle felt stroked, maybe they decided to make a statement by turning one of the early-80’s biggest commercial hits into the least commercial form they could. Bungle knew they were original but could not have thought they’d be huge. Listen to them. They played ska-funk-circus-metal on an album whose insert features a drunk clown wielding a whisky bottle at a children’s birthday party. Genre distinctions meant nothing to Bungle. They liked what they liked, and everything could potentially blend into the other. It’s that philosophy that came to define Bungle’s sound as Patton and Dunn found other people who shared their eclectic taste. When Bungle released OU818, Patton was officially Faith No More’s their singer. Two weeks after joining, he’d written all of the lyrics to their next album, The Real Thing. When the record came out in June of ’89, it became a huge hit. The FNM experience taught Bungle an important business lesson: The more bands you’re in, the more income you have, and the more visibility. Each band can feed the others, and the feedback loop feeds you. Bungle and Faith No More were very different entities with different fan bases. Later Patton expanded further, collaborating with different musicians to form other bands such as Tomahawk and Fantômas, producing albums and doing one-off projects and recording with artists like Bjork. He embodies the term workaholic, thankfully, because he has a lot to say. The thing about the early ’90s is that there were so many different types of bands, and as an alternative kid, you could like them all. You didn’t just have to be goth or punk or rock ’n roll the way people tried to make you in the early 1980s. You could like this weird circus music, and Beck, The Cure, De La Soul, and Mazzy Star, and still love some GN’R. You’d get shit for liking headbanger music, but you could still get away with it. Some record stores gave customers a free bottle of Mr. Bungle bubble bath when they bought the record. Along with a glossy band photo, Warner Brothers sent radio stations and record stores written publicity material where the label’s business folks struggle to describe the band and its appeal: “Featuring such apocalyptic anthems as ‘Slowly Growing Deaf,’ ‘Love Is A Fist,’ ‘The Girls Of Porn’ and the terrifyingly original ‘Quote Unquote,’ Mr. Bungle by Mr. Bungle makes hamburger out of every cherished cow within rifle range...and cooks up something compelling, totally committed music in the process. Before the internet, that press photo was about all you could find about the musicians. Their identities were a black hole, and in that vacuum, they played a wise game: create a whole entertaining universe while concealing the truth. They weren’t the first band to wear masks. Since the 1970s, The Residents had done this, too, wearing giant eyeball helmets and other costumes to preserve their anonymity and keep the focus on the music, but Bungle took the idea to the Alternative Era. The masks helped them try to avoid promoters capitalizing on Patton’s role in the more visible Faith No More and trying to sell Bungle as Patton’s other band-like, Look, come see the singer of Faith No More in Mr. Bungle! So on this album, Patton went by the name Vlad Drac, and for fun, Spruance went by Scummy. Their music and tours always challenged listeners. They didn’t write pop songs like Blur and Nirvana. You couldn’t dance or often sing to them. They confused you and demanded patience and openness to something strange and new. That’s why Bungle never got more popular in the ’90s and only became legendary later. Faith No More - Patton's main band, which he joined in 1988 and with whom he found major success in the early 1990s.
I remember as a 12yo kid listening to this and reading the album notes and credits to John Zorn. About a week later I ordered a John Zorn album, Naked City self titled to be precise. My life changed for the better on very first listen and music was so much more exciting
I hope to hell you're doing Disco Volante next. That album is a masterpiece
Listen to the unplugged version from mtv... OMG chills every time
I have to recommend Down - Bury me in smoke. Or their entire NOLA album if you still do album reviews. Top to bottom it is 10/10.
Play the uncommented audio while you watch the commented video on mute :P
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I think you are going to like "Evil" from this same album. It starts out with a powerful gallop, changes pace to transition into the series of guitar solos that takes the song out to the end, but halfway through the solos, the pace picks up to a faster speed. It's got everything. But Gypsy, from the second album, is one of my top faves for its musical brilliance - powerful riffs, steady pace, wild vocals, and killer solos - all crammed into 3 minutes.
That intro makes me think of some 16th/17th/18th century era, which fits cos a lot of that witchcraft stuff was prominent then.
For your benefit, good audio without BS commentary! kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGtrrs2dg9G-pKw.html
Very sexy reaction!
I hope you do the whole discography. They been fantastic from the start. Wings of dragons still one of my top 3 songs from them
Watching in Scotland -- the british commentators would not shut up!!!
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Very true comment
I don't know which version you are listening to here as it is not the official version, some reverberations have been added, it is featured not any official versions of the song
"A Forest" is not the longest Cure song at all, it lasts 4:53... The longest Cure song (if I am not doing any mistake) is "The Same Deep Water As You" (9:19)