Greatest Album of All Time

OK. Maybe not the greatest, but would you have read this if I wrote something different? Anyways, I just dusted off the Mr. Bungle "Mr. Bungle" album, and gave it another listen. I don't know if its one of those things where it happens to be a particular time inyour life, but this album has got to be in the top ten all time greatest albums. Perhaps its the absurdity of the lyrics and music, or the incredible vocal range of Mike Patton, ahhem - yes the Mike Patton of "Faith No More" - or full-on, no holds barred, orchestration of your typical rock guitar and drums, along with trumpets, saxaphones, synthesizers, and even random audio clips including a few choice bits from "Blue Velvet" (featuring Dennis Hopper.) Most of the track titles I probably shouldn't repeat here, but sampling of PG titles includes "Squeeze Me Macaroni", "Travolta", "Slowly Growing Deaf", and "Love Is A Fist". Its funny how things like this bring back memories. I remember one of my co-workers/cohorts hooking me up with a promo tape of this very album not long after I started Sun in 1990. That tape stayed in my car's tape player for many, many months. Why did I give that tape up? The original cut of "Girls of Porn" was quite different. I guess perhaps a little more than Warner Bros could handle. Sometime later we even went to see them at the now defunct "One Step Beyond" in Santa Clara. I seem to recall at the time Mr. Bungle had a reputation of audience participation during their shows, and it wasn't necessarily any audience participation you wanted to be involved in. At the time, a more rambunctious Watt was known to gravitate toward the "slam" pit. I remember walking out of there with a dripping, soaked shirt. Oh, and to the Anonymous Coward who asked if I can even write something positive, this Bud's for you!

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