Artist: MR. BUNGLE
Album: MR. BUNGLE (CD US-IMPORT)

Release date: 1991
EAN/UPS: 0075992664028
Media type: CD

Mr. Bungle is the debut studio album by American experimental rock band Mr. Bungle. It was released on August 13, 1991, through Warner Bros. Records. The album contains many genre shifts which are typical of the band, and helped increase the band's popularity, gaining them a cult following.

The album cover features artwork by Dan Sweetman, originally published in the story, "A Cotton Candy Autopsy" in the DC Comics/Piranha Press imprint title Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children.

The album mixes a variety of musical styles, including ska, circus music, heavy metal, free jazz, and funk. AllMusic called it a "dizzying, disconcerting, schizophrenic tour through just about any rock style the group can think of, hopping from genre to genre without any apparent rhyme or reason, and sometimes doing so several times in the same song." The website described Mike Patton's lyrics as "even more bizarrely humorous than those he used in Faith No More", and "also less self-censored". At the time, the band's label Warner promoted the record as being Mike Patton's "seriously weird new project".

Quotes from David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet are strewn throughout the album.

TRACKLIST:

1.     "Travolta" ("Quote Unquote" on later pressings)     6:56
2.     "Slowly Growing Deaf"     6:58
3.     "Squeeze Me Macaroni"     5:38
4.     "Carousel"     5:13
5.     "Egg"     10:39
6.     "Stubb (A Dub)"     7:19
7.     "My Ass Is on Fire"     7:47
8.     "The Girls of Porn"     6:42
9.     "Love Is a Fist"     6:00
10.     "Dead Goon"     10:02

LINE-UP:

    Mike Patton as "Vlad Drac" – vocals, keyboards, production
    Danny Heifetz as Heifetz – drums, production
    Trey Spruance as "Scummy" – guitar, keyboards, production
    Trevor Dunn as Trevor Roy Dunn – bass guitar, production
    Clinton McKinnon as "Bär" – tenor saxophone, production
    Theo Lengyel – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, production