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Track Listings
| 1. Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead |
| 2. Chemical Marriage |
| 3. Carry Stress In The Jaw |
| 4. Desert Search For Techno Allah |
| 5. Violenza Domentica |
| 6. After School Special |
| 7. Phlegmatics |
| 8. Ma Meeshka Mow-Skwoz |
| 9. The Bends |
| 10. Backstrokin' |
| 11. Platypus |
| 12. Merry Go Bye Bye |
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Imagine Frank Zappa composing the soundtrack for Ed Wood's Plan Nine from Outer Space, or the Residents unleashing a techno-dance project: that should give you some idea of Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante, an album of cheesy synthesizers, mangled disco beats, virtuosic playing, and juvenile noises. Like the Residents, Mr. 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). Like Zappa, the Mr. 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. All but three of the album's dozen pieces feature lyrics, but the vocals are so deeply buried in the mix that the words are virtually indecipherable. The pieces are more accurately described as aural montages than songs, for short sections erupt and suddenly disappear, replaced by another passage just as well played and just as clever but with little connection to what preceded it. For listeners who enjoy the constant surprise of such arbitrary musical detours, Mr. Bungle provides much better musicianship than the Residents but less coherence than Zappa. --Geoffrey Himes
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US 180 Gram Vinyl Pressing. One of the most uncompromising and adventurous major label releases of the '90s, Mr. Bungle's second album, originally released in 1995, an 'alternative' record only in the vaguest sense of the word. Incorporating Death Metal, free Jazz, experimental Electronica, and ambient soundtracks, along with Mike Patton's outrageous vocal style, 'Disco volante' is probably the most important and groundbreaking release of Patton's storied career, and that's saying a lot.
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By Shoyur
Format:Audio CD
This CD is the dark one from Bungle, but i think it is the best, less funky than Mr.bungle titled album but with more stories and more special world (or should i say italian) influence. Of course, again, not a CD to put in a casual party.. but a very nice thing to initiate anyone who like very original progressive aggressive emotional music.
By cmo
Format:Audio CD
disco volante is like other bungles, impossible to describe accurrately.this cd probrably has the least amount of music on it than the others,but it`s rich diversity is amazing.mr bungle is a band that makes you as a listener strive to understand what the artist is trying to acheive,my best description of all mr bungle cd`s is controlled chaos.
By kathy heaton
Format:Audio CD
Clear you mind of all the files stuffed full of images and words you've gleaned from the music industry machine. Empty your heart of the fanship that adds flourish to the rhythm of every day life. Listen to this album while you're doing dishes or driving across the state to visit your brother.
Laugh your(....-ing)head off and get inspired to make some of your own (...t). Creativity creates creativity.
Laugh your(....-ing)head off and get inspired to make some of your own (...t). Creativity creates creativity.
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the most brilliant piece of music ever created
no album, by ANY band, could possibly pull this off. no band, except mr. bungle.
this album proved to me that mr. Read more
this album proved to me that mr. Read more
Published on July 8 2004 by patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get Hooked on Bungle
The first time I heard "Disco Volante," I didn't like it. I was already a big fan of their first record and I just wasn't ready for what I was hearing. Read more
Published on May 21 2004 by stu
5.0 out of 5 stars
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Mr Bungle will ruin you for all other bands if you give them a chance. Disco Volante will reveal itself after the fifth listen, these guys never make it easy. Read more
Published on April 22 2004 by Frederick A. Gervasi
5.0 out of 5 stars
This CD is magick in sonic form
What to say ? this cd is talent i it's purest form. Super techo middle eastern isanity, jazz and death metal sex and the resultting bi-polar baby. Read more
Published on Jan 27 2004 by "musical_ipecac"
2.0 out of 5 stars
Attention deficit disorder in audio form
Sustained melodies, entrancing rythms, and other elements of primal music are overshadowed by randomness (IMHO charitably referred to as 'improvisation'). Read more
Published on Dec 18 2003 by ME
5.0 out of 5 stars
Its love I tell you!
Downright, utterly destructive, intrusive and relentless fun. I listen to Mr. Bungle alot. I listen to all three albums like a kid in a Rockwell painting, panting and drooling over... Read more
Published on Nov 18 2003 by FormerZygote
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty OK - Out of Kontrol
I just came to a realization I'd like to share with you all.
This must be the single worst album of all time for tripping.
Published on Oct 24 2003
1.0 out of 5 stars
Strictly Amateur
Several people at the Zappa.com forum recommended this CD, so I was interested in hearing it. But I'm clearly not Mr. Bungle's intended audience. Read more
Published on Sep 11 2003 by Jeffrey W. Richman
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