August 30, 2009
Mr. Bungle ruled.
Forget that they preceded Mike Patton’s involvement in Faith No More – and if you aren’t already familiar, you really MUST begin by watching this original 1960 short film after which they are named.
Their condensed quirkiness was a catalyzing force: You could play Mr. Bungle’s 1991 “major-label debut” self titled CD for a [...]
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August 22, 2009
There was an endearing “sameness” to the hardcore bands of the mid-’90s. It made most of the CDs of that era an easy buy: “if you like Quicksand or Orange 9mm…you’ll probably like Outface“.
They sounded much as you would have expected, with perhaps the pronounced defining characteristic of their warbly singer. While tense, rhythmic shouted [...]
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