Thursday, October 19, 2023

Mr. Bungle - Early Bungle Demos (2 CD) (1990)



Disc 1:
1. Quote Unquote (taken from the 1990 rough mix)
2. Slowly Growing Deaf (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)
3. Squeeze Me Macaroni (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)
4. Carousel (taken from the 1988 demo Goddammit I Love America!)
5. Egg (taken from the 1988 demo Goddammit I Love America!)
6. Stubb (A Dub) (taken from the 1990 rough mix)
7. My Ass is On Fire (taken from the 1990 rough mix)
8. The Girls of Porn (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)
9. Love is a Fist (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)
10. Thunderball (taken from the 1990 rough mix)

Disc 2:
11. OU818 (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)
12. Bloody Mary (taken from the 1988 demo Goddammit I Love America!)
13. Nicotina (taken from the 1987 demo Bowel of Chiley)
14. Evil Satan (taken from the 1987 demo Bowel of Chiley)
15. ( ) (taken from the 1987 demo Bowel of Chiley)
16. Goosebumps (taken from the 1988 demo Goddammit I Love America!)
17. Jumping (Part One) (taken from the 1987 demo Bowel of Chiley)
18. Freight Train (taken from the 1987 demo Bowel of Chiley)
19. Definition of Shapes (taken from the 1988 demo Goddammit I Love America!)
20. Waltz For Grandma's Sake (taken from the 1988 demo Goddammit I Love America!)
21. No Strings Attached (taken from the 1987 demo Bowel of Chiley)
22. Mr. Nice Guy (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)
23. Nothing (taken from the 1989 demo OU818)

Before Mr. Bungle recorded their first album in 1991, they had released 4 demo tapes by then. Their first demo from 1986 called The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny was re-recorded as their fourth album in 2020. The next one after that was the Bowel of Chiley demo from 1987 which had lower quality but more material. Their next demos, Goddammit I Love America! in 1988 and OU818 in 1989, were higher quality and sounded closer to the band's first album. Then they recorded some rough mixes for it in 1990 which included a song that wouldn't be released until their second album in 1995. In fact, I think every demo starting with their first includes a song that would be recorded at least twice. 

Evil Satan from their first demo was re-recorded on Bowel of Chiley but not on the re-recorded version of the demo. Carousel was recorded on Bowel of Chiley and then re-recorded on Goddammit I Love America! and then re-recorded again on their first album. Definitions of Shapes and Incoherence were also recorded on Bowel of Chiley and then Goddammit I Love America! Egg was also recorded on Goddammit I Love America! and then re-recorded on their first album. 5 songs from the OU818 demo were re-recorded for the first album but Mr. Nice Guy didn't make the cut. Platypus was recorded for the first album and got re-recorded for Disco Volante in 1995 and Thunderbird was recorded for the first album but was left unreleased. I think it's the theme song to the James Bond movie of the same name that inspired the name of Disco Volante. It had their own series of demos but I chose to not include them. The only song that didn't get a demo was Dead Goon. 

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