You may not regret it, but you probably will.
If you’ve never heard it, I challenge you to set aside about 70 minutes to be undisturbed and listen to this in its entirety. If you like owning music that makes a statement, this is an album to have in your collection. The second album from Mr Bungle Disco Volante, which takes its name from a yacht featured in James Bond Thunderball, was released on October 10th 1995.V. It’s messy at times, never beautiful, and a unique piece of art. It makes no attempt to be liked and even trolls the listener several times throughout. What I love about the album is its completely unrestrained creativity. It’s antagonistic at times and intentionally annoying, as though the band was on a mission to upset itself and others. release this?” and “Why am I still listening to this?” The first time I heard it, I just couldn’t believe it existed. “Disco Volante” offers a listening experience that makes you ask, “How did a major label like Warner Bros. One of the songs is called “Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz.” The rest of the album is a stream of consciousness highly-layered erratic barrage of doo-wop, bebop, metal, Looney Tunes, techno, screamy, surf-y, dreamy punk ska noise rock that’s extremely musical and sprinkled with lyrics in English, Latin, Italian, and gibberish. It opens with a miserable dirge called “Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead” that sounds like an untalented garage band recorded in a refrigerator box. Then I bought their previous album, “Disco Volante.” Not only was this album NOTHING like “California,” it was blatantly off-putting. So much fun with tons of diversity and completely unpredictable. Flowers and butterflies and beach artwork complemented the precise and meticulously-crafted songs. I bought the CD and fell in love with it, hauling it in my discman to high school for several weeks straight.
The song is the 5th track on their 3rd and final album, California. So, it took a few years to learn that Ars Moriendi was a song by an American band called Mr.
This was before Shazam and iTunes, before everyone had an internet presence, and the best search engine at the time was AOL. There was no metadata, so all I had was the name of the file. It sounded like music written and performed by a middle-Eastern disco cartoon circus wedding band. I was part of a curated online, uh, “music-sharing community.” I somehow ended up with a file called “05 Ars Moriendi.mp3.” It contained one of the craziest songs I’d ever heard. In the late 1990s, music was easily downloadable but good music was hard to find.
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