California
by Mr. Bungle

You are going to the cinema watching a new unknown love story movie. While watching the movie it unexpected getting switched from a love story into a comedy, and a few secs later you are in a horror movie. And this goes continuous on from on genre into another, you name it and it's for sure there (Wikipedia: Hawaiian music, Eastern music, electro-funk, doo-wop, folk music, pop music, surf rock, circus music, psychobilly, kecak, thrash metal, lounge music, exotica, space age pop, jazz rock, avant-garde music, piano ballads and music influenced by science fiction, spaghetti western and horror film scores.). Never felled in love so fast with a new album before this, just BRILLIANT!!! (Edited)

From Madadude 02/06/2013 23:16 | #64269 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

An album that defines experimental in the brightest possible light. A perfect mix between all great genres with almost a surf rock theme. Bungle departs from their earlier intense or even downright silly and grotesque experimental techniques to show brilliance in what is a perfect album. Mike Patton and Mr. Bungle display with California all the possibilities music holds as an artform and entertainment.

From SquishypuffDave TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/21/2010 15:37 | #14751 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This album takes all the hokey and uninspired elements found in popular music and intensifies them to the point that they become innovative and unpredictable. Take for example the cheesy ballad of Pink Cigarette. Where other bands might have done a non-committal rip on the genre, Mike Patton and the band dedicate extraordinary musicianship the piece and allow themselves to be swept up in the relentless emotional intensity of it, and to our surprise so do we. Every layer of instrumentation throughout the album is a masterpiece of its own. Highly recommended.

From JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/22/2018 21:56 | #217154 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Ok, it’s really good. It’s as if Brian Wilson embraced his mental breakdown and records a metal-inflected follow up to Smile. I haven’t heard anything close to this creative and challenging in a long long time. So excited to explore the rest of their discography!

85/100 (Very Good)

The pinnacle of experimental rock. This album took bizarreness to the extreme, and the results were glorious. Many bands before and since have tried to pull off the so-weird-it's-awesome schtick, but this is, in my experience, the one album that truly pulls it off. The music is catchy as hell and fits into virtually no classification. An instant classic.