YOUR QUESTION

01/19/2021 Miguel P.

Hi there,
I just saw you mentioned 'trolling' referring to the Sex Pistols. But I always thought that Mr. Bungle was (now IS) the ultimate troll - in a good way - band. Sometimes when I'm rocking Bungle's debut (something happening too often lately, for some reason) I laugh my ass off trying to picture those guys on Warner Music listening to it for the first time and saying something like "well, we have to sell this".
So the question is, do you actually know what kind of reaction they had on WB when they got the record?
Do you think there was some kind of "let's do this so we keep the Faith No More guy happy" vibe (Patton himself pointed something like that) or they actually got it at the first hearing?
That's it. Thanks for the laughs, the inspiration, and the terrific music!

MY ANSWER

I’ve mentioned this before but no one at WB ever cared. I think they had misguided hopes that we would crank out a FNM style hit; that they had a double weapon with a certain singer. I have no idea what their reaction was. We were a tax write-off. I can almost guarantee though that they never “got it”.