Long before the dogshit funk metal brigade festered like an open wound, Mr Bungle were spinning dark, psychotic tales of porn, toilet humour and food. Previously t0 this there were other demo's, the band albeit a more comical death-fuzz-cartoon act, but 'OU818' was the demo that started the ball rolling and tongues wagging. Considered a collectible item, this precious jewel sees the band way out on their own, giving birth to this outrageous demo cassette which features five tracks if you exclude the spasticated intro, four of which made it onto the debut record. Put simply' 'OU818' and its contents do not differ from the album except to say that on the album the tracks used are shrouded in carnival atmospheres, comic capers, sinister overtones and surreal evil, whereas the demo cuts, being ''Squeeze Me Macaroni', 'Slowly Growing Deaf', 'The Girls Of Porn' and 'Love Is A Fist' are bereft of much of the atmospherics, but still provide the listener with a fatal overdose to the system. Of course, what the demo offers that the record doesn't is the eight-minute wonder 'Mr Nice Guy', your typical Bungle overload of epileptic weirdness...track this down if you're a real Bungle fan...if not, fuck off back to your Faith No More records.
8/10
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