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Track: Platypus
Artist: Mr. Bungle
Album: Disco Volante

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Name: Mr. Bungle
Spotify Genres: avant-garde, funk rock
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Formed during 1985 in Eureka, California, USA. After three albums on Warner Bros. the band took a long hiatus from 2000 onwards. Reunited in 2019 and then released the re-recorded '[Link]' on the Ipecac label. On March 6th 2024 at [l=Festival Hall, Melbourne], Australia former band members, saxophonist Clinton [a=Bär McKinnon] and drummer [a=Danny Heifetz], joined [i]Bungle[/i] on stage to perform the first three encore songs. [b]Current Line-up[/b] Mike Patton: vocals / keyboards (1985-2000, 2019-) Trey Spruance: guitar / keyboards (1985-2000, 2019-) Trevor Dunn: bass (1985-2000, 2019-) Scott Ian: guitar (2019-) Dave Lombardo: drums (2019-) [b]Former Members[/b] Jed Watts: drums (1985-1987) Hans Wagner: drums (1987-1988) Scott Fritz: tenor saxophone / trumpet (1987) Luke Miller: tenor saxophone / trumpet (1987-1988) Theobald Brooks Lengyel: saxophone / keyboards (1985-1996) Clinton "Bär" McKinnon: tenor saxophone / clarinet / keyboards (1989-2000) Danny Heifetz: drums & percussion (1989-2000)

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Release: Mr. Bungle - platypus
Year: 1995
Genres: Jazz, Rock
Styles: Avantgarde, Experimental, Art Rock

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LYRICS

Ornithorhynchus anatinus - platypus
Sleeping geology
On the isolated shore
For millions of years
Experimental continent
On purpose or accident?

Mysterious evolving
Problem solving

A vaudeville? A nation including one superior creation
A vertebra? Inverted...quite unheard of...

Orphan in a family
And a sole survivor
He's a living fossil

Reptillian? Mammalian
He's a bird-beaked, beaver-butt Australian

Amphibious? Paradox wearing plaid socks
Furry beetle? A bugbear, and a palezoologist's nightmare
Symmetrical physique of disbelief

The platypus has the brain of a dolphin
and can be seen driving a forklift in his habitat of kelp
He is the larva of the flatworm
and has the ability to regenerate after injury

No relation to the flounder.

Someone shipped him to the blokes
Who said he was a hoax
So they cut him to pieces, wrote a thesis

A cranium of deceit, he's prone to lie and cheat;
It's no wonder -- a blunder from down under

Duckbill, watermole, duckmole!

Barnacle