Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous

Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
Studio album by King's X
Released	May 23, 2000
Recorded	December 1999 - January 2000 Hound Pound Recording Studio and Alien Beans Studios
Genre	Hard rock, progressive metal
Length	44:54
Label	Metal Blade
Producer	King's X and Ty Tabor
King's X chronology
Tape Head (1998) Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous (2000) Manic Moonlight (2001)

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Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous is the eighth album by heavy metal/hard rock trio King's X, released in 2000.

Track listing

All songs written by King's X.

1. "Fish Bowl Man" – 4:28
2. "Julia" – 3:39
3. "She's Gone Away" – 4:37
4. "Marsh Mellow Field" – 5:30
5. "When You're Scared" – 4:26
6. "Charlie Sheen" – 3:51
7. "Smudge" – 3:52
8. "Bitter Sweet" – 2:13
9. "Move Me" – 4:58
10. "Move Me" (part two) – 7:20

Personnel

• Doug Pinnick- bass/vocals
• Ty Tabor- guitar/vocals
• Jerry Gaskill- drums/vocals

Album notes

• Recorded and mixed by Ty Tabor
• Doug uses Yamaha Basses, DR Strings, Ampeg Amps and Seymour Duncan Pickups
• Jerry uses Yamaha Drums, Vater Sticks and Paiste Cymbals
• Ty uses Yamaha Guitars and DR Strings
• Misc. ramblings by Esther, Yuko, Joe and Dirk - Between some tracks on the CD there are tongue twisters in Dutch and Japanese. These were collected by the band on a European tour:
  • at the end of track 1: Acht-en-Tachtig-Prachtige-Grachten
    This is Dutch for "88 (achtentachtig) beautiful (prachtige) canals (grachten)."
  • at the end of track 3: Tonari no kyaku wa yoku kaki kuu kyaku da
    This is a Japanese tongue twister (hayakuchi kotoba) meaning "The adjacent (tonari) customer (kyaku) eats (kuu) persimmons (kaki) often (yoku)."
  • at the end of track 4: Zes-en-Zestig-Sinaas-Appel-Schillen
    This is again Dutch and means "66 (zesenzestig) orange (sinaasappel) peels (schillen)."
  • at the end of track 5: Hottentotten-Tenten-Tentoonstellingen
    Dutch tongue twister meaning "(an) exhibition of tents made by the Hottentots."
  • at the end of track 6: Chikushō, nante hidee sandoicchi da
    Japanese meaning "Damn (chikushō)! How awful (hidee) this sandwich (sandoicchi) is!"
  • at the end of track 10: Acht-en-Tachtig-Prachtige-Grachten
    See first tongue twister.

External links

• Official King's X Site, Accessed on July 11, 2005.
• Additional information about the album, Accessed on April 26, 2006.
• site francophone, Accessed on July 24, 2006.

References