How many primus albums

At the time I abhorred the dead. I was blown away, much in the way The Pod moved me. Incidentally, The Pod was also introduced to me by a Dead Head. Is it any wonder that I now have an appreciation for… This album is the pinnacle of Primus rivaled only by Suck on This. I am a great fan of Les Claypool, but mainly his material since primus. This album is an instant classic from beginning to end.

No bad tracks on the album. They are incredibly enjoyable with their definite bass hooks and quirky Primus lyrics. However certain songs must be further examined for their real magic. However they simply require numerous listenings. Skip to content. Share via: 0 Shares. Next Post Slade Albums Ranked.

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But Primus were not conforming to any ongoing trends. Instead they were serving up obnoxious slabs of rubbery metal, pogoing like meth-ripped hillbillies, channelling the spirit of Bootsy Collins and Frank Zappa and generally sounding like the bastard children of Captain Beefheart and Rush.

The thunderous, eight-minute Hamburger Train was as liberated and free-flowing as any Grateful Dead freak-out. Strange tales indeed. Sonically grubby and deliciously shambolic, songs like Shake Hands With Beef and the spiky Fisticuffs showed that the band had shrugged off the last of their funk-metal shackles and plunged into a world of shadowy oddness. All of the familiar Primus elements are present: pendulous basslines, loopy melodies and cartoony vocals, not least on opening track The Valley.

From what is effectively a reconvening of the first Primus line-up, Riddles Are Abound Tonight cast Sausage as a fully explainable detour for Les Claypool. This one-off jam-boree eschewed most of the usual Primus trademarks in favour of rugged but lissom groove explorations that made up for a lack of melody by being almost offensively funky. There it was. Speaking of being in that moment, a lot of fans and critics noted Pork Soda as a darker album, thematically, than those that preceded it.

What was going on in that moment that led to that? It was good times, happy times [laughs]. It was a little heavier of a record. I was getting more into the six-string. Obviously, the cover is black. The notion of Pork Soda was us taking another stab at the whole ridiculousness of us being part of MTV and radio and whatnot, how we were this thing that was an acquired taste, like a meat-flavored soda would be.

Why is Seas of Cheese number two? Seas of Cheese is probably our most respected album, I would think. It was sink or swim; we were going to sail the seas of cheese. Did the jump to a major label here make a big difference in the quality of the album? We were very fortunate that Interscope was this young babe in the woods with all this power and knowledge. They had the major label backing, but it was still very much an independent.

So along comes Tom Whalley, and he signs us. It was an interesting time. Because we sold so many Frizzle Fry records, all of a sudden all these major labels that had been ignoring us for years were knocking on our door. And Whalley was the only one who showed up at a gig, by accident, and just saw us, and saw the fervor of the audience and whatnot, and signed us because of us.

He had no idea we had sold 80, records. So here we were, going to be the second release on Interscope, and we got to know everybody at Interscope. It was a very exciting time to be part of that feeling that became this huge entity that is the Interscope of today. Your first at number one. My favorite album is Frizzle Fry , just because it represents such a spectacular time in our lives, because we were young, we were going up the hill, we were doing things nobody was doing, accomplishing things nobody—even ourselves—thought we were going to accomplish.

Speaking of that time, Primus seems like a band that has always thrived in a live setting. But Frizzle Fry brought you to the studio setting for the first time. What was that experience like? For us, it was so exciting when we put out that live record and the buzz that it got, the position it put us in, as far as going in and really laying down these tracks we had been performing live for so long, then augmenting them with some other elements—working with [producer Matt Winegar], bringing in some friends to do the Fart Sandwich Posse.

It was an amazing thing. Of course, we were probably stoned out of our minds half the time. We were throwing a lot of pasta at the wall back then, and it was some crazy pasta hitting the wall. He swears. Why do you keep looking at him like that? Sign In Create Account. This story is over 5 years old.