Wall of Mouths

matthew wrote:

Primus are so cool. Some say they are crap because their tunes are so damn funked out! And Les is a real weirdo. But we dont want any old lead singer do we?
All their drummers have been great!
I’ll kill the painters that came into our house and stole Antipop from me! Funnily enough that album I consider to be a little sell out considering they got bands who were trendy to produce the album in certain songs. That would be Limp Bizkit!
Have any of you guys got their DVD animals should not try to act like humans or something?

Hmm… where to begin. Primus are cool, sure, but to use that as your only adjective is a spit in the face of gretness. ‘Funked out’?! ‘FUNKED OUT’?!!!! Yeah, they have funky moments, sure; but check your media player genre list- Primus are Primus, defying genre and cultures. I’ve never heard anyone say they’re crap because they’re ‘funked out’. Les is not a weirdo- he’s a real, genuine, nice guy and a phemonenon to boot. Who are ‘we’ exactly, who don’t want any old lead singer? les’ voice adds something unique and an extra layer of melody and also a whole new concept of disbelief that he’s busting out these riffs… while singing. You’ll ‘kill’ your builders, huh. Doubt it. Very unorigional threat. Antipop… Antipop… the greatest album ever made by mortal men. ‘A LITTLE SELL OUT???!!!!!!’ A little fucking SELL OUT?! LIKE IT FUCKING MATTERS!!! ARRRGH! And why, dear GOD why did you ‘consider’ it so? because they got Limp Bizkit to produce it, and they only did that because Limp Bizkit were trendy… The album was made in 1996. Limp Bizkit were NOT big, or trendy. It wasn’t even limp Bizkit- it was Fred Durst, and only one song, which still rocks despite his interference (or, maybe for all his talentlessness, he’s actually a good producer). It just goes to show, when you draw this minor indiscression to the forefront and completly ignore the fact that they had TOM WAITS as a geust producer for another song, as well as geust vocals on a different one. I bet you’ve never even HEARD of Tom Waits. And your dismissive ham-fisted nuisance crap question if anyone has the DVD ‘Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People’ (that’s what it’s called)… don’t even get me started. Oh, wait you have. It sickens me.

As a final point, please ignore everything above this. None of what I have just written was meant to be taken seriously, it is in fact, a severly exaggerated hyperbole of my own feelings on the matter. I just thought it’d be funny to be a complete asshole for a while. Have a good day.

OK… Antipop shows Primus as their very best- mixing pure headbanging rock with insane funk riffage and a hearty dose of weirdness better than on any of their other albums before or afterward. Just because it’s more definably ‘music’ than their other albums doesn’t mean its poppy- not by a long shot. They take pop music on at its on game- infusing it with Primus style and destroying it from within. They killed Nu metal before it even happened with this album. And yeah, I noticed Tom Morello on there- lets be honest here, they’re names aren’t hard to miss- they’re on the tracklist next to the song names. And laquerhead is still a great song. And Dirty Drowning Man is amazing.

I like Primus because they did the south park theme and a song about winona ryders fanny. :D

my cat’s breath smells of cat food - ralph wiggum

Primus I would love to see live. I would be jizzing my pants for the whole gig.

tatty seaside town wrote:

i´ve seen all the primus dvd stuff available so far. at last i am going to see the drummer dvd tim alexander “herb” did, in the near future.

in “animals …” they are their own support band. playing some fav tunes and after that they play the whole song list from the “frizzle fry” album. just nice!

Primus is one of these bands (perhaps the only one?), that just defines their own type of music, just by playing it.

Hope they get back to europe, at least austria :) But Les just tours with his solo stuff and other projects in america. :(

:o That would be the ” Hallucino-Genetics ” Live DVD.

Squall wrote:

:o That would be the ” Hallucino-Genetics ” Live DVD.

Beat me to it…

Oh, thanks for the compliaments, matthew. I am indeed a god among among men as you say. But don’t call me Mr. Know-it-All. I don’t see how I called them weird, btw, I just said they had their own style, and there’s a big difference between saying they aren’t musical, and saying that they do things that defy the conventions of music.

sonofjaguare wrote:

From Frizzle Fry through to Pork Soda it was cool and a breath of fresh air but they,for me,started going downhill with Tales From The Punchbowl and then “Herb” bailed and then “Brain” came along and is a cool drummer,but I never regained interest.Just recently started listening to some of the older stuff again.Anti-Pop was just a terrible album all around.Seems like they had no ideas and got all these different people to produce the songs cuz of no inspiration whatsoever.

Brown Album would be good if it had decent production. It’s basically their St. Anger.

Enjoy the Primus peace out.
Get over it.

Primus is playing for the P****yShite, non?

No

http://www.around.be/clients/primus/beer/index_nl.htm

5.2% alcohol it seems.

I’ve one of their albums (the one with spoons with faces as the sleeve), but it sounds like crazy shit that I just don’t “get”.

Is it luck is absolutely hilarious, nails me funny bone every time, it’s just so well loony and fun!

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese is the best one to start with, absolutely brilliant album!

antipoop is my favorite

Squall wrote:

Antipoop :D

sp- i meant anti-pop

god les claypool bums limp bizkit