I could only find five other artists who did that, and it’s an odd list unto itself ( MC5, Hüsker Dü, Jane’s Addiction, The Dave Matthews Band, and Jeff Buckley). It’s pretty rare that a band debuts with a live album, and I know this because I researched it.
Love them or hate them, there’s no one else like them. Primus is a rare commodity in the music world a group unafraid to go against trends, ignore the status quo, and be who they are while playing by their own rules. You’ll commonly hear them called “prog rock”, and I describe it as “eclectic rock” when trying to explain them to people, but it’s so much more than that. Their diversity and variety of musical influences combined with their gifted songwriting abilities make their sound hard to define and even more difficult to label. The Primus catalog has expanded over the past 27 years, representing a remarkable evolution of sound. Other drummers have come and gone, but Les, Ler, and Herb will always be Primus to the “purists” of their fan base. At that time, they had settled in to the core lineup of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry “Ler” LaLonde, and drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander.
They started with a demo recorded as “Sausage,” but then changed the name to “Primal” for a short time, eventually launching their first release as Primus. Primus emerged in 1990 after a few unstable years, surviving a handful of personnel changes and even a couple of name changes. Primus is more of a hallucinatory audio experience than a band, their personnel are extraordinarily talented masters of their instruments and their craft, and their unique presence and creative originality are virtually unparalleled.
PRIMUS RARE SONGS FULL
Full disclosure: Primus is my absolute all-time favorite band, without question, and has been since the first time I heard their music back in 1992. I mean, there’s a back button on your browser for a reason.In honor of the new album release The Desaturating Seven from Primus on September 29th, I have gone back and re-familiarized myself with their existing catalog. Again, that’s just my impression, which is a kind of opinion, but hardly an authoritative one. This is mostly just a mini-vacation from strange fish tales and interstellar elastic overdrive. I don’t have anything more to add, and I don’t see any purpose in dissecting the band’s arrangements. I think it’s sweet that they wear their affections on their sleeve, however, even if it’s only for a little while. Presumably, you buy Primus albums to hear the band twist apart conventional song structures and not to hear Les Claypool sing. Now, Primus has probably never played it as straight as they do on The Meters’ Tippi Toes, and you might be bored with that. They could’ve called it The Cheese Tortellini Incident. Imagine Primus covering Butthole Surfers or Pixies or, hell, The Beatles. I would’ve personally loved to hear an entire album of covers. I don’t know if a slightly more sinister version of The Residents is possible. Intruder sounds like a slightly darker Peter Gabriel, Making Plans for Nigel a slightly more dissatisfied XTC, Have a Cigar a slightly nastier Pink Floyd. Miscellaneous Debris may be the most “normal” record they’ve ever released, insofar as these songs actually sound like songs. To fill the gap between their third and fourth albums, Primus released an EP’s worth of cover songs featuring an eclectic selection that ranged from The Meters to The Residents. This EP confirms what you already knew: that Les and the band had a very interesting record collection.
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