Topic: Album review #23: Primus, Tales From The Punchbowl
+Anonymous A — 11 years ago #42,930
I ought to really like Primus. Exceptional musicianship, especially from Les Claypool. Surreal humour. Original song-writing. And yet for some reason I find their albums a bit of a hard slog to get through. I think it's because I'm very much an 'album' guy, I like hearing how a record 'flows'. And bands like Primus (and Ween and They Might Be Giants and similar groups) have great songs but over the course of an album it all gets a bit tiring.
Tales From The Puchbowl is an exception, and in my opinion their best work. Winona's Big Brown Beaver, Southbound Pachyderm (brilliant drum work on this one), Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats, and the quirky De Anza Jig are the highlights of this solid, consistent record.
Oddly enough I think Claypool's best work is actually not with his own band, but the stuff he's done on Tom Waits' records.
7/10
+Anonymous B — 11 years ago, 9 minutes later[T] [B] #467,646
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+Anonymous C — 11 years ago, 53 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #467,657
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+Anonymous E — 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #467,717
tales from the punchbowl was amazing, you're stupid
+Anonymous F — 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #467,723
Brown Album was better.
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