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Topic: Album review #23: Primus, Tales From The Punchbowl

+Anonymous A11 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 B11 years ago, 9 minutes later[T] [B] #467,646

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·The Robot 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 11 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #467,647

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+Anonymous C11 years ago, 53 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #467,657

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+GO BACK TO SHITCHAN 11 years ago, 6 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #467,696

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+Anonymous E11 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 F11 years ago, 1 hour later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #467,723

Brown Album was better.

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