Description
Tracklist:
1 Pork Chop's Little Ditty 0:21
2 My Name Is Mud 4:45
3 Welcome To This World 3:38
4 Bob 4:39
5 DMV 4:57
6 The Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon (Fisherman's Chronicles, Part 3) 4:38
7 Nature Boy 5:32
8 Wounded Knee 2:24
9 Pork Soda 2:20
10 The Pressman 5:08
11 Mr. Krinkle 5:24
12 The Air Is Getting Slippery 2:27
13 Hamburger Train 8:10
14 Pork Chop's Little Ditty 0:43
15 Hail Santa 1:48
Once audiences got a chance to hear Primus' instantly recognizable sound, driven by Les Claypool's bizarrely virtuosic bass riffs, their audience grew by leaps and bounds. It was enough to make their second major-label album, Pork Soda, one of the strangest records ever to debut in the Top Ten. Stylistically, it isn't much different from Sailing the Seas of Cheese, though the band does stretch out and jam more often. This can result in some overly repetitive sections, since Claypool's riffs are the basis for most of the compositions, but it also showcases the band's ever-increasing level of musicianship. Their ensemble interplay continues to grow in complexity and musicality, and that's really what fans want from a Primus record anyway. The material isn't quite as consistent as Seas of Cheese, though there are numerous high points; among them are "My Name Is Mud," on which Claypool plays his instrument like percussion, and "Mr. Krinkle," where he switches to a bowed upright bass. There are hints of lyrical darkness stripped of the band's usual goofiness (especially in the suicide lament "Bob"), but for the most part, the humor is again split between eccentric character sketches, cheery paranoia, and annoying novelties (with a slightly higher percentage of the latter than before). Still, despite occasional flaws, what makes Pork Soda a success is that the band keeps finding novel variations on their signature sound, even if they never step out of it.
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