Someone add PRIMUS to the archives!!!!!!!

Hangedman wrote: ARGH! I already know i dont really like Primus, but ive seen the topic about wether or not they are prog so much that I have to form my own opinion now! By tomorrow I'll probably own three albums!

Definately get:

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Pork Soda

One of there covers albums, they both have a Peter Gabriel song on them: "The Family and the Fishing Net" and "The Intruder".

I dont think they are exactly prog (i just finished listening to pork soda as I type this) they have progressive elements, and I have grown to like them. Just hate the covers.

Wizard/TRueStar wrote: Hangedman wrote: I dont think they are exactly prog (i just finished listening to pork soda as I type this) they have progressive elements, and I have grown to like them. Just hate the covers. So you purchased the albums I suggested?  "The Intruder" is good!!! So is "Have A Cigar", it doesn't suck like Korn's cover they did.  You have sailing The Seas Of Cheese? GOOD STUFF  Get the DVD.  I said get it.

It's a damn good DVD I must say.

I think Primus are a great band, Les Claypool is a superb muso but................... the band aint prog.

You know.......... Les Claypool once auditioned for Metallica, they refused him as he would have shown up the guitarists lol.

clemdallaway wrote: I think Primus are a great band, Les Claypool is a superb muso but................... the band aint prog. You know.......... Les Claypool once auditioned for Metallica, they refused him as he would have shown up the guitarists lol.

Could you imagine Metallica mixed with Claypool bass?

I can see a certain amount of "progginess" in their music. If they were added, I don't know what sub-genre they would go under. They might have to create a new one--psycho-funk-prog or something. I loved this band back in the 90's, and I saw them open for Rush a couple times. They were a fantastic live band!

I'm probably in the minority here, but I thought Tales From The Punchbowl was far and away their best album, cover to cover.

JrKASperov wrote: They are far too repetitive to be prog.

I have to disagree. It might sound repetitive just as Yes or Genesis would be repetitive for someone that has not given the time to fully understand it, that in the end does not get it.

Primus might not be straight prog band. of course, Primus most notable caracteristic would be their "out of the way" style. However, in escense this band is really close to what progressive rock is. Begining with the direct influences, they have at first place King Crimson. Albums like Dicipline are the bases of Primus music and style. Rush, as well is one of the most important influences. Primus since the begining, played live rush's songs like YYZ among others. In the other hand, they have really weird melody lines and really complex timing lines, one of the, lets say, ways you can identify prog rock. Songs like "eleven", having a 11/8 time signature, something that I've never seen in any band before;  "year of the parrot", with a 7/4 switching to straight 4/4 continiously; and "here come the bastards" in 5/4 among others, show clearely Primus rythmic complexity. For these reasons, i think Primus deserves a place in this website.

Primussucks !!!