Primus - Sailing The Sea

New Vinyl Record - Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Opening with the creaky sounds of a ship at sea, their second full-length album, charts the funk-punk waters the San Francisco Bay area band returns to again and again. It's all here: the acerbic humor, Les Claypool's gurgling fretless bass lines, Larry LaLonde's seasick metal guitar, and Tim Alexander's Bill Bruford-inspired syncopation. The narrator of "Sgt. Baker" aims to "rape your personality," while the reapers of the "American Life" live out their dreams "residing in a cardboard box." Tom Waits makes a cameo on the funky back-alley tale "Tommy the Cat," and the protagonist of "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" has "too many cold beers one night" and "wraps himself around a telephone pole." Primus concert fave "Those Damned Blue Collar Tweakers" helps round out this bizarre prog-punk masterpiece.

• 1 Seas of Cheese
• 2 Here Come the Bastards
• 3 SGT. Baker
• 4 American Life
• 5 Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
• 6 Eleven
• 7 Is It Luck?
• 8 Grandad's Little Ditty
• 9 Tommy the Cat
• 10 Sathington Waltz
• 11 Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers
• 12 Fish on (Fisherman Chronicles, Chapter 2)
• 13 Los Bastardos