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Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese Audio CD

A fair review of the Primus "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Primus reviews here, or go back to the Primus tabs.

Primus Band: Primus
Title: Sailing the Seas of Cheese
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Release Date: 1991-05-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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 II) 13: Bastardos

Missing something!
They do. Primus sucks! I'm serious. Do they even have a bassist? Oh, yeah, they do. Les Claypool or some redneck name like that. It's so hard to hear him! All you can hear is extremely simple basslines. Do yourself a favour and check out "St. Anger" if you want some killer bass.


Hitting their stride
The sound, while still as alternate backwoods as ever, had been further fleshed out and refined, allowing the Other two players to compliment Claypool's distinctive brand of peculiarity in ways seldom to be reached again. Chronicling this fascinating trio's synergistic hell-funk fury really gets moving with this release.


unique use of the electric bass gitar odviously Geddy influenced
Ignore "Search for the Stars" or "Rock Idel" or whatever show and don't take Paula Abdule's ill-begotten "advice" about "loosing the gitar" and be a slap/vocalist god intended. In the late 80's and early 90's some bands of my generation were missing the experimental sounds of yore(sixties/early seventies) and this is what came of it, the best use of a bass gitar is as a medolic instrument, not just a backstander to the other "main" instrumentalist. The other members are far from weak though, particularly the drummer who has the gusto of his clearly stated influence by Bill Bruford of the "Bill Bruford Band" and "Yes" as well as "Genisis" and many other efforts.
Primus once opened for Rush.


Best Primus Album
This is my favorite Primus album. The title of my review says it all. Even Frizzle Fry in my opinion is a distant second. The best part of this is the songs. Primus was at the height of their creativity and songwriting and humor on this one. The quirky songs and lyrics still feel fresh, and its really a fun album to listen to. All the songs are good and SSC should be listened to all the way through if possible, but my personal favorites are:

"Here Come the Bastards"
"Sgt. Baker"
"American Life"
"Is it Luck?"
"Tommy the Cat"
"Those Damned Blue Collar Tweakers"
"Fish On"

If you can only buy two Primus albums, make them Sailing on Seas of Cheese and Frizzle Fry. If you can only own one, make it this one. Of course if you're more a fan of the standard 3 minute top 40 rock song like something from Nickleback, Avril Levine or (gulp) Creed, then you'll probably not know what to do with this.
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SWEET CHEESE
GET YOUR CHEESE!. THIS EARLY 90`S PRIMUS IS GREAT,PRIMUS IS PRIMUS IS PRIMUS,YOU KNOW YOUR GOING TO GET SOME GOOD FUNKY ROCK WHEN YOU BUY A PRIMUS CD,I GUESS YOU COULD CALL THIS KINDA CHILLI PEPPERISH BUT HEAVIER AND BETTER AND MORE DIVERSE WITH MORE SKILL ON THE INSTUMENTS,THE MUSICIANSHIP ON ALL PRIMUS DISCS IS SUPERB AND THIS IS NO DIFFERENT.


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