Frizzle Fry
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| Studio album by Primus | ||||
| Released | February 7, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | Christmas 1989 | |||
| Studio | Different Fur, San Francisco, CA, USA | |||
| Genre | Alternative metal, funk metal | |||
| Length | 51:23 | |||
| Label | Caroline | |||
| Producer | Primus, Matt Winegar | |||
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Frizzle Fry is the debut studio album recorded by the band Primus.
Released in 1990 on Caroline Records, it features the band's first single and minor radio hit "John the Fisherman". It was remastered in 2002, after the original had been out of print for years, and was released on Prawn Song Records. The remaster includes an extra track, named "Hello Skinny/Constantinople", a cover of the tracks "Hello Skinny" and "Constantinople" by The Residents.
"You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" is an excerpt from the Spent Poets song of the same name. The album's producer, Matt Winegar, who also recorded and produced Suck on This, was a member of the group, and a clip is featured just before "The Toys Go Winding Down". The beginning of "To Defy the Laws of Tradition" is an excerpt from the song "YYZ" by the band Rush on their album Moving Pictures, sampled from the live version of "John the Fisherman" which appears on Suck on This. Another Suck on This sample also appears at the end of "Groundhog's Day"; the "Hey hey, Bob Cock here!" spoken intro from that album's version.
"Too Many Puppies" has been adopted by some sports venues as bumper music. The track "John the Fisherman" was used in the video game Guitar Hero II.
The album was performed live in its entirety on their Hallucino-Genetics Tour in 2004 and few more times in 2010. During Primus' 2004 Hallucino-Genetics Tour, where Frizzle Fry was performed as the second set, "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" was used in its entirety as a short set break, as opposed to merely the excerpt.
Reviewing the album for Allmusic, Ned Raggett notes that "it's pretty easy to see in retrospect how much of a melange went into the group's work. Nods but thankfully few outright steals to everything from Frank Zappa's arch humor and Funkadelic's sprawl to the Police's early, spare effectiveness crop up and, indeed, so does plenty of Metallica." He contends that "something about Frizzle Fry is ultimately and perfectly of its time and place."Robert Christgau simply describes the album as "Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen."
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