Frizzle Fry

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.^[1]

Live performance

The album was performed live in its entirety on their Hallucino-Genetics Tour in 2004 and few more times in 2010.^[2] 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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Robert Christgau	^[4]

Critical reception

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."^[3] Robert Christgau simply describes the album as "Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen."^[4]

Public reception

Frizzle Fry was well received by the public. On Rate Your Music the album has an average rating of 3.75 of 5, based on more than 2,550 ratings,^[5] and on Sputnikmusic the album has an "excellent" average rating of 4.2 of 5, based on more than 850 ratings.^[6]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Claypool; all music composed by Primus, except where noted.

No.	Title	Music	Guitar melodies by	Length
1.	"To Defy the Laws of Tradition"		Huth	6:42
2.	"Groundhog's Day" (alternative title: "Ground Hog's Day")		Huth	4:58
3.	"Too Many Puppies"			3:57
4.	"Mr. Knowitall"			3:51
5.	"Frizzle Fry"		Huth	6:04
6.	"John the Fisherman"		Huth	3:37
7.	"You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" (performed by Matt Winegar)	Winegar		0:25
8.	"The Toys Go Winding Down"			4:35
9.	"Pudding Time"		Huth	4:08
10.	"Sathington Willoughby"			0:24
11.	"Spegetti Western"			5:43
12.	"Harold of the Rocks"		Huth	6:17
13.	"To Defy"		Huth	0:36
Total length:				51:17

2002 reissue bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Hello Skinny/Constantinople" (The Residents cover)	The Residents	4:48
Total length:			56:05

Credits

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.^[7]

Personnel

Primus

Les Claypool – bass, electric upright bass, double bass, vocals
Larry LaLonde – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Tim "Herb" Alexander – drums

Additional musicians

Todd Huth – acoustic guitar on "The Toys Go Winding Down"
Sathington Willoughby Orchestra
- Les Claypool aka "Snap" – banjo, string bass
- Larry LaLonde aka "Chunker" – archtop acoustic guitar
- Tim Alexander aka "Herb" – toy organ
- Matt Winegar aka "Exxon" – toy piano
- Todd Huth – acoustic guitar

Production

Primus – production
Matt "Exxon" Winegar – production (except "Hello Skinny/Constantinople")
Ron Rigler – engineering
Matt Murman – second engineer
Stephen Marcussen – remastering

Visual art

Lance "Link" Montoya – sculpture
"Snap" – airbrushing, cartooning
Paul Haggard – jacket design, photography

Studios

Different Fur, San Francisco, CA, USA – recording
Marcussen Mastering, Los Angeles, CA, USA – remastering

References

↑ "Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed". IGN. 2006-10-09. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
↑ "Interview with Les Claypool of Primus: Odd Man Out | The Aquarian Weekly". Theaquarian.com. 2010-10-08. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
1 2 Raggett, Ned. Frizzle Fry - Primus at AllMusic
1 2 "Robert Christgau: CG: Primus". www.robertchristgau.com.
↑ "Frizzle Fry by Primus (Album, Funk Metal)". rateyourmusic.com. Sonemic. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
↑ "Primus - Frizzle Fry User Opinions". www.sputnikmusic.com. Sputnikmusic. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
↑ Frizzle Fry (remastered edition, liner notes). Primus. Prawn Song Records. 2002.

External links

Frizzle Fry at AllMusic

Primus

Les Claypool Larry LaLonde Tim Alexander Todd Huth Jay Lane Bryan Mantia

Studio albums	Frizzle Fry Sailing the Seas of Cheese Pork Soda Tales from the Punchbowl Brown Album Antipop Green Naugahyde Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble

Live albums	Suck on This

Compilations	They Can't All Be Zingers

EPs	Miscellaneous Debris Rhinoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People June 2010 Rehearsal

Videos	Cheesy Home Video Videoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Hallucino-Genetics Blame It on the Fish

Related articles	Discography Sausage (band) Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Oysterhead Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Les Claypool's Fancy Band Blind Illusion Possessed Prawn Song Records Lance Montoya

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