PRIMUS - SAILING THE SEAS OF CHEESE Vinyl LP

Heavyweight 2013 reissue

Opening with the creaky sounds of a ship at sea,Sailingcharts 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.--James Rotondi

Tracks:

1.1 Seas of Cheese
1.2 Here Come the Bastards
1.3 SGT. Baker
1.4 American Life
1.5 Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
1.6 Eleven
1.7 Is It Luck?
1.8 Grandad's Little Ditty
1.9 Tommy the Cat
1.10 Sathington Waltz
1.11 Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers
1.12 Fish on (Fisherman Chronicles, Chapter 2)
1.13 Los Bastardos

Label: Interscope Records