Frizzle Fry
by Primus
- Type: Album
- Released: May 1990
- Label: Caroline
- Country: United States
- Length: 55:57
- Community rating: 4.03/5 from 17 ratings
Artists on this release: Tim "Herb" Alexander, Larry LaLonde, Les Claypool
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Frizzle Fry is the debut studio album by American rock band Primus. It was released on February 7, 1990, by Caroline Records. Produced by the band and Matt Winegar, the album was recorded at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco in December 1989. In 2015, Primus frontman Les Claypool ranked Frizzle Fry as his favorite Primus album.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, conscious, dissonant, drugs, male-vocalist, noisy, progressive, rhythmic, satirical, suburban, technical, uncommon-time-signatures
Tracklist
- To Defy the Laws of Tradition (06:40)
- Groundhog's Day (04:58)
- Too Many Puppies (03:56)
- Mr. Knowitall (03:49)
- Frizzle Fry (06:03)
- John the Fisherman (03:37)
- You Can't Kill Michael Malloy (00:25)
- The Toys Go Winding Down (04:35)
- Pudding Time (04:07)
- Sathington Willoughby (00:24)
- Spegetti Western (05:41)
- Harold of the Rocks (06:17)
- To Defy (00:37)
- Hello Skinny/Constantinople (04:48)
Credits
- Les Claypool - vocals, bass, electric bass, electric upright bass [electric fiddle bass], double bass [string bass], lyrics by [all lyrics by]
- Larry LaLonde - guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Snap - artwork [sculpture airbrushed by], illustration [cartooning by], design/illustration
- Lance "Link" Montoya - artwork [sculpture by]
- Paul Haggard - design [jacket design by], photography by
- Tim "Herb" Alexander - drums
- Ron Rigler - engineer
- Matt Murman - engineer [second engineer]
- David Lefkowitz - management
- John Golden - mastered by
- Brain Mantia - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Clem Donahue - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Deanne Franklin - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Flapjax Libby - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Mike Bordin - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Sathington Stomp - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Smiley — “Calling John The Fisherman” - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Trouz Cuevas - other [fart sandwich posse]
- Jim Thompson - photography by [photo, left inside panel & center inside panel]
- Tony Alves - photography by [photo, left outside panel]
- Harold O - photography by [photo, right inside panel]
- Matt Winegar - producer
- Primus - producer, written-by [all songs written by], arranged by [all songs arranged by]
- Todd Huth - written-by [guitar melodies written by]