Frizzle Fry

Frizzle Fry
Studio album by Primus
Released	February 1990
Recorded	1989 at Different Fur, San Francisco, California
Genre	Alternative rock, progressive metal, funk rock
Length	51:23 (55:31 for reissue)
Label	Caroline (1990), Prawn Song (2002)
Producer	Primus, Matt "Exxon" Winegar
Primus chronology
Suck on This (1989) Frizzle Fry (1990) Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)
Singles from Frizzle Fry
"John the Fisherman" Released: 1990 "Too Many Puppies" Released: 1990 "Mr. Knowitall" Released: 1990

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	[2]

Frizzle Fry is the first studio album recorded by the band Primus. Suck on This, a live album, preceded its release.

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". 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. The beginning of "To Defy the Laws of Tradition" is an excerpt from the song "YYZ" by the band Rush on their "Moving Pictures" album, and was also featured in the live version of "John the Fisherman" which appears on "Suck on This".

"Too Many Puppies" has been adopted by some sports venues as bump music.^{[citation needed]} The track "John the Fisherman" was used in the video game Guitar Hero II.^[3]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Claypool (Sturgeon BMI), all music composed by Primus with the following exceptions:

• "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" composed and performed by Matt Winegar.
• "Hello Skinny/Constantinople" written by The Residents.
• Guitar melodies on "To Defy the Laws of Tradition", "Pudding Time", "Groundhog's Day", "Frizzle Fry", "John the Fisherman" and "Harold of the Rocks" composed by Todd Huth.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"To Defy the Laws of Tradition"	6:41
2.	"Groundhog's Day"	4:58
3.	"Too Many Puppies"	3:57
4.	"Mr. Knowitall"	3:51
5.	"Frizzle Fry"	6:05
6.	"John the Fisherman"	3:37
7.	"You Can't Kill Michael Malloy"	0:26
8.	"The Toys Go Winding Down"	4:35
9.	"Pudding Time"	4:09
10.	"Sathington Willoughby"	0:24
11.	"Spegetti Western"	5:43
12.	"Harold of the Rocks"	6:17
13.	"To Defy"	0:39
14.	"Hello Skinny/Constantinople" (2002 reissue only)	4:49

Personnel

Primus Les Claypool – electric bass, electric fiddle bass, string bass, vocals Larry LaLonde – electric guitar, acoustic guitar Tim "Herb" Alexander – drums Production Todd Huth – second acoustic guitar on "Toys" Stephen Marcussen – remastering Matt Murman – second engineer Primus – producer Ron Rigler – engineer Matt "Exxon" Winegar – producer (except "Hello Skinny/Constantinople")

Visual art Paul Haggard – jacket design, photography Lance "Link" Montoya – sculpture Snap – airbrushing, cartooning Sathington Willoughby Orchestra Todd (Todd Huth) – acoustic guitar Chunker (Larry LaLonde) – archtop acoustic guitar Exxon (Matt Winegar) – toy piano Herb (Tim Alexander) – toy organ Snap (Les Claypool) – banjo, string bass

References

1. ^ "Frizzle Fry - Primus". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r15768. 
2. ^ "CG: Primus". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Primus. 
3. ^ "Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed". IGN. 2006-10-09. http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/737/737956p1.html. Retrieved 2009-07-21.