YMMV / Primus

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • "Salmon Men" from the end of Green Naugahyde. It's a short reprise of an earlier track, "Last Salmon Man", but a fairly weird one, as multiple copies of Les repeatedly sing the chorus over a creepy circus organ version of the main riff.
  • "Grandad's Little Ditty" from Sailing the Seas of Cheese - a brief acapella track where Les portrays an old man singing in the shower, complete with running water sound effects.
  • "Lermaninoff" from Primus and the Chocolate Factory, an entire five-second track where Larry LaLonde does a guitar cover of the Mozart excerpt that serves as Wonka's musical lock.
  • "To Defy", a 28 second reprise of "To Defy The Laws of Tradition", now with 47% more incomprehensibility, with the main riff itself being hard to detect.
  • "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" on Frizzle Fry is literally a clip of a song written & recorded by the album's producer with zero involvement by anyone in Primus.
• Broken Base:
  • Over almost any post- Pork Soda album.
    • Tales from the Punchbowl, excellent prog or a failed experiment?
    • The Brown Album, great garage rock, or amateur lo-fi crap? "Shake Hands with Beef" is the one song exempt from this argument.
    • Primus and the Chocolate Factory , charming nostalgic trip or a self-indulgent Les Claypool project forced to be a Primus album?
  • Who the best drummer is. Is it Herb for his technical ability and creativity, Brain for his groove and power, or Jay Lane for his funkiness and ability to serve as a medium between the other two?
• Discredited Meme: Les tends to be pretty dismissive towards the "Primus Sucks" slogan, having heard it for so long.
• Epic Riff: Most famously, "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" and "My Name is Mud." But also "Tommy the Cat", "Groundhog Day", "Hamburger Train", "Electric Uncle Sam" and "Lacquer Head." Most of them tend to be on the bass.
  • "Renegade... C'mere, boy..."
• Friendly Fandoms: With tool, Ween, and Rush.
• Memetic Mutation: The uncanny, stiff, and cartoonish movements from the cowboys in the video for "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" became popular shitposting memes on various social media sites. GIFs of the three awkwardly walking shoulder to shoulder in the field is especially common.
• Misaimed Fandom: Les was particularly perplexed by those who embraced "Lacquer Head" as a stoner anthem - one of the substance-abusing characters in the song is depicted as an asocial loser, one indirectly dies from their actions, and another ends up in a coma.
• Nausea Fuel: The disgusting shirtless man serving up disgustingly-shot nachos at the start of the video for "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver".
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Quirky Work: Primus is a very unusual American band for sure. They have such a strange mix of bass-led Funk Rock, Thrash Metal, Progressive Rock and Psychedelic Rock that they're the only band on Winamp with their own ID3 tag.
• Sequel Displacement: Sailing the Seas of Cheese to Frizzle Fry, to the point where "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" was erroneously regarded as their first single.
• Signature Song: A four-way tossup between "John the Fisherman", "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver", "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver", and "My Name Is Mud".
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • The cowboy costumes in the music video for "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" may be a bit "uncanny" as stated above (though, this was clearly intentional) but there's no denying that they are incredibly well made and the faces move so fluidly that you'd swear you were watching a really good looking CGI video rather than live action.
  • The music video for "Mr Krinkle" was shot in one take. The fact that they were able to film that much stuff going on in the background behind Les Claypool is very impressive indeed.

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