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| Released | February 7, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | December 1989 | |||
| Studio | Different Fur, San Francisco | |||
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| Length | 51:23 | |||
| Label | Caroline | |||
| Producer | Primus, Matt Winegar | |||
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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.
Primus self-financed the recording of Frizzle Fry using proceeds from their preceding album, Suck On This . [3] The completed album was then released in 1990 on Caroline Records. [3] Frizzle Fry features guitarist Larry LaLonde playing many parts written by previous guitarist Todd Huth who left before the recording of the album. [3]
Frizzle Fry 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.
"Too Many Puppies" is the first Primus song Les Claypool ever wrote. [3] "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 instrumental "YYZ" by the Canadian rock band Rush from their 1981 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.
The track "John the Fisherman" was used in the video game Guitar Hero II . [4]
The album was performed live in its entirety on the band's Hallucino-Genetics Tour in 2004 and a few more times in 2010. [5] During the Hallucino-Genetics Tour, "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" was featured in its entirety as a short set break, as opposed to merely the excerpt that appears on the album.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [6] |
| Chicago Tribune | [7] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide |  [8] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [9] |
| Metal Reviews | 86/100 [10] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [11] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 8/10 [12] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | 4.5/5 [13] |
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." [6] Robert Christgau simply describes the album as "Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen." [14]
In 2015, Primus frontman Les Claypool ranked Frizzle Fry as his favorite Primus album. [15]
All lyrics are written by Les Claypool; all music is composed by Primus, except where noted
| No. | Title | Music | Guitar melodies by | Length |
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| 1. | "To Defy the Laws of Tradition" | Huth | 6:42 | |
| 2. | "Groundhog'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" (Title misspelled as "Sathington Willoby" on back cover) | 0:24 | ||
| 11. | "Spegetti Western" | 5:43 | ||
| 12. | "Harold of the Rocks" | Huth | 6:17 | |
| 13. | "To Defy" | Huth | 0:36 | |
| Total length: | 51:23 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 14. | "Hello Skinny/Constantinople" (The Residents cover) | The Residents | 4:48 |
| Total length: | 56:11 | ||
Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes. [16]
Leslie Edward Claypool is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and author. He is best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band Primus since its formation in 1984. Frequently considered to be one of the greatest bassists of all time, his playing style is well known for mixing tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends, and slapping.
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