![]() ![]() Take “Jerry Was A Racecar Driver.” It’s probably the closest thing to a hit single this album produced. This is goofy music, but with an angry intensity that only 90’s Gen X rebellion has really ever delivered. Listen to those of kilter guitar shots and the thundering tom fills while Claypool’s hypnotically repetitive (and challenging) bass playing cycles over top.Ĭlaypool has a reedy voice which has a biting tone great for sarcasm and humour, but he puts so much into his performances that it can lend an unsettling intensity to it. The song opens with a rambling bass line and accordion accents that almost feels like it’s out of a Tom Waits song before all three instruments begin a bizarrely syncopated riff which comes across as a wall of overwhelming noise. ![]() Baker”, a satirical criticism of toxic army culture that doesn’t just recall Sergeant Hartman’s infamous speech from Full Metal Jacket, it actually quotes it. Live in 2004 but with the original line up ![]()
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