This one also foregrounds the album's concept over its actual composition.īut it's a heck of a concept, even extending to the clever promotional gag of including 'golden Rock weirdos have inspired more than one Primus detour. Moon meets The Residents', with emphasis clearly on the latter influence. And the music itself wasĭescribed by Claypool in a Rolling Stone interview as 'early Peter Gabriel meets Dark Side of the Note), suggesting an attitude of humble tribute rather than satire. The album is dedicated 'to the wondrous talent of Gene Wilder' (and not Johnny Depp, please Like 'Candy Man', using sinister vocals and ominous marimbas (and yes: marimbas can be Claypool and company merely exposed the hidden underbelly of songs

There was always an element of childlike enthusiasm inĬlaypool's bass playing, matched to a not incompatible streak of adult subversion in Roald Dahl's Horrible remake that left the taste of feces in our mouths'.īut maybe the idea isn't so farfetched. Movie 'Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'.specifically the 1971 version, not the anemicĬGI reboot directed by Tim Burton, described by Primus frontman Les Claypool as a 'horrendous, On paper it looks like an off-color punchline: the art-thrashers of Primus, playing songs from the

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