Suck On This

Primus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B000000HT8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,175 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #93 in Music > Indie Music > R&B > Funk

Track Listings

1. John The Fisherman

2. Groundhog`s Day

3. The Heckler

4. Pressman

5. Jellikit

6. Tommy The Cat

7. Pudding Time

8. Harold Of The Rocks

9. Frizzle Fry

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Suck on this, November 16, 2003

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Mike Chadwick (Gdynia,Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suck on This (Audio CD)

this very first Primus album still sounds very agressive and punchy - "Heckler","Jellikit","John the fisherman" are full of energy and anger. Claypool's virtuoso bass lines,Herb's hard drumming and some noisy guitars are what Primus is famous for on their live showes.here we have them in all grace.
The songs have many black humour in lyrics.Les is not only amazing bass player and vocalist,i believe he is the best lyricist in modern avantgarde rock.
i prefer their studio albums but i love the raw sound they have got here.brutal and unpolished.
hats off for Primus.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, March 6, 2004

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sdf "Mark" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suck on This (Audio CD)

This is a great album. My first primus album. Les Claypool is an amazing bassist, now i wish i had picked up the bass instead of the guitar!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I sucked on this, and it was good, December 9, 2003

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a pen name "the worst reviewer on amazon" (Take your best guess) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suck on This (Audio CD)

When i first glanced at suck on this a couple of months ago, I wasn't all that well motivated. After all, I already had frizzle fry, which 5 of the song on it, and pork soda which had "the pressman," and i also think that this is why there so few people reviewing it.
But then how did i come to buying it awhile later? As it turns out, this cd isn't all that appealig if you view it as an entirely different album, but if you view it as the songs from two early primus concerts packed in this really cool little digipack (if you get the re-release), so that it can be heard any time, any where.
As far as the music itself goes, it is amazing. and there are slight differences in the songs from thier studeo versions(except for jellikit, which a studeo if any, is yet to come), for example "John the fisherman," has a different, yet better intro, or the chorus of "the pressman," the drums are louder, and more appearent, which makes it sound a lot less awkward than the studeo version from "pork soda," the only critisizm here was the abscence of tom waits in "tommy the cat" but its still a good song.
One last comment isthat this is one of those great live albums, where the sound doesn't occaisianally get marred by the audience, when they are cheering in the middle of the song, nor are there those times when the singer pauses to let the audience sing part of the song, and you can't make out what they are saying. which makes it one of best collections of live songs I've ever heard.

overall 5/5