All these groups sound like a buncha frat guys whose parties you’d go to for the chicks and the beer, but you wouldn’t cross the quad to see āem, y’know?
Not since the Unsane have I heard aggressive noise-rock with such weight. You can’t hear the words, you can’t hear the chords, but it works in a big way.
When the other two thirds of Primus are removed, you really miss the psycho-sound effects, general guitar noodling craziness, and high-caffeine drumming.
Look, Beck wrote a tune on Unchained, as did Chris Cornell. He’s lived harder and played faster than any other man around the joint. There is no substitute.
Jim is notable for stitching great melodies to twilight-zone lyrics with She’s Dead,” “Someday Cafe (the dance mix),” and the hilarious “At the Funeral.”