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Band:Primus DVD:Blame It On The Fish Released by:Powers Philms Writer: Mark Carras Media: MySpace Click Album Cover To Buy Now

Ok, I am a big Primus fan. I love the band and listen to them all the time. However, the same thing that sets them apart and makes them something refreshing to play when I start to get burnt out on my old school thrash also makes them annoying sometimes. It’s like a good plate of fries. Add just the right amount of salt on them and you have pure snackalicios greatness. Dump the entire salt shaker on to the taters and you get some nasty ass garbage that would be a torture to consume. The salt of Primus is their quirky nature. I love that about them! However, this DVD is like someone just dumped a huge ass salt shaker of quirky onto what could have been sonic yumminess. Great art demands intense thought to every little sprinkle of every ingredient. If we just start dumping without thought we will get crap 99% of the time. That is pretty much what happened here. How very sad!

Now I don’t want to say that this thing is totally worthless. I am sure it would make for great background noise at a party, music store, or even when trying to study something. Although normally many of the Primus songs would be very distracting if you were trying to study. That foot would get tapping, the air drums with your pencils start, and you just have to sing along when the chorus hits! Since this does not have any full songs, it never hits that frighteningly distracting level. So this is great for background noise. Not much else. Honestly, I think a regular full concert DVD would work better for the party though.

Now I know what some of you are thinking. The title says that this is going to be an abstract look and it is just that. Fair enough, but I don’t think anyone is truly ready for just how abstract this is. This thing makes the David Lynch movie Strange Highway look like a Friends episode in comparison! So I wanted this review to be a warning to all my fellow Primus fans that this should be the last Primus DVD you should buy. There is even recycled footage here of Les in the old guy make up talking about the past. Even the extras are so abstract that they are boring. I challenge anyone to watch this DVD all the way through without doing something else. No cleaning the house. No taking a break. No doing homework. No surfing the web for animal porn. Just you and the DVD face to face for the entire duration. If you claim you could do that, I want proof! In the end they tried for some artistic greatness. In the end they got something about as bland as the fish skinned cover that they dressed the DVD case with. This did not Rock My Monkey and I just don’t see how anyone can honestly defend it. Avoid this DVD if you can.

Band:Primus DVD:Blame It On The Fish Released by:Powers Philms Writer: Mark Carras Media: MySpace Click Album Cover To Buy Now

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