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Brown Album by Primus
Brown Album is an album by Primus, released in 1997. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Shake Hands With Beef”, on 2 lists with a best position of #65.
Brown Album, Primus's fifth studio album, came out on July 8, 1997, through Interscope and Les Claypool's own Prawn Song imprint, and it marks a changing of the guard behind the kit. Tim Alexander had left the year before, and Bryan "Brain" Mantia took over the drums for his first record alongside Claypool and guitarist Larry LaLonde. The trio's warped worldview is intact: Claypool's bass steering every song, LaLonde's guitar skittering around the edges, and the words peopled with the usual oddballs and grotesques.
It split the room. Critics and longtime fans gave it a mixed hearing, and the Mantia lineup would cut only one more studio album, Antipop in 1999, plus the covers EP Rhinoplasty and the theme for South Park, before the band went on hiatus in 2000.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Brown Album on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake Hands With Beef | 2 | #65 | – | 1997 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.