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SwingBreed
Desaturating Seven is actually the prequel to this album, they sucked all the colors out of the universe and that's why this album is brown.
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Sanity_Theorist
I keep flip flopping on my opinion of this production, it's like it's amazing at what it does but just isn't the kind of production I enjoy.
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Sanity_Theorist
Tracks 9 through 14 on this are easily among Primus's best to me so far, Les is at his best when doing social satire!
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Sanity_Theorist
Kinda odd that people dislike this production. I have audiophile tendencies, and this sounds very full despite the approach Les took with it. It sounds like a larger-than-life rehearsal studio recording set up, and I honestly find it very charming. Every instrument has good room within the mix, and the drums have a peculiar, yet very large sound to them for it. If Les was truly going for a 4 track garage band sound on this, he may have mastered it. This sounds absolutely incredible compared to, say, '80s death metal demos.
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SchWarG
@Quil420 I completely disagree. On this record, I feel like I'm in the room with Brain watching him drum. The hard hits sound fucking HARD, the ghost notes sound like ghost notes, and everything in between has dynamics. This is what it sounds like to be standing right next to a drummer in a rehearsal studio, and that's why I absolutely fucking love the production of this album. It sounds REAL, not over produced, not overmastered, not over anything. It sounds real. That and I love Les' bass tone on this album, really huge and warm tube tone. And Ler, well come on he has some of his best guitar work on this album. All in all, it's not the most accessible of Primus' catalog, but it's definitely one of their finest moments in my opinion.
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garynotrashcoug
The album that so many people (including Primus themselves) dislike. I think it's a great album. Far better than the ironically named Antipop IMHO.
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Quil420
I get "stripped down" and "lo fi", but he sounds like he's playing drums in a different room, down a distant hallway, with a blanket over the door and woolen mittens over his sticks. The cymbal work is inaudible. Ask any drummer - the sound of the drum is not just the whack of the stick on the head, but the way the batter head reverberates with the resonant head, as well as the timbre and pitch, and the way it resonates with the tonality of the wood, etc. All of this is missing from this recording. So we are left with… a guy whacking head.
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Ninja_Grooves
@PartySanCTG: The production value? it was recorded on a 4 track to give a garage sound, hence the name "the brown album" it just sounds dirty. I personally love it over the over produced Anti-pop, and highly polished Punchbowl.... Brown album is pure Primus. Fantastic album from start to finish.
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toddles822
Every time I listen to this album I think of "brown noise" because of its muddy production. Hey look it's called "Brown Album".
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PartySanCTG
Wow, the production here really fails. Good work overdistorting and clipping the drums, nameless engineers. Also, some of the tracks aren't really up to par compared to Punchbowl or Antipop...
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Weirdnessisgood
So Underrated.. The most catchy Primus album. (In my opinion) Just too good, not one shippable track..
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Ninja_Grooves
This album is awesome. When first released I didn't like it much because it strayed from traditional Primus. But as time went on I learned to love the raw "brown" sound, best tracks; Duchess, Puddin Taine, Golden Boy and Kalamazoo.
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Weirdnessisgood
One of my favorites, it's a good album it has it's own sound. every time I listen to it I think of wood paneling and other things brown for some resin...
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grfn
I'm absolutely smitten with the drums on this album. I had all these wild schemes in my head, trying to figure out how the drums sound like they do ("perhaps a delayed reverb going from L to R?) and then a friend of mine told me it was recorded with one mic! These guys really do suck!
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iamthepinky
@ boardjunkie: i think the drum sound is awesome for exactly the resaons that you hate it. i'm a fan of lo-fi music to begin with, though. i appreciate a little haze in my production...so i naturally gravitate to this primus album.
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noddyvantinking
I think Brain weren't really warmed into the band yet. His beats were very ordinary compared to what he can do, and what Herb had done before. Then again, i only played the album twice.
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Slimpicknsz
Some of you guys are way to picky, I would line this album up against all the "top" bands currently and it would still slaughter them.
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noddyvantinking
I listened to the cd twice and then gave it to a friend. I love a bit of Brain work ([artist]Praxis[/artist] Transmutation FTW) but he kept it very normal here. Maybe a few more listens I'd like it, whatever.
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boardjunkie
Great material, but the drum sound ruins it. FIrst time I've listened to it since I bought it and heard it a couple times and just couldn't take the production. This is really Brain's album since he insisted on recording it on analog tape. Not that that's a bad idea.....just like any recording medium you need to use it *wisely*. But they clearly didn't know how to get the most out of it....it sounds best on a cheap boom box. Actually it sounds like the drums were recorded on a cheap boom box! I've always wished they'd go back and re record this album (with Herb) so we can tolerate listening to it. Apt title tho....the drum sound is indeed "brown"...as in POOOOOP-EEEEEEEEEEE........
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gildermershina
Yeah, I love this album pretty much all the way through. One of the few albums I've heard that actually sounds brown. And the clipping and stuff just makes it sound even more antique.
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