{"id":6633,"date":"2015-10-20T21:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T01:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2022-11-01T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:40:19","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-mr-krinkle-primus-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2015\/10\/20\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-mr-krinkle-primus-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Mr. Krinkle” — Primus (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blgporksoda\"Say there Mr. Krinkle let’s cruise the Bastard boat<\/em>
\nDamn then sonsabitches with their gill-nets set afloat<\/em>
\nI flip on my tele and I watch the waters die<\/em>
\nC’mon Mr. Krinkle tell me why…<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh good<\/em>, more creepy pig imagery…<\/p>\n

Primus is a band that will always make you leap out of your skin and go BWAHHHH!! just from the sheer oddity of it all, and I really can’t think of a better compliment for any band carving out a niche in an industry dominated by what Larry Fine called “a philistine paradigm of poo-poo’ery”. I may or may not have just made that last bit up. Whatever.<\/p>\n

I first heard the absolutely demented and disturbing Mr. Krinkle <\/strong>in the summer of 1993, where your host was a very young dude getting all sorts of happy with his buds while visiting Des Plaines, Illinois. Later on during that trip I’d end up getting arrested, but that’s a rhubarb for another pie. Anyway, there we were, all sorts of wobbly, when the video for Mr. Krinkle <\/em>came on MTV. Make your snide remark about how “MTV used to play music” on your own time.<\/p>\n

Anyway: the Mr. Krinkle video. I. Was. Riveted. And mindblown. And disturbed. And what the what the WHAT WAS THAT?<\/p>\n

That creepy riff. Those freakish vocals. That nightmarish tone. What the hell…?<\/p>\n

And the video itself was no picnic either. I needed a long talk with no one afterward.<\/p>\n

So anyway… it has long since earned its spot on our Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs<\/em> playlist, and the fact that it hasn’t shown up until now is grossly unfortunate. So let’s rectify that right now, shall we?<\/p>\n