Violent & Funky

So how did anybody find out about Primus? Inform me...

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Janszoon

I don't understand the question. Are you operating under some kind of assumption that the only way people found out about bands in the 90s was via mainstream rock radio?

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Violent & Funky

No, but I presumed bands like Primus that were signed to major labels and charted were discovered through means other than word-of-mouth and underground zines...

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sometimes I don't thrill you
sometimes I think I'll kill you
just don't let me fuck up will you
'cause when I need a friend it's still you

Janszoon

Primus is, to me, the classic example of a slow burn band. They never had some huge breakthrough, they just slowly got more and more well-known throughout the 90s. Urban and I both first heard of them from Biil & Ted's Bogus Journey. Other people no doubt saw one of their videos on 120 Minutes or heard about them from their friends. As the 90s wore on they got bigger and had a couple videos on daytime MTV so they became more well-known. By the second half of the 90s they had some songs that you might hear on mainstream rock radio sometimes but they were hardly the staple of it that you seem to think they were.

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