released Pork Soda

In 1993, Primus released Pork Soda , which managed to debut at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 . The album was darker than previous Primus efforts, dealing with murder, suicide, and alienation. The band has commented that prior to recording, they had been touring for nearly two solid years and were thus in a sombre mood. ” My Name Is Mud ” was the first single, reaching No. 9 on the U.S. Alternative Songs chart. ” DMV ” and ” Mr. Krinkle ” followed, the latter made into a video featuring Claypool in a pig suit and tuxedo playing upright bass in an abandoned warehouse as a carnival of oddities parades behind him, including Claypool’s wife and her twin sister. Claypool said he put his “heart and soul” into the video, but it received next to no airtime on MTV. In an interview with Guitar World magazine, Claypool disparaged the channel’s unwillingness to air the video, saying “it got played like six times.”