They Can't All Be Zingers

Greatest hits album by

Primus

Released

October 17, 2006

Recorded

1989–2003

Genre

Funk metal, alternative rock, experimental rock, alternative metal

Label

Interscope

Primus chronology

Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People
(2003)

They Can't All Be Zingers
(2006)

Green Naugahyde
(2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

They Can't All Be Zingers is a greatest hits compilation album by Primus. It was released through Interscope Records on October 17, 2006, the same day that their DVD, Blame It on the Fish, was released.

They Can't All Be Zingers includes 16 digitally remastered songs that span their entire career, including a previously unreleased and extended version of "Shake Hands With Beef", the Tom Waits collaboration "Coattails of a Dead Man", and "Mary the Ice Cube" from the 2003 DVD/EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People.

The Best Buy version of the album contains a bonus CD with four rare live tracks ("Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers," "Bob," "My Name Is Mud," & "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver") recorded at Woodstock '94, including the infamous version of "My Name Is Mud" where they were pelted with mud by the audience (in which Claypool responds by informing them of their "small and insignificant genitalia").

The album's title comes from a line from the stand-up act of comedian Neil Hamburger. The CD is packaged with an outer cellophane cover meant to represent a package of individually wrapped single slices of processed cheese. The artwork for the inner booklet and the CD looks like cheese itself. The wedge of cheese pictured on the sleeve has the shape of the head in the frying pan from Frizzle Fry emerging from it.

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Track listing

All lyrics are written by Les Claypool; all music is composed by Primus

No.	Title	Original album	Length
1.	"To Defy the Laws of Tradition"	Frizzle Fry	6:41
2.	"John the Fisherman"	Frizzle Fry	3:37
3.	"Too Many Puppies"	Frizzle Fry	3:58
4.	"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver"	Sailing the Seas of Cheese	3:11
5.	"Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers"	Sailing the Seas of Cheese	5:17
6.	"Tommy the Cat"	Sailing the Seas of Cheese	4:14
7.	"My Name Is Mud"	Pork Soda	4:45
8.	"Mr. Krinkle"	Pork Soda	5:25
9.	"DMV"	Pork Soda	4:56
10.	"Over the Electric Grapevine"	Tales from the Punchbowl	6:23
11.	"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver"	Tales from the Punchbowl	4:22
12.	"Southbound Pachyderm"	Tales from the Punchbowl	6:23
13.	"Over the Falls"	Brown Album	2:41
14.	"Shake Hands with Beef" (Extended Version)	Brown Album	4:23
15.	"Coattails of a Dead Man"	Antipop	5:17
16.	"Mary the Ice Cube"	Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People	4:37
Total length:			76:20

iTunes bonus track
No.	Title	Original album	Length
17.	"Mr. Knowitall" (Live)	Frizzle Fry	4:23
Total length:			80:43

Extra Cheese: *Best Buy* bonus tracks (recorded live at Woodstock 1994)
No.	Title	Original album	Length
17.	"Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers"	Sailing the Seas of Cheese
18.	"Bob"	Pork Soda
19.	"My Name Is Mud"	Pork Soda
20.	"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver"	Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Total length:			98:36

Personnel

Les Claypool - bass guitar, vocals
Larry LaLonde - guitar
Tim "Herb" Alexander - drums on all tracks, except...
- Bryan "Brain" Mantia - drums on "Shake Hands with Beef", "Over the Falls" and "Coattails of a Dead Man"
Tom Waits - vocals on "Tommy the Cat", vocals and Chamberlin on "Coattails of a Dead Man"
Martina Topley-Bird - vocals on "Coattails of a Dead Man"

Packaging and Design by Zoltron Illustration by Reuben Rude

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2006	The Billboard 200	#105

References

^ "They Can't All Be Zingers - Primus". Allmusic.

v t e Primus
Les Claypool Larry LaLonde Tim Alexander Todd Huth Jay Lane Brain
Studio albums	Frizzle Fry Sailing the Seas of Cheese Pork Soda Tales from the Punchbowl Brown Album Antipop Green Naugahyde Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble The Desaturating Seven
Live albums	Suck on This
Compilations	They Can't All Be Zingers The Revenant Juke: A Collection of Fables and Farce
EPs	Miscellaneous Debris Rhinoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People June 2010 Rehearsal Conspiranoid
Singles	"John the Fisherman" "Too Many Puppies" "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" "Tommy the Cat" "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" "My Name Is Mud" "DMV" "Mr. Krinkle" "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" "Southbound Pachyderm" "Shake Hands with Beef" "Behind My Camel" "Lacquer Head" "Tragedy's a' Comin'"
Videos	Cheesy Home Video Videoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Hallucino-Genetics Blame It on the Fish
Related articles	Discography Sausage (band) Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Oysterhead Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Les Claypool's Fancy Band Blind Illusion Possessed Prawn Song Records Lance Montoya
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