My Name Is Mud
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"My Name is Mud" is the 1993 smash hit song by alternative rock band Primus, the first single off of their album Pork Soda. Les Claypool has said at some concerts it is about a "fucked up person who murdered his parents" (delightfully named Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie) but the lyrics seem to describe a blue-collar drunk who killed his friend during an incident where they were both drunk and the friend ruined his "patent shoes." In the song the main character is looking back on the incident without regret.
The song was released as a single in 1993 and received heavy rock radio airplay and some popular radio airplay. It was enough to put Primus, who had earned respect for their previous single "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver", on the Billboard top 10 a week after Pork Soda's debut.
In the summer of 1993, Primus released a video for "My Name is Mud", directed by Mark Kohr. The video is about a blue-collar man digging to bury a man he murdered, while Bob Cock is at a spa with fat people drinking pork soda and relaxing in mud. The video received heavy airplay on MTV. The animated duo Beavis and Butt-head gave the video a positive review. To the disappointment of fans, the video was kicked off MTV in 2001, deemed unsafe for children.
Trivia
During the shooting of the video, Bob Cock accidentally dropped his towel, showing his privates. The band made fun of it in commetary on the 2003 DVD, saying the towel dropping synchronises with the bass line in an outtake.
The song includes the clip "Where ya goin' city boy!" from the 1972 movie Deliverance.
| Primus |
| Les Claypool | Larry LaLonde | Tim Alexander |
| Brian Mantia | Todd Huth | Jay Lane | Bob Cock |
| Discography |
|---|
| Albums/EPs: Suck on This | Frizzle Fry | Sailing the Seas of Cheese | Miscellaneous Debris | Pork Soda | Tales from the Punchbowl | Brown Album | Rhinoplasty | Antipop | | Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People | Hallucino-Genetics, Live 2004 |
| Songs: "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" | "Mrs. Blaileen" | "Shake Hands With Beef" | "Over the Falls" | "Lacquerhead" |
| Related articles |
| Blind Illusion | Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains | Guns N' Roses | Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade | No Forcefield | Oysterhead | Possessed | Prawn Song Records |
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