I’ve been a Primus fan for longer than South Park has been a present. Now that Season 27 of the legendary cartoon has began on the 2025 TV schedule (and began in true South Park vogue with a controversial episode), I’ve been seeing a number of clips come up in my social media feed, and a kind of options Primus’ fearless chief, Les Claypool, speaking concerning the recording of the theme tune. It seems, the model on the finish of every episode was purported to be the opening theme. Right here’s what occurred.
The Unique Concept Was The Slower Model
Not too long ago, Claypool sat down for an interview with YouTuber Rick Beato, and whereas the complete interview has not but been launched on Beato’s channel, the report producer did drop a part of it as a YouTube brief. Within the video, Beato asks Claypool the way it happened, and Claypool tells him,
The humorous factor is, what you hear on the finish of the South Park episode is what we really gave them
That slower, extra plodding model of the tune heard as the top credit roll is the model Primus recorded. The loopy factor is, that’s the one model they recorded. Claypool explains that Comedy Central thought the theme tune was too gradual. Slightly than re-record the tune, which Claypool says Primus didn’t have time for, he instructed them to “velocity it up.”
In fact, it’s not just like the tune sounds just like the Chipmunks singing, so Claypool did must re-record the vocals. So Parker and Stone went to a Primus present and had Claypool report it on the spot, as Claypool explains,
I re-recorded it into a bit of tape recorder, and so they took it again and so they took over the world.
Earlier than doing the recording, Claypool and the opposite guys in Primus weren’t satisfied the present would work anyway, therefore their reluctance to let it take an excessive amount of of their time, nevertheless it seems that rushing it up was the most effective factor they may have executed, because the driving twang is ideal for the subversive comedy.
Primus Was The Solely Music Trey Parker And Matt Stone Might Agree On
The entire purpose Primus was even requested to do the theme was, in accordance with Claypool, as a result of the quirky trio was the one band that Parker and Stone have been each joyful listening to. Claypool tells Beato,
From what I understood, as they have been making the South Park pilot, they might hearken to completely different music…Trey appreciated one factor and Matt appreciated one other factor; the one factor they may agree on, from what I used to be instructed, was Primus.
It’s exhausting to think about some other band becoming the vibe of South Park, and its many outrageous episodes, fairly like Primus and their bizarre, distinctive, off-kilter sound. The theme tune has even develop into a fan favourite amongst Primus followers, which isn’t all the time the case with artists who do theme songs. The present, just like the band, is just not like anything, and it’s really a match made in South Park hell, in one of the simplest ways. After a brief break, South Park is again with extra from its newest season.