Shower Curtain Effects

Album number two.
Released spring 2007.

T-Bear Records, 16 tracks








Tracks:
1. Number To
Recorded Saturday 9 September 2006.
Keyboard - Mats
Harmonica - Simen
Hi-hats - Audun
Small talk - Audun, Mats and Simen

2. Big Kyk
Recorded Saturday 9 September 2006.
Vocals - Simen
Rhythm guitar - Hieu
Electric drum kit - Audun
Staccato guitar - Mats

3. Karambolage
Recorded Saturday 11 November 2006.
Vocals, drums - Simen
Bass - Martin
Solo guitar, keyboard - Mats
Rhythm guitar - Hieu

4. George
Recorded Saturday 11 November 2006.
Vocals - Simen
Chorus, solo guitar - Hieu
Rhythm guitar - Mats
Bass - Martin
Drums - Drumsite

5. Der Sola Renn i New Orleans [trad.]
Recorded 19 February 2007.
Vocals, chorus - Simen
Rhythm guitar - Hieu
Solo guitar - Mats
Bass - Martin
Drums - Audun

6. Vår Søg [Sommerro]
Recorded Friday 30 March 2007.
Trumpet - Christian
Vocals - Simen
Rhythm guitar - Hieu
Solo guitar - Mats
Bass - Martin

7. Smurf Farm
Vocals, drums, smurfing - Simen
Guitar - Hieu
Guitar, smurfing - Mats
Smurfing - Martin

8. Coffee Pause
Babbling - Simen
Guitar - Mats

9. Hey Klaus [trad.]
Recorded Saturday 9 September 2006.
Vocals - Simen
Chorus - T-Bear
Guitar - Hieu
Ukulele, melodica - Mats
Electric drum kit - Audun

10. Snake
Chorus - Simen
Guitar - Mats

11. Small Kyk
Recorded Friday 30 March 2007
Vocals , drums - Simen
Keys - Christian
Rhytm guitar - Mats
Solo guitar - Hieu
Bass - Martin

12. Milkshake
Recorded don't know when
Vocals, ukulele - Simen
Guitar - Hieu
Guitar - Mats

13. Kartoffeln in Die Bad [Fattern]
Recorded Friday 30 March 2007.
Vocals - Simen
Trumpet - Christian
Guitar - Mats
Bass - Martin
Drums - Hieu

14. Minidisc
Vocals - Simen
Guitar - Mats

15. Mensa Man
Recorded Saturday 11 November 2006
Vocals - Simen
Rhythm guitar - Mats
Solo guitar - Hieu
Bass - Martin

16. Giant Cigar Part II
Recorded 19 February 2007.
Vocals, bongo - Simen
Vocals - T-Bear
Guitar - Hieu
Guitar - Mats
Bass - Martin
Drum (yeah, a real one!) - Audun

"...it's Waffle Time" - The Lyrics

Waffle Time
Sugar and eggs together in a bowl
whip 'em stiff is what I've been told
Add some flour and a pint of milk
make the mixture smooth as silk

Oh my God I forgot one thing
it doesn't matter when you play bass like Sting
But you better give me some
vanilla powder and cardamom

It's time for party
It's waffle time
Grab a waffle heartey
Fill it with prim(e)


Obst und Gemüse
Les bananes sont bonnes
Parce qu'ils ne me donnent pas le mycète
La marque d'ananas m'haut
Juste il ne porte pas le feves
Même si concombre a l'air d'un pénis
Le sentir le goût de semblable à une guirlande de rosier
Sans les haricots
Je ne peux pas condamner à une amende une chute

Bananas sind gut
gibt mich keine Pilze
Ananas macht mir hoch
nur er keinen Schlüpfer trägt
Obwohl das Gurke gleicht ein Schwans
schmeckt es wie ein Rosenkranz
Ohne Spargelbohne
habe ich keinen punchline

Obst und Gemüse
obwohl wir sind gelb und rot
Obst und Gemüse
essen wir das gleichen Brot
Obst und Gemüse
aaaaaah
Obst und Gemüse
aaaaaah

Banany sa dobre
poniewaz oni nie daja me grzybow
Ananasy tworza moja wysoki
tylko oni nie nosca majtek
Dlugopis to nie inna rzecz
to smakuje jak otoczenie rozami
Bez francuskiej fasoli
nie moge bla bla bla punchline

Obst und Gemüse
obwohl wir sind gelb und rot
Obst und Gemüse
essen wir das gleichen Brot
Obst und Gemüse
aaaaaah
Obst und Gemüse
aaaaaah


Mowing the Lawn
Walking past the whirling knives
have to be done before the housewife arrives
Eating through the wall of green
traces in the garden show where I have been

Mow mow mowing the lawn
law law lawing the mown in the garden
Mow mow mowing the lawn
I ran over your tulips - beg your pardon

Bang I hit an apple tree
the damages I do are pulled of my fee
I'm finished when the motor choke
the housewife will give me some ice cream and coke


Dan Børge sitt Hår
Hva er det som lusker i Dan Børge sitt hår?
Er det en skunk eller er det en mår?
Hva er det som ut til alle kanter står?
Jo, det er selveste Dan Børge sitt hår.

Det er mye rart i Dan Børge sitt hår
En misjonær gikk seg vill der i fire-fem år
Har du mista en sleiv eller et lammelår
Kan det være lurt å sjekke Ban Børge sitt hår

Håret til Dan Børge har ingen grenser
Det håret er nok til en middels stor genser
I håret hans fant jeg en vaffelrøre
Hva i helvete hadde den der å gjøre?

Det er mye rart...

Er dette sant kan du saktens spørre
Er det mulig for sveiser å bli noe større
Jeg skal si deg det min venn, det er klart at det går
Bare ta en titt på Dan Børge sitt hår

Det er mye rart...


Kaugummi und Scheisserei
Kaugummi mit Tutti-Frutti
rosa, nass und ecklich sagt die Mutti
Mit Kaugummi kaue ich mich frei
aber Kaugummi gibt mich Schesserei!

Aus dem Po
kam ein riesen Roh
Was für ein Geruch
Niemand luch!

Scheisserei mit Tutti-Frutti
braun, nass und ecklich sagt die Mutti
Mit scheisserei scheisse ich mich frei
aber scheisserei kommen aus der Zwei!

Aus dem Po
kam ein riesen Roh
Was für ein Geruch
Niemand luch!


Time Bomb
My mother sitting on a time bomb
what can I do to take her off of it
My teacher sitting on the same bomb
What can I do to take her off of it

Well I don’t know
And I don’t care

Cause we’re gonna die anyway
die anyway
die anyway
die anyway

My sister sitting on a football
what can I do to take her off of it
My sister sitting on a baseball
What can I do to take her off of it


The Pizza Ballad
Sat in my favourite chair
drank my favourite beer
my sis came in the place
with a pizza that smelled of

Had my fork and knife
wished she was my wife
the pizza looked so good
pizza is my favourite food

Pizza without Olive, Beans and Corn
and a good TV night, with real hardcore porn
Pizza with Peas, Mushroom and tuner
Taste so bad I rather listen to the crooner

I took a bite of this thing
Crushed a pineapple, wanted to sing
what the fucking hell?
Was that a piece with bloody smell

It was the start of the nightmare
a pizza with everything I did fear
Under the cheese it was swede
my eyes very blurring I couldn’t breed

Pizza without Olive, Beans and Corn...

I threw the pizza
down to pizza store, willing to pay
They had a pizza that was rough
it was a calzone filet with snuff

Pizza without Olive, Beans and Corn


Giant Cigar
This ain't a fugue
nor a story 'bout Darby and Joan
I'm lackadaisical
sitting on an easel 'till the morning yawn

Wha a morass
Mr. Tory is shiny and white
It's so laxative
Resting in the hands of the pottery sprite

I'm giving birth to a giant cigar
and I don't know who's its Maa
I feel like being in a cul-de-sac
With Mr. Tory there is no way back

This boy is huge
and it has the shape of a cone
My face is red
compared to this poo I'm a leprechaun

My body mass
is decreasing to extra light
Come on over
you won't believe the size of this shite


The Box
Everything you ever wanted
is in this box
A new green sweater
and a new pair of socks

Why won't you open it
can't you open it
no you can't open it

'Cause you have no arms
you have no legs
You havn't got the ability
you can't even have sex

Sex sex sex sex
sex sex sex sex
etc.


SuperMouse
In a blue tricot and a big red cloak
is it a SuperMouse?
A rodent appeared in a cloud of smoke
That's a SuperMouse
Like my niese It wasn’t lookin’ for cheese
in my house
yeah the SuperMOuse

Oh it's more than a little concernt you see
'cause this mouse is made by gentechnology

A scientist-man had modded some genes
in the SuperMouse
This mouse makes people pee in their jeans
yeah the SuperMouse
The darn little rodent never made retreat
his diet was changed from dairy to meat
trick or treat


It didn’t know the difference of wrong and right
That's our SuperMouse
it could only be defeated by cryptonite
o-awo SuperMouse
But SuperMouse would be away tomorrow
this mouse had a lover in Middlesborough
Middlesborough

The only harm it did
Was to slaughter and eat this poor lazy kid
named Grassmoe

We've got prim - it's Waffle Time

Album number one.
Released december 2005.

T-Bear Records, 12 tracks








Tracks:
1. Waffle Time
As a sound effect for this song we used the actual hissing sound of a waffle beeing cooked.
Simen - Voice
Mats - Guitar, block flute, voice

2. Obst und Gemüse
Recorded Sunday 22 May 2005
We wrote this song to celebrate diversity, through agriculture. The extended (but tiring) version even has a rap verse in Norwegian.
Simen - Voice, keyboard, 17 May tute
Mats - Guitar, chorus
Hieu - Guitar solo, chorus

3. Mowing the Lawn
Simen - Voices
Mats - Guitars

4. Dan Börge sitt Hår
Originally named "Odda sitt hår". We show scepsism about our rights due to the heavy use of samples from the TV show "Den store klassefesten".
Simen - Voice
Mats - Guitar

5. Kaugummi und Scheisserei
This is the extended version and second take of this song.
Simen - Voice
Mats - Guitar
Hieu - Guitar

6. Time Bomb
Simen - Voice, ukulele
Mats - Keyboiard

7. Sortofogg
Listen carefully, and you will find this song as an instrumental extention to Time Bomb.
Mats - Keyboard

8. The Pizza Ballad
Recorded Friday 10 June 2005
Simen - Voice
Mats - Guitar, chorus
Hieu - Guitar
Audun - Percussion

9. Giant Cigar
This song is about faeces.
Simen - Voice, pan flute
Mats - Guitar
Hieu - Guitar
Audun - Hitting a book (not the Bible)

10. The Box
Notice the keyboard playing's reminicence of the theme from "The Animals of Farthing Wood"
Simen - Voice, ukulele
Mats - Keyboard

11. SuperMouse
Recorded tuesday 15 June 2005
Simen - Voice
Mats - Guitar
Hieu - Solo guitar
Audun - Drum machine

12. Kaugummi und Scheisserei (Christmas remix)
The original version, with jingle bells.

Slideshow

A logo is born

This is the way the P.R.i.M. logo has evolved - from a muddy scetch to a more stylized image. Move your cursor over each logo to read its caption. The first logo with the waffle, drawn by Mats. The font was inspired by Synnøve Finden's prim packing, and the cow stolen from Tine's prim packing.
The font has been computerized, and the waffle replaced by a simplyfied scan of a real waffle.
Change of font. The new one was borrowed (stolen) from a 1970s prim ad.
The logo went trough a clean-up, and voila! This was the version to be printed on the t-shirts.

History

May 12th 2005 - on a Thursday - Audun, Simen, Christian and Mats went to Mats' home in their study lesson to record a song. Although their musical experience was scarce, they grabbed a jaw harp, a poster tube and a guitar and recorded the German cacophonous piece "Kaugummi und Scheisserei" (translation: "Bubble Gum and Diarrhea").

Encouraged by the success with "Kaugummi und Scheisserei", another guitarist joined, more songs were written, and the quintet kept on recording them on Thursdays. The next song was called "Obst und Gemüse" (translation: "Fruit and Vegetables"), which together with "Kaugummi..." was sent to a demo competition arranged by the local paper Glåmdalen. This would lead to the spontaniously founded comedy award and a live appearance in the Summer Tent at the Aurora festival, 24th of June.

The comedy award (and Christian's fear of ruining his family name's reputation) made the group change their name. Until then, they had been calling themselves "Mr. Sandbakken Experience and the Moose-on-the-Loose Trio feat. Semen". The new name was "Mr. Badger Experience and the Moose-on-the-Loose Trio feat. Inferno-Semen". The badger had become the group's first mascot.

First promo pic. 24th of May, 2005.

Taken on Kongsvinger fortress, 9th of June, 2005.

The songs to follow were "The Pizzaballad", "SuperMouse" (the first song with an electric drum kit), and the strange mash "Odda's hair", later renamed "Dan Børge's hair" as a honage to the famous norwegian TV host Dan Børge Akerø. These songs had all been recorded at Hieu's and Mats' place, and the group felt the need of a change in environment.

The summer of 2005 brought the band closer by taking them to a five-days trip in the Norwegian mountains. The fresh air would do them good, and afterwards they went to Simen's home and recorded "Giant Cigar", an event filmed by Martin, who later became the band's bass player.

The year ended with Simen experimenting with a yellow ukulele, and Mats with a newly aquired keyboard, which spawned two more songs. Now, there was enough of them to fill an entire album. "We've got prim - it's Waffle Time" was produced by the band members, and released for Christmas, 2005.

Key personalities in P.R.i.M:


Simen Berger

Vocals, ukulele, 17th of May-tute,
panflute and harmonica.








Hieu Tran Ngoc

Guitar as well as angel voice chorus.









Audun Falnes

Box beating, drum machine treating and random yelling.








Mats Gullikstad

Guitar, block flute, keys and chorus.









Christian Sandbakken

Jaw harp, trumpet, postertube and general musical knowledge.