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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 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.

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.

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.