Too Many Puppies

"Too Many Puppies" is a single from the band Primus and the second single from their 1990 studio debut album Frizzle Fry. It was the first Primus song bassist and lead singer Les Claypool ever composed. A reworked version featuring drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia can be found on their Rhinoplasty EP.

The song is mostly about the band's reflection on war, and how many soldiers are too young to go off to war, parodying the idea of "the dogs of war" by claiming the dogs are merely puppies. The song was written six years prior to the first Persian Gulf War (despite being released in 1990) and was possibly about violence happening around the region during that time period, such as the Soviet war in Afghanistan or Iran-Iraq war.

A video was in production for this song, but the project was canceled when Primus was signed to Interscope Records. The video has been a rarity until 2003, when it was released on Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People. The music video features a man who, after shaving his head, acts weird with army material (such as an army helmet, a pair of boots, and a rifle) and a woman in makeup (presumably his mother) and milk, all in accordance with the song's lyrics; interspersed are shots of the band playing live in front of a rowdy crowd.

Occasionally, when playing the song live, Les Claypool played the opening riff of Metallica's "Master of Puppets" as a bridge before the final verse.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Primus

Les Claypool Larry LaLonde Tim Alexander Todd Huth Jay Lane Bryan Mantia

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

Live albums	Suck on This

Compilations	They Can't All Be Zingers

EPs	Miscellaneous Debris Rhinoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People June 2010 Rehearsal

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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Primus singles discography

Frizzle Fry	"John the Fisherman" "Too Many Puppies" "Mr. Knowitall"

Sailing the Seas of Cheese	"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" "Tommy the Cat" "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers"

Miscellaneous Debris	"Making Plans For Nigel"

Pork Soda	"My Name Is Mud" "DMV" "Mr. Krinkle"

Tales from the Punchbowl	"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" "Mrs. Blaileen" "Southbound Pachyderm"

Brown Album	"Shake Hands with Beef" "Over the Falls"

Rhinoplasty	"Behind My Camel"

Antipop	"Lacquer Head" "Electric Uncle Sam"

Green Naugahyde	"Tragedy's a' comin" "Lee Van Cleef"

Other	"Me Llamo Mud"

Collaborations	"N.I.B."

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