Latenight cabin. Sunday night. May 2016 Greenfield MA.

9 Birds Are Bad Swimmers - Strangecreek 2016

8 Wristband Tanline - Strangecreek 2016

7 Louis CK - Strangecreek 2016

6 Astronauts - Strangecreek 2016

5 Not Expecting Guests - Strangecreek 2016

4 Whale Song - Strangecreek 2016

3 SteamFunk - Strangecreek 2016

2 Saturn Returns - Strangecreek 2016

1 South Pole & The Pyramids - Strangecreek 2016

This is not the official version! this is a rough recording from our rehearsal space intended just for use in the collaborative video project. 

Record yourself singing this song, into a webcam or phone or anywhere. Then send/share the video to info@theprimatefiasco.com and we'll take it from there.

Don't worry, the audio from your video wont be used. No one will hear your singing and u don't have to worry about the song being audible in your video. As long as you are hearing it while you sing, the timing will line up on our end. Everyone's video will be pieced together in short bits until it fills up the song.

Don't worry about it being perfect, you might only be used for one line.
Feel free to dance around, do sock puppets, whatever you want.
get a group of people to do it together or do it alone.
Put your headphones in and do it on the train.
anything goes.

LYRICS
When you're drinkin to yourself that you've had too much to think
and you try to put it down but you've had too much to think
You try to be easy but easy is so hard
And you frantically wonder why easy is so hard
Try to know that it's not you when you're not it
It's just that birds are bad swimmers and fish cant fly for shit

When you forget what you know but you know what you forgot
You know exactly what to think but it wasn't what you thought
Yea you make a perfect circle but you should have been a square
Ya tried so hard to get here but you should be over there
Try to know that it's not you when you're not it
It's just that birds are bad swimmers and fish cant fly for shit

Yea the penguin swims ok for a bird but was eaten by a seal
who was meant to be a lion and was eatin by an orca 
who was meant to be a cow and you can listen to the reasons if you want to
you can look for ways to make it fit
but your eyes are def and your ears cant see for shit
Birds are bad swimmers and fish cant fly for shit


THANKS! Make us proud!

Birds Are Bad Swimmers - unmixed for fan video

Recorded March 2011 at Northfire Studios Amherst MA

Wrist Band Tan Line

An album to save the world. This album has a super hero theme and comes with a comic book about The Primate Fiasco's alt-ego. 

01 Sidekick

06 March Of The Goosepimp

The Primate Fiasco plays the instruments of a New Orleans street band (Tuba, Banjo, Clarinet, Sax, Drums) but they don't let that limit them to old-time jazz. Their high energy "brasstronica" jams are tested and approved for late night festival stages while the lyrics infiltrate the hearts of even the toughest critics. Add a grammy nominated kids CD and the ability to host roaming acoustic dance parties and what you get is a band that fears no audience.

They're veterans of some of the biggest festivals as well as elite secret parties. Having shared the stage with jazz greats, folk legends, and jam band main-stays, their favorite venue is still a street corner at any festival campground. 

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