Lacquer Head

"Lacquer Head"
Single by Primus
from the album Antipop
Released1999
Length3:56
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)Claypool/LaLonde/R Mantia
Producer(s)Primus and Fred Durst
Primus singles chronology
"Over the Falls"
(1997)
"Lacquer Head"
(1999)
"Electric Uncle Sam"
(1999)

"Lacquer Head" is the first single from Primus' 1999 album, Antipop. It is about three children, and the harm that comes to them from inhalants. MTV banned the single's music video for drug references and "violent content". The song was produced by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst,[1] who encouraged the band to return to the more aggressive sound of their earlier albums.[2] On December 11, 2020, the song was performed live for the first time in 20 years via the band's online pay-per-view special, "Alive at Pachyderm Station".

  1. ^ Gundersen, Edna (2003-08-07), "Primus exerts 'Animal' magnetism", USA Today
  2. ^ Devenish, Colin (2000). Limp Bizkit. St. Martin's. pp. 159–60. ISBN 0-312-26349-X.