Primus’ Bay Area cult following snowballed into a deal with Virgin offshoot Caroline Records for their studio debut, 1990’s Frizzle Fry, which established Primus as irresistible genre iconoclasts. Primus sank hard labor into their odes to chilling out. Interscope signed Primus just as widespread hunger for weird, adrenalized, and mutable music kicked into high gear, and Sailing went gold. By the time they issued their third studio LP, Primus had amassed enough of a fanbase to debut at No. Pork Soda, too, went gold in a jiffy, and platinum before the end of the decade, making it one of the weirdest and most upsetting albums to ever sell more than a million copies.