Editing Suck on This (section)

==Background==
The album was recorded live at the [[Berkeley Square (club)|Berkeley Square]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California]] on February 25 and March 5, 1989, on a [[TASCAM]] quarter-inch 8-track [[Portastudio]] and mixed on Hi-Fi VHS.<ref name="liner" /> The band borrowed $3,000 from Claypool's father to cover the recording and pressing of one thousand copies of the album for its initial limited run.<ref name="liner" /> They released the record in November 1989 through their own independent label under the name [[Prawn Song Records]] before licensing it to [[Caroline Records (U.S.)|Caroline Records]] in 1990,<ref name="Animals">Illustrated Discography, ''[[Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People]]'' DVD, Interscope Records 2003.</ref> and later [[Interscope Records]].<ref name="Discogs">[http://www.discogs.com/Primus-Suck-On-This/master/17894 ''Suck on This''] at [[Discogs]].</ref> On April 23, 2002, Prawn Song reissued the album with remastered audio, together with the follow-up studio album ''[[Frizzle Fry]]''.<ref name="Animals" />

All of the songs would eventually be released as studio recordings: "[[Tommy the Cat]]" on ''[[Sailing the Seas of Cheese]]'' in 1991, "Pressman" (as "The Pressman") on ''[[Pork Soda]]'' in 1993, "Jellikit" on the [[Airheads#Soundtrack|''Airheads'' soundtrack]] in 1994 as "Bastardizing Jellikit", and "The Heckler" on ''[[Antipop]]'' in 1999 as a hidden track. All other tracks were included on the band's debut studio album ''Frizzle Fry'' in 1990.

The original liner notes give "hugs and kisses" to a number of bands and local businesses, including [[Faith No More]] and [[Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys]]. This was followed by "special hugs and kisses" to a number of individuals, including early Primus members [[Todd Huth]], [[Jay Lane]], Vince Parker and Tim Wright, and "Pops" (Claypool's father) "for kickin' down the corn".<ref name="linerold">Liner notes, ''Suck on This'', Interscope Records 1990.</ref> For the 2002 reissue, these sections were omitted in favour of a paragraph written by Claypool detailing the history of the record, leaving only "special thanks" to Claypool's father.<ref name="liner" />