After a couple years of meddling with other bands like Oysterhead and The Frog Brigade, Les Claypool finally has decided to rejoin the group that made him famous — Primus. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t the best decision.

-On the band’s new CD/DVD “Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People,” Primus provides us with five new songs, a large collection of music videos, live performances and backstage footage. While this may be music to Primus fans’ ears, let’s dissect the content of this $20 investment.

For an idea of what the five new songs sound like, listen to every other Primus song ever written. The disc opens with “The Carpenter and the Dainty Bride,” the only track worth listening to. As usual, the band plays around with strange noises and sound effects to give the song that Zappa feel.

Lyrically, Claypool still is examining the same topics he did a decade ago. On “Pilcher’s Squad,” he continues to write about war and the army (see “Shadow of a Man” and “Army’s on Ecstasy” by Oysterhead). Claypool simply repeats the same lyrics in almost every song, making slight variations each time. In “My Friend Fats,” he repeats a variation of the line “My friend Fats/ He’s a hell of a guy/ Let me tell you why” seven times.

I’m not sure why Primus regrouped to make this album, but it doesn’t seem like the musicians spent too much time on new material. Rather, they may have thrown together some slop to go along with the DVD.

The DVD is worth buying, if you like cheesy, low-budget videos, with the exception of the creepily entertaining “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver.”