And that is why they are one of the greatest bands around. It isn't about show business, it's about the music and playing it with feeling.

Transnational is an aggressive album. They mellowed out after Elephant Riders. Bands evolve... music and message evolves. I'm good with it.

My "Binge and Purge" Clutch song that I'm chasing for a live version someday is Bottoms Up, Socrates.

The song that got me into Clutch.

Nero's fiddle is my favorite, real - aggressive song. Love it! So much great variety amongst their catalog now though....They can be bluesy, slow, fast, just great, storytelling rock and roll. They do strive for excellence! See them live if you get a chance.

my fave band forever in my soul

Who’s here after they played it live

Brother. Those songs are amazing. No regrets man! Our band only covered one song in the early 90s and that was binge and purge. Whenever those first dirge like notes started the mosh began to churn..,pure passion bro and so apropos in 2017. Clutch is and always be my desert island music.

I saw them play this song in around 93 or 94 in Tulsa, OK. They opened up for Prong.

Love this response. Love that they care enough to tell us the truth about it. Clutch rules, screw the haters.

Well said Neil, although I still enjoy listening to that album. I totally get it, I'm just so grateful to have been a fan of Clutch since 1994 and was lucky enough to see you live then.And blessed to see you evolve into one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Thank you to Clutch for staying honest and true to the fans and to themselves 🤘🙏🤘

And in the jungle, retched jungle They say the lion eats tonight And all around it is a coliseum Dripping with a voracious appetite !

One of my favorite songs 🤷 I was lucky to hear them play it live 🙏🏻 there was nothing anticlimactic about it. 🤔

It's still one of your greatest songs...

All my friends were huge clutch fans after listening to "Transnational..." and "Clutch". You could tell "Clutch" was bluesier but we were all still on board. When "Elephant Riders" came out, we all had to come to terms with the fact that Clutch was evolving. "The Soapmakers" and "Rites Of Spring" still felt like what we were used to but, it really did feel like a different band. It broke some of our hearts that they lost that angst. "Juggernaut" is still one of my favorite angry Clutch songs.

The song that got me into you guys. Still imo the greatest

I saw them play Binge and Purge in '94. At 150 lbs, I noped my way out of that mosh pit for that song....came back for the rest and then for Sepultura.

Love that man!

I like a band that wears Weyland Yutani badges in a video about horseshoe crabs.

Still my favorite CLUTCH song !!!

Saw em on the Transnational Speedway tour- they were great- and have only gotten better.....

I got to see it with pantera at mi state fairgrounds and pantera played domination all the way through

Guild of Mute Assassins, Please.

I'd like to tell my Binge and Purge story. This goes back about seventeen (or more) years. Even that long ago, Clutch was known to never play Binge and Purge anymore, because as Neil had said, people in the crowd would just get too damn violent - and I remember reading several posts on the pro-rock message board that alluded to this. Anyway, rewind to ~17 years ago in New Jersey at a place called the Birch Hill (long closed down). In the 90's and early 00's Clutch still attracted some racist bonehead types to their shows who would kind of just cause problems, especially in the pit. I distinctly remember some Nazi dudes in the mosh pit taking their shirts off after a few songs and prominently displaying their Aryan nation and swastika tattoos for all to see. One dude was about six and a half feet tall and had a giant black swastika on his chest. So these Nazis go to work kind of picking on people and starting fights for a few songs, and soon after no one is able to enjoy themselves anymore. At some point Neil says something to the effect of, "Well New Jersey, I have heard that you guys have some pretty hardcore moshpits in this state... So let's see what you can do," and the beginning notes of Binge and Purge start. The first three or so minutes of the song go without incidence. It was obvious that everyone was waiting for the heavy part. Once it kicked in the crowd erupted, and like telepathy, we all turned on the Nazi dudes at the same time. It was a total blur but by the end of the song the Nazis were on the ground and bloodied red. I distinctly remember the visual of the now-unconscious six and a half foot tall swastika dude being carried out by like three bouncers with a trail of blood leaking onto the floor from his face. Done and done. To this day I like to think that Clutch saw these Nazis bullying everyone and played B&P on purpose to amp the crowd up and give us a chance to retake the pit. A historic moment in my show-going career. Thanks for reading.

I kept yelling it in Fort Wayne Indiana thanks for answering by the way

Some of the best shows were at studio 1 in Newark NJ in the early 90s also saw them at the limelight in NYC opening up for Skidrow

Greatest band on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Respect.

My friend always asks who the artist is when Binge and Purge comes on and is always shocked when I say Clutch. "That doesn't sound like them at all."

Hell yeah they were angry, and amazing. 🤘🤘

Gotta try some good ole fashioned PMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

True Rockstar!

I know Transnational came out in 93, but in retrospect, Binge & Purge seems like a prescient satire of the nu metal genre.

Needs an update as they're playing it at every show now, haha!

I want to hear them play Piledriver or Impetus live if Neil is up for it.

❤

ALL HAIL THEE ALMIGHTY CLUTCH

Ya lil they wont play it live.. I respect that he aint faking

Great song, and I LOVE Transnational Speedway League, but they've gotten so much better musically since that album.

I love that song, and the whole album, but I get why they don't play it. People grow and change and the emotions that help create something fade away. We have the album, the emotion is there, now we have new emotions and new songs. Keep up the good work!

Concur. Binge&purgr should be covered by upcoming bands

Id sing it with you.. that being said.. i do have rage in me

It’s still one of my favorite songs ever, but I’m never upset when I don’t hear it because I can understand why, and besides, songs about crab cakes and Mr. Givens’ angst are much more entertaining.

I saw Clutch in 1995 Tallahassee, FL at the Cow Haus. Have no idea if they played that song or not

I saw b&p live ... twice. The second time, I was well into my 30s, and while fun, not the same as when you’re 21 years old and drunk.

I respect that but,😅 binge and purge is the $hit brother😊.❤ Love ya Neil, hell i love everyone one of you guys. As a band you are the binge and the purge to rock n roll❤😊

Yo Dan. What happened to your Thunderbird?

Best album tho

Id like to know how Clutch deals with groupies.

Saw them play it April 27, 2024. Earthworm as well. Probably the 20th show I've attended, and never heard either one live. It was good to hear them, but yeah, anticlimactic.

And right there is the difference of REAL metal and that stuff which he refers to as showbiz (you know, the bands which are made and labeled to fit the taste of the mainstream to generate and provide financial liquidity mainly for the others but not the artists). I think that is also the thing, which holds the metal community together. Its always heart blood in the work and you do not sell yourself to a trend.

I see this song as making fun of the guy who wants to fight everybody instead of trying to get laid. Maybe that wasnt the intended meaning, but its still a badass song.

Can we at least get Transnational on vinyl 👌

I interviewed him about this song in particular. This is not what he told me LOL

I'm glad I got to enjoy the early ride with these guys (60 shows or so over a 15 year period), but their last 3 albums are just not the same band I enjoyed when I was a younger man. They were just better then compared to the same sounding/redundant stuff they are releasing now. Never thought I's say it, but Clutch these days just bores me. Wish them all the best, but I moved on several years ago...

A shogun named Marcus

Imagine yourself laying on the slab and you cant move because your completely parylized so these guys are all basically torturibg you on this slab but instead of being fearful and screaming for mercy to god your singing this song to egg them on lol

I get what you're saying Neil. However, that song and album are awesome and you shouldn't be ashamed of or despise a body of work that set the standard for alot of bands.

I get what he is saying... its hard to fake anger.. like Corey Taylor does or whatever.. some millionaire up there singing songs he wrote when he was 21 and blacked out drunk.. still. They need to play more of their old hits. Its really annoying.. its like going to see Metallica and they don't play anything of their first few albums.

Where are the 11 A holes that didn’t like this?

This is a rock star. That is how you do an interview and formulate a true answer from the heart. These guys are smart. But I'm still angry and I'm 39 lol! Lucky fucks made millions and it cooled their jets. I suppose it happens.

This video hasn’t aged well as of April 2024 glad it’s back the fake aggression was fine 😂

Love you guys love that song you should play it at every show. However thats a lot of lawsuits becase someones getting hurt bad at every show.

They don't need to play it. They really don't.

There is no such thing as pigeon-holing Clutch

What a cop out. We know your voice doesn't do that anymore.

However it reflects our hearts...especially now...we need a release dude....rather release in the pit with B&P....rats and passive restraints recent sounds not too angry...what gives man....play the song make us happy...its not about you

That song built the band. We are honest and irritated.

irritate enough fans and you'll have none left.

Just like Metallica, Heavy and loud, you were not a metalhead unless you loved them. Now they suck !

ALL HAIL THEE ALMIGHTY CLUTCH