Original Pressing - WEEN - The Pod - Never Played
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The Pod is the second studio album by Ween, originally released by Shimmy Disc in 1991. Most often considered the band's "challenging album," The Pod (named for the apartment Dean & Gene shared in which all of the album's songs were recorded) is probably the band's most surreal. All of the songs have a murky, sludgy quality to them, possibly due to being recorded on a four-track, and many of the vocals are manipulated in strange ways. The lyrics are also quite druggy and bizarre. Contributing factors may have been drug use (the album notes claim that the band used Scotchgard as a recreational drug, although they have later confirmed that this was a running joke), and the fact that Dean & Gene both came down with cases of Mononucleosis during the recording of the album. The Pod has since been remastered and reissued by Elektra Records after the relative success of such Ween albums as "Pure Guava" and "Chocolate and Cheese" (At the time of the reissue, The Pod was not currently out of print on Shimmy Disc Records). The cover art on The Pod is a takeoff of the 1975 "The Best of Leonard Cohen" LP record cover. Ween simply positioned a photo of Mean Ween's head (wearing a "Scotchgard bong") over Cohen's cover art and did alterations to the title and other graphics. The copy of the Leonard Cohen record that Ween used had purportedly belonged to Dean Ween's mother. The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but was later disproved by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of". The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device use to send THC directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days. The songs on this album come from two tapes made by Ween in 1991-1992. The tapes were titled the Bilboa tape and the Big Timmy Wasserman tape. Both tapes contain not only demo versions of songs on the album, but many outtakes not used on any album or tracks used on future albums.
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A keepsake from the college radio daze...er, days. Never played. Jacket is in good condition - a little wear on the corners and a promo punch in the upper right hand corner.
Comes with original hype press release from Shimmy disk.
This is definitive 1990's counter culture madness.
WEEN: The drug of the 90's.
You have not REALLY heard this release until you hear it on vinyl.
Want some???
Get some.
Buyer is responsible for all shipping charges - custom details to be hammered out post-sale.
Another collection of inspired pop pastiche and four-track dementia, 1991's The Pod is nearly as long as GodWeenSatan: The Oneness but even weirder and more deranged, due in large part to the band's Scotchguard habit and the severe cases of mononucleosis Gene and Dean Ween contracted while recording the album. As a result, The Pod is dark and murky, with a slightly distant, fuzzy feel. On some songs, such as the cryptic, prog-inspired "Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World," the psych-tinged "Dr. Rock," and the mystic hard rock of "Captain Fantasy," this sound works well, but on others -- like the opening track "Strap on That Jammypac" -- it just doesn't fit. Ween flexes their stylistic chops a bit on "Sorry Charlie"'s country-rock, "Sketches of Winkle"'s crazed speed metal, "Oh My Dear"'s cute four-track, and "Pork Roll Egg and Cheese"'s Beatlesque psych-pop, but the majority of The Pod, for better or worse, focuses on sludgy weirdness like "Molly," "Awesome Sound," "Laura," and "Can U Taste the Waste?" That most of these songs are grouped together in the middle of the album makes them even more strange and impenetrable -- though they may make more sense under the influence of Scotchguard or other, heavier, chemicals. Where GodWeenSatan: The Oneness' sense of fun and experimentation was contagious, The Pod is insular; you can tell that Dean and Gene had a fun -- or at least bizarre -- time making the album, but it doesn't translate. Though it does feature a few of Ween's best songs, The Pod is easily their most difficult work. However, hardcore fans will still find digging through its messy sprawl worthwhile. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide PayPal—eBay's service to make fast, easy, and secure payments for your eBay purchases!
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