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Recorded at The Pod, Solebury Township, Pennsylvania from January to October 1990. Ween: Dean Ween, Gene Ween. Additional personnel: Mean Ween (bass). Spin (12/92, p.68) - Ranked #10 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums ... Full DescriptionOf The Year' - "...Ween puts psycho-acoustics back into classic rock..."
Spin (5/92, p.84) - "...simple, murky rock creations that ooze with talent, creativity, and occasional burps, snorts and giggling..." Hide DescriptionPurchase Pod CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Stan Ridgway Big Heat CD (1986)
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Digitally remastered at Audio Mechanics.
This is part of the IRS Vintage Years series.
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| | Ween Pure Guava CD (1992) Parental Advisory
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In 1992, quirky and seemingly non-commercial bands were being signed to major labels by the boatload, thanks to the newfound success of alternative rock. One of the most blatantly bizarre acts to be taken under a corporate wing was Ween, a duo of Pennsylvania pranksters with a penchant for eclectic--and often wholly inappropriate--pop/rock tunes.
For the group's Elektra debut, PURE GUAVA, Dean and Gene Ween remained unapologetically weird from the get-go, as the drowsy, druggy "Little Birdy" ushers in the thoroughly skewed proceedings. While songs such as "Reggaejunkiejew," "Touch My Tooter," and "Poop Ship Destroyer" stick to sophomoric themes and a lo-fi sound, the prog-rock-like "The Stallion Pt. 3" and the (relatively) straightforward ballad "Sarah" hint at even greater things to come. PURE GUAVA's shining moments arrive in the typically ...
| | Ween Chocolate And Cheese CD (1994)
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It's easy to be over-whelmed by Gene and Dean Ween's music. Recorded in basements and home-studios, their albums sound like composite sketches of an immense, diverse record library (Prince, Zeppelin, America, Funkadelic, you name it), splashing together lyrical canvases that draw on both a post-modern slack brilliance of the everyday and their own perverse private world. They have the eccentric's gift for incorporating the ludicrous into their musical mythology, but seem equally at home playing it straight (which they don't do often). Like a heavy breakfast, Ween take the better part of the day to digest--but once inside the tummy, they sure taste yummy.
CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE is a lighter snack than any of Ween's previous releases primarily because of an outward focus (quite loose, actually) on the various musics of the seventies. "Freedom Of '76" celebrates Philadelphia's blue-eyed soul sound, "Voodoo Lady" lifts its melody from the Talking Heads and its catch-phrase from A Taste Of Honey, and "Take Me Away" could be a Vegas-era Elvis outtake if it didn't rock so much. But--Gene and Dean ...
| | Ween 12 Golden Country Greats CD (1996)
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As the title implies, this is Gene and Dean Ween's Nashville move. And for those familiar with the duo's flexible and comedic musical nature: no, they're not faking the cowboy swagger or shedding counterfeit tears in their beers just for the sake of digging through the one genre their previous records didn't excavate. Backed by a who's who of Music City session players, Ween has produced an authentic update of the late-'60s/early-'70s countrypolitan sound--weepy pedal steel, footloose harmonica, boogie piano, the Jordanaires crooning in the background, pristine production, pretty much all the fixins.
But if you're looking for a collection of cornball breakup songs and half-baked cowboy tales, well, as Judas Priest says, you've got another thing coming. Gene and Dean, after all, have their own standards to live up to; and they've never above lowering them. So the breakup song ("Piss Up A Rope") is viciously upbeat; the sinner's repentance is titled "Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain"; and even the one serious song, the Lennon-esque "You Were The Fool," contains the kind of cosmic couplets country fans would normally have to reach pretty far afield (toward, say, Gram Parsons) ...
| | Ween Mollusk CD (1997)
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THE MOLLUSK contains a hidden track after "She Wanted To Leave (Reprise)."
Ween can be as slimy as a giant squid or as hard to crack as a clam, but the mollusk that Ween most resembles is an octopus--with a tentacle in every genre and an obfuscating cloud of black ink thrown in for good measure, once ...
| | God Ween Satan CD (1990) Anniversary Edittion; Anniversary Edition
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| | 2Gether Again CD (2000)
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2Gether began as the center of a made-for-MTV movie parodying the boy-band craze spearheaded by acts such as 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys. The soundtrack to that film featured the "band" crooning tunes that obeyed all the sonic rules of the genre, changing up the game via humorous lyrical subversion. At the time, it seemed like that was the end ...
| | Kitchens & Bathrooms These Modern Nights CD (1998)
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| | Patrick Bruel Bruel CD (1995) (Import) Germany
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| | Various Artists I'll Live In Glory CD (2003) (Import)
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| | Antonio Carlos Jobim Art Of Duo: Wave & Tide CDs (2003) (Import) Import; Hong Kong
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| | Allie CD (2005) (Import) Japan
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| | Cheap Trick In Color CD (1977) (Import) Bonus Tracks; Japan; Limited Edition; Digipak; Mini LP Sleeve
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Also available in a 3-pack with CHEAP TRICK and HEAVEN TONIGHT.
Just a shade less rewarding than Cheap Trick's self-titled 1977 debut, IN COLOR is still another stellar recording (released in the same year). Although the more noticeable pop-gloss sound (courtesy of producer Tom Werman) may hamper some of the tracks, the songwriting is still top notch and the performances inspired. After the commercial underachievement of the debut, the band was probably advised to tone down their rawness a notch or two, which helped IN COLOR crack the Billboard Top 100 album charts. But ultimately, it would not be the big breakthrough they had hoped for (that was still a ways off, with 1979's AT BUDOKAN).
Many of the tracks would re-appear on AT BUDOKAN as live versions. Still, songs such as "Hello There" (a perennial concert opener), "Downed," "Big Eyes," "Oh Caroline," "Come On, Come On" and "Clock Strikes Ten" are all bona fide hard rock classics. An anemic "swing" version of "I Want You To Want Me" will leave many a listener befuddled, especially when compared to the vibrant AT BUDOKAN version that would eventually serve as the band's breakthrough hit single.
Japanese reissue of 1977 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP gatefold sleeve. Features 15 tracks including the 5 bonus tracks that were originally released on the 1998 reissue, 'Oh Boy', 'Southern Girls' ...
| | Crowbar Broken Glass CD (1996)
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| | Maria Taylor Lynn Teeter Flower CD (2007)
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Pod Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  The Greatest Band In The History Of The Universe!
I've just acquired all Ween's cds and cannot stop listening! Be careful with this music, it may very well become a serious addiction!
Submitted by Rockin' (in the USA)
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Another collection of inspired pop pastiche and four-track dementia, The Pod is nearly as long as when Dean Ween, Mean Ween and Gene Ween has done everything in 1989 and 1990 for GodWeenSatan: The Oneness but even weirder and more circumstances to 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.
Submitted by Mrrrrrrrj (Pittsburgh, PA)
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