not ONE person likes Ween here?!
I'll try again
It's been one of those days... a very brown Ween day.
Zappa once asked a serious question in 1986, 'Does Humor Belong In Music?' and 'No' was the overwhelming response. If it was in the hands of Zappa fine, let him do what he bloody wants, but there wasn't anyone else really doing it well enough to answer back with a confident 'yes'. Except for Ween perhaps.
Ween are 25 years old, with three or four
must listen to LP's under their arms and a live show to walk a hundred miles to. Their early influences are vast and almost wilfully eclectic. They can chow down on the dirtiest doom-metal sludge feast and rise with an almost angelic Carpenters-like love ballad straight after. Hip Hop, punk, soul, R&B, blues, funk.. ah the funk guitars in the hands of Gene Ween.
Wiki suggests 'Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents, and the lo-fi punk movement.' and goes on to prod Zappa and Waits as 'influences' etc... but it's the Prince likening that I love the most.
My favourite LP is undoubtedly 'The Pod'. It's probably one of the most gloriously fucked up albums I've got... so pretty in places and then so stoned in others, and now... it's nearly all out their in glorious Youtube vision. But you need an intro, and it's God Ween Satan - an LP that screams out to be listened to in sequence more than most - it all kicks off with a classic of theirs... You Fucked Up.
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/RxMafF6mj1E&hl=en&fs=1&GOD WEEN SATAN: THE ONENESS1. "You Fucked Up" 1:372. "Tick" 1:533. "I'm in the Mood to Move" 1:16
4. "I Gots a Weasel" 1:22
5. "Fat Lenny" 2:07
6. "Cold and Wet" 1:12
7. "Bumblebee" 1:19
9. "Don't Laugh (I Love You)" 2:49
10. "Never Squeal" 2:25
11. "Up on the Hill" 1:56
12. "Wayne's Pet Youngin'" 1:41
13. "Nicole" 9:20
14. "Common Bitch" 1:46
15. "El Camino" 2:17
16. "Old Queen Cole" 1:34
18. "Nan" 2:55
19. "Licking the Palm for Guava" 1:07
20. "Mushroom Festival in Hell" 2:35
21. "L.M.L.Y.P." 8:4822. "Papa Zit" 1:15
24. "Old Man Thunder" 0:23
25. "Birthday Boy" 3:31
26. "Blackjack" 4:36
27. "Squelch the Weasel" 3:11
28. "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree" 5:24
29. "Puffy Cloud" 2:40
WEEN: THE POD1. "Strap on that Jammypac" 3:032. "Dr. Rock" 3:113. "Frank" 3:464. "Sorry Charlie" 3:51
5. "The Stallion (Pt. 1)" 2:51
6. "Pollo Asado" 2:45
7. "Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World" 5:05
8. "Captain Fantasy" 3:19
9. "Demon Sweat" 4:11
10. "Molly" 4:49
11. "Can U Taste the Waste?" 1:39
12. "Don't Sweat It" 4:02
13. "Awesome Sound" 2:22
14. "Laura" 4:37
15. "Boing" 1:33
16. "Mononucleosis" 3:01
17. "Oh My Dear (I'm Falling in Love)" 1:57
18. "Sketches of Winkle" 2:44
19. "Alone" 3:12
20. "Moving Away" 3:06
21. "She Fucks Me" 3:59
22. "Pork Roll Eggs and Cheese" 3:02
23. "The Stallion (Pt. 2)" 4:35
wiki blurb stuff: Most often considered the band's "challenging album," The Pod (named for the apartment Dean and 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 and 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 available 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[citation needed].
Get brown.