The Pod
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| The Pod | ||
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| Image:Ween-ThePod.jpg | ||
| LP by Ween | ||
| Released | 1991 | |
| Reissued | February 14, 1995 | |
| Recorded | January-October 1990 | |
| Genre | Alternative Rock | |
| Length | 76 min 19 sec | |
| Record label | Shimmy Disc, Elektra | |
| Producer | Andrew Weiss | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| AMG | 3.5 stars out of 5 | link |
| Nude as the News | Very Positive | link |
| Ween Chronology | ||
| GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (1990) | The Pod (1991) | Pure Guava (1992) |
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 this may not be true), and the fact that Dean & Gene both came down with cases of mononucleosis during the recording of the album.
The Pod has since been reissued by Elektra Records after the relative success of such Ween albums as Pure Guava and Chocolate and Cheese (Despite the fact that, 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 Cohen record that Ween used had purportedly belonged to Dean Ween’s mother.
Tracklisting
- Strap on that Jammypac
- Dr. Rock
- Frank
- Sorry Charlie
- The Stallion (pt. 1)
- Pollo Asado
- Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World
- Captain Fantasy
- Demon Sweat
- Molly
- Can U Taste the Waste?
- Don't Sweat It
- Awesome Sound
- Laura
- Boing
- Mononucleosis
- Oh My Dear (Falling in Love)
- Sketches of Winkle
- Alone
- Moving Away
- She Fucks Me
- Pork Roll Egg and Cheese
- The Stallion (pt. 2)
Liner Notes
From the Shimmy-Disc CD:
“Recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990. All songs recorded at the Pod, where we lived for a year and 10 months. (with our cat Mandee) The Pod was scenically located on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. Our apartment was a haven for flies because it sits in the middle of a horse farm. In the time this album was completed, we filled up 3,600 hours of tape, and inhaled 5 cans of Scotchguard. This album was then produced and mixed by Adrew Weiss (our pal) at the Zion House of Flesh, Hopewell, New Jersey. Straight to DAT Mang. Mean Ween played the bass on “Alone” and that’s him on the cover doin’ up some Scotchguard powered bongs. We got evicted on October 1, 1991. But Dave Ayers says he’s gonna help us out. Cover and art designs by Logorythms.”
Personnel
- Dean Ween - Guitar, Vocals, Engineer
- Gene Ween - Vocals, Engineer
- Mean Ween - Bass guitar
- Ween - Art Direction
- Howie Weinberg - Remastering
- Andrew Weiss - Producer, Mixing
