GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
| GodWeenSatan: The Oneness | ||||
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| Released | November 16, 1990 (original release) September 11, 2001 (remaster) | |||
| Recorded | 1989–March 1990 | |||
| Studio | Zion House of Flesh (Hopewell, NJ) Graphic Sound Studio (Ringoes, NJ) The Pod (New Hope, PA) | |||
| Length | 70:59 (original release) 76:31 (starting with 2001 reissue) | |||
| Label | Twin/Tone Records (original release) Restless Records (remaster) | |||
| Producer | Andrew Weiss | |||
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GodWeenSatan: The Oneness is an album by Ween, released on November 16, 1990 on Twin/Tone Records. Their first widely distributed album, it contains many tracks previously recorded on their three cassettes released by New Jersey label Bird O'Pray and homemade demos redone in studio quality.
Description and History[edit | edit source]
Ween had been making and releasing music on cassette tapes for seven years before they released GodWeenSatan. Several songs appear in primitive forms on their early tapes, records and demos (including "You Fucked Up", "Bumblebee", and "I Gots A Weasel"; attesting to this is Dean Ween summarizing it as a "greatest hits" of their prior six years[1]). Professional recording began in 1989 in producer Andrew Weiss' living room studio. Unlike its successors The Pod and Pure Guava, it mostly uses live drums played by Deaner, some of which were recorded at Greg Frey's Graphic Sound Studio in East Amwell, New Jersey.[2] Most of the album was recorded on 16-track tape at both Weiss' and Frey's studios[3][4], though the band had moved into a farmhouse dubbed "the Pod" in late 1989,[5] where at least three more tracks would be recorded via 4-track ("Birthday Boy", "Blackjack", and "Puffy Cloud").
The album was released through Twin/Tone Records, who had signed Ween after they opened for the grunge band Skunk at a private show for the label.[6] Skunk's drummer, Claude Coleman, Jr., would eventually join Ween in 1994. GodWeenSatan was the band's only release on Twin/Tone.
2001 reissue[edit | edit source]
According to Deaner, GodWeenSatan was sequenced with vinyl in mind, and the CD release didn't have much attention paid to it, resulting in it getting "totally fucked" in the mastering process – audio compression issues could be heard throughout the entire album.[7] In 2001, Restless Records was going to reissue GodWeenSatan, and Ween asked if they could have the album remastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk in New York. Restless agreed to fund the remaster, with the promise that additional songs would be added, and Ween (with producer Andrew Weiss) were sent to New York with the analog masters. The analog masters were baked in a convection oven, with one chance to transfer them for mastering.[7]
Three tracks were added to the album: "Bumblebee Part 2", "Stacey", and "Hippy Smell." Demos of "Stacey" and "Hippy Smell" were released on versions of the Wad tape around 1986, but this was the first release of the GodWeenSatan recordings. "Bumblebee Part 2" uses the same drums and bass as the original "Bumblebee," and notably includes an unused vocal take.
The remaster was finished the week of June 4, 2001[8] and it would be released on September 11 of that year. It was jokingly dubbed the "25th anniversary edition", the album was a bit under eleven years old at the time, with a hype sticker stating it had "state of the art 39-bit re-mastering" and that it was "enhanced with T-Base Pro Linear '46' phasing," jokes on common remaster jargon of the time.[7] To celebrate its release, Ween did a live performance of the entire album (minus the tracks added to the remaster) three days later at John and Peter's in New Hope, Pennsylvania.[9] This was later released as GodWeenSatan: Live in November 2016.
Track Listing[edit | edit source]
Original Release[edit | edit source]
| 1 | You Fucked Up |
| 2 | Tick |
| 3 | I'm in the Mood to Move |
| 4 | I Gots a Weasel |
| 5 | Fat Lenny |
| 6 | Cold and Wet |
| 7 | Bumblebee |
| 8 | Don't Laugh (I Love You) |
| 9 | Never Squeal |
| 10 | Up on the Hill |
| 11 | Wayne's Pet Youngin' |
| 12 | Nicole |
| 13 | Common Bitch |
| 14 | El Camino |
| 15 | Old Queen Cole |
| 16 | Nan |
| 17 | Licking the Palm for Guava |
| 18 | Mushroom Festival in Hell |
| 19 | L.M.L.Y.P. |
| 20 | Papa Zit |
| 21 | Old Man Thunder |
| 22 | Birthday Boy |
| 23 | Blackjack |
| 24 | Squelch the Weasel |
| 25 | Marble Tulip Juicy Tree |
| 26 | Puffy Cloud |
2001 Remaster[edit | edit source]
| 1 | You Fucked Up |
| 2 | Tick |
| 3 | I'm in the Mood to Move |
| 4 | I Gots a Weasel |
| 5 | Fat Lenny |
| 6 | Cold and Wet |
| 7 | Bumblebee |
| 8 | Bumblebee Part 2 |
| 9 | Don't Laugh (I Love You) |
| 10 | Never Squeal |
| 11 | Up on the Hill |
| 12 | Wayne's Pet Youngin' |
| 13 | Nicole |
| 14 | Common Bitch |
| 15 | El Camino |
| 16 | Old Queen Cole |
| 17 | Stacey |
| 18 | Nan |
| 19 | Licking the Palm for Guava |
| 20 | Mushroom Festival in Hell |
| 21 | L.M.L.Y.P. |
| 22 | Papa Zit |
| 23 | Hippy Smell |
| 24 | Old Man Thunder |
| 25 | Birthday Boy |
| 26 | Blackjack |
| 27 | Squelch the Weasel |
| 28 | Marble Tulip Juicy Tree |
| 29 | Puffy Cloud |
This track listing is exclusive to the CD version; the new songs were not added to the vinyl releases.
Known Personnel[edit | edit source]
Sourced from the liner notes unless stated otherwise.
- Gene Ween
- Dean Ween
- Andrew Weiss - producer, mixing, bass
- David Williams - co-lead vocals on "I'm in the Mood to Move"
- "Eddie Dingle" (played by Gene Ween) - vocals on "Nan"
- The Maharishi Lawrence E. Curtin - spoken word on "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree"
- Theo Van Rock - mixing
- Greg Frey - drum track engineer
- Howie Weinberg - mastering engineer (anniversary edition)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Dean Ween Interview | Music Is My Life Podcast Episode 18 | Berklee Online Time=13:16
- ↑ H. Shteamer, Chocolate and Cheese, p.85–86
- ↑ H. Shteamer, Chocolate and Cheese, p.10
- ↑ Dean Ween Interview | Music Is My Life Podcast Episode 18 | Berklee Online Time=13:09
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/441556-Ween-The-Pod/image/SW1hZ2U6NzY1ODczNA== - "All songs recorded at the Pod, where we lived for a year and 10 months... we got evicted on October 1, 1991." i think this makes the date they moved in somewhere around December 1989
- ↑ https://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/claude-coleman-jr-of-ween
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Taken from GodWeenSatan: Live liner notes.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010702040803fw_/http://www.mediabasement.com/chocodog/ween/news.asp?iPageNum=1
- ↑ https://brownbase.org/setlist.php?band=all%20bands&show_id=335
Scans[edit | edit source]
Back cover
CD
Back of CD
Booklet 1
Booklet 2
Booklet 3
Booklet 4
