GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
| GodWeenSatan: The Oneness | ||||
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| Released | November 16, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989–March 1990 | |||
| Length | 70:59 (original release) 76:31 (starting with 2001 reissue) | |||
| Label | Twin/Tone Records | |||
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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.
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, they decided to have the album remastered by Howie Weinberg (jokingly dubbing it a "25th anniversary edition"; the album was a bit under eleven years old at the time), with three tracks added to the sequence: "Bumblebee Part 2", "Stacey", and "Hippy Smell". This remaster would be released on September 11 of that year. To celebrate, Ween did a live performance of the entire album (minus the tracks added to the remaster) three days later.
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
- ↑ Taken from GodWeenSatan liner notes.
Scans[edit | edit source]
Back cover
CD
Back of CD
Booklet 1
Booklet 2
Booklet 3
Booklet 4
