The Pod
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| Released | September 20, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | January–October 1990 | |||
| Length | 76:17 | |||
| Label | Shimmy-Disc Records | |||
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The Pod is a studio album by Ween, released on September 20, 1991 on Shimmy Disc Records.
Ween's second major album, it signaled a musical shift away from a full-band sound with live drums, and toward a lo-fi, home-recorded sound with a drum machine.
Description and History[edit | edit source]
The album was named after a real farm the band dubbed "the Pod" located in Solesbury Township, Pennsylvania, where they moved in over late 1989 and lived for a year and ten months before being evicted in October 1991.[1]
During their stay at the Pod, Ween reportedly recorded around 3,600 hours' worth of material, though the veracity of this claim is dubious. A small fraction of this would see public release through The Pod, their major label follow-up Pure Guava, and some of their previous album, GodWeenSatan: The Oneness. The material was recorded onto a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder.[1] Unlike GodWeenSatan, nearly all of the drums were programmed via drum machine due to both the compact space of the Pod and fear of noise complaints.[2]
The album was released through Shimmy-Disc. Label founder Mark Kramer offered them "$2,500 and [a vacation to] Jamaica" in exchange for releasing the album, which the band accepted.[3] The trio of Gene Ween, Dean Ween and Kramer shot three homemade music videos during the trip, those being "Captain Fantasy", "Pollo Asado", and "Pork Roll Egg and Cheese". Kramer would also play bass with the band in shows.
All the songs on this album were sourced from three tapes the band recorded over 1990, those being Big Timmy Wasserman, The Pork Roll Egg & Cheese on a Kaiser Bun, and Bilboa. They were remixed by long-time collaborator Andrew Weiss from the original tapes.
The album cover consists of occasional collaborator Mean Ween's head pasted onto the cover of The Best of Leonard Cohen, with what the band described as a "Scotchgard-powered bong".[1] In the liner notes, Ween claimed they had huffed five cans of Scotchgard during the recording sessions, but Gener later stated this was a lie.[4]
The Pod would be Ween's last studio release on an independent label until 2003's Quebec.
Tracklist[edit | edit source]
Known Personnel[edit | edit source]
Sourced from the liner notes unless otherwise stated.
- Gene Ween
- Dean Ween
- Andrew Weiss - mixing
- Mean Ween - cover model, bass on "Alone"
- Micheal McGrath - art direction
- Logorythms - design, cover art
References[edit | edit source]
Scans[edit | edit source]
Back cover
Cover & insert
CD
Insert
