My First Time - In The Backseat With Gene
Although I have "owned" a few Ween tunes over the past few years, this was my first legitimate album purchase. How did I like it? If it's any indication, I have bought Pure Guava and Quebec within two days of each other - thats 3 albums in under a week! I haven't gone on this kind of music binge since...well, ever. I feel like my ears have been asleep for the last 10-15 years, just waiting for some band like Ween to remind me why I listen to music at all. This, like any other Ween album, will take a few spins before the listener falls in love - but it will happen, friend. Save your lunch money and start buying Ween. It is easily good enough for the mature musical tastes out there...maybe too good for a few.
I can ramble on about this one, but do yourself a favor and add it too your cart. IT WILL INVARIABLY FAIL TO DISAPPOINT.
Although I have "owned" a few Ween tunes over the past few years, this was my first legitimate album purchase. How did I like it? If it's any indication, I have bought Pure Guava and Quebec within two days of each other - thats 3 albums in under a week! I haven't gone on this kind of music binge since...well, ever. I feel like my ears have been asleep for the last 10-15 years, just waiting for some band like Ween to remind me why I listen to music at all. This, like any other Ween album, will take a few spins before the listener falls in love - but it will happen, friend. Save your lunch money and start buying Ween. It is easily good enough for the mature musical tastes out there...maybe too good for a few.
I can ramble on about this one, but do youself a favor and add it too your cart. IT WILL INVARIABLY FAIL TO DISAPPOINT.
Dean
it was summer of 1999 or 1998, me, p and the kids all gathered at the corner and it was a special day because p brought with him sacks loaded with homegrown shrooms. "here," says he, handing me about 3/4 of an ounce of dried psillocybin, "these are for you." i eat a couple and he says, "no, eat the whole thing." this is probably the second or third time ever i'd dosed shrooms, so i take the whole bag. needless to say, within an hour the walls were bleeding and every cop on the beat knew i was high and were out to get me--so in desperation i went over to debbie's apartment, cg's girl, and she, cg and i listened to this album over and over for the next few hours while i hid in a fetal ball under a comforter on her ratty couch and smoked hash. later on i went to see ace and the rager's at the old grog. thanks, gene and dean, for pulling me out of my hellish bad trip.also, this is the best cover ever. screw any humorless birkenstock wearer who says otherwise!
My First Time - In The Backseat With Gene
Jesus Christ man, look up the word kitsch sometime.
I haven't listened to this album enough to feel qualified to review it, but I do like it a great deal.
I love the song Liberty Bell, so I was getting the details before requesting that my local library buy it.
However I'm so sick of album covers that exploit women. The cover design is totally demeaning.
So it's not getting requested or bought. There's plenty of great music to listen to that doesn't use offensive artwork as a cheap (and totally uncreative) tactic to push sales.
(Yes, artwork is part of the album content!)
Those of us who worship at the Church of Ween (Hail to the great god Boognish!) know that skinny blond twerp Beck stole his whole shtick from New Jersey musical geniuses Dean and Gene. Always ahead of their time, the brothers Ween have responded by abandoning their traditional lo-fi four-track recording methods and giving us their lushest album yet, Chocolate and Cheese. Not that Ween's fourth effort is polished; that adjective could never describe an album that veers wildly from acoustic Mexican folk songs, to pure '70s disco, to the appropriately named single, "I Can't Put My Finger On It." But Chocolate and Cheese may come even closer than "Push Th' Little Daisies" to fulfilling Dean's goal of establishing Ween as the next Counting Crows. --Jim DeRogatis
