"Mutilated Lips", just edging out "Buckingham Green".
― cwkiii, Friday, 11 February 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the cover supposed to be a vulva & c. or am I just a pervert?
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a composite of like 20 different sea creatures!
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
This album is so great!
"IIIIIII CANNOOTTTT REEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLTHE WORRDDDSSS OF THE GOLLLLLLLDEN EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing production too.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
title track
― iatee, Friday, February 11, 2011 3:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I will probably regret having made this later but this is what I mean about the album cover (NSFW).
― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever they did to the vocal track
I think it's just panning back and forth between a sped up vocal track and a slowed down one..
― billstevejim, Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
the first track is kind of creepy, whatever they did to the vocal track dumps it into the same theatrical uncanny valley where clowns and ventriloquist dummies reside
interestingly enough, it's based on the song below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75BAVEWfMiA
― Political Unrest Stabilizes Society Yeah (Eisbaer), Saturday, 12 February 2011 10:09 (thirteen years ago) link
also, i'm not one to name-drop but i make an exception here. the older brother of one of my best friends from grade school was a co-owner of the recording studio where Ween recorded and mixed some of the songs on the mollusk.
:-)
― Political Unrest Stabilizes Society Yeah (Eisbaer), Saturday, 12 February 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnriPwC2ydM
^^^^^<3<3<3<3<3<3^^^^^
― yuoowemeone, Saturday, 12 February 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's fantastic
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Saturday, 12 February 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
From the same public access show they also did "she wanted to leave" ..
There's a ton of really good tv performances from the mollusk.. and I'm pretty sure they purposely chose different songs for every appearance..
My favorite is still "mutilated lips" on oddville with the dancing bear.. soo fucking good.. I also recall "the golden eel" on viva variety being pretty great.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 12 February 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
"ocean man"
― Darin, Saturday, 12 February 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Listened to this straight through four times last night...still can't pick a favorite.
― old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Sunday, 13 February 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
First Ween album I bought, always loved it but never fully understood why it's the most popular... Listening through now though, it's kind of faultless... anyone who's ever re-sequenced it is insane. Buckingham Green into Ocean Man is just great.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Sunday, 13 February 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Gene trying to be Scottish on She Wanted To Leave? He sounds more like a mixture of Partridge and Moulding instead.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Sunday, 13 February 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Ween get an A+ for sequencing.. I always find myself getting one of their songs stuck in my head.. let's say "Track 4," and then 10-15 minutes later I'll be wondering why "Track 8" is stuck in my head, and then it occurs to me that the entire album was subconsciously playing in my head without realizing it.
This happened a few weeks ago with "Baby Bitch" .. 10 minutes later I realized "Voodoo Lady" was stuck in my head, and it took me a few seconds to figure out why...
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 February 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno, a bit Jethro Tull too?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 14 February 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't wanna go OT but I just got the Live at Stubb's 3-disc set and holy cow these guys are amazing on stage. Even if you don't like the third disc (and I don't) it's essential!! I wish these guys would put out more live records...I wasn't crazy about Paintin the Town Brown as it was mostly bootleg quality and real choppy, but the other ones - Toronto, Chicago, Cat's Cradle, and of course Stubb's are all classic; I don't really listen to studio Ween that much anymore. Did you know Buckingham Green was played as far back as 1992? Imagine if they'd put that one on Pure Guava instead!
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
oooohhhhhhh man that public access thing is amazing
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRPLNqApfQ
― am0n, Monday, 14 February 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ok... that clip.was that tv show invented for the sole purpose of having ween play a song. because that's how it looks.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
and is that the guy from No Country For Old Men sitting on the couch?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck i miss oddville .. i'd gladly download a torrent of every episode if it existed
― billstevejim, Sunday, 20 February 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
is "buckingham green" some weird fleetwood mac reference? lindsey and peter? either way, that one. "summon the queen . . . spoke the child of eyes!"
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 20 February 2011 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't like this album so much, but 'The Mollusk' was a standout track
― zeus, Sunday, 20 February 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ocean man dreadfully underrepresented here. it may be the catchiest 2-minute song ever written.
the more i listen to this album, the more perfect it seems.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
2 votes for It's Gonna Be (Alright)? clearly the least dispensable song on the album.
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 March 2014 07:33 (ten years ago) link
Just happened to play this this morning. Pink Eye cracks me up every time
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 8 March 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
dean has so many great stories
http://www.stereogum.com/1951136/weens-the-mollusk-turns-20-an-oral-history-by-mickey-melchiondo/franchises/the-anniversary/
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
'ocean man' became a meme at some point
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
great article - thx;
― bodacious ignoramus, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
https://pics.onsizzle.com/when-he-take-u-by-the-hand-and-lead-u-3105553.png
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
those frozen pipe tapes are pretty cool too, though totally unproduced. got stuff like "did you see me" which sounds like it could have come off dave gilmour's first solo record.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 03:49 (six years ago) link