Ween: The Pollusk (The Mollusk Poll)

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..

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

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.

:-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnriPwC2ydM

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yeah, that's fantastic

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.

"ocean man"

Listened to this straight through four times last night...still can't pick a favorite.

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.

Is Gene trying to be Scottish on She Wanted To Leave? He sounds more like a mixture of Partridge and Moulding instead.

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...

Is Gene trying to be Scottish on She Wanted To Leave? He sounds more like a mixture of Partridge and Moulding instead.

Dunno, a bit Jethro Tull too?

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!

oooohhhhhhh man that public access thing is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRPLNqApfQ

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ok... that clip.
was that tv show invented for the sole purpose of having ween play a song. because that's how it looks.

and is that the guy from No Country For Old Men sitting on the couch?

fuck i miss oddville .. i'd gladly download a torrent of every episode if it existed

is "buckingham green" some weird fleetwood mac reference? lindsey and peter? either way, that one. "summon the queen . . . spoke the child of eyes!"

Didn't like this album so much, but 'The Mollusk' was a standout track

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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.

2 votes for It's Gonna Be (Alright)? clearly the least dispensable song on the album.

Just happened to play this this morning. Pink Eye cracks me up every time

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/

'ocean man' became a meme at some point

great article - thx;

https://pics.onsizzle.com/when-he-take-u-by-the-hand-and-lead-u-3105553.png

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.