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The Pod
Studio album by Ween
Released	September 20, 1991
Recorded	January–October 1990
Studio	The Pod (Solebury Township, Pennsylvania)
Genre	Alternative rock lo-fi noise rock outsider music
Length	76:40
Label	Shimmy Disc
Producer	Andrew Weiss
Ween chronology
GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (1990) The Pod (1991) Pure Guava (1992)

The Pod is the second studio album by American rock band Ween, released on September 20, 1991 by Shimmy Disc. The Pod, according to Ween lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard. However, when their fans began huffing Scotchgard, it was refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of". The Pod has since been remastered and reissued by Elektra Records, after the relative success of Ween albums such as Pure Guava (1992) and Chocolate and Cheese (1994). Shimmy Disc released a vinyl version in 1991. The Pod is Ween's longest studio album, and considered one of their best. (Or as the fans refer to it: the "Brownest")

Title and album cover

The album takes its name from the band's apartment where the album was recorded, which the band nicknamed "The Pod". The album's cover art is a takeoff of the 1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen cover; Ween simply positioned a photo of part-time bassist Mean Ween's head (wearing a "nitrous oxide powered bong" which is sometimes mistaken for a "Scotchgard bong") over Cohen's cover art, and altered the title text and other graphics. The copy of the Leonard Cohen record that Ween used had purportedly belonged to Dean Ween's mother, Eileen Ween.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide	5/10

In 1993, the album was named one of the 20 best albums of 1992 by Spin.

Background and production

The album was recorded on two tapes made by Ween from January to October 1990, at the Pod on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. The tapes were titled the Bilboa tape and the Big Timmy Wasserman tape. Both tapes contain not only demo versions of songs on the album, but many outtakes not used on any album or tracks used on future albums.

Composition

All of the songs have a murky, sludgy quality to them, due to being recorded on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder, and many of the vocals are manipulated in strange ways. The album contains bizarre lyrical content, often attributed to the fact that Dean and Gene both came down with cases of mononucleosis during the recording of the album, as well as their notorious relationship with huffing. The song "Alone" borrows the guitar riff/melody from Robyn Hitchcock's "The Bones In The Ground".

Track listing

All tracks written by Ween. All lead vocals by Aaron Freeman, except where noted.

• "The Stallion (Pt. 1)" was not listed on the covers of original Shimmy Disc (CD, tape, double vinyl) releases, although the song is present as track #5.

Liner notes

From the Shimmy-Disc CD:

"Recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990. All songs recorded at the Pod, where we lived for a year and 10 months (with our cat Mandee). The Pod was scenically located on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. Our apartment was a haven for flies because it sits in the middle of a horse farm. In the time this album was completed, we filled up 3,600 hours of tape, and inhaled 5 cans of Scotchgard. This album was then produced and mixed by Andrew Weiss (our pal) at the Zion House of Flesh, Hopewell, New Jersey. Straight to DAT Mang. Mean Ween played the bass on "Alone" and that's him on the cover doin' up some Scotchguard powered bongs. We got evicted on October 1, 1991. But Dave Ayers says he's gonna help us out. Cover and art designs by Logarithms."

Personnel

• Dean Ween - guitar, vocals, engineer
• Gene Ween - vocals, engineer
• Mean Ween - bass on "Alone"
• Ween - art direction
• Howie Weinberg - remastering
• Andrew Weiss - producer, mixing

References

1. . Ween.net http://www.ween.net/ween-the-pod.html. Retrieved 3 June 2017. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "Heather Phares. "The Pod"". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
3. Phares, Heather. "Ween: The Pod". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
4. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Ween". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 864–65. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
5. Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679755746.
6. "Ween, The Pod (Shimmy-Disc) SPIN". www.spin.com. Retrieved 2017-07-21.

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Dean Ween Gene Ween Claude Coleman Jr. Dave Dreiwitz Glenn McClelland Andrew Weiss
Studio albums	GodWeenSatan: The Oneness The Pod Pure Guava Chocolate and Cheese 12 Golden Country Greats The Mollusk White Pepper Quebec La Cucaracha
Compilations	Shinola, Vol. 1
Live albums	Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990–1998 Live in Toronto Canada Live at Stubb's All Request Live Live in Chicago At The Cat's Cradle, 1992 GodWeenSatan Live
Song articles	"Push th' Little Daisies" "Freedom of '76" "Voodoo Lady" "Piss Up a Rope" "Mutilated Lips" "Ocean Man" "Even If You Don't"
Related articles	Moistboyz Synthetic Socks Freeman The Friends EP Z-Rock Hawaii Josh Freese It's Pat Ween discography
Category

• 1991 albums
• Shimmy Disc albums
• Ween albums