The cover of The Pod was a parody of the cover of the 1975 Leonard Cohen album, The Best of Leonard Cohen, but with the head of Chris 'Mean Ween' Williams (who played bass on the Pod track 'Alone') in place of Cohen's. The duo's use of drum machines, pitch-shifted guitars and vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound. Recorded on a four-track cassette recorder from January to October 1990, the album borrows its title from the Solebury Township, Pennsylvania apartment in which it was recorded. Lets hope we wont have to wait so long for Volume 2.The band released their second full-length album, The Pod, in 1991 on the Shimmy-Disc label. Songs like the brilliant Thin Lizzy homage 'Gabrielle, Steely Dan-ish 'Transitions, the slow blues ballad 'I Fell in Love Today and spacey workout 'The Rift, are among the best and funniest Ween have released in years. Most delightfully, the silly, playful vibe of this early material (such as Pure Guava-style lo-fi romps 'Tastes Good on th Bun and 'Big Fat Fuck) is still sincerely intact, proving that although Ween have certainly aged as men, they havent strayed too far from their Scotch Guard-huffing adolescence. What Ween have done here is gone back over their old, unreleased work and recorded it anew, with their current ears of professionalism. Any fan of Gene and Deans goofy, satirical, home-recorded early work must have wondered at some point just how much honest goodness fills their old four-track tapes the ambitious Shinola project gives those very fans more than a glimpse. 1 might sound like a dream come true for Ween fans and, well, it is.

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