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Ween - GodWeenSatan: The Oneness Audio CD

A fair review of the Ween "GodWeenSatan: The Oneness" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Ween reviews here, or go back to the Ween tabs.

Ween Band: Ween
Title: GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-10-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: You Fucked Up 2: Tick 3: I'm in the Mood to Move 4: I Gots a Weasel 5: Fat Lenny 6: Cold and Wet 7: Bumblebee 8: Don't Laugh (I Love You) 9: Never Squeal 10: Up on the Hill 11: Wayne's Pet Youngin' 12: Nicole 13: Common Bitch 14: Camino 15: Old Queen Cole 16: Nan 17: Licking the Palm for Guava 18: Mushroom Festival in Hell 19: L.M.L.Y.P. 20: Papa Zit 21: Old Man Thunder 22: Birthday Boy 23: Blackjack 24: Squelch the Weasel 25: Marble Tulip Juicy Tree 26: Puffy Cloud

weirdness, insanity, and beauty
Its pure undilluted punk rock zaniness with plenty of cock-rock metal riffs, loud noisy feedback, distortion, spastic shouted vocals, weird voice effects, randomly breaking into more calm but equally insane tracks covering genres as diverse as beebop and folk. Ween's first official album is 26 songs of craziness. All this without taken itself seriously at all. The musics all good but if there's any songs you don't like they're all different so you'll like something off here. Most of it is sloppy punk (psychadelic and goofy punk not unlike Butthole Surfers and Dead Milkmen) but "Fat Lenny" is like half-assed ACDC, "I'm In The Mood" is dumb (aka brilliant) hip-hop, "Don't Laugh" is pure little kid cutesy pop, "Don't Squeal" is beebop or lounge or something, "Nicole" is pure reggae, "El Camino" is a Spanish style ballad, "LMLYP" is pure funk (actually a medoly of atleast two Prince songs), "Squelch The Weasel" is slow creepy folk, "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree" and "Puffy Cloud" are psychadelic folk rock for smokin that chronic to. Most of it is fast sloppy punk ("You F-ed Up", "Tick", "Bumble Bee", "Ole Queen Cole", "Waynes Pet Young Un", etc) and "Up On The Hill" is a punked out gospel song. There's 26 songs total. The remastered version, which I used to have has some extra tracks which are really good and has a track listing but the old one was cheaper so I got it. It was produced by the dude who played bass in Gone (Greg Ginn from Black Flag's side project) and later in Rollins Band (with the singer from Black Flag) and has anyone noticed "You F-ed Up" ends the same way as "Rise Above" by Black Flag? Anyway, Ween's first album is a timeless classic. Every song is cool and DIFFERENT. This is before they were a professional band (check out At The Cats Cradel dvd or youtube to see). They are fun and very talented. Fans of newer Ween may not like this and fans of older may not like newer but its all cool in my book. No too Ween albums really sound the same but I highly recomend this one and The Mollusk above all. Chocolate And Cheese being the most mainstream and The Pod being the least if you care about that stuff. La Cucaracha's kinda boring. This ones freakin hilarious. If you like weird and fun buy this!!!!.


Way overrated...
This is a cd for Ween fanatics only. First of all, this album is not the classic a lot of people here seem to claim it is. If you don't like or care about Ween, you won't like this cd. It is mainly an hour of screaming, yelling, and disjointed singing over fast guitar riffs and jangly pop sounds. While some of the songs are really creative and good, most is just white noise. I really love Ween's later, poppier albums like "Chocolate & Cheese" and "White Pepper", so I thought I'd like the earlier stuff as well. But be warned. . . this sounds TOTALLY different from their post-C&C stuff. Personally, I'd recommend all Ween albums from "Pure Guava" onwards because they are all brilliant, but this one really dissapointed me.


Aggressive, early Ween
It's more prone to screeching guitar and throat shredding yelling by the Lennon and McCartney of our generation than the murky two albums that follow it. This is Ween's psycho-punk first album. This band has the ability to be cute, offensive, touching, violent, and just flat out funny under the cover of one recording. Don't make Dean and Gene send Fat Lenny to your house-get this necessary Ween immediately.


Good stuff to chew
Is this a challenging album? You bet. I have all of Ween's albums, from their less ferocious, more approachable "Mollusc" to the hazy, floating "Pod", to this biting, fearsome beast known as "GodWeenSatan: The Oneness" Is this a good album? No, not in the sense that you can turn it on and listen to it the whole way through with a smile on your face. If you listen to "top 40" radio, you'll miss a lot, and won't understand most of this album. In fact, you'll probably turn it off after a few seconds. There are a lot of rewarding moments, though, to be had by the discerning - don't laugh (I love you), and the quintissential "Nicole. " Make sure to listen to Nicole all of the way through, without distractions. . there is a LOT going on there. If you are looking for something different, give this a shot.


Maybe the greatest artistic achievement of our time.
" It would be worth owning this CD for that line alone, but each of the 26(!) songs on this CD are filled with funny/tragic/brilliant lyrics. On 'Don't laugh, I love you' Ween sing the following line: "Ernest Hemingway had always been there for me - but now Ernest Hemingway is dead. In a saner world, this would've been bigger than 'Thriller'.


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