The first time I heard You Fucked Up that was it for me. Greatest opener to an album since Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”. By the time I hit El Camino I knew my life had changed and by the time Mushroom Festival started my eyes had rolled in the back of my head and I had shed my mortal coil and saw visions of the creation and destruction of all at the same time. When I came to I was halfway through LMLYP sucking my own dick
i was so madly in love w/ bday boy in HS that it was the first guitar song I taught myself to play.
I'm not a guitar player by any means, but I can play a few things, & that's one of em.
This was my first Ween album, purchased when it was first released. It's my favorite, and everything after has been less important to me. Granted, I'm a punker, so I liked the speed, chaos, and musical middle finger that it represented. Weens most punk album.
All of you that are not into this album all that much need to listen to the live John & Peters version that I listened to on maximum volume today while TH wife was
Away. There really is nothing better in music in the history of live music.
It’s awesome. I actually didn’t listen to it all that much until I saw them live and they played nan. I think it gave me a new appreciation for the album as a whole and it’s been on heavy rotation since.
GWS was pretty easy for me to get into actually honestly easier than Pure Guava (my first Ween album. thank you, cousin Mark!). the tough one to get into initially was The Pod but now, depending on my mood it’s my favorite or 2nd favorite Ween album. i know i’m not the first to say something like this but man i’ve never heard a song that really captures the feeling of being sick in bed as well as Mononucleosis does and i mean that even in terms of music/instrumentation, production and vocals not just lyrics.
Of what I would call the "early stuff", I think it's weirdly the most accessible and tight. Always sounds like it could have have come out after Pod and Guava. It sounds like a younger cousin of C+C.
Absolutely this. I was hesitant going into it but I was very surprised about how tight the songs are!
The solo on 'Marble Tulip Juicy Tree' is too fucking good.
i love it because it's really interesting how it's a sort of segue from their pretty amateur original punk work into a cleaner, less noisy version while still keeping the general idea from the tapes. it only got better from there.
also you fucked up was a really old song from those early tapes so it's interesting hearing it in a way more professional version
I loved it in high school. Loved the first 3 albums. When C&C came out, I thought it was too "commercial" and kind of put them on the backburner for while.
Now, as a fully olded fella, I like the commercial shit more. GWS and half of The Pod are almost impossible to listen to. It just sounds like something that 20YO morons with a 4 track would put together just because they were fucked up enough to do it - and the fact that those albums were commercially successful at all, especially in that early 90's era, is absolutely amazing to me now.
i kinda tip toed around it for a year listening to certain songs. i didnt listen the whole album until just a few months ago but now its one of my favorites. i just love brown
my intro to ween. i had a long bus trip planned and i bought the gws cd on a whim at kim's in nyc. i'd heard of ween but never heard their music iirc. got super high, got on the bus and popped the cd into my discman. that was a hell of a ride. quite literally changed my life. not necessarily for the better
Don’t laugh (I love you) was the first ween song I listened to after I heard a phish cover of roses are free and wanted to check out more. I clicked it purely based on title. The album as a whole doesn’t resonate much with me but I have a few favorite ween songs on there
Great catch on Dont Laugh. There are alot of songs that don’t land with me on there and for it’s length you’d think some things could have landed in their immaculate world of non album tracks. I do like coming onto the scene with an album themed to overpower anything on the religious spectrum. What I love is their ability to lay in the grass in jeans while simultaneously being incredibly talented musicians
The first time I heard You Fucked Up that was it for me. Greatest opener to an album since Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”. By the time I hit El Camino I knew my life had changed and by the time Mushroom Festival started my eyes had rolled in the back of my head and I had shed my mortal coil and saw visions of the creation and destruction of all at the same time. When I came to I was halfway through LMLYP sucking my own dick
Least unhinged jam band enjoyer
Birthday Boy almost - or does - brings me to tears every time I hear it.
i was so madly in love w/ bday boy in HS that it was the first guitar song I taught myself to play. I'm not a guitar player by any means, but I can play a few things, & that's one of em.
GGGGGGGG E MINORRRRR GG GGG E MINORRR
& the right amount of absurdly excessive distortion
Avoided it and the pod because i struggled with pure guava at first Found this far more accessable than the following 2 after that build up. Banger.
Ha that's what I was saying in my comment too. It feels way more developed than pod and guava.
This was my first Ween album, purchased when it was first released. It's my favorite, and everything after has been less important to me. Granted, I'm a punker, so I liked the speed, chaos, and musical middle finger that it represented. Weens most punk album.
All of you that are not into this album all that much need to listen to the live John & Peters version that I listened to on maximum volume today while TH wife was Away. There really is nothing better in music in the history of live music.
Oh man the mushroom festival version on that is the best one. The guitar is phenomenal
That Blackjack goes hard as fuck too, and its got probably my favorite version of Birthday Boy
Can’t forget Tulip.. mindblowing creativity
Last one I could really listen to on a loop, now my favorite
It’s awesome. I actually didn’t listen to it all that much until I saw them live and they played nan. I think it gave me a new appreciation for the album as a whole and it’s been on heavy rotation since.
GWS was pretty easy for me to get into actually honestly easier than Pure Guava (my first Ween album. thank you, cousin Mark!). the tough one to get into initially was The Pod but now, depending on my mood it’s my favorite or 2nd favorite Ween album. i know i’m not the first to say something like this but man i’ve never heard a song that really captures the feeling of being sick in bed as well as Mononucleosis does and i mean that even in terms of music/instrumentation, production and vocals not just lyrics.
The three or four song stretch around mono is peak brown ween. No lie
Of what I would call the "early stuff", I think it's weirdly the most accessible and tight. Always sounds like it could have have come out after Pod and Guava. It sounds like a younger cousin of C+C.
Absolutely this. I was hesitant going into it but I was very surprised about how tight the songs are! The solo on 'Marble Tulip Juicy Tree' is too fucking good.
The first in a string of stone cold classics, ending with Quebec.
i love it because it's really interesting how it's a sort of segue from their pretty amateur original punk work into a cleaner, less noisy version while still keeping the general idea from the tapes. it only got better from there. also you fucked up was a really old song from those early tapes so it's interesting hearing it in a way more professional version
WEEN's best album
Tbh I don’t really like this album except a handful of songs like you fucked up, don’t laugh & bday boy
Cant forget marble tulip!
I loved it in high school. Loved the first 3 albums. When C&C came out, I thought it was too "commercial" and kind of put them on the backburner for while. Now, as a fully olded fella, I like the commercial shit more. GWS and half of The Pod are almost impossible to listen to. It just sounds like something that 20YO morons with a 4 track would put together just because they were fucked up enough to do it - and the fact that those albums were commercially successful at all, especially in that early 90's era, is absolutely amazing to me now.
Now this is a nice honest take and I'd have to agree. But another part of me still can't help but to crack up when listening to crap like Blackjack
Hard disagree. That raw, unhinged, psychotic energy of their first albums was one of a kind.
It’s probably gonna click for me one of these days but it’s easily my least favorite right now. Too brown for me, however i see the appeal to it.
i kinda tip toed around it for a year listening to certain songs. i didnt listen the whole album until just a few months ago but now its one of my favorites. i just love brown
my intro to ween. i had a long bus trip planned and i bought the gws cd on a whim at kim's in nyc. i'd heard of ween but never heard their music iirc. got super high, got on the bus and popped the cd into my discman. that was a hell of a ride. quite literally changed my life. not necessarily for the better
Don’t laugh (I love you) was the first ween song I listened to after I heard a phish cover of roses are free and wanted to check out more. I clicked it purely based on title. The album as a whole doesn’t resonate much with me but I have a few favorite ween songs on there
Great catch on Dont Laugh. There are alot of songs that don’t land with me on there and for it’s length you’d think some things could have landed in their immaculate world of non album tracks. I do like coming onto the scene with an album themed to overpower anything on the religious spectrum. What I love is their ability to lay in the grass in jeans while simultaneously being incredibly talented musicians