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The Mollusk | 
 enlarge | Artist: Ween
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 39096
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.5
MPN: 62013
UPC: 075596201322
EAN: 0075596201322
ASIN: B000002HOM
Release Date: June 24, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight | | • | The Mollusk | | • | Polka Dot Tail | | • | I'll Be Your Jonny On The Spot | | • | Mutilated Lips | | • | The Blarney Stone | | • | It's Gonna Be (Alright) | | • | The Golden Eel | | • | Cold Blows The Wind | | • | Pink Eye (On My Leg) | | • | Waving My Dick In The Wind | | • | Buckingham Green | | • | Ocean Man | | • | She Wanted To Leave (Reprise) |
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Bruce Springsteen used the Jersey Shore as the backdrop for his tragic-heroic tales of everyday people in nowhere places. Ween, as you might expect, have a slightly different take on the proud coastline between New York and Atlantic City, the place where they recorded much of their new album, The Mollusk. Gene and Dean are more interested in dead jellyfish, rusted beer cans, flotsam and jetsam, dirty syringes and other assorted detritus that washes up. As for the kind people who live near the water? Ween's only interested in the ones who lurk at amusement park freak shows--and even then, only the really twisted ones. The Mollusk was made between rounds of surf-fishing for bluefish and bass--both before and after the water pipes burst in their winter beach house/studio, leaving recording equipment adrift in an indoor flood. Naturally, the album sounds thoroughly soaked. This is Ween's 'wet' album, in much the same way last year's 12 Golden Country Greats was their Nashville album. Songs like "The Golden Eel" and "Ocean Man" mine the water motif quite literally, while the hilarious title track and "Polka Dot Tail" take it one step further, the first by aping the dopey Brit folk mysticism of Donovan's "Atlantis" and the second by lumbering whimsically like "Yellow Submarine." Other tracks, such as the opening ditty "I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight," are more impressionistically soaked: the piano notes sprinkle lightly, the tuba plods like a foot through mud, and the vocals warp as if they were accidentally thrown into the washing machine. Though they're good enough songwriters to play it straight and almost get away with it ("It's Gonna Be" sounds pulled from the Peter Cetera songbook), the Ween boys are at their best on songs like "Mutilated Lips," when they're foraging through the grotesque, the surreal, the outright nasty--anything that titillates their sick sense of humor. They're still guys who get off on weird sounds (such as "Pink Eye"'s vacuum cleaner melody and dog bark percussion) and wiener jokes ("Waving My Dick in the Wind"). And what's most fun for us is hearing how much fun it still seems to be for them. --Roni Sarig
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 ANOTHER GREAT WEEN CD! September 30, 2008
This one falls in the vein of White Pepper and Chocolate and Cheese...Ween weirdness done with expert studio craftsmanship. They even throw in another dick song just to show they still suffer the effects of octopermanentia (intellectually stuck in the eighth grade). Get this one, White Pepper, Chocolate and Cheese, and, for a great example of their humble lo-fi 4-track beginnings, Pure Guava (pure fun weirdness and hilarity!). How these guys plagiarize the rule book, throw out the rule book, then re-write the rule book and go for pop songs simultaneously weird and well-crafted that get stuck in your head is anyone's guess. Brilliant.
 really good! February 27, 2008
this album is pretty good. it's fun to listen to and lighthearted. that's what i like about ween. they are good songs, played well by men! i think you should buy it, mang!
Ween CD - The Mollusk November 26, 2007
One of Ween's best albums! A must have
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My second favorite Ween album November 18, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Go buy this album! It isn't their best, White Pepper gets that nod, but it sure is close. My only complaint is that they seem to not be able to handle success. They put together a couple of truly awesome songs and it freaks them out so they jam in some nearly unlistenable track that just grates the nerves. They cleaned it up on White Pepper and then really regressed with Quebec (half of that album could be deleted). Awesome prog-rock album that should have just been a concept album, ala Pink Floyd or Alan Parsons Project.
What you got there? November 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kind sir, it's "The Mollusk." Showcases what makes this band so unique -- from serious to whimsy, loud to soft, country to sea shanty to rock to prog, to whatever else you got. beautiful, profane, and hilarious.
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