The SpongeBob creator, Stephen Hillenburg, contacted Ween after the Mollusk was released and had them write 'Loop de Loop.' Of ‘Loop de Loop’, Dean Ween wrote: “I got a call a long time ago from a marine biologist that said he wanted to start a cartoon inspired by Ween’s album The Mollusk. His name was Steve Hillenburg and his idea was to create a Bugs Bunny type cartoon on the bottom of the ocean floor."
Loving your videos! A fun fact - The Mollusk is actually referenced in an early Spongebob episode (spongebob tells gary to mind his wandering eye, little mollusk).
Just found you from your Quebec review! Since you liked It's Gonna Be (Alright), I bet you'll really like White Pepper. If you wanna get into the early stuff I'd start with Pure Guava. Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) is one of their best songs ever imo
Tom Waits, my dude! Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank's Wild Years and Bone Machine are a few essentials from a very expansive discography. It may be a little difficult to digest at first but he's truly one of the greats, in my opinion. 🙂
I love how ween can make you take an album like the mollusk seriously when you got tracks like "waving my dick in the wind". Also on the last song my theory is that the dude is "one of them" because he joined their crew - unable to let go of his girlfriend he'd rather join them and watch from the sideline as another dude who's better than him in every way gets with her.
Of the Pumpkins albums, I would recommend Gish. It’s great insight into what was going on in 1991. 91 was an incredibly important year for alt rock. Pearl Jam (ten), Nirvana ( never mind) Soundgarden ( badmotorfinger), RHCP ( blood sugar sex magik) temple of the dog ( self titled) and Primus ( sailing the seas of cheese). The all greatly effected “rock” music.
Dang dude you just keep blowing up more and more. As Ali G would say RESPECT. Yeah this is a very silly album for silly people by a mostly silly band. If you keep diving into their music expect more silliness. I can't listen to Ween all the time but they are fun when I am in the mood. Recommendations! Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams
When I first subscribed you had 4000 subscribers. Now a month or two later you have over 7000. I like following smaller channels in the hopes of maybe seeing them go from nothing to Mr beast in several years. I don't know about Mr beast but I bet that you'll have 10000 subscribers by Christmas. If you want to go even further into the weirdness that is ween, I would definitely recommend chocolate and cheese. If you want an album that's a little more tame, white pepper is pretty good as well. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you and I wish the best for your channel. Oh ps look at the lyrics to Ocean man and look at the lyrics to echoes by Pink Floyd
@@smags1082 oh by the way did you see the lyrics to both songs? Ocean man says"ocean man, take me by the hand lead me through the land that you understand" echoes says" and do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can?"
You're doing all my favorite albums as of late. The Mollusk is legendary. So many artists recognize and are influenced by the insane bravery and eclecticism Ween is known for and this album made it clear for all to see. Keep it up man I love you. Mutilated Lips is an all-time top tier Ween. So fucking brown. You should check out the fan-compiled album of Quebec outtakes called Caesar! It's half tracks that didn't make it (Things You Already Know and I'm Wide Open are awesome) and half demos of tracks that did (Chocolate Town's demo has some beautiful vocal harmonies that didn't make it on the studio album. They're all hella solid songs (well, most of them lol). Also just like check out their various b-sides scattered across the early internet that have been uploaded to YT. Kim Smoltz, Beacon Light, Who Dat?, The Argus Pt. 2, the list goes on. Don't sleep on Shinola Vol. 1. It's _technically_ a compilarion album, but it's all old songs that didn't make it on older albums, but they re-recorded them and made a "b-sides and rarities" album that kicks ass. Yeah on early Ween albums, don't bother dissecting lyrics. They were high as fuck on all kinds of shit. Fool's errand unless you also love huffing scotchgard and can tap into the same schizo-realm they made their first 3 albums on. Usually you can tell if the lyrics are gonna be meaningful or nonsense though lol If you're taking recs, I've got few if that's cool. I notice you do a lot of indie/alt stuff so this might be kinda out of that wheelhouse but I figured I'd throw em in. Dance Gavin Dance is a pretty cool band if you don't mind unclean vocals (kinda screamo/growl, but their vocalist is pretty unique in the scene). Their genre is Post-Hardcore, but their guitarist's skills and writing is so prolific and unique that fans classify them (and bands that work with them/play in the same scene) as Swancore. The guitarist's last name is Swan lol. Crazy technical guitar, insane clean vocals, badass unclean vocals (two vocalists), and kickass groove. They love switching things up mid-song and injecting groove into some metal/heavy shit and vice versa. Instant Gratification/Downtown Battle Mountain 2 are great starting points. Each features a different clean vocalist; they've gone through 3, but it's been the same drummer and lead guitar the whole time. You should also check out some Oingo Boingo! Sort of Ween-adjacent in that they can get silly but a lot of it is genuinely infectious tunes. Nothing To Fear is my fav album but Dead Man's Party is their most accessible. If you like brass, you'll like them. Check out Vulfpeck (though you seem like the kinda guy who already has). Awesome soul/jazz/funk with extremely talented musicians. The _bass_. The Beautiful Game and Hill Climber are my favorites. For something completely different. Check out SEYCHELLES by Masayoshi Takanaka. One of the grandfathers of Japanese City-Pop. This album is so dang chill with beachy, latin vibes accompanying masterful guitar, tasteful in-the-pocket drums, and excellent bass. Lastly, check out XTC. Oranges and Lemons or Drums and Wires. Wonderful, eclectic pop music often heralded as the most intelligent, masterful pop ever written. Think Beatles if they started in the 70s. They're everywhere. Awesome bassist. Holy shit, sorry for the blog post. You have great taste and your format's great. Hope to see more from you. Subbed!
Little easter egg btw, the melody on cold blows the wind that plays at 16:43, they ended up reusing for the verse melody of The Argus from quebec. It took me way too long to notice
Nice video! So many react channels feel fake, but as a huge Ween fan, I dug that you felt confident criticizing the tracks you didn't like as much, as many of the react channels seem to love everything they hear, which feels fake as hell.
My favorite ween album. Here's some good recs: Devo - Are We Not Men? Stooges - Funhouse Iggy Pop - The Idiot Can - Ege Bamyasi Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One John Cale - Fear
Only just recently discoverd your channel and think you're a huge breath of fresh air when it comes to music reaction channels, so props there. I cannot believe that you reacted to SAW2 by Aphex Twin, such an amazing ambient album btw. I wanted to suggest Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. You might not be into Jazz much but it is such a chaotic, beautiful and unique album. Think you would really appreciate it for what it is at the very least. One of my favourites of all time and think some of your viewers would also enjoy to see you react to a beloved jazz album.
Love the videos! A few recommendations: Process - Sampha (experimental r&b, great production) Nurture - Porter Robinson (light summer electric with fun production) Koi No Yokan or White Pony - Deftones (very heavy, sexier and heavier radiohead imo) Hypochondriac - Brakence (very experimental emo rap, glitch pop)
Found your channel last week and I’ve watched every vid since then. Keep up the great work! Recommendation: the stranger by Billy Joel The album doesn’t have a single miss.
That ending though, no man has not come back to Ween after hearing them, you leave perhaps a year goes by and you stumble upon a Ween clip on youtube and you're lost in the sauce once again.
cool video. i love ween, went through a big ween phase and have seen them play twice. they put on a great show. like you noticed, the guitarist is really so amazingly talented! they are truly a great band.
I think ocean man speaks to the importance of having the context of the rest of an album around a song, because on its own it's just this kinda sweet laid back beachy melody, but in the album its sort of symbolizing the end, rising up out of the darker oceany songs onto the coast before the final sendoff. idk
Very cool album! Except for Ocean Man of course I wasn't too familiar with Ween before but I love it! The Spongebob and Pink Floyd lore connection is so cool too. My suggestion to help you get to 10K by Christmas (though no help needed!) I suggest listening to Air - Moon Safari (downtempo/space pop/chill-out), Alice in Chains - Dirt (grunge/alternative metal), Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions (Trip hop/downtempo). No pressure though, all in good time. Hope you're enjoying the fall season, get well soon. I'm having a great time on this channel and the suggestions in the comments! Much love
"How do they do that to the voice?" It's a mix of formant and pitch shifting. Pitch shifting is self explanatory. Formant shifting is like a tone control for your voice which lets you sound bright and squeaky or dark and deep.
you should def relisten to this album before the next 40 ranking video because the songs get better off each listen, and btw you should listen to White Pepper or Choclate and Cheese
I've been in love with this band for 30 years and I'm gonna miss them when I die. Please check out Chocolate & Cheese at some point. And you really gotta see them live to get the full flavor.
The inspiration for SpongeBob is more about the aquatic sound of the album and some of the themes Edit: Cold Blows The Wind is a rendition of an old folk song
First time I heard golden eel I was tripping on mushrooms with my buddy who was tripping just as hard and driving us to the store for orange juice. Volume at 11 and his audio system had been malfunctioning so instead of the volume automatically increasing as the motor revved up, when he would hit the gas all the speakers randomly got quieter and louder individually, turning an already strange experience, with an already crazy amount of hallucinogens and crazy song into my personal auditory nightmare. Man it was a blast. He must reveal the words of the golden eel!
White Pepper would be the next logical Ween album step of you like more meanings out of songs. The rest of the discography lies a bit more towards the playfully side when it comes to songwriting! Although that's not to say the other albums do not have tracks you can decipher
You need to hear more Ween mang. The Pod, Chocolate and Cheese or 12 Golden Country Greats would be some great choices. Live in Chicago if you're feeling saucy
i see a lot of recs for chocolate and cheese and for white pepper in these comments and sure those are both great but you need to get deeper into earlier, browner material. I recommend the Pure Guava album next.
I’m dancing in the show tonight sounds like SpongeBob and Patrick singing. The mollusk song was referenced in season one in the dream episode when SpongeBob goes into Gary’s dream. The Blarney Stone reminds me of Mr krabs lol. That’s what I always thought about this album.
Hi I have some recommendations: This is happening by LCD soundsystem London calling by the Clash RTJ 2 by run the jewels Also I hope you feel better soon
Since you seemed to like the instrumentals and stuff like it's gonna be alright best, I really really think you'll love white pepper. it's still ween at their best, except it's way more "normal" rock lmao.
You should go off the deep end and listen to "The Pod" by Ween it is their second of their 3 "brown" albums. Brown being a term used by ween fans to describe a purposefuly crap sound, and The Pod is definitely the most experimental of these 3 albums.
Porto Pro Xs, excellent budget choice. I rocked KSC35/75s for a long while which have the same drivers but I do think they has become outclassed by IEMs in that price range at this point by a decent margin. The Tangzu Wan'er or QKZ X HBB are cheap and great.
1:48 - You commented on the vocals saying one of them sounds adult and one of them sounds like a kid, if you pay closer attention to them they sound an awfully similar to the voices of a certain yellow sponge and a pink starfish. Not sure if Hillenburg took inspiration from that or simply coincedence but cool nonetheless.
I would request a thousand different albums, but until that Ys listen, I'm staying laserline. Ys best album. Smags best reactor. Match made in heaven tbhh. ❤
