zero Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 It finally dawned on me that Ween's The Pod album cover is a spoof of Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hits (with Mean Ween replacing Leonard and the cribbler on his face). Found this article. I cannot place the music, it seems rather disharmonic to me. No connection to Cohen that I can see - other than being the exact opposite of the atmosphere, with kind of a dark quality, stressed by repetitiveness, disharmony, slowgoing syncopated rhythm and abuse of sound-distortions (changes of pitch, filters, overstressed bass drum) plus the occasional rocky guitar or bass. Sounds anywhere between a sound-check of the Sparks and jam-session rock in a badly supervised summer-camp for Alice Cooper fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 I always found that Ween album cover funny and I still wonder why they would spoof a Leonard Cohen album cover? I guess it gives people like us something to talk about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted July 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 In part it's because Mickey's (Deaner) mom is a pepper (french canadian) and she had this album when they were growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Thanks zero, I always wanted to know why and now after that explanation I feel I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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