| Product Summary | | Label: Sanctuary Records Group | | UPC: 00060768459120 | | Release Date: 8/5/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60608363 | | Item#: MNQ36V | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2003 Ween Under Exclusive License To Sanctuary Records Group Inc
(C) 2003 Ween Under Exclusive License To Sanctuary Records Group Inc
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Ween: Dean Ween (vocals, guitar, bass, vocoder); Gene Ween (vocals, bass, keyboards, drum machine). | | Additional personnel: Andrew Weiss (strings, keyboards, synthesizer, drums); Glen McClelland (piano, keyboards); Dave Dreiwitz (bass); John Freese, Sim Cain (drums). | | Recorded at the Zion House, Hopewell, New Jersey. | | Personnel: Gene Ween (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, omnichord, keyboards, synthesizer, drum machine); Dean Ween (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, electric sitar, keyboards, vocoder, drums); Andrew Weiss (strings, keyboards, synthesizer, fretless bass, drums, percussion); Glen McClelland (accordion, piano, organ, keyboards); Josh Freese, Sim Cain (drums). | | Audio Mixers: Christopher Shaw ; Andrew Weiss. | | Arrangers: Andrew Weiss; Ween. | | Three years after the release of WHITE PEPPER, Weeners Dean and Gene are back with their eighth studio album. Starting with the Motorhead-like charge of "It's Gonna Be a Long Night," it's immediately apparent that recent years of marriage, parenthood, and touring with jam bands (???) haven't mellowed the duo. And though their glue-huffing days are presumably behind them, they're still hitting the prescription drugs with "Zoloft," a spacey pop ode to the calming pills. | | Rather than crafting weird, mutated songs with pop leanings, Dean and Gene are now largely focused on crafting pop songs with weird, mutated leanings, a subtle yet important distinction that becomes clear on songs such as "Transdermal Celebration," "Tried and True," and "Chocolate Town." Of course, there's still time for a few distorted ditties with warped vocals such as "So Many People in the Neighborhood" and "Happy Colored Marbles," but even these strange little creatures secretly aspire to some minor pop majesty. Sure to please "Boognish" believers and adventurous listeners alike, QUEBEC will sprinkle your day with sunny and stinky pop tunes that you won't easily forget. |
Producer: Andrew Weiss |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/05/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 84591 | | Label : Sanctuary (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00060768459120 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Uncut (11/03, p.126)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...The prodigiously gifted twosome funk and trip through 'Among His Tribe' and the majestic 'Happy Colored Marbles..."CMJ (12/29/03, p.7)
- Ranked #8 in CMJ's "Top 10 of 2003" CMJ (8/11/03, p.6)
- "...With QUEBEC, the Ween boys have turned in another bizarre genre-spanning/bending disc of oddities and wonder...another work of mad genius..." Mojo (Publisher)
(01/01/04, p.56)
- Ranked #39 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003" Mojo (Publisher)
(10/03, p.122)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Those new-found West Coastisms provide a thread through the madness - plenty of smokey psychedelia, country-rockin' fun and damn fine tunes..." |
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