The first claim is that it refers to the dozen veteran Nashville studio musicians who played on the album. There are two theories regarding the title of the album. Ween turned to Nashville, Tennessee studio musicians for the recording of the authentically-spirited 12 Golden Country Greats (1996) which only contained ten tracks. At this time, Ween began to expand their live and studio line-up, providing both a crisper production sound in the studio and an easier live setup (up until this time, Ween had been using DAT tapes to provide backings for their songs). The 'Freedom of '76' music video was directed by Spike Jonze. Chocolate and Cheese followed in 1994, heralding 70s pop/rock & soul sendups such as 'Freedom of '76' and 'Voodoo Lady'. Pure Guava, the first of a series of releases on the Elektra label, featured their highest charting single, 'Push Th' Little Daisies' ( 1992) which gained them media & MTV attention, as the video was a highlighted target on MTV's Beavis & Butt-head. The cover of The Pod resembles the cover of the 1975 Leonard Cohen album, The Best of Leonard Cohen, but with Mean Ween (friend Howie Weinberg) wearing the aforementioned gas mask bong in place of Cohen.

The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but this was later refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being 'the most slime-bag thing we could think of.' The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device used to send Marijuana directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days, but nauseated. Ween was signed to Twin/Tone Records in 1989 and released their first album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness in the following year, a 26-track smorgasbord of genre jumping and wild, silly eclecticism.ġ991's The Pod became a fast fan favorite, as the duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars & vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound.

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