The Pod

The Pod is the second studio album by Ween, named after the place it was recorded in, The Pod, which was the apartment the band was living in at the time, The Pod was recorded on a four track recorder, making it lo fi. however, from the previous album, GodWeenSatan, the quality is more sluggish, the album is considered the band's most surreal

Trivia
The cover art for the album is an edited version of the cover art for the 1975 greatest hits "The Best of Leonard Cohen"

In the info of the album, the band claimed they huffed 5 cans of scotchgard and wrote the album under the influence of the furniture cleaner, this was later confirmed as a joke

"The whole Scotchguard thing comes from a kid we went to high school with, who did in fact inhale Scotchguard. We just always thought that was hilarious. That's what "The Pod" sounds like, but it brought on more by fever and sickness, mononucleosis, hepatitis, the flu, etc. I was bedridden most of the time we lived there and the album sounds like a woozy, fever dream, scotchguard, weed powered bong powered by nitrous. not #M scotchguard though." -Dean Ween

Personnel
Gene Ween - Guitar, Vocals

Dean Ween - Guitar Vocals

Mean Ween - Bass on 'Alone'

Andrew Weiss - Producer, Mixing

Note in the booklet
From the Shimmy-Disc CD:
 * "Recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990. All songs recorded at the Pod, where we lived for a year and 10 months (with our cat Mandee). The Pod was scenically located on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. Our apartment was a haven for flies because it sits in the middle of a horse farm. In the time this album was completed, we filled up 3,600 hours of tape, and inhaled 5 cans of Scotchgard. This album was then produced and mixed by Andrew Weiss (our pal) at the Zion House of Flesh, Hopewell, New Jersey. Straight to DAT Mang. Mean Ween played the bass on "Alone" and that's him on the cover doin' up some Scotchguard powered bongs. We got evicted on October 1, 1991. But Dave Ayers says he's gonna help us out. Cover and art designs by Logorhythms."