Track Listing
1. It's Gonna Be a Long Night
2. Zoloft
3. Transdermal Celebration
4. Among His Tribe
5. So Many People in the Neighborhood
6. Tried and True
7. Happy Colored Marbles
8. Hey There Fancy Pants
9. Captain
10. Chocolate Town
11. I Don't Want It
12. F*Cked Jam, The
13. Alcan Road
14. Argus, The
15. If You Could Save Yourself
| Details | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
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.
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.
Editorial Reviews
...With QUEBEC, the Ween boys have turned in another bizarre genre-spanning/bending disc of oddities and wonder...another work of mad genius...
CMJ (08/11/2003)
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...
Mojo (10/01/2003)
Ranked #8 in CMJ's Top 10 of 2003
CMJ (12/29/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...The prodigiously gifted twosome funk and trip through 'Among His Tribe' and the majestic 'Happy Colored Marbles...
Uncut (11/01/2003)
Ranked #39 in Mojo's The Best of 2003
Mojo (01/01/2004)
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