Quebec | 
 enlarge | Artist: Ween
Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 53365
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 84591
UPC: 060768459120
EAN: 0060768459120
ASIN: B0000ADXEC
Release Date: August 5, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | It's Gonna Be A Long Night | | • | Among His Tribe | | • | Tried and True | | • | So Many People In The Neighborhood | | • | Captain | | • | Hey There Fancy Pants | | • | Happy Colored Marbles | | • | I Don't Want It | | • | Chocolate Town | | • | Transdermal Celebration | | • | The Fucked Jam | | • | Zoloft | | • | The Argus | | • | If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All) | | • | Alcan Road |
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Amazon.com
How does one encapsulate the mischievous musical conceits of Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, aka Gene and Dean Ween? Infinitely less self-conscious than the smirky They Might Be Giants, yet possessed of a downright Zappa-esque sense of the perverse, Ween returns here from the problematic, if illusory, mainstreaming that characterized 2000's White Pepper to embrace an artistic tack that seems as focused as an errant cluster bomb. While eclecticism for its own sake has often yielded painful self-indulgence, G&D's is sublime enough to seem virtually pre-conscious. The white-trash thrash of "It's Gonna Be a Long Night" dispenses with the expected parody quotient early on, shrewdly clearing the stage for moody doses of psychedelia that are variously driving ("Transdermal Celebration"), dirgy ("Among His Tribe"), and languorously eerie ("Captain"). But, perhaps conscious of reputations to be maintained, those dreamy, chem-friendly spells are variously broken by the perfect '70s country-pop of "Chocolate Town," the pocket epic "The Argus," and tracks that somehow recall both Captain Beefheart and their own haphazard side-career scoring cartoons and other TV fare. There's something here for everyone, to be sure--but closer to Ween's antic hearts, something to annoy everyone as well. --Jerry McCulley
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 Quebec is a Canadian province in Canada September 13, 2008
Rockin' Moe (NY, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ween like music and make music for people who like music. Quebec got me back into Ween in college after I hadn't listened to them much since middle school. It contains several shades of brown highlighted by red and pink overtones and a few significant smatterings of yellow, but not very much green (with the exception of "Captain," which is also very foggy and so while you know the green is there you don't really see it so much)-- the cover is aptly hued. My last girlfriend used to call me 'Fancypants,' but I didn't like that so much as I like the song and the album. This is a generally mellow and Ween-virgin friendly album (perhaps second to 'White Pepper' in that respect) and could serve as a good introduction to the band for people who might otherwise be turned off by some of their more 'provocative' works. I like it better during the summer months.
And the Argus is practiced compassion...
Languid trippiness May 28, 2008
Ronald Battista (Colorado Springs, CO)
Think of Quebec as Mollusk II. They go for the goofy ("Happy Colored Marbles", Hey There, Fancypants") and the watery, dappled waves of the ethereal is everywhere. And of course, one song that is bound to have you shaking your head ("The F***ked Jam"). Great pot album, specially if your weed is nice and fluffy. This is a little browner than "White Pepper"(what isn't?) but really, this is a groove more than it is an album, and the perfect one to light up to, barely anything to disturb the euphoria of a better world than the one you left.
 you WILL get it! October 24, 2007
Benjamin E. Seeman (Vallejo, CA USA)
When I first heard this album I was like, "What IS this?" So I listened to it again and I was like, "Um, is it THIS?" So I listened again and I was like, "Okay, so it's like THAT!" After about 15 listens I finally "got" this album and it is now my favorite Ween album (Mollusk is a close second). And the thing is, what I've figured this album to be is probably nothing like what it seems to be for anyone else.
I've actually learned that most Ween albums are like this. At first you're asking yourself what the hell you're listening to... then, eventually, it clicks. Buy this album and listen to it over and over again. You'll get it. I promise. I mean, c'mon, it's WEEN!
Stunning. September 28, 2007
M. Regan
If it was possible to make sweet, sweet love to any of the albums that I own, it would be "Quebec".
Boring? Psht. May 2, 2007
Acdir (Livermore, CA.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ween are back with their first studio album on an indie label in 12 years, and let me start by saying this is probably the most polished indie album I've ever heard. Ween have returned to their sonic explorations and sound effect-flooded form. Only this time, instead of having potentially annoying phasers and pitch affected vocals, they sound nice and add a whole lot of atmosphere. In fact, most of this album revolves around atmosphere.
That being said, I've seen many reviews on this site calling this album boring, and unfunny. However, aside from a few songs here and there, Ween were never really lyrically funny. Most of the humor in Ween's music comes from the grotesque genre parodying, which there is plenty of on Quebec. Now, Ween have always been known for hopping from one genre to another as frequently as each song on an album, and that has not changed. This album starts off with a hard rock song and ends with something that sounds like it came straight from Pink Floyd.
The songs on here are sensational, though, and certainly not boring. You can take each song as an overblown parody, or an incredible display of genius. I personally think of it as both. "If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)" sounds so serious that it's funny. Plus, this CD has accomplished what no other Ween album has accomplished (Aside from a few tracks on White Pepper), it's beautiful. Also, this would probably be the most accessible album to anybody who has not heard Ween before, as it has the least amount of songs that could be deemed annoying by anybody. So there you have it, now buy this thing.
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