This is a great pressing. The grey marble has a bit of a noise floor but the sound pounds through. The black one from a few years back was just as good though. I am very happy with this one. Great addition to the ween vinyl. Great label and pressing of an absolute classic album! Cheers! Have not played the cd yet. Will in the car at some point. Get it before it’s 100$.

Also has a stalion outro at the end I never heard. Pretty cool. Pretty sure this was not remastered. No need.

Does anyone know if the cd that came with this was remastered?

This pressing is a true thing of beauty. So happy to finally have this on vinyl.

This doesn't actually have Stallion Pt. 3 does it? That would be odd but also real cool.

Very clean heavy pressing, the marble grey is delicious. Comes in one of the nicest feeling record jackets I've seen, it's a nice soft matte finish. Fantastic 10/10 album that I'm stoked to finally have, this is the pressing it deserved.

Wow! An excellent reissue! The sound quality is amazing and love the grey marble colored vinyl. CD is always preferred over download. Also, the gatefold has a cool matte finish. Definitely, my favorite reissue of this album.

I’m almost certain this is a direct metal master, I thought I saw DMM in the runout

Makes sense considering the shimmy disc and the other schnitzel press were dmm as well

Not uncommon these days, almost every European pressing plant have DMM cutting lathes, which may be less costly (DMM has two less galvanoplasty steps than lacquer) instead of actual sound benefits. DMM cutters in the US were either all scrapped or bought by the Church of Scientology

Heads up, The Pod reissue to be released by the end of this month, grey vinyl limited to 1000 copies, "never going to be re-pressed in this format." Act fast: http://schnitzel.co.uk/shop/details.php?req_id=38&artist=ween

Anyone have this that could upload any inserts or label images? Thanks!

I can take photos, I don't have a scanner though

It's odd that The Stallion Pt.3 is on the track listing.

I just received a copy of this from Australia. It says on the label that 1500 copies were printed of this album. I am new to records. Would these 1500 just be for Australia, or world wide?

this would refer to how many were made world wide.

I found a 2nd copy because first one had massive static right out of factory seal. The second I bought is fine but it skips near the end of A1. Mind you these are brand new copies. Maybe I didn't get lucky but I am disappointed.

On the back of the record sleeve, release year is 2009!

that's probably when it was mastered/pressed, not when it was released

The more you listen to albums like these, the less interested you would be in pursuing any kind of chemical stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens.The Pod fits in the group of "strangest albums ever existed", even for a group known for going into the deep end of creativity in that weird high-brow low-brow way. Reportedly fueled by Scotch-guard (which the band has refuted in doing, although it was reported that they witnessed other people doing it) but more realistically a four-track tape machine, a collection of drum machines, various effect pedals, guitars and other assortments (and an unexpected case of getting mono), Ween created an album that demonstrates their eclectic tastes, a command of genre and a deliberate command of insanity.Its charm - or some its turn-off - the deliberate distortion. Years after this album, Ween would play some of these songs but yet give it a normal rendition. Here pitches are bent, guitar solos are deliberately out of whack with anything related to the song (the guitar lick at the end of "Laura" is an example), effects are used to their extreme (flangers, distortion, rotatory/Leslie, chorus, fuzz) and the vocals are either too high or too low (courtesy of tape speed). It is as if the recording is deliberately meant to be bad, when compared to a polished and refined production one is accustomed to any group other than Ween (or any other creative oddball group).So is it meant to irritate your ears? Perhaps. More than anything, it should make you laugh (especially if you have a musical sense of humor). Yes they like their Boognish, their pork roll egg and cheese and their other bathroom humor moments. But to say that they just do humor that would make any 12 year old laugh limits their capabilities. Anyone with an understanding of music would appreciate their musical humor ("Dr. Rock," "Captain Fantasy" and "Sketches of Winkle" has a Spinal Tap aura) and will be laughing with them during "Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World."In fact, their point of having fun is made very clear on the first track... a song built completely on a never-ending cymbal roll and fast guitar strum (usually signaling the end of a song performed live) occasionally interrupted by a sharp snare attack and then starting again. If you are laughing by the 30 second mark of that 3 minute "anti-climax," then chances are that you'll get the rest of the fun and creative joke.

Ingest more or less substances, that's up to you, as long as it's happening while this album is playing. Bang on review, project. This album can never be toppled as my favourite Ween and I think it serves as a kind of prototype for Beck's Mellow Gold three years later, another album made in the same trashy and eclectic spirit during the beginnings of 'alternative' music in the early 90s. Classic.

kind of makes me want to do more substances, personally