Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Fussbett"]Points awarded right off the bat for the album name and cover. <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000ADXEC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"> 1) IT'S GONNA BE A LONG NIGHT -- Ween starts of fast and heavy, and with a song that does not represent the rest of the album in this Motorhead homage complete with double kick drums. Very reminiscent of "Stroker Ace" from White Pepper. And that's good. 2) ZOLOFT -- A minimal, drum machine, Chocolate and Cheese era Ween song. Good. 3) TRANSDERMAL CELEBRATION -- I dislike the jokey title, but love the song. It grabbed me right away and I love it more with repeat listens. Very good. 4) AMONG HIS TRIBE -- Ween doing their James Taylor adult contemporary folk bit. Almost exactly like "You Were the Fool" from 12 Golden Country Greats, but because this isn't the country album there are some cool expanses of sound and assorted studio fuckery that make it new. Good. 5) SO MANY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- ("I don't know if they're very good people"). Ween try to go back to POD or Pure Guava silly drum machine/effect fuckery and don't do so well. I like it when the drums from Marylin Manson's "Beautiful People" comes in, but not much else. It's funny the first time you hear it, but I've been skipping this most other times. 6) TRIED AND TRUE -- Another slick song that it moderately catchy and forgettable until the 3:00 mark when the backing vocals come in for a great harmony payoff. Borderline. 7) HAPPY COLORED MARBLES -- Chocolate and Cheese solid weird slickness. Harmonized low verse vocals, harmonized high chorus vocals. Kinda flips between creepy and happy. Then, at it's happiest comes a movement that is like a dying guitar solo in the basement of a house that is on fire. Love it. 8) HEY THERE FANCYPANTS -- I'll have to go with Chocolate and Cheese again for this kids' tune. Great sequenced guitar parts and real "twinky" guitar parts. Good. 9) CAPTAIN -- Spacey trippy echo fest. Maybe the only Pure Guava track on Quebec. Good, but only when the mood strikes. 10) CHOCOLATE TOWN -- "I couldn't taste the taste that I was tastin'" Country. As you all know, Ween is inexplicabley the best country band on the planet, so there you go. This track is good. "Get your punk ass back to the dog show" 11) I DON'T WANT IT -- Forgettable title for a forgettable nice slow song that maybe sounds like a track that didn't make it onto The Mollusk. A great buzzy guitar solo makes the song worth the quick runtime, but still, it's mediocre. 12) THE FUCKED JAM -- <b>Song of the Album.</b> Should be blasted from your open car windows at all times. A pinched and chopped electronic mess over top of a fat simple beat and bassline. Instrumental, stops and starts. Great. 13) THE ARGUS -- Very Mollusky, which I guess makes sense because I think "The Argus" is a ship. Enough changes to keep me interested and sometimes I hear the Beatles. 14) IF YOU COULD SAVE YOURSELF (YOU'D SAVE US ALL) -- Building and building into a triumphant plea. "The wheels fell off, the bottom dropped out, the checks all bounced, I came in your mouth". Good. 15) ALCAN ROAD -- Another slow and spacey epic. Kinda scarey, so I like it better than CAPTAIN. It comes out on Tuesday. Not as good as golden era Ween, but much better than White Pepper. I give it one motorcycle rider wheelie thumbs up. <img src="http://www.micapeak.com/winona/http/thumbs-up.gif">[/quote]