GodWeenSatan: The Oneness

To say that Ween’s debut album, emerging from a stew of previous self-released tapes and general whatever-the-hell throughout the mid to late ’80s, is a chaotic, ridiculous and juvenile mess is less critical judgment and more simply accurate accounting. Thing is, that was the whole point: at once a collection of stylistic parodies like a dirtbag and sometimes unpleasant Weird Al Yankovic and an often catchy affair with hooks all over the place — the shimmering dopey psych of “Marble Tulip Juicy Tree” is a good example — it set the course for their future.