About this song
- The title track to Ween's magnum-opus "The Mollusk". They said the following about the track: "With the song “The Mollusk”…we’d never had a title track. Of all the songs Aaron and I have written together, that’s hands-down my favorite. It was enough to make the title track. If we weren’t actually working or recording, there wasn’t much for us to actually do or anywhere to go. The only thing to do was walk on the beach and surf-cast. I laid down some chords and took this little module that I plugged into a keyboard that made those really trippy swirling sounds, which were the ones we used on “The Mollusk.” I came back from surf-casting and Aaron played the song with the vocals he had written. It was so fucking great. It was the best song we’d ever done. I couldn’t believe that he had taken what I had done with the music. I had no idea what the song was about! I was surf-casting, I came back in, heard the vocals, and was like, “Holy shit.” If we were on to something before, now it was anchored. We listened to it a thousand times. I was like, “This is the title track.” From then on, we had the keys to the record and how it should be done." - Deaner, in a 20th anniversary oral history of "The Mollusk" with Stereogum “We re-recorded that at Claude Coleman’s house. I can’t remember if we overdubbed it a bit to make it sound better.” - Deaner, in a 20th anniversary oral history of "The Mollusk" with Stereogum . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
