Pure Guava by Ween

Pure Guava, Ween's third album and their first for a major label, came out on Elektra on November 10, 1992, and it's hard to imagine what the suits thought they were getting. Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, the New Hope, Pennsylvania, pair better known as Gene and Dean Ween, produced it themselves, and it's every bit as lo-fi and warped as The Pod and GodWeenSatan: The Oneness before it, a bedroom-tape carnival of psychedelic wobble, noise and goofing.

Somewhere in all that weirdness sat "Push th' Little Daisies", a squeaky, deranged ditty that somehow became a chart hit in the US and Australia. In those days Ween played live as two guys and a DAT tape of drum-machine beats, and that homemade spirit is all over the record. Chocolate and Cheese, the first of their professionally recorded albums, came next.

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