A direct influence on a nascent little show called SpongeBob SquarePants, Ween’s The Mollusk is a brilliant collection of nautical nonsense. Released in 1997, the duo’s sixth album cruises through the murky, the absurd, and the heartfelt: From the Mariana Trench ickiness of its Storm Thorgerson cover art to its dark-hued fantasias of whales, eels, and expanding tentacles, The Mollusk is a prog-rock-slash-alt-psych concept album that brings the band’s quirky vocal effects and bizarro guitar heroics to the bottom of the sea. And though the restless, fearless Ween is still cycling through genres with abandon, the maritime theme in its Read more on Last.fm.
