Synthetic Socks

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Synthetic Socks
Synthetic Socks (Gene Ween album) cover art.jpg
Studio album by
Gene Ween
Released1987
Length60:04
LabelTeenBeat Records
ProducerScott Lowe and Gene Ween

Synthetic Socks is a very early recording by Gene Ween, released on TeenBeat Records in 1987. It is almost entirely the product of Gene Ween making personal recordings in his bedroom (Dean Ween appears only a few times on this cassette). The cover of the album is a close up of a child (possibly Gene himself) holding an object.

Instruments include Synsonic Drums, Korg Poly-800, piano, and reel-to-reel. Scott Lowe assisted in post production using delay and additional keyboards.

Long time friend of Gene Ween Scott Lowe assisted in production of the album, adding various affects to some of the songs.

Credited as Synthetic Sox (not "Socks" as in the album title), three of the TeenBeat tracks; Tree, Sea of Mellichis[verification needed], and Investigating Tornadoes were released on vinyl as part of Shadow Mouth: Compilation One, released on the Shadow Mouth Record label based in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Synthetic Socks features a very embryonic version of Ween's trademark sound.

Track listing[]

  1. "Baked Potatoe"
  2. "Cops"
  3. "Hence It Came" (instrumental)
  4. "Living Together"
  5. "Once I Lived"
  6. "Anything Quickly" (instrumental)
  7. "Get Back Here Son (take the .45)"
  8. "Gi. Go. Stop. No"
  9. "Ho Ho Ho"
  10. "Some Weird pickles"
  11. "Eurshishyshen"
  12. "Tree" (instrumental)
  13. "Love"
  14. "Justcruisin'"
  15. "Acoustic Lawn Jam"
  16. "I Hate Snuggles"
  17. "Style of Carpet" (instrumental)
  18. "Collectives"
  19. "Cheese Fries"
  20. "I Had a Party"
  21. "What Do You Think About a Woman?"[verification needed]
  22. "Sea of Mellchis"
  23. "Investigating Tornadoes"
  24. "Today It Is My Birthday"
  25. "Sonata in A#G Overture" (instrumental)
  26. "Happy Family"
  27. "School Days"
  28. "Prank Calls (Literally)"

"Prank Calls (Literally)" features the 1975 Kiss hit "Rock and Roll All Nite" in its entirety. This is due to Gene Ween recording the album on old cassettes with music already on the tape. This effect is also heard on the Ween song "Birthday Boy", which near the end of the song Pink Floyd's song "Echoes" kicks in. Other examples of this effect happening in Ween's discography are on "I Play It Off Legit" and "Flies On My Dick".

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