Of course, that haphazard nature is one of the reasons Shinola, Vol. Although there are no liner notes here, no details of when the songs were recorded, the music sounds as if it could have been recorded anywhere between 1992's Pure Guava and 2003's Quebec, and the music is, not surprisingly, all over the map, ranging from infectiously silly throwaways to some of the best songs they've ever written. Of the 12 tracks here, a few have circulated on the net, either as individual songs or as part of the semi-sanctioned boot Craters of the Sac, but even that handful of familiar tunes have never sounded as finished as they do on this comp.
1 delivers something better: a bunch of unheard and excellent Ween songs. But they won't be disappointed for long, since Shinola, Vol.
Take note that this is not the same thing as a collection of officially released non-LP tracks and B-sides - in fact, on this first volume, there are no previously released tracks at all, so anybody expecting this to be a clearing house for such terrific compilation-only cuts as "Beacon Light" (from the X-Files movie soundtrack), or B-sides like "Who Dat," or oddities such as their rejected Pizza Hut commercial "Where'd the Cheese Go?" will be disappointed. 1 is the first in a projected series of rarities and oddities from Ween's substantial vaults.
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