I've experienced some pretty strange shit during trips to Wisconsin over the years, probably would have gone down a lot better if my travelling companions and I had been high and if we'd had some killer tunes such as the ones Bongzilla dropped on it's eager public on 4/20 in this, year two of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Fucking weird times, man, which lends itself to the creation of even weirder music; and Bongzilla, now composing itself as a super-tight three-piece with original members Spanky on guitar, Magma on drums and Muleboy moving over to bass and still handling the vox, certainly delivered the weird, spaced-out, psychedlic tunage with this new slab of wax.
Dropping the needle on the first side of Weedsconsin the listener is immeditately inundated with the heavy riffage of Sundae Driver and the "Cannabeast has awakened." Sundae Driver is one of the more dank tunes on the album, heavy as a neutron star, compact too at just 4:32 long, the second shortest track on the record. As first singles go, Driver was solid, but not necessarily representative of the body of work that is Weedsconsin. The remainder of the album is BY FAR more on the trippy side.
The second track, Free the Weed has the longest set of lyrics, three whole stanzas, an epic poem by Bongzilla standards... We must vote to smoke you see/Free my girl from the enemy/The time has come to rise like smoke/We must Free the Weed. It almost brings a tear to your eye. The 10:28 second triptacular Sace Rock follows and nearly closes out Side One. If you fired up before slipping this LP out of its jacket you should just be starting to get a good buzz going by the time you reach the more groove oriented Space Rock, and you'll settle in nicely. Weedeater, all thrirty-five seconds of it, peters out the side.
Side Two commences with the focal point of the album, the balls-out Earth Bong/Smoked/Mags Bags. I cannot say enough great things about this track. It did it all for me. You should be plenty stoned by this point, and if not, well that's your own damn fault, LOL. It's heavy, it's spaced-out, it's psychedlic, and I love the drum part at the end where Magma delivers a nice coda.
The instrumental track Gummies, complete with a laugh track, brings the album to a close and serves nicley as a come down after a killer trip to Weedsconsin. After eigh long years it is safe to safe Bongzilla made a triumphant return in this season of strangeness that has been 2020 and 2021, recording the album with the late John Hopkins in 2020 and dropping it on an unsuspecting stoner rock community in 2021. This record easily will find its way into my favorites list for 2021. I rate the album as a whole an Instant Classic, 97 out of 100 score.
Dropping the needle on the first side of Weedsconsin the listener is immeditately inundated with the heavy riffage of Sundae Driver and the "Cannabeast has awakened." Sundae Driver is one of the more dank tunes on the album, heavy as a neutron star, compact too at just 4:32 long, the second shortest track on the record. As first singles go, Driver was solid, but not necessarily representative of the body of work that is Weedsconsin. The remainder of the album is BY FAR more on the trippy side.
The second track, Free the Weed has the longest set of lyrics, three whole stanzas, an epic poem by Bongzilla standards... We must vote to smoke you see/Free my girl from the enemy/The time has come to rise like smoke/We must Free the Weed. It almost brings a tear to your eye. The 10:28 second triptacular Sace Rock follows and nearly closes out Side One. If you fired up before slipping this LP out of its jacket you should just be starting to get a good buzz going by the time you reach the more groove oriented Space Rock, and you'll settle in nicely. Weedeater, all thrirty-five seconds of it, peters out the side.
Side Two commences with the focal point of the album, the balls-out Earth Bong/Smoked/Mags Bags. I cannot say enough great things about this track. It did it all for me. You should be plenty stoned by this point, and if not, well that's your own damn fault, LOL. It's heavy, it's spaced-out, it's psychedlic, and I love the drum part at the end where Magma delivers a nice coda.
The instrumental track Gummies, complete with a laugh track, brings the album to a close and serves nicley as a come down after a killer trip to Weedsconsin. After eigh long years it is safe to safe Bongzilla made a triumphant return in this season of strangeness that has been 2020 and 2021, recording the album with the late John Hopkins in 2020 and dropping it on an unsuspecting stoner rock community in 2021. This record easily will find its way into my favorites list for 2021. I rate the album as a whole an Instant Classic, 97 out of 100 score.
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