Teach me to like Ween

Ocean Man
Puertorican Power
Don't Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy
The Mollusk
Piss Up A Rope

These aren't my top 4, but I've found that a lot of people get to enjoy these quicker than songs like You Were The Fool or Skycruiser.

Also I think The Mollusk as an album is grossly underrated.

Someone must direct me to an .mp3 of this song STAT. I have read the lyrics, and it. is. GENIUS. It kinda explains why the housing projects down the street are littered with Ween stickers, which I always thought extremely bizarre, given the circumstances.

Chew tobacco
Two Chewbaccas

1. I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight
2. Don't Laugh (I Love You)
3. I'm in the Mood to Move
4. Up On the Hill
5. Old Man Thunder
6. Nan
7. The Stallion Part 1
8. The Stallion Part 3
9. Mango Woman
10. Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)
11. Buenos Tardes Amigo
12. Take Me Away
13. Freedom of 76
14. Homo Rainbow
15. Baby Bitch
16. Beacon Light
17. Mr. Richard Smoker
18. Mutilated Lips
19. The Blarney Stone
20. The Golden Eel
21. Buckingham Green
22. Exactly Where I'm At
23. Flutes of the Chi
24. Tried and True
25. She Wanted to Leave (Reprise)

Please do not download the first five or so songs, listen to them for thirty seconds and say, "Well THIS sucks." and then say fuck it. See, Ween are such geniuses that every single album they've made sounds nothing like the others they've made. Likewise, because this CD is in (roughly) chronological order, the songs at the end sound so different from the ones at the beginning that it's hard to believe it's the same band! Ween are definitely one of the greatest bands ever.

Now then, all together now: "ERNEST!! HEMINGWAY!! WOULD ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ME!! BUT NOW!! ERNEST HEMINGWAY.... IS DEAD!!"

(part 1)
Puerto Rican Power!
Grandmaster of love, I respect my mother and Jesus up above
(part 2)
Puerto Rican Power the message of love

(part 1)
I own a Toyota with mag wheels and gloves
I respect Santana and
(part 2)
Jesus up above
Puerto Rican Power the message of love

I know this Cuban he thinks he's kind of tough
He tried to kiss my sister and Jesus up above
Puerto Rican Power the message of love

(Bridge) (part3) Love mang

Puerto Rican Power Grandfather of love
I respect my mother and Jesus up above
Puerto Rican Power the message of love

Love mang

Filling one CD with Ween is kind of impossible, but I'll give it my best shot...

01 Little Birdy
02 Demon Sweat
03 Flies On My Dick
04 I Don't Wanna Leave You On The Farm
05 I'll Miss You
06 Buckingham Green
07 Ocean Man
08 Puertorican Power
09 Push Th' Little Daisies
10 The Shot Heard 'Round The World
11 Powder Blue (with the Mohammad Ali outro, without the outro it's not nearly as effective)
12 What Deaner Was Talking About
13 Birthday Boy
14 You Were The Fool
15 Skycruiser
16 Vallejo
17 Tender Situation
18 The Stallion Pt 3
19 Spinal Meningitis
20 Freedom Of 76
21 Pollo Asado
22 Mister Would You Please Help My Pony
23 Baby Bitch
24 The Mollusk
25 It's Gonna Be Alright
26 Cold Blows The Wind
27 Waving My Dick In The Wind
28 She Wanted To Leave

I'm pretty certain that's more than 80 minutes, but it's the best I could do.

I suppose the best way to go about making a "Best of Ween" would be to have two discs - one being their best in terms of great songwriting, and the other being the most out-there crazy stuff.

YESH I WOULD SHAY THAT, YE- YESH...

And remember, daisies = nipples!

so, here goes --

* i don't generally care for "genre tourism" (e.g., when a band's work is so different from album to album that its discography can be broken down into the "country album," the "pop album," and so forth)
* i don't generally care for "jokey" or satire-type songs
* i don't care about songs referencing other pop culture things in witty or interesting ways
* i find potty humor really juvenile & lame (e.g., "painting the town brown")
* i am generally not a "lyrics guy," more of a "music guy"
* i don't smoke, so to speak

is there any point in me trying to "get" ween? given the above, is there any point in even trying? i mean, what i've heard so far is pleasant enough -- i put on The Pod last night and it was just kinda "ehhhh" but not repulsive, and there were a couple really catchy songs. but i feel like i may never "get" ween.

is there any hope?

no

Nope. Move along. Nothing to see here.

i dont particularly like any of those things and i love ween, of course im deeply ashamed

Both GodWeenSatan and White Pepper are pretty good without listening to the lyrics. That sure is a long list of rules, though...

not rules at all, just preferences

i dont particularly like any of those things and i love ween

see, this intrigues me

what's the appeal if you're not into any of the things i mentioned (jokey lyrics, juvenile/college-y humor, genre-hopping, witty pop culture references)?

like, browsing the ween threads, i'm most tempted to agree w/ this comment, though it's a touch harsh perhaps

Everyone I know was absolutely raving about Pure Guava when it came out, so my expectations were pretty high. Then, I listened to it and was left extremely puzzled. Basically, it sounded like a couple of brain-dead frat boys got themselves some technology and started spouting off pure bullshit, the gist of which came down to: "You're different, so you suck and deserve to be made fun of! Let's make fun of things! Oh, and hey, let's be offensive and talk about poop and stuff." Maybe that's considered top-notch in somebody's world, but not in mine.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, May 11, 2001 7:00 PM (9 years ago)

I'd probably play The Frogs back to back w/Ween and then revisit the above.

I mean, I'm hardly a big Ween fan (their real big fans always seem like alternate univers Deadheads to me) but I don't see that it takes that much effort to like, say, 70% of what they've done.

they write jams, are wonderful musicians, are delightfully strange and hilarious, they deeply love and understand the genere stuff they fuck with, theyre smart, blahdyblahdyblah xp

i mean jokey i dont fined them particularly jokey, theyre funny

their genre angle too its never straight imitation, its their own version

Yeah in thinking about this more I think that on paper you could dislike all the things listed above, but that Ween are just somehow not the sum of those things at all.

ice cr?m otm with his summation of how awesome they are.

if you prefer your music humorless, this band is not for you

Although again, Back To Basom is a perfectly great song and I've never thought enough about it to decide whether to laugh or not...

Buenos Tardes Amigos is also a front-to-back great song - cleverly written, expertly executed, a subtle inversion of a well worn genre trope - but it's appeal is based in humor, in "getting" the joke

yeah its def on the jokey end of the spectrum

Exactly Where I'm At
Voodoo Lady
The Grobe
Buckingham Green
Back To Basom
The Stallion Pt 3
The Mollusk
Transdermal Meditation
Mutilated Lips
Marble Tulip Juicy Tree
The Argus
Captain

is the Ween I love best. HIV song, Zoloft, etc is the one I like not at all.

The Blarney Stone is my most favorite

The Ween albums i play most are Live at Stubbs, All Request Live and Live in Toronto (w/ Bobby Ogdin and the Shit Creek Boys). So, yeah, i like the live stuff a bit.

Best Ween-ization of a Billy Joel lyric: "Play me a song you're the piano man - put some coke on my dick tonight".

the best ween album is white pepper, the secretly best is the pod

I saw them live for the first time last year, was kinda drunk but by end of the show I was dancing and shouting so much I felt totally hammered. It was great. Like their live show actually makes you drunk!

They put me off like no one else so much as Zappa.

I did however flog GodWeenSatan for the second highest amount I've ever gotten for a record on eBay. And the highest 'Watch' number.

yeah i can see the zappa/ween comparison, but i dont like zappa and i do like ween

i feel like zappa is 'funny' but takes himself super seriously, ween are actual goofballs

Zappa was pretty intimidating to me for a long time, but yeah, Ween seemed more accessible to me just bc they reminded me of dudes I went to high school with.

Head honcho with the ladies

I saw them live for the first time last year, was kinda drunk but by end of the show I was dancing and shouting so much I felt totally hammered. It was great. Like their live show actually makes you drunk!

Ween live (in '08) is the best w33d/music interface I've ever experienced

I did however flog GodWeenSatan for the second highest amount I've ever gotten for a record on eBay. And the highest 'Watch' number.

ooh, how much? I've got the TwinTone GWS, the Grand Royal C&C, and the Mushroom Golden Country Greats and Mollusk. and those sound so great on vinyl but I don't know when I'll have a proper stereo again so...

ooh, how much?

About $120

Fetches more than that sometimes - look on popsike

Just think of the master

do u like ween yet?

i feel like zappa is 'funny' but takes himself super seriously, ween are actual goofballs

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Have you heard roxy & elsewhere?

I agree that ween are actual goofballs.

have u heard Captain Fantasy yet, ilxor? it's a pretty cool song...

nope, but i'll dial it up on youtube now!

ah, actually yes i have, i remember this! i listened to The Pod the other night (see posts upthread) and this was one of the catchier tracks that stood out to me

duh my bad

There are too many Ween threads, so maybe I missed one. Anyway:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/01/aaron_freeman_of_ween_on_his_solo_record_and_the_road_to_recovery.html

We had ticks, on our heads, my wife cheated, now I'm dead...

great interview, he looks OLD

wow had no idea he'd had a meltdown/gone through rehab. altho I guess it was inevitable.

wow. i clicked on this thread fully expecting to read he'd died.