Classic.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Amazing. I'm calling the cops
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
new freeman album is vintage
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
It's definitely at least rather good, possibly moreso.
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah I guess I better order a copy
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
didnt know he had a new album out.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
"one more" is genius. wonder if gene's picked up some serious chops?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
I think a lot of these songs would be better with Dean on them and I'm kind of surprised how very tame this is (given some of his comments), but there's definitely a high level of craftsmanship here, I think this'll hold up well
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 21 August 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
They're back
http://ween.com/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
will probably just be a one-off thing
hope it's because they want to do it and not because they need the money.
i mean, that's cool too, i just want these guys to be happy
― frogbs, Monday, 16 November 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Freeman is still workin on LP2. Hopefully they can continue with both.
― billstevejim, Monday, 16 November 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Always thought "Your Party" was really funny, doesn't actually make me laugh but the image of a certain type of wealthy adult it paints is so perfect. No idea if there is a genre or band that makes music like that.
When I was first getting into Ween, I was reading that a lot of their lyrics were extremely offensive and I only have 6 albums and I didn't run into much of that. The only thing I can think of is the "The HIV Song" and "Slow Down Boy" (which sounds like Anthony And The Johnsons and repeats "his love is young")
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Mister Richard Smoker, certainly?
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah given their reputation that's the only song I can really think of that's outwardly offensive. They have a lot of vulgar tunes but I can't imagine people being bothered by them...they're not like Zappa, for instance
even "The HIV Song"...I mean, don't you have to read into that a bit? it has no lyrics!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Piss Up A Rope?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
I agree that 'Your Party' is one of their funniest songs. Almost any serious-minded, rapturous embrace of banality is good for a laugh, I find, but the hushed lyrics and decadent music kick it up a notch. You'd think he were singing about a coke-fueled orgy rather than a casual get together where everyone is wearing chinos and eating salmon puffs.
― What's Your Definition of a Dirty Baby? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
You fucked up, you bitch, you really fucked up You fucked up, you fuckin' nazi whore Well, you dicked me over but now you'll pay You fucked up, ahh!
You fucked up, you bitch, you really fucked up You fucked up, you sloppy little shit, bitch, ahh Well, you dicked me over but now you'll pay You fucked up, ahh!
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
In "Your Party" it does seem to me as if they are the sort of people who go to upper middle class swinger parties but this is just a nice quiet one for them. Reminds me of that film The New Age starring Peter Weller and Judy Davis, but without the spiritual crisis.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Re: the other topic, I wouldn't waste any time arguing with someone who found Ween offensive. It's a subjective thing but also that's kinda what they were going for at times.
― What's Your Definition of a Dirty Baby? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
I had read about them being accused of sexism and racism, not just gross stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
OK sexism I guess I can understand, but racism?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
even sexism is hard to make a strong case for. the point of You Fucked Up is the narrator's inarticulacy in the face of specific emotional hurt, not anything about a gender.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
i thought the point was the narrator's "inarticulacy" in the face of being a fucking moron with nothing to say about anything
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 05:59 (seven years ago) link
I seem to recall it was about one of the teachers in their high school who had given them a hard time in class, they were 14/15 when they wrote it; maybe best not to stare too deeply into that particular lyrical pool.'Don't Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy' on the other hand...
― ringworm, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 07:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah I honestly can't tell if that one's really sinister or "Buckingham Green"-type lyrical nonsense
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
It's dark and gross, but it's not sinister.
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link
it's certainly sinister - that's the whole point, really - but i can't imagine many being offended by it
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
I mean, the narrator is sinister, but Ween aren't trying to promote pedophilia or anything.
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Spinal Meningitis is probably the worst one they have along those lines...not offensive but really really bleak. I heard someone try to cast it as them making fun of people with the disease but I can't read it that way at all.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
That's the first one that comes to mind when I think 'potentially offensive Ween song'.
― What's Your Definition of a Dirty Baby? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
it goofs on horror for sickly lols. that solo tho.
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
^ apt description of every Ween song ever
― What's Your Definition of a Dirty Baby? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
who is expected to be offended by Spinal Meningitis, very stupid Christians?
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Parents of children with spinal meningitis?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
People who can't, or at least don't like to, deal with unpleasant subjects bluntly?
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
social justice worriers?
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
it's not blunt, though. it's expressing careful, crafted empathy to sufferers of, or adjacent to, the condition.
if parents of children with spinal meningitis were fans enough of Ween to make it to an album track on their fourth LP, they had probably been through enough tough times to find mordant charm and gallows humour in the song
getting xposts on zing but can't see them obv
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
although I just checked and it was track two side one, they didn't have to make it too far
was thinking it wasn't until side two
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
That song is really disturbing (regardless of being offensive or not), gets to me in a way that none of that type of music does.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
yeah I have a real difficult time listening to it. kinda hate that they perform it live so much.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
The 33 1/3 book on Chocolate and Cheese gives a lot of insight to how they think about they're lyrics. Jumps from from the sincere to the stoned through a range of quite personal points of references. It's kind of what makes their lyrics great; once you tune into the language and attitude you start to understand it.
― ringworm, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
'their lyrics'
Don't get this tbh.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
what part of it? it's a song about a small child going through medical treatment - it disturbs me
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
You're obv. a lot more sensitive than me!
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Disturbing is a feature, not a bug.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's nothing against them, just hits me in a weird place is all
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
The first time I heard Spinal Meningitis I wondered if I had made a huge mistake by getting into Ween and could ever listen to that song again
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, June 8, 2016 12:59 PM (Yesterday)
eh, most people have a vaguely-defined threshold past which enjoyably weird & creepy becomes upsetting, not funny at all. first time i heard "22 going on 23" by the butthole surfers, it threw me quite forcefully over that line, and i've never since wanted to hear it again. to say nothing of throbbing gristle's "hamburger lady"...
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
You will probably not be surprised to learn I love both those songs.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 June 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link