Thread 127106407

It's so disappointing that Ween gets a rap for being a not-so-serious joke band when in reality they make some of the most deeply human and heart wrenchingly beautiful music I've ever heard.

Quebec is a perfect album. White Pepper is a perfect album. The Mollusk is a perfect album. The Pod is a perfect album. GodWeenSatan is a perfect album. I cri everytiem.

>>127106407 (OP)
those are alright albums
if you think they are the best, thats fine too

>>127106407 (OP)
>can you smell my hole
lol

>>127106407 (OP)
Transdermal Celebration is the greatest space rock sonf of all time

>>127106407 (OP)
What people don't realize is to be really funny requires sensitivity and emotional depth. You can't really be funny if you're a thoughtless moron

>>127106407 (OP)
For me, it's Chocolate Town

I'm in the mood to move to the left 3 feet godammit

>>127108469
This. Ween are amazing at writing fun songs because they're amazing at writing sad songs (and vice versa). They are masters of emotional music.

>>127108475
Based, although the demo version is still way better than the album version imo

>>127111005
It also helps that Dean is a pretty dam good guitarist, Claude is an excellent drummer and Gene has the voice of an angel

and then when you discover they also have endless demos and b-sides plus all their live stuff. they have such a range of sound too

reminder that the last song Ween ever performed live was Drifter in the Dark

>>127106407 (OP)
Ween is literally the bell curve meme.

>>127106407 (OP)
i showed my dad this album the other week and he loved it and now he plays ween nonstop, surprised he never heard of them before

Buenos Tardes, amigo.

>>127113412
Show him their live stuff it's on a whole nother level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7-QBdbB4WE&list=RDY7-QBdbB4WE&start_radio=1

>>127113453
If you haven't been tripping balls at a Ween show, you know SHIT about music.

for me it's pollo asado

>>127106407 (OP)
Cause they were trash before The Mollusk and even on Mollusk they have jokier songs like Blarney Stone and Dick in the Wind

>>127113498
>jokier songs like Blarney Stone and Dick in the Wind
Except both of those songs go so fucking hard.

>He would step out of the night

>Light a fire among his tribe

>Carving from a bear's tooth

>He used the flesh to feed the youth

>He'd salt it down

>>127106407 (OP)
They should make a lot more songs like It's Gonna Be A Long Night or Ooo Va La. Too bad those were one off type of deep cuts. They are some of my all time favorites and I ought to mosh my ass off and find a hot chick to hook up with at a ween concert. I'd even take a tab of 'cid drink plenty of water and pack plenty of doooooooooooobs
Keeping going what the Grateful Dead started. Before anyone gets on my case they are Deadheads
But you should meet Breadheads, fans of Bread Harrity. If you're a zoomer I don't expect you to comprehend a single thing I've said cause you're not even a real human
Whether I am I not is beyond your reading comprehension

>>127113503
Yeah they're good songs but nobody's gonna hear a sea shanty and not think it's a joke

>>127113549
>nobody's gonna hear a sea shanty and not think it's a joke
Except She Wanted to Leave.

Smack dab in in the middle of a situation overlooked by fools.

>>127113558
Not really a sea shanty that one
Just a sailor character

>>127106407 (OP)
it's hard to listen to their early albums, even Chocolate and Cheese to an extent. But The Mollusk, White Pepper, Quebec, and Shinola Vol. 1 are god tier

>>127113990
I was under the impression the traditional Ween journey was liking normie accessible shit and then realizing shit like Old Queen Cole is enlightenment.

>>127113558
>>127113654
She Wanted To Leave is them doing their best Richard Thompson impression Dean has talked about this

despite being a compilation album, Shinola might actually be my favourite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsiNAokfSig

>>127113990
Really? I started with the Mollusk and when realizing how worth the listen it was I moved to GWS as I usually start with the bands first album when going through their stuff in depth and it was the best experience

we need Shinola Vol. 2 with these songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65dRRa3GoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_wxVh1BuNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWxiyDT17KE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnuFWB8ZNJc

>>127114104
no offense but you have based taste
obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq5fqp5At5I

>>127106407 (OP)
It's because some of their "legitimate" songs are boring as fuck. People want the joke songs.

WELL MY MOTOR'S FINE
AND MY TRAIN'S ON TIME
AND WHEN I CROSS THAT LINE
I'M GONNA MAKE YOU MINE

I'M STROKER ACE! STROKER ACE!

Dropping this here in case any ween fans haven't found it https://youtu.be/N-LXTS_G-FY?si=a2E3JaOB-IC5DS82

>>127112867
Can you explain that a little more?

>>127113990
you need that brain squeegied clean.

>>127113572
Tables turned, lessons learned, you get burned for playing by the rules

>>127106407 (OP)
The Pod is literally the best album for listening to at your "lowest points" in life. It's so bad it's good and I literally can't get through it without my mood improving. I consider it like a form of audio accupuncture therapy or something, amazing work of art, do not google "mean ween"

>>127115368
these always make me laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLPQznD11xU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXfTbjjctC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAx3DvPCI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLFiACAX1lw

>>127118726
Pandy Fackler is probably the best Steely Dan impression that exists

>>127108405
>can you smell my whole
> ....life

>>127114104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1CskRwVkDI

>>127114104
Kim Smoltz is one of the best fucking songs ever made
>>127113541
Ooo Va La is a jam - they have so many b sides and rare tracks that are so good.

Goddamn I love Ween bros

Novelty comedy drug band garbage

Early Ween reminds me of early Devo. Not necessarily in sound, but attitude.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CnhSiMuzWkM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vCaOJtOF_HE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yyEVWo2_NAE

>>127119993
>MACH 10 AT SUDDEN SPEED

Getting Pure Guava on cd from goodwill was formative in middle school. Stallion pt.3 is still one of my favorites

>>127122742
gene and dean have talked a bunch that DEVO was one of the bands that they really bonded over when they first met
plus check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoa8v9Z8Msg

>>127123111
trips of truth but for me its don't get 2 close (2 my fantasy)

>>127113541
>Keeping going what the Grateful Dead started

They're similar to the Dead in the sense that both are very polarizing bands. You either love them or hate them and its rare to find someone with a lukewarm take on them

>>127123111
same but it was high school and i really loved Springtime

>>127123962
I suppose there's zoomers out there who only know ween from Ocean Man (from the spongebob movie) and otherwise don't care about them.
t. me, though I'll listen to them for real eventually.

>>127106407 (OP)
>Dave played a show last week
>introduced a Ween song as “a song from an old band I used to be in”
It was already over but now it’s even more over

>>127123111
Stallion 3 is for sure one of their best. I didn’t get it when listening to the studio version but my friend swore it was their best. They played it when I saw them live for the first time and it was transcendent.

Me listening to Mourning Glory

Ween is one of the worst, most thoroughly overrated bands I've ever heard. I cannot in any way see the appeal.

>>127106407 (OP)
I was filtered pretty hard, but then I listened to the argus and it somehow unlocked my appreciation for every song they made before and after. It clicked after hearing that perfect fucking song.
https://youtu.be/Y3qguNFflow?si=PHBRvO3LylA-_57l

>>127124639
>>127125250
Its crazy how divided /mu/ seems to be about them

>>127124639
t. poopie poker

>>127106407 (OP)
Listened to Quebec first and went backwards. Thought Quebec was good but as I listen to the older stuff it sounds more and more bland and sad.

>>127106407 (OP)
I just want their back catalog reissued already.

>>127106407 (OP)
Ween, Frank Zappa, XTC, Cardiacs, Arthur Brown, Tiny Tim, Gong, The Residents, Devo, Oingo Boingo, Weird Al, Butthole Surfers, Mr. Bungle, Primus, etc.

All this shit sucks and is for loser faggots.

>>127121387
>>127112867
I get it now, I'm definitely in the middle, I can not get into them for whatever reason

Fucked Jam is proto-splatoon music

>>127125250
If you have even the tiniest of Ween sparks within you, you have the potential for a Ween wildfire.

That's almost always how people get into them. You find that one song that clicks, for me it's What Deaner was Talkin About, and before you know it you're scaring all your friends when you put on The Pod.

>>127126696
What do you listen to then loser faggot? Tell us what good music is

>>127124639
They have 3 pretty damn good albums
Outside of those 3 they're kinda shit

>>127106407 (OP)
>Quebec
>perfect
>Fucked Jam intensifies

12 golden country hits... has the entire genre ever recovered?

>>127129237
I'm Holding You and Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain are genuinely excellent traditional country songs

>>127126696
I don't like Ween but Mr. Bungle and Devo are fine you whiny bitch

>>127129249
Very nice
my 2 fav traditionals - cornbread red/powder blue

>>127126203
It's one of their weakest records:
1. Mollusk
2. Pod
3. Chocolate
4. Guava
5. Country
6. Pepper
7. Quebec
8. Debut
9. Shinola
10. Cucaracha

>>127127098
im convinced the solo from i'll be your jonny on the spot was an inspiration