Jesus ChristPainTake oneYeah! Pain
Last time I saw you, I was holding your handAnd I couldn't wait for you to leaveI knew right then that it was over and doneAnd I couldn't believe that I was free
Help me now, I'm going downAnd I don't know if I'll be okI'll be around, I'll be in townIf you need a place to stay
When the wind blows and there's a chill in the airI hope that someone is taking care of youI'm alright, yeah, I'm really okJust so you know I'm always there for you
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Just had a thought, could "Buckingham Green" be a reference to Lindsey + Peter? Or is it just a cool English-sounding name?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I always thought that it was a reference to the Buckingham Green Shopping Center located a few miles down the road from New Hope, PA.http://www.buckinghamgreen.com/images/pagelayout20_04.gif
― bmus, Friday, 16 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Seeing these dudes tomorrow again! Hope they go light on the La Cucaracha album, the only dud in their catalog IMO...
― ColinO, Saturday, 17 July 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Where did the motherfucking cheese go at?
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
(i don't know)
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Ween, the eternal:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-0129-ween-20110129,0,6390254.story
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 January 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ween, the clusterfucking (from what I hear): http://www.straight.com/article-369810/vancouver/ween-completely-blows-it-bizarre-vancouver-show
― symsymsym, Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Hope they go light on the La Cucaracha album, the only dud in their catalog IMO...
people keep putting down La Cucaracha, but the two tracks I have heard from it (Woman And Man and the divine Your Party) are both amazing.
Particularly Your Party, which is plainly the best song ever recorded by anyone.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 30 September 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
are there really standouts from that album? maybe i'll give it another shot.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 1 October 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
dirty vicar otm. "woman and man" is ween's "sympathy for the devil." the sax on "your party" kills. "spirit walker" could have been on 'white pepper.' "friends" is one of their best songs. all in all have to say this album is better than 'quebec'
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 1 October 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
single version of Friends >>>>>>>> album version of Friends
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Saturday, 1 October 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
I think quebec is maybe their best, so I cant agree with that, but La C isn't as terrible as you've probably heardI dig "Blue Balloon" quite a bit, it's a really dumb song but I like it
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 October 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
by the way it's 2012 now and they still haven't released a follow up, now I'm getting sad (especially considering how prolific these guys used to be)
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
solo Gene Ween coming soon...
http://www.aaronfreeman.net/
― billstevejim, Friday, 13 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
If I'm reading this correctly, it's produced by the same guy who did 12 Golden Country Greats...
― billstevejim, Friday, 13 April 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
this is actually pretty good. completely dissimilar to Ween outside of maybe a few tracks on White Pepper. just kind of a lush, upbeat pop album, kinda of intentionally campy, but really catchy and fun
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
a lush, upbeat pop album, kinda of intentionally campy...
It's an album of Rod McKuen covers. So there you go.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
classic Deaner:
me and carlos sort of collaborate-------I think enough time has passed where I can finally tell my favorite Ween story of all-time. The businesses and the people involved have long since closed their doors and moved on for good and hopefully the people involved (and Carlos himself, if it comes to that) will have a good sense of humor about this story. In 2003 Ween released our album “quebec” on Sanctuary Records. We worked on the album for 2 years in our beach house in Holgate,NJ, a rented house in the Pocono Mountains of PA, the garage behind Aaron’s house in Pt. Pleasant, PA, my upstairs guest room, and finally Andrew Weiss’s living room in NJ. We also worked at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ and Graphic Sound Studios in Ringoes, NJ. It was not a great period in our personal lives, Aaron was going thru a divorce and I was partying way too hard myself—it was some dark shit. The record is one of my favorites, but it is a depressing album lyrically. It was not an easy record to make either, as evidenced by the amount of places we worked, trying to find the right environment. There are demos available online that I posted where you can hear the process at work, we racked up our normal batch of like 6 dozen songs or more before whittling it down to what was finally released, 15 tunes. I am a huge fan of Carlos Santana. He is one of my favorite guitarists of all-time. He is playing better these days than ever before in my opinion. His music is more radio friendly, for sure, but as a guitarist he has aged like a fine wine. Only Neil Young, Prince, and a small handful of others can make that claim as they become members of the AARP. We were working in Andrew’s living room on the song “Transdermal Celebration”, our drummer Claude Coleman had just gotten into a horrific car crash and left us w/o a drummer for the recording and ensuing tour. Eventually it worked itself out where the record took so long to complete that Claude made enough of a recovery to do the world tour with us supporting “quebec.” In the meantime though, even though Claude had played on some of the demos, drumming on the album was left up to me, Josh Freese, and Sim Cain. “Transdermal Celebration” had been recorded 3 times by this point, with a drum machine, with Claude playing drums, and the final take on the album which features Josh Freese. It was the eventual single from the album. So, we’re in the middle of this session and I get a phone call from my roadie (nameless) who also worked for a backline company (nameless) that supplied amps, drums, lights, etc. to bands touring in the Northeast. My roadie told me that Carlos Santana’s equipment (including his guitars) had arrived via a trucking company that night at their depot. Carlos was recording an appearance on “Good Morning America” the next morning and his equipment was to be delivered to the set in NYC in a few hours. What needed to be done was immediately clear to me, I had an opportunity to play the solo on “Transdermal Celebration” through Carlos Santana’s amplifier and guitar. I had one shot at it, it meant taking a hard disk recorder to a storage space where all of Carlos’ stuff was sitting in transit. I arrived at 2am. We (very carefully) unpacked his equipment and set up his stage gear and in one take I recorded the guitar solo for “Transdermal Celebration” (the one that appears on the album, playing thru Carlos Santana’s guitar, pedalboard, and amplifier. The whole thing took 10 minutes and we were terrified we were going to get caught. A lot of people would have lost their jobs. We got the fuck outta there really fast after that. So the solo on “Transdermal Celebration” was played thru all of Santana’s shit in what resembled an early morning bank heist or something………. Of course a story like this requires visual proof, so here it is. Don’t tell anyone about these please. -Dean Ween 6/14 an afterthought: regarding the Carlos post, i'd like to add that we handled his equipment as if it were the Mona Lisa. We photographed the way his roadie had his cables wrapped and positioned and put everything back exactly as it was found. The whole process was over as quickly as it happened. Also, the respect that I have for Carlos and the depth, spirituality and stamina of his playing is held by me in the highest regard. I am not just a fan of Carlos, I am a believer and follower of everything he has done, and yes that includes the pop singles. I felt it was important to have this be known, there is no one I hold in a higher regard. Also, I have a lifetime of experience of handling equipment, as did the other person involved, it wasn't two drunk buffoons manhandling a legend's gear, the furthest thing from it. I think it's important to clarify that. -DW
In 2003 Ween released our album “quebec” on Sanctuary Records. We worked on the album for 2 years in our beach house in Holgate,NJ, a rented house in the Pocono Mountains of PA, the garage behind Aaron’s house in Pt. Pleasant, PA, my upstairs guest room, and finally Andrew Weiss’s living room in NJ. We also worked at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ and Graphic Sound Studios in Ringoes, NJ. It was not a great period in our personal lives, Aaron was going thru a divorce and I was partying way too hard myself—it was some dark shit. The record is one of my favorites, but it is a depressing album lyrically. It was not an easy record to make either, as evidenced by the amount of places we worked, trying to find the right environment. There are demos available online that I posted where you can hear the process at work, we racked up our normal batch of like 6 dozen songs or more before whittling it down to what was finally released, 15 tunes. I am a huge fan of Carlos Santana. He is one of my favorite guitarists of all-time. He is playing better these days than ever before in my opinion. His music is more radio friendly, for sure, but as a guitarist he has aged like a fine wine. Only Neil Young, Prince, and a small handful of others can make that claim as they become members of the AARP.
We were working in Andrew’s living room on the song “Transdermal Celebration”, our drummer Claude Coleman had just gotten into a horrific car crash and left us w/o a drummer for the recording and ensuing tour. Eventually it worked itself out where the record took so long to complete that Claude made enough of a recovery to do the world tour with us supporting “quebec.” In the meantime though, even though Claude had played on some of the demos, drumming on the album was left up to me, Josh Freese, and Sim Cain. “Transdermal Celebration” had been recorded 3 times by this point, with a drum machine, with Claude playing drums, and the final take on the album which features Josh Freese. It was the eventual single from the album. So, we’re in the middle of this session and I get a phone call from my roadie (nameless) who also worked for a backline company (nameless) that supplied amps, drums, lights, etc. to bands touring in the Northeast. My roadie told me that Carlos Santana’s equipment (including his guitars) had arrived via a trucking company that night at their depot. Carlos was recording an appearance on “Good Morning America” the next morning and his equipment was to be delivered to the set in NYC in a few hours. What needed to be done was immediately clear to me, I had an opportunity to play the solo on “Transdermal Celebration” through Carlos Santana’s amplifier and guitar. I had one shot at it, it meant taking a hard disk recorder to a storage space where all of Carlos’ stuff was sitting in transit. I arrived at 2am. We (very carefully) unpacked his equipment and set up his stage gear and in one take I recorded the guitar solo for “Transdermal Celebration” (the one that appears on the album, playing thru Carlos Santana’s guitar, pedalboard, and amplifier. The whole thing took 10 minutes and we were terrified we were going to get caught. A lot of people would have lost their jobs. We got the fuck outta there really fast after that. So the solo on “Transdermal Celebration” was played thru all of Santana’s shit in what resembled an early morning bank heist or something………. Of course a story like this requires visual proof, so here it is. Don’t tell anyone about these please. -Dean Ween 6/14 an afterthought: regarding the Carlos post, i'd like to add that we handled his equipment as if it were the Mona Lisa. We photographed the way his roadie had his cables wrapped and positioned and put everything back exactly as it was found. The whole process was over as quickly as it happened. Also, the respect that I have for Carlos and the depth, spirituality and stamina of his playing is held by me in the highest regard. I am not just a fan of Carlos, I am a believer and follower of everything he has done, and yes that includes the pop singles. I felt it was important to have this be known, there is no one I hold in a higher regard. Also, I have a lifetime of experience of handling equipment, as did the other person involved, it wasn't two drunk buffoons manhandling a legend's gear, the furthest thing from it. I think it's important to clarify that. -DW
http://i.imgur.com/RhJNhiY.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/85V2fsv.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/UyUfy1F.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/OY1ppaX.jpg
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
haha that's incredible.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
Mister Richard Smoker, certainly?
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:02 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Piss Up A Rope?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:12 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
OK sexism I guess I can understand, but racism?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 02:00 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
It's dark and gross, but it's not sinister.
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:00 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link