Line #81 Music/Ween


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Can U taste the waste?]]
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4	Influenced by:
5	+ Music/TheBeatles, Music/GeorgeClinton, Music/{{Prince}}, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/DeadKennedys, Music/BillyJoel, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand, Music/ButtholeSurfers, Music/{{Devo}}, Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/EarthWindAndFire, Music/TheResidents
6	Influenced:
7	+ Music/{{Phish}}, Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge, Creator/StephenHillenburg, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, Music/AphexTwin, Music/BoardsOfCanada, Music/ArielPink, Music/HotChip, Music/MacDeMarco]
8	->''"Out of nowhere, out of the total musical vacuum, out of total darkness comes one, one, ONE ray of light... and it's fucking Ween."''
9	-->-- '''Music/HenryRollins''', 1990
10
11	Ween's a band. Ween is [[ThoseTwoGuys Two Guys]]: Dean Ween and Gene Ween, no relation. They met in junior high in [[QuirkyTown New Hope]], UsefulNotes/{{Pennsylvania}}. They make the songs with the music, the music and the Scotchgard.
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13	They're multi-instrumentalists and sometimes [[IAmTheBand the only performers on their albums]]. Gene is usually the lead singer, and Dean the lead guitarist.
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15	The band is known for their GenreRoulette sound, playing anything from hardcore punk to country to prog rock to cheesy pop music. They are commonly thought to be a comedy band, though while they have many humorous songs, their music is mostly serious.
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17	Known for their relatively small (but very devoted) [[CultClassic cult following]], one of their more notable fans was the late Stephen Hillenburg, who cited Ween's 1997 nautical-themed {{concept album}} ''Music/TheMollusk'' as a major artistic influence on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. In recognition of the band's influence on the show, he used their song "Ocean Man" in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', and invited them to record the original song "Loop de Loop" (the one about tying your shoes) in the episode "Your Shoe's Untied".
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19	Gene announced that he was retiring his "Gene Ween" alter ego and more or less declared the band broken up, much to Dean's surprise, in 2012. However, they reunited for a series of shows in 2016, and have continued to do so from 2017 onwards.
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22	!!Principal Members (Founding members in '''bold'''):
23
24	* Claude Coleman Jr. - drums, vocals (1994-2012, 2016-Present)
25	* Dave Dreiwitz - bass, vocals (1997-2012, 2016-Present)
26	* '''Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween)''' - lead vocals, guitar (1984-2012, 2016-Present)
27	* Glenn Mcclelland - keyboards, vocals (1997-2012, 2016-Present)
28	* '''Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo (Dean Ween)''' - lead guitar, vocals (1984-2012, 2016-Present)
29	* Andrew Weiss - bass (1994-1997), production (1984-1999, 2003-2007)
30	* Chris "Cribber" Williams (Mean Ween) - bass, vocals (1989-1994)
31	----
32
33	!! Studio Discography:
34
35	* 1990 - ''Music/GodWeenSatanTheOneness''
36	* 1991 - ''Music/ThePod''
37	* 1992 - ''Music/PureGuava''
38	* 1994 - ''Chocolate And Cheese''
39	* 1996 - ''12 Golden Country Greats''
40	* 1997 - ''Music/TheMollusk''
41	* 2000 - ''Music/WhitePepper''
42	* 2003 - ''{{Music/Quebec}}''
43	* 2007 - ''La Cucaracha''
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45	You can vote for your favourite Ween album by heading over to the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/Sandbox/BestAlbumWeen Best Album crowner]].
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48
49	!! Live Discography:
50
51	* 1999 - ''Paintin' The Town Brown: Live '90 - '98''
52	* 2001 - ''Live in Toronto Canada''
53	* 2003 - ''Live At Stubb's, 7/2000''
54	* 2003 - ''All Request Live''
55	* 2004 - ''Live In Chicago''
56	* 2008 - ''At The Cat's Cradle, 1992''
57	* 2016 - ''Godweensatan Live''
58	----
59
60	!! Other Albums:
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62	* 1998 - ''Craters Of The Sac''
63	* 2005 - ''Shinola Vol. 1''
64	* 2007 - ''The Friends EP''
65	* 2011 - ''The Caesar Demos''
66	----
67
68	!!Stuck in my cabana, living on bananas and Tropes:
69
70	* AffectionateParody: The [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Ween-ThePod.jpg cover art]] to ''The Pod'' is a parody of the cover of Music/LeonardCohen's ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/The_Best_of_Leonard_Cohen.jpg ''The Best of]]'' album.
71	** Similarly, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/WeenLiveinToronto.jpg ''Live In Toronto Canada'']] has album art that parodies Music/FrankSinatra's [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Itmightaswellbeswing.jpg ''It Might As Well Be Swing'']]. And ''Quebec'' gets its artwork from [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11919/thorns the board game Thorns]], of all places.
72	** A lot of their songs are [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]] of the particular genre the song is.
73	* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Almost'' done during "Candi" with the line "Chocolate with cheese." The actual name of the album is "Chocolate ''and'' Cheese."
74	** They do it on "Mononucleosis" from ''The Pod'' ("When you came into the Pod, you told me that something was wrong..."). [[note]] The album was named after the apartment they recorded it in, and the song is the true story of them coming down with mononucleosis while they were living there.[[/note]]
75	* ArcWords: Guava, Weasel, Brown and Boognish, although the latter is more than just a word.
76	** ''The Pod'' has a couple bizarre lyrical motifs. Four songs mention a "pork roll egg and cheese": "Pork Roll Egg And Cheese", "She Fucks Me", "Frank", and "Awesome Sound".
77	*** Four others mention RipVanWinkle: "Sketches Of Winkle", "Boing", "Strap On That Jammypac", and "Molly".
78	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Reggaejunkiejew" is a hurricane of seething insults toward whoever the song is about - including telling the person to overdose on heroin and drop dead - but then there's the significantly less harsh but still rude line, "Maybe some people like to eat it, but I think you're a dick!"
79	* BigRockEnding: "It's Gonna Be a Long Night", "The Grobe"
80	* BlackComedy: They have a few darkly humorous songs, such as "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" in which Gene imitates a toddler with the life-threatening disease.
81	* BlackComedyRape: Zigzagged. Dean was asked in [[http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/07/20/ween-dean-ween-interview/ an interview]] whether he had any hesitations about writing the line that involves gang rape in "Cover it With Gas and Set it on Fire" and whether it was a rape joke. He clarifies that the joke to the song isn't the rape, but the fact that [[WordSaladHumor none of it]] [[SurrealHumor makes sense]]; the line in question is "He's a hobble with a wobble at the gang rape" and the following line is "It's an earth chock, war plot, peppermint lasso." Dean sums it up with, "If you think there’s some kind of statement in there, you’re fucking doing more drugs than we were."
82	* BlatantLies: On the live album, ''At the Cat's Cradle 1992'', during some stage banter, Dean lists a few songs including "Reggaejunkiejew" and says "We don't play any of those songs live." Right after this, they played "Reggaejunkiejew."
83	* {{Bookends}}: ''The Mollusk'' starts and ends with "I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight" (ending with a slow, distorted version).
84	* {{Bowdlerize}}:
85	** When "Push Th' Little Daisies" was released as a single, they had to make a special radio edit of the song due to the lyric "happy as shit" - the offending word was replaced by an intentionally jarring shout of "NO!!!" ({{sampling}} the intro to "Alphabet Street" by {{Music/Prince}})
86	** The censored version of "It's Gonna Be A Long Night" omits "gang-bang" from the refrain. Can't have the kids thinking about [[GangBangers gang violence]] or group-sex now, [[SarcasmMode can we]]?
87	* BrokenRecord: The phrase, "Pork roll egg and cheese on a kaiser bun," is repeated in the background throughout the entirety of "She Fucks Me."
88	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm2DVfOzEig Tastessssss... Good on the Bun!"]].
89	* CaptainObvious: "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?" gives us the line, "He can't talk because he's a pony."
90	* CarefulWithThatAxe: '''YOU FUCKED UP! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!'''
91	* ClusterFBomb: "Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch/Fuck you, you stinkin'-ass ho" and a lot of other songs as well.
92	** They greeted the world with, "'''''YOU FUCKED UP!! YOU BITCH, YOU REALLY FUCKED UP!! YOU FUCKED UP, YOU FUCKING NAZI WHORE!!'''''" They relied on this a lot early on.
93	** Part I of "The Stallion" is composed largely of this.
94	* ContinuityNod: "Big Jilm" features the line "It's a pleazel, it's a pleazel my weasel," a reference to their earlier tune, "I Gots A Weasel," whose lyrics were based on similar lines.
95	** "Baby Bitch" has the line "Wrote 'Birthday Boy' for ya babe", which is a reference to an earlier song of that name. It might also be a ShoutOut to Music/BobDylan, since in the song "Sara", Dylan mentions "Writin' 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' for you".
96	** The title of "Strap On That Jammypac" appears again in the lyrics of the later song "Beacon Light".
97	* CoverVersion: [[ZigZaggedTrope Kinda.]] "L.M.L.Y.P." is partially a cover of a {{Music/Prince}} rarity, "Shockadelica" from the formerly-unreleased Camille album, and then it becomes an original song merely InTheStyleOf The Purple One [[MoodWhiplash about performing cunnilingus.]] '''[[TooMuchInformation At length. In detail.]]'''
98	** More straightforwardly, the band does do covers when they play live. Their most played cover is "[[{{Music/VanHalen}} Hot For Teacher]]", but they've played something for everyone, ranging from Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung to Creator/DavidBowie, from "[[{{Music/ParliamentFunkadelic}} Maggot Brain]]" to "[[{{Music/Outkast}} Hey Ya]]", and from Music/BillyJoel to "[[{{WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock}} The Shot Heard]] [[OddNameOut Round The World]]". A few more examples from official releases, "[[{{Music/TheMollusk}} Cold Blows The Wind]]" is a cover of a traditional folk song, and the demo ''Axis: Bold As Boognish'' has an... [[SensoryAbuse interesting]] cover of "[[{{Music/TheBeatles}} She Said, She Said]]".
99	* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Quebec'' is this compared to most of their albums, as apart from "It's Gonna Be a Long Night", none of the songs have any humor.
100	* ADayInTheLimelight: In addition to [[StepUpToTheMic the songs on which Dean is the lead singer]], some guitar solos are played by Gene, such as "The Stallion (Part 3)."
101	* DeadpanSnarker: Both have their moments. Especially noticeable on the ''At the Cat's Cradle, 1992'' live album in which Dean sees the much smaller crowd compared to their previous concert at the venue and quips, "We must have been really good last time we were here." Later, on the same album, Dean plays a very long, very [[NoiseRock noisy]] guitar solo in an early version of "Buckingham Green" and once it ends, Gene asks the crowd, "Wanna hear it again?"
102	* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Inverted, for the most part. They have actually encouraged the use of fan torrents like [[http://www.browntracker.net/ browntracker]] for those who want digital copies of their live songs as well as their now-rare home demos/albums like ''The Crucial Squeegie Lip'' and ''[[Music/JimiHendrix Axis: Bold As Boognish]]'', though they haven't advocated piracy of their studio releases. Dean also runs Ween Radio, an Internet radio stream where fans can request songs and listen to obscure, unreleased, and/or live songs in addition to songs found on their studio albums.
103	* EpicRocking: When playing live, they've been known to do 30+ minute renditions of songs that are only a fraction of that length on the album (a perfect example is "Poop Ship Destroyer", turning [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxAbyCwEZw this]] into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X51bHvEFDI8 this]]) , and Dean Ween plays noticeably extended solos. It is also not uncommon for their concerts to last three or more hours.
104	*** The second disc of LiveAlbum ''Paintin' The Town Brown'' is an hour long and consists of just three tracks : A 26 minute version of "Poop Ship Destroyer", a 31 minute version of "Vallejo"... and a three minute version of "Puffy Cloud".
105	** "Nicole" and "L.M.L.Y.P." from ''[=GodWeenSatan=]'' are both around nine minutes. The version of "Monique the Freak" on ''Craters of the Sac'' is just above the 10 minute mark. "Woman and Man" is 10:48.
106	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Aaron and Mickey met each other in their typing class when they were both in junior high; despite having different personalities and not liking each other at first, they eventually became friends after realizing they both loved music.
107	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Never Squeal" features a ''chainsaw'' solo.
108	** Those beeping noises that solo for a while in "Reggaejunkiejew?" A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%28game%29 Simon]] game.
109	* FakeOutFadeOut: After "The Stallion (Part 2)" fades out, there is a brief, highly distorted monologue that concludes the song.
110	* FoodPorn: "Pollo Asado"
111	* GenreBusting: Every kind of music and noise.
112	%%* GenreMashup: But it ''works'', when it's not noise.
113	* GenreRoulette: Prominent on all of their albums, with the exception of ''12 Golden Country Greats''.
114	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Dean and Gene have been best friends since middle school and donned stage names that would suggest they're brothers.
115	* IAmSong: The STALLION (mang)!
116	* IndecipherableLyrics: In some songs like "The Stallion (Part 2)," "Mourning Glory," and "Poopship Destroyer," there are lines that are so hard to make out that [[ShrugOfGod even the official lyrics replace some words with question marks]].
117	** "My Own Bare Hands" devolves into Dean spewing absolute nonsense constructed [[ClusterFBomb only partly out of swears.]]
118	* {{Instrumentals}} : "A Tear For Eddie", "Pink Eye (On My Leg)", "Ice Castles", and "The Fucked Jam".
119	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: The first album, ''God-Ween-Satan: The Oneness'', is itself an example, and gives us: "Licking the Palm for Guava", "Mushroom Festival in Hell", "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree", "Squelch the Weasel", and "L.M.L.Y.P." ([[IntercourseWithYou "Let Me Lick Your Pussy"]])
120	** ''Way'' on the hardcore side, we have "Put the Coke on My Dick", "Suckin' the Blood from the Devil's Dick" and "She Fucks Me".
121	* IntercourseWithYou: Some songs have this, LMLYP is basically the best example of it, primarily because of the {{Music/Prince}} inspiration.
122	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: "She Wanted to Leave," " It's Gonna Be (Alright)"
123	* LastNoteHilarity: During the outro of "It's Gonna Be A Long Night," Dean [[CarefulWithThatAxe wails loudly]] while the instruments play an extremely over-the-top BigRockEnding. Considering the song itself is a tribute to {{Music/Motorhead}}, it's likely just another part of the [[AffectionateParody joke.]]
124	* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler: "Buenas Tardes Amigos"]]
125	* Letters2Numbers: The band has songs with titles like "Pumpin' 4 The Man" and "Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)." They also substitute "You" with "U" frequently, such as "Can U Taste The Waste?" and "Loving U Thru It All." This is probably done as a ShoutOut to Prince, one of the band's primary influences.
126	* LimitedLyricsSong: Some songs have this, most notably "The HIV Song".
127	* LiveAlbum: The band have released 7 live albums over the course of their career. Three of the more notable releases include ''Paintin' the Town Brown'', a collection of live performances from the band's entire career, ''Live in Toronto Canada'', which features the duo (who were promoting ''12 Golden Country Greats'') backed by a country band they dubbed The Shit Creek Boys, and ''[=GodWeenSatan=] Live'', a live performance of their debut album in its entirety.
128	* LyricalDissonance: Never more so than when they write one of the prettiest tunes you've ever heard and fill it with Incredible Vulgarity.
129	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Gene Ween. His vocal range is so broad it's almost mindblowing to listen to ''Chocolate And Cheese'' when you realize yes, that's him doing the [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] style vocals on "Take Me Away," the bizarre growling of "I Can't Put My Finger On It," the Mexican speaking in "Buenas Tardes, Amigo," the country drawl of "Drifter in the Dark," and the falsetto soul singing of "Freedom of '76." And that's just ''five songs'' on ''one album.''
130	** Gene pulls off a shockingly perfect Music/{{Prince}} imitation on "L.M.L.Y.P.".
131	** In "Shamemaker", he adopts an exaggerated Southern Californian accent throughout the song, which has been taken as a parody of [[Music/Blink182 Tom Delonge]] (or just typical [=2000s=] PopPunk vocals in general)
132	** ''Push Th' Little Daisies'' is popularly but erroneously believed to have been recorded after a dose of [[HeliumSpeech helium]].
133	* MindScrew: They actually use the phrase in "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," making them possibly the TropeNamer. It also happens in a lot of their songs, such as "Mourning Glory."
134	* MinisculeRocking: ''[=GodWeenSatan=]: The Oneness'' is mostly this, being their most punk-influenced album. There's also the live-only "Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire" that usually clocks in at about a minute and a half.
135	* MisogynySong: PlayedWith in "Piss Up a Rope," which appears to be a harsh breakup song with sexist lines like "On your knees you big booty bitch start sucking." Surprisingly enough, Dean claims he wrote the song for his wife as a joke.
136	* MurderBallad: "Buenas Tardes, Amigo"
137	* {{Narcissist}}: The Stallion.
138	* NewSoundAlbum: While most of their albums tend to experiment with several different genres, it's fairly easy to tell which album a song is from. ''[=GodWeenSatan=]'' is mainly punk, hard rock, and metal, ''The Pod'' has mostly slow songs with distorted vocals, ''12 Golden Country Greats'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin nothing but country music]], ''The Mollusk'' has a nautical theme, etc. The largest change to their sound came with ''Chocolate & Cheese'', where they shifted completely away from the previous releases' lo-fi sound, got a backing band, and increased their GenreRoulette to levels even further beyond what they'd already done, as well as showing far more of Gene's [[VocalEvolution improved vocals]] and ManOfAThousandVoices qualities.
139	** As well, ''Pure Guava'' has a more [[DenserAndWackier goofy, oddball tone]] than ''The Pod'', with songs having more pop elements and less slow, sludgy sounding songs, and ''quebec'', on the flip-side, [[DarkerAndEdgier is much more serious than their albums before it]], especially more so than ''White Pepper'', and the album as a whole focuses on ProgressiveRock, though their genre experimentation is still there in full force.
140	* NoiseRock: Also NoisePop, Noise Country ("Piss Up A Rope" has a breakdown that would be a good example), Noise Jazz, Noise Reggae ("Voodoo Lady"), Noise Ragtime, Noise Classical, Noise Easy Listening, Noise R & B, and Noise Noise.
141	* NonIndicativeName: ''12 Golden Country Greats'' has 10 tracks.
142	** Alternatively, this may refer to the twelve golden country greats who form Ween's backing band on the album. Or even the fact that they recorded 12 songs, but two were left off the album and used as {{B Side}}s.
143	* NonAppearingTitle: "Birthday Boy", "Mourning Glory"
144	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It's notable that Gene sings "If You Could Save Yourself You'd Save Us All", the closing track from ''quebec'', without any vocal affectation whatsoever. No silly voices, no pitch shifting - just Gene, belting into a microphone. Given the lyrical content, it appears to be part of a very personal reaction to his then-recent divorce.
145	* OverlyLongGag: At the beginning of "Wayne's Pet Youngin'," rather than counting to 4 like most bands, Dean counts to 25, even though the song is in 4/4.
146	** In "The Stallion (Part 2)," Gene Ween randomly starts singing the alphabet only to spell "stallion" once he gets to "S-T." ("A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-A-L-L-I-O-N I am the stallion mang!")
147	* RefugeInAudacity: '''WHERE TO BEGIN??'''
148	* RevengeBallad: "Buenos Tardes Amigo" is a revenge song being sung to the man who killed the narrator's brother. [[spoiler:The twist is that the narrator was actually the killer himself, probably due to [[TheUnfavorite jealousy]], and is framing the listener to keep anyone else from knowing the truth.]]
149	* RhymingWithItself: "Puffy Cloud":
150	-->Drift away on a puffy cloud\
151	Go away on a puffy cloud\
152	My brain is dead from too much pot\
153	Cause Deaner and I smoke too much pot
154	* SensoryAbuse: Music/ThePod might be this, because of it's rough sound. "Mourning Glory" is this, because of the earrape-like noise.
155	* SesameStreetCred: "Ocean Man", which became the ending theme of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie''.
156	** On top of that, Ween also wrote and recorded "Loop de Loop" for the ''[=SpongeBob=]'' episode "Your Shoe's Untied".
157	** "It's Gonna Be A Long Night" appeared in the soundtrack for [[VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderGround Tony Hawk's Underground 2]].
158	* ShapedLikeItself: "A friend's a friend who knows what being a friend is!"
159	* ShoutOut: ''White Pepper'' efficiently [[TitleDrop references]] '''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand two]]''' [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum of]] [[Music/TheBeatles The Beatles']] [=LP=]s—and, possibly, a classic [[TextlessAlbumCover photograph by Edward Weston]]—in addition to extending the band's long-standing [[FoodSongsAreFunny obsession with the edible]].
160	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Licking the Palm for Guava" and "Mushroom Festival in Hell." Not only do both songs fade into each other on the album, but they were usually performed together live.
161	* SongOfSongTitles: "L.M.L.Y.P." directly lifts most of lyrics from Music/{{Prince}}'s "Shockadelica" and the rap from "Alphabet St."
162	* SpellingSong: "Zoloft", which features the refrain "Give me that Z-O-L-O-F-T".
163	* StageName: Dean Ween's real name is Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr.; Gene Ween's is Aaron Freeman.
164	* StealthParody: While their genre parodies tend to be more obvious, they have a couple of these as well. For example, "Buckingham Green" almost sounds like a serious song rather than a satire of ProgressiveRock. The biggest clue that particular song isn't serious is kind of an esoteric local reference: Despite the dramatic-sounding music and cryptic fantasy-based lyrics, the Buckingham Green they refer to is a Pennsylvania strip mall.
165	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Some songs like "Awesome Sound," "The Blarney Stone," and "I'm In The Mood To Move" feature Dean Ween on vocals.
166	** "Little Birdy" is the only song with lead vocals by sometimes-bassist Mean Ween.
167	** The ''Live at Stubb's'' rendition of "Put the Coke on My Dick" features lead vocals by Claude Coleman Jr, Ween's drummer. The same live album also features a cover of Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher", also sung by Claude.
168	** The demo version of "It's Gonna Be A Long Night" features bassist Dave Dreiwitz on lead vocals.
169	* StrawFan: Their live-only song, "Leave Deaner Alone," is about this.
170	* StudioChatter: ''[=GodWeenSatan=]: The Oneness'' is full of talking before, after, and sometimes during the songs.
171	** The actual first words on their first album are Dean's "'You Fucked Up', by Ween."
172	* SurrealHumor
173	* TakeThat: The rarity, "I Hate Music/TheSmiths (And Steven Music/{{Morrissey}})."
174	** Several of their early songs seem to be {{Take That}}s directed at personal acquaintances -- "Reggaejunkiejew" was apparently about a real-life freeloading, dreadlocked, Jewish heroin addict who the band didn't appreciate coming into their social circle.
175	** They even delivered a couple {{Take That}}s to ''Pizza Hut'', of all things. Pizza Hut had a jingle contest and Ween wrote a brief song called "Where'd the Cheese Go?" When Pizza Hut gave them negative feedback on it, they sent in another jingle named "Bitch, Where'd the Motherfucking Cheese Go At?", which was essentially the same song, only with obscenities thrown into nearly every line. In the ''All Request Live'' version of the song, they had a more subtle one that talked about going to Papa John's (one of Pizza Hut's main competitors) to get some cheese.
176	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Their cover of Music/BillyJoel's "Piano Man" sounds like an honest attempt at a note-for-note cover with some of the lyrics in the wrong order at first. Then there's the new chorus: "Sing us a song, you're the piano man/[[BrainBleach Put some coke on my dick tonight!]]"
177	* ThemeNaming: Dean Ween, Gene Ween, and their former bassist, Mean Ween. In his side project, Moistboyz, Dean is known as Mickey Moist and singer Guy Heller is known as Dickie Moist.
178	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: ''The Pod'' contains no less than four songs with references to pork roll, egg, and cheese: "Frank", "Awesome Sound", "She Fucks Me", and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Pork Roll Egg and Cheese"]].
179	** Nearly every album has at least one song that mentions guava, or has it in its title.
180	** They also seem to have a thing for bacon; "Awesome Sound" mentions a "pork roll egg cheese and bacon," "Freedom of '76" has a line about a bacon steak, and "Even If You Don't" has a line about bacon.
181	* TheSomethingSong: ''The HIV Song'': "Da da, da Da da da da Da! Dada Dada Da Da Da Dun Dun Dun Da Da Dada dada dun. '''AIDS.''' Da da, da Da da da da Da! Dada Dada Da Da Da Dun Dun Dun Da Da Dada dada dun. '''HIV.'''" repeat.
182	* VillainSong: "Object," about a serial killer.
183	* WhamLine: In ''Buenas Tardes, Amigo'' -- a song about a man hunting down his brother's murderer:
184	-->Now... now that I've found you\
185	On this most joyous day\
186	[[spoiler:I tell you it was '''''me''''' who killed him]]\
187	[[spoiler:But the truth I'll never have to say.]]
188	* {{Underboobs}}: Prominently featured on the cover to ''Chocolate And Cheese''.
189	* VerbalTic: "Fat Lenny" is built around this. The song title is dropped over 30 times in under two minutes.
190	* YoungerThanTheyLook: While Gene is six months older than Dean, he looked quite a bit older in the band's later years due to his thinning, grey hair and receding hairline in contrast do Dean's full head of brown hair. The fact that Gene did harder drugs longer and more frequently than Dean didn't help things, either; the reason he quit the band, in fact, was that being in it wasn't helping him to stay sober.
191	* YourMom: From the live-only "Leave Deaner Alone":
192	-->[[StrawFan You're like a little fucking puppy dog for me to abuse]]\
193	Asking me what strings do I like to use\
194	I use nickel-wound doodie when I wanna rock\
195	And I buy 'em from your mother when she's sucking my cock

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