YMMV / Ween

• Awesome Music: A lot of it, especially when the band does prog.
  • Example: "Woman and Man." Combine an Epic Riff with Word Salad Lyrics and add in an epic four-minute guitar solo.
  • "Ocean Man", as used at the end of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
  • It's Gonna Be A Long Night, one of the notable times the band outright made something punk-influenced.
  • Two words. "Transdermal Celebration".
  • Can't forget "Buckingham Green", "What Deaner Was Talking About" and "Demon Sweat".
  • "That Man (From the Flatland) from the Ceaser demos certainly counts as one.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Can all of their music be this?
  • However, "Transdermal Celebration", as well as some other songs they came out with as they grew the beard, don't really count.
  • Some albums, like The Pod, are so full of noise and weird that when a nice, pleasant, normal song comes along, it comes across as a BLAM.
  • The song "Don't Laugh (I Love You)" is, for the most part, a silly love song with slightly unconventional lyrics. And then there's this completely inexplicable bridge:
  Ernest Hemingway would always be there for me
  But now Ernest Hemingway is dead

  • And then it all ends in a bizarre cacophony of noise and chanted voices.
• Creator Worship: In case you haven't noticed, they've earned themselves a small, but incredibly dedicated cult following that, despite them not releasing new material since 2007 is still going strong to this day.
• Epic Riff: Several. There's a reason why Dean's considered one of the best guitarists of his time.
  • "You Fucked Up"
  • "Frank"
  • "Sketches of Winkle"
  • "Awesome Sound when played live is ten minutes of living up to its name.
  • "It's Gonna Be a Long Night"
  • "The Grobe"
  • "Stroker Ace"
  • "Transitions"
  • "Can U Taste the Waste?"
  • "Woman and Man"
  • How about "Transdermal Celebration"?
  • "I'll be your Jonny on the Spot"
  • "The Golden Eel"
  • A rare non-guitar example would be the sax riff on "Your Party".
• Funny Moments: So, so many.
  • The At the Cat's Cradle DVD performance of "The Going Gets Tough from the Getgo" has a couple. For one, there's Gener's priceless facial expressions after flubbing the lyrics by trying to begin the verse instead of repeating the chorus, a mistake he makes several times in a row. More amusingly, though, there's Dean Ween's ad-libbed line that comes completely out of left field: "Stick it between my titties, Gener, and make me cum!"
  • Speaking of Dean's live adlibs, there's also the version of "The Blarney Stone" on their Live in Chicago DVD. This rendition of the song features an improvised verse that arguably has some of their most audacious lines ever, such as "I got cancer in me crack / I've got tumors on me nutsack."
  • "Cold Blows The Wind" is about wanting to be Together in Death and is played straight enough to be listed under "Tear Jerker" below - but on All Request Live, Dean adds a bit of Black Comedy by introducing it as "a song about a dead bitch".
• Growing the Beard: Whether you prefer their early "brown" albums, Chocolate and Cheese and beyond, or all of it, their early independent albums they recorded as teens are universally regarded as worse than their releases from GodWeenSatan onwards.
• Harsher in Hindsight: An early Ween bio from Twin/Tone Records joked that Gene (Aaron) was punished by Boognish for trying to leave the band. Then in 2012 Aaron actually left the band to escape his alcohol and drug addiction.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • "Stay Forever" and "She's Your Baby" from the end of White Pepper are a pair of very heartfelt love songs. "Stay Forever" in particular is a popular pick at Ween fans' weddings. "Sweetheart in the Summer" from La Cucaracha is similar, with the added bonus of Dean on vocals. The rather wistful tone of all three could also make them double as tear-jerkers.
  • As a tribute to SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, the band played "Ocean Man" and "Loop De Loop" (a song they wrote for the show) at their concert at the Met on December 14, 2018.
• Memetic Mutation: "Ocean Man" began to spike in popularity with YouTube and Vine video makers in 2016. This is likely tied to "Ocean Man" being the end credits song for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, leading to several videos where it's played over other movies or show endings. It gained even more recognition after Stephen Hillenberg's death in 2018.
• Nightmare Fuel:The Pod is easily the most bizarre album by them by far. While it has its humor, it gets lost in the sludgy quality. Some vocals sound monstrous like in "The Stallion (Pt. 1)", and the album has a forboding feel in certain parts of the songs. For example, the song “Laura” is a song apparently about a man on the edge of suicide from a breakup. The song ends with a very trippy guitar solo. Needless to say, because of the known illness the duo were in during the making of this album, this album does fit the mood of feeling like crap......with drugs.
• Older Than They Think: The vocals in "Push th' Little Daisies" - especially during the last verse - are sometimes described as an Eric Cartman impression despite the song being recorded years before the first episode of South Park aired.
• Signature Song: Either "Push Th' Little Daisies" or "Ocean Man".
• Squick: A lot of their songs could provoke this reaction, especially "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)".
• Tear Jerker: "Transdermal Celebration" is already a remarkably heartbreaking song (especially when you consider the band's general output), but add the official video by Adam Phillips of Brackenwood fame, and it's absolutely devastating. Actually a great deal of Quebec is rather sorrowful in tone.
  • "Cold Blows The Wind", their interpretation of the traditional English folk song "The Unquiet Grave." Except, unlike in the original, it seems like the singer's desire to be Together in Death with their dearly departed isn't rebuked, though this might be more bittersweet, depending on your mood.
  • Also from The Mollusk, "It's Gonna Be (Alright)", a very sincere Break-Up Song. Rather than being angry or angsty about the break-up, it's apologetic, hoping that this is the right thing for the both of them.
  And if the mist ever lets the sun through...
  I just hope I did the right thing for me and you.
  • The Mollusk's third tear-jerker, possibly the bleakest of them all, is the closer, "She Wanted to Leave." While the identity of "she" is debatable (is it the narrator's lover? His daughter? His ship?), and while it's delivered in a silly Irish-pirate accent, at its core it's a poignant story of loss and regret.
  I've never loved thee, and now I must leave - now I must leave.
  • "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" also counts, given the subject matter.
  • "I Don't Want It" and "If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)" from Quebec are both very clearly about Gene's divorce.
    • The guitar solo that closes "I Don't Want It." You can feel the anguish in the notes.
• Vindicated by History: Quebec. It wasn't well-received on its' initial release and polarised the fanbase for its overtly prog-rock sound and more serious-than-usual subject matter, brought upon by Gener's divorce and Claude Coleman's car accident. (Which led to him being unable to play on the album, being replaced by Josh Freese until he was well enough to get back on the kit.) Response to the album has become much more positive in recent times, with Stereogum declaring it in 2012 to be the best Ween album.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Most of their songs aren't really kid friendly, yet they composed an original song for a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, and their song "Ocean Man" from The Mollusk was played at the end of the movie.

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