Ween Discography

Ween discography
Studio albums9
Live albums7
Compilation albums2
Video albums1
Music videos7
EPs8
Singles18
Demo tapes15

The following is the discography of Ween, a Pennsylvania-based experimental alternative band formed by childhood friends Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, better known by their respective stage names, Gene Ween and Dean Ween. Starting out with a few locally released demo tapes, including The Crucial Squeegie Lip, AXIS: Bold as Boognish, and The Live Brain Wedgie / WAD Excerpts, the band was picked up by independent label Twin/Tone Records in 1990 and released their debut GodWeenSatan: The Oneness. In 1991 they signed with another independent label, Shimmy-Disc, and released The Pod. After this, Ween signed with Elektra Records and released their major label debut Pure Guava in 1992. It features their highest-charting single to date, 'Push th' Little Daisies'. While touring for this album, they played at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which would later be released as a CD/DVD live album in 2008 titled At the Cat's Cradle, 1992.

In 1994 Chocolate and Cheese was released, which spawned the singles 'Voodoo Lady', 'Freedom of '76', and 'I Can't Put My Finger on It'. Ween's next album, released in 1996, was titled 12 Golden Country Greats and was recorded with several prominent Nashville musicians, featuring a distinct country sound. It gave way to the singles 'Piss Up a Rope' and 'You Were the Fool'. The nautically-themed album The Mollusk followed in 1997. It is considered a prog rock concept album, and featured the singles 'Mutilated Lips' and 'Ocean Man', the latter gaining a significant following after being a song on the SpongeBob SquarePants Moviesoundtrack. The band's desire to pursue alternate forms of media led to the MP3-only release Craters of the Sac, presented by Melchiondo for online download and free trade. The same year the band had planned to release a live album compilation spanning their entire career up to that point, titled Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998. However, according to Melchiondo, once the album was completed, Elektra realized the sales potential of the CD and denied Ween the right to release it through their independent label. Ween's sixth studio album, White Pepper, was the band's final studio release for Elektra and was released in 2000. The pop-themed, Lennon-McCartney-inspired album produced two singles: 'Even If You Don't', which was made into a music video directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and 'Stay Forever'.

Ween formed their own label in 2001, Chocodog Records, the label Ween originally planned to release Paintin' the Town Brown on. Later, Ween released the first official Chocodog album, Live in Toronto, Canada. The limited-pressing CD, available exclusively through the band website, became an instant collector's item. Subsequent Chocodog releases were produced in higher volumes to meet demand. Ween signed to Sanctuary Records and released Quebec, their first studio release in three years, in 2003. Later that year, the band held a poll on their official message boards to select songs for the band to play on their forthcoming live-in-studio album All Request Live. Released on November 22, the album would be the first time Ween would play all five parts of 'The Stallion' (Parts 1 & 2 from The Pod, Part 3 from Pure Guava, the unreleased Part 4, and Part 5 from Craters of the Sac). The performance also included rarely-played early Ween tracks such as 'Pollo Asado', 'Mononucleosis' and 'Cover it with Gas and Set it in Fire', as well as Ween's rejected Pizza Hut jingle, 'Where'd the Cheese Go?'. In 2004, Ween released Live in Chicago, a DVD and CD set that compiled tracks from two live performances from the Quebec tour at Chicago's Vic Theatre in November 2003.

  • Ween is an American experimental rock band formed in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1985. They have gained a large cult following and critical praise for their genre-hopping music, 'brown' sound (drawing on psychedelic music), and crude sense of humor, among other aspects.
  • Ween Discography show list info. Ween are a rock band from New Hope, Pennsylvania formed in 1984 by Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween) and Mickey Melchiondo (Dean Ween).

In 2005, Ween hit the studio to record better quality versions of previously-unreleased songs for the compilation Shinola, Vol. 1. The twelve tracks were all, according to Melchiondo, 'songs we regretted not putting on other records'. The tracks spanned the band's career, from 'Tastes Good on th' Bun', a Pod outtake, to 'Someday', a Quebec outtake. Different versions of three of the songs, 'Big Fat Fuck', 'How High Can You Fly?' and 'Monique the Freak' had previously appeared on Craters of the Sac.

In 2006, Ween rented an old farmhouse and converted it into a working studio. After writing over 50 songs and recording rough versions through 2006, they picked through them and, with Andrew Weiss as producer, re-recorded album versions for what would become The Friends EP and the full-length La Cucaracha which were both released in 2007 on Rounder Records. La Cucaracha, which would prove to be Ween's final album, would later be called a 'big piece of shit' by Freeman, adding, 'I think the songs on it were good, or a bunch of songs, but overall that was a big clue Mickey and I were finito'.

In 2011, Melchiondo quietly released an MP3-only collection of songs called The Caesar Demos, named after the band's original working title for Quebec, to friends on his Facebook page. In his comment, he stated the songs were all recorded between 2001 and 2003 while Claude Coleman was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident, and that many of the tracks featured only himself and Freeman. In addition to a handful of tracks that eventually made Quebec, Caesar Demos would also feature several previously unreleased tracks.

The band broke up in 2012, after Freeman commented in a Rolling Stone interview that it was time to pursue solo projects. The manager for the band, Greg Frey, later confirmed he had decided to 'end his musical relationship' with Ween. Melchiondo was unaware of this until it was public information. In 2015, Freeman began using the Gene Ween moniker again for live performances, and later that year they announced their first shows in years for 2016. A sequel to the first outtakes collection, Shinola vol. 1, was confirmed to be in the works by Melchiondo on Facebook in 2016. A live album containing a 2001 performance of every song from their first album was released in 2016, entitled GodWeenSatan Live.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

YearTitleLabelPeak chart positions
US
[1]
US
Heat.

[2]
AUS
[3]
1990GodWeenSatan: The OnenessTwin/Tone
1991The PodShimmy Disc
1992Pure GuavaElektra93
1994Chocolate and Cheese1080
199612 Golden Country Greats2372
1997The Mollusk159569
2000White Pepper1212
2003QuebecSanctuary81
2007La CucarachaRounder/Schnitzel6984
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Live albums[edit]

Ween Discography
YearTitleLabelPeak chart positions
US
Heat.

[2]
1999Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990–1998Elektra37
2001Live in Toronto CanadaChocodog/Schnitzel
2002Live at Stubb's 7/2000Chocodog
2003All Request Live
2004Live in ChicagoSanctuary
2008At the Cat's Cradle, 1992Chocodog/Schnitzel
2016GodWeenSatan Live

Compilation albums[edit]

  • Craters of the Sac (1999)
  • Shinola, Vol. 1 (2005)
  • Bananas and Blow (2018) - Unauthorized Warner release

EPs[edit]

Chocolate And Cheese

YearTitleLabel
1992Sky Cruiser EPWhite
1994I Can't Put My Finger On It EPElektra
Freedom of '76 EPFlying Nun Records
Voodoo Lady EPFlying Nun
1996Piss Up a Rope/You Were the Fool EPFlying Nun
2000Stay Forever Promo EPMushroom
Stay Forever Red Vinyl EPMushroom
2007The Friends EP CD and limited edition picture disc 12'Chocodog/Schnitzel

Singles[edit]

YearTitleUS
Alt.

[4]
AUS
[3]
UK
[5]
Album
1992'I'm Fat'Non album single
'Push th' Little Daisies'2118Pure Guava
'Sky Cruiser'Non album single
1994'I Can't Put My Finger on It'Chocolate and Cheese
'Freedom of '76'152
'Voodoo Lady'325897
1996'Piss Up a Rope'11612 Golden Country Greats
'You Were the Fool'98
1997'Mutilated Lips'The Mollusk
'Ocean Man'
2000'Even If You Don't'135White Pepper
'Stay Forever'138
2003'Tried and True/Mountains and Buffalo'Quebec
'Transdermal Celebration'
2005'Monique the Freak'Shinola, Vol. 1
'Gabrielle'
2007'Your Party'La Cucaracha
2010'DC Won't Do You No Good'Non album single

Music videos[edit]

  • 'Push th' Little Daisies'
  • 'Freedom of '76'
  • 'I Can't Put My Finger on It'
  • 'Roses Are Free'
  • 'Voodoo Lady'
  • 'Even If You Don't'
  • 'Transdermal Celebration'

Early independent releases[edit]

YearTitleLabel
1985Mrs. SlackSelf-released
Ween WAD[6]
1987The Crucial Squeegie Lip[7]Bird O’ Pray
Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death
1988Ween II Axis: Bold as Boognish[8]
The Live Brain Wedgie! / Wad Excerpts[9]
1989Prime 5[10]

Notable demo tapes[edit]

YearTitle
1987We Broke Up – (Unreleased)[11]
Ween/Smersh – (Unreleased)[12]
1988The Scraping the Palm for Guava Tape – (Unofficially released)
1989The Focus Tape – (Unreleased)
1990The Pod Demos – (The Big Timmy Wasserman Tape, Bilboa, and The Stallion, unofficially released)
Pandy Fackler Tape – (Unofficially released)
Eindhoven EP – (Unreleased)[13]
Weed Whore – (Unreleased)[14]
1991Pure Guava Demos – (Caprice Classic and Springstuff, unreleased)[15]
1992Chocolate & Cheese TasterDemos Summer 1992
The Freedom Tape – (Unreleased)
1993The Crème de Menthe Tape – (Unreleased)
199412 Golden Country Greats Demos – (Unofficially released)
1995Mollusk Sessions – (Released 2007)
Music for Drunk Irish Homos – (Unreleased)
1997White Pepper Demos – (Unofficially released)
1999Long Beach Island Tapes – (Unofficially released)
2001–2003The Caesar Demos – (Released 2011)
1985-1994Boognish Rising Thanksgiving Sampler 2014 – (Released 2014)
2006La Cucaracha demos – (Unofficially released)

Appearances[edit]

YearTitleLabel
1993En Esch - CheesyTVT Records
Freedom of '76: The Jane Pratt ShowLifetime Entertainment
1994Frente! - LonelyMushroom Records
A Merry Little Christmas : A Holiday Sampler from Elektra & EastWestElektra/EastWest
1995Kostars - Klassics With a KGrand Royal
Used & Recorded by 3RRR Vol.2Radio Release
1996Beautiful GirlsMiramax / Elektra
Ben Vaughn - Instrumental StylingsBar None Records
Yoko Ono-Rising MixesCapitol Records
Schoolhouse Rock! RocksAtlantic Records
1997Wah²German TV Show
Orgazmo - Unrated VersionN/A
1998Hub - HubSLASH RECORDS
Chef Aid: The South Park AlbumColumbia
The X-Files: The AlbumWEA
Magna Plasm: Volcom Stone Surf MovieVeeco Productions
2002Run Ronnie Run soundtrackNew Line Productions Inc.
Morvern CallarWarp Records
Crank YankersComedy Central
2000SpongeBob SquarePants (Season 2, Episode 1 'Your Shoes United)Sire/London/Rhino
2004The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More...Sire/London/Rhino
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 soundtrackActivision/Neversoft
2008Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Volume 3N/A
2009G.N.A.R (ski film)N/A

References[edit]

Twin Tone

  1. ^'Ween Chart History: Billboard 200'. Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  2. ^ ab'Ween Chart History: Heatseekers Albums'. Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  3. ^ abAustralian (ARIA) chart peaks:
    • Top 50 peaks: 'australian-charts.com > Ween in Australian Charts'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
    • Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
    • 'Voodoo Lady': 'The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 30 Apr 1995'. Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  4. ^'Ween Chart History: Alternative Songs'. Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  5. ^UK chart peaks:
    • Top 100 peaks: 'Official Charts > Ween'. The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2017-04-25. N.B. This site displays compressed chart (exclusion rules applied) peaks below number 75.
    • Top 200 peaks from November 1994 to December 2010: 'Chart Log UK 1994–2010 > Kristine W – Tammy Wynette'. zobbel.de. Retrieved 2017-04-25. N.B. This site displays uncompressed chart (no exclusion rules applied) peaks below number 75, between November 1994 and May 2001.
  6. ^'Ween - Ween WAD'. Discogs. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  7. ^'Ween - The Crucial Squeegie Lip'. Discogs. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  8. ^'Ween - Ween II (Axis: Bold as Boognish)'. Discogs. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  9. ^'Ween - The Live Brain Wedgie! / Wad Excerpts'. Discogs. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  10. ^'Ween - Prime 5'. Discogs. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  11. ^https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sdWVYUewPMU/maxresdefault.jpg
  12. ^https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sdWVYUewPMU/maxresdefault.jpg
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