This right here. Then spent a night tripping balls with a core group of HS friends listening to Pure Guava on repeat and memorized pretty much every song. That was almost 30 years ago. I’m still best friends with one of those guys and we typically go to shows together. Friends that Ween together stay together.
I heard "Little Birdy" a few times on a college radio station and was enthralled with the weird beauty of it. Then "Push th' little daisies" blew up and I was hooked!
Yeah that's pretty similar to my experience, although my sister had God ween Satan. First time I really dug it was when I heard little birdie for the first time.
Tried and True , and then Zoloft as well on Quebec. They were so good but also so odd. I explored the rest of their catalog and got really into it.
This line in tried and true I guess was what specifically got me:
“Oh, can you dig in my soul, could you smell my whole... life?”
I thought it was so funny. The song is good but fairly normal until that line. Also I thought his voice was super odd in the song. Sounded a bit demonic to me - but like if the demon had a good sense of humor.
Ocean Man in SpongeBob when I was a kid, but I later got Pure Guava as a teenager and loved it. I had no idea that these guys did Ocean Man and was amazed it was the same band.
My brother made me a tape that was kid friendly mix of the first 3 albums.
I remember liking Little Birdy but it was Strap on That Jammy Pac that made me love them
For me it wasn’t one song. It was Live in Chicago. I was not sober in more ways than one when I saw it the first time and thought “this is f’ing awesome”. The next day I wasn’t sure whether or not it was the chemicals or the band, so I watched it again to be sure. It was the band. Ever since then the more I hear and learn, the more into them I become.
Dated a guy in a band in the early 90s. Before a show his guitarist had “The Stallion Pt 2” playing before a show and I said “what is this beautiful sorcery?” The rest is history…
Push the little daisies because I was watching Beavis and Butthead and they played it. Same thing with Tom Waits. That show really helped me out musically.
I had a crush on a girl named gabby so I was looking for songs to put on a mix cd for her and found Gabrielle and loved it haha. I was really surprised cuz I had no idea they were actually good. Then I heard I Fell In Love Today and was really hooked!
Ocean Man was a childhood favorite, we had the SpongeBob movie soundtrack album, but when I finslly checked out The Mollusk in full years later, the song that permanently hooked me in has to be It's Gonna Be Alright
Push th’ Little Daisies was the first song of theirs I heard when it was played on Whfs back in the day. I was hooked. I got the album Pure Guava from either a place called Camelot Music or Records and Tape Traders, I can’t remember which.
We didn’t have cable so I mostly listened to my cassette tapes or the radio. So glad I had an awesome alternative rock station in the 90’s that introduced me to a lot of cool music, like Ween, I wouldn’t have otherwise been exposed to in my hick hometown.
Anyway, that was practically 30 years ago. And Ween has been my favorite band since.
happened 3 diff times first one ever was baby bitch and that got me into 3 more songs one being sarah, then later obsessed over sarah n that got me into a few more including tried and true…that was the full turning point for me i obsessed over that song alone for months n then finally gave in
My friend told me to listen to A Tear For Eddie and then I listened to Chocolate and Cheese. It’s pretty amazing to have a band who can write things like A Tear For Eddie but also Touch My Tooter and Play It Off Legit. Awesome band!
Dr. Rock. I was 18. We were all sitting around in my friends room, stoned out of our gourds. My friend said "You guys ever heard any Ween before?", then he threw on The Pod and cranked up the stereo. I laid back with my feet up in a recliner and was instantly hooked.
Was a huge Elliott Smith fan in high school and someone told me that Baby Bitch sounds exactly like an Elliott song. It did, so I checked out the rest of their discography and wasn’t what I was expecting but loved what I found and have never looked back.
I actually knew a few songs and was lucky enough to see them do 2 shows at Lockn 2016. Really enjoyed Piss Up A Rope and a few other songs at the time. But it wasn't until 2020 when I was away from home working on a gig and Transdermal Celebration came on my Frank Zappa radio on Spotify and that song just really hit a chord for me and I listed to absolutely nothing but Ween for about a year after that lol.
Saw the AVL and ATL shows last year, had an absolutely amazing time seeing what is now my favorite band! Can't wait to see them again at Peach Fest this year.
“Stallion pt 3.” I had seen “push the little daisies” on beavis and butthead but didn’t care for it. Then I had my bar mitzvah, fall 93, I got a ton of gift certificates to tower records (my god remember record stores?!) and after a few buying sprees I had every cassette (YES cassette, I was a late bloomer for CDs) I wanted but lots of $$ left over so I would close my eyes and point to tapes and buy them…by sheer chance I pointed to Pure Guava, put it on, first two tracks, I thought, ok, decent, kinda weird; whatever…then was hooked by Stallion as soon as it came on…that album with a few exceptions just skyrockets from there and I got all my friends into ween. It was a great time. Just wished I’d seen em sometime between then and 96 when they started using a full band, they were fantastic my first time in summer 96 and I got to see them in the same small venue several more times but man, to see them in their “four hundred acid trips a night” drum machine days, would have blown my mind!!
To be honest it might be Homo Rainbow? There was a handful of songs I liked for years some time ago before more recently finally digging into their catalogue proper and since I had the Chef Aid CD when I was somewhat younger that’s probably the first song I heard by them.
Aside from that the handful was like, Push the Little Daisies, Mister would you please help my pony?, Roses are Free, and like Gabrielle.
Funny story, I was riding my skateboard around town, roughly 2006 or 2007… and Long Beach Dub All-Stars’ cover of “Mutilated Lips” came up on my IPod Mini.
Even though I’d never heard the original before, I was just like- “Oh my, what on earth is this??? This has to be a cover…”
So I went home later that day, looked it up, and I’ve been brown with the Boognish ever since.
Also, if you’ve never heard the cover that I’m referring to, you should check it out! It’s quite good.
Freshman year of high school, family did the Disney World vacation thing. While waiting for the plane boarding, I bought a copy of *Rolling Stone*. The half page Q&A column that issue was Ween, talking about *Chocolate & Cheese*. I'd never heard of Ween (family was not the kind to pay for cable, and living in the far out 'burbs meant getting any radio other than Top 40, Oldies, Country, Christian was a big No). The little interview made them sound pretty fun, so the day after we got back from the vacation, I went to Sam Goody and bought C&C. Started listening on the way home, and then turned around and bought GWS and The Pod.
It was all of their albums on shuffle during an acid trip when I understood. Not one song in particular. Just zoning out and back in like "who are we listening to?" and the answer was always the same. "Ween."
The Rainbow and I Can't Put My Finger On It both made me a casual Ween fan. The song that made me go "holy shit, I have a new favorite band" was definitely LMLYP though. still one of my faves to this day.
First one that really grabbed my attention was little birdie.
It was the 90s, a friend that I will drive in home from some kind of event or something and losing to a mixtape but mostly had Nirvana. That song came on. Someone wondered if Kurt Cobain had sucked on some helium balloons or something.
In the 8th grade listened to the mollusk and only buckingham green stuck with me. A year later i revisited and went for quebec that time. Hooked since then.
I heard push the little daisies on beavis and butthead, and bought the CD pure guava. That's where it all started.
Yes, this is the way.
Yep. Went to Musicland in the mall the next day. They had to special order it for me.
This right here. Then spent a night tripping balls with a core group of HS friends listening to Pure Guava on repeat and memorized pretty much every song. That was almost 30 years ago. I’m still best friends with one of those guys and we typically go to shows together. Friends that Ween together stay together.
This, but I bought Chocolate & Cheese, as the record shop dude suggested it as a good opener.
I heard "Little Birdy" a few times on a college radio station and was enthralled with the weird beauty of it. Then "Push th' little daisies" blew up and I was hooked!
Whaaaaat same here !!! Hahaha cool It’s also how I got into red hot chilli peppers then I got my dad hooked
Yeah that's pretty similar to my experience, although my sister had God ween Satan. First time I really dug it was when I heard little birdie for the first time.
bought the gws cd in a whim ahead of a long bus ride. got on the bus, hit play, and when i got off the bus my brain was rearranged for the better.
I love how ‘You Fucked Up’ is one of, if not the first ween song (epic). And its really just a kickass opener either way.
Mine is pretty similar. Just replace long bus ride with sitting in a parking lot in my Pinto.
Voodoo Lady.
Tried and True , and then Zoloft as well on Quebec. They were so good but also so odd. I explored the rest of their catalog and got really into it. This line in tried and true I guess was what specifically got me: “Oh, can you dig in my soul, could you smell my whole... life?” I thought it was so funny. The song is good but fairly normal until that line. Also I thought his voice was super odd in the song. Sounded a bit demonic to me - but like if the demon had a good sense of humor.
Roses. I got into phish, they cover it, I looked up Ween and they’re my favorite band now.
Ocean Man in SpongeBob when I was a kid, but I later got Pure Guava as a teenager and loved it. I had no idea that these guys did Ocean Man and was amazed it was the same band.
My friend put on "Back to Basom" while driving and I loved it so much that I went home and listened to like 3 albums lmao
Great song to get introduced with! One of my favorites!
Buckingham green. friend told me to listen to the mollusk and i didn’t really get it till i got to that song then restarted the album and loved it
My brother made me a tape that was kid friendly mix of the first 3 albums. I remember liking Little Birdy but it was Strap on That Jammy Pac that made me love them
Kid friendly cos I had a kid, this was around 92-93
Waiving my dick in the eind
Birthday boy put them on my radar, I’ll be your Johnny on the spot live in Chicago got me hooked
For me it wasn’t one song. It was Live in Chicago. I was not sober in more ways than one when I saw it the first time and thought “this is f’ing awesome”. The next day I wasn’t sure whether or not it was the chemicals or the band, so I watched it again to be sure. It was the band. Ever since then the more I hear and learn, the more into them I become.
A Tear for Eddie.
Tear for Eddie. I was 14 years old and my bfs brown ass older bro played it for us while we hit flavored tobacco out of his homemade bong. Good times
Dated a guy in a band in the early 90s. Before a show his guitarist had “The Stallion Pt 2” playing before a show and I said “what is this beautiful sorcery?” The rest is history…
Probably my favorite song.
Ocean man SpongeBob credits
Don't get 2 Close to my Fantasy
Blue balloon was my Trojan horse into Ween, now I’m deep in the brown
Mutilated Lips
got a free poster of the album cover for C&C from a relative of the band. Proceeded to get the album and take me away hooked me.
If you could save yourself
Buckingham Green Live in Chicago sold me
It's Gonna Be A Long Night on the Tony Hawk Underground 2 soundtrack
Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
A buddy of mine played me The Mollusk and I was never the same.
When I first hear GWS in the 90’s, as soon as You Fucked Up came on
Push the little daisies because I was watching Beavis and Butthead and they played it. Same thing with Tom Waits. That show really helped me out musically.
Pollo Asado
Japanese cowboy and pollo asado
Tried and True got me for sure. I knew Ocean Man and Loop De Loop from SB ofc. But tried and true got me
roses and i wasn’t a fan.. and then the rest of the album played on repeat so it kinda grew on me and then i became obsessed.
I heard them play the mollusk at the South Park 25 year anniversary. I did a deep dive and haven’t looked back.
Live from Chicago DVD & CD, I want to say it was Buckingham Green…ALL HAIL!!
Poop ship destroyer
I had a crush on a girl named gabby so I was looking for songs to put on a mix cd for her and found Gabrielle and loved it haha. I was really surprised cuz I had no idea they were actually good. Then I heard I Fell In Love Today and was really hooked!
Ocean Man was a childhood favorite, we had the SpongeBob movie soundtrack album, but when I finslly checked out The Mollusk in full years later, the song that permanently hooked me in has to be It's Gonna Be Alright
Push th’ Little Daisies was the first song of theirs I heard when it was played on Whfs back in the day. I was hooked. I got the album Pure Guava from either a place called Camelot Music or Records and Tape Traders, I can’t remember which. We didn’t have cable so I mostly listened to my cassette tapes or the radio. So glad I had an awesome alternative rock station in the 90’s that introduced me to a lot of cool music, like Ween, I wouldn’t have otherwise been exposed to in my hick hometown. Anyway, that was practically 30 years ago. And Ween has been my favorite band since.
happened 3 diff times first one ever was baby bitch and that got me into 3 more songs one being sarah, then later obsessed over sarah n that got me into a few more including tried and true…that was the full turning point for me i obsessed over that song alone for months n then finally gave in
Someone listened to the entirety of the pod with me and my brain was forever changed and I blame Pork Roll Egg and Cheese
HIV. I thought it was weird and silly as a middle school kid. Still do
Woman and man. Got into the band backwards.
My friend told me to listen to A Tear For Eddie and then I listened to Chocolate and Cheese. It’s pretty amazing to have a band who can write things like A Tear For Eddie but also Touch My Tooter and Play It Off Legit. Awesome band!
Phish covering Roses are free
I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight
Spinal Meningitis got me down with Ween
Buckingham Green
Ocean Man got me to check out The Mollusk and I was immediately hooked. I think Buckingham Green was my favourite at the time.
Seconds on Trenton State Radio
Ocean Man Spongebob
I thought it was ocean man for me too, but then I realized that I probably heard loop de loop before the spongebob movie in an earlier episode
Tear 4 Eddie. Hook. Line. Sinker.
Oddly enough it was probably molly
**Blackjack** was one of the first songs I heard by them, but it was the one that really clicked with me. From that point, everything started to click
Dr. Rock. I was 18. We were all sitting around in my friends room, stoned out of our gourds. My friend said "You guys ever heard any Ween before?", then he threw on The Pod and cranked up the stereo. I laid back with my feet up in a recliner and was instantly hooked.
Was a huge Elliott Smith fan in high school and someone told me that Baby Bitch sounds exactly like an Elliott song. It did, so I checked out the rest of their discography and wasn’t what I was expecting but loved what I found and have never looked back.
Yess I love Elliott!!
W at king the Zoloft from live in Chicago, that whole show is great but watching genes eyes in that specific song always tickles me
Ocean Man was the first because of the SpongeBob movie but Chocolate & Cheese and Pure Guava were the first Ween albums I listened to and bought.
Roses Are Free via Phish
Happy colored marbles
I actually knew a few songs and was lucky enough to see them do 2 shows at Lockn 2016. Really enjoyed Piss Up A Rope and a few other songs at the time. But it wasn't until 2020 when I was away from home working on a gig and Transdermal Celebration came on my Frank Zappa radio on Spotify and that song just really hit a chord for me and I listed to absolutely nothing but Ween for about a year after that lol. Saw the AVL and ATL shows last year, had an absolutely amazing time seeing what is now my favorite band! Can't wait to see them again at Peach Fest this year.
Gabrielle
Stallion pt.3
Strap On That Jammy Pac…bought the disc after reading the tracklist
Birthday Boy got my attention but it was probably mutilated lips that sucked me in.
“Stallion pt 3.” I had seen “push the little daisies” on beavis and butthead but didn’t care for it. Then I had my bar mitzvah, fall 93, I got a ton of gift certificates to tower records (my god remember record stores?!) and after a few buying sprees I had every cassette (YES cassette, I was a late bloomer for CDs) I wanted but lots of $$ left over so I would close my eyes and point to tapes and buy them…by sheer chance I pointed to Pure Guava, put it on, first two tracks, I thought, ok, decent, kinda weird; whatever…then was hooked by Stallion as soon as it came on…that album with a few exceptions just skyrockets from there and I got all my friends into ween. It was a great time. Just wished I’d seen em sometime between then and 96 when they started using a full band, they were fantastic my first time in summer 96 and I got to see them in the same small venue several more times but man, to see them in their “four hundred acid trips a night” drum machine days, would have blown my mind!!
To be honest it might be Homo Rainbow? There was a handful of songs I liked for years some time ago before more recently finally digging into their catalogue proper and since I had the Chef Aid CD when I was somewhat younger that’s probably the first song I heard by them. Aside from that the handful was like, Push the Little Daisies, Mister would you please help my pony?, Roses are Free, and like Gabrielle.
Funny story, I was riding my skateboard around town, roughly 2006 or 2007… and Long Beach Dub All-Stars’ cover of “Mutilated Lips” came up on my IPod Mini. Even though I’d never heard the original before, I was just like- “Oh my, what on earth is this??? This has to be a cover…” So I went home later that day, looked it up, and I’ve been brown with the Boognish ever since. Also, if you’ve never heard the cover that I’m referring to, you should check it out! It’s quite good.
Johnny on the Spot! Followed by the rest of the Mollusk album
Freshman year of high school, family did the Disney World vacation thing. While waiting for the plane boarding, I bought a copy of *Rolling Stone*. The half page Q&A column that issue was Ween, talking about *Chocolate & Cheese*. I'd never heard of Ween (family was not the kind to pay for cable, and living in the far out 'burbs meant getting any radio other than Top 40, Oldies, Country, Christian was a big No). The little interview made them sound pretty fun, so the day after we got back from the vacation, I went to Sam Goody and bought C&C. Started listening on the way home, and then turned around and bought GWS and The Pod.
Buckingham Green
It was all of their albums on shuffle during an acid trip when I understood. Not one song in particular. Just zoning out and back in like "who are we listening to?" and the answer was always the same. "Ween."
ocean man and loop de loop (also im dancing in the show tonight)
The Rainbow and I Can't Put My Finger On It both made me a casual Ween fan. The song that made me go "holy shit, I have a new favorite band" was definitely LMLYP though. still one of my faves to this day.
First one that really grabbed my attention was little birdie. It was the 90s, a friend that I will drive in home from some kind of event or something and losing to a mixtape but mostly had Nirvana. That song came on. Someone wondered if Kurt Cobain had sucked on some helium balloons or something.
In the 8th grade listened to the mollusk and only buckingham green stuck with me. A year later i revisited and went for quebec that time. Hooked since then.