Old Ass Ween News(234 total)

Country bands usually keep poker faces, but the one at Tramps on Friday night couldn't help grinning. They were backing Ween, and between the rudely funny lyrics and the uproarious audience, they loosened up fast...

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If you are unfamiliar with rock's consummate idiot savants from Pennsylvania way, then (1) you'll need to watch more TV, and (2) you're taking life way too seriously. With that said, we are very proud to introduce you to the whacked world of the Ween brothers...

"I Can't Put My Finger On It"... Neither can you on Ween's music, since it does everything!...

In this world where a band can easily become stuck in a musical rut, producing the same uninspired boring garbage again and again, Ween stands out as a beacon offering hope to the eclectic sailor engulfed by the mostly-unimaginative musical sea...

"We are liars. We are horrible liars," says Mickey Melchiondo, the more voluble member of the rock duo Ween. "We can make people believe we're brothers, that we're gay, that we don't play anything onstage - that it's totally lip-synced."...

The WEEN brothers from New Jersey sure are on some weird trip, which they have somehow managed to translate onto C.D.! PURE GUAVA isn't exactly sweet and delicious but certainly makes for some interesting listening...

Since Ween made its first album in 1988, it has risen from a rumor to a cottage industry to a cult. The two men are community-college dropouts and former gas-pump attendants whose low-budget, do-it-yourself songs crammed onto albums and overflowing onto private cassettes unveil the soul of young suburban slackers...

brownbase note: A 2018 re-broadcast of Nardwuar interviewing WEEN in 1993 - the interview starts at 38:12 and runs until 57:12. The surrounding hour plus is mostly unrelated....

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I have seen the future of rock & roll and they are brain dead...