July 19th 2023
Alright, as you may have noticed. I've changed the formatting of the titles of all my blog posts. I don't know, I just prefer this personally.
I've been doing this for 200 days now, even though I started it on LiveJournal, moved to DeviantArt (ew) and eventually settled on BlogSpot, I've been doing this for 200 days now. I started on January 1st 2023 and while I have missed a few days, I've made up for the days I've missed every time so I have a blog post for every day this year, no gaps whatsoever!
I've also been doing the song of the day thing everyday, the thing about that is even if I missed a day of the blog, I've chosen a song for every day this year without fail thus far! Music is really my thing, y'know?
Speaking of music, today is the 3 year anniversary of my introduction to a band that would have a major impact on me.
That band is of course none other than the Pennsylvania-based alternative rock aka psychedelic rock aka r&b aka country aka sea shanty aka heavy metal aka shoegaze aka nu metal aka conscious hip hop aka breakcore aka french house aka pirate metal aka classical aka drum and bass aka mongolian throat singing aka k-pop band, Ween!
I was first introduced to Ween through their album Chocolate & Cheese which has.... a few of those genres I listed as well as some I didn't. Guess you gotta listen to it for yourself to find out which ones!
Well, of course I heard Ocean Man through memes, but that doesn't count!
Of course, I liked it. But right away I wasn't obsessed with them as I would be later down the line.
That came when I listened to their 2003 album Quebec in August 2020 and that was when I heard it.
The song that made me fall in love with Ween.
The sixth track on the album, Tried and True.
So you see, that's where the trouble began.
That song. That damned song.
Of course, I had heard other Ween songs I fell in love with before this.
"Take Me Away" "Spinal Meningitis" "Freedom of 76" "Roses Are Free" "What Deaner Was Talking About" "Mutilated Lips" "Cold Blows The Wind" "Buckingham Green" "Ocean Man" "She Wanted to Leave"
and I had even heard some I fell in love with before this. The first 5 tracks were also pretty great too and still among some of my favorite Ween songs. However, it was this fifth track that got me hooked. While I didn't listen to anything beyond Chocolate & Cheese, The Mollusk, and Quebec for a while, I was obsessed with Quebec. It was the perfect album to me. I had never heard anything as fantastic as this.
in September I listened to Pure Guava and White Pepper, I went through a brief Pure Guava phase, "Little Birdy" "The Stallion Pt. 3" "Big Jilm" "The Goin Gets Tough From the Getgo" "Don't Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy" However, I wasn't as into it as I was Quebec. The rest of the album didn't exist to me. Just those 5 songs. I know it might surprise some of you who knew me in 2021 that I didn't like "Push th' Little Daisies" during my first listen, but I didn't. As you know, it certainly grew on me.
In November 2020 I listened to GodWeenSatan, well half of it. I stopped halfway through and didn't try to listen to the whole album again until January 2021.
Oh yeah, let's talk about January 2021.
This is when I wasn't just obsessed with one Ween album in particular at a time. No, I was obsessed with their whole discography. I listened to the other albums I hadn't up to this point and I would listen to Ween pretty much constantly, and instead of it being one album it was a selection of my favorite songs from all of them! Including but not limited to!!!!
Tick
I'm In The Mood to Move
Don't Laugh I Love You
Up on the Hill
Wayne's Pet Youngin
Nicole
El Camino
Nan
Mushroom Festival in Hell
Lmlyp
Birthday Boy
Marble Tulip Juicy Tree
Dr. Rock
Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World
Captain Fantasy
Demon Sweat
Molly
Awesome Sound
Mononucleosis
Oh My Dear
Sketches of Winkle
She Fucks Me
Little Birdy
The Stallion Part 3
Big Jilm
Push th Little Daisies
The Goin Gets Tough From The Getgo
Sarah
Springtheme
Flies on My Dick
Don't Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy
Poop Ship Destroyer
Take Me Away
Spinal Meningitis
Freedom of 76
Roses Are Free
Voodoo Lady
Joppa Road
Buenas Tardes Amigo
What Deaner Was Talkin About
Don't Shit Where You Eat
Japanese Cowboy
Piss Up a Rope
I Don't Wanna Leave You on the Farm
You Were the Fool
Polka Dot Tail
Mutilated Lips
The Golden Eel
Cold Blows the Wind
Buckingham Green
She Wanted to Leave
Exactly Where I'm At
Even if You Don't
Bananas and Blow
Ice Castles
Back to Basom
Stay Forever
Falling Out
It's Gonna Be a Long Night
Zoloft
Transdermal Celebration
Among His Tribe
So Many People in the Neighborhood
Tried and True
Happy Colored Marbles
I Don't Want It
The Argus
If You Could Save Yourself
I Fell in Love Today
Gabrielle
Monique the Freak
Object
With My Own Bare Hands
Lullaby
Woman and Man
That's... a lot! If you can't tell. I was really big into Ween. Still am, not as much as I once was. However, revisiting their catalog for this post has brought back my hyperfixation.
Push th Little Daisies was a song I was hugely obsessed with in early 2021. I would annoy everyone I knew with it.
Lemme do that Sporcle quiz where you name all the Ween studio album songs real quick. Show ya my skillzzzz (even tho it should be easy, I just named at least half of their discography for this post)
Yeah, some of the song titles are altered in the quiz, but the original song titles give you the answers of course. You just can't say fuck on Sporcle.
HAIL BOOGNISH!
Song of the Day: Ween - Freedom of '76
96 days since the last time I selected a Ween song for song of the day.
20 days until ya girl goes back to school!
