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This here is Boognish.

Feel free to bow, cower, or even run. You can't hide from the Boognish.

Boognish is the demon-god, who has, it has been reported, thrice appeared to the prophets of The Cult of Boognish. Boognish, legend has it, originated from somewhere outside the orbital buffer. It sounds so technical, that it is almost certainly true. One of the prophets to whom he has appeared, Dean Ween, is the subject of this mighty tribute page.

Dean Ween, born with the no-less-mighty name Michael 'Mickey' Melchiondo, Jr., is the super-famous guitarist in the legendary band Ween. When he met the other soon-to-be prophet of The Cult of Boognish, Aaron Freeman a.k.a. Gene Ween, they formed and adopted the illustrious and never-before-seen surname 'Ween'.

Dean also shreds in another group, called 'The Moistboyz'. The name makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it, so I can only imagine its origins. I'll leave that discovery as an exercise for the reader.

Early Discography

Below is what will have to pass for Ween's early discography. These are the albums which turned up after a cursory search (thanks Wikipedia), and any new additions can be mailed in to someone else.

Mrs. Slack

This is the first listed release. I can't find any other information about it.

The Crucial Squeegie Lip

One of the early cassette releases!

Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death

This album had some new, as well as some old songs. Very little is known about it.

The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD

Split Live & Studio EP. Only 500 ever pressed, but digital copies are available online.

Prime 5

Early best-of album, comprising songs from their first 5 cassettes.

Synthetic Socks

Gene Ween's own release, with Dean on a few tracks.

Early 90's Low-Fi Madness

Ween signs with A&R, and the world gets its first taste of all that is Boognish.

GodWeenSatan: The Oneness

Originally released on Twin/Tone in 1990, this is the first album from Ween and a gloriously ramshackle exploration of basement-rock excess.

The Pod

The name of this second studio album comes from the nickname given to the band's apartment.

Pure Guava

Major label debut, baby! Also considered by some to be one of their best albums.

Chocolate and Cheese

There was a book written about this album, by Frank Shteamer. It also has one of the greatest album covers ever.

Moistboyz EP

First Moistboyz release. Mickey is known as Mickey Moist.

12 Golden Country Greats

Factoid: Most of the instruments played for this album were by established country and western artists.

Moistboyz II

The first Moistboyz full-length, it was released with the previous EP on Grand Royal. They were later released together on Sanctuary, and again on Chocodog.

The Mollusk

Described by Aaron Freeman as 'their dark, acid rock album', and is Dean's favourite Ween album. They later discovered that the album was a great inspiration in the creation of SpongeBob SquarePants.

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Craters of the Sac

Dean gave this album away online, as the band was considering different media paradigms.

Paintin' the Town Brown

Elektra released this live compilation of Ween's 1990-1998 material.

White Pepper

Despite the album's tight polish, it would be Ween's last on Elektra.

Chocodog!

Formed in 2001, Ween began releasing on their own label, Chocodog Records.

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Live in Toronto

Denied the right to release Paintin' the Town Brown on Chocodog, this album became their label debut.

Moistboyz III

The first Moistboyz album to feature real drums, III was released on Ipecac Records.

Live at Stubb's

This 3 CD release was recorded during two dates at Stubb's, Austin Texas. The songs span all previous studio albums, and 3 previously unreleased tracks.

Sanctuary

Ween signs to Sanctuary Records in 2003.

Quebec

One of their darker albums, Quebec was the first studio album in 3 years.

All Request Live

This Chocodog release is the only place to hear all 5 parts of The Stallion, and its track-list was based on fan requests.

Live in Chicago

Ween's fifth live album included a DVD of the performance at The Vic Theatre in Chicago.

Shinola, Vol. 1

Deaner says that Shinola comes from songs that they regretted not putting on other albums.

The Friends EP

Recorded in 2006, The Friends EP would shortly precede the full length La Cucaracha.

La Cucaracha

Despite a few strong tracks, Gene is said to think that this album is a big piece of shit.

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At the Cat's Cradle - 1992

This 2 CD Chocodog release contains a live performance from 1992, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Having spent a lot of time in Beach Haven NJ as a youth, Mickey set his sights to the sea, and became a fishing boat captain, producing a 12 episode web series called 'Brownie Troop Fishing Show'. He also gives tours, bookable through his website, http://www.mickeysfishing.com/

Then Deaner did something, and Gener got pissed. He released Ween stuff without consulting the band.

The Caesar Demos

These songs were recorded between 2001 and 2003, and contains material that made it on to Quebec, as well as some previously unreleased stuff. This release is the one that Gener was so mad about.

Moistboyz IV

A Sanctuary Records release, IV also features Ween's Claude Coleman, Jr.

Moistboyz V

Dean and the crew finally release their fifth album, and on their own label, Neverman Records.

GodWeenSatan: Live

This 2 CD album has the band playing their first album in its entirety, from a performance in 2001.

The Dean Ween Group

A self-proclaimed rotating cast of characters, fronted by Dean Ween himself.

The Deaner Album

This is the first release of The Dean Ween Group, for which a 2017 tour is planned.

To call the eclectic pop-rock band Ween unknown is a little bit unfair. They released twelve studio albums over almost three decades in the industry. They have a devoted cult following, and sold out arenas until they disbanded in 2012, even though that was almost a decade after their peak in popularity. On the other hand, most people haven’t heard of them. They are stuck in the middle of being known and obscurity. The band was founded in 1984 as a garage band in the suburbia of Pennsylvania. For the first decade of their act they were just two guitarists and a backing track. Even from the beginning however, Dean and Gene Ween (their stage names) were experimenting with different styles of music. By the time their heyday came in the 90s they were constantly mixing and exploring music genres. They were just as willing to explore guitar driven funk music as they were standard pop. Consequently some of their albums run through four of five genres. Ween also became known for doing tributes to musicians who had died. Their songs So Long Jerry, and A Tear For Eddie are examples of this. The first is written for Jerry Garcia and is trying to emulate the Grateful Dead, and the second is for Eddie Hazel the guitarist of Parliament Funkadelic. Their eclectic nature made it hard for them to get mainstream radio play, and none of their singles ever charted higher than 116 on the charts. After their prolific 1990s which saw them release almost an album a year, they changed their focus to touring. They released a slew of live albums in the first decade of the 2000s and toured almost constantly. In 2012 the broke up after Gene Ween left the band, citing a need to remain sober. They are remembered, by those that know, as one of the best bands of the 1990s and one of the bands with the most varied discography of all time. Though they were never chart toppers, they were always one of the most interesting and creative bands going during their run.

Ween’s career was very long, and in the beginning it wasn’t unusual for their albums to have twenty or more songs on it. In every album they also explored different genres in a way that is unique to them. There are many Ween songs that are so different from each other you wouldn’t even suspect they were the same band if you didn’t know better. Taking this into account I will only be discussing the bands first four albums that were released on a major label. Besides having an extremely large discography most of the best, and most famous songs by the band were in this four album run. The other parts of their discography are worth listening to though, and I recommend that you look into it even if I won’t discuss it here. The bands first major studio release was Pure Guava which was put out on Elektra Records in 1992. It features the band’s first single Push Th’ Little Daisies, which is a standard early 90s pop song. It still introduced Gene and Dean Ween’s vocal style to a much wider audience. It didn’t chart well though, even though it is a fine song if not anything special. Also on the album is Reggaejunkiejew which is the Ween’s attempt at electronic music. It’s interesting to listen to, though it resembles little that the band would do afterward. In all the first album probably isn’t the best introduction to the band, and may have contributed to their magnum opus Chocolate and Cheese receiving little acclaim in 1994. That album is a masterwork, and there isn’t a bad song on it. It opens on the raucous Take Me Away which is a great piece of pop-rock fun that exemplifies what the band is all about. Following that is the darkly humorous Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) which introduces listeners to the band’s dark humor. The album then moves onto the best known Ween song, and maybe the best song in their discography. The Freedom of ’76 is another fluffy pop song that received the bands only real radio play. Its easy listening at its best, and is a great way to round off the start of the album.

A Tear For Eddie is also on this record, and the band shows off their instrumental skills while emulating Maggotbrain by Funkadelic. Mister Won’t You Please Help My Pony, and The HIV Song also contribute the the albums dark sense of humor. While Roses Are Free, Drifter In The Dark, and What Deaner Was Talking About fill up the pop quotient, and I Can’t Put My Finger On It, and Voodoo Lady are good rock songs. Also included are a Mexican themed ballad Buenos Tardes Amigo, and the experimental Candi. In all the album is a very good representation of the band, and is almost certainly their best work. After this Ween moved onto doing themed albums. In 12 Golden Country Greats they made a tongue in cheek country album. This album heavily satirized the genre, but still made the songs stand up to Ween standards. In fact Piss Up A Rope was actually their best selling single of their entire run as a band. Also great are I Don’t Want To Leave You On The Farm, and Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain. While Mister Richard Smoker makes fun of the homophobia that both directed at the band, and that was prevalent in the country music genre. In all even people that aren’t fans of country music will find something to enjoy in this album. The next themed album was The Mollusk were every song is related to the ocean somehow. This while not being as successful as their previous album still contains many good songs. The title song is a good intro into the album, and it is a nautical themed pop song.

There are also several sea shanties on the album like The Blarney Stone, and Pink Eye (On My Leg) as well as more pop music like Buckingham Green, and Ocean Man. The later of which was actually featured in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. In all the album is very listenable.

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Ween deserves more recognition for what they created during their time as a band. Their eclectic discography has something in it for almost everyone, because their music spans so many genres. They are definitely deserving of more recognition, and it’s a shame they were not more popular during their time as a band.