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Chocolate and Cheese

Ween · 1994

• Scores: Noise 2, Unease 2, Complexity 3 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock
• Mood: playful, lewd, eclectic
• Sound: genre-hopping, soul and funk detours, heavy metal parody, falsetto vocals, lo-fi touches, absurd lyrics

Ween recorded this in 1994, their first album made in a professional studio, with Andrew Weiss producing and playing bass. Claude Coleman Jr. joined on drums, so live drums replaced much of the drum machine, and the sound is more hi-fi than the lo-fi four-track records before it. It jumps between psychedelia, country, funk, industrial, soul and Latin music. Freedom of '76 uses multi-tracked backing vocals, and Gene Ween credited a Sesame Street Spanish lesson for Buenas Tardes Amigo.

Track list

1. Take Me Away (3:01)
2. Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) (2:53)
3. Freedom of '76 (2:51)
4. I Can't Put My Finger on It (2:48)
5. A Tear for Eddie (4:50)
6. Roses Are Free (4:35)
7. Baby Bitch (3:05)
8. Mister Would You Please Help My Pony? (2:56)
9. Drifter in the Dark (2:32)
10. Voodoo Lady (3:49)
11. Joppa Road (3:03)
12. Candi (4:03)
13. Buenas Tardes Amigo (7:07)
14. The H.I.V Song (2:10)
15. What Deaner Was Talking About (1:59)
16. Don't Shit Where You Eat (3:20)