This is Ween. On the left is Gene Ween, on the right is his brother Dean. They are not actually brothers. What they are, however, is insane. Musical geniuses, but fucked up beyond all reason. I could easily track each album by freakiest song because holy shit are they insane. But they have 11 albums and I'm not going to go through all of them. INSTEAD, I'm gonna talk about the first two Ween songs that really scared the shit out of me.
Maybe their most popular album, Chocolate and Cheese contains a song called Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down), this was both the song that made me fear Ween and the song that got me really interested in Ween (because something is wrong with me).
Chimes and what sound like muted guitars score a story of a child worried about his spinal condition and asking his mother "is it gonna hurt again?" The song has overlapping vocals with Gene singing in a quiet deep tone and a louder, child-like voice says the same words, albeit in more a more horrified tone.
The other one, off of Quebec, is entitled Happy Colored Marbles and what the ffffffuck. Starts off slow, then turns happy, back to slow, and happy. That's disconcerting enough, but then the track turns into a complete horrorfest as the rest of the song is an instrumental festival from hell. Whirring and penetrating your mind.
This video is a slightly shortened version so consider your asses lucky.
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