Pitchfork: Ween To Release All-Request Live Show on CD

Ween To Release All-Request Live Show on CD
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[Posted Friday, December 5th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

If it seems like Ween has gotten a generous amount of coverage here at Pitchfork, maybe it's for a good reason. Gener and Deaner know how to please their fans; in fact, they're fucking machines. They tour like dogs, they run an online radio station playing all their rarest tunes, and they occasionally release exclusive material through their own label, Chocodog. The last one, Live at Stubb's, was a joyously stuffed three-discer which included all the live Ween you could stand plus a forty minute live video of the Prince medley "LMLYP."

Now Billboard has announced that the next Chocodog release will be Live By Request, an Internet show the band played in live streaming audio on Weenradio.com last July, based on extensive polling for requests. This led to a lot of interesting performances, like The Pod's "Pollo Asado," which consists of the ordering Mexican food over loopy guitar, and "Where'd the Cheese Go?" the duo's infamous rejected jingle for Pizza Hut. Also, all five installations of "The Stallion," which were spread out over several albums, are played in a row, together, for the first time. The CD also features webcam footage from "The Stallion, Part 3." The tracklist:

01 Happy Colored Marbles
02 The Stallion, Part 1
03 The Stallion, Part 2
04 The Stallion, Part 3
05 The Stallion, Part 4
06 The Stallion, Part 5
07 Demon Sweat
08 Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire
09 Awesome Sound
10 Cold Blows The Wind
11 Pollo Asado
12 Reggaejunkiejew
13 Tried and True
14 Mononucleosis
15 Stay Forever
16 Where'd The Cheese Go?

The disc can be ordered now only from Chocodog via the Ween website.

Also, with WinAmp 2.9 you can now access "Ween TV," a streaming video loop of ever-changing material. At this point, you can find most of the band's music videos, plus several of the strangest TV appearances by a music act you'll ever see, including a Late Night With Conan O'Brien performance where Gene is dressed like a Middle Eastern guru, a Cleopatra look-a-like hula dances around to "I Can't Put My Finger On It," and a huge video screen projects a lot of extreme closeups of what appears to be rotting lettuce, or maybe the insides of a silkworm. Or something. You'll also get a lot of trippy flashbacks to mid-period MTV gems like a clip from Oddville. Manager Pat Frey posted on Ween's message board that new stuff will be added all the time. All you have to do is open WinAmp 2.9, press Alt+L, find Ween TV in the list, and play it (and unlike Radiohead TV, this one actually works).

Frey also mentions that this is not part of the "WeenAmp" project, which is still under development. WeenAmp was at one point going to be included on their latest release, Quebec. It's going to eventually function as a program that will allow users to download endless live and rare Ween material, watch full concerts, and chat with other users. How totally all-encompassing.