★★★★★
"La cucaracha, la cucaracha...que no puede caminar". Well, it's not really the case. The cucaracha, or cockroach, is a fascinating beast. Condemned as pests, these omnivorous outcasts leave chemical traces everywhere they go and are Public Enemy No. 1 for anyone who happens to live above a Chinese restaurant. As those who have tried to get rid of them will know, they are born survivors and are virtually unstoppable. Hang on...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Trying to neatly summarize Ween is like trying to look at a magic eye picture while wearing sunglasses. You can't just listen to a few songs, or even an album, and think that you have a clear idea of the band. Almost every song they have ever written belongs to a different genre, yet they have mastered them all so they can't be dismissed as a half-assed novelty act...
- www.punknews.org
2012-02-06
★★★★★
Self-released There are a lot of reasons to love Ween, nearly all spelled out over the two discs of demos for 2003's Quebec --recently uploaded to Facebook by guitarist Mickey Melchiando. Going on five years since the last Ween album, Caesar's 14 previously (and still technically) unreleased songs are more than welcome--a pretty great Ween album on their own...
- www.relix.com
2011-11-17
★★★★★
Sure is hard to put a rating on these boys. I mean, what would you give them points for anyway? A crazily broad and competent palette? Or making an especially in-depth visit to the "browner side" of things? If idiosyncrasy is the only name of the game, high marks they don't get. While this indeed is their least straight record since Chocolate & Cheese, the tunes themselves don't warrant this value call (they don't reek of quirkiness), it's just the way in which the songs are slapped together...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The CD half of this package, recorded over two nights last November, provides a collection of favourites and the requisite new material (from their last album, Quebec) that one would expect from a live record. The DVD is the real gem here (and, let's face it, if you're even considering buying this, you already have all of Ween's albums, so the CD is kind of a waste of money). At 26 songs and at close to two hours (plus four bonus videos), it's as comprehensive as you can get...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The new Ween record is an old record, filled with - unsurprisingly - that uniquely perfect set of loony tunes, ultra-classic rock pieces, trash-can mayhem and full-on pop attack. Haphazard? Yeah, and the fact that this is a collection of rarities doesn't deter from the naturally unnatural flow here. Anything goes.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Originally released on Twin/Tone in 1990, God Ween Satan was the first album from the eclectic and eccentric duo of Dean and Gene Ween. Twenty-six songs covering nearly as many genres: metal, rock, soul, folk, pop, experimental, and more are covered all with the brilliant mix of humor and pop prowess that only Ween have been able to achieve.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-09-23
★★★★★
1996's 12 Golden Country Greats is the Pennsylvania duo's 5th full-length but the first to stick to just one style which was, surprisingly enough, country music. That said, the title of the album is only half-correct as there's actually only 10 songs here, why? You'll have to ask Dean and Gene that one...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Originally released in 2000, White Pepper, is one of the Pennsylvania duo's finest recordings. Gene and Dean Ween are outsider pop geniuses in the greatest sense of the term, brilliant musicians with a firm grasp on just about every popular genre in the last 50 years (brit-pop, prog, country, soul, new wave, and beyond) and a quirk streak a mile wide." 180 gram white vinyl with a full color inner sleeve.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
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