Can't have the kids thinking about gang violence or group-sex now, can we? The censored version of "It's Gonna Be A Long Night" omits "gang-bang" from the refrain.When "Push Th' Little Daisies" was released as a single, they had to make a special radio edit of the song due to the lyric "happy as shit" - the offending word was replaced by an intentionally jarring shout of "NO!!!" ( sampling the intro to "Alphabet Street" by Prince).Bookends: The Mollusk starts and ends with "I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight" (ending with a slow, distorted version).
Blatant Lies: On the live album, At the Cat's Cradle 1992, during some stage banter, Dean lists a few songs including "Reggaejunkiejew" and says "We don't play any of those songs live." Right after this, they played "Reggaejunkiejew.".He clarifies that the joke to the song isn't the rape, but the fact that none of it makes sense the line in question is "He's a hobble with a wobble at the gang rape" and the following line is "It's an earth chock, war plot, peppermint lasso." Dean sums it up with, "If you think theres some kind of statement in there, youre fucking doing more drugs than we were." Dean was asked in an interview whether he had any hesitations about writing the line that involves gang rape in "Cover it With Gas and Set it on Fire" and whether it was a rape joke.
Black Comedy: They have a few darkly humorous songs, such as "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" in which Gene imitates a toddler with the life-threatening disease. Big Rock Ending: "It's Gonna Be a Long Night", "The Grobe". Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Reggaejunkiejew" is a hurricane of seething insults toward whoever the song is about - including telling the person to overdose on heroin and drop dead - but then there's the significantly less harsh but still rude line, "Maybe some people like to eat it, but I think you're a dick!". Four others mention Rip Van Winkle: "Sketches Of Winkle", "Boing", "Strap On That Jammypac", and "Molly". Four songs mention a "pork roll egg and cheese": "Pork Roll Egg And Cheese", "She Fucks Me", "Frank", and "Awesome Sound". The Pod has a couple bizarre lyrical motifs. Arc Words: Guava, Weasel, Brown and Boognish, although the latter is more than just a word. note The album was named after the apartment they recorded it in, and the song is the true story of them coming down with mononucleosis while they were living there. They do it on "Mononucleosis" from The Pod ("When you came into the Pod, you told me that something was wrong."). Album Title Drop: Almost done during "Candi" with the line "Chocolate with cheese." The actual name of the album is "Chocolate and Cheese.". A lot of their songs are affectionate parodies of the particular genre the song is. And Quebec gets its artwork from the board game Thorns, of all places. Similarly, ''Live In Toronto Canada'' ◊ has album art that parodies Frank Sinatra's ''It Might As Well Be Swing'' ◊. Affectionate Parody: The cover art ◊ to The Pod is a parody of the cover of Leonard Cohen's ''The Best of ◊ album. Interesting in retrospect because 1) their improv-heavy live performances, along with Phish covering "Roses Are Free", eventually started to make them somewhat popular with fans of jam bands note which eventually annoyed them to the point that they disowned the jam band scene, and 2) they also have "So Long Jerry", a completely sincere tribute to Jerry Garcia. Acceptable Targets: Hippies in the early song "Hippie Smell". Stuck in my cabana, living on bananas and Tropes: 1999 - Paintin' The Town Brown: Live '90 - '98. You can vote for your favourite Ween album by heading over to the Best Album crowner.
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