The SpongeBob creator, Stephen Hillenburg, contacted Ween after the Mollusk was released and had them write 'Loop de Loop.' Of ‘Loop de Loop’, Dean Ween wrote: “I got a call a long time ago from a marine biologist that said he wanted to start a cartoon inspired by Ween’s album The Mollusk. His name was Steve Hillenburg and his idea was to create a Bugs Bunny type cartoon on the bottom of the ocean floor."

Shout out to all my Weeners this is our time

The Blarney Stone was sung by Dean Ween, while most of the rest of Ween's songs are sung by Gene Ween

Chocolate and Cheese next!

Love this album. It’s like a drunken talent-show in a pirate ship bar.

ween really weened all over the place with this album

My favorite ween album. Here's some good recs: Devo - Are We Not Men? Stooges - Funhouse Iggy Pop - The Idiot Can - Ege Bamyasi Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One John Cale - Fear

Ween is the best band of all time. Check out Live in Chicago from '03!

i’ve listened to this album countless times and it did not even occur to me that old jimmy wilson was a metaphor for something deeper

Loving your videos! A fun fact - The Mollusk is actually referenced in an early Spongebob episode (spongebob tells gary to mind his wandering eye, little mollusk).

LCD Soundsystem! I really think you would love them. Sound of Silver or This is Happening are both great places to start! Era-defining dance punk!

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Tom Waits, my dude! Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank's Wild Years and Bone Machine are a few essentials from a very expansive discography. It may be a little difficult to digest at first but he's truly one of the greats, in my opinion. 🙂

Just found you from your Quebec review! Since you liked It's Gonna Be (Alright), I bet you'll really like White Pepper. If you wanna get into the early stuff I'd start with Pure Guava. Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) is one of their best songs ever imo

LETS GOOOOOOOOO WEENERS

I’d love to see you check out the Violent Femmes first album from ‘83. It’s self titled “ the Violent Femmes. Cheers

I really think it's time for you to get into Beck. His album Odelay is a great place to start.

7k already bro, i feel like a proud parent watching you grow up this fast.

I love how ween can make you take an album like the mollusk seriously when you got tracks like "waving my dick in the wind". Also on the last song my theory is that the dude is "one of them" because he joined their crew - unable to let go of his girlfriend he'd rather join them and watch from the sideline as another dude who's better than him in every way gets with her.

Another w but when Tim hecker 😩

Hell yeah! I've been waiting for this.

You're doing all my favorite albums as of late. The Mollusk is legendary. So many artists recognize and are influenced by the insane bravery and eclecticism Ween is known for and this album made it clear for all to see. Keep it up man I love you. Mutilated Lips is an all-time top tier Ween. So fucking brown. You should check out the fan-compiled album of Quebec outtakes called Caesar! It's half tracks that didn't make it (Things You Already Know and I'm Wide Open are awesome) and half demos of tracks that did (Chocolate Town's demo has some beautiful vocal harmonies that didn't make it on the studio album. They're all hella solid songs (well, most of them lol). Also just like check out their various b-sides scattered across the early internet that have been uploaded to YT. Kim Smoltz, Beacon Light, Who Dat?, The Argus Pt. 2, the list goes on. Don't sleep on Shinola Vol. 1. It's _technically_ a compilarion album, but it's all old songs that didn't make it on older albums, but they re-recorded them and made a "b-sides and rarities" album that kicks ass. Yeah on early Ween albums, don't bother dissecting lyrics. They were high as fuck on all kinds of shit. Fool's errand unless you also love huffing scotchgard and can tap into the same schizo-realm they made their first 3 albums on. Usually you can tell if the lyrics are gonna be meaningful or nonsense though lol If you're taking recs, I've got few if that's cool. I notice you do a lot of indie/alt stuff so this might be kinda out of that wheelhouse but I figured I'd throw em in. Dance Gavin Dance is a pretty cool band if you don't mind unclean vocals (kinda screamo/growl, but their vocalist is pretty unique in the scene). Their genre is Post-Hardcore, but their guitarist's skills and writing is so prolific and unique that fans classify them (and bands that work with them/play in the same scene) as Swancore. The guitarist's last name is Swan lol. Crazy technical guitar, insane clean vocals, badass unclean vocals (two vocalists), and kickass groove. They love switching things up mid-song and injecting groove into some metal/heavy shit and vice versa. Instant Gratification/Downtown Battle Mountain 2 are great starting points. Each features a different clean vocalist; they've gone through 3, but it's been the same drummer and lead guitar the whole time. You should also check out some Oingo Boingo! Sort of Ween-adjacent in that they can get silly but a lot of it is genuinely infectious tunes. Nothing To Fear is my fav album but Dead Man's Party is their most accessible. If you like brass, you'll like them. Check out Vulfpeck (though you seem like the kinda guy who already has). Awesome soul/jazz/funk with extremely talented musicians. The _bass_. The Beautiful Game and Hill Climber are my favorites. For something completely different. Check out SEYCHELLES by Masayoshi Takanaka. One of the grandfathers of Japanese City-Pop. This album is so dang chill with beachy, latin vibes accompanying masterful guitar, tasteful in-the-pocket drums, and excellent bass. Lastly, check out XTC. Oranges and Lemons or Drums and Wires. Wonderful, eclectic pop music often heralded as the most intelligent, masterful pop ever written. Think Beatles if they started in the 70s. They're everywhere. Awesome bassist. Holy shit, sorry for the blog post. You have great taste and your format's great. Hope to see more from you. Subbed!

Little easter egg btw, the melody on cold blows the wind that plays at 16:43, they ended up reusing for the verse melody of The Argus from quebec. It took me way too long to notice

There is a direct reference to this album in spongebob, there is a line where spongebob says to garry “mind your wondering eye, you little mollusk”

Hell yeah couldn’t wait for this video! Definitely go w chocolate and cheese next

When I first subscribed you had 4000 subscribers. Now a month or two later you have over 7000. I like following smaller channels in the hopes of maybe seeing them go from nothing to Mr beast in several years. I don't know about Mr beast but I bet that you'll have 10000 subscribers by Christmas. If you want to go even further into the weirdness that is ween, I would definitely recommend chocolate and cheese. If you want an album that's a little more tame, white pepper is pretty good as well. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you and I wish the best for your channel. Oh ps look at the lyrics to Ocean man and look at the lyrics to echoes by Pink Floyd

Dang dude you just keep blowing up more and more. As Ali G would say RESPECT. Yeah this is a very silly album for silly people by a mostly silly band. If you keep diving into their music expect more silliness. I can't listen to Ween all the time but they are fun when I am in the mood. Recommendations! Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams

You really need to watch Ween Live in Chicago. They are one of the best live bands ever. They rock out even the most simplest goofiest songs live.

Only just recently discoverd your channel and think you're a huge breath of fresh air when it comes to music reaction channels, so props there. I cannot believe that you reacted to SAW2 by Aphex Twin, such an amazing ambient album btw. I wanted to suggest Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. You might not be into Jazz much but it is such a chaotic, beautiful and unique album. Think you would really appreciate it for what it is at the very least. One of my favourites of all time and think some of your viewers would also enjoy to see you react to a beloved jazz album.

Love the videos! A few recommendations: Process - Sampha (experimental r&b, great production) Nurture - Porter Robinson (light summer electric with fun production) Koi No Yokan or White Pony - Deftones (very heavy, sexier and heavier radiohead imo) Hypochondriac - Brakence (very experimental emo rap, glitch pop)

Chocolate and Cheese then White Pepper. I love seeing your reactions to ween!

cool video. i love ween, went through a big ween phase and have seen them play twice. they put on a great show. like you noticed, the guitarist is really so amazingly talented! they are truly a great band.

So glad to see you do this one

Lesssss goooooo! Plz do LCD Soundsystems this is happening or Clash's London falling! 🔥

Ween are always serious, they're just not afraid to get weird & that's what makes them the greatest band!

Found your channel last week and I’ve watched every vid since then. Keep up the great work! Recommendation: the stranger by Billy Joel The album doesn’t have a single miss.

all my weenies where you at Recs: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On

First time I heard golden eel I was tripping on mushrooms with my buddy who was tripping just as hard and driving us to the store for orange juice. Volume at 11 and his audio system had been malfunctioning so instead of the volume automatically increasing as the motor revved up, when he would hit the gas all the speakers randomly got quieter and louder individually, turning an already strange experience, with an already crazy amount of hallucinogens and crazy song into my personal auditory nightmare. Man it was a blast. He must reveal the words of the golden eel!

Very cool album! Except for Ocean Man of course I wasn't too familiar with Ween before but I love it! The Spongebob and Pink Floyd lore connection is so cool too. My suggestion to help you get to 10K by Christmas (though no help needed!) I suggest listening to Air - Moon Safari (downtempo/space pop/chill-out), Alice in Chains - Dirt (grunge/alternative metal), Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions (Trip hop/downtempo). No pressure though, all in good time. Hope you're enjoying the fall season, get well soon. I'm having a great time on this channel and the suggestions in the comments! Much love

Thoughts on doing another The Smiths reaction? Like maybe Meat is Murder? Or maybe something new like The Beatles?

you should def relisten to this album before the next 40 ranking video because the songs get better off each listen, and btw you should listen to White Pepper or Choclate and Cheese

Judging by your favorites from this album, I’d recommend you Grimes - Halfaxa!

I've been in love with this band for 30 years and I'm gonna miss them when I die. Please check out Chocolate & Cheese at some point. And you really gotta see them live to get the full flavor.

Been waiting for this

Recommending again I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes because I would love to see your analysis on those songs

That ending though, no man has not come back to Ween after hearing them, you leave perhaps a year goes by and you stumble upon a Ween clip on youtube and you're lost in the sauce once again.

the most consistent man to ever live

It’d be sick if you reacted to Arular by M.I.A., Crystal Castles (II) by Crystal Castles, or Untrue by Burial 🤝

White Pepper would be the next logical Ween album step of you like more meanings out of songs. The rest of the discography lies a bit more towards the playfully side when it comes to songwriting! Although that's not to say the other albums do not have tracks you can decipher

Porto Pro Xs, excellent budget choice. I rocked KSC35/75s for a long while which have the same drivers but I do think they has become outclassed by IEMs in that price range at this point by a decent margin. The Tangzu Wan'er or QKZ X HBB are cheap and great.

I might have to revisit This Album

I’m dancing in the show tonight sounds like SpongeBob and Patrick singing. The mollusk song was referenced in season one in the dream episode when SpongeBob goes into Gary’s dream. The Blarney Stone reminds me of Mr krabs lol. That’s what I always thought about this album.

Good luck with The Pod!

i see a lot of recs for chocolate and cheese and for white pepper in these comments and sure those are both great but you need to get deeper into earlier, browner material. I recommend the Pure Guava album next.

LETS GOOOOO

You need to hear more Ween mang. The Pod, Chocolate and Cheese or 12 Golden Country Greats would be some great choices. Live in Chicago if you're feeling saucy

What an adorable reaction 😊

I'M SO FUCKING READY TO WATCH THIS ONE

Nice video! So many react channels feel fake, but as a huge Ween fan, I dug that you felt confident criticizing the tracks you didn't like as much, as many of the react channels seem to love everything they hear, which feels fake as hell.

Hi I have some recommendations: This is happening by LCD soundsystem London calling by the Clash RTJ 2 by run the jewels Also I hope you feel better soon

Definitely check out The Pod by them. Just to see your sheer confusion would be amazing!

Need another ween reaction man. Chocolate and Cheese is a classic you gotta try

"How do they do that to the voice?" It's a mix of formant and pitch shifting. Pitch shifting is self explanatory. Formant shifting is like a tone control for your voice which lets you sound bright and squeaky or dark and deep.

Can you review the album insecticide by Nirvana plz

Oh yeah, I think this has probably been recommended already, but Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter-bet you’d love it.

I knew you’d have something great for me today:))))))))))))

Ween's cover of Gabrielle by Thin Lizzy is a BANGER💥🎸

Ween wrote the somg for the spongebob episode “your shoes untied” the name “ween” appears in the opening credits of that episode

more ween!!

I think ocean man speaks to the importance of having the context of the rest of an album around a song, because on its own it's just this kinda sweet laid back beachy melody, but in the album its sort of symbolizing the end, rising up out of the darker oceany songs onto the coast before the final sendoff. idk

Ween also did “loop de loop”. Song from spongebob where he ties his shoes

I’m a new viewer and enjoyed your aphex twin and boc reactions and would like to suggest deadmau5 where’s the drop album

just found my favorite band

Since you seemed to like the instrumentals and stuff like it's gonna be alright best, I really really think you'll love white pepper. it's still ween at their best, except it's way more "normal" rock lmao.

Would love to see your reaction to Bone Machine by Tom Waits

I love the mullosk!!! I also love come in by weatherday!! You should listen to it 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I recommend "The Pod" by Ween. One of my favorites, and it's a huge drug trip of an album. Also, "The Golden Eel" goes HARD!

You NEED to review shinola, white pepper, or chocolate and cheese

i feel like it's wrong to start listening to Ween with Quebec because then you dont know how to approach any of their other material. I feel like Chocolate & Cheese is a better place to start because it has it's share of really good songs and weirdo songs

You have to do Chocolate and Cheese next!

The voice in dancing in the show tonight legit sounds like Patrick and Spongebob singing together i dont know why nobody mentions it

Do he be the most consistent of all time?

Your geunie disgust at 18:36 is magnifique

Bro I’m sick rn too, we’ll get through this together 🙏

You should go off the deep end and listen to "The Pod" by Ween it is their second of their 3 "brown" albums. Brown being a term used by ween fans to describe a purposefuly crap sound, and The Pod is definitely the most experimental of these 3 albums.

Please check out SOPHIE’s Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides. Really weird, fun electronic/pop album.

Gotta do yo la tengo next seriously!!

Buckingham green live made me cream my jeans. They came out to it with green smoke covering the stage

I would request a thousand different albums, but until that Ys listen, I'm staying laserline. Ys best album. Smags best reactor. Match made in heaven tbhh. ❤

u gotta review 12 golden country greats next by ween

You should definitely cover Chocolate and Cheese next

Wild heart by current joys is one of my favorites. you should check it out

WEEEEEEENN!!!!!!!!! I LOVE WEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!

3 words, DEATH GRIPS WHEN?!

a slaying today

Ween Live from Chicago

20:12 I never made that connection. It's really obvious in hindsight

pure guava next!!!

FINALLY!!!!!!!

Golden Eel and Buckingham Green off this album are absolutely bangers