Ween is the most underrated band of all time. Every Album that they have made are all true masterpieces.

This song is actually about Gener’s girlfriend before Sarah, Barrett Christy. If that name doesn’t sound familiar, she’s one of the most accomplished professional female snowboarders of all time. Way to go Gener, Barrett was a babe!

Finding a 12 minute video about my favorite song is the best thing that could've happened today

You're absolutely right. Ween doesn't get enough credit that they deserved and I extremely agree with you. Any person who listens to "Ocean Man" and just "Ocean Man" is (I guess) missing out their repertoire.

Birthday Boy got me through a big breakup. It hits me deep

Another key part of the raw emotion is not just in the lyrics, but in the delivery. The way Gener has this sort of pain and whininess to his voice... you can FEEL it. And the way the notes descend during the "I'm going down" is such a beautiful example of word painting - when the music reflects the literal meaning of the lyrics.

Birthday Boy is perfection

Wow. Listening to Birthday Boy without that *deep fried* amp noise for the first time was very strange.

When cup man started playing I thought I clicked a different video by accident

GodWeenSatan is my first and favourite album by Ween. They may have made better, or more tight albums after this, but it holds too great of a spot in my memory to be knocked off this ranking. Thank you so dearly for this

Love this song. Birthday Boy, it got me through a breakup which took place right what do you know right before my birthday. Ween was one of the few bands I could listen to without thinking about her because she never liked them. So I was listening to GWS and that song came on and hit me right in the heart.

Tried and true is fire aswell

My now wife flew with me out to Oregon to see em play a few years back. She'd never seen ween before and had never seen me cry before, that changed real quick as soon as Birthday Boy started.

"Conveying the emotion of crying, conveying the emotion of being at your lowest, conveying the emotion of being a disorganized mess because your world is crumbling about, is not easy to write down because you can't write it down in the moment (...) To convey such an emotion through writing, let alone sound, is a pretty tall order in it of itself" You perfectly described why me and many others love Weezer's Pinkerton. It's such an emotionally raw album, where Rivers' personal life was crumbling around him: relationship issues, trouble with his bandmates, depression and loneliness, physical pain (due to the recovery from surgery on his leg, which had him record with needles sticking through it), it all leaves with an album that, at first glance, seems like a typical "Tfw no GF" album, but when you get deeper into it, you feel Rivers' pain and emotion running through every track (specially in my two favorite moments of the album, "Across the Sea", where being at the bottom of the barrel, he recieves a letter from a fangirl, and clings onto its affection for dear life as the only light of his existence; and "Butterfly", where he looks back at the album, and all the people he has hurt due to his selfishness and his misery, and apologizes to them and himself). I know this is a video about Ween, and I thank you for covering what's easily the best song in this insane record, while also tackling why it's the best song, something I could never truly put into words.

ween is such an amazing band, and they don't get nearly enough recognition for how great their discography is and how much versatility they bring to their sound.

a song born from true sorrow... how can you not love it!

12 country greats is a powerful breakup album.

Noel Gallagher did write don’t look back in anger and all the other oasis songs. Liam Gallagher is the main singer. That is one of the few hits that Noel sang, I understand it’s confusing with them being brothers. No hate I love ween! Great video.

this song gives me the same feeling that Self Control by Frank Ocean does. Its guitar driven and very minimalistic. and the lyrics are not triumphant at all. beautiful shit. also love how Baby Bitch references this song. gotta love when artists do that.

Ween - The best band you've never heard of.

Weens song The Argus pulled me out of a Coma I had been in for 17 days.

Ween has so many biblical and esoteric messages and themes hidden in their poetry its magick

Birthday Boy always gave me a very Guided By Voices vibe

Gene’s performance of Birthday Boy on their final show before the band’s breakup is gut wrenching.

I had these emotions when I first heard it too, thanks for putting words to it

Thanks I love your look on this song! It's meant a lot to me, even more because there was a gwar cover of it, and gwar was a band my early 20's heartbreak person liked as well. It's crazy how personal it feels to me, but you're right it's a in-the-moment heartbreak that so many people can relate to, and that's what makes it such a great song. On my way to listen to it now, but I saw your video, thanks for making!

Great vid dude, deserves way more views

Goddamn. When that binding of Isaac track hit I fell in love man, favorite game of all time with my favorite band. Keep up the great work

Great video!!!!

Got to hear it live in Madison last week, I cried a little.

Nice channel man, keep it up

great video

great vid thanks

You've earned my subscription with this one. Ween is criminally underrated and there are almost too many songs that exemplify just exactly why thats the case. I dont know of any other band that has the same kind of range as ween in terms of being genre and topic spanning both lyrically and stylistically. From a song about Argus Panoptes of greek mythology, to a singalong about cocaine and bananas, to the auditory madness of morning glory. not to mention geners crazy vocal range and abilities, from freedom of 76 (the jane pratt show version is fantastic) to the live versions of someday and touch my tooter, to tried and true or object. and Deaner is imo the greatest guitarist alive. you cant watch the live DVD solo from buckingham green and not see that the dude is unbelievably talented.

Damn I saw your Todd Alquist video and now this looking for Birthday Boy. Subscribed :)

Nice breakdown, this song always tears me up

I got emotional whip lash when I first heard Birthday Boy, in a very goofy album, it was weird hearing a very slow and melancholy song

i love ocean man

I listened to birthday boy while coming down on mushrooms and it felt like it took 3 hours for the song to finish.

paaaain!

How the fuck did I find my exact fucking niche u captured it so well

I’ve been listening to this song for at least once every day now and man it gets better each time

Nice.

ok this is facts

This song relates to any broken relationship. But for me, my best friend told me that he didn't want to be my friend anymore. Coincidentally, this was also on my birthday, close to two years ago, now. He broke my heart, man. And it still hurts so goddamn much. I saw Ween last week in WI, (celebrating my birthday) and they just had to fucking play it, didn't they. People were all around me slow dancing n shit, and there I was in the center, just sobbing and crying my eyes out. I broke down again when they played Fluffy at the end. It was so powerful, and it brought up the same emotions. It wasn't until later that I learned it's about Dean's dog who is no longer with him. But that night, it was about my dawg who is no longer with me. I know that I should call him, but I don't know what to say. And I'm afraid of what he will say. It just really, really sucks, y'know?

Jesus you explained it the exact way I do

Pain !

I love ween... I'm not a pothead though.

it wasnt sarah he broke up with he got with sarah during pure guava

always wondered why i could hear echoes at the end

4:56 That's Enough, Milk Pants.

I wrote Birthday Boy for ya babe

I think Elliot Smith may have covered this song.

There is Ween coloring book out there somewhere and one of the pages is Birthday Boy with Gener in a birthday hat with stomach wide open and guts falling out. It’s not as disturbing to look at, as this description sounds.

I agree with your assessment . Also though, if you could save yourself.

It will be my birthday in 3 hrs, my ex and i broke up 3 weeks ago, but she just texted me essentially asking if the breakup is permanent and shes kinda going crazy wanting me back one day, or at least in her grasp. Im so tired of the push and pull

All Hail Boognish

I like the live version more

You really got to work on mixing audio evenly. It’s hard to get into this when I have to keep turning up and down the volume.

judging by your thoughts on birthday boy i have a feeling you'd like daniel johnston's music

Birthday boy was the sadest song of my life. My girl went of to college and i stood around with my thumb in my ass. But what i get from this haunting melody is hope; hope that i too could find a way to be a non-dipshit...

Hail Boognish

Volume switches are very jarring in this vid

Where did you draw the parallel between slow down boy and tears for fears?

The first time I heard Baby Bitch I thought it was Elliott Smith.. Felt like a dipshit when I found out it was Ween.

I don't understand why the first thing everyone mentions is Ocean Man. What's the deal with Ocean Man?

Bizarre audio

WEEN has no sad songs…..