i realize I shouldn't double post on this site... but are you serious man? I can't believe so many ween fans get it so wrong. I wonder why everybody is listening if that's the case... I'm absolutely certain that song, and that record in general, is about the fragility, and artificiality, of happiness. They'd tell you it to your face. Its not about ecstasy. Its about artificial happiness, of which ecstasy could be an example. Why do you think the madness of the second half is there?
Too right, mang! I'm sick of Ween "fans" just assuming all of (or most of) Ween's weirder songs are about drug-use. Even their songs that are blatantly about drugs or bagging gays, have deeper or ulterior meanings to them. And you're so on the money about the theme of this album. It's definitely about the fragility of happiness. Gener was going through dark times here, he did most of the song writing on it, and if you can get your hands on the Caesar Demos (unreleased stuff from the Quebec days), you can really hear the unfiltered emotion in his...
Too right, mang! I'm sick of Ween "fans" just assuming all of (or most of) Ween's weirder songs are about drug-use. Even their songs that are blatantly about drugs or bagging gays, have deeper or ulterior meanings to them. And you're so on the money about the theme of this album. It's definitely about the fragility of happiness. Gener was going through dark times here, he did most of the song writing on it, and if you can get your hands on the Caesar Demos (unreleased stuff from the Quebec days), you can really hear the unfiltered emotion in his voice, particularly the demo of If You Could Save Yourself. And Deaner has said that he doesn't listen to this album, because of how dark it is, more so thematically than musically. Each Ween album gives a snapshot of what the guys were going through at the time, as opposed to just being a collection of novelty songs about drugs.
i realize I shouldn't double post on this site... but are you serious man? I can't believe so many ween fans get it so wrong. I wonder why everybody is listening if that's the case... I'm absolutely certain that song, and that record in general, is about the fragility, and artificiality, of happiness. They'd tell you it to your face. Its not about ecstasy. Its about artificial happiness, of which ecstasy could be an example. Why do you think the madness of the second half is there?
Too right, mang! I'm sick of Ween "fans" just assuming all of (or most of) Ween's weirder songs are about drug-use. Even their songs that are blatantly about drugs or bagging gays, have deeper or ulterior meanings to them. And you're so on the money about the theme of this album. It's definitely about the fragility of happiness. Gener was going through dark times here, he did most of the song writing on it, and if you can get your hands on the Caesar Demos (unreleased stuff from the Quebec days), you can really hear the unfiltered emotion in his...
Too right, mang! I'm sick of Ween "fans" just assuming all of (or most of) Ween's weirder songs are about drug-use. Even their songs that are blatantly about drugs or bagging gays, have deeper or ulterior meanings to them. And you're so on the money about the theme of this album. It's definitely about the fragility of happiness. Gener was going through dark times here, he did most of the song writing on it, and if you can get your hands on the Caesar Demos (unreleased stuff from the Quebec days), you can really hear the unfiltered emotion in his voice, particularly the demo of If You Could Save Yourself. And Deaner has said that he doesn't listen to this album, because of how dark it is, more so thematically than musically. Each Ween album gives a snapshot of what the guys were going through at the time, as opposed to just being a collection of novelty songs about drugs.