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It's easy to be over-whelmed by Gene and Dean Ween's music. Recorded in basements and home-studios, their albums sound like composite sketches of an immense, diverse record library (Prince, Zeppelin, America, Funkadelic, you name it), splashing together lyrical canvases that draw on both a post-modern slack brilliance of the everyday and their own perverse private world. They have the eccentric's gift for incorporating the ludicrous into their musical mythology, but seem equally at home playing it straight (which they don't do often). Like a heavy breakfast, Ween take the better part of the day to digest--but once inside the tummy, they sure taste yummy.
CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE is a lighter snack than any of Ween's previous releases primarily because of an outward focus (quite loose, actually) on the various musics of the seventies. "Freedom Of '76" celebrates Philadelphia's blue-eyed soul sound, "Voodoo Lady" lifts its melody from the Talking Heads and its catch-phrase from A Taste Of Honey, and "Take Me Away" could be a Vegas-era Elvis outtake if it didn't rock so much. But--Gene and Dean being progress-minded folks--CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE never disintegrates into nostalgia, or gets bogged down by any single theme. Thus, you get singular classics like "I Can't Put My Finger On It," with its faux-Arabic textures, and the haunting "Buenos Tardes Amigo," a Spaghetti Western narrative that can proudly rub shoulders with Marty Robbins' "El Paso" and any other canonized outlaw tale.
All songs written or co-written by Ween.
Personnel: Gene Ween (vocals); Dean Ween (guitar).
Audio Mixer: Andrew Weiss.
Recording information: Graphic Sound Studios, Ringoes, NJ.
Photographers: John Kuezala; John Kuczala; Danny Clinch.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Claude Coleman; Scott Lowe; Mean Ween; Patricia Frey Stephan.
Ween: Dean Ween, Gene Ween (various instruments).
Additional personnel: Andrew Weiss, Claude Coleman, Mean Ween, Patricia Frey, Stephan, Scott Lowe.
Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.176) - "...Zappa is their ultimate papa, and while they can't match his virtuoso chops, Ween's loopy smarts and the dizzying variety of their parodic targets make CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE the rare joke album that repays repeated listens..."
Spin (10/94, p.111) - Highly Recommended - "...catchy as chlamydia. Ween seems to have potty-trained its predilection for lengthy funk deconstructions....Room is left then for a host of new carnival rides..."
Entertainment Weekly (10/14/94, p.60) - "...You know when you meet someone so impossibly weird it almost gives you a headache--yet you think about the things that person said for weeks? Ween's music is like that. These die-hard oddballs are fascinatingly eclectic..." - Rating: B Chocolate And Cheese Music Ween Chocolate And Cheese Songs Chocolate And Cheese Music Chocolate And Cheese Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  1994
"Roses Are Free" is one of the best songs ever recorded.
Submitted by Tiernan (Baltimore, MD, USA)
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Ween is one of the weirdest bands I've ever heard, but their songs are so catchy and well written they keep me coming back. This is an all-time great.
Submitted by Mustin (Anderson, IN)
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Start here with your exploration into Ween - if you don't like it, shave your head and join the army - shades of eddie hazel, zappa non-conformity and serge gainsbourge fun. "Baby Bitch" should have been the national anthem for all guys who have been dumped.
I say "start here" not because it is an early album, but because it bridges their more polished work with their older rougher music.
Submitted by Last Tango (Wilmington, DE)
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Chocolate & Cheese was my introduction to Ween and serves as a great starting point for the casual listener. Not for the squeamish (like all of their albums) but completely essential for anyone interested in one-of-a-kind music (like all their albums). Many people start with Chocolate & Cheese because it seems to have the most "Oh, I've Hear of That One" songs like Mister Would You Please Help My Pony, Roses Are Free, Voodoo Lady or Spinal Meningitas (Got Me Down). Completely essential.
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