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Ween — Transdermal Celebration
Album: Quebec
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Released: 2003
Length: 3:18
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Transdermal celebration
Caused a slight mutation
In the rift
It toppled down a nation
And left the people running for the hills
But the mutants that I see
Shine their beauty unto me
I wish you could see them

Tectonic tribulation
Formed a crust of green beyond the reef
Waves fell in formation
Cause the plants to bend with spi-ked leaves
I'm growing with the land
Time has taken my hands and let me touch them

Hey, hey,
A billion miles to Mark A
Lay on the lawn, he's already home
When the morning ray hits his face

Transdermal celebration
Jets flew in formation
I could see them
Dropping the crustaceans
Leaving trails of flames in their wake
But where is the mutation
Who once told me it was safe, I can't find him
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Dean Ween aka Michael Melchiondo Jr. is a principal at Berklee College of Music, coincidentally my alma mater.  He is the real deal, a musical mad genius.  This tune is one of their best and one of my favorites to play.  The guitar work is exceptional, building on fundamentals of the Devil's Chord aka Devil's Tritone.  Tectonic tribulation indeed.  Lovely descending bass line sucking you into the mire ain't to shabby neither.  3:26 of magical musical epiphany.  If this tune don't lift you out of a funk call 911.

Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo) on the Guitarists That Shaped Him – Berklee Online Take Note
Posted 2 years ago by DW4554    [ Reply ]
Anyone who hasn't seen the video should check it out.  It was fan-made animation that was so good it got adopted by the band for its official video.
 
 
I'm also kind of astounded this song doesn't have its own Wikipedia page, and the album is barely a stub.  Yet Miley Cyrus's albums read like a Leo Tolstoy novel.  Truly no respect for Ween on there.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
this could be an XTC tune
Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
Too bad that recording studio was built right next to an active airport. 
Posted 2 years ago by Hippostar    [ Reply ]
Top 10 shout out at band practice.  Great guitar riff.
Posted 2 years ago by DW4554    [ Reply ]
 eyeball wrote:

Felt inspired to look this up on YouTube while listening to it here... And wow, am I ever happy I did!
Otherwise I would never have seen this awesome video that some fan made for it...
Ween loved it so much - they made it the official video for the song!

 https://youtu.be/PtuVA4NOm0I



Just replying to bump this up - great video!
Posted 2 years ago by adib    [ Reply ]
This song causes me to feel inter-skull vibration, and I love it, and so I crank this bad boy way on up, every single time. And Ween really are a truly versatile band. Someone in an earlier post called them chameleons, and I agree. Another poster even said that they sounded like a lost Thin Lizzy track in one song. That has me intrigued...now I gotta hear that song! Thanks, RP and Ween! Keep that jam going!
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Album cover posits what Beavis and Butthead would have looked like in the 70s
Posted 2 years ago by snowcone    [ Reply ]
 macadavy wrote:

So is the Transdermal Celebration any good?  ;)


Sadly, not on the menu.  Even more sadly, no Pork Roll, Egg, & Cheese either.
Posted 2 years ago by zinzarin    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:

Bet you didn't know that the food served in the pub at Short's Brewing in Bellaire, Mich., is inspired by and named after various tunes by Ween.



Complete with Boognish on the cover of the menu!

Short's Brewing Company Pub Menu
Posted 2 years ago by zinzarin    [ Reply ]
Beautiful.
Posted 3 years ago by murrayn    [ Reply ]
 dtrak wrote:
What is the relation between Ween and Québec?!
 

Good question.  Would guess that Ween once played at the Festival d'été du Québec.

That is the International music festival hosted in Quebec City.   The cover shot looks just like an outdoor café on Grand Allée.  

Are the Weens standard issue heterosexual males?  Quebec City might have made an impression. 
Posted 3 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
6->7...a little too harsh
Posted 3 years ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
I've never heard someone so exuberant about a nicotine patch... ;p
Posted 3 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Everytime you play this song I have to watch it a couple times live on youtube.  Great song, great band!
Posted 3 years ago by terryweir    [ Reply ]
Such a catchy and bizarre song. I love it.
Posted 3 years ago by Mackmoney3000    [ Reply ]
All Ween is good
Posted 3 years ago by MattRudely    [ Reply ]
mercury rev sound here and there
Posted 3 years ago by capooti    [ Reply ]
The name's Ween. Dean Ween. Meet my brother, Gene Ween.
Posted 3 years ago by alexandersmcmillan    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:
Bet you didn't know that the food served in the pub at Short's Brewing in Bellaire, Mich., is inspired by and named after various tunes by Ween.
 
So is the Transdermal Celebration any good?  ;)
Posted 4 years ago by macadavy    [ Reply ]
Where is the mutation indeed? I think perhaps it's everywhere.
Posted 4 years ago by jahgirl8    [ Reply ]
Hey, hey,
A billion miles to Mark A
Lay on the lawn, he's already home
When the morning ray hits his face
Posted 4 years ago by pope183    [ Reply ]
 dingusbother wrote:
Play more WEEN plz.
 

Hear! Hear!  [Thumps PC workstation bench.]
Posted 4 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
hearing young Ozzie
Posted 4 years ago by obankenobi    [ Reply ]
Dean and Gene Ween? Really?
Posted 4 years ago by MrMelons    [ Reply ]
Great song - check out the video in the link posted earlier, it's quite something.
Posted 4 years ago by adib    [ Reply ]
some Mercury Rev here and there
Posted 4 years ago by capooti    [ Reply ]
This song makes me so tingly happy, every time I hear it. {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 5 years ago by eyeball    [ Reply ]
blah blah blah... crap.
Posted 5 years ago by maboleth    [ Reply ]
Very brown track \m/
Posted 6 years ago by JimboLD    [ Reply ]
Bet you didn't know that the food served in the pub at Short's Brewing in Bellaire, Mich., is inspired by and named after various tunes by Ween.
Posted 6 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
11
Posted 6 years ago by nszasz    [ Reply ]

Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman, better known by 
their respective stage names, Dean Ween and Gene Ween ~


Posted 6 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
Do we think Dave Grohl was listening to Ween in the noughties or the other way round??
Posted 6 years ago by monbro    [ Reply ]
Play more WEEN plz.
Posted 6 years ago by dingusbother    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Thunderclap Newman and XTC - love it.
 
Posted 6 years ago by Gamage    [ Reply ]
This is a great song—original, well developed and catchy
Posted 6 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
 tiler wrote:
Nice but would rather hear XTC
 
I hear XTC and some Supergrass. Good tune.
Posted 7 years ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
Liking this.
Posted 8 years ago by dkwalika    [ Reply ]
Ween is the only band I was listening to in my teens that I'm still listening to now I'm in my fourth decade.  Just so good and so varied - on the one hand they produce pastiche that easily surpasses the style it emulates and then there is other material that is so original it's still out there on it's own. 
Posted 8 years ago by Jakethemuss    [ Reply ]
Felt inspired to look this up on YouTube while listening to it here... And wow, am I ever happy I did!
Otherwise I would never have seen this awesome video that some fan made for it...
Ween loved it so much - they made it the official video for the song!

 https://youtu.be/PtuVA4NOm0I
Posted 8 years ago by eyeball    [ Reply ]
This has one of those guitar hooks in it that just sticks, like a snail on the inside of my skull that tickles.
Posted 8 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
Ween.  The very definition of "eclectic" when the term is applied to musical art.   It's like each of their albums is a giant shotgun of potentially popular music — fire enough different pellets and hope that you hit something.  They're not boring, that's for sure!  This one I like.
Posted 8 years ago by crogers    [ Reply ]
Adverbs have addresses?

BTW, liking this more than I expected.
Posted 8 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
what a load of molluscs!  Ill be listening to ween after im pushing up daisys.   8
Posted 8 years ago by stunix    [ Reply ]
Yep, I went right to an 8. Attention getting and groovy!
Posted 8 years ago by PA1749    [ Reply ]
It sounded like an unknown Foo Fighters song. An 8 for me.
Posted 8 years ago by Kaw    [ Reply ]
 Zeito wrote:

I don't think they are trying to be weird, they are just a genuinely odd duo.  

 
Odd. Weird. Peculiar. These descriptors are all in the same category in the thesaurus.  Love the song though. Those damn crustaceans! 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 subgyro wrote:
Huh... I had that as a 7.

Today I got excited when it started, so now it's an 8.

 
Same experience with me.  7 to 8 with this listen.  Good song. 
Posted 8 years ago by AbileneTexas    [ Reply ]
 subgyro wrote:
Huh... I had that as a 7.

Today I got excited when it started, so now it's an 8.

 
Same here.  Great start to my day.
Posted 8 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Huh... I had that as a 7.

Today I got excited when it started, so now it's an 8.
Posted 8 years ago by subgyro    [ Reply ]
I hear some STP.  And like it.
Posted 8 years ago by wtango    [ Reply ]
Good track.  Interests me to hear more from them......
Posted 9 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
What is the relation between Ween and Québec?!
Posted 9 years ago by dtrak    [ Reply ]
 more Ween please... {#Cheers}
Posted 9 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
"Not quite all the 'ween"

LOL, nice one Bill! Way to end the Halloween set. 
Posted 9 years ago by g-rod    [ Reply ]
 tiler wrote:
Nice but would rather hear XTC
 
Kinda non-sequiter but I agree. And this is my favorite Ween song.
Posted 9 years ago by treehugger    [ Reply ]
this is Weenderful!
Posted 9 years ago by Rockit999    [ Reply ]
Nice but would rather hear XTC
Posted 9 years ago by tiler    [ Reply ]
 izycrzy wrote:
Ween - Usually I don't like bands who are so intentionally weird. But Ween rules!

 
I don't think they are trying to be weird, they are just a genuinely odd duo.  
Posted 9 years ago by Zeito    [ Reply ]
Ween - Usually I don't like bands who are so intentionally weird. But Ween rules!
Posted 9 years ago by izycrzy    [ Reply ]
 jpfueler wrote:
very Big Wreck sounding to me.

 
Yep, walked in part way through this song, and immediately thought of BIg Wreck...
Posted 9 years ago by Hogtownmike    [ Reply ]
very Big Wreck sounding to me.
Posted 10 years ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
 drsteevo wrote:
No More Ween   {#Eek}  {#Frown}

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/aaron-freeman-closes-the-book-on-ween-20120529

 
NO!  More Ween!
Posted 10 years ago by mjaded    [ Reply ]
Last time I checked, neither the studio or (better) live version of this was available on iTunes. Which bites, as this is one fab song.
I'm trying to find a job and this just takes me completely (but happily) out of my grueling focus.  
Posted 10 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
This Transdermal Celebration brings about a Transaural Celebration.
Posted 11 years ago by bc    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:

I was thinking Bob Mould/Sugar, but yeah, that works too!

 
Or Big Sugar (Gordie Johnson), or Tea Party....
 
Posted 11 years ago by pousso    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana}Just getting in to the dancing banana, and then my phone rang and stepped on Ween. Boooo!


Posted 11 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Nice Track,  Sounds Mid 90ish
Posted 11 years ago by Baketown    [ Reply ]
 Rockit wrote:
I like Ween...I guess that makes me a Weenie!
 
Or a Weener?  {#Eh}
Posted 11 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
I like Ween...I guess that makes me a Weenie!
Posted 11 years ago by Rockit    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:
Smokin'! A live track is even better. Unfortunately, at least last time I checked, neither was available on iTunes. Which sucks! 
 
I agree, iTunes sucks.
Posted 11 years ago by drsteevo    [ Reply ]
Smokin'! A live track is even better. Unfortunately, at least last time I checked, neither was available on iTunes. Which sucks! 
Posted 11 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
No More Ween   {#Eek}  {#Frown}

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/aaron-freeman-closes-the-book-on-ween-20120529
Posted 11 years ago by drsteevo    [ Reply ]
This is one of my top tracks from this album.  There really are only a couple songs on the entire disk that I don't enjoy.  Those are either too weird for me, or just plain creepy.
Posted 12 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]
 flatpicker wrote:
Wow... never heard this Ween track before.
I like it!

 
Same here!
Posted 12 years ago by ferwoman    [ Reply ]
Ween    FTW 
Posted 12 years ago by mrdak    [ Reply ]
Very interesting band...not one I'd heard before, but even a quick sampling of some of their work shows me that they are worthy of further listens. Thanks again Bill.
Posted 12 years ago by jt1    [ Reply ]
What rhymes with Celebration?  Crustacean.  Put that in there.
Posted 12 years ago by terrapin52    [ Reply ]
 rickhoran wrote:


this video is pretty cool too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU91POX33aE
 
Very nice Ween interpretation. I like the Mould, XTC ears out there, too

Posted 12 years ago by mcYammer    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:

If I'm a Ween fan, does that make me a Weener?

 

no. it makes you brown!
Posted 12 years ago by rickhoran    [ Reply ]
dirty jerz represent!  {#Cowboy}
Posted 12 years ago by wrangler    [ Reply ]
 rickhoran wrote:
when i hear ween on RP, it just makes me turn off RP and play ween on random on my PC. RP needs more ween.
 

Iiiiindeed!
Posted 13 years ago by StoneyG    [ Reply ]
 nszasz wrote:
Wow - what a great track. Keep on playing it. Love the sound of the jets flying over...
 

this video is pretty cool too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU91POX33aE
Posted 13 years ago by rickhoran    [ Reply ]
 spunkyboy62 wrote:
Wow...thought I was listening to a new XTC song.
 
I was thinking Bob Mould/Sugar, but yeah, that works too!

Posted 13 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Wow... never heard this Ween track before.
I like it!

Posted 13 years ago by flatpicker    [ Reply ]
 spunkyboy62 wrote:
Wow...thought I was listening to a new XTC song.
 

NIce interpretation!
Posted 13 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Wow - what a great track. Keep on playing it. Love the sound of the jets flying over...
Posted 13 years ago by nszasz    [ Reply ]
Yea! RP has Transdermal Celebration in its playlist!
Gene and Dean rock so many genres and styles they are inscrutable.
This is one of my favorites of their "Ween is a 70's psychedelic band" style.
Posted 14 years ago by doctorfree    [ Reply ]
{#Cheesygrin}
Posted 14 years ago by robco1    [ Reply ]
Yea, this is one of their purty mode songs!{#Clap}

Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
It seems every time I hear a Ween song, it makes me say this is WEEN?!  No two songs seems to be remotely alike for these guys.....I like it!

Posted 14 years ago by asocash    [ Reply ]
Wow...thought I was listening to a new XTC song.
Posted 14 years ago by spunkyboy62    [ Reply ]
 Thistle wrote:


That would sound smart... if it didn't sound so damn stupid. Ween has been around three times longer than Foo. This band will be around long after Foo is in the dust.
 

That's not what I meant. Ween's been tweaking a multitude of musical styles for years—I was just commenting on the genre they chose here. But if you gotta insult someone, I've got a thick skin—bring it.
Posted 14 years ago by copymonkey    [ Reply ]
 copymonkey wrote:
Ween does Foo Fighters almost as well as the Foos themselves!
 

That would sound smart... if it didn't sound so damn stupid. Ween has been around three times longer than Foo. This band will be around long after Foo is in the dust.
Posted 14 years ago by Thistle    [ Reply ]
 crockydile wrote:

Okay, the lyrics suck, but the song is fun. Do I contradict myself? {#Ask} (See Whitman: Song of Myself)

 
Very well, then, I contradict myself.  I contain multitudes.

(one of my favorite quotes)

Posted 14 years ago by nate917    [ Reply ]
 crockydile wrote:
Transdermal Celebration? What a bunch of crap.
 
Okay, the lyrics suck, but the song is fun. Do I contradict myself? {#Ask} (See Whitman: Song of Myself)

Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
Transdermal Celebration? What a bunch of crap.
Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
 copymonkey wrote:
Ween does Foo Fighters almost as well as the Foos themselves!
 
I was just thinking that. I always wondered what would happen when Ween tried out full instrumentation...
Posted 14 years ago by isayhoomhom    [ Reply ]
Sorry, lately I'm a bit too much comparing but isn't this one Interstate Transdermal Song? {#Rolleyes}
Posted 14 years ago by Felix_The_Cat    [ Reply ]
These guys are such chameleons. I heard a Ween song the other day that could've easily passed for a lost Thin Lizzy track. They're really good in concert too now that they've eased up on the contraband.
Posted 15 years ago by copymonkey    [ Reply ]
Wow...this is some pretty nice-sounding stuff.  I'll give Ween another chance fo shizzle.
{#Music}
Posted 15 years ago by Tim_in_N_FL    [ Reply ]
Ween does Foo Fighters almost as well as the Foos themselves!
Posted 15 years ago by copymonkey    [ Reply ]


hell yes
Posted 15 years ago by pope183    [ Reply ]
 sutcliff wrote:




Everyone needs a little Ween in their life.
 
If I'm a Ween fan, does that make me a Weener?

Posted 15 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
when i hear ween on RP, it just makes me turn off RP and play ween on random on my PC. RP needs more ween.
Posted 15 years ago by rickhoran    [ Reply ]
 undo_silence wrote:
That riff could be the beginning of a foo fighters song ... Love it, great video.
 
Yes, very Foo.

Posted 15 years ago by stevesaw    [ Reply ]
Dig it. {#Cool}
Posted 15 years ago by coffee-eyes    [ Reply ]
Sheer brilliance, even soundwise, especially the guitar solo exorbits any musehead out there. These guys had it all but they didn't want any of it. They would have inherited the earth if they had wanted to.
Posted 15 years ago by BobcatThunder    [ Reply ]
Ween forever!!! Most brilliant band I ever heard - lyrics- and everything!!!!!

Posted 15 years ago by moonajohannes    [ Reply ]

Posted 15 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
tight sci-fi, rock 'n roll? Either way, I like it
Posted 15 years ago by pacificbeth    [ Reply ]
westslope wrote:
Some of their stuff is brilliant. The rest....
Yeah. If you swing for the bleachers every pitch, you're going to hit some foul balls. This may be one.
Posted 15 years ago by RadioDoc    [ Reply ]
Some of their stuff is brilliant. The rest....
Posted 15 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
Giggly stoopid fun to play - sweet bassline, intricate counterpoint - brilliant!
Posted 15 years ago by E_A_D_G    [ Reply ]
These guys are so weird. Some of their stuff is so listenable (like this). . .other stuff is totally not. It's like they're completely capable of being awesome -- when they want to be.
Posted 15 years ago by lathyris    [ Reply ]
Happygirl wrote:
Or the province?
And I thought I excelled in geography. Humbled once again this hour.
Posted 16 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
DoctorHooey wrote:
Does humor belong in music?
Everyone needs a little Ween in their life.
Posted 16 years ago by sutcliff    [ Reply ]
morgsy67 wrote:
I just don't understand the silly stuff that they record- is it some kind of statement about something to do with the music industry?
It could be that they just have a sense of humor and like employing it in their songs. I never have a problem with musicians showing their sense of humor, but it seems a lot of people do. Does humor belong in music?
Posted 16 years ago by DoctorHooey    [ Reply ]
Always great live. Go see them if you can.
Posted 16 years ago by AphidA    [ Reply ]