Chocolate and Cheese

by Ween

Chocolate and Cheese cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 27, 1994
  • Label: Elektra
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:47
  • Community rating: 4.1/5 from 14 ratings

Artists on this release: Claude Coleman Jr., Gene Ween, Mean Ween, Patricia Frey, Scott Lowe, Andrew Weiss, Dean Ween, Stephan Said

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As Ween's first album recorded in a professional studio, 'Chocolate and Cheese' marked a significant leap in production fidelity from their lo-fi origins, presenting their eclectic songwriting with newfound clarity. The record is a sprawling pastiche of genres, veering between the Philly-soul of "Freedom of '76," the funk-metal of "I Can't Put My Finger On It," psychedelic explorations, and country ballads. This polished yet unrestrained approach solidified the band's signature style, blending diverse musical homages with their distinctively surreal and often humorous lyrical perspective.

Genres

Descriptors: genre-blending, satirical, parody, lo-fi, witty

Tracklist

  1. Take Me Away (03:00)
  2. Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) (02:52)
  3. Freedom of '76 (02:50)
  4. I Can't Put My Finger on It (02:47)
  5. A Tear for Eddie (04:49)
  6. Roses Are Free (04:34)
  7. Baby Bitch (03:04)
  8. Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony? (02:55)
  9. Drifter in the Dark (02:31)
  10. Voodoo Lady (03:48)
  11. Joppa Road (03:02)
  12. Candi (04:02)
  13. Buenas Tardes Amigo (07:06)
  14. The HIV Song (02:09)
  15. What Deaner Was Talkin' About (01:59)
  16. Don't Shit Where You Eat (03:19)

Credits

  • Gene Ween - lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, drum machine, keyboards, harmonica on “drifter in the dark”
  • Dean Ween - electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar, drums, drum machine, keyboards
  • Claude Coleman Jr. - drums, percussion, drum machine, backing vocals, bongos
  • Andrew Weiss - producer, mixed by, recorded by, performer, bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, sound effects on “voodoo lady”
  • Mean Ween - bass guitar and lead vocals on “candi”
  • Patricia Frey - drums on “baby bitch”
  • Stephan Said - classical guitar on “buenas tardes amigos”
  • Scott Lowe - programming and backing vocals on “what deaner was talking about”
  • Greg Frey - recorded by
  • Howie Weinberg - mastered by
  • Reiner Design Consultants, Inc. - design
  • John Kuczala - photography by [covergirl]
  • Danny Clinch - photography by [band]
  • Kirk Miller - engineer [live sound]
  • Paul Monahan - crew [tour management]
  • Dan Brewer - other [assistance]
  • Jeff Rusnak - other [assistance]
  • Joe Dejessa - other [assistance]

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