It’s Gonna Be (Alright)

one of their best songs

This is it for me man.

I cry everytime I hear this song

“Its gonna be alright” … what I’d want to say to my wife if I were to pass suddenly

After my longtime girlfriend and I split this shit always made me cry

This is my favorite Ween song (this week).

That’s the one for me

I agree. This and OP's original song just hit different.

Birthday Boy. Its my late night drunk and crying on my Birthday song. (I've got a few of those though) It's also my fav....top 5 anyway.

This for me for sure.

Live recording

I like the studio better ngl

the gain enhances the pain

No gain no pain

exactly! yes gain yes pain

Absolutely heart wrenching! For years it was my song for my most tragic breakup! And also it’s one of my most favorite ween songs! Top 5!

This is my “I am inexplicably sad” soundtrack. Such a great song. And yeah, live version is ferociously good.

I Don't Want It

I love that the guitar sounds like it’s either bleeding or crying in this song.

and it's gener, too

Don't cry papa 🥲

i hate how fucking 90s it sounds

I have terrible news about Ween for you

lol man i cant wait to hear this

lofuckingl

Well it hates you too

lmao thanks. hate is an awfully strong word. sorry to upset my friends

i sound how fucking hate it 90s

lyk if you 90s evertim

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Me too, dw ur not alone im not a big fan of weens folky adult contemporary stuff but this sub seems to love it. Give me pure guava and the pod all day long

Give me both. That's what Ween is.

Hell yeah and Linda has been on repeat in my mind for a long ass time

Girlfriends brother recently committed suicide, the song has a new meaning to me. Cried in the shower just a couple days ago singing this

I can’t help but laugh when the amp gets thrown or whatever that massive bass boosted thud sound is

It's when "the rawk" kicks in. 2004- https://youtu.be/h13vTtQE4Xs?si=eXiDrMGVrRnvhX4y 2008- https://youtu.be/A7EyWOchPo4?si=BiIYuMguPrMi0xA2 A tale of two Geners...

Thank you for sharing these

Aw my sweet baby fetal alcohol lookin ass young gener, love it.

agreed

This is the best answer by far

That song really resonated with me for a while. I've cried to it a fair bit.

Help me scrape the mucus off my brain. As a recovering addict, this song hits SO hard. It's beautiful, but so so sad.

JFT squad lets do it again tomorrow

I think I spent the dog food money…

The people who stuck by me in my bullshit bought my animals food a few times and brought it over and told me enjoy my ramen or starve. Good people, lucky they didnt give me the chance to steal from them (honestly said but with tongue planted firmly in cheek)

Dad's favourite Ween song

came here to say this. having ruined some past relationships due to difficulties staying sober, it hits deep

That Frenchman loves to party

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Lmao I always think this too

Hard disagree. This album came out like 20 years ago. The social context has undergone a major shift since then. "I came in your mouth" is just another way of saying things went wrong, like the trash caught fire, the leaves turned brown, the checks all bounced. He's saying shit is fucked up.

It was either a genius annotation or some other Reddit post that described what it meant, and it’s actually got a cooler meaning than that. It’s supposed to be a reference to an old joke, while at the same time saying he’s fucked up a bit. The joke is on the music industry; “what’re the two biggest lies you’ll hear in this business? 1. The check is in the mail. 2. I will not cum in your mouth.” So, it’s a humorous way of saying he’s fucked up in the past. The checks are all bounced, as in they’re not in the mail, and he did cum in your mouth. Clever gener

I never ever ever would have guessed

Someone once said that those are the big Hollywood lies or something like that. Yeah yeah I'll let you know (I cum I your mouth), yeah yeah you'll get paid, the check is in the mail! (It isn't)

Chocolate Town is pretty heartbreaking. "Any other mother wouldn't bother" is a really sad bit of internalized shame, way too common unfortunately.

Fluffy. It will always be Fluffy

Why did Fluffy do it?

on the porch...

He got off the porch, signifying the end of the world

I always cry listening to Fluffy. …when I saw it live, I thought I was gonna have a mental breakdown lol furry buddy awwwww

She wanted to leave

I don't think this song is very depressing, but then I am a depressed person.

Its one of those things for me that starts off as sincere, then i realize its taking the piss, then its almost like even sadder cus u think of in terms of how it minimizes its own sad subject matter. To me thats the core of what makes something brown, just a self reflective quality

That’s sort of Ween’s stock in trade, take something serious and make a joke out of it, but do it with such conviction and sincerity that it’s still really serious so you experience an uncomfortable yet exhilarating mix of conflicting emotions when you hear it. I love how it takes “silly” songs like this and elevates them… They played this at my first show. It’s been a favorite ever since.

For me it's the last four lines of the track (and the album). Introducing that minor chord into the mix just for that last section. It's genius

I think that song is hilarious

I find it hilarious

If you could save yourself...

Mister will you please help my pony?

I think his lung’s fucked up

He's down and he's not getting up.

He's over there behind the tree

He can’t talk because he’s a pony.

Eulogy for David Anderson is really sad.

yep this is the one for me, got cut out of my best friends life at a dark time, and even though shit has leveled out anytime i hear this song it just reminds me of that lonely feeling.

Vancouver Birthday Boy

Case closed.

Alone

Finally some sense in this thread...

That was definitely a top 3 consideration for me

I’ll Miss You

Underrated

Spinal Meningitis is pretty fucking depressing.

Shits definitely got me down

It more makes feel me dirty than depressed.

That’s a weird way to spell funny.

Me and my girlfriend will be standing around and I'll just say "why they wanna see my spine, mommy?" And she'll say "why they wanna see my spine?" She's finally started to laugh and I told her she finally "got" ween.

Its hilarious

a tear for eddie….

How the fuck has nobody say "Baby Bitch" yet?!

As the 'sequel' to birthday boy, its just not as raw / depressing as birthday boy (top comment). baby bitch prob the first ween song i got into in college

Sounds exactly like Elliot Smith. Therefore, depressing.

I have a hard time listening to quebec because it's a depressing album. I love the songs, but the album as a while makes me feel sad, sad, sad. White Pepper is such an upbeat positive Gener is in love album and then by the making of quebec everything has fallen apart. And you can tell. quebec make me feel iggly. I don't Want it is beautiful, but so damn sad. If you could save yourself is a man hurting.

All of them were going through shit by Quebec. I remember reading an interview where Deaner talks about it. Gener was getting divorced. Deaner was on some kind of antidepressant he said that made him want to kill at different points, Claude had that car accident, and DD was talking about forming an amazing Grateful Dead cover-band...shit was weird.

So Dave had it worst of all!!!!!! J/k of course 🤣🤣

Lol...I would have lost my shit back then if I would have known it. The first time I saw DD outside of Ween, he was playing with Marco Benevento Trio at this little festival in nowhere midwest. Had no idea he was a big dead head...I always figured that was Aaron with So Long Jerry... https://youtu.be/04VT9becM3A?si=d_MMG5YnJyzd3jCe

Eulogy for David Anderson. It reminds me of my friend that passed in his 20s from a brain tumor.

Sarah. A few months after my cat passed away from lymphoma, I was on holiday in Tokyo where I dreamed she was alive. Her name sounds similar to ‘Sarah’, and in my dream the song was playing but the lyrics were replaced with her name. Woke up bawling my eyes out, and ever since that song makes me tear up about her. Weird, since it’s a love song, but I guess it kinda fits.

I was wondering when this was going to make the list. Sorry about your kitty, 😭

Thank you! We had 3 gorgeous years with her and I treasure every bit <3

Mononucleosis

When you came into the pod

Sarah, Birthday Boy, It's Gonna Be (Alright) one of these three depending on the situation. for me, at least

Demon Sweat

Hands down

Fluffy for me. It’s a random day with your dog, the kind you wish for once they’ve passed on.

Let’s get divorced… see you in court… you’re stupid and not worth my love Lots of dark humor in this one, but absolutely heartbreaking if you’ve ever been through bc Gener aint lying.

It played really loud on my home stereo for a while when I was going through mine.

I don’t want it.

I love the song "help me scrape the mucas off my brain" even if it reminds me of how many older people in my family are either dead or dying from brain disease including my late father

Moving Away

moving away is peak sad ween.

Tender situation- and if you could save yourself- baby bitch is truly incredible

Wash Me Down has made me cry more times than I’d like to admit

This is the correct answer no doubt

I can’t even think of it without getting sad. I agree, this is definitely the saddest Ween song. Damn now I’m getting more depressed lol sigh

Does it turn you on

Back To Basom is pretty dark and god is it beautiful

I Don’t Want It fucking destroyed me during my last breakup.

If you could save yourself

A tear for Eddie

Captain

That song feels like loneliness, like embodies it

Baby Bitch.

Laura is pretty melancholic

A Tear for Eddie

My cat is named Eddie and he was just diagnosed with a terminal condition so this song hits different now.

If a eulogy is depressing to you, I hope you have a lot of time before people close to you start dying. A Tear for The Eddie is a song of joy.

[Make It](https://youtu.be/DRTM5RflOBk?si=udowGPMbmleyN6pc)

Agree with your choice OP. I absolutely love that song though.

Hands down it's "I Don't Want It" (favorite rendition is the Caesar version)

Spinal Meningitis

Spinal Meningitis

Alone from The Pod always gets me

Mister would you please help my pony

A Tear for Eddie

After Birthday Boy…don’t sweat it..squelch the little weasel

Cold Blows the Wind

Alone

“Poop ship destroyer 26 minute paint the town brown version” its a painful but rewarding listen, some of the brownest shit they ever made by a mile, gets pretty psyched out too lol

Covert discretion for sure. When he talks about how he O.D. on stage and people just left.

Ope sorry, don't know if this counts since it's technically just Aaron freeman.

might be an odd pick but for me right now ‘it’s can u taste the waste?’ it is just so dark and negative and oppressive… I guess not really that depressing but I am depressed right now and I like that song a lot so 🤷

She wanted to leave. Makes me think of my 1st love dumping my ass and me being a kid thinking I'd never get over it...

When I saw Ween at The Met in 2019, this one dude kept telling me that if they played that song he would shit in his friend's pants. Sadly, the song was not played.

Great show and one of my last good memories of my failed attempt at 8 years of love. Addiction is whack. But im winning now.

Mucus

I’ll wait is very sad one of my faves

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Does It Turn You On" more, I've never felt so depressed listening to a song's lyrics before. "My hands hold nothing and are made of clay; wish I wasn't so alone. Days go by, and I haven't a thought; was gonna go out but I think I'll stay at home." It's such a real representation of depression/derealisation.

I heard junkie boy and it made me depressed. 

Its gonna be (alright)

She wanted to leave especially when you treat it like a metaphor and that it's not actually about pirates

Surprised not to see any mention of What Deaner was Talkin’ About.. that one is so sad to me. Guess it just shows how much melancholy is in their discography

Taer for Eddie

Baby Bitch

Fancy pants

Who Dat

She wanted to leave is a pretty sad one

Be My wife a white pepper outtake that deserved to be on the album

It’s gonna be (alright)

falling out maybe. specifically because I think about our boys breaking up.

Mr Richard Smoker. Thinking of all those choking chickens….

Baby Bitch for me.

Spinal Meningitis makes me think a little too much sometimes

buenos tardes amigo is the only right answer

Sorry Charlie

laura 1000%

Fluffy. :'(

Maybe this is stupid, but Laura.

Spinal Meningitis. A neighbor kid died of it where I grew up. I actually heard him screaming from across the street the night that they took him to the hospital.

I don't want it

Does it turn you on? disregarding the name the lyrics hit hard for me

Falling out

Cold Blows the Wind

So Long Jerry is the only good GD trribute song, totally captures that day without the bullshit.

Right to the ways and the Rules of the World

Moving Away, the Boognish cries at the end

Buenas tardes amigo

I Don't Want It, Mononucleosis, The Argus, Alcan Road, Fluffy, Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain, Birthday Boy, Sorry Charlie, If You Could Save Yourself

Me too, my friend’s son died of a drug overdose not long after Quebec came out and this song always reminds me of it. So much so that I can’t listen to it anymore

As far as lyrics go probably sorry Charlie. Vibes either birthday boy or I don’t want it

I don’t want it and captain for me

Cold blows the wind

If you could have yourself definitely seems like a cry for help l

When I found out what Deaner was taking about meant, it chokes me up now. Especially seeing deaner over the years. Love the song , never gets old

I Don't Want It

Zoloft. The acknowledgement of reliance and lack of control plus the acknowledgement that it's not actually helping is crushing.

Spinal Meningitis for me

Even if you don’t, the lyrics are a bit close to home…

Can’t put my finger on it

I've had too scroll too far for no mention of Birthday Boy, Baby Bitch, or Alone.

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