10 Rock Stars That Completely Changed Their Genre
6. Ween
Trying to pin down a Ween album down to just one genre is almost foolish on the part of the listener. Throughout every single album of original material, both Gene and Dean Ween seem to use their studio as a blank canvas, to which they spew every single thing they can onto it Jackson Pollack style. Though you can definitely expect some off the wall stuff, no one was really asking for the sweet sounds of old country music.
Despite the hilarity of the fact that there's actually 10 songs on here, 12 Golden Country Greats is one of the most genuinely enjoyable records in Ween's catalog, if only for how weird it is that it even existed. Across songs like I Don't Want to Leave You on the Farm, you can practically hear the tractor in the background of the farming montage that this track will eventually accompany.
It doesn't forget the weird enthusiast though, considering that some of these sons titles like Piss Up a Rope are still some of the zaniest song titles that would have made Frank Zappa proud. Although Ween is probably the last band that you would go to if you were looking to mellow out, this record certainly gets the job done in terms of some soothing country ballads.