Fans can't be weaned from this group's music
From The Daily Oklahoman , written by George Lang. Last spring, a group of radio programmers gathered for an industry listening session, an opportunity to hear the latest tracks that could reach their ever-tightening playlists. Representatives from Elektra Records played a Beatle-esque pop gem titled "Even If You Don't," and the programmers began to salivate, thinking they had heard the elusive Next Big Thing. Then the cell phone-grafted insiders found out it was Ween, the freakishly eccentric and willful New Hope, Penn., duo infamous for its potty-mouth humor and raucous forays into everything from Prince-style electro-funk to metallic polka to regal progressive rock - an unfairly short list of the styles they've mastered. Suddenly, the programmers lost interest and closed their Palm Pilots, hoping to hear the next 12-year-old pop princess instead of a couple of 30-year-olds who have been calling themselves Dean and Gene Ween since they met and started recording in t...