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"Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in a junior high school typing class. The pair became known as Gene and Dean Ween. Thousands of home recordings later, Ween collected a large underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in pop music.
Their earliest home recordings were anarchic and free-spirited, drawing on influences as far-reaching as Syd Barrett, the Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents and the lo-fi punk movement. They self-released 5 cassettes in the late eighties; The Crucial Squeegie Lip, Axis: Bold As Boognish, Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death, The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD, and Prime 5. Around this time, Gene also released his own tape, Synthetic Socks, which featured Dean on a few songs. Ween was often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa and Primus though they would always eschew such comparisons.
In 2002, the duo were approached by Pizza Hut's ad-agency to record a promotion jingle, which resulted in a thirty second recording by Ween titled 'Where'd the Cheese Go?'. The jingle epitomized Ween's normally irreverent musical flair but Ween's penchant for eccentricity did not appeal to the advertising agency in charge and Pizza Hut rejected several versions of the song outright. True to their tongue-in-cheek humour (and somewhat indignant at having their song rejected), Ween set about recording the same version of the song with new lyrics - affectionately referred to as 'Where'd the Motherfuckin' Cheese Go At?'."
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