Track Listing

1. Take Me Away
2. Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
3. Freedom Of '76
4. I Can't Put My Finger On It
5. Tear For Eddie, A
6. Roses Are Free
7. Baby Bitch
8. Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
9. Drifter In The Dark
10. Voodoo Lady
11. Joppa Road
12. Candi
13. Buenos Tardes, Amigo
14. H.I.V. Song, The
15. What Deaner Was Talkin' About
16. Don't Shit Where You Eat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104655 in Music
• Released on: 2004-07-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

From Amazon.com
Those of us who worship at the Church of Ween (Hail to the great god Boognish!) know that skinny blond twerp Beck stole his whole shtick from New Jersey musical geniuses Dean and Gene. Always ahead of their time, the brothers Ween have responded by abandoning their traditional lo-fi four-track recording methods and giving us their lushest album yet, Chocolate and Cheese. Not that Ween's fourth effort is polished; that adjective could never describe an album that veers wildly from acoustic Mexican folk songs, to pure '70s disco, to the appropriately named single, "I Can't Put My Finger On It." But Chocolate and Cheese may come even closer than "Push Th' Little Daisies" to fulfilling Dean's goal of establishing Ween as the next Counting Crows. --Jim DeRogatis

Customer Reviews

Can't put my finger on it.....
Chocolate and Cheese was the first Ween album I heard, and it's fair to say I still regard it as their best. It's an album where every song is totally different to the one before it, but equally as great, and if I had to compare it to another album I own I couldn't.
Released in 1994 after three lo-fi albums, Chocolate and Cheese, in my opinion, is the most varied and easily accessible the band have made. This isn't a straight forward rock album though, and humour, melancholy, and experimentation all play their part. Songs like Freedom of '76, a laid back R n B number, and Drifter in The Dark, a campfire sing along, sit next to songs such as the seven minute revenge tale Buenos Tardes Amigo.
Personally, I think the albums' quieter moments are its highlights. Baby B**** is the most honest heartbreak song I think I've heard, and What Deaner was Talking About is easily the pick of the lot. Although this does change on an almost daily basis.
A great place to start. Once you've heard it you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. And the artwork is pretty special too!

The Brownest Cd Ever
Chocolate and Cheese is one of those rare animals, a perfect album. It if packed to bursting with beautifully crafted songs that never age and make you smile over and over again, especially if your humour runs to children with spinal meningitis and ponies collapsing on driveways. This is Ween's strongest release by some way.

So refreshing and entirely new-sounding
Usually a chillout and soul/reggae buyer, I bought this on the strength of being played the marvellous guitar tune "A tear for Eddie"..... good enough, I thought, to buy the whole cd.
To my delight I found the whole album to be an eclectic mixture of styles and very witty too..... pretty well mixed too.
As Rolling Stone quoted- "Zappa is their ultimate Papa"
Nice one!