One Track Mind: Ween, "Gabrielle" (2005)

by Pico

A couple of weeks ago we looked at a band who at times sound like a virtual clone of Yes in their prime. This time, we spotlight a musical group who has taken mimicking others to an whole 'nother level.

Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman, aka Dean and Gene Ween, have been offering up songs that lyrically are often parodies or outright mockery of their targets. But musically, these tunes are dead-on knockoffs even as they are Ween originals, thus avoiding being lumped into the novelty act category, a la Weird Al Yankovic. Ween can sound just like Prince in one track, Pink Floyd in the next and Queensryche after that.

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