Between finishing Party Time and starting Album 2 we needed to breathe the calm blue ocean serenity so we decided to have a go at the ultimate Ween party jam and give it gravitas and wicked sitar solos.

This vershion is dedicated to memory of the Boognish Monster, the mythical creature who gave endless assistance to all us Ween nerds in completing our collections and filling discography gaps with all the hidden n' unreleased Golden Greats



Lyrics:

Sancho brought a message from the Fat Man
Sorry, boy, to leave you high and dry
But I went to see my mom in Ensenada
And I left a little something to help the time go by
Just a little something to help to keep you high

Bananas and Blow
Stuck in my cabana
Living on Bananas and Blow

Now the rainy season reminds me of Maria
The way she danced, the colour of her hair
Now I'm locked inside a stall at the cantina
Eating the bananas and the cocaine off the mirror, oh no
Looking for a ticket to take me away from here

Vamos amigo





Gene and Dean Ween were insulted at the way Jimmy Buffett aggressively prosecutes everyone who covers 'Margaritaville', so they planned an entire album of songs in the style of Jimmy Buffett.

After writing a bunch of songs, this was the only one that they felt was worth recording.

Deaner described the song during an interview with Culture Creature: “Well, our friend was married to a woman from Ecuador. Her father was a very powerful politician – he owned soccer clubs, maybe Coca Cola bottling, Bonita banana – as powerful as you can be in Ecuador. We went down there and we were like, ‘We should come down here and make a record called ‘Bananas and Blow.'’ Stay awake for a week. All of side one will be ‘Bananas and Blow’ – this song – we hadn’t written the song yet. We’ll use local musicians, a shitty local studio, we’ll just get the tapes home. Instead, it came down to a three-minute song Gener and I put on White Pepper. But we have a million concepts like that, you know? They haven’t been realized.”