Live in Toronto Canada

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Live in Toronto Canada
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Live album by
Ween featuring The Shit Creek Boys
Released2001
Recorded23 October 1996
Genre Alternative rock
Length76:00
Label Chocodog
Producer Kirk Miller (Engineer, Mixing)
Ween featuring The Shit Creek Boys chronology
White Pepper
(2000)
Live in Toronto Canada
(2001)
Live at Stubb's, 7/2000
(2003)
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Live in Toronto Canada, is the second live album by the American rock band Ween, released in 2001 on their own Chocodog label. [1] It was recorded during the now legendary tour with Bobby Ogdin and the Shit Creek Boys on October 23, 1996, at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The setlist is divided evenly between 12 Golden Country Greats tunes and previous fan favorites such as "Push th' Little Daisies" and "Buenas Tardes Amigo". The album exemplifies the Ween live experience, drunkenness and all. The album was reissued on vinyl in 2018 by Schnitzel Records. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Ween, except "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.

No.TitleLength
1."Pretty Girl"2:55
2."What Deaner Was Talkin' About"2:13
3."Japanese Cowboy"4:26
4."Pumpin' 4 the Man"2:17
5."Mister Richard Smoker"3:15
6."Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)"3:34
7."Help Me Scrape the Mucus off My Brain"2:56
8."Waving My Dick in the Wind"3:06
9."Push th' Little Daisies"2:48
10."Buenas Tardes Amigo"10:37
11."Poop Ship Destroyer"5:58
12."I'm Holding You"6:55
13."Doctor Rock"5:15
14."The HIV Song"3:14
15."Piano Man"2:05
16."Fluffy"14:20
Total length:1:16:00

Cover art

The cover art is a parody of the 1964 Frank Sinatra/Count Basie album It Might as Well Be Swing .


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