Song · Ween
“Mutilated Lips” by Ween
From the album The Mollusk (1997)
“Mutilated Lips” by Ween appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1997. It was first released in 1997 on the album The Mollusk. Its best result is #36 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #140 alternative song of 1997.
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Ween sent "Mutilated Lips" out in June 1997 as the first single from The Mollusk, their sixth album, on Elektra, and it's a trip in every sense. Gene Ween sings lyrics soaked in psychedelic drugs, with a left-field swerve toward the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I, over acoustic guitar, bongos, synths and keyboards that add up to what's been called psych-folk trippiness.
Andrew Weiss produced and mixed it, and the recording credits go to him, drummer Claude Coleman, Jr., and Dean and Gene Ween themselves. The song also found an afterlife in print: Eric E. Olson's 2009 novel The Procession of Mollusks nods to its lyrics and turns the girl from the song into a character.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 72 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1997 | 99 |
| 1997 | 36 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 | 100 |
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