“Take Me Away” by Ween

"Take Me Away" comes from Chocolate and Cheese, Ween's fourth album, out on Elektra in September 1994 and the first they made in a proper studio after the four-track home tapes of The Pod and Pure Guava. Andrew Weiss, back as producer after Ween handled Pure Guava themselves, produced, recorded and mixed it and plays the bass. Gene Ween sings lead, Dean Ween plays electric guitar, and Claude Coleman, Jr. sits at a real drum kit on a record where Dean and Gene played most of the instruments, drum machine included.

The album hops from Latin music to funk, country, psychedelia and industrial; it sold poorly but drew good reviews, has come to be seen as one of Ween's signature records, and got a deluxe reissue for its 30th anniversary in 2024.

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