Covers

This page is a list of all cover songs (i.e. songs originally by another artist) performed by Ween, or separately by Dean Ween or Gene Ween.

Ween

Covers played officially by Ween

• 1999 (Prince)
• Ace of Spades (Motörhead)
• Achilles Last Stand (Led Zeppelin)
• Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
• Allentown (Billy Joel)
• All of My Love (cover of "All My Love" by Led Zeppelin)
• All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)
• Are You Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix)
• Auld Lang Syne (traditional)
• Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood)
• Band on the Run (Paul McCartney)
• Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
• Chariots of Fire (Vangelis)
• Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
• Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
• Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells)
• Dark Globe (Syd Barrett)
• Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
• Disco Inferno (The Trammps)
• Drop the Bomb (Trouble Funk)
• Echoes (Pink Floyd)
• Edelweiss (from The Sound of Music)
• Enter Sandman (Metallica)
• Fire on the Mountain (The Grateful Dead)
• Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• From the Beginning (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles)
• Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) (Parliament)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)
• Hey Bulldog (The Beatles) [see also: Hey Bullfrog]
• Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix)
• Hey Ya! (Outkast)
• Honesty (Billy Joel)
• Hot for Teacher (Van Halen)
• Housequake (Prince)
• If I Close My Eyes Forever (cover of "Close My Eyes Forever" by Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne)
• I Know a Little (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight (unknown "ballet-practice record"; originally "Are My Ears On Straight?" by Gayla Peevey)
• I'm So Tired (The Beatles)
• Kansas City Star (Roger Miller)
• Kashmir (Led Zeppelin)
• Kiss (Prince)
• L.A. Woman (The Doors)
• Let Me Roll It (Paul McCartney)
• Let My Love Open the Door (Pete Townshend)
• Let's Dance (David Bowie)
• Listen to the Music (The Doobie Brothers)
• Little Drummer Boy (familiar Christmas song)
• Lucky Man (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)
• Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix)
• Mountain Dew (Appalachian folk song; Ween version has significant original elements)
• No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne)
• Ohio (Neil Young)
• Old Man (Neil Young)
• Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin)
• Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (The Temptations)
• Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
• Piano Man (Billy Joel)
• Purple Rain (Prince)
• Redemption Song (Bob Marley)
• Riders on the Storm (The Doors)
• Rock Show (Paul McCartney)
• Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
• Sexy MF (Prince)
• She Said, She Said (The Beatles)
• Something (The Beatles)
• Spanish Castle Magic (Jimi Hendrix)
• Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
• Stella Blue (The Grateful Dead)
• Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra)
• Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down (Johnny Cash)
• Superstar (Delaney & Bonnie)
• Takin' It to the Streets (The Doobie Brothers)
• The Girl From Ipanema (Stan Getz & João Gilberto)
• The River (Bruce Springsteen)
• These Eyes (The Guess Who)
• The Shot Heard 'Round the World (from Schoolhouse Rock)
• The Star-Spangled Banner (U.S. national anthem)
• The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
• Third Stone From the Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
• Venus and Mars (Paul McCartney)
• War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
• What a Fool Believes (The Doobie Brothers)
• Where Do the Children Play? (Cat Stevens)
• Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (The Beatles)
• Win (David Bowie)
• Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
• Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
• Young at Heart (Frank Sinatra)

See also:

• Aqua-Ween (contains elements of "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull)
• I Gots a Weasel (homemade video contains a reference to "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince)
• L.M.L.Y.P. (contains elements of "Shockadelica" and "Alphabet St." by Prince)

Other covers played informally by Ween under other names

(incl. Jimmy Wilson Group; Green Lipped Mussels; Harford, Freeman & Melchiondo)

• Albuquerque (Neil Young)
• Alphabet St. (Prince)
• Baby Give Me One More Chance (?)
• Bag o' Weed (Nate Dogg)
• Blackbird (The Beatles)
• Broke Down Ragged Ford (Billy Hector)
• Circle Game (Joni Mitchell)
• Comes a Time (Neil Young)
• Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
• Dig a Pony (The Beatles)
• Franklin's Tower (The Grateful Dead)
• Gary Floyd (The Butthole Surfers)
• Gotta Hope (?)
• Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) Neil Young
• I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide (ZZ Top)
• I'm Not Like Everybody Else (The Kinks)
• Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson)
• Lotta Love (Neil Young)
• Powderfinger (Neil Young)
• Red Hot Mama (Funkadelic)
• Saturday in the Park (Chicago)
• Shattered (The Rolling Stones)
• Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
• There Is a Mountain (Donovan)

Covers played by Dean Ween solo

(incl. Moistboyz; Dean Ween Group; Dean Ween & Friends; Ass Jammers; Brookridge Boys; The Tenderloin; Melchiondo, Coleman & Weiss; Band of Boognish; Miggy & the Spooges; Dean Ween & Bill Fowler; Grace)

• Ace of Spades (Motörhead)
• After Midnight (J. J. Cale)^{[Clapton version?]}
• Ain't That Peculiar (Marvin Gaye)
• Are You Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix)
• A Shot in the Dark (from the Pink Panther film of the same name)
• Asshole (Beck)
• Auld Lang Syne (traditional)
• Bag o' Weed (Nate Dogg)
• Basketball Jones (Cheech & Chong)
• Black Magic Woman (Santana)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
• Candyman (The Grateful Dead)
• Cissy Strut (The Meters)
• Cocaine (J.J. Cale)
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon)
• Come As You Are (Nirvana)
• Cosmic Slop (Funkadelic)
• Cowgirl in the Sand (Neil Young)
• Cracked Actor (David Bowie)
• Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
• Dirt (The Stooges)
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC/DC)
• (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go (Curtis Mayfield)
• Do That Stuff (Parliament)
• Down in the Hole (The Rolling Stones)
• Down on the Street (The Stooges)
• Echoes (Pink Floyd)
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young)
• Fire (Jimi Hendrix)
• Fire on the Mountain (The Grateful Dead)
• Get Together (The Youngbloods)
• Gimme Danger (The Stooges)
• Givin' Up the Nappy Dug Out (Ice Cube)
• Golden Years (David Bowie)
• Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan)
• Green Onions (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) Neil Young
• Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix)
• I'd Rather Be With You (Bootsy Collins)
• If You Want Me to Stay (Sly and the Family Stone)
• I Gotta Move (The Kinks)
• In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd)
• Isn't She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
• I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)
• I Want to Take You Higher (Sly & the Family Stone)
• Jeff's Boogie (The Yardbirds)
• Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson)
• Kiss (Prince)
• L.A. Woman (The Doors)
• Look-Ka Py Py (The Meters)
• Loose (The Stooges)
• Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)
• Maneater (Hall & Oates)
• Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix)
• Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
• Move Closer to Your World (classic TV news theme)
• Never Can Say Goodbye (The Jackson 5)
• Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
• No Fun (The Stooges)
• One Way Out (The Allman Brothers Band)
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young)
• Oye Como Va (Santana)
• P.E. Squad/Doo Doo Chasers (Funkadelic)
• Raw Power (The Stooges)
• Red Hot Mama (Funkadelic)
• Rock and Roll All Nite (Kiss)
• Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
• Rock On (David Essex)
• Runnin' With the Devil (Van Halen)
• Scarlet Begonias (The Grateful Dead)
• Search and Destroy (The Stooges)
• Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
• Sexy MF (Prince)
• Show-Stopper (Iron Knowledge)
• Sing a Simple Song (Sly & the Family Stone)
• (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
• Sivad (Miles Davis)
• Somebody to Love (Queen)
• Soul Mate (Funkadelic)
• Spirit in the Night (Bruce Springsteen)
• Stand (Sly and the Family Stone)
• Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (Funkadelic)
• Stella Blue (The Grateful Dead)
• Steppin' Razor (Peter Tosh version?)
• Stratus (Billy Cobham)
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra)
• Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)
• Superstar (Delaney & Bonnie)
• Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground)
• The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
• The Goose (Parliament)
• The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
• Them Changes (Buddy Miles)
• The Passenger (Iggy Pop)
• The Pink Panther Theme (from The Pink Panther)
• The Thin Ice (Pink Floyd)
• The Width of a Circle (David Bowie)
• The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix
• Third Stone From the Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
• Time Has Come Today (The Chambers Brothers)
• Time Is Tight (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles)
• TV Eye (The Stooges)
• Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix)^{[Slight Return or original?]}
• Walk, Don't Run (The Ventures version?)
• Wanted Man (Bob Dylan)
• Who's That Lady (The Isley Brothers)
• Wild America (Iggy Pop)
• Will It Go Round in Circles (Billy Preston)
• Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
• You Are So Beautiful (Billy Preston)

Covers played by Gene Ween solo

Billy Joel songs

• Allentown
• Big Shot
• Captain Jack
• Don't Ask Me Why
• It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
• Just the Way You Are
• Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
• My Life
• New York State of Mind
• Only the Good Die Young
• Piano Man
• Prelude/Angry Young Man
• Pressure
• Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
• She's Always a Woman
• She's Got a Way
• Sometimes a Fantasy
• Stiletto
• The Ballad of Billy the Kid
• The Stranger
• Travelin' Prayer
• You May Be Right
• Zanzibar

Rod McKuen songs for the Marvelous Clouds project

• A Man Alone
• As I Love My Own
• Doesn't Anybody Know My Name
• Jean
• Lonesome Cities
• Love's Been Good to Me
• Marvelous Clouds
• Mr. Kelly
• One by One
• Pushing the Clouds Away
• Seasons in the Sun (live only)
• The Beautiful Strangers
• The Lovers
• The Tamarack Tree (live only)
• The World I Used to Know

Other solo covers

(incl. Geen Ween solo; Geen Ween Band; Freeman; Zeppelin Bowl; Godboner meets Gene Ween)

• Ace of Spades (Motörhead)
• Adore (Prince)
• Albuquerque (Neil Young)
• Beautiful Ride (from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
• Chariots of Fire (Vangelis)
• Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin)
• Eye in the Sky (Alan Parsons Project)
• Fearless (Pink Floyd)
• Finders Keepers (Instant Death)
• Follow You Follow Me (Genesis)
• Girl Don't Tell Me (The Beach Boys)
• Hang On to Yourself (David Bowie)
• Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
• I Am a Child (Neil Young)
• I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Prince)
• If I Was Your Girlfriend (Prince)
• If I Were a Rich Man (from Fiddler on the Roof)
• In My Time of Dying (Led Zeppelin)
• It Don't Come Easy (Ringo Starr)
• Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy)
• Joey (Bob Dylan)
• Kansas City Star (Roger Miller)
• Kiss (Prince)
• Lady Rachel (Kevin Ayers)
• Leaf of Fall (Chris Harford)
• Let's Go (The Cars)
• Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
• Like, You Know (Instant Death)
• Little Sisters of the Poor (Instant Death)
• Memory of a Free Festival (David Bowie)
• Mr. Sandman (The Chordettes version?)
• No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)
• Now Be Thankful (Fairport Convention)
• Oh Yoko! (John Lennon)
• Old Man (Neil Young)
• One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan)
• Purple Rain (Prince)
• Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
• Soul Love (David Bowie)
• Space Oddity (David Bowie)
• Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
• Stella Blue (The Grateful Dead)
• Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath)
• Tell Me Why (Neil Young)
• The Beautiful Ones (Prince)
• The Enabler (Instant Death)
• The Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young)
• The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)
• There Is a Mountain (Donovan)
• The River (Bruce Springsteen)
• We're for the Dark (Badfinger)
• What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Frank Zappa)
• When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin)
• Wiggle Wiggle (Bob Dylan)
• Wild Ride (Instant Death)
• Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)