Hippy Smell
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| Song by Ween | |||||
| from the album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (Anniversary Edition) | |||||
| Released | September 11, 2001 | ||||
| Length | 2:11 | ||||
| Label | Restless Records | ||||
| GodWeenSatan: The Oneness (Anniversary Edition) track listing | |||||
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"Hippy Smell" is a song by Ween, best known as an outtake from GodWeenSatan: The Oneness that was included as a bonus track on the 10th anniversary edition of the album.
Appearances[edit | edit source]
Song Details[edit | edit source]
Recording and Composition[edit | edit source]
"Hippy Smell" is a rare example of Ween shifting genres mid-song, with the song as a whole being a psychedelic folk rock song and the bridge bearing a jazz-rock influence with a spoken word vocal. The outtake version of the song is in F# major, while the Wad Excerpts version is in G# major.
The lead vocals are sung by Gene Ween.
Alternate versions[edit | edit source]
An earlier version of "Hippy Smell" was released on the Wad Excerpts side of the 1988 LP The Live Brain Wedgie!/Wad Excerpts.
Live performances[edit | edit source]
While the song isn't known to have been played at a show proper[1], Ween performed the song privately at a house party in 1989 with Andrew Weiss on bass and Sim Cain on drums. A recording of this show isn't known to exist.