Ween - Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)

[ALD0LICI0US]

Ween feat. Butters Stotch....

[azuredivina]

this song always creeped me out!!!

[Hairylegs27]

Best guitar solo ever!!

[BlueNightFoxx]

this song is kinda sad, i think v.v but.... ay the same time.... this is one of the best songs eveah :)

[conejwsr]

Meningitis got me down today..

[myjungleismassive1]

WEENER 

[Boognish89]

@TheVroyball actually Gene and Dean are just their nicknames. Ween has quite a few definitions, but my favorite is "think or suppose"

[TheVroyball]

they got their name because the singer is gene ween

[thegirlnextdoor215]

If this song confuses you because you don't understand what spinal meningitis is, think of Zelda from Pet Sematary.

[13Mimzz]

why are they saying stinky vaseline? do you put that on there spine?

[13Mimzz]

where did they get there name from?

[symbal777]

@13Mimzz "wuss" + "peen" = ween. don't ask

[13Mimzz]

did one of them have spinal meningitis then?

[13Mimzz]

the little kid did die, didnt it?

[13Mimzz]

why are they singing about a kid asking its mum if its gonna die?

[jman945x]

@13Mimzz Because the kid has Meningitis, hnce the name of the song.

[13Mimzz]

@jman945x oh cool

[13Mimzz]

wow. this is amazing i love ween.

i asked my dad if he knows who ween is and he was like no :oooo

[Boognish89]

@gsboss dude!! That's so weird cause I read another comment on here that said they found a scratched copy of this cd and this was the only song that worked!! Hahaha. (Btw, your friend is a dumbass for doing that)

[maxwheeler100]

I had spinal meningitis too I was 5 as well. Now I'm thirteen. I survived !

[thekohlton]

dean is the fucking man

[Guitarocactyl]

It's pointing to the fact that if you got spinal meningitus, and believe in god, god must have let you get it...in fact given it to you, despite the fact that you're a child...in his graciousness of course.

[oaklandcardinals]

I had spinal meningitis when I was 5 and I survived! TrueStoryBro.

[76platypus]

Still the freakiest song I think I have ever heard

[gsboss]

i remember playing this track in my car and my friend freaked out. needless to say he took the thing out, scratched the fuck out of it and threw it out the window.

i wonder if anyone ever found it

[jimbopumbapigsticks]

There's gotta be a personal connection.

I mean, who just randomly decides to write a song about a kid dying from spinal meningitis?

[kovvvas]

@jimbopumbapigsticks WEEN

[hznfrst]

Nice fuckin' titties!



[MrROTD]

smile mighty Jesus!

[panzercat39]

Best song ever written about a kid who is about to die!

[samijamesmusic]

fucking wierd music

[MrFatKat19]

@samijamesmusic i dont even think that anymore. fucking love this music

[greydawn]

I saw them perform this live at Moe.Down tonight. Yep, it's still awesomely depressing.

[ChocolateAndJelly123]

I like the Album Cover......yummy.

[97nachotv]

This is a sad song... But it's cool.

[VibratingChild]

Spinal Meningitis, It's got him down : D Love WEEN!!!!

[hobbit151]

I love this song!

[DNME87]

nice picture tho.

[MrBoonies]

Deen and Geen Ween are Keen/

[AWSOMEPOSSUM16]

The solo makes me cream chocolate all over my cheese.

[veroni23ify]

every song on this album is bad ass.. they are amazing live ive seen them 3 times.. hope to see them again soon!

[Rinaldiize10]

got arrested at the hang out fest in alabama but got out n got to see them play this, it was such a great moment after such a shitty thing happened!

[mammers11]

I went straight from the Squirrel Nut Zippers to this. Yikes...

[mrbuddy12345]

Somehow, this is really catchy. It just all works together.

[TheGoingcrazygirl]

im 12 ween is my favorite band.... sadly my dad is the one responsible for this...

[thecandycanesrevenge]

@TheGoingcrazygirl You're lucky.

[JJgamer93]

@TheGoingcrazygirl That's usually how it starts...

[Baxxter101]

@TheGoingcrazygirl Yeah, well if you're 12 and its 2011 almost 2012... You should not be sad your dad is responsible for introducing you to quality music... Consider yourself lucky. I was born in the early 80's and my parents were fans of christian rock and your typical 50's 60's music.

If you're 12, just chill out on your parents.. Probably seems impossible, but in 10 years you'll thank them instead of being embarrassed by their awesomeness.

also, fucking use condoms! no babies before 20

[13Mimzz]

@TheGoingcrazygirl how?

[LoveMcChris]

@TheGoingcrazygirl haha i was 10 or 11 when my mom showed me this band and i found this song today on my iPod and i fell in love with this song ^-^ haha but i'm 12 now xD

[mikawillpwnu]

@LoveMcChris omg same!!

[landofa1000dances]

Someone just posted on my fb after my spinal tap diagnosed me with s.m. nice!

[Hafwaffy]

That song is rather disturbing. Quite effective.

[ZeppelinFloydRoses]

I listened to this as I was in hospital waiting for an operation on my arm.

[cjsdharma]

the kid talking freaked me out when i heard it the first time, but ever since then i've been a fan. something about a kid saying "please don't let me die" is weird to hear when you're 14 or 15. love their music, and the reason being is because they're hard to put into a category. one album they're alternative and another album they're country. AWESOMENESS!

[ethorii]

WEEN!!!! The best rock band of the last 40 years!!!! Seen 'em three times. Pure genius..

[mitchellboomphi]

@ethorii Pure genius?!?

PURE GUAVA!!!

[freeatlastification]

i think they like to have fun a play kick ass music, high or not.

[TheAudioBeef]

My cousin introduced me to this (he is 12 years old than me) when I was about 12. It scared the absolute living shit out of me.

[BMFRaw]

I only heard of this song yesterday. A friend thought I'd find it interesting since I survived bacterial meningitis. From how he described the song, I thought it would be Zappa, but when I found that it was Ween, I thought, "Oh, the Zappa of our generation," so it's all good.

[GeeTilly]

I heard this when i was 5, it was the most terrifying thing I have ever heard until this very day.

Now today was the first time i have listened to it in 9 years, and im still terrified to hear it, but i cant stop clicking replay!

[TheAudioBeef]

@GeeTilly Same here! ARGGGHHH

[tomec666]

this is fucking hilarious and soooooooooo fucking scary

[Roykynx]

This song.. ummm interesting.

[SLSheehan]

BTW..the album is titled "Chocolate and Cheese" and is in my Top Ten Best Albums of Eternity...although this tune is messed up, you can't deny it's still freakin catchy (the child voice is creepy though)...Freedom of 76 and Buenos Tards Amigo and Take Me Away...the lead off song..stellar. It's a must have album, do your ears a flavour... ;)

[tipperrocks420]

Trip balls and listen to it, great song

[Queenminny26]

LMFAO!

[discgolfinrude]

I don't usually do this but..... 12 people have spinal meningitis?

[Aznar245]

song sounds sad and creepy.. 

[VisionsOfEternalDay]

Well, I mean these guys are absolute geniuses. They either: A; are completely high drunk and sedated always and say words/ play instruments until something makes the slightest bit of sense, then call it a day. Or B; They are a strategically organized group of the most Unworldly talented people whose words have infinitely many interpretations, and have not, in the span of their musical lives spoken a word, or stroked a chord that didn't mean everything in the world to them.

[burgernfrysyo]

@VisionsOfEternalDay

or C: ALL OF THE ABOVE

[13Moviemansam]

@VisionsOfEternalDay or or or.... both... hmmm?

[ZeppelinFloydRoses]

@VisionsOfEternalDay I reckon it's A (:

[panzercat39]

@VisionsOfEternalDay It's B,for sure.

[Baxxter101]

@VisionsOfEternalDay heh, don't get 2 close 2 my fantasy there man...

Truth is they're just freaks who have found total liberation, support, and pure freedom by having the courage to explore their inner freakness. freaky fuckers man. freaked out fuckers. (to be clear, I use that term in the most loving and respectful way possible)

I mean... "Stinky Vaseline mommy.. Please don't let me die... Am i gonna see God mommy? Am i gonna die?"

One of the creepiest songs I've heard, but I love it

[joostcanters]

@VisionsOfEternalDay does one exclude the other possibility?

[mellyann22]

Who wakes up one day with an idea to make a song about spinal meningitis...... sick.

[fleshfromhumans]

When I was in high school a girl died from that shit ten days before her 16th birthday so that's what I always think about when I hear this. Great song though

[VegaRocksTheRoses]

I am glad this isn't the song they played on "It's Pat" . . .

[theblueo1]

It's weird reading these comments. So most people are freaked out the first time they hear this song? It made me laugh when I first heard it.

[danielkc78]

@theblueo1 I laughed my ass off first time I heard it lol

[Queenminny26]

@theblueo1 Me too xD. I really did LOL

[KillerKwean13]

I remember the first time i heard it...i was so freaked...i couldn't fucking sleep...my brother couldn't either...wow

[gracex1227]

This song is just.... I don't even know. It has a really awesome sound to it, but it makes me want to vomit and cry. For some reason, I keep listening to it

[t3mp2011]

this song creeped me out, but the picture made me horny....Mixed emotions....

[TheThunderbolt1000t]

@t3mp2011 lmao

[MrRaindog]

This song creeped me out the first few times I listened to it, but today I find it funny. I am a twisted individual and I have Ween to thank for it.

[Curtislowe77]

apperntly spinal meningitis is quite different than just meningitis of other kinds,because it has gone around the metroplex (DFW) in recent years but I have never seen any of these cases that were spinal meningitis,it is always another type of meningitis

[Curtislowe77]

This is a trip I would like to know if this was a random subject or was there a personal connection to spinal meningitius.I had spinal Meningitis when I was in about the 3rd or 4th grade on the tale end of the mumps,althought I didnt have a thought that I might die at the time,I was way too sick to even think about it,I was mostly trying to deal with the sickness and terriable headaches,and all of the needles they were sticking in me,at one point they stuck me in a tub of ice that was painful.

[Talloweed]

@Curtislowe77 From what I know of meningitis, it's a miracle you survived. That must have been an extremely horrible experience to suffer through.

[unplannedautopsy]

@Talloweed I had a form of it when i was 7, i remember waking up with spots all over my body and being rushed to hospital and put on a drip.

This song is more fucked up than the whole experience.

Long live ween.

[auritenow]

Yea, Gamerboy420. positive, but undetectable.

[star1876]

aaaaaahhhhahahahhhahhah gggod that sh#ts fucked up

[BadgerFireMoon]

I'm doing a report on meningitis right now its frikin nasty

[hippiekyd416]

This song is sad

[auritenow]

I had spinal menegitis in 1974, Yes mommy it hurts. I didn't die and am 47 years old now. I do have HIV now but I am healthy as a horse. Damn, you can't kill me. Freaky little tune Ween.

[garnerboy420]

@auritenow you got hiv ? really ?

[Curtislowe77]

@auritenow Wow thats about when I had it, see my post on 01-20-11, It was painful and I still dont know how I got it,all I know is I had it on the tail end of the mumps and for some reason that is a known trend. It was very painful but alot of my pain was ,I think from the fever,because I had bad bad headaches that much is very clear in my memory. That was sometime around 1973 or 74

[eazyduzitjacob]

this song is disturbing.

but i like it.

[DanceDanceJoe]

Hairspray injections in my spine gave me the meningiters

[lordthorpez]

because we're not allowed to sing about bad things.

weil wir nicht über die Schwierigkeiten singen dürfen.

[killpineapple]

the chorus to me has always had this Dire Straits feel to it. not that i could see Mark Knopfler singing about spinal meningitis or anything, just the sound

[anthonyalien]

i think i listened to this way back in the day on acid and it gave me nightmares!

[davephotog]

If I ever hear my kids utter those words, I'll probably lose my mind.

[PMAINTX1]

jeez i dunno what t say just strange and creepy

[Blazehighly]

spinal menengitis got me down.

[treeboar77]

i found this c.d. laying in the street when i was in middle school and this was the only song that worked on it and i thought it was the most terrifying thing i've ever heard, but i've been listening to them ever since they're an awesome band

[cr3flo]

@treeboar77 lol that's fucking awesome

[ardenjkgionet]

@treeboar77

lie

[treeboar77]

@ardenjkgionet whatever you say man

[godsigh]

@treeboar77 wow just read your comment. that is crazy trippy. cause this song freaked me out too, but to randomly find this song in the street on a scratched ass cd. fkn heavy. too much.

[GeekapaugGroove]

@treeboar77 how old are you now?

[treeboar77]

@GeekapaugGroove 21

[GeekapaugGroove]

@treeboar77

holy shit!!

[smegmasaurus]

@treeboar77 That's brown dude!

[KuztomKarz]

@treeboar77 this statement about this song made me take the time to log in just so I could reply..... SO TRUE! First time I heard this song.... creeped me out. But it also compelled me to listen to more..... can't stop relistening and enjoying.

[Jack102589]

@treeboar77 Lol, my uncle gave me this CD when I was in like 6th grade and I played this song for my mom and she flipped out and took it away from me. Still pissed off about that one...

[gracealone420]

@Jack102589 Was she pissed or were you..?

[Jack102589]

@gracealone420 I meant me. My mom was pissed at my uncle and he thought I ratted him out, but I just didn't know any better. :D

[coreyladas]

deaner's guitar solo reminds me of middle-period Husker Du

[JawboxKoppelganger]

..Am i gonna Die?

[TheN0thing]

all i can say is: this song + mescaline = crazy times back in 1997

[TheMcspankatron]

i like the pic

[folmz]

covered this song in mastic beach n.y.  and some drunk ass got a mouth full of guitar cause he stormed the stage. saying some shit about his sister.

[veragemni89]

@folmz your a tough guy

[folmz]

@veragemni89 no im not.

[youandyamum]

Smile on Mighty Jesus....

[reversibletaktiks302]

spinal mineanjesus

[TheSteviecaldwell]

SPINAL MENINGITIS GOT ME DOWN

[jacisherosick]

ya, don't share needles!

[xoxoSTEPHASAURUS]

My friend, Becca, died of meningitis today.

[ayeroxor]

@xoxoSTEPHASAURUS LOL

[jbirdx1]

awww butters has spinal mininjitus :(

[GeorgeKMFDM]

The kid speaking on this track sounds like Butters from South Park.

[ThePencilboxofDOOM]

@GeorgeKMFDM Son of a biscuit.

[PinkSkiiTtLeZzYoanNa]

@GeorgeKMFDM hahah exactly what I thought!

[stickyasspoo]

Spinal meningitis sucks ass. I've had it I was sick for fucking ages and the lumbar punch hurts like someone driving a hot poker into your spine while putting your legs in boiling water. that's when they fuck up and hit the nerves anyway.

:)

[54321nicolaskurtf]

@stickyasspoo HOORAY FOR SMILEY

[KlausBF]

i heart the disease songs

[jtorres133]

...and awoke me into the bliss of it all.

[jtorres133]

I feel like I was walking around as an unconscious human being until I heard the musical altar that is Ween.

[ronnyboy1988]

it really hurts mommy,am i going to die

[MitochondriaDNA]

If you like this try listening to The Butt Hole Surfers or Mr.Bungle

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

poor kid :)

[Jzzile]

wtf



[Deadalas]

I can't stop looking at those glorious boobs...

[MrSammParnell]

it also killed the sister of the wife in pet cemetary

[AlsatianFever]

i like the contrast between the drum machine and the australian cleavage on the album cover

[broadcastmyass4u]

Spinal menengitis gave me ED! and also i can feel my balls

[geppettocumquat]

Best song they ever wrote. So far...Best album too although certain others have there time and place and state of mind.

[hendrixrocks4]

you know i heard they never even saw that belt in real life, or met the hot girl in the picture.

[TheChloerzzz]

<3 <3 Please don't let me die!

[barrydeez]

Smile mighty jesus!

[holyshitcockballs]

Cry about it. v

[drummer87ish]

THIS IS THE FIRST WEEN SONG I EVER HEARD...AND JUST LIKE ALL OF YOU,IT CREEPED ME OUT AND SENT SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE,BUT IT WAS SO INTERESTING!!!!!! IVE BEN JAMING WEEN EVER SINCE

[EverChangingSocksTV]

When I was really really little, my dreams were music videos to this song, and it was a bunny singing the "kid" part...xD

[AuralOverdose]

That was creepy, as soon as the solo kicked in I had a sharp pain in my back.

[hollleee]

i love ween people. nobody has a more holistic and realistic perspective on existence. we should start a commune somewhere.

[rothkappchen]

@hollleee I know, right!! And we all seem to be able to spell and everything! No one can spell on youtube! It's like we actually use our brains...

[arbitor395]

@rothkappchen I think more people treat posts like cell texts , its like saying " oh i dont know how to spell i went to this school." So that must meen either you sucked at learning or your teachers completely ignored you, i'd say the former 90% of the time.

[54321nicolaskurtf]

@arbitor395 You spelled mean wrong and used improper spacing Mr.Hypocrite.

[Voodoojour]

@hollleee don't forget sadomasochistic.

[Kronikwookie]

if only i was a really good animator... i would use this song and create a video out of it