Personnel

Dean Ween

Dean Ween

Dean Ween is the stage name of Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr., American guitarist and half of the alternative rock group Ween.-Biography:...

 - Guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, Vocals

Gene Ween

Gene Ween

Aaron Freeman , best known as Gene Ween, is a musician and a founding member of the experimental alternative rock group Ween...

 - Guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, Vocals, liner notes

Ween - Arranger

Greg Frey - Engineer, Recording Technician

Theo VanRock - Mixing

Andrew Weiss - Producer, Mixing

Song information

Two samples of the song "Echoes

Echoes (Pink Floyd song)

"Echoes" is a song by Pink Floyd including lengthy instrumental passages, sound effects, and musical improvisation. Written in 1970 by all four members of the group , "Echoes" provides the extended finale to Pink Floyd's album Meddle...

" by Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

 can be heard in the song "Birthday Boy" — a brief one of a single piano note from the beginning of Echoes is included in the first seconds of the song, and a longer sample is used in the last seconds of the song.

"Don't Laugh (I Love You)" can be heard fading out at the end of the Gwar

Gwar

Gwar is a satirical heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, United States, in 1984. The band is best known for its elaborate science fiction/horror film inspired costumes, obscene lyrics and graphic stage performances, which feature humorous enactments of politically and morally taboo...

 EP The Road Behind. Gwar also covered "Birthday Boy" on Slaves Going Single

Slaves Going Single

Slaves Going Single is a thrash metal compilation album by Gwar.After the European tour of early 2000, Gwar wasn't doing much of anything - Casey Orr and Zach Blair returned to Texas to work on side projects, and some of the slaves worked on individual art projects...

. Slave/roadie Danny Black is referred to in "Nan".

L.M.L.Y.P. is largely considered one of Ween's most lyrically offensive songs – the title standing for "Let Me Lick Your Pussy". The song is, in part, a tribute to Prince, not only in its overall style, but with lyrics references the songs "Shockadelica" and "Alphabet St.

Alphabet St.

"Alphabet St." was the first single from Prince's 1988 album, Lovesexy, and the album's only top 10 single, reaching the top-10 in both the UK and U.S.. The song includes a rap by Cat Glover and is full of samples, and generally repeats themes from Lovesexy...

". The version on The Oneness is nearly nine minutes long, though live versions have been known to last over thirty minutes, usually as an epic set closer. A recorded example of such a version–clocking in at 36:39–can be heard on the band's 2000 live album, Live at Stubb's.