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Infobox album | | Name = Quebec| Type = Album | Artist = Ween | Cover = Ween-Quebec.jpg| Released = August 5, 2003| Recorded = 2003| Genre = Alternative rock Neo-psychedelia | Length = 55:01| Label = Sanctuary Records|Sanctuary | Producer = Andrew Weiss | Last album = '' Live at Stubb's (Ween album)|Live at Stubb's (2002) | This album = Quebec (2003)| Next album = All Request Live (2003)Album ratings|rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = Rating|3.5|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r649854/review|pure_url=yes Allmusic review|rev2 = Rolling Stone |rev2score = Rating|2|5 http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ween/albums/album/297350/review/5941582/quebec Rolling Stone reviewdead link|date=December 2011|rev3 = Pitchfork Media |rev3score = (7.7/10) http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8605-quebec/ Pitchfork Media review
Quebec is the 8th album by Ween , released on August 5, 2003 on Sanctuary Records . It was the first album released after the band's contract with Elektra Records|Elektra expired, and marked its return to independent record label|independent labels .
The song "It's Gonna Be a Long Night" is featured in the game '' Tony Hawk's Underground 2 . *The http://www.biteycastle.com/bitey/ween.htm music video for "Transdermal Celebration" was animated by well known The Walt Disney Company|Disney animator Adam Phillips (animator)|Adam Phillips .
Music critic Mark Prindle named Quebec the best album of the 2000s (decade) in a interview on Fox News Channel 's Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld .cite web|author=BrendaPrindle |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Sbgrc0BsGEg |title=Mark Prindle's 13th appearance on Fox News' "Red Eye" |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2011-12-03 Mojo (magazine)| Mojo named it the #39 best album of 2003.cite web|last=Magazine |first=Mojo |url= http://www.ranker.com/list/mojo_s-best-albums-of-2003/mojo-magazine-lists |title=Mojo's Best Albums of 2003 list |publisher=Ranker.com |date=2011-04-20 |accessdate=2011-12-03 College Music Journal|"CMJ" named it the #8 best album of 2003.cite web|url= http://www.whitworth.edu/Alumni/Transitions/Authors/Personal/2008/CalebKnox2.htm |title=Transitions: Personal Essays |publisher=Whitworth.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-12-03
On August 11, 2011, Dean Ween quietly released a two-disc, MP3 -only collection of songs called The Caesar Demos -- named after the band's original working title for Quebec—to friends on his Facebook page. In his comment, he stated the songs were all recorded between 2001 and 2003 while drummer Claude Coleman, Jr. was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident, and that many of the tracks featured only himself and Gene Ween|Gene . In addition to a handful of recordings that eventually made the album, the demos feature several alternate takes as well as a number of songs that have remained unreleased.cite web|url= http://www.ween.net/ |title=Ween . Net & #124; Ween News & #124; Ween Tour Dates & #124; Ween Music & #124; Ween Video & #124; Gene Ween & #124; Dean Ween |publisher=Ween.net |date= |accessdate=2011-12-03cite web|url= http://henrykrinkle.blogspot.com/2011/08/ween-caesar-quebec-demos-unreleased.html |title=HENRY KRINKLE'S HOUSE OF SOUND: Ween: Caesar ("quebec" demos & unreleased tracks) |publisher=Henrykrinkle.blogspot.com |date=2011-08-15 |accessdate=2011-12-03
Track listing
tracklist| title1 = It's Gonna Be a Long Night | length1 = 2:48 | title2 = Zoloft | length2 = 3:51 | title3 = Transdermal Celebration | length3 = 3:25 | title4 = Among His Tribe | length4 = 3:37 | title5 = So Many People in the Neighborhood | length5 = 3:28 | title6 = Tried and True | length6 = 4:01 | title7 = Happy Colored Marbles | length7 = 3:12 | title8 = Hey There Fancypants | length8 = 1:59 | title9 = Captain | length9 = 3:58 | title10 = Chocolate Town | length10 = 3:26 | title11 = I Don't Want It | length11 = 3:16 | title12 = The Fucked Jam | length12 = 2:53 | title13 = Alaska Highway|Alcan Road | length13 = 3:10 | title14 = The Argus Panoptes|Argus | length14 = 4:51 | title15 = If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All) | length15 = 4:44 | title16 = Ohh Vah La | note16 = Japan Bonus Track | length16 = 2:59
