Question: 12 Golden Country Greats is Ween's fifth album, and third on Elektra Records, Ween is an American alternative rock band formed in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in what year?
Context: The Mollusk is the sixth studio album by American rock band Ween, released by Elektra Records on June 24, 1997.  It is a multigenre concept album with a dark nautical theme, with most songs incorporating elements from psychedelia and sea shanties while also featuring a heavy progressive rock influence.  According to Dean Ween, "I will say that the only record that I ever felt really confident about was "The Mollusk".  That's my favorite record we've ever done." Ween is an American alternative rock band formed in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1984 by childhood friends Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, better known by their respective stage names, Gene Ween and Dean Ween.  After meeting in a middle-school typing class, the two began playing music and immediately chose the name Ween as well as their Ramones-inspired pseudonyms.  Ween performed as a duo backed by a Digital Audio Tape for the band's first ten years of existence before expanding to a four- (and later five-) piece act.  The band's highest charting single is "Push th' Little Daisies", which was a hit in the United States and Australia. Symphony of Decay is a EP by American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind.  The EP started off under the working title of Black as a companion EP to their platinum selling 1999 album "Blue".  Its creation was a result of a compromise over the release method of the track "Slow Motion"; the band had wanted it on "Blue", while their record label, Elektra Records, opposed its inclusion on such a high-profile full-length album release due to its controversial lyrics.  The EP would go through years of delays for a multitude of reasons, including extensive touring, prioritizing the completion of their third studio album "Out of the Vein", and complications arising from parting ways with Elektra in 2004.  The EP itself was never collectively released, though many of the tracks were eventually released elsewhere. The following is the discography of Ween, a Pennsylvania-based experimental alternative band formed by childhood friends Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, better known by their respective stage names, Gene Ween and Dean Ween.  Starting out with a few locally released demo tapes, including "The Crucial Squeegie Lip", "AXIS: Bold as Boognish", and "The Live Brain Wedgie / WAD Excerpts", the band was picked up by independent label Twin/Tone Records in 1990 and released their debut "".  In 1991 they signed with another independent label, Shimmy-Disc, and released "The Pod".  After this, Ween signed with Elektra Records and released their major label debut "Pure Guava" in 1992.  It features their highest-charting single to date, "Push th' Little Daisies".  While touring for this album, they played at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which would later be released as a CD/DVD live album in 2008 titled "At the Cat's Cradle, 1992". Pure Guava is the third studio album and major label debut by American rock band Ween, released on November 10, 1992 by Elektra Records. The Pod is the second studio album by American rock band Ween, released on September 20, 1991 by Shimmy Disc.  The album takes its name from the band's apartment where the album was recorded, which the band nicknamed "The Pod".  The album's cover art is a takeoff of the 1975 "The Best of Leonard Cohen" cover; Ween simply positioned a photo of Mean Ween's head (wearing a "nitrous oxide powered bong" which is sometimes mistaken for a "Scotchgard bong") over Cohen's cover art, and did alterations to the title and other graphics.  The copy of the Leonard Cohen record that Ween used had purportedly belonged to Dean Ween's mother, Eileen Ween.  "The Pod", according to Ween lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but this was later refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of".  "The Pod" has since been remastered and reissued by Elektra Records, after the relative success of Ween albums such as "Pure Guava" (1992) and "Chocolate and Cheese" (1994). "Piss Up a Rope" is a song by the band Ween in 1996 from the album "12 Golden Country Greats".  It was released on 7" yellow vinyl single on Diesel Only Records. Gene Ween (born March 17, 1970) is the stage name of Aaron Freeman, an American musician and a founding member of the experimental alternative rock group Ween.  Freeman, along with childhood friend Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo), started the group in the mid-1980s.  Freeman announced his departure from Ween in 2012, shortly after releasing "Marvelous Clouds", his first solo album.  After leaving Ween, he stopped using the name Gene Ween and performed under his birth name Aaron Freeman.  In 2014 he formed a new five-piece band called Freeman. Live in Toronto Canada, released in 2001, is the first live album released by Ween on their own Chocodog label.  It was recorded during the now legendary tour with Bobby Ogdin and the Shit Creek Boys on October 23, 1996, at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.  The setlist is divided evenly between "12 Golden Country Greats" tunes and previous fan favorites such as "Push th' Little Daisies" and "Buenas Tardes Amigo".  The album exemplifies the Ween live experience, drunkenness and all.  The album has recently been re-released on vinyl. 12 Golden Country Greats is Ween's fifth album, and third on Elektra Records.
Answer: 1984