Critic Reviews
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Spin
Ween are still perved to the core.
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| 80 |
Mojo
Top-notch whiteboy radio rock with an eerie inner glow of Manson family sunshine...
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| 80 |
Pitchfork
White Pepper lacks the cohesiveness of earlier works, but it also demonstrates how a band can undergo some serious genre-bending, while still retaining a sound that is uniquely theirs.
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| 75 |
Nude As The News
Once again defiantly demonstrates Ween's talent and versatility.
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| 70 |
Billboard
The beauty of the record is that even though listeners expect Ween to be peculiar, the band's versatility and strength of songwriting keeps "White Pepper" intriguing through dozens of spins.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
Ween is so satisfying because they're making something that's at once smarter and grosser than the competition.
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| 66 |
Wall of Sound
White Pepper may make listeners put off by Ween's crudeness give them another chance.
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| 60 |
Q Magazine
A wildly inventive, often sprawling opus, comprising a multitude of styles from boisterous guitar rock to psychedelic nonsense.
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| 60 |
All Music Guide
Their most accessible album to date, lacking the flights of fancy and exuberant bizarreness that have marked each of their albums.
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| 60 |
Rolling Stone
White Pepper, their seventh studio album, could be Ween's most accessible release yet.
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| 60 |
Select
They've previously assaulted all genres from country to reggae but on White Pepper return to their favourite stomping ground of '70s AOR. [July 2000, p.102]
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| 50 |
New Musical Express
It's frustrating to see them pissing around like South Park's Matt and Trey, when they can produce something as genuinely affecting and pure pop as 'Stay Forever'.
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| 40 |
Sonicnet
Ween are at their best when they either dive headlong into ridiculousness or play it totally straight (admittedly, they don't do the latter very often). Here, however, they walk a rickety platform between those extremes and frequently fall into the ironizer's pit.
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