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White Pepper

White Pepper
LP by Ween
Released May 2, 2000
Recorded 1999-2000
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 39 min 28 s
Record label Elektra
Producers Christopher Shaw , Ween
Professional reviews
Metacritic score: 62 link
Allmusic.com 4 stars out of 5 link
Pitchfork Media 8.0/10 link
Q Magazine 3 stars out of 5 link
Nude as the News Positive link
Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 link
Ween Chronology
Paintin' the Town Brown
(1999)
White Pepper
(2000)
Live in Toronto, Canada
(2001)

White Pepper was Ween's 7th full length album, and the last album they would release on Elektra Records. It was released on May 2, 2000.

White Pepper is by far Ween's most polished album, and probably the group's most accessible. Songs like "Even If You Don't" feature powerful, radio-friendly production and musicianship. Ween's bizarre sense of humor is still intact (such as on the Steely Dan satire "Pandy Fackler") and their hard rock roots still show ("Stroker Ace" is possibly the most hard rocking song the group have recorded to date), but for the most part, Ween play the album much more subdued than usual, using pop (especially Beatles-based pop) and AM radio staples for its inspiration.

Contents

Tracklisting

  1. Exactly Where I'm At
  2. Flutes of Chi
  3. Even If You Don't
  4. Bananas and Blow
  5. Stroker Ace
  6. Ice Castles
  7. Back to Basom
  8. The Grobe
  9. Pandy Fackler
  10. Stay Forever
  11. Falling Out
  12. She's Your Baby

Singles

Even If You Don't was released as a single on Mushroom Records with the B-side "Cornbread Red"

Stay Forever was released as a single on Mushroom Records with "The Grobe" and "Who Dat?"

Personnel

Dean Ween - Guitar, Vocals
Gene Ween - Guitar, Vocals
Dave Dreiwitz - Bass
Claude Coleman - Drums
Glen McClelland - Keyboards
Danny Madorsky - Engineer
Phil Painson - Engineer
Damian Shannon - Engineer
Kirk Miller - Live Sound Engineer
Christopher Shaw - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Ween - Producer
Howie Weinberg - Mastering
Gregory Burke - Art Direction
Danny Clinch - Photography
Stuart Basore
Greg Frey
Jane Scarpantoni
Russell Simins
Vaneese Thomas

Charts

Album

2000   White Pepper        Heatseekers             No. 2
2000   White Pepper        The Billboard 200       No. 121


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