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Released
  
May 2, 2000

Producer
  
Christopher Shaw, Ween

Release date
  
2 May 2000

Recorded
  
1999-2000

Artist
  
Ween

Label
  
Elektra Records

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Length
  
39:35 (Regular version) 41:56 (Japanese version)

White Pepper (2000)
  
Live in Toronto Canada (2001)

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Neo-psychedelia

Similar
  
Ween albums, Alternative rock albums

Ween white pepper 2000 full album


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

Contents

White Pepper is one of Ween's more polished albums. Songs such as "Even If You Don't" feature powerful, radio-friendly production and musicianship. Ween's bizarre sense of humour is still intact (such as on the Steely Dan send-up "Pandy Fackler") and their hard rock roots still show as seen on "Stroker Ace" and "The Grobe", 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. The title is said to be a tip of the hat to The Beatles, combining Sgt. Pepper's and The White Album into one name, and the cover to Edward Weston's Pepper No. 30.

The band helped promote the album by performing "Exactly Where I'm At" on the Late Show with David Letterman. The track "Even If You Don't" was made into a music video and directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame. According to Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo), he and Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) are good friends of Parker and Stone, and Freeman has even referred to them (Parker and Stone) as kindred spirits.

Ween exactly where i m at


Track listing

All songs written by Ween. Published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Ver Music/Browndog Music, BMI.

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?". "Who Dat?" was also included in the Japanese version of the album.
  • "Pandy Fackler" refers to one of the demo tapes used in the recording of The Pod
  • Dean Ween
  • Gene Ween
  • Dave Dreiwitz
  • Claude Coleman
  • Glenn McClelland
  • Stu Basore
  • Jane Scarpantoni
  • Chris Shaw
  • Russel Simins
  • Vaneese Thomas
  • Angela Clemons
  • Mark McDonald
  • Greg Frey
  • Pat Frey
  • Danny Madorsky
  • Personnel

  • Chris Shaw - Producer, Engineer, Mixer
  • Danny Madorsky - Assistant Engineer
  • Phil Painson - Assistant Engineer
  • Damian Shannon - Assistant Engineer
  • Kirk Miller - Live Sound Engineer
  • Ween - Producer
  • Howie Weinberg - Mastering
  • Gregory Burke - Art direction
  • Danny Clinch - Photography
  • Songs

    1Exactly Where I'm At4:31
    2Flutes of Chi3:31
    3Even If You Don't3:25

    References

    White Pepper Wikipedia