Hi John,

I decided to give White Pepper by Ween a listen after reading your review, and I like it a lot. However, I’m not sure I agree with your point about Ween ignoring post-80’s genres; for example, “Even If You Don’t” definitely makes me think of XTC, and I hear more than a little Flaming Lips in the guitars on “Flutes of the Chi”. Maybe those bands are drawing from the same pre-80’s stylistic sources as Ween (and the period of XTC I’m thinking of definitely doesn’t sound that stereotypically 80’s in style), but I still found it interesting that you didn’t make either of those connections.