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{{Infobox album
| name = Whitechocolatespaceegg
| type = studio
| artist = [[Liz Phair]]
| cover = Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|1998|8|11}}
| recorded = 1996–1998
| studio =
*[[Chicago Recording Company|CRC]] (Chicago)
*Chicago Trax (Chicago)
*Louie's Clubhouse
*[[Ocean Way Recording|Ocean Way]] (Hollywood)
*Velvet Shirt
| genre = [[Indie rock]]<ref name="RS"/>
| length = 51:10
| label =
* [[Matador Records|Matador]]
* [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| producer =
* Jason Chasko
* [[Scott Litt]]
* [[Liz Phair]]
* [[Brad Wood]]
| prev_title = [[Juvenilia (EP)|Juvenilia]]
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = [[Liz Phair (album)|Liz Phair]]
| next_year = 2003
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Whitechocolatespaceegg
| type = studio
| single1 = Polyester Bride
| single1date = 1998
| single2 = Johnny Feelgood
| single2date = 1998
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/whitechocolatespaceegg-mw0000025055 |title=whitechocolatespaceegg – Liz Phair |website=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=September 24, 2012 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-08-13-1998225155-story.html |title=A shocking, conflicted Phair to remember |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=September 13, 1998 |accessdate=January 10, 2019 |last=Considine |first=J. D. |author-link=J. D. Considine}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4453425.html |title=Fun Phair // New album soars despite slow start |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=August 11, 1998 |accessdate=May 28, 2016 |last=DeRogatis |first=Jim |author-link=Jim DeRogatis |url-access=subscription |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119071553/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4453425.html |archivedate=November 19, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev4score = A<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2087 |chapter=Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg |accessdate=September 24, 2012 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s]] |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]] |year=2000 |isbn=0-312-24560-2}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev5score = A−<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/1998/08/14/music-review-whitechocolatespaceegg/ |title=whitechocolatespaceegg |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=August 14, 1998 |accessdate=March 18, 2020 |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist)}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev6score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador) |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 5, 1999 |last=Sullivan |first=Caroline}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev7score = {{rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-09-ca-11393-story.html |title=Liz Phair, 'Whitechocolatespaceegg,' Matador/Capitol |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=August 9, 1998 |access-date=September 24, 2012 |last=Hochman |first=Steve |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305150022/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/09/entertainment/ca-11393 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev8score = 6.4/10<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/phair_liz/whitechocolatespaceegg.shtml |title=Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg |journal=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=August 1998 |accessdate=September 24, 2012 |last=Moll |first=Susan |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217054944/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/phair_liz/whitechocolatespaceegg.shtml |archivedate=December 17, 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/whitechocolatespaceegg-19980730 |title=Whitechocolatespaceegg |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=July 30, 1998 |accessdate=September 24, 2012 |last=Chonin |first=Neva}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10score = 6/10<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5EbyHNqgkwC&pg=PT28 |title=Liz Phair: whitechocolatespaceegg |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=14 |issue=9 |date=September 1998 |accessdate=May 28, 2016 |last=Lukas |first=Paul |pages=186–87}}</ref>
}}

'''''Whitechocolatespaceegg''''' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter [[Liz Phair]], released in 1998. It peaked at number 35 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref name="US">[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r371984/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} allmusic ((( whitechocolatespaceegg > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))]</ref> As of July 2010, the album had sold 293,000 copies.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/ask-billboard-kylie-fever/|title=Ask Billboard: Kylie 'Fever' |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=2010-07-16|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref> Unlike her previous two albums, with themes of sex and relationships, ''Whitechocolatespaceegg'' focused more on motherhood and family, as Phair had recently gotten married and given birth to a son.

==Reception==

The album received generally positive reviews. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called it "engagingly intimate" while at the same time "playful and pop-y, with just enough dry humor". The magazine also praised the album for its storytelling-esque lyrics.<ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/whitechocolatespaceegg-19980730 Whitechocolatespaceegg : Liz Phair : Review : Rolling Stone]</ref> ''[[The Washington Times]]'' wrote that Phair had successfully proved she was "no longer an unbridled twentysomething but now, at 31, a wife and mother, [who] has grown as an artist as well as a woman."<ref>[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-56759964 Liz Phair grows confident about music. (Arts) | Article from The Washington Times ]{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref>

''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' praised the album, noting "droll in her truth-telling, devastating in her offhand insights, and dazzling in her homespun rock dominion, Liz Phair is arguably the most original talent of the decade, as ''Whitechocolatespaceegg'' powerfully reaffirms. For track-to-track subtlety, poignant wit, and no- bullshit pronouncements that carry real poetic weight, Phair is the backstairs bard without peer...Phair is a truly affecting songmaker. Moreover, she can take the pop vernacular in all its jukebox/folk-pop/dancefloor familiarity and make it subversive again on superb material like "Uncle
Alvarez," "Only Son," "Ride," and "What Makes You Happy." <ref name="Billboard19610828">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1998/BB-1998-08-01.pdf|magazine=Billboard Music Week|title=Reviews & Previews|issue=1 August 1998 |page=18 |access-date=July 23, 2024}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Liz Phair]], with additional co-writers as noted.
| title1 = White Chocolate Space Egg
| writer1 = {{hlist|Jason Chasko|Doug Stoley}}
| length1 = 4:35
| title2 = Big Tall Man
| writer2 = Chasko
| length2 = 3:49
| title3 = Perfect World
| length3 = 2:15
| title4 = Johnny Feelgood
| length4 = 3:22
| title5 = Polyester Bride
| length5 = 4:05
| title6 = Love Is Nothing
| length6 = 2:16
| title7 = Baby Got Going
| writer7 = [[Scott Litt]]
| length7 = 2:02
| title8 = Uncle Alvarez
| length8 = 3:52
| title9 = Only Son
| length9 = 5:08
| title10 = Go on Ahead
| length10 = 2:53
| title11 = Headache
| length11 = 2:53
| title12 = Ride
| length12 = 3:04
| title13 = What Makes You Happy
| length13 = 3:36
| title14 = Fantasize
| length14 = 1:55
| title15 = Shitloads of Money
| length15 = 3:39
| title16 = Girls' Room
| length16 = 1:46
| total_length = 51:10
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Japan bonus track <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/177354/products/262823/1/ | title=ホワイトチョコレートスペースエッグ | リズ・フェア }}</ref>
| title17 = Hurricane Cindy
| length17 = 2:54
| total_length = 54:04
}}

==Personnel==
* Liz Phair – guitar, piano, vocals
* [[Leroy Bach]] – [[acoustic bass guitar|acoustic bass]]
* Scott Bennett – [[organ (music)|organ]], bass guitar, drums
* [[Bill Berry]] – [[Bongo drum|bongos]]
* [[Peter Buck]] – guitar
* Jason Chasko – bass, guitar, piano, drums, background vocals
* Nathan December – guitar, electric guitar
* Tommy Furar – bass
* John Hiler – organ, piano, keyboards, background vocals
* [[Scott Litt]] – acoustic guitar, bass, harmonica, violin, drums, keyboards, background vocals
* [[Scott McCaughey]] – guitar
* [[Mike Mills]] – bass
* Troy Niedhart – [[accordion]]
* Ed Tinley – guitar, clapping
* Randy Wilson – keyboards
* [[Brad Wood]] – organ, bass, guitar, drums, keyboards, background vocals, clapping, drum machine

===Production===
* Producers: Liz Phair, Jason Chasko, Scott Litt, Brad Wood
* Engineers: John Hiler, Liquid Grooves, Chris Sabold, David Schiffman, Ed Tinley, Brad Wood
* Assistant engineers: Victor Janacua, Matt Judah, Brad Kopplin, Julie Last, Chris Sabold, Al Sanderson, David Schiffman
* Mixing: Victor Janacua, Tom Lord-Alge, Brad Wood
* Mastering: [[Ted Jensen]], Katrin Thomas
* Programming: John Hiler, Randy Wilson
* Loops: Liquid Grooves
* Treatments: Scott Litt
* Art direction: Liz Phair, Frank Longo, Jon Mathias, Mark O.

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
! Chart (1998)
! Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="US" />
| 35
|-
! scope="row"|[[RPM (magazine)|Canada Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=5076& | title=Item | website=[[Library and Archives Canada]] | date=17 July 2013 }}</ref>
| 69
|}

==References==
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{{Liz Phair}}

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[[Category:Liz Phair albums]]
[[Category:1998 albums]]
[[Category:Matador Records albums]]
[[Category:Capitol Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Brad Wood]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Scott Litt]]

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