MM's 3rd

Entertainment Weekly (3/24/95, p.64) - "...Monster Magnet's fourth album is the mother lode for those who crave maximum psychedelic overload. Jammed with leftover Black Sabbath riffs, Butthole Surfers-style bombast, and pseudo-comic hokum, DOPES is simultaneously sublime and ridiculous..."
- Rating: A-
Option (9-10/95, p.122) - "...Other bands...have done this kind of mind bending mania well, but in the '90s, Monster Magnet has a corner on the market--and they do it with an accesibility that their forefathers lacked. If this quartet had existed 30 years ago, maybe the revolution really would have happened..."