Reception
Jeremy Salmon of Allmusic gave the album two stars out of five, remarking that "Highbrow humor was never a signature of the Descendents, but the toilet-themed album Enjoy! is a bit much." He criticized the scatological humor of "Enjoy", "Orgofart", and the album's artwork, and called the heavy metal-styled "Days Are Blood" and "Orgo 51" "disposable", but noted the similarly heavy "Hürtin' Crüe" as an exception worthy of its inclusion on the band's best-of album Somery. Despite the weaker tracks, he noted that Enjoy! includes several songs central to the Descendents' repertoire, including "Kids", "Wendy", and "Sour Grapes", calling the album "a fine metaphor for the history of the Descendents; no matter what turbulence befell the band, some excellent songs were still able to seep through anything that clogged." Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone called Enjoy! "weak overall, due in part to Lombardo's departure, though mostly because of the scatolog-ical humor on the title track. ('Sniff my ass while I pass gas,' goes but one pearl.) The album is res-cued by a cover of the Beach Boys' 'Wendy' and the band's own 'Sour Grapes,' on which Auckerman gets rejected by a snooty new-wave girl."
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