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Royal Lunch

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Royal Lunch
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2004
Genre
Length49:57
LabelImportant
ProducerBradford Reed
King Missile chronology
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
(2003)
Royal Lunch
(2004)
This Fuckin' Guy
(2015)

Royal Lunch is the ninth studio album by avant-garde band King Missile, released on September 21, 2004, by Important Records.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Alex Henderson of AllMusic commends the band's esoteric compositions while saying "Hall comes up with so many nutty, irreverently absurd references that he becomes disarming" and "even when Hall is telling listeners how much he despises Attorney General John Ashcroft and Vice President Dick Cheney, he comes across as more of an eccentric than an agitator."[1] Ink 19 called the album "a worthy collection with some college radio airplay potential" and "thought-provoking and interesting, although it does tend to rely on profanity, especially on the mercifully short "Pain Series VIII: Stubbed Toe."[2] Lollipop Magazine criticized the album's writing, saying "tracks such as the sardonic, spoken word "America Kicks Ass" ("We want cheap clothes, cheap oil, whatever we want. And if they don’t like it, they can suck on it. Because the rest of the world is America’s bitch") allude to old punk, but never get quite as interesting."[3]

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by John S. Hall; all music is composed by Sasha Forte, John S. Hall, and Bradford Reed

No.TitleLength
1."Meditation Is Boring"2:51
2."America Kicks Ass"3:11
3."Suggested Response to the Coming Crises"3:27
4."So Happy"3:58
5."The Chosen"3:21
6."Pain Series (VI): Splinter"0:22
7."Another Political Poem"3:07
8."Get Down with the Funky Shit"2:25
9."Get Into It"4:57
10."Good Things"2:17
11."Brains Will Explode"2:05
12."Royal Lunch"2:13
13."Antimatter"3:40
14."Pain Series (VII): Stubbed Toe"0:19
15."Phaedreaux"8:07
16."The God"3:37

Personnel

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Adapted from The Psychopathology of Everyday Life liner notes.[4]

King Missile

Additional perforers

Production and design

Release history

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Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 2004 Important CD imprec034

References

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  1. ^ a b Henderson, Alex. "King Missile: Royal Lunch > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  2. ^ F Gauze, Carl (December 16, 2004). "King Missile: Royal Lunch". Ink 19. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Kiffel, Jamie (February 7, 2005). "King Missile III – Royal Lunch – Review". Lollipop Magazine. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  4. ^ The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (booklet). King Missile. Groveland, Massachusetts: Instinct Records. 2003.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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