Chocolate Chip Cookies (album)


Chocolate Chip Cookies is an album by Canadian folk rock band Leslie Spit Treeo, released in 1996. It is subtitled "A Rock & Roll Adventure".
The band intended to make "the mother of all concept albums." It contains a cover of Bob Snider's "Ancient Eyes". The band promoted the album by embarking on a full tour of Canada.

Release

A double album, Chocolate Chip Cookies was originally released in a unique paper bag package similar to a cookie bag, with labelling that resembled the design of a Chips Ahoy! bag. Several weeks after the album's release, Nabisco threatened the band with a copyright infringement lawsuit, and in response, the band recalled all unsold copies of the album, held a bonfire in Toronto's High Park to burn the cookie bag packages, and rereleased the album in a conventional jewel case.

Critical reception

The Times Colonist stated: "Those seeking Mellon Collie-type angst in their sprawling, double disc epics will take solace in 'Average Joe's rallying chorus cry of 'Life sucks!' and ballad 'Book of Rejection's assertion that 'self- esteem may be over-rated/You're going nowhere without some hatred."
AllMusic wrote that "the whole, interspersed with Chipmunks-speed spoken-word snippets that more or less advance the narrative, is worthy of Frank Zappa's wry genius in its combination of self-mockery and pinpoint satire."

Track listing

Disc One

  1. Warning
  2. Overture/Second
  3. Nebulous
  4. Bad Omen
  5. Happily Ever After Again
  6. Average Joe
  7. Falling Down Again
  8. Book of Rejection
  9. The Single
  10. Can't Stop
  11. Talking
  12. Bus to Nowhere
  13. Chocolate Chip Cookies
  14. Too You
  15. Hell or Heaven
  16. Bystander
  17. Mole
  18. Moth to a Flame
  19. All Is Not Lost
  20. Stuck in the Middle of a Song
  21. Outro/Disappear

Disc Two

  1. Oh Canada
  2. Still Talking
  3. Roly Poly
  4. Soup Line
  5. All on Myself
  6. Ancient Eyes
  7. Pirates
  8. Lonely Only
  9. How Much Is That Doggie
  10. It's a Dog's Life
  11. Warthogs Can Fly
  12. People
  13. Moderation
  14. A Way In
  15. The Single
  16. So Close Yet So Far
  17. UFO
  18. Cathy
  19. Sheila
  20. Serendipity
  21. Hold Strong