Royal Lunch

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Royal Lunch | type = studio | artist = King Missile | cover = Royal Lunch (King Missile album) cover art.jpg | alt = | released = September 21, 2004 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Comedy rock|experimental rock}} | length = 49:57 | label = Important | producer = Bradford Reed | prev_title = The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | prev_year = 2003 | next_title = This Fuckin' Guy | next_year = 2015 }}

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

==Reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Alex |last=Henderson |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000173384|pure_url=yes}}|title=King Missile: ''Royal Lunch'' > Review |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=September 6, 2020}}</ref> }}

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."<ref name="allmusic"/> 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."<ref name="ink19">{{cite journal|first=Carl |last=F Gauze |url=https://ink19.com/2004/12/magazine/music-reviews/king-missile-iii |title=King Missile: ''Royal Lunch'' |journal=Ink 19 |date=December 16, 2004 |accessdate=September 6, 2020}}</ref> 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."<ref name="lollipopmagazine">{{cite journal|first=Jamie |last=Kiffel |url=https://lollipopmagazine.com/2005/02/king-missile-iii-royal-lunch-review/ |title=King Missile III – ''Royal Lunch'' – Review |journal=Lollipop Magazine |date=February 7, 2005 |accessdate=September 6, 2020}}</ref>

==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_lyrics = John S. Hall | all_music = Sasha Forte, John S. Hall, and Bradford Reed | title1 = Meditation Is Boring | length1 = 2:51 | title2 = America Kicks Ass | length2 = 3:11 | title3 = Suggested Response to the Coming Crises | length3 = 3:27 | title4 = So Happy | length4 = 3:58 | title5 = The Chosen | length5 = 3:21 | title6 = Pain Series (VI): Splinter | length6 = 0:22 | title7 = Another Political Poem | length7 = 3:07 | title8 = Get Down with the Funky Shit | length8 = 2:25 | title9 = Get into It (Roll Around in It) | length9 = 4:57 | title10 = Good Things | length10 = 2:17 | title11 = Brains Will Explode | length11 = 2:05 | title12 = Royal Lunch | length12 = 2:13 | title13 = Antimatter | length13 = 3:40 | title14 = Pain Series (VII): Stubbed Toe | length14 = 0:19 | title15 = Phaedreaux | length15 = 8:07 | title16 = The God | length16 = 3:37 }}

==Personnel== Adapted from ''The Psychopathology of Everyday Life'' liner notes.<ref name="linernotes">{{cite AV media notes |title=The Psychopathology of Everyday Life |title-link=The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (album) |others=King Missile |year=2003 |type=booklet |publisher=Instinct Records |location=Groveland, Massachusetts}}</ref>

'''King Missile''' * Sasha Forte – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, backing vocals * John S. Hall – lead vocals, "bad drums and percussion" (15) * Bradford Reed – pencilina, piano, synthesizers, sampler, drums, percussion, guitar, backing vocals, production, engineering

'''Additional perforers''' * Jane Scarpantoni – cello (2, 10) * Jack Sprat – guitar (2, 8, 15)

'''Production and design''' * Matt Mason – mastering * Yuriko Tada – cover art

==Release history== {|class="wikitable" ! Region ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog |- | United States | 2004 | Important | CD | imprec034 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{Official website|kingmissile.com}} * [https://www.discogs.com/King-Missile-III-Royal-Lunch/release/1322880 ''Royal Lunch''] at Discogs (list of releases)

Category:King Missile albums Category:2004 albums