# Royal Lunch
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{{Infobox album
| name = Royal Lunch
| type = studio
| artist = [King Missile](/source/King_Missile)
| cover = Royal Lunch (King Missile album) cover art.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 21, 2004
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|[Comedy rock](/source/Comedy_rock)|[experimental rock](/source/experimental_rock)}}
| length = 49:57
| label = Important
| producer = [Bradford Reed](/source/Bradford_Reed)
| prev_title = [The Psychopathology of Everyday Life](/source/The_Psychopathology_of_Everyday_Life_(album))
| prev_year = 2003
| next_title = [This Fuckin' Guy](/source/This_Fuckin'_Guy)
| next_year = 2015
}}
'''''Royal Lunch''''' is the ninth [studio album](/source/studio_album) by [avant-garde](/source/experimental_music) [band](/source/band_(music)) [King Missile](/source/King_Missile), released on September 21, 2004, by Important Records.
==Reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{cite web |first=Alex |last=Henderson |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000173384|pure_url=yes}}|title=King Missile: ''Royal Lunch'' > Review |publisher=[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) |accessdate=September 6, 2020}}]
}}
Alex Henderson of [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) commends the band's esoteric compositions while saying "[Hall](/source/John_S._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](/source/John_Ashcroft) and Vice President Dick Cheney, he comes across as more of an eccentric than an agitator."[{{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}}] 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."[{{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}}]
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_lyrics = [John S. Hall](/source/John_S._Hall)
| all_music = [Sasha Forte](/source/Sasha_Forte), [John S. Hall](/source/John_S._Hall), and [Bradford Reed](/source/Bradford_Reed)
| title1 = Meditation Is Boring
| length1 = 2:51
| title2 = [America Kicks Ass](/source/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.[{{cite AV media notes |title=The Psychopathology of Everyday Life |title-link=The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (album) |others=[King Missile](/source/King_Missile) |year=2003 |type=booklet |publisher=Instinct Records |location=Groveland, Massachusetts}}]
'''King Missile'''
* Sasha Forte – [bass guitar](/source/bass_guitar), [guitar](/source/guitar), [keyboards](/source/keyboard_instrument), [violin](/source/violin), [backing vocals](/source/backing_vocalist)
* [John S. Hall](/source/John_S._Hall) – [lead vocals](/source/Singing), "bad [drums](/source/drum_kit) and [percussion](/source/percussion_instrument)" (15)
* [Bradford Reed](/source/Bradford_Reed) – [pencilina](/source/pencilina), [piano](/source/piano), [synthesizer](/source/synthesizer)s, [sampler](/source/sampler_(musical_instrument)), drums, percussion, guitar, backing vocals, [production](/source/record_producer), [engineering](/source/Audio_engineering)
'''Additional perforers'''
* [Jane Scarpantoni](/source/Jane_Scarpantoni) – [cello](/source/cello) (2, 10)
* Jack Sprat – [guitar](/source/guitar) (2, 8, 15)
'''Production and design'''
* Matt Mason – [mastering](/source/Audio_mastering)
* Yuriko Tada – [cover art](/source/cover_art)
==Release history==
{|class="wikitable"
! Region
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalog
|-
| United States
| 2004
| [Important](/source/Important_Records)
| [CD](/source/compact_disc)
| imprec034
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website|kingmissile.com}}
* [https://www.discogs.com/King-Missile-III-Royal-Lunch/release/1322880 ''Royal Lunch''] at [Discogs](/source/Discogs) (list of releases)
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