| All This and Puppet Stew | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Dickies |
| Cover: | Dickies_puppetstew.jpg |
| Released: | May 22, 2001 |
| Studio: | Motor (San Francisco, California) West Beach (Hollywood, California) |
| Genre: | Punk rock |
| Length: | 32:26 |
| Label: | Fat Wreck Chords |
| Producer: | Ryan Greene Adam Krammer |
| Prev Title: | Idjit Savant |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
All This and Puppet Stew is the sixth studio album by American punk rock band the Dickies, released on May 22, 2001, by Fat Wreck Chords.[1] While the band remains a touring entity, All This and Puppet Stew is their last studio album to date.[2]
The band recorded the album over a period of five years; they at times had to be nudged to return to the studio by Fat Wreck Chords.[3]
The East Bay Express wrote that "nobody is better than the Dickies when it comes to writing dumb songs ... 'See My Way', 'Watching the Skies', and 'Free Willy' effortlessly cram fiery guitars and kickass drumming into a two-minute song and transform it into something you can hum for years and years."[4] The Sunday Herald Sun called the album a "classic," writing that "the catchy and melodic guitars of Stan Lee and the fast, cartoonish vocal style of Leonard Graves Phillips still drive their core sound."[5]