| Chocolate Chip Cookies | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Leslie Spit Treeo |
| Cover: | Chocolate Chip Cookies (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Label: | Tag Tunes/Page Music[1] |
| Producer: | Leslie Spit Treeo |
| Prev Title: | Hell's Kitchen |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
Chocolate Chip Cookies is an album by Canadian folk rock band Leslie Spit Treeo, released in 1996.[2] [3] It is subtitled "A Rock & Roll Adventure".[4]
The band intended to make "the mother of all concept albums."[5] It contains a cover of Bob Snider's "Ancient Eyes".[5] The band promoted the album by embarking on a full tour of Canada.[6]
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.[2] [7] 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.[8] [9]
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 (or confuse) the narrative, is worthy of Frank Zappa's wry genius in its combination of self-mockery and pinpoint satire."