Chocolate Chip Cookies (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Chocolate Chip Cookies
| type = studio
| artist = Leslie Spit Treeo
| cover = Chocolate Chip Cookies (album).jpg
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| released = 1996
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| label = Tag Tunes/Page Music{{cite news |last1=Crossingham |first1=John |title=THE LESLIE SPIT TREEO Chocolate Chip Cookies |work=St. Catharines Standard |date=8 Nov 1997 |page=D9}}
| producer = Leslie Spit Treeo
| prev_title = Hell's Kitchen
| prev_year = 1994
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Chocolate Chip Cookies is an album by Canadian folk rock band Leslie Spit Treeo, released in 1996.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leslie-spit-treeo-mn0001191866|title=Leslie Spit Treeo Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More|website=AllMusic}}{{cite news |last1=Renzetti |first1=Elizabeth |title=Arts Ink Band tosses cookie logo |work=The Globe and Mail |date=9 Oct 1996 |page=C5}} It is subtitled "A Rock & Roll Adventure".{{cite news |last1=Brousseau |first1=Christine |title=LESLIE SPIT TREEO COMING TO TOWN |work=The Kingston Whig-Standard |date=18 Sep 1997 |location=Front |page=25}}
The band intended to make "the mother of all concept albums."{{cite news |title=Chips ahoy! It's the Leslie Spit Treeo |work=The Hamilton Spectator |date=28 May 1997 |page=E2}} It contains a cover of Bob Snider's "Ancient Eyes". The band promoted the album by embarking on a full tour of Canada.{{cite news |last1=Stoute |first1=Lenny |title=Nice to report Leslie Spit Treeo's 42-track Chocolate Chip Cookies album is selling well enough... |work=Toronto Star |date=16 Oct 1997 |page=K13}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Krewen |first1=Nick |title=Leslie Spit Treeo has experienced the highs, lows of the music business |work=The Record |date=23 May 1997 |page=A18}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Dunford |first1=Gary |title=GOOD COOKIES |work=Toronto Sun |date=October 16, 1996 |location=News |page=6}}{{cite news |title=IN PASSING |work=Toronto Star |date=31 Oct 1996 |page=J4}}
Critical reception
{{album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/chocolate-chip-cookies-mw0000979988|title=Chocolate Chip Cookies - Leslie Spit Treeo | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
|rev2 = Times Colonist
|rev2score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=Liz |title=Two Humans and a dog present stunning album... |work=Times Colonist |date=10 Apr 1997 |location=News |page=1}}
}}
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."
Track listing
= Disc One =
- Warning
- Overture/Second
- Nebulous
- Bad Omen
- Happily Ever After Again
- Average Joe
- Falling Down Again
- Book of Rejection
- The Single
- Can't Stop
- Talking
- Bus to Nowhere
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Too You
- Hell or Heaven
- Bystander
- Mole
- Moth to a Flame
- All Is Not Lost
- Stuck in the Middle of a Song
- Outro/Disappear
= Disc Two =
- Oh Canada
- Still Talking
- Roly Poly
- Soup Line
- All on Myself
- Ancient Eyes
- Pirates
- Lonely Only
- How Much Is That Doggie
- It's a Dog's Life
- Warthogs Can Fly
- People
- Moderation
- A Way In
- The Single (Dance Remix)
- So Close Yet So Far
- UFO
- Cathy
- Sheila
- Serendipity
- Hold Strong