Lollipop (album)

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Lollipop
Lollipop Meat Puppets.jpg
Studio album by
Meat Puppets
ReleasedApril 12, 2011
Genre
Length46:30
Label Megaforce
Producer Curt Kirkwood
Meat Puppets chronology
Sewn Together
(2009)		Lollipop
(2011)		 Rat Farm
(2013)

Lollipop is the Meat Puppets' thirteenth full-length studio album. It was released on April 12, 2011, through Megaforce Records.

Contents

Content

Musical style

The A.V. Club opined Lollipop to be "a strong collection of power-pop songs". [1]

Lyrical content

In an AllMusic summary of Lollipop, the lyrics were described as "goofball surrealism" and "alternating tall tales with weed-fueled philosophizing". [2]

Name

Curt Kirkwood remarked in a 2011 interview with AV Club that the decision to name the record Lollipop was brought about by its power-pop sound, further commenting "this counts as, you know, “pop-candy" for us". [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Based on 12 reviews, Metacritic assigned Lollipop a score of 71, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [3]

Mark Deming of AllMusic described Lollipop as "flawed but interesting enough to confirm there's still life left in this band" which would hopefully "document in a more satisfying manner" on the next album. [2]

Slant Magazine gave a mixed 2 and a half-out-of-5 star review of Lollipop, summarizing that the record "sounds a little tired". [4]

Track listing

All songs by Curt Kirkwood. [5]

  1. "Incomplete" – 4:09
  2. "Orange" – 4:11
  3. "Shave It" – 4:18
  4. "Baby Don't" – 3:11
  5. "Hour of the Idiot" – 3:35
  6. "Lantern" – 3:34
  7. "Town" – 3:20
  8. "Damn Thing" – 3:44
  9. "Amazing" – 4:49
  10. "Way That It Are" – 3:28
  11. "Vile" – 4:42
  12. "The Spider and the Spaceship" – 3:29

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Kuntz, Mike (August 11, 2011). "Interview: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood". The A.V. Club. AV Club.
  2. 1 2 3 Deming, Mark. "Lollipop – Meat Puppets". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ "Lollipop by Meat Puppets". Metacritic .
  4. ↑ Cataldo, Jesse (April 17, 2011). "Review: Meat Puppets, Lollipop". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  5. ↑ Lollipop album jacket. MEGA1566, Megaforce Records, 2011
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