Applehead Man is the debut studio album released by Minneapolis alternative rock band Trip Shakespeare.

Timothy Monger of AllMusic noted that the album's cheerful psychedelia was out of step with the times in 1986, saying that the band's "ebullient art rock was extremely literate and melodic with complex harmonies, freewheeling guitar solos, and a heady Northern romanticism that was at odds with the grim post-hardcore of Hüsker Dü or the shambling, earthy roots rock of the Replacements.

"[1] Michael Toland of Blurt said that the album "debuts a fresh, exciting young trio playing power pop with distinctive personality (and) a seemingly bottomless bag of appealing songs.

"[2] The Chicago Reader's Bill Wyman disliked Applehead Man, calling it "an almost unlistenable excursion into overearnest art rock."

)[3] Scott Schinder of Trouser Press called Applehead Man "a spunky debut, with stylishly visceral lyrics and inventive melodies," though he said that the band did not "yet possess the expertise to do full justice to Matt Wilson’s surprisingly sophisticated compositions.