The Grand Pecking Order is the first album by American rock band Oysterhead, released on October 2, 2001.

The song "Wield the Spade" was based on a speech by Romania's final communist leader, Nicolae Ceauşescu.

[2] Eventually, the release of this album was supported by a brief tour of North America.

Allmusic praised the album, remarking, "It would be a difficult task to even find three musicians with voices as uniquely dissimilar as those of Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool, and Stewart Copeland, much less attempt to effectively fuse them together within the same band -- and yet, this is precisely what Oysterhead manages to pull off on their debut album."

They clarified that "the characteristic trademarks of each member are still firmly in place -- Anastasio's fluid guitar passages, Claypool's monstrous low-end bass tone, and Copeland's deft hi-hat and cymbal work -- but unlike many albums by previous supergroups[...] the musicians seem to be carefully listening and playing off of one another at all times -- and enjoying themselves doing so.