Bone Palace Ballet

Infobox Album |
Name = Bone Palace Ballet
Type = album
Artist = Chiodos


Released = September 4, 2007 (reissued October 28, 2008)
Recorded = Lexington, Kentucky at Saint Claire Recording Studio
Genre = Post-Hardcore
Length = 38:31
Label = Equal Vision Records
Producer = Casey Bates
Reviews =
*Absolutepunk.net (79%) [http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=7506514 link]
*Alternative Press Rating|4.5|5
*MammothPress.com rating-10|7 [http://mammothpress.com/index.php?area=readreview&pid=1193 link]
*Kerrang! Rating|4|5
*NME rating-10|7 (10/27/2007, p.42)
*Rocklouder Rating|3|5 [http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/4752/Chiodos---Bone-Palace-Ballet.html link]
*Tuned Magazine Rating|4|5
Last album = "All's Well That Ends Well" (2005)
This album = "Bone Palace Ballet" (2007)| Next album =
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Studio album


Lower caption = Re-release Cover

"Bone Palace Ballet" is Chiodos' second full-length album, which was released September 4, 2007.

During the March 31st Taste of Chaos show in Detroit, Michigan, the band announced that their new album is going to be called "Bone Palace Ballet".

On April 19th, 2007, a link to the studio demo of the untitled song played during the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour was posted on Chiodos' official fansite message board, along with a fifty second clip of another demo entitled "Lexington." The links were subsequently removed from the message board by the board's administrators. Shortly after the demos appeared, Chiodos posted a stream of the untitled demo on their MySpace page.

On June 1, 2007, Chiodos posted a MySpace bulletin containing lyrics to the untitled demo, and the official name of the song; "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys."

On August 27, 2007, a poorly mastered copy of the album was leaked to the internet, 8 days before the official release date.

Following the album's release, it debuted at number five on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 39,000 copies in its first week. As of 2008 the album has sold 180,000 copies clearly exceeding sales of the band's debut All's Well That Ends Well.

Track listing

# "Is It Progression If a Cannibal Uses a Fork?" - 3:26
# "Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)" - 5:22
# "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" - 3:28
# "A Letter from Janelle" - 3:16
# "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" - 4:13
# "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" - 3:23
# "Life Is a Perception of Your Own Reality" - 3:46
# "If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink" - 2:23
# "Intensity in Ten Cities" - 4:34
# "The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)" - 4:43

2008 Reissue: Bone Palace Ballet - The Grand Coda

# "Two Birds Stoned at Once" - 2:52
# "Is it Progression if a Cannibal Uses a Fork?" - 3:26
# "Lexington. (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)" - 5:22
# "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" - 3:28
# "A Letter from Janelle" - 3:16
# "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" - 4:13
# "...And Then the Liver Screamed 'HELP!'"
# "We Swam From Albatross, The Day We Lost Kailey Cost"
# "Life is a Perception of Your Own Reality" - 3:46
# "If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink" - 2:23
# "Smitten for the Mitten"
# "Intensity in Ten Cities" - 4:34
# "The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge is Unquenchable. (The Final Battle)" - 4:43
# "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" (Acoustic)
# "A Letter from Janelle" (Acoustic)

It is currently unclear as to why the track "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" is missing from the reissue. The amount of new songs (acoustics included) also only add up to six, despite the given number of seven new tracks.

Cut songs and demos

It had been posted in some circles that "Pirates and Rebels" is a cut song from the Bone Palace Ballet sessions.Fact That song was originally a song by The Chiodos Bros., the earlier incarnation of the band between the release of The Heartless Control Everything and All's Well That Ends Well.

*"Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)" is a combination of the name of Pat McManaman's first dog and Lexington, Kentucky, where the song was recorded. [ [http://www.theywillrockyou.com/interviews/index.php/interviews/derrick_frost_pat_mcmanaman_of_chiodos Interview of Derrick Frost & Pat McManaman of Chiodos] ]

*"Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" is phrase commonly said by "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer.

*"A Letter From Janelle" is formed from a break-up letter that an ex-girlfriend sent Craig Owens. The lyrics are of the pieces that Craig feels comfortable sharing, as the letter, which he reviews in times of distress, still means a great deal to him.

*The title "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" came from Chiodos' high guitar tech. [ [http://www.theywillrockyou.com/interviews/index.php/interviews/derrick_frost_pat_mcmanaman_of_chiodos Interview of Derrick Frost & Pat McManaman of Chiodos] ]

*The title "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" is taken from "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut.

* The title "If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink" was named when Matt Goddard drunkenly spoke the words to the other band members.

*The title "Intensity in Ten Cities" is a quote from Mike Myers' character Wayne Campbell in the movie "Wayne's World", alluding to the live album by Ted Nugent.

*The song "The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge is Unquenchable. (The Final Battle)" pays homage to how the band used to watch wrestling when they were young. [ [http://www.thealternativestar.com/chiodos.htm The Alternative Star - Derrick Frost Interview ] ]

Trivia

*"I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" was originally entitled "A Final Opinion is of Less Value Than an Appreciation of and Tolerance for Obscurity" which are also lyrics to the second part of the chorus.

*"Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" is deeply dependent on lines from Charles Bukowski's poem "I'm in Love". These lines include: "...I dropped all my lovers. I stood up [in a cafe] and screamed I'M IN LOVE" along with "...through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong [and] graceless and sick. All the things I had learned had been wasted. There was no living creature as foul as I and all my poems were false."

*Nick Martin from the band Underminded guest vocals on songs "Bull Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" and "The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)".

*Jesse Korman from the band The Number 12 Looks Like You provided guest vocals on songs "Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork?" and "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered".

*Chiodos named their 2007 album "Bone Palace Ballet" after Bukowski's posthumous book of poems of the same name.

*The line "I'm not the one that you want, I'll only let you down" from the song "Intensity In Ten Cities" is taken from Bob Dylan's song "It Ain't Me Babe."

*The line "And all the worlds a stage" in "The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)" is taken from William Shakespeare's play As You Like It

* The Line "Did my heart love until now? Cause I Feel As Though I've never seen beauty till this night" in " Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" is taken from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet

* The line within the chorus of "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" that reads "we were infinite for a moment" could possibly be an allusion to The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, in which several other titles are mentioned and discussed, including Shakespeare. The theme of the main character's feeling of "infinite" is prominent throughout the novel.

* The lyric "fit to be tied" from "If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink" is a reference to Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The character Alvah Scarlett says the phrase to Ellsworth Toohey in the novel's fourth part.

* In the Bone Palace Ballet lyric book, under the track "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered", the words "across the ocean/ hear her screams" appear, despite being nowhere in the song. These words are the last words in a demo (dubbed the "Kailey Cost Demo") for one of the five songs that did not make it to the album.

* "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" was originally titled "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys and Bass Strings for Hair", but according to Craig Owens "our shit's too long anyways", so it was cut down to the final title.

* The album art for "Bone Palace Ballet" references Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait.

*One song (it is uncertain of which one) had the working title "The $3,000 Song". Chiodos was calling it that because their label, Equal Vision Records rented a studio for them to work in (with a total cost of about $3000) and it was the only song they wrote in the eight days they were there. [ [http://www.anarchymusic.net/2007/04/bradleybell2.html Taste Of Chaos interview with Bradley Bell of Chiodos] , Anarchy Music]

*At various shows on the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour, Chiodos played a song off the new album and introduced it as "I'm Naming My Kids Beer One and Beer Two". Lead guitarist Jason Hale later said in an interview that it was not the actual title and that the song had yet to be named. [ [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/jason_hale_of_chiodos_looking_to_add_more_metal_to_the_band.html Looking to Add "More Metal" to the Band] , Ultimate Guitar] This song was eventually titled "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys".

Personnel

* Craig Owens: Vocals
* Bradley Bell: Keyboard and Backing Vocals
* Jason Hale: Lead Guitarist
* Pat McManaman: Rhythm Guitarist
* Matt Goddard: Bass
* Derrick Frost: Drums

References