Bone Palace Ballet

Bone Palace Ballet
Studio album by Chiodos
Released	September 4, 2007 (reissued October 28, 2008)
Recorded	2007, at Saint Claire Recording Company, Lexington, Kentucky
Genre	Post-hardcore, neo-classical
Length	38:31 (Re-issue: 54:56)
Label	Equal Vision (US) Warner Bros. Records(UK)
Producer	Casey Bates
Chiodos chronology
All's Well That Ends Well (2005) Bone Palace Ballet (2007) Illuminaudio (2010)
2008 reissue cover
Re-release Cover

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Bone Palace Ballet is the second album by American post-hardcore band Chiodos, released on September 4, 2007. The album takes its name from a literary work of Charles Bukowski. It is their last album with vocalist Craig Owens and drummer Derrick Frost.

On 19 April 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, Chiodos posted a stream of the untitled demo on their MySpace page.

On 1 June 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 27 August 2007, a poorly mastered copy of the album was leaked to the internet, eight days before the official release date.

Following the album's release, it entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number 5 and the Top Independent Albums at number 1, selling over 39,000 copies in its first week. By January 2009, the album had sold more than 200,000 copies in the United States alone.

On September 4, 2007, Equal Vision Records released an opaque orange vinyl pressing of the album which included the full album on compact disc. It was limited to 2,000 copies.

Warner Bros. Records released Bone Palace Ballet: Grand Coda on January 26, 2009, as part of a new distribution deal in the UK.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Is It Progression If a Cannibal Uses a Fork?" (featuring Jase Korman of The Number Twelve Looks Like You)	3:26
2.	"Lexington. (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)"	5:22
3.	"Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" (featuring Nick Martin of Underminded and Jase Korman of The Number Twelve Looks Like You)	3:28
4.	"A Letter from Janelle"	3:16
5.	"I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard"	4:13
6.	"Teeth the Size of Piano Keys"	3:23
7.	"Life Is a Perception of Your Own Reality"	3:46
8.	"If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink"	2:23
9.	"Intensity in Ten Cities"	4:34
10.	"The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)" (featuring Nick Martin of Underminded)	4:43
Total length:		38:31

Reissue: Bone Palace Ballet: Grand Coda
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Two Birds Stoned at Once"	2:52
2.	"Is it Progression If a Cannibal Uses a Fork?"	3:26
3.	"Lexington. (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)"	5:22
4.	"Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered"	3:28
5.	"A Letter from Janelle"	3:16
6.	"I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard"	4:13
7.	"...and Then the Liver Screamed "Help!""	2:43
8.	"We Swam from Albatross, the Day We Lost Kailey Cost"	4:30
9.	"Life is a Perception of Your Own Reality"	3:46
10.	"If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink"	2:23
11.	"Smitten for the Mitten"	3:14
12.	"Intensity in Ten Cities"	4:34
13.	"The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)"	4:13
14.	"I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard" (Acoustic)"	3:17
15.	"A Letter from Janelle" (Acoustic)"	3:38
Total length:		54:56

Additional information

It is unclear why the track "Teeth the Size of Piano Keys" is missing from the reissue. The number of bonus tracks is six, despite the given number of seven new tracks. In the DVD section of this reissue, there is an appearance by the Trailer Park Boys at the Chiodos Madison Square Garden performance, and footage of them shown backstage with the band. There are also live clips of the band at various shows, with the songs "A Letter from Janelle" and "Lexington. (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)" played over the performances. Also on the reissue the spoken words at the end of "The Undertakers Thirst for Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)" are missing for no apparent reason.

Title origins

• "Is It Progression If a Cannibal Uses a Fork?" is a misquote of Stanisław Jerzy Lec ("Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?")
• "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.
• "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" is phrase commonly said by Mad Money host Jim Cramer.
• "A Letter From Janelle" is a letter that was sent to Craig Owens by a friend, Nicole Rork. 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" was said by Chiodos' guitar technician while he was high.
• 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.
• The title "Two Birds Stoned at Once" comes from an episode of Trailer Park Boys, where Ricky mistakenly says it rather than "two birds with one stone."

Personnel

Chiodos

• Craig Owens - lead vocals
• Bradley Bell - keyboards, piano, synthesizers, programming
• Jason Hale - lead guitar
• Pat McManaman - rhythm guitar
• Matt Goddard - bass guitar
• Derrick Frost - drums

Production

• Produced by Casey Bates
• Engineered by Casey Bates, Tim Price, Bryan Beeler, Dan Korneff and David Bendeth
• Mixed by David Bendeth
• Mastered by Casey Bates and Ue Nastasi, at Sterling Sound, New York City
• Art direction and layout design by Paul A. Romano (workhardened.com)

Additional musicians

• Additional vocals by Nicholas Anthony Martin (3, 10) and Jesse Korman (1, 3)
• Violin by Victoria Parker
• Cello, Trumpet and trombone and orchestral arrangements by Phillip A. Peterson
• French horn by Jacob Hoffman

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2007	U.S. Billboard Top 200	5
	Independent Albums	1
	Top Internet Albums	5
	Top Rock Albums	1
	Top Alternative Albums	1