All's Well That Ends Well | ||||
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Released | July 26, 2005 (reissued October 17, 2006) | |||
Recorded | February 2005 | |||
Studio | Audiolux Studios, Elmore, Ohio | |||
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Length | 42:15 53:03 (reissue) | |||
Label | Equal Vision | |||
Producer | Marc Hudson | |||
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2006 reissue cover | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AbsolutePunk | 79% [1] |
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All's Well That Ends Well is the debut album by American post-hardcore band Chiodos, released through Equal Vision Records in July 2005. Four music videos for the songs "One Day All Women Will Become Monsters", "The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined", "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek", and "All Nereids Beware" have been produced for the promotion of the album. The album has sold more than 200,000 copies as of 2008.[6][7]
Track listing
[edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Prelude" | 0:48 |
2. | "All Nereids Beware" | 4:05 |
3. | "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters" | 3:32 |
4. | "Expired in Goreville" | 2:55 |
5. | "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek" | 4:40 |
6. | "The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined" | 3:36 |
7. | "Interlude, Pt. 1" | 0:59 |
8. | "There's No Penguins in Alaska" | 4:33 |
9. | "Interlude, Pt. 2" | 1:16 |
10. | "We're Gonna Have Us a Champagne Jam" | 4:19 |
11. | "No Hardcore Dancing in the Living Room" | 5:10 |
12. | "Who's Sandie Jenkins" | 1:59 |
13. | "To Trixie and Reptile, Thanks for Everything" | 4:17 |
Total length: | 42:15 |
No. | Title | Length |
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14. | "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek" (Acoustic) | 4:39 |
15. | "Queen of Diamonds" (Live Demo) | 2:17 |
16. | "Lindsay Quit Lollygagging" (Acoustic) | 3:57 |
Total length: | 53:03 |
Re-release DVD
[edit]Live At The Metro – Chicago
- "There's No Penguins In Alaska"
- "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek"
Live At Bamboozle – New Jersey
- "The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined"
- "All Nereids Beware"
Live At The Chain Reaction – California
- "To Trixie And Reptile, Thanks For Everything" (Acoustic)
Home Movies
- On Tour With Chiodos
- Recording 'Lindsay Quit Lollygagging'
Personnel
[edit]- Chiodos
- Craig Owens – lead vocals
- Jason Hale – lead guitar
- Pat McManaman – rhythm guitar
- Matt Goddard – bass guitar
- Derrick Frost – drums
- Bradley Bell – keyboards, piano, vocals
- Production
- Produced, engineered and mixed by Marc Hudson
- Mastered by Alan Douches, at West West Side Music, West New York / Tenafly, New Jersey
- Art direction and design by Paul A. Romano (workhardened.com)
Trivia
[edit]- The song "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters" is a reference to Shakespeare's play King Lear. Many of the lyrics from the song as well as the title of the song are taken almost word for word from the play.
- The song "To Trixie And Reptile, Thanks For Everything" is a reference to old girlfriends of band members Craig Owens and Bradley Bell[8]
- The song "There's No Penguins In Alaska" is made up from a number of Shakespeare's sonnets. The chorus comes from line 5 of Shakespeare's Fifth, the term "murderous shame" is borrowed from line 14 of his Ninth, and the lyrics "The worst was this; my love was my decay" are taken from line 14 of his Eightieth.
- The line "star-crossed lovers" from the song "Expired In Goreville" is derived from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- Sandie Jenkins is a woman from Bradley Bell's church who would call his mother, and he could not recall where he had met her, thus the track title.
- In a Podcast interview with AP Magazine, Craig Owens revealed that the song "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek" is lyrically about Craig wanting to quit the band, not about the end of a relationship like majority assumed.
- The song title "There's No Penguins in Alaska" was originally a Snapple fact from inside of the cap.
- The end of the song "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minute On The Creek" is actually the first track, "Prelude", in reverse.
- In the song, "All Nereids Beware", the opening line "This spring of love resembles the uncertain glory of an April day" is a modern adaptation of a line said by Proteus in the Shakespearean play The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
- The Phrase "I'll Stop Stabbing When You Stop Screaming" is printed on the side of the liner behind the CD tray.
Charts
[edit]Album
Year | Chart | Position |
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2005 | U.S. Billboard Top 200 | 164 |
Independent Albums | 11 | |
Top Heatseekers | 3 |
References
[edit]- ^ AbsolutePunk review
- ^ All's Well That Ends Well at AllMusic
- ^ "Chiodos - All's Well That Ends Well". Alternative Press. November 2005.
- ^ Mammoth Press review Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Chiodos - All's Well That Ends Well".
- ^ Equalvision.com Archived 2009-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Nuvo.net[dead link]
- ^ "Interview of Derrick Frost & Pat McManaman of Chiodos". Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-09-17.