Off with Their Heads
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Off with Their Heads
Off with Their Heads cover
Regular edition cover (CD and LP)
Studio album by Kaiser Chiefs
Released 20 October 2008
Recorded RAK & Eastcote Studios, London
Genre Indie rock, post-punk revival
Length 35:34
Label Universal, B-Unique
Producer Mark Ronson, Eliot James
Professional reviews
Kaiser Chiefs chronology
Yours Truly, Angry Mob
(2007)		 Off with Their Heads
(2008)
Singles from Off with Their Heads
  1. "Never Miss a Beat"
    Released: 6 October 2008
  2. "Good Days Bad Days"

Off with Their Heads is the third album by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs, and was released on 20 October 2008.

The first single from the album was "Never Miss a Beat", released two weeks before the album.1 The album charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart during the week of 26 October 2008 and at number 16 in the Irish Albums Chart of the week of the 24 October.2

Contents

Album information

The album was originally scheduled for release on October 13, but was put back a week due to "packaging production delays".3

The album features guest appearances from several people: Lily Allen contributes backing vocals on "Always Happens Like That" and "Never Miss a Beat" (she previously covered "Oh My God" on her first mixtape and later with Mark Ronson on his album Version), three members of the English indie band New Young Pony Club also feature on backing vocals on "Never Miss a Beat", Sway DaSafo raps one verse of "Half The Truth", and James Bond composer David Arnold (who performed with the band at 2007's BBC Electric Proms) also appears on the album.

"Never Miss a Beat" and "You Want History" premiered on the band's UK Arena Tour in the winter of 2007.

The lyric "Off with Their Heads" appears in the first verse of "Like It Too Much". The album was uploaded with 30 second previews of each song, apart from "Never Miss a Beat" which included a full recording, on the music social networking site Last.fm on 9 October 2008.

Track listing

All tracks written by Nick Hodgson, Ricky Wilson, Andrew White, Simon Rix and Nick Baines.

  1. "Spanish Metal" – 2:19
  2. "Never Miss a Beat" – 3:08
  3. "Like It Too Much" – 3:23
  4. "You Want History" – 3:45
  5. "Can't Say What I Mean" – 2:49
  6. "Good Days Bad Days" – 2:53
  7. "Tomato in the Rain" – 3:51
  8. "Half the Truth" – 3:44
  9. "Always Happens Like That" – 3:12
  10. "Addicted to Drugs" – 3:53
  11. "Remember You're a Girl" – 2:37

Limited edition bonus disc (live at Elland Road)

  1. "Can't Say What I Mean" – 3:27
  2. "Never Miss a Beat" – 3:12
  3. "You Want History" – 4:48
  4. "Half the Truth" – 4:12

Best Buy bonus tracks

  1. "Sooner or Later"
  2. "Never Miss a Beat (Run Hide Survive Remix)"

Personnel

  • Ricky Wilson – vocals
  • Andrew White – guitar
  • Simon Rix – bass
  • Nick Baines – keyboards
  • Nick Hodgson – drums, vocals
  • Lily Allen – backing vocals ("Never Miss a Beat"), guest vocals ("Always Happens Like That")
  • Anne-Marie Chirema - backing vocals ("Never Miss a Beat", "You Want History")
  • Lou Hayter – backing vocals ("Never Miss a Beat", "You Want History")
  • Sarah Jones – backing vocals ("Never Miss a Beat", "You Want History")
  • Thomas Bowes – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Ralph De Souza – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Jonathan Evans-Jones – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Peter Hanson – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Ian Humphries – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Steve Morris – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Helen Paterson – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Tom Pigott-Smith – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Rose Warren-Green – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Debbie Widdup – violin ("Like It Too Much")
  • Garfield Jackson – viola ("Like It Too Much")
  • Andy Parker – viola ("Like It Too Much")
  • Jon Thorne – viola ("Like It Too Much")
  • Jonathan Williams – cello ("Like It Too Much")
  • Tony Lewis – cello ("Like It Too Much")
  • Paul Kegg – cello ("Like It Too Much")
  • David Lloyd – djembe ("Good Days Bad Days")
  • Dave Guy – trumpet ("Tomato in the Rain")
  • Sway DaSafo – guest vocals ("Half the Truth")
  • Mark Ronson – producer, engineer, agogo bells ("Addicted to Drugs")
  • Eliot James – producer, engineer
  • Raj Das – assistant engineer
  • Tim Goalen – assistant engineer ("Never Miss a Beat", "Like It Too Much", "You Want History")
  • Samuel Navel – assistant engineer
  • Tom Morris – assistant engineer
  • Andy Wallace – mixing ("Spanish Metal", "Never Miss a Beat", "You Want History", "Can't Say What I Mean", "Tomato in the Rain", "Half the Truth", "Addicted to Drugs", "Remember You're a Girl")
  • John O'Mahoney – mix engineer ("Spanish Metal", "Never Miss a Beat", "You Want History", "Can't Say What I Mean", "Tomato in the Rain", "Half the Truth", "Addicted to Drugs", "Remember You're a Girl")
  • Jan Petrov – mix assistant ("Spanish Metal", "Never Miss a Beat", "You Want History", "Can't Say What I Mean", "Tomato in the Rain", "Half the Truth", "Addicted to Drugs", "Remember You're a Girl")
  • Cenzo Townshend – mixing ("Like It Too Much", "Good Days Bad Days", "Always Happens Like That")
  • Neil Comber - mix assistant ("Like It Too Much", "Good Days Bad Days", "Always Happens Like That")
  • John Davies – mastering
  • Geoff Foster – strings recording ("Like It Too Much")
  • Chris Barrett – assistant engineer ("Like It Too Much")
  • David Arnold – string arrangement ("Like It Too Much")

References

  1. ^ "Kaiser Chiefs name Mark Ronson produced new album". NME (2008-08-05). Retrieved on 2008-09-16.
  2. ^ http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp IRMA
  3. ^ Kaiser Chiefs forum - transcript of mail
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