Interrogations and Confessions explained

Interrogations and Confessions
Type:Album
Artist:Oh My God
Cover:omgconfessions.jpg
Released:NoVo – October 7, 2003
Lightyear – October 28, 2003
Recorded:Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin
Gravity Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre:Art rock
Length:NoVo – 61:41
Lightyear – 61:47
Label:NoVo Records, Lightyear Entertainment
Producer:Hillel Frankel, Joey "The Don" Donatello, Doug McBride, Oh My God
Prev Title:The Action Album!
Prev Year:2002
Next Title:You're Too Straight to Love Me
Next Year:2004

Interrogations and Confessions is the third album from the Chicago-based band Oh My God. It was released on October 7, 2003 by NoVo Records and then on October 28 of the same year on the Lightyear Entertainment label, with a slightly altered track listing.

The songs on this album can be considered to have been written in a much more conventional and structured style than on their previous album, The Action Album!

Track listing

All songs by O'Neill/Berkowitz except where noted.

NoVo release

  1. "The Unbearable Pageant" – 3:22
  2. "Torture" – 3:09
  3. "Pearls of Wisdom" – 3:06
  4. "Volatile" – 3:22
  5. "February 14th" – 3:32
  6. "Funhouse Mirror Mother" – 3:19
  7. "Our Loves" – 3:10
  8. "Get Steady" – 3:07
  9. "..." – 0:55
  10. "Shine" (Curt Kirkwood) – 2:44
  11. "Rat-Man" – 1:50
  12. "The Obligation of Joy" – 5:40
  13. "Tom" – 7:16
  14. "Rat-Man's Confession" – 17:09

Lightyear release

  1. "Get Steady" – 3:05
  2. "The Unbearable Pageant" – 3:22
  3. "Pearls of Wisdom" – 3:07
  4. "Volatile" – 3:22
  5. "February 14th" – 3:32
  6. "Funhouse Mirror Mother" – 3:19
  7. "Our Loves" – 3:11
  8. "Torture" – 3:10
  9. "..." – 0:55
  10. "Shine" (Curt Kirkwood) – 2:46
  11. "The Obligation of Joy" – 5:37
  12. "Tom" – 7:16
  13. "Rat-Man" – 1:51
  14. "Rat-Man's Confession" – 17:13

Personnel

Performance

Oh My God

Additional musicians

Anthony Shaw – background vocals
Paul Knegten – percussion
Mike Hari – saw
Megan Cahill – Rat-Man's temptress
Art Auerbach – "neurons in the earthbrain"
Doug McBride – programming, backwards acoustic guitar, ebow, tambourine, mouth percussion
Noble Hibbs – programming, background vocals
Eric Remshneider – cello
Matt Lewis – trumpet

Production

Joey Donatello – producer, mixing, engineering
Doug McBride – producer, mixing, engineering
Mike Zirkel – mixing, engineering
Paul Knegten – engineering
Paul Long – engineering
Noble Hibbs – engineering
Mark Berlin – additional assistance
Joshua Cutsinger – additional assistance
Justin Olsen – additional assistance
Todd Ostertag – additional assistance
Al Sammode – additional assistance
Dan Wean – additional assistance