''Stories and Alibis'' is the debut studio album released by

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in 2003 on

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Background

Pre-production was held at Mets Studio Rehearsal in North Hollywood, California.

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produced and engineered the album, while additional production was done on "The Greatest Fall" by Epitaph Records owner

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. Pete Martinez acted as an assistant engineer and did additional editing at

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in Los Angeles, California, while Jeff Moses was the assistant engineer at Larrabee East Studio in North Hollywood. John Naclerio recorded the vocals for "The Greatest Fall" at Nada Studios in

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. "Playing for Keeps", "Promise" and "She'll Never Understand" were mixed at Larrabee East by Barresi. Gene Grimaldi then mastered the album at Oasis Mastering.

Track listing

All songs written by Matchbook Romance, all lyrics written by Andrew Jordan. #"Introduction" – 1:34 #"Your Stories, My Alibis" – 4:46 #"Playing for Keeps" – 3:45 #"Promise" – 4:16 #"Lovers & Liars" – 3:21 #"Tiger Lily" – 3:03 #"Shadows Like Statues" – 4:29 #"My Eyes Burn" – 4:19 #"She'll Never Understand" – 3:58 #"If All Else Fails" – 5:47 #"Stay Tonight" – 3:22 #"The Greatest Fall" – 4:04 #

Untitled (

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) – 3:07 *Tracks 13–83 each have five seconds of silence; the hidden track is played at track number 84'' *The title of track 12 differences in the liner notes: the credits page lists it as "The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)"; the penultimate page lists it as "The Greatest Fall of All Time"; and the back of the booklet lists it as "The Greatest Fall".

Charts

Album - ''Billboard'' (United States)

Personnel

Personnel per booklet. Matchbook Romance * Andrew Jordan – vocals, guitar * Ryan "Judas" DePaolo – guitar, vocals * Ryan Kienle – bass guitar, vocals * Aaron Stern – drums Additional musicians * David Palmer – keyboards Production and design *

– producer, engineer and mixing * Pete Martinez – assistant engineer, additional editing * Jeff Moses – assistant engineer *

– additional production (track 12) * John Naclerio – vocal recording (track 12) * Gene Grimaldi – mastering * Bob Lenz – art direction, design * Matt Govaere – art direction, design

References

2003 debut albums Matchbook Romance albums Epitaph Records albums Albums produced by Joe Barresi {{2000s-punk-rock-album-stub