Track listing

1. "Za Intro" – 1:40
2. "Papercuts" – 3:26
3. "Petrified Life and the Twice Told Joke (Decrepit Bricks)" – 4:53
4. "Make Out Club" – 4:43
5. "Taxi Driver
   Taxi Driver (song)
   "Taxi Driver" is a song by Gym Class Heroes. The song was first released on The Papercut EP, but was also included on the full-length and much more widely-released The Papercut Chronicles...
   
   " – 1:59
6. "So Long Friend" – 1:14
7. "Everyday's Forecast" – 4:21
8. "Pillmatic" – 3:11
9. "Simple Livin'" – 3:06
10. "Cupid's Chokehold
    Cupid's Chokehold
    Cupid's Chokehold is a single performed by Gym Class Heroes, featuring Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. The song relies heavily on the music, chorus and famous spoken "ba ba da da" line from Supertramp's hit song "Breakfast in America"...
    
    " / Breakfast in America – 4:03
11. "Faces in the Hall" – 4:13
12. "Graduation Day" – 1:44
13. "Apollo 3-1-5" – 2:29
14. "wejusfreestylin'pt2" – 1:12
15. "To Bob Ross with Love" – 2:38
16. "Papercuts (The Reason for the Lesions Remix by Mr. Dibbs)" – 3:46
17. "Kid Nothing vs. the Echo Factor" – 4:01
18. "Band Aids" – 4:58
19. "Boomerang Theory" (Japanese Bonus Track)

Bonus Remix CD

1. "Chicago" (Remix)
2. "Heart Transplant" (Remix)
3. "Attention" (Remix)
4. "Gotta Get Out of Here" (Remix)

Personnel

• Travis McCoy - vocals
• Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Matt McGinley
  Matt McGinley
  Matt McGinley is the co-founder and drummer of Gym Class Heroes.-Career:McGinley and Travis McCoy met in school in gym class and quickly became friends. The two decided to form a band, the now popular Gym Class Heroes...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Ryan Geise - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Doug White - producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , engineer
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  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
  
• Matt Green - mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  , engineering
• Adam English
  Ookla the Mok (band)
  Ookla the Mok is the name of a filk band fronted by Rand Bellavia and Adam English. The band is named after a character from the Ruby-Spears Productions cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, created by Steve Gerber. They utilise an irreverent mix of pop culture and rock music, notably in their album...
  
   - piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Rand Bellavia
  Ookla the Mok (band)
  Ookla the Mok is the name of a filk band fronted by Rand Bellavia and Adam English. The band is named after a character from the Ruby-Spears Productions cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, created by Steve Gerber. They utilise an irreverent mix of pop culture and rock music, notably in their album...
  
   - additional vocals
• Milo Bonacci - guitars
• Sie One - production on tracks 1, 8, 12, and 18
• Gary Ventura - photography
• Evan Leake - CD layout/design

Additional notes

• "Kid Nothing vs. the Echo Factor" is a commentary on mainstream rap music
  Hip hop music
  Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
  
   from Travis' point of view as a rapper
  Rapping
  Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
  
   himself.

• The lyrics in the outro of "Kid Nothing vs. the Echo Factor" are derived from the first line of Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
  's "Comfortably Numb
  Comfortably Numb
  "Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, which first appears on the 1979 double album, The Wall. It was also released as a single in the same year with "Hey You" as the B-side. It is one of only three songs on the album for which writing credits are shared between Roger...
  
  ".

• "Cupid's Chokehold
  Cupid's Chokehold
  Cupid's Chokehold is a single performed by Gym Class Heroes, featuring Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. The song relies heavily on the music, chorus and famous spoken "ba ba da da" line from Supertramp's hit song "Breakfast in America"...
  
  " samples extensively from Supertramp
  Supertramp
  Supertramp are a British rock band formed in 1969 under the name Daddy before renaming to Supertramp in early 1970. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they have since incorporated a combination of traditional rock and art rock into their music...
  
  's song "Breakfast in America
  Breakfast in America (song)
  "Breakfast in America" is the title track from Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. The song was a minor hit on the singles charts in the US but is a staple of classic rock radio. The song's lyrics tell about a person who has never been to America...
  
  ".

• "Taxi Driver
  Taxi Driver (song)
  "Taxi Driver" is a song by Gym Class Heroes. The song was first released on The Papercut EP, but was also included on the full-length and much more widely-released The Papercut Chronicles...
  
  " is an homage to other contemporary bands in the indie rock
  Indie rock
  Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
  
   and punk
  Punk rock
  Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
  
   genres.

• The Papercut Chronicles version of the "Cupid's Chokehold" music video
  Music video
  A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
  
   was directed by Andrew Paul Bowser who would later co-direct the "New Friend Request" video with Joseph M. Petrick for their album As Cruel as School Children
  As Cruel as School Children
  As Cruel as School Children is the third Gym Class Heroes album released by Fueled by Ramen. It was released on July 25, 2006. It was produced by Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump...
  
  .

• "Make Out Club" includes a reference to the song "Girl or Dog?" by Travis's old side project Bernie Allen
  Bernie Allen
  Bernard Keith "Bernie" Allen was a Major League Baseball player for the Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators, New York Yankees, and Montreal Expos. At 6' 0" and 185 lbs, Allen was a second-baseman for most of his career...
  
  .

• "To Bob Ross With Love is an updated version of Happy Little Trees which appears on the album ...For the Kids.

External links

• The Papercut Chronicles at Fueled by Ramen
  Fueled by Ramen
  Fueled by Ramen is an American record label which operates as a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and is distributed by Atlantic Records. The label, founded in Gainesville, Florida, is based in New York City...