Track listing Īll tracks are written by Ryan Ross and Jon Walker except where noted. Ī deluxe version was released without any prior announcement on January 1, 2019. Another box set included a vinyl copy of the album along with the CD version, the View-Master with pictures, the special lithograph, a beach towel, a beach ball, sunglasses, a beach bag and a personally-signed postcard from the band. The box set also included a special lithograph image of the band. One box set included a View-Master, with seven photos of the band. Several special box sets were made available exclusively for pre-order. Several editions of the album featured a variety of bonus tracks: a cover of the Everly Brothers song "Nothing Matters But You" ( iTunes edition), a cover of the Wanda Jackson song "Funnel of Love" ( edition), a cover of the Brenda Lee song "Is It True?" ( Amie Street edition), and a cover of the Otis Redding song "Security" and a cover of the Searchers song " When You Walk in the Room" (UK edition). Take a Vacation! was released on June 8 through One Heaven Music. "Everyone But You" was released as the third single on May 25. "Take a Vacation!" was released on May 18 as the next single.
"Change" was released as a single on April 6, 2010. On July 28, 2009, Ross and Walker announced their new band was entitled The Young Veins and premiered a new song, "Change", on their Myspace profile. They were aided with the help of Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet, who ended up producing seven tracks out of eleven, and Rob Mathes who produced four songs out of the album. They soon gathered in Los Angeles and began recording the songs they had originally prepared for the next Panic! album. On July 6, 2009, Ross and Walker departed from Panic! at the Disco. The songs on that they wrote for this record burst with fast love and experimental love the kind that likely wont exist once the initial pixie dust wears off days, nights or weeks later and theres a joyous opulence of youthfulness that gets us into odd corners, like the one described in the song, Cape Town, where Ross sings, Asked to be her husband/She already had one, in prison/I saw you/I met you/I loved you.Ryan Ross performing with The Young Veins at the Crazy Donkey, July 2010. On the song, Take A Vacation, for which the album takes its title, Ross sings, Our loneliness will keep us warm, however, theres a better sense that this loneliness is something largely unfamiliar for these fellows, except in very extreme or rare cases. Eerily and wonderfully, both Ross and Walker sound like the undervalued and underrated American songwriter, Brendan Benson, circa his modern-day classic record Lapalco, their voices clear as bells and emitting a cool confidence that seems impervious to rebukes or wrinkles in any aspirations or plans. The songs on the bands debut album, Take A Vacation, are loaded with what seem to be the remains of some crazy nights out in the city, until ungodly hours filled with wine and beer and smelling like smoke and traces of rubbed off and sweaty perfumes as well as those nights when the piecing together of it all and the contemplation of past crazy nights starts to formulate and come together as sound theory. So, thats what theyve done with the Young Veins, recruiting Tilly and the Walls keyboardist Nick White, drummer Nick Murray and bassist Andy Soukal, to bring out in themselves the sort of music that swaggers a little, but really just chronicles what it means to be young, thoughtful and without many cares in the world to get hung up about. For many, it might be hard to let all of that go you know, those spoils going to those victors but for many more, a retreat into a form of songwriting that was less theatrical and conceptual and more pure bloodedly rock n fuckin roll seems like a nice move. Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, the Topanga, California, bands co-lead vocalists, learned all about such things as members of Panic! At The Disco before leaving the group due to creative differences in mid-2009, playing in a band that got massive in a hurry and was adored by cute, young women and men from sea to shining sea. Youd need to throw plenty of romantic sentiment into the remix, but that sentiment would also be impossible to distill from a greater urge to apply it to the bones of a clubbing monster a gang of pretty, young men out to sow their wild oats. The songs of The Young Veins, can be boiled down to one of the lines from the bands song, Young Veins (Die Tonight): Is young a word for dumb, a word for fun/We have the time of our life every night/Like its our job to lose our minds or some appropriate retoolings of that line.