Interrogations and Confessions is the second full-length album from Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

-based band Oh My God

Oh My God (band)

Oh My God is a rock band from Chicago that formed in 1999.Oh My God's most recent album, The Night Undoes The Work Of The Day, was released on September 29, 2009, along with a US tour to promote it....

. It was released on October 7, 2003 by NoVo Records and then on October 28 of the same year on the Lightyear Entertainment

Lightyear Entertainment

Lightyear Entertainment, headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, is a distributor of independent motion pictures on DVD, Video On Demand, as well as a distributor of music and music videos on CD, DVD, and digital distribution....

 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!

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
    Curt Kirkwood
    Curtis Matthew Kirkwood is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but currently resides in Austin, Texas....
    
    ) - 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
    Curt Kirkwood
    Curtis Matthew Kirkwood is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but currently resides in Austin, Texas....
    
    ) - 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

Oh My God

• Billy O'Niell - vocals, bass
• Iguana - organ, piano, background vocals
• Bish - drums

Additional musicians

Anthony Shaw - background vocals

Paul Knegten - percussion

Mike Hari - saw

Musical saw

A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument. The sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin...

Megan Cahill - Rat-Man's temptress

Art Auerbach - "neurons in the earthbrain"

Doug McBride - programming, backwards acoustic guitar, ebow, tambourine

Tambourine

The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....

, 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