Eric Ronick – backing vocals and keyboards.Alex Greenwald – backing vocals, lead guitars, bass guitars, wurlitzer, harmonium, stylophone, percussion.Jon Walker – vocals, guitars, bass guitars, percussion.Ryan Ross – vocals, guitars, percussion.They played all of the parts listed below and were aided with assistance from friends. The album was recorded before Ross and Walker recruited the other three members of the band. "Nothing Matters But You" (featuring Z Berg) (Everly Brothers cover) "When You Walk in the Room" (The Searchers cover) " When You Walk in the Room" ( The Searchers cover) "Nothing Matters But You" (featuring Z Berg) ( Everly Brothers cover) "Young Veins (Die Tonight)" (Ryan Ross, Danny Fujikawa) All songs produced by Alex Greenwald except tracks 1, 2, 3 and 7, produced by Rob Mathes. 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. But the Wonders - one hit wonders - were great and so are these people, alien or not.Ī summer soundtrack guaranteed to raise a smile and nod of recognition.Ryan Ross performing with The Young Veins at the Crazy Donkey, July 2010. On the title track they remind me most of the Wonders - who of course weren't a real band at all. They mostly sit at the lighter end of power pop but the real fun here - other than soaking in it - is spotting the clever lifts from The Pop Masters (McCartney, Brian Wilson, the Association, the young Tom Petty etc). This album delights with summery pop tropes but has often bewildering or funny lyrics - which explains my "alien theory", I initially thought this California five-piece had English as a second language - and they cover When You Walk In The Room which shows impeccable taste (even if the result doesn't quite soar as it might). On this album you can hear deliberate references to the Searchers, Beach Boys, McCartney in both his Beatles ballad era (And I Love Her) as well as his early solo career (Another Day), a touch of Phil Spector girl-group and Brill Building pop, and maybe even they mistakenly picked up on the Rutles. Here's my theory about The Young Veins, for what it's worth: they are aliens who crashed landed secretly in California behind a music store, got on the computer late at night and Googled "pop music".ĭisturbed by the cops they grabbed some band names and songs at random, fled with some instruments and have subsequently launched their pop invasion on the back of a charming hotpotch of influences.