Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue is the 2004 debut album by the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Trocadero

Trocadero (band)

Trocadero is an experimental rock band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are best recognized for providing several songs to the popular machinima series Red vs. Blue, including "Blood Gulch Blues", its theme song...

. It contains "songs from and inspired by Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles

Red vs. Blue

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." The album was independently released, with manufacturing and distribution by Rooster Teeth Productions

Rooster Teeth Productions

Rooster Teeth Productions is a production group from Austin, Texas that specializes in the creation of live action shorts, animated peices and machinima, or films created using real-time, interactive engines from computer and video games. The name Rooster Teeth is a euphemism for Cockbite, an...

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Several distinct musical techniques were implemented on the album. Most songs feature polyphonic

Polyphony

In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ....

 lead vocals, usually between Nico Audy-Rowland and Wendy Mittelstadt. Many of the electric instruments feature a recognizable reverberation

Reverberation

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 effect.

The album contains genre elements influenced by the blue

Blue

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s, disco

Disco

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, spirituals, western

Western culture

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 narrative and types of rock

Rock and roll

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Tracklisting

1. "Intro" (Audy-Rowland) – 0:18
2. "Blood Gulch Blues" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt) – 2:24
3. "Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt) – 4:24
4. "Spiritual" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt) – 2:42
5. "No One" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt/Erdos) – 2:49
6. "Funny Farm" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt) – 5:10
7. "A Girl Named Tex" (Audy-Rowland) – 3:27
8. "Punch It" (Audy-Rowland) – 0:38
9. "Space Invader" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt/Erdos) – 3:32
10. "(617)" (Audy-Rowland/Hsia/Erdos) – 3:32
11. "Superhero" (Audy-Rowland/Hsia/Erdos) – 3:34
12. "Vale Deah" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt/Erdos) – 3:01
13. "All as One" (Audy-Rowland/Hsia/Erdos) – 4:09
14. "Oh Five!" (Audy-Rowland) – 0:51
15. "Half Life" (Audy-Rowland) – 4:39
16. "BATE" (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt/Hsia/Erdos) – 0:26

Trocadero

• Nico Audy-Rowland - vocals, Danelectro
  Danelectro
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  , Yairi
  Yairi
  Yairi is the name of three Japanese luthiers, who build hand-made acoustic guitars.In the 1960s and 70s Sadao Yairi, made guitars under the S. Yairi name. H. Yairi is Sadao Yairi's son, and made acoustic guitars under his supervision . Sadao was Kazuo's uncle, and the brother of Giichi Yairi .S....
  
   baritone guitar
  Guitar
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  s, Dean
  Dean Guitars
  Dean Guitars is an American manufacturer of guitars. It was founded in 1976 by Dean Zelinsky in Chicago, Illinois and is currently under the ownership of Armadillo Enterprises in Tampa, Florida.- History :...
  
   banjo
  Banjo
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  ; keyboards and pedals on "A Girl Named Tex", drums on "Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)"
• Wendy Mittelstadt - vocals, Moog
  Moog synthesizer
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  , Casio
  Casio
  is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches...
  
  , Kurzwell keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , Wurlitzer
  Wurlitzer
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   EP, piano
  Piano
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  , violin
  Violin
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  , viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  ; string arrangement on "Half Life"
• Brandon Erdos - drum
  Drum
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  s, percussion, Moog Taurus pedals

Guest musicians

• Philadelphia Telepants - Fender guitar solo on "Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)"
• Sandy Casey - Chorus vocals on "A Girl Named Tex"
• Susan Hsia - Vocals, Moog Opus, Casio keyboards on "Superhero"
• Karen Langlie - Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  on "Half Life"