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{{Infobox album
| name         = {{Linear-gradient text | #4168C6 | #FF0103 | text = Regional at Best | direction = right | alt text color = white }}
| type         = regionalatbest
| artist       = [[Twenty One Pilots]]
| cover        = Regional at Best.png
| border       = yes
|italic_title  = no
| released     = July 8, 2011
| recorded     = 2009 — June 2011
| studio       = [[Tyler Joseph's home studio]]
| genre        = * Emo hip-hop
* alt-pop
* techno-pop
* christian hip-hop
* electronica
* emo
| discogs    =  [[File:Discogs logo.png|25x25px|https://www.discogs.com/ru/master/1032528-Twenty-One-Pilots-Twenty-One-Pilots]]
| length       = 63:09
| label        = Self-released
| producer     = [[Tyler Joseph]], [[Josh Dun]]

| prev_title   =[[Twenty One Pilots (album)|Twenty One Pilots]] 
| prev_year    =2009 
| next_title   = [[Vessel]]
| next_year    = 2013
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = [[Twenty One Pilots (album)|Twenty One Pilots]]
 | type        = regionalatbest
 | single1     = [[Slowtown]]
 | single1date = May 2, 2010
 | single2     = [[Ode To Sleep]]
 | single2date = October 12, 2010}}}}'''''Regional at Best''''' — is the second studio album by music duo [[Twenty one pilots|Twenty One Pilots]]. It was self-released on July 8, 2011. ''Regional at Best'' is a discontinued album. This is the last album recorded and released independently by the band prior to signing with Underpowered Ramen. and it is the first album to feature the talents of Josh Dun who joined the band in May 2011 after the departure of bassist [[Nick Thomas]] and drummer [[Chris Salih]].

== History ==

=== 2008 - 2009 ===
The story of the songs on this album begins a little before the band's emergence.Lyrics for some of the songs were taken from old [[Tyler Joseph]] songs recorded in 2007 - 2008 during high school. The first verse of the song [[Blasphemy]] was used for the outro of the song [[Anathema]]. Part of the lyric [[Just Like Yesterday]] was used with modifications for the song [[Ode To Sleep]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/twentyonepilots/comments/nedee7/no_phun_intended_everything_we_know_history/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/user/AlexanderPANASONIC/comments/nvnbaa/no_phun_intended_full_history_continued/</ref>  

Also a lot of demo tracks were recorded by Tyler and the band in the period 2008 - 2009.  Tyler made a lot of tunes and tracks, but for various reasons some of them were postponed or forgotten.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DJGPuuIYY&t=1022s</ref> 

The first song from Regional at Best was [[Trees]], written by [[Tyler Joseph|Tyler]] in 2008 and recorded in the basement of his house with [[Nick Thomas]] before he met [[Chris Salih]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cokb6XrZQxc&t=10s</ref> The song was never officially released and lay in Tyler's macbook files until 2009 when the band remembered it and thought it was a perfect fit for the band's repertoire and it was posted for download on the band's MySpace on [[Trees / Time to Say Goodbye|December 31, 2009]].

[[Be Concerned]] also one of the first songs of RAB. On July 23, 2018, a Google Drive<ref>https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1VO4OUYt9Utd5HgR5nFFPMTTchTRCs5p8</ref> was created with a leaked tracklist of Tyler Joseph songs from 2007 - 2009 where one of them was [[Be Concerned]]. It was assumed to be a mistake, but more Regional at Best songs that weren't written in 2008-2009 don't appear on this disc, and since this song fits with rapper Joseph, with whom Tyler recorded 2 songs together in 2009 such as [[Dollhouse]] and [[Live]], which indirectly confirms the song's old age. 

=== 2010 ===
In 2010 Tyler again starts to work a lot on new music at home or with the band in their studio. Thus in March - April 2010 [[Slowtown]] and [[Car Radio]] was recorded. Probably the video in the basement of the band from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFzBielBjE&t=1s Live Highlights] is a recording session for new tunes, including this songs. But eventually the band decided that if recording live instruments is too complicated and they will do all new material only on MacBook, and almost all new music was written only by Tyler himself.

=== 2011 ===

=== 2012 - 2013 ===

=== 2014 - Our time ===


== Recording ==

== Promotion ==

== Reception ==

== Setlist ==
{{track listing|headline=Standard edition|total_length=63:09
|title1=[[Guns For Hands]]
|length1=4:37
|title2=[[Holding On To You]]
|length2=4:26
|title3=[[Ode To Sleep]]
|length3=5:14
|title4=[[Slowtown]]
|length4=4:57
|title5=[[Car Radio]]
|length5=4:49
|title6=[[Forest]]
|length6=4:11
|title7=[[Glowing Eyes]]
|length7=4:26
|title8=[[Kitchen Sink]]
|length8=5:34
|title9=[[Anathema]]
|length9=3:59
|title10=[[Lovely]]
|length10=4:20
|title11=[[Ruby]]
|length11=4:30
|title12=[[Trees]]
|length12=4:20
|title13=[[Be Concerned]]
|length13=4:08
|title14=[[Clear]]
|length14=3:38}}

{{track listing|headline=Newsletter Edition|total_length=69:06
|title1=[[Guns For Hands]]
|length1=4:37
|title2=[[Holding On To You]]
|length2=4:26
|title3=[[Ode To Sleep]]
|length3=5:14
|title4=[[Slowtown]]
|length4=4:57
|title5=[[Car Radio]]
|length5=4:49
|title6=[[Forest]]
|length6=4:11
|title7=[[Glowing Eyes]]
|length7=4:26
|title8=[[Kitchen Sink]]
|length8=5:34
|title9=[[Anathema]]
|length9=3:59
|title10=[[Lovely]]
|length10=4:20
|title11=[[Ruby]]
|length11=4:30
|title12=[[Trees]]
|length12=4:20
|title13=[[Be Concerned]]
|length13=4:08
|title14=[[Clear]]
|length14=3:38
|title15=[[House Of Gold]] (Newsletter Edition)
|length15=4:08
|title16=[[Two]] (Newsletter Edition)
|length16=3:38}}

{{track listing|headline=Promo edition<br>Disk 1|total_length=63:09
|title1=[[Guns For Hands]]
|length1=4:37
|title2=[[Holding On To You]]
|length2=4:26
|title3=[[Ode To Sleep]]
|length3=5:14
|title4=[[Slowtown]]
|length4=4:57
|title5=[[Car Radio]]
|length5=4:49
|title6=[[Forest]]
|length6=4:11
|title7=[[Glowing Eyes]]
|length7=4:26
|title8=[[Kitchen Sink]]
|length8=5:34
|title9=[[Anathema]]
|length9=3:59
|title10=[[Lovely]]
|length10=4:20
|title11=[[Ruby]]
|length11=4:30
|title12=[[Trees]]
|length12=4:20
|title13=[[Be Concerned]]
|length13=4:08
|title14=[[Clear]]
|length14=3:38}}
{{track listing
|headline=Disk 2| total_length = 62:08
| title1 = [[Implicit Demand For Proof]]
| length1 = 4:52
| title2 = [[Fall Away]]
| length2 = 3:02
| title3 = [[The Pantaloon]]
| length3 = 3:34
| title4 = [[Addict With A Pen]]
| length4 = 4:47
| title5 = [[Friend, Please]]
| length5 = 4:13
| title6 = [[March To The Sea]]
| length6 = 5:32
| title7 = [[Johnny Boy]]
| length7 = 4:39
| title8 = [[Oh, Ms. Believer]]
| length8 = 3:37
| title9 = [[Air Catcher]]
| length9 = 4:13
| title10 = [[Trapdoor]]
| length10 = 4:37
| title11 = [[A Car, A Torch, A Death]]
| length11 = 4:34
| title12 = [[Taxi Cab]]
| length12 = 4:46
| title13 = [[Before You Start Your Day]]
| length13 = 3:53
| title14 = [[Isle Of Flightless Birds]]
| length14 = 5:46
}}

== Tour ==

== Web Series ==
<div style="overflow: auto; height: 230px;">
The Web Series <nowiki>''Regional at Best'' is a documentary on how they made their album ''Regional at Best''</nowiki>
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| style="text-align:center; border-left: hidden; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden; ; font-size: 100%" |<youtube width="220" height="140">7Gz__Iwmr-U</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots Two - Piece (Episode 01 - Regional at Best The Web Series)
| style="text-align:center; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden;" |<youtube width="210" height="130">qWlPGWeTj-M</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots Ichthus Part 01 (Episode 02 - Regional at Best The Web Series)
| style="text-align:center; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden;" |<youtube width="210" height="130">q7eNZ4Bsd94</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots Ichthus Part 02 (Episode 03 - Regional at Best The Web Series)
| style="text-align:center; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden;" |<youtube width="210" height="130">LDmVTgwQOOQ</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots CD Release Show (Episode 04 - Regional at Best The Web Series)
|}
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| style="text-align:center; border-left: hidden; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden;" |<youtube width="220" height="140">Xz_bXC92EwA</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots- Guns for Hands (Episode 05 - Regional at Best- The Web Series)
| style="text-align:center; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden;" |<youtube width="210" height="130">XVnjATSeok0</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots Regional at Best Tour Part 01 (Episode 06 - Regional at Best The Web Series)
| style="text-align:center; border-top: hidden; border-bottom: hidden;" |<youtube width="210" height="130">LDmVTgwQOOQ</youtube><br>Twenty one pilots Regional at Best Tour Part 02 (Episode 07 - Regional at Best The Web Series)
|}
</div>

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