Swan Songs | 
| Artist: Hollywood Undead
Label: A&M / OCTONE
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
Buy New: $8.99
You Save: $3.99 (31%)
Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 566
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001133102
UPC: 602517725416
EAN: 0602517725416
ASIN: B001CK04N0
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Undead | | • | Sell Your Soul | | • | Everywhere I Go | | • | No Other Place | | • | No 5 | | • | Young | | • | Bottle And A Gun | | • | Black Dahlia | | • | This Love, This Hate | | • | California | | • | City | | • | The Diary | | • | Pimpin' | | • | Paradise Lost |
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Album Description
Hollywood Undead's debut album has finally arrived! "Swan Songs" Features the new songs: "Everywhere I Go", "California", "No Other Place", "Young", "This Love, This Hate", "The Diary", "Pimpin" and "Paradise Lost". While there are newly mixed/mastered versions of your personal faves: "No. 5", "Undead", "Sell Your Soul", "Bottle and a Gun" and "Black Dahlia". The album also includes a bonus track and when purchasing the album, there will be an option to unlock a music video!
Album Description
Hollywood Undead are about to drop a musical bomb. On their debut album (A&M/Octone), they've concocted an explosive cocktail of hip hop, rock and metal, forging an alternative style that's primed to blow the scene up. They craft incisive, sharp and sarcastic raps that slash the jugular of mainstream pop culture. They aren't your standard rap or rock crew. They're something new, dangerous, funny and alive. Deuce busts out the melodies. Johnny 3 Tears, J-Dog and Charlie Scene lead the lyrical charge, while Funny Man drops rhymes, and Da Kurlzz hypes the fray. Donning individual masks, Hollywood Undead possess a dark aesthetic that's connected to their hometown's depravity. Tracks like "No. 5" dissect the frivolities of Hollywood with witty, catchy choruses. Album opener "Undead," sets the tone, firing off a big melody and buoyant beats. Meanwhile, "Los Angeles" examines the town's gritty edge. Rising to prominence via MySpace, these six masked marauders stood at number one on the site's music chart, leading to endless friend requests and plays. However, Hollywood Undead has got the gusto to be earth shattering far beyond cyberspace. They're already knocking at your door, and they're about to break it down.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Best CD ever! December 1, 2008
Raven Horn (Fayetteville, NC United States)
There isn't even one song on here that would prevent me from buying the CD all over again. I've referred it to all my friends. If you even the slightest Hollywood Undead fan, then you'll fall in love with this CD. From start to finish, you won't be disappointed. It would make great Christmas presents too so, buy em for all your friends!
Awesome. November 24, 2008
wendy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first cd i ever bought that i actually loved. Yes, their lyrics are a little dirty and degrading, but i still like them. I love the beat, and its very catchy.I went to one of their shows, and i would go again it was such a blast, and the guys are very down to earth. I hung out with them a little bit, the guys are very sweet and true to their fans. Everyone who went had a good time and was rockin out with the music to the point where i was just rockin out with funnyman in the middle of the crowd.
just found about their band this yr, and i support them all the way!
and to those who don't like them its cool and understanding, but you don't have to hate it, you may dislike it but they've gone from nowhere to something big, and ever bigger in the future.
not an easy thing to do
Honestly My fovite CD of 2008 November 23, 2008
C. DeMayo (Norfolk, Va)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD has been played over and over again since I bought it. I had no doubt in my mind that when they did come out with a CD...it was going to be amazing. They waited 3 years to perfect this album and you can tell. Not ONE track is a waste.
I had the honor of meeting them at a concert (which by the way was the most amazing concert also!) and they were incredibly Nice also -- which makes the CD even better.
You can listen to the CD on Loop and fall in love with each song over and over.
If I had to pick ANY CD of 2008 -- It would be Swan Songs!
Undead!
-Chase
 L. A. Vamps On The Prowl November 16, 2008
Steven Haarala (Mandeville, LA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Musically, "SWAN SONGS" is like someone took a blender and threw in sounds from Linkin Park, Beastie Boys, Eminem, Blink 182, and a few others, and out poured this graphic cocktail. I say graphic, because the lyrics are very explicit (I like that), not for the weak. But more importantly, they form Hollywood Undead's panorama of life in the dangerous yet alluring night world of L.A. It's full of alcohol and drugs, sex and violence, anger and numbness, agony and ecstasy. Sounds like fun, no? So, what's the connection to the REAL undead? Well, listen and you will hear the following references:
"...March to the drums of the damned..." (Vampires are damned.)
"...With this blood on my hands, in this blood I am damned..." (Blood is a vampire's tragic flaw.)
"Just let me burn..." (One way to kill a vampire.)
".. this destiny, it goes on endlessly..." (Vampires live forever.)
"I don't wanna be like this, I've been running the streets too long now..." (Vampires are lonely, in despair.)
And finally, "Am I alive or dead?" (Of course, they are Undead.)
H.U. expresses a lot of youthful angst as well, as rock/rap should. The album as a whole, sucked up in one sitting, is really an engrossing experience which, incorporating all of the above, gets you into that L.A. life. For those of us stuck out in the red states, it's the next best thing to actually being there...
Just one more thing. Is it a coincidence that the last name of the heroine in the book "Twilight" is SWAN?
Loving it! November 7, 2008
J. Fry (Maryland)
I heard about these guys a while before 'Swan Songs' was released, and instantly fell in love with them. Their sound is very different from anything else out there right now...it's very refreshing. A little bit of everything, HU is hard to place into any one genre category, and thats one of the things that I love about this band. They are unique to say the least.
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