United Nations
 

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United Nations was started by Geoff Rickly, the vocalist/lyricist of the band Thursday. Other artists involved in the project possibly include Daryl Palumbo, vocalist of Glassjaw and Head Automatica, and Ben Koller, drummer for Converge. However, all members except for Rickly are under contracts with other record labels and are not legally permitted to work in projects released by another label, making it difficult for the official lineup to be well-known.

This is the only album they have out right now (self-titled), but apparently they have like two already recorded just waiting to be released. Anyone heard this album? I think its fantastic, probably the best hardcore record from 2008 in my opinion.

I didn't know this was a Rickly band. That's a shame because they suck.

i beg to disagree, if i didn't know anyone from thursday or kiss it goodbye was in it, i'd totally say this is the best thing to come out of nowhere since god knows when. but that's me. i just dig this stuff.

yeah, i thought this was pretty terrible.

theyre a few years too late to ride on the bandwagon imo. this is what happens when you do screamo all too well.

I think it's a pretty well done CD.

I'm personally looking forward to their next releases.

(from an interview with Rickly...)

I feel like there's a huge influence from the Nation Of Ulysses regarding the aesthetic, the song titles and even the band name.
Absolutely. Actually, we're working on a kids record right now called United Nations Plays Pretty For A Bunch Of ****ing Babies, which is gonna be all the same songs from the full-length, but done [like] Kidz Bop jams.

[Cracking up.] Seriously?
Seriously. As serious as that idea could possibly be. That's how serious this is. [Rickly later clarified that kids will not actually be singing on the record, but more accessible, child-pandering vocals and novelty instruments such as xylophones will be utilized. He drew a comparison to the Wiggles as an example.]

Is Eyeball putting that out too?
I'm not sure. It might come free with the first 1000 or 2000 orders, and then never be printed again. So it's just like a thing that people who are excited about it in the first place [get], and everybody else [will miss] out on.


Get pumped.

Holy ****. I'm so excited about that!

I'm going to have to buy that when it comes out!

Did anyone else get on this? I personally think it's one of the best hardcore albums I've heard in while. Looking forward to hearing more stuff by these guys.

All I really got from this is that they really don't like Refused.

believe it or not i got syphilis, gout, emphysema, and inverted nipples from listening to this.

I think you're taking that song the wrong way. I thought it was critical of Refused at first, but I think it's a kind of regretful song that states that Refused's vision of "The Shape Of Punk To Come" is not really what came.

For example, the last line: "Sometimes false hope is better than nothing at all. Sometimes a dying breath can make true words.".

rickly whining about what punk became after what thursday became and contributed to... thats rich. UN is his excuse to namedrop all his tr00 emo influences. you know, the ones that inspired him to produce my chemical romance's debut, tour with them and the used, etc. disregard that ****, a basement show with you & i in '97 or whenever is where they're actually coming from... yeah right. UN is just a poor ripoff of 90's screamo and rickly admits it. and it goes without saying they are light years away from pv or grindcore. whoever thought it was a good idea to call them either should be shot.

Well regardless of where Rickly sticks his nose, I loved their album. A "poor ripoff of 90's screamo" they may be, but they keep me coming back for more. I think it's a really well done little album.

btw, did anyone else here about thursday asking daitro to tour with them and daitro turned them down because it wouldnt be diy.

No, but that's pretty funny.

yeah hahaha