Albums Of Hollywood Undead

Swan Songs Rarities EP
Released: April 20, 2010
Recorded: Late 2009 - 2010
Length: 10:04
Label: A&M/Octone
Producers: Deuce, Don Gilmore,
Danny Lohner
Previous: Desperate Measures
Next: Black Dahlia Remixes

Swan Songs Rarities EP is an extended play released by Hollywood Undead. It is an online purchase-only album that consists of three remastered songs that were recorded before the release of the band's debut album, Swan Songs. The second track on the album, The Kids, was the first song recorded by the band while the only members were J-Dog, Deuce, and Shady Jeff.
Producing:
Producing, mixing, and mastering by Deuce, Don Gilmore and Danny Lohner
Additional:

Shady Jeff - background vocals, programming
Trivia:
The three tracks featured on this extended play were all originally released on the 7 Song Sampler.

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Desperate Measures

Released:  November 10, 2009

Recorded: Early to mid 2009

Length: 44:52

Label: A&M/Octone

Producers: Danny Lohner, Deuce

Billboard: 29

Previous: Swan Songs B-Sides EP

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Desperate Measures is a live album released by Hollywood Undead on November 10, 2009. The album includes three new songs, three cover songs, a remix of Everywhere I Go, and six live versions of previously released tracks from a concert in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is also packaged with a 60-minute DVD of live performances. The album debuted at #29 on the Billboard 200, #10 on the Top Rock Albums chart, and #15 on the Top Digital Albums chart.

Production

Production, mixing, and mastering by Danny Lohner, Don Gilmore, Deuce, Kevin Shirley, Ben Grosse, and Jon Kaplan

Trivia:

-Tear It Up was originally recorded for Hollywood Undead featuring unclean vocals from Shady Jeff.

-It was re-recorded for this album, replacing Jeff's vocals with J-Dog's.

-Immigrant Song is a cover of the Led Zeppelin song of the same name.

-Bad Town is a cover of the Operation Ivy song of the same name.

-Shout at the Devil is a cover of the Mötley Crüe song of the same name.

-Taking all of the previous trivia into account, El Urgencia and Dove and Grenade are the only original song featured on the album.

-This is the last album that Deuce was a part of before his falling out with the band.

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Swan Songs B-Sides EP
Released: June 23, 2009
Recorded: 2008
Length: 12:35
Label: A&M/Octone
Producers: Don Gilmore, Danny Lohner, Deuce
Billboard: 124
Previous: Swan Songs
Next: Desperate Measures

Swan Songs B-Sides EP is an extended play by Hollywood Undead that was released on June 23, 2009. It consists of four B-side songs that were recorded during the sessions of Swan Songs, but never made it onto the album.
Overview
The four tracks featured on the EP are also available as bonus tracks on different editions of the album. The Loss was released on the Indie Store edition of the album, The Natives was released on the Smartpunk edition, and both Pain and Knife Called Lust were released on the United Kingdom and Japanese editions of the albums. Pain is also included on the iTunes edition of the album as a bonus track.

Swan Songs B-Sides EP was released on iTunes by the band, but was shortly taken off. The four tracks featured on the EP were later added to the collector's edition of Swan Songs on iTunes, along with the three tracks from Swan Songs Rarities EP and the three tracks from Black Dahlia Remixes.
Personnel
Hollywood Undead
Charlie Scene - lead guitar, vocals
Da Kurlzz - drums, percussion, vocals
Deuce - bass guitar, clean vocals, unclean vocals
Funny Man - clean vocals
J-Dog - keyboards, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, unclean vocals, vocals
Johnny 3 Tears - vocals
Production
Production, mixing, and mastering by Danny Lohner
Additional
Shady Jeff - programming, background vocals, unclean vocals

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                             Swan Songs
Released: September 2, 2008
Recorded: January - May, 2008
Lenght: 49:35
Label: A&M/Octone, Polydor
Producers: Danny Lohner (executive), Deuce, Don Gilmore
Billboard: 22
Singles: No. 5, Undead, Everywhere I Go,  This Love, This Hate, Black Dahlia, Young
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Swan Songs is the debut album of Hollywood Undead, released through A&M/Octone Records. The album was released on September 2, 2008. The band released four music videos for four songs on the album: No. 5, Undead, Young, and Everywhere I Go. Swan Songs is the only studio album to feature vocalist Deuce, who was replaced by Danny from the second studio album and on
Overview:
Swan Songs was supposed to be released on the band's original label, MySpace Records, in 2007. However, it was postponed by the record label when they requested to have some of the songs removed and others censored. These songs were Dead in Ditches, Turn Off the Lights, and basically the other party-based songs. The band declined the choice of censorship and switched labels to A&M/Octone, which wouldn't require them to censor their songs. The album peaked at #22 on the Billboard 200 and sold 21,000 copies on its debut week. Swan Songs was released by Polydor Records on May 18, 2009 in the United Kingdom with two bonus tracks, which were Pain and Knife Called Lust. After sixty-four weeks, the album fell off of the Billboard Top 200, but returned four weeks later at #154. Swan Songs ended up spending eighty-two weeks in total on the Billboard 200. In 2009, it was certified gold by the RIAA. On January 18th, 2013, it reached the Platinum sales mark.
Reception:
Allmusic gave the album a 2/5 rating. Artistdirect gave the album a 3.5/5 rating. Rock Sound gave the album a 7/10 ranking. Sputnikmusic gave the album a 3.5/10 ranking.
Additionally, Dave Donnelly of Allmusic stated that the album's lyrics were uninteresting, and the overall theme "was given over to ironic frat-boy party rap," using the singles Everywhere I Go and No. 5 as examples.
Censorship:
The clean version of the album leaves "lighter" profanities uncensored, while all strong profanity is censored either by back-masking, editing out completely, or replacing the profanity with a cleaner word. 
The list of profanities left uncensored are: "ass," "bitch," "shit," "pimp," "bastard," and any reference to violent weapons/acts.
In popular culture:
The song Undead is featured in the video games "UFC Undisputed 2009" and "Madden NFL 09." The song Young is featured as downloadable content for "Rock Band 2." According to an e-mail sent out to fans from the official website on April 4, 2011, the album has been re-released on iTunes as a Collector's Edition. This features all the tracks available on the original Swan Songs plus Swan Songs B-Sides EP, Swan Songs Rarities EP, and the remix album Black Dahlia Remixes.
Trivia:
-Three songs never made it to the album but were still leaked online, either in studio or demo form.
-The three songs are Turn Off the Lights, Scene for Dummies, and Dead in Ditches.

Hollywood Undead 2005-2007

Masks Of Hollywood Undead

Masks
When performing at live concerts, recording new songs, talking in interviews, making music videos, or just simply walking around town, the members of Hollywood Undead wear masks on their faces.
The reason why they wear masks is not to hide their identity, but to look cool. J-Dog stated in an interview that they came up with their masks because "they didn't sound like anyone else, so why would they wanna look like anyone else?" Each member's mask has its own design. For each studio album, the masks are updated. Touring members of the band do not wear masks.

They often wear masks with cut out mouths when performing live so they can be heard easier. After performing 3-4 songs, they will take their masks off and continue the show unmasked.

The band stated that their masks are made by Jerry Constantine, a makeup effects artist and that the band design them and he builds them. Every mask follows a pattern, which is most notable on Da Kurlzz's mask.
Hollywood Undead 2005-2007
Charlie Scene
Initially, Charlie had no money for a mask so he simply wore a Del Taco bag as a mask with holes for eyes and sunglasses. He didn't like it so much because it wasn't comfortable, so he changed it later in time.
Da Kurlzz
Da Kurlzz's mask in 2006 was basic white with black lips. Before that, he wore a white mask that only covered around his eyes.
Deuce
Deuce's mask in 2006 was grey, with blue tear-like lines coming out of the eyes, and pink duct tape on the mouth. He said that it was just two of his favorite colors.
J-Dog
J-Dog's mask back in 2006 was a basic white goalie mask with blood flowing out of its eyes onto a 1 dollar bill which covered its mouth. There were also small butterflies around the mask.
Funny Man
Funny Man's 2006 mask was a black mesh mask on which he usually wore sunglasses.
Johnny 3 Tears
Johnny's first mask in 2006 was a white goalie mask with huge, symmetrical black splatters dropping from its eyes. The splatters were flowing towards to the sides of the mask. The mouth was covered with the regular silver duct tape.

Later, he changed it to a golden mask. He kept the black splatter but it wasn't symmetrical anymore and flowed straight towards the mouth. The mouth was covered by two black warning tapes that said "Time Again" in red.
Shady Jeff
Shady Jeff wore a black and red bandana with sunglasses.

Trivia Of Hollywood Undead

Johnny 3 Tears
 -He went to jail in 2008-2009, either for DUI or fighting a paparazzi. He was bailed out for a tour in Europe in February 2009. This was also when their song Undead, from the album Swan Songs was used in the GI Joe: Rise of Cobra Trailer at the Superbowl.
-His favorite song to record off of American Tragedy was S.C.A.V.A..
-Ava was originally suspected to be the child who sings at the end of the song Bullet, but it was later revealed to have been the daughter of producer Griffin Boice instead, Petra Christensen.
-He also featured in a song called The Only Ones by a band called Kisses for Kings.
-Despite listening to Slipknot, he has stated their masks have nothing to do with HU having masks.
-He is afraid of heights.
-He is very competitive.
-He went to Yale.
-He is the oldest member of the band.
-He said he was not homosexual, but loved gay people.
-He has known Charlie and J-Dog since pre-school.
-His Instagram is "johnny3tearsoffical"
-His Twitter is "johnny333tears"
-He said in a interview that he met J-Dog when he was 5 years old, and said that they didn't like each other when they first met. However, years later, they ended up in the same band.
-He's working on a movie: Highway To Havasu as an actor/producer, he's playing the character of "Jonathan".