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

Next: Swan Songs Rarities EP

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