Best Hollywood Undead Albums
Don't get me wrong, "Swan Songs" is a great album with "Undead," "Everywhere I Go," "Young," "No. 5," "City," and "Sell Your Soul." These are great songs. But Deuce getting kicked out and Danny taking his place... Danny is a great singer, and paired with "American Tragedy" and "Notes from the Underground," which have amazing songs, even though "Undead" is my favorite song. Still, I really like the new albums with Danny better than "Swan Songs." I'm sure their new album "Hell Is Empty, Six Devils Are Here" will be amazing too.
Along with Notes from the Underground, this album has some excellent storytelling. Placing this album, New Empire, and Swan Songs has been a difficult one. There isn't much I dislike about this album at all.
I guess all I can say is I love the majority of their songs because there are very few HU songs I don't enjoy listening to. However, I don't love the songs off this album enough to be the songs that come to mind when I think about the band.
My favorite songs are probably Tendencies, Been to Hell, Street Dreams, Comin' in Hot, Lights Out, and Lump Your Head. This ranks higher than Day of the Dead because it's consistent. I think it's a good album throughout, just not many songs that I repeatedly listen to.
This is their best album, in my opinion. It has both a great mix of slower emotional songs, like Lion, Believe, Outside, and We Are, and personally, my favorite party songs, Up in Smoke, One More Bottle, and Delish.
This entire album is just consistently great, in my opinion. Not good, great.
This album is incredible. We Are, Lion, New Day, From the Ground, Dead Bite, Medicine, Believe, etc. These songs are incredible. Up in Smoke is so underrated. It is a great song with Danny and Funny Man singing the chorus. Fantastic album.
This should be first or second. They came back to their roots and added more musical elements.
Considering it's one of their four actual albums, it should at least be number four.
Seriously underrated by the HU community, in my opinion. J3T sounds amazing in all of his verses, and Funny Man's hook in Black Cadillac is always a great listen, which I wish they would do again. There isn't really a song I skip in this album, maybe besides Ghost Beach, as I cannot really relate to it in any way.
I honestly just feel like they hit a really good mix with the rap and heavier elements in this album, while the party anthems feel slightly more mature, but not too mature. Maybe the one issue I have is the slower songs on the album lack that emotional punch which their earlier albums had with their counterparts. Despite that, this is one of the albums with songs I just keep coming back to.
Now, this is actually a HU project I don't think is worth listening to. The few songs on this EP are bad to average at best, with songs like Immigrant Song being awful listens. I guess the only thing I really enjoy at least a little is El Urgencia, but even that isn't anything special.
Finally deciding to ditch the masks and reduce the party anthems (at least for now) is probably a good thing as they are getting older. This album is in the middle of the list because, although I love the songs Heart of a Champion, Empire, Nightmare, and Already Dead, the album is just lacking.
Funny Man is missing, and after the incredible Black Cadillac and enjoyable Cashed Out, Killin' It is a bit of a letdown. The quality of storytelling in their albums has also been dropping, and it shows in this album. I'm also not a massive fan of the features. B-Real worked out in Five because they were going for a different song style, but I feel like the features in this album weren't really needed.
But that's just my opinion. They did a good job, just not for me. However, the songs I like in this album I really do like. Definitely J-Dog's album this time around.
Firstly, great title for an EP. I just wish it was an album, and that is mainly why it's so low, because I enjoy every song on this EP. There's just not enough for me to put it higher. Honestly, with J-Dog's screaming mixed with the dark and heavy instrumental, Bloody Nose would have fit very well on New Empire.
Something to Believe would have also fit well because of the effects on J3T's vocals (although they are more subtle in this song than in something like Empire). Whereas Gotta Let Go, Live Fast Die Young, and Another Level would have suited Five as bonus tracks for a special edition.
At first, I didn't enjoy Another Level, and I can't say it's a great song, but I absolutely love J3T's verse and the beat behind it. I guess I just feel like Psalms didn't need to exist even though I'm glad it does, as I love the songs.
(I don't count this.) So I would actually put this above Desperate Measures as I actually enjoy the songs. I just put it lower as, unless I'm mistaken, all the songs on this EP just became a part of the Swan Songs special edition.
(I don't count this.) Again, I would also put this higher than Desperate Measures as I actually enjoy the songs, but because these songs also just became a part of the Swan Songs special edition, I've put it lower.