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Explode | 
| Artist: Unseen
Label: Better Youth Org.
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 171587
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 020282009027
EAN: 0020282009027
ASIN: B00009EIPW
Release Date: June 3, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | False Hope | | • | Your Failure Is My Revenge | | • | Explode | | • | Don't Look Back | | • | Negative Outlook | | • | Tsunami Suicide | | • | So Sick of You | | • | Remains Unseen | | • | Fed Up | | • | Useless Regrets | | • | Victims | | • | New World Disorder |
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 Not the same January 14, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With Paul out of the picture, The Unseen are definitly not the same band at all. It just seems all the passion has been drained. This album has ok songs, but nothing special. Stick to the first two albums, which were some of the best street punk records of their time.
 Hard times for The Unseen August 10, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album is anything but the Unseen we all know and love. My least favorite of their records. What has become of this band? Everyone changes, that's what happened. Granted, age and experience may bring about big transformations in a band, this is a little too much of a change. Their first two albums will remain the best, and "The Anger and The Truth" (although many claim that it was a flop) is actually really good. I just can't say that "Explode" is enjoyable. I hated it the first time I heard it, and it actually doesn't seem too bad once you listen to it a few times. That is, until you actually read the lyrics which made me wish I never bought it. It has just become too generic and hollow. I gave it 3 stars, because the music is actually pretty good and the vocals are decent. I just can't give it any more credit than that because of the lack of lyrical significance. All the songs are pretty much the same. Plus, the album is way too short. Their first album was 30 minutes long and this one dies out at a pitiful 22 minutes, not worth the price you pay. Alas, The Unseen. It was great while it lasted. The Unseen will always be one of my favorite bands, but I think your times is up, guys.
 Explode (****1/2) July 22, 2008
Morton (Colorado)
The Unseen-Explode ****1/2
Explode is by far my favorite of the Unseens albums. While not as strong as other releases (namely Internal Salvation, State of Discontent, and So This Is Freedom?) but it was the first Unseen record I fell in love with. Explode was really the first punk album to make me take notice of things that go on in the world around us. It made me realize that music can be more than just sex, drugs, and good times. It can be more than your own personal pain but the pain of others; the pain of the world.
'False Hope' the albums opener was like a wave of consciousness hitting me right between the teeth. The title track 'Explode' does just that. 'Tsunami Suicide' and 'Remains Unseen' about the underdogs and people pushed aside serve as the albums strongest tracks and some of the bands strongest to date. 'Victims' is the most overlooked track on the album which is sad considering it is one of their best. Marks vocals and lyrics through out kill, as do the constantly stellar guitar riffs. Though there are a few weak moments, namely 'New World Disorder.' It plays like a good idea but never totally follows through and delivers like it could have. Though it does contain some of Marks greatest lyrics.
Explode is a far cry from The Unseens best work, or that of The Virus' weakest work for that matter but it is truly an album worth giving a shot. As I said of all the groups album this is truly my personal favorite.
A great album December 15, 2007
venus_in_chains (Cambridge)
After reading the other reviews complaining that this album is pop punk and trash, I decided to download this CD instead of buying it - well, it would have been 10 bucks well spent. I frankly don't know what everybody is complaining about. I bought "lower class crucifixion" and "so this is freedom" and I loved them - and "explode" seems a natural progression from "lower class crucifixion". It is a similar sound - its slightly more tuneful but no less fast and the more melodic sound doesn't mean the album loses its raw edge. It is definitely a million miles from pop punk and to me it's the band progressing musically, but not losing sight of what they are about. People are too quick to try and condemn punk bands the second they learn to write a bridge - but they should stop being such whiny little b**ches - the unseen haven't sold out, they are still one of the greatest on the scene today and this album is 100 percent a reflection of that.
 Not as bad as I thought at first May 15, 2007
S (New York)
I've had this CD for a while but just recently listened to it again. Its much better than I remembered. While the negative reviews are right in that the Unseen don't have that exact same street punk sound they used to, they are wrong in saying that this one is worthless. Mark, Scott, and Tripp are the main songwriters and they have an almost equal number of songs, with Tripp writing his own music and lyrics and Mark's lyrics being combined with music written by Scott. Paul's one song (co-written with Scott), "Tsunami Suicide", is pretty good but if he was going to continue to write similiar sounding songs in the future then the band didn't lose that great of a songwriter (though perhaps Scott is as much to blame for that one). I'm sure most critics of this record had his song in mind when they complain about how The Unseen sound like a generic hardcore band on Explode. That song is certainly no "Are We Dead Yet?"
Mark, Scott, and Tripp on the other hand wrote a good batch of songs. Tripp's songs are above average hardcore songs that have suprisingly good lyrics. The music isn't very inovative and they all kind of sound the same, but every single one has something to say and is more than listenable. Some of them aren't brilliant or the best The Unseen have ever done, but they make for a solid record. And songs like "Don't Look Back" and "Victims" (which features Paul and Tripp trading off on vocals for a nice effect) are two of the best songs the band has ever written. Unlike Tripp's similiar sounding and solid songs, Mark and Scott's are hit or miss: either brilliant or missing the mark (no pun intended). The biggest miss is "Negative Outlook" with its very catchy chorus but somewhat rap like verses. The title track is another miss that is listenable but kind of dull. And unlike Tripp's songs the lyrics aren't that great either. But the hits make for these two misses: there is a reason "False Hope" had a video shot for it while "So Sick of You" gets back at the band's critics through one of the catchiest choruses the band has ever had. I also enjoy "New World Disorder". Like Tripp, Scott's music takes the band in a more hardcore direction, but adds in enough hooks to prevent it from getting stale.
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