Elva

Unwritten Law | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B00005UWLW
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• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (152 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,680 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ladies & Gentlemen, we may just have album of the year!, June 11, 2002

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A. Estes (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elva (Audio CD)

Unwritten Law have always been miles above their genre. Although usually categorized into the pop-punk scene that often beckons one to think "Funny video-Blink 182 clones," Unwritten Law show you can have intelligent songs side by side with some pretty laid back and fun songs. People who buy this on the strength of the single "Seeing Red" might be a little surprised; the aformentioned track is preceeded by five, fast-paced, punk-rock tunes. My favorite song on the whole album is probably "Geronimo," one of the few semi-mellow tracks on here. In fact, most of this CD is pretty fast paced, most songs clocking in at 2 and a half minutes apiece. Which is sort of a shame too, because the whole album is so great, it goes by just a little to fast. Since Unwritten Law are getting pretty big now, you'll hear a lot of those lame "down since day-one" losers claiming "they're on MTV, they sold out" come out of the woodwork, but ignore that. Because no matter what anyone says, no matter how you cut it, Elva is definetly a most excellent album.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unwritten Law Breaks All Laws, February 2, 2002

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Alex (State College, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elva (Audio CD)

The San Diego based Unwritten Law demostrates how a cd should be produced and released. Even though the cd has been out months in Australia, Elva will soon be big all over the world. From the first track "Mean Girl" with its Fuel like sound to the last track "Evolution" which has a Bad Brains vibe, Unwritten Law created a compact disc that will please punk, ska, metal, and pop fans alike. The tracks that stand out the most are "Seein' Red" which is mid-tempo ballad that whom give Creed the run for their money, the heavy hitter punk anthem "Hellborn", and the semi-acoustic "Rest of My Life" which has that beach like Sublime sound. Mix in some soliloquies for the mad man genius Raliegh Theodore Saker and an interesting phone message called "Nick and Phil" - you have a modern day masterpiece. Unwritten Law may not be a house hold name yet but if you want to high the NEXT big band, check out Elva and you will not be disappointed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD!, June 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Elva (Audio CD)

I first heard of Unwritten Law through MTV and the single "Seein' Red". "Mean Girl" is an awesome, fairly heavy song with a good chorus. "Up All Night" is a melodic chorused, strange sounding beginninged song, but is actually really cool once you get used to it. "Sound Siren" is one of the most awesome songs on here, and this song alone would be worth buying the CD, with a melodic sound to the song all the way through. "How You Feel" has a great chorus and great background music. "Blame It On Me" is slightly weird, but actually a pretty heavy and rough track. "Seein' Red" is an awesome track, and I really love the stopping style of the chorus and tuned down rest of the song. "Nick and Phil" is sorta funny, with it being a phone call and the weird usage of curse words. "Hellborn" is a really loud, barely understandable, curse-filled, blood pumping track, while the next song, "Geronimo" ,another of the three best songs on "Elva", is much softer and is filled with a melodic sound, something that is fairly rare in the first ten and absent in the last seven. "Rescue Me" is a cool song, with the odd, stopping style of the song around the chorus, while "Actress, Model.." is a strange, un-original but still fairly good song. "Raleigh(Soliquity pt.V)" is an intro to "Babylon", and is not that bad, being somewhat humorous. "Babylon" is another heavy track, like "Hellborn" and "Blame It On Me". "Raleigh(Soliquity pt.VI)" is a funny, strange outro to "Babylon". "Rest Of My Life" is a slower, nice- instrumentally and somewhat lyrical song, while "Elva(It's Alright)" has a catchy chorus and is easy to remember by the Repeating of the words 'it's alright'. "Evolution", the last song, is pretty catchy, but kind of wordy and long. Strangely, it seems to me that at the end of "Evolution" they make fun of one of their own songs, track 2, "Up All Night". I recommend this to anyone who likes Blink-182, Sum 41, or Green Day, I'm sure you'd love it as much as I do.