So This Is Freedom?

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So This Is Freedom
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 20, 1999
RecordedMarch 1999
Genre Street punk
Length31:36
Label A-F Records
The Unseen chronology
Lower Class Crucifixion
(1997)
So This Is Freedom
(1999)
Totally Unseen: The Best of the Unseen
(2000)
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So This Is Freedom is an album by the Massachusetts-based punk rock band The Unseen, released in 1999.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "What Are You Gonna Do?" (lyrics: Mark music: Scott) 2:18
  2. "Are We Dead Yet?" (lyrics & music: Paul) 2:58
  3. "Stand Up and Fight" (lyrics: Tripp & Mark music: Tripp) 2:11
  4. "Punks Attack" (lyrics & music: Paul) 2:27
  5. "Dead and Gone" (lyrics: Mark Music: Tripp) 2:20
  6. "There's Still Hope" (lyrics: Paul & Mark music: Paul & Scott) 3:53
  7. "Greed Is a Disease" (lyrics: Mark music: Scott) 1:20
  8. "Piss Off" (lyrics: Trip music: Tripp & Paul) 2:15
  9. "Don't be Fooled" (lyrics & music: Tripp) 1:34
  10. "Cultural Genocide" (lyrics: Tripp music: Scott & Paul) 1:57
  11. "Sent to Die" (lyrics: Mark music: Scott & Mark) 1:48
  12. "Tradition" (lyrics: Tripp music: Tripp & Paul) 1:52
  13. "So This Is Freedom?" (lyrics: Tripp music: Tripp & Scott) 2:52
  14. "Beat It" (Michael Jackson cover) 1:51

Personnel

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References

  1. "So This Is Freedom - The Unseen | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. 1999-08-24. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  2. "So This Is Freedom?". Archived from the original on December 2, 2003. Retrieved November 28, 2020.