This Is Unity Music

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This Is Unity Music
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 3, 2002
Recorded2002
Genre Ska punk, reggae
Length32:38
Label Hopeless
Producer Mass Giorgini, Jesse Michaels
Common Rider chronology
Thief in a Sleeping Town EP
(2001)
This Is Unity Music
(2002)
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This Is Unity Music is the second full-length album by Common Rider, released in 2002.

Common Rider was a ska punk band, formed in 1999 by Jesse Michaels, Mass Giorgini (bass) and Dan Lumley (drums). The band's name is taken from a Japanese TV show, Kamen Rider

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Jesse Michaels.

  1. "Firewall" - 2:56
  2. "Set the Method Down" - 2:06
  3. "Small Pebble" - 3:40
  4. "Cool This Madness Down" 2:32
  5. "Long After Lights Out" 2:33
  6. "Blackbirds vs. Crows" - 2:41
  7. "Time Won't Take Away" - 3:19
  8. "Prison Break" - 2:14
  9. "Midnight Passenger" - 2:45
  10. "One Ton" - 2:13
  11. "Toss Around" - 2:14
  12. "Long Shot" - 3:25

Personnel

Jesse Michaels is a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, artist, and author from Berkeley, California. He is the son of the author Leonard Michaels and was married to producer Audrey Marrs. His lyrics deal with politics, racism, and general social issues. He is most well known as the vocalist for the ska punk band Operation Ivy.

Mass Giorgini American musician

Massimiliano Adelmo "Mass" Giorgini is an Italian-American bassist and record producer, who rose to fame when several of the bands he produced experienced huge gains in popularity during the pop-punk boom on the mid-‘90s. Among these bands was Giorgini's own Squirtgun, which received minor MTV rotation and several soundtrack appearances in major films in the 1990s. Mass Giorgini is also the son of renowned Italian artist Aldo Giorgini.

Featuring

Audrey Marie Marrs is a film producer, the Chief Operating Officer of Representational Pictures, Inc. She is a former punk rock musician and co-founder of Ladyfest.

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