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(1985 – present)

United Nations is an experimental punk supergroup whose roots go back to at least 2005 formed by Geoff Rickly, the singer/lyricist of the band Thursday.

Other artists rumored to be involved in the project most noteably include Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica fame along with Ben Koller of Converge. A handful of other names have also been mentioned: Chree (The Number Twelve Looks Like You), Eric Cooper (Kiss It Goodbye) Lukas Previn (Acid Tiger) Tom Keeley (Thursday) Jonah Bayer (The Lovekill).

Since Rickly is the only member whose primary band is currently not under contract, his name is the only one that can legally appear in press materials. Press photos of the band released in 2008 depict four people wearing Ronald Reagan masks, believed to be because of this reason. The only exception to this being when Daryl breifly mentioned being involved in the project to Punk News in 2005 (http://www.punknews.org/article/13238). Baring all this in mind, the official line-up is not well known.

The bands debut record entiled United Nations was released in September 2008 amid much controversy surrounding the original artwork and also the bands name.

Before its release, stores refused to sell the band’s debut self-titled album because of copyright issues. As a result, only 1,000 copies were made with the controversial cover, and later copies were made with an alternative cover. The one thousand original copies were sold exclusively through the band and Eyeball Records.

The controversial cover can be found here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/UnitedNationsSelftitledCover.jpg

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moon-unit wrote:
Monday morning

London needs them

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kitapherr wrote:
last month

this has an incredible amount of listeners just because of the people involved

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ravschmidt-sas wrote:
last month

cool guys, реально клёвые парни!!!

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QsLv_ wrote:
last month

they're... wait, umm, GOOD.

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BrianSoph wrote:
last month

Not better than Thursday, but definitely better than Common Existence

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Antics424 wrote:
last month

gayy i wont be able to see this band live in jersey -_-

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Exile92 wrote:
last month

I know that they didn't break up, they were just inactive when I posted.

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ravinrockstar wrote:
October 2009

quality band :)

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Frbv wrote:
October 2009

waiting for new stuff

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Capanos wrote:
October 2009

that line up is so depressingly good....... :(

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nauraushaun wrote:
October 2009

so whose seeing UN with the Dillenger Escape Plan, Thursday, and Glassjaw December 30th in NJ?

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KMFCM wrote:
October 2009

I didn't hear the rumor about them breaking up. . . .but apparently they're supposed to play a show with the Hope Conspiracy next year...........

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Malatestasdream wrote:
October 2009

united. fucking. nations.

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felipeaugusto_ wrote:
October 2009

@Exile92 but they didn't break up and are planning to release an album and an EP...

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miretucielo wrote:
October 2009

Ininteligible ♥

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Jimsonisolation wrote:
October 2009

What a ridiculously shitty band.

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fAbor wrote:
October 2009

AWESOME!

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Exile92 wrote:
October 2009

Band needs to come back...

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punkrockalfred wrote:
October 2009

Thursday's legit.

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ninjablaster wrote:
October 2009

thursday sucks.

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UNITED NATIONS PLAYS PRETTY AND...

5 Nov 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/unitednations

EVERYONE!!! Our good friend Dave Debiak is currently producing and recording the "United Nations Plays Pretty for a Bunch of Fucking Babies" CD that comes with our vinyl version of the record. …

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