Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

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the perfect "post" record: punk and rock.

Poll Results

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"Demons Sing Love Songs" – 4:03 5
"We Invent You" – 4:06 4
"Terminus" – 9:40 3
"Scarlette" – 4:44 3
"Below the Salt" – 10:39 2
"December" – 4:03 2
"Radio Gra" – 5:56 2
"October All Over" – 4:59 1
"Who Cares" – 2:25 1
"Off This Century" – 5:30 1
"Treachery" – 4:17 1
"Summer Freeze" – 5:36 0
"Look a Ghost" – 3:04 0
"One Lick Less" – 5:36 0


Zeno, Monday, 16 March 2009 06:36 (sixteen years ago)

I fear voting Demons Sing Love Songs may out me as a mere casual occasional Unwound listener, but damn, that song has crawled under my skin and webbed around my mind like nothing else in their catalogue.

(One day I will find the time to play all their records until I love them as much as I feel I ought to)

a passing spacecadet, Monday, 16 March 2009 11:29 (sixteen years ago)

"December" is the one song that sticks with me years down the road.

ilxor, Monday, 16 March 2009 14:11 (sixteen years ago)

great record

cutty, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

their least-best album -- it doesn't 'kick ass' like the previous ones, but it's a nice one.

This had the highest live/studio quality ratio, though, especially with Brandt on keyboards, and the live versions of "Terminus" were really phenomenal. "Look A Ghost", and "Below The Salt", but "Terminus" wins this one. I love the march-turn-strings thing it does.

She Is Beyond Food In Weevil (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

(a New Plastic Ideas poll would be awesome)

She Is Beyond Food In Weevil (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

i really hate the vocals on this one

Mr. Que, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

but i voted Scarlette

Mr. Que, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:45 (sixteen years ago)

yeah the restraint is curious and frustrating. "Scarlette", for example, begins like it's going to be one of those rough old throat-destroying Unwound jams, but then Justin whispers like a witch with laryngitis. (the vocals were a lot louder in the live versions a la older Unwound.)

She Is Beyond Food In Weevil (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

xpost jinx etc

She Is Beyond Food In Weevil (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

exactly exactly

Mr. Que, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

this whole album is great but my vote goes to "Below the Salt". repetitive, haunting, seemingly endless, but never boring cuz the band actually knows how to use dynamics, build/release tension, etc.

if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Monday, 16 March 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

we invent you cuz i love the droney beginning for the record

just a great album

be on the treadmill - uh! - like OK GO (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:08 (sixteen years ago)

yeah the feedback noises at the start are great.

this was my first unwound album!

rio (r1o natsume), Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

I think this album is gorgeous and highly (and strangely) underrated.

I would love to get it on vinyl as it's the only Unwound album I don't have on vinyl.

Saw them live in a basement in '92 back when Brandt was drumming, before Sara joined. Lifelong fave.

Nate Carson, Saturday, 21 March 2009 18:57 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Aw, I wish I would have seen this. This is def my favorite Unwound album, and one of my favorite records of the decade so far. I would have trouble deciding between "One Lick Less" and "Below the Salt" and "We Invent You"

I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

no votes for "Summer Freeze" or "Look A Ghost" = o_O

if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Sunday, 22 March 2009 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

not a bad track on this album
Summer Freeze definitely deserved a vote
i went with Scarlette, though

turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Sunday, 22 March 2009 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

I can't believe "One Lick Less" didn't get a vote. Such a beautiful song.

I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:53 (sixteen years ago)

I've owned this album since it was released (I bought it on the strength of positive reviews & recommendations etc). I've always been well-disposed towards it, but I've never really got it. I'm now tempted to give it (yet) another listen. Maybe one day it will click.

Duke, Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

I can't believe "One Lick Less" didn't get a vote. Such a beautiful song.

Unbelievably, I still think this is OTM. Man, nice point Z S

I'm pretty sure I'd rank this as one of my top 10 of the decade. Every year I get obsessed with it for a few months and think I've finally blown my wad, but sure enough I buy a new calendar and there it is again, every day. What a wonderful note to go out on. Did any of them ever record anything after this?

"goof proof cooking, I love it!" (Z S), Saturday, 31 July 2010 04:02 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

Via TinyMixTapes, the band is releasing a live double LP of Leaves Turn Inside You:

Unwound are showing off some artifacts from their last tourdates in 2001 and 2002: videos, interviews, fliers, all that jazz. Plus new t-shirts! This museum never closes, you gum-chewing, naked freak; you can sit and listen to Unwound live shows all damn night long if you want. But if that’s not enough for you, on December 11, the band is also releasing a live double LP version of their 2001 masterpiece, Leaves Turn Inside You, consisting of live performances from their final tour. Each track was recorded by Unwound superfan and bootlegger, Mike Zeigler — a fella referred to as “The Kid” and deeply devoted to Nirvana and rock ‘n’ roll in general — who accompanied the band on their final tour.

Info on the album here: http://unwoundarchive.com/live-album/

Evan R, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

Wtf @ my two fav songs ("Look a Ghost" & "Summer Freeze") not garnering a single vote -- I musta been asleep for this one

you don't know james blunt's "you're beautiful" (bernard snowy), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

... oh I already said that upthread haha

you don't know james blunt's "you're beautiful" (bernard snowy), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:08 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

hey unwound dorks, the live set is streaming here:

https://soundcloud.com/unwound-archive/live-leaves/s-MKdXt

very much worth listening to.

dexpresso (Z S), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 03:05 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

just scored a relatively cheap copy of Empire and marvelling at this album all over again. one of the best-paced and sequenced double LPs ever made, I reckon.

wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 00:43 (seven years ago)

for whatever reason i was imagining running for political office and someone asking during an interview what my favorite album was and thinking this would be a good answer.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 00:58 (seven years ago)

not *too* obscure, no objectionable content; your campaign manager has signed off.

wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 02:43 (seven years ago)

Such a great album. I need to hear it again, it's been too long.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 05:59 (seven years ago)

Thought the revive was about the reissue by Numero Group.

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:00 (seven years ago)

Just got back into this one recently (after pulling the MP3s from the hard drive of my old computer, hah). I'm kind of obsessed with the backwards guitar on "October All Over" -- Maybe the best imitation of Sonic Youth (weird/moody/sexy/menacing) by any band that isn't Sonic Youth?

The live album sounds good, too (though I've only listened on the execrable Bandcamp mobile app, which never fails to introduce awkward pauses between tracks/sometimes randomly skips over a track)

bernard snowy, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:02 (seven years ago)

"demons sing love songs" reminds me of the maze music from "golgo 13: top secret episode"

dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:23 (seven years ago)

how tf did Look a Ghost get no votes???????????????????????????????????????????

flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:41 (seven years ago)

probably the song i've played the most from this

have no idea how i'd even narrow the choices down tho, let alone pick one

lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:05 (seven years ago)


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