― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
That claim is a steaming platter of freshly squeezed crap.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I always hated them, of course, but for lack of considering them more than anything else. I didn't have to consider them, because I was in middle school/high school. They're over now; I guess they were pretty good.
― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 December 2002 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Tom Millar (Millar), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 20 December 2002 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Then the second album came out and sounded just like the first, and then the 3rd, which sounded like the 1st & second, and the cycle continues.
The fact is, althought they came out as original, entertaining musicians, they never really evolved, which would be ok if there weren't so many blatent knock-offs. The surrounding sound-alike bands kinda diminished Korn's initial originality.
And then Feildy's Dreams came out and the shit hit the fan. Or was it that the fans bought that piece of shit? I dunno.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 05:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
Korn: I really can't stand their stupid "I was an outcast... kindof... in highschool... which was like 10 years ago" lyrics. The "bobbing for apples" thing they do with their heads also annoys the crap out of me.
― David Allen, Friday, 20 December 2002 06:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mal2478 (mal2478), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
If you think the name is bad, the story of why they chose that name is much, much worse.
― fletrejet, Friday, 20 December 2002 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's a little frustrating to me as a vocalist who is very influenced by rap music that they are often referred to as "rap/rock" even when I don't recall they've ever actually rapped in any of their songs. Like calling Talking Heads a 'metal' band or something. Eh, I'll get over it.
And yes, the story of their name is one of the most disgusting stories in the history of modern music. It might possibly trump the Charlie Parker whiskey/fried chicken/hooker story.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
WOULD MAKE THEM SICK. FINALLY THEY DECIDED IT WOULD BE A GREAT BAND NAME! HE WROTE IT LIKE A CHILD WOULD. IT STUCK, AND NOW THEY ARE BIG."
Great...
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eugene Record, Friday, 20 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eugene Record, Friday, 20 December 2002 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― m, Friday, 20 December 2002 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t''t), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 21 December 2002 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
And they're also one of these anger-based bands (Metallica, et al.)who are doomed to fail if they ever become successful. I mean, scream, bitch and whine about terror and tragedy, it hurts, i'm alone, blah blah blah... SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY! When you've got the cash money chart topping bling bling music videos, when you have fan clubs and your albums are featured in the K-mart circular, none of that shit is valid. But I actually think Korn is pretty talented- the bassist and drummer are tight like spandex on sumo.
So the correct answer is neither classic nor dud.
― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery, Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:37 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
It is too bad that Korn made more than two albums though.
― Schwingung (Damian), Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
If Korn are the Joy Division of Nu Metal, I guess that'd make Limp Bizkit....INTERPOL!!
or, you know, Crime and the City Solution, maybe. Whatev, Bev.
― roger adultery, Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
Oh damn, I hope not.
Rob Zombie/White Zombie have had a couple of singles that kill anything I have heard from Korn or Gimp Trisket. "More Human Than Human" is great. Of course, Rob Zombie is old as dirt and didn't make it until later and probably played in bands that covered Judas Priest.
System of a Down seems pretty respectable to me in comparison to the Korn/Bizquick axis.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
whoever wrote that review must be hunted down and sterilized in the most unsanitary manner possible, while being forced to watch a cageful of hungry minks eat their just-severed genitalia.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 November 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Been listening to the first six Korn albums a lot recently and it's really amazing how much this stuff sold considering how difficult, ugly and dissonant some of their stuff is.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 25 August 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
C'MOWWWWN!IT'S ON!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
just re-listened to the self-titled and life is peachy while working on a cover letter last night and the former is a lot better and holds up pretty ok.
jonathan davis' grumbling, muttley vocal routine sounds beyond ridiculous, and i have some issues with 5-string slap bass, but i like the guitar tones, drums, and the groove metal vibe
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:15 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i didn't get this job. i blame korn
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
Did you accidentally mention that you feel like a freak on a leash? Most employers prefer you to be OK with that feeling.
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
evan i quite clearly posted that i listened to the self-titled and life is peachy. freak on a leash is on follow the leader!
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
Look, it's a feeling. Can't you chill and let me be free?
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
the s/t def holds up in some kind of way, relentless juvenilia of the lyrics aside. "need to" is a jam
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
the other korn album i still think is pretty good is issues, mostly bc i think they were right to abandon rap and they were writing their best hooks
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
apparently all i do in this thread is talk about how much i like issues
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
I remember recording the video to 'Falling Away from Me' on a VHS tape. I still think it's a good song.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
I've not listened to the self-titled in *years*. I'd forgotten how awful the bass sounds. Faget is vile but still has a bleeding rawness about it.
If nothing else, it's made me want to listen to Acid Bath.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
I remember recording the video to 'Falling Away from Me' on a VHS tape. I still think it's a good song.― pomenitul, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:17 PM(yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pomenitul, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 8:17 PM(yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I really love that ominous opening riff. I can hear the post-punk/new wave influences more in Korn's sound now than I could at the time.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 14 March 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
WAKE THE FUCK UPPPP!WAKE THE FUCK UPPPP!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
the new single is... excellent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3v5yMF1hTs
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
sounds like a cut from the issues/untouchables era
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
also sounds way more like deftones than they ever have before
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
listened to follow the leader today for the first time in a few years. something about the duets feels really perfunctory and unfleshed out, i don't think i ever liked "children of the korn" or "cameltosis' when i was a kid, and "all in the family" is a complete abomination. but the rest of the record is p great! especially this v cool song buried in the second half
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RX_ZzbptoU
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
now i'm onto issues and this record is so obv their best, every song from "hey daddy" on is my favorite korn song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
I was off the Korn train w/ Follow
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujEph5vFwmc
still slaps
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 6:02 PM (forty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
this makes sense to me but... the hooks!!!!
"somebody someone" is an AMAZING song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
What I remember most about this amazingly repugnant band is how effectively they utilized MTV (before they dropped the "Music") for publicizing them.They had an incredible contest for allowing a rando to direct one of their videos (the guy chosen professed to hating them and loving Radiohead, to thechagrin of their Tony Clifton look-alike scumbag manager) and they were also the subject of a True Life episode, where Fieldy (the one who assaulted a Spinphotographer for making him pose in a "gay" way with his bandmates) did dougnuts and defaced the front lawn of their Bakersfield high school.
― beamish13, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQNIP4zFP4
this album might be... good?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 2 August 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
As someone who's never really cared about them: it is!!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 September 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
hell yeah
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
it's SO GOOD
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
Me, 1999: Hey, future me, what is the future like?Me, 2019: The best rock albums are by Tool, Slipknot and Korn. The best movie is by Quentin Tarantino. And Wu-Tang Clan has two TV shows. Me, 1999: Sick, is the Simpsons still on?Me, 2019: Buddy, I have some good news and some bad news
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
i really appreciate how often it tries to remind me of issues while also often sounding way more like a meshuggah record
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 September 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
"h@rd3r" completely earns its title
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 September 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
I was totally ready to lazily post this to rolling worst but.....tbh it's goofy and committed and it's for a good cause. and also it tickles me whenever a huge artist makes a bandcamp page
https://kornofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-devil-went-down-to-georgia-cover-song
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
does he sing it in his nasal voice
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
it's even goofier because yelawolf does most of the vox!
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
new album, requiem, in february. they've been on a roll so i'm stoked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aupnj1KpjCg
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
oh wow that song is very good as well
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
thinkin bout the drums on "porno creep"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
then thinking about how david silveria’s drumming totally went to sleep when he was forced to play to a click on successive korn records
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Whoa
― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQP3nP5PUI
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 December 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv7W3EFbVyk
all right i'm going to learn "porno creep"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
i was listening to some korn multi-track stems for a ...project and was really surprised at all the little details that i had never noticed-- particularly the harmonies on the 'falling away from me' bridge. props to the band and producers
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
also crazy how terrible fieldy's bass is in isolation in comparison to how transcendent and iconic it becomes in context
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
fieldy's flicka flicka sproing walked so that brr brr deng could run
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
korn was one of the few major nu-metal bands that never had a dj so i personally think of fieldy as the dj, or at least as much a percussionist as a bassist
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
That drummer oozing Chad Smith vibes.
How come all these nu metal bands have ringing ska band snares? Is it to pop above the rumbling of all the drop C guitars?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
I always have had a soft spot for these guys, feel a little bad for not keeping up from the late 00s onward
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
the bass is fascinating and this band’s sound is addictive, I could seriously listen to them just jam out on one chord for 20+ minutes
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
xxp the piccolo snare! always makes me think of 60s funk… and 311
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
their last one was pretty solid. some of the vocal tics that made them hard to bear back when are less in evidence. they have a thing & it's pretty cool when it hits
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
Korn should now be eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Think bout dat
― DT, Friday, 10 February 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link