Korn: Classic Or Dud?

i think i might actually not listen to this just because it can't live up to expectations.

distance will be upset he's not been invited. admits to having got into electronic music via korn. samples the band "snot" on his debut lp.

listening to the first album rn and it's >>>>>>

i also like issues idk

woke up one morning this week with Ball Tongue stuck in my head after literally never listening to them since high school

I always thought he was a decent Iron Chef judge.

the cover art on that first album is super creepy

I heard the debut again a couple of days ago for the first time in ages and I was impressed by how well it seems to have held up - they really said all they needed to say on that record and would probably be looked on far more fondly if it had been their only album.

Korn > Issues > Untouchables > Life is Peachy > Follow the Leader > Take a Look in the Mirror

^^^ agreed wholeheartedly

issues is a v good record

Issues seemed to be a bit of a breakthrough record for them here - it's strange, but I seem to know more people who got into Korn with that record, rather than the debut or even Follow the Leader(!)

falling away from me was always on mtv2 in the uk lol

Yeah, true! I don't really remember seeing many, if any, Korn videos on TV prior to 1999/2000.

i think maybe the impact of linkin park and limp bizkit, who had the first real HIT nu-metal albums in the uk in 2000, might have made it easier to sell nu-metal. i remember being 12 in 1996 and listening to korn, deftones, and limp bizkit and basically no-one in my school was into them or had even heard of them.

Fast forward to 2001 and I seem to remember seeing Issues and White Pony hoodies everywhere!

My first encounter with Korn was on some foreign TV channel in either '96 or '97, there was a bit of live footage with Davis being angry and playing bagpipes and I remember thinking "no way would this band ever become successful in the UK" ... when they did become successful here I was really surprised.

Looking back, the popularity of nu-metal in the UK from 1999-2002 was just a small part of what really was a resurgence in popularity of American alternative rock in general. There was Korn, Deftones, Slipknot, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Incubus, Linkin Park etc. but also there was renewed interest in pop-punk, grunge and Metallica were still very popular. Then later stuff like At the Drive-In etc.

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

"Here to Stay" fucking rules. i love that record. can't believe that was a hit single in 2002. just sheer brutality

I keep forgetting how disco-tastic 'Got the Life' sounds!

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.

C'MOWWWWN!
IT'S ON!

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

Did you accidentally mention that you feel like a freak on a leash? Most employers prefer you to be OK with that feeling.

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!

Look, it's a feeling. Can't you chill and let me be free?

the s/t def holds up in some kind of way, relentless juvenilia of the lyrics aside. "need to" is a jam

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

apparently all i do in this thread is talk about how much i like issues

I remember recording the video to 'Falling Away from Me' on a VHS tape. I still think it's a good song.

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.

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

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.

WAKE THE FUCK UPPPP!
WAKE THE FUCK UPPPP!

the new single is... excellent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3v5yMF1hTs

sounds like a cut from the issues/untouchables era

also sounds way more like deftones than they ever have before

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

now i'm onto issues and this record is so obv their best, every song from "hey daddy" on is my favorite korn song

I was off the Korn train w/ Follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujEph5vFwmc

still slaps

I was off the Korn train w/ Follow

― 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

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 the
chagrin 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 Spin
photographer for making him pose in a "gay" way with his bandmates) did dougnuts and defaced the front lawn of their Bakersfield high school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQNIP4zFP4

this album might be... good?

As someone who's never really cared about them: it is!!

hell yeah

it's SO GOOD

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

i really appreciate how often it tries to remind me of issues while also often sounding way more like a meshuggah record

"h@rd3r" completely earns its title

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