the nu-metal canon

I learned of them shortly after the s/t came out, as the kid that sat next to me in Spanish class handed me his walkman and said LISTEN TO THIS MAAAAAAAN.

with that kid sitting next to me, it's no wonder my A dropped to a B that year. so distracting.

damn that's like the ultimate way to get into korn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XgHepSgU0w

ok i gotta reiterate what a fuckin revelation the untitled korn album is

updated canon:

korn: s/t
orgy: "stitches"
kittie: spit
deftones: around the fur
linkin park: hybrid theory
korn: "freak on a leash"/"got the life"
limp bizkit: three dollar bill, yall$
system of a down: s/t
sepultura: roots
rob zombie: hellbilly deluxe
mindless self indulgence: frankenstein girls will seem strangely sexy
orgy: vapor transmission
korn: life is peachy
limp bizkit: "nookie"/"break stuff"
nothingface: violence
fear factory: digimortal
sevendust: "black"/"denial"
slipknot: s/t
static-x: wisconsin death trip
incubus: s.c.i.e.n.c.e
disturbed: "stupify"
adema: "giving in"/"the way you like it"
p.o.d.: satellite
limp bizkit: chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water
deadsy: "the key to gramercy park"
queen of the damned soundtrack
evanescence: fallen

s.c.i.e.n.c.e. is one of those records I am perfectly happy to keep in its historical placement in my memory palace, undisturbed by revisiting

idk i had completely forgotten about the song "nebula," a real jam

do Crazy Town fit here? "Butterfly" is definitely nu-metal adjacent at least

oh fuck i meant to listen to the crazy town record before updating the canon

i thought "butterfly" was the worst song of all time for like a full decade, i'm overdue for a heel turn in this direction

this almost redeems it a tiny bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPr9XXGymA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc34Er7aeYc

Oh god I hated 'Butterfly' so much at the time but 'Revolving Door' was even worse.

"Butterfly" came during a glut of "rappers whose raps sound like high school poems for their crush", who weren't part of the hip-hop scene, but were either fronting nu-metal bands, creating pop records, or creating nonsense nobody wanted to hear but got played 24/7 anyway

this almost redeems it a tiny bit

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 9:30 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

tripping. the original is way better

idk i had completely forgotten about the song "nebula," a real jam

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:16 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

also... maybe the only evidence of overlap between incubus and soad

that nothingface album is fucking astonishing and should be talked about more. a true descendant of angel dust

(maybe more in spirit than in sound)

.... ugh.... this crazy town record is kinda dope.... way weirder than i expected too

also, in things i didn't expect to read in the wikipedia entry for the second crazy town record: "The second and final single, "Hurt You So Bad", features Rivers Cuomo from Weezer on the track's guitar solo.[9]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSGGmd7f8g

i thought "butterfly" was the worst song of all time for like a full decade, i'm overdue for a heel turn in this direction

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:24 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol yeah i'm cured, shit sounds awesome

"butterfly" is the only nu-metal song to hit #1 on the billboard hot 100

i wouldnt consider butterfly nu-metal

Is there a reason “significant other” isn’t in the canon in the list?

just feel like i can summarize its impact with "nookie" and "break stuff" only but there's no special reason no lol

ugh i do not relish thinking a song called "lollipop porn" is a total jam

also i thought this record was gonna be way more misogynistic than it is, oh wait here comes "revolving door"

actually this is fine for the most part. fuck. goddammit. why do i like the crazy town record so much

ok i give up, pls retitle this thread the quarantine regression canon

oh wait here comes "revolving door"

always loved that riff :/

it's good!!!

crazy town's in the fucking canon

the crazy town album was one of the first cds i bought, i remember being really fascinated by "black cloud" lol

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

tight!!!!

i forgot that someone mentioned soulfly upthread so i'm gonna listen to the first two records after revisiting roots, which is just about the most awesome record ever made. ppl who think otherwise... i know everything i need to know about their taste

weird thing is Soulfly is pretty trad metal now

Feel like “Bawitaba” fits the canon for MI-nü metal

Ignore the umlaut I accidentally switched keyboard language settings

"bäwitdäbä"

Papa Roach 'Last Resort' has to be in the canon!

I need to relisten but I’m fairly certain Project 86 had some nu metal cuts.

it's a stretch since these are from outside the scene and kinda late to the game at that. but these ayumi hamasaki songs would be in my personal nu metal canon -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82ThTaK29s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkepjPRV24U

"Microphone" possibly even more so. I love the whole Rock 'n' Roll Circus album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTvmPLt1ncA

can we (or i, i guess) get brad to listen to methods of mayhem or vanilla ice's "hard to swallow" LP by mentioning them itt?

it could happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeHs0SF2Ks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHOc0qBF15A

huge banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD8XT2mMrGU

I would like to submit "numbskull" (1999) by ash as a weird case of nu-metal influence warping a non-nu-metal band's sound to hilarious effect

Is there any good jammy or prog nu metal