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- Following the leader
When I was about 15 I used to really like Korn, but as with most things I liked at that time I gradually grew out of it. A couple of months ago however I decided to pick up a copy of follow the leader and give it another chance, I mean I used to love it when I was 15 so it can't be that bad surely? Well I have to say that I was somewhat surprised at what it felt like to be listening to Korn again with what I'd like to think are more refined tastes. I was struck by how different Korn's sound actually was to the rest of the bands around at that time, all the rap/nu-metal bands seem in retrospect completely devoid of imagination, but Korn's music is still surprisingly fresh 8 years later. The songs were never the three power chords/palm muted verse nonsense that passed for music on say.. a limp bizkit record, and the vocals far from being cliched are genuinely interesting (though the Mike Patton influence is painfully obvious). Nevertheless this record hasn't aged particularly well, at the time I may have been caught up in all the teen angst, but listening to it now you can't help but find all the growls and "disturbing lyrics" hopelessly pretentious and ludicrously over the top when it's divorced from the particular epoch in which it was created in.
Rating:
- Korn's Best Album
This is the best Korn album that has been produced. It was a change for Korn in that it was their first digitally produced album, abandoning the analogue recording method which may have been associated with the dirty sound which attracted many early fans to this band. The improved quality of the album adds to its enjoyment, and rather than losing the edge they had established with their earlier efforts (Korn, and Life Is Peachy) it merely adds a professional depth to their recording. Highlights on this album include the single, Freak on A Leash, and Seed, which is I feel their best song for its eerie stlye combined with the pounding chorus's asscociated with their later records, as seen in albums such as Take A Look in the mirror.
This album offers the best of Korn moreso than any subsequent Greatest Hits albums will offer. It is well worth a listen for any Korn fan or any fan of this genre.
Rating:
- The Meaning Of Really Rather Quite Angry
In 2005 metal may have slipped back out of the mainstream again, replaced by grime / dub step / bhangra n'roll / whatever genre the ever-twitching music press have re-invented this week, but listening to Korn's quite unreasonably furious third album Follow the Leader again, it's as if the world never quite caught up with just how pissed off the Bakersfield boys were - and for this reason and this reason alone they just had to stay angry forever (Apart from Mr. Head of course - Jesus had other ideas). Issues and Untouchables saw Korn retreading the same old doom-rock ground of old, with Jonathan Davies still roaring like a eight-year-old with ADD - but right from the off, Korn's terrifying ire kicks you violently in the gut and doesn't stop doing so until the album ends. Sure, there are moments of respite - All In The Family was funny, at least before anyone had heard of Fred Durst - but the diabolically heavy likes of It's On, Dead Bodies Everywhere - and My Gift To You do their best to break the windows with sheer crushing force. Davis's vocals are staggering - Jonathan has said in interviews that his favourite singer of all time is Freddie Mercury - and maybe this explains the often camp melodrama of his phrasing - at least on the parts when he's not trying to drown out every scream and bellow Max Cavalera has ever uttered in his life. Then there's the music - the never ending bottom end! Fieldy's bizarre rattling Primus-y bass! The crazy mid-song prog-jazz scat freakouts! But never mind the analysis - Follow The Leader is just really, really, insanely heavy, and bleeds unhinged fury from every nu-metal pore. And with it, Korn made - and still do make - most of their contemporaries look like a bunch of old Daniel O'Donnell-loving grannies.
Rating: - The album where it all went wrong.
I was a Korn-mad 14 year old when this album came out, and I went into town on the day it was released to snatch up a copy. I still think that the moment I heard it was one of the most dissappointing moments for me in recent history. Over-produced, whimsical, flat, and devoid of any of the passion, fire, or integrity that made their first two albums so special. In fact, I was so gutted with this bloated mess of an album that I gave up on Korn, Coal Chamber, Limp Bizkit and the like, and got into death metal.
Do yourself a favour and buy "Korn" or "Life Is Peachy" instead.
Rating: - KORN- a master piece
I had first heard of korn when a advertisement played freak on a leash. i thought it was a very catchy riff and when i heard the full song on kerrang, that was enough for me and i went and bought it. It's confusing at first,the first 12 tracks are data and you think your cd is broke or something but then the heavy riff of "its on" kicks in and your like "this is nothing like freak on a leash" and after listening to the cd all the way through you feel disapointed.
I didnt like the thing at first. But after a few listens it began to make sense. If this is your first korn cd then i highly recomend it, but dont have one listen and make your choice after that, you must listen to the passion in the songs and the way the singer has put emotion into it. My favourites are "freak on a leash", "its on", "got the life", and "seed", the raping tracks get boring after a while and thats why i knocked a star off.
This album shows what korn are all about and is great if you are new to the "nu-metal" scene. If you enjoy this album as much as i have then get issues next, then their debut album, then untouchables and if you really feel like it get life is peachy or take a look in the mirror which are not as good but still korn.
- Following the leaderWhen I was about 15 I used to really like Korn, but as with most things I liked at that time I gradually grew out of it. A couple of months ago however I decided to pick up a copy of follow the leader and give it another chance, I mean I used to love it when I was 15 so it can't be that bad surely? Well I have to say that I was somewhat surprised at what it felt like to be listening to Korn again with what I'd like to think are more refined tastes. I was struck by how different Korn's sound actually was to the rest of the bands around at that time, all the rap/nu-metal bands seem in retrospect completely devoid of imagination, but Korn's music is still surprisingly fresh 8 years later. The songs were never the three power chords/palm muted verse nonsense that passed for music on say.. a limp bizkit record, and the vocals far from being cliched are genuinely interesting (though the Mike Patton influence is painfully obvious). Nevertheless this record hasn't aged particularly well, at the time I may have been caught up in all the teen angst, but listening to it now you can't help but find all the growls and "disturbing lyrics" hopelessly pretentious and ludicrously over the top when it's divorced from the particular epoch in which it was created in.
Rating:
- Korn's Best AlbumThis is the best Korn album that has been produced. It was a change for Korn in that it was their first digitally produced album, abandoning the analogue recording method which may have been associated with the dirty sound which attracted many early fans to this band. The improved quality of the album adds to its enjoyment, and rather than losing the edge they had established with their earlier efforts (Korn, and Life Is Peachy) it merely adds a professional depth to their recording. Highlights on this album include the single, Freak on A Leash, and Seed, which is I feel their best song for its eerie stlye combined with the pounding chorus's asscociated with their later records, as seen in albums such as Take A Look in the mirror.
This album offers the best of Korn moreso than any subsequent Greatest Hits albums will offer. It is well worth a listen for any Korn fan or any fan of this genre.
Rating:
- The Meaning Of Really Rather Quite AngryIn 2005 metal may have slipped back out of the mainstream again, replaced by grime / dub step / bhangra n'roll / whatever genre the ever-twitching music press have re-invented this week, but listening to Korn's quite unreasonably furious third album Follow the Leader again, it's as if the world never quite caught up with just how pissed off the Bakersfield boys were - and for this reason and this reason alone they just had to stay angry forever (Apart from Mr. Head of course - Jesus had other ideas). Issues and Untouchables saw Korn retreading the same old doom-rock ground of old, with Jonathan Davies still roaring like a eight-year-old with ADD - but right from the off, Korn's terrifying ire kicks you violently in the gut and doesn't stop doing so until the album ends. Sure, there are moments of respite - All In The Family was funny, at least before anyone had heard of Fred Durst - but the diabolically heavy likes of It's On, Dead Bodies Everywhere - and My Gift To You do their best to break the windows with sheer crushing force. Davis's vocals are staggering - Jonathan has said in interviews that his favourite singer of all time is Freddie Mercury - and maybe this explains the often camp melodrama of his phrasing - at least on the parts when he's not trying to drown out every scream and bellow Max Cavalera has ever uttered in his life. Then there's the music - the never ending bottom end! Fieldy's bizarre rattling Primus-y bass! The crazy mid-song prog-jazz scat freakouts! But never mind the analysis - Follow The Leader is just really, really, insanely heavy, and bleeds unhinged fury from every nu-metal pore. And with it, Korn made - and still do make - most of their contemporaries look like a bunch of old Daniel O'Donnell-loving grannies.
Rating:
- The album where it all went wrong.I was a Korn-mad 14 year old when this album came out, and I went into town on the day it was released to snatch up a copy. I still think that the moment I heard it was one of the most dissappointing moments for me in recent history. Over-produced, whimsical, flat, and devoid of any of the passion, fire, or integrity that made their first two albums so special. In fact, I was so gutted with this bloated mess of an album that I gave up on Korn, Coal Chamber, Limp Bizkit and the like, and got into death metal.
Do yourself a favour and buy "Korn" or "Life Is Peachy" instead.
Rating:
- KORN- a master pieceI had first heard of korn when a advertisement played freak on a leash. i thought it was a very catchy riff and when i heard the full song on kerrang, that was enough for me and i went and bought it. It's confusing at first,the first 12 tracks are data and you think your cd is broke or something but then the heavy riff of "its on" kicks in and your like "this is nothing like freak on a leash" and after listening to the cd all the way through you feel disapointed.
I didnt like the thing at first. But after a few listens it began to make sense. If this is your first korn cd then i highly recomend it, but dont have one listen and make your choice after that, you must listen to the passion in the songs and the way the singer has put emotion into it. My favourites are "freak on a leash", "its on", "got the life", and "seed", the raping tracks get boring after a while and thats why i knocked a star off.
This album shows what korn are all about and is great if you are new to the "nu-metal" scene. If you enjoy this album as much as i have then get issues next, then their debut album, then untouchables and if you really feel like it get life is peachy or take a look in the mirror which are not as good but still korn.