Eunös ✈
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 17, 2011 14:28:52 GMT -5
I listened to Korn for the first time in along time last year, I have to admit i do still enjoy afew songs.
Untouchables in my opinion is quite an underrated album. Never really listened to anything after that.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Feb 17, 2011 14:53:17 GMT -5
They're bad, but I've heard much worse.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 17, 2011 19:33:23 GMT -5
I can't help but think...KoRn killed metal.
The seven-string guitars, the one-finger drop tuning, the NOISE...they barely hung on by a thread. Honestly, I think they killed metal....and along with Limp Bizkit, they almost killed rock.
But there was enough left for the corpse to be raped by a certain band named Nickelback.
On-topic, KoRn has not aged well. It's just...well...bad music. you'd think so... except the actual heavy metal scene is alive and well, and Korn never did anything to help or harm it. the heavy metal culture has existed independent of any mainstream attention since the late 80s. or did I just imagine the Death metal renaissance of the mid-90s?
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Post by cory16154 on Feb 17, 2011 20:04:25 GMT -5
short answer yeah
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Feb 17, 2011 20:46:03 GMT -5
I was a huge Korn mark when I was a teenager. I can still listen to a song or two from time to time but it really doesn't sound all that appealing these days.
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Post by rawthentic on Feb 17, 2011 20:46:59 GMT -5
I like them. Not my favorite, but I'm a fan. They're also a great live show. I saw them back during the Family Values Tour in an arena, and it made me sad when they came back to town and played a club. They were THE BAND when I was a teenager. I just want to note that Korn didnt play that club because thats all they can book now, they did a club tour as a promotional thing hyping the return to their roots for the recent album. They are still doing big venues and they still get good turnouts.
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Post by Glitch on Feb 18, 2011 0:33:53 GMT -5
I can't help but think...KoRn killed metal.
The seven-string guitars, the one-finger drop tuning, the NOISE...they barely hung on by a thread. Honestly, I think they killed metal....and along with Limp Bizkit, they almost killed rock.
But there was enough left for the corpse to be raped by a certain band named Nickelback.
On-topic, KoRn has not aged well. It's just...well...bad music. you'd think so... except the actual heavy metal scene is alive and well, and Korn never did anything to help or harm it. the heavy metal culture has existed independent of any mainstream attention since the late 80s. or did I just imagine the Death metal renaissance of the mid-90s? To be more exact, metal killed korn. After the mainstream grew sick of nu "metal" you started seeing metal bands start to blow up in popularity.(like how ozzfest completely changed the type of bands they had) But yeah. Metal for the most part lives without the mainstream's permission.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 18, 2011 7:56:18 GMT -5
When did Jon Davis get all fat?
And I guess I haven't kept up with the band, but it seems like there's three people in it now.
I know that one guy with the terrible hair left to be a preacher or whatever, but what happened to the drummer?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2011 11:04:48 GMT -5
Korn starts out okay when you're younger, but the main fault with the band was their inability to get with the times. I mean, even though people like to dump on "St. Anger" (I'm a defender, though), at least Metallica wanted to try a new direction and experiment a little, just like they did with a few tracks on "ReLoad" and also when they did covers on "Garage, Inc.".
If you listened to a late 90's Korn song and compared it to one from the mid 2000's, it's virtually the same.
Plus, as one user said, you're soon introduced to better music in the same or similar genre.
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Post by Hugh Mungus on Feb 18, 2011 12:14:42 GMT -5
Korn starts out okay when you're younger, but the main fault with the band was their inability to get with the times. I mean, even though people like to dump on "St. Anger" (I'm a defender, though), at least Metallica wanted to try a new direction and experiment a little, just like they did with a few tracks on "ReLoad" and also when they did covers on "Garage, Inc.". And they (the fans) complain that Metallica sold out. "Yeah, we sold out... every seat in the house!" -- Jason Newsted
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Post by Cactus Jack on Feb 18, 2011 15:17:12 GMT -5
Am I the only one who liked them when I was younger, and still likes them now?
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Post by zeez on Feb 18, 2011 17:24:08 GMT -5
They're...okay.
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Post by biafra on Feb 18, 2011 17:26:48 GMT -5
Am I the only one who liked them when I was younger, and still likes them now? No. I do. I was a fan when "Blind" hit and everyone I knew was in love with it. I think Korn were innovative as hell, wrote some good tunes, and not only got stale with their songwriting but has 8 million bands copy them..badly. But still, I always give credit where it's due.
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Post by SickFlipPiledriver on Feb 18, 2011 17:57:23 GMT -5
but what happened to the drummer? Left to do the 'family' thing from what I've heard. Shame too, he had a pretty unique style and sound.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Feb 18, 2011 18:07:19 GMT -5
I heard David sold his drumset and is just totally done with everything. And to answer the question about Jon, he got fat for awhile because he got off drugs.
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Post by adamclark52 on Feb 18, 2011 21:55:18 GMT -5
I loved them when they first came out (the first two albums) then they went for a more mainstream sound with Follow the Leader and Issues and I stopped really caring for them. The last album I heard in full was Untouchables and it was terrible. Since then I've only heard the odd single and they've been pretty terrible too. Even when I listen to the first two albums now, fifteen years later, it's not my cup o' tea, but it's okay.
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 19, 2011 0:36:52 GMT -5
They were awesome, at first, but then they just completely stagnated as musicians. They haven't grown at all in all the time they've been around. I'm going to have to agree 100% with this assessment. Say what you will about other bands and their "experimental" albums, but at least bands like Metallica (ReLoad) and Linkin Park (A Thousand Suns) are trying different sounds and mixing it up from their usual schtick. Korn just....they came roaring out of the gates with several great albums and have refused to budge from that SAME song quality or sound. I still like em just fine, but...yeah.
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Post by Throwback on Feb 19, 2011 0:46:19 GMT -5
I feel the same way now about Limp Bizkit.
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Post by flatsdomino on Feb 19, 2011 2:06:34 GMT -5
Korn may have sounded good in 1995 - and they're certainly pioneers in the Alternative Metal/90's Metal/Rap-Metal scene (weather that's good or not, you decide...) but listening nowadays, their stuff has just aged TERRIBLY. I mean, like, 80's Hair Metal and Synth-Pop terribly. It doesn't hold up. The first Korn album, the one most people consider to be this big, groundbreaking classic, now sounds kinda toothless and dated, like 90% of G-Funk. It's not just the imitators making the overall sound cliche either - it just sounds kinda corny now, I suppose. Not as much bite, and the angst sounds way overwrought.
Comparing that to some thing like The Downward Spiral or the Fragile by NIne Inch Nails, which sounds fresh even today, and was a f***ing future shock back then. Korn was pretty much a cock rock-ish, rap-influenced, funk-metal-rooted angry white boy band at heart, and were MILES behind Faith No More & Mr. Bungle (Thier forebearers) in terms of innovation and sound. And on top of that, the legacy of bands they influenced isn't exactly the best.
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Post by Glitch on Feb 19, 2011 3:14:58 GMT -5
When did Jon Davis get all fat? When he went on the matt hardy diet.
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