Korn III (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying What All The Cool, Intellectual, Pitchfork Media Hipsters Think Of Me And Learned To Start Loving Pessimistic Tough Guy Hip Hop Metal Y’All)
Or something along those lines.
Supposedly it sounds like a Faith No More/Sepultura/NWA/Fear Factory hybrid and features Drop D tuning, turntable scratching and lyrics which deal with self loathing, mental and physical anguish, paranoia and gettin’ bitches to go down on you.
It almost cost as much as a fully tricked out luxury yacht with all the trimmings to produce.
I’d say it’ll be a hit with the baggy jeans, facial piercings, tattoos and Daddy issues crowd.
They love all that shit.
I hate hipsters. so much that I’d actually rather listen to bad rap metal than anything that Pitchfork or SPIN fagazine raves about.
I didn’t know Head rejoined the band. I thought he was all “Christian” and shit.
I’ll admit it, I liked s/t and Life Is Peachy as a teen.
+1
Also +1 for the hipsters comment.
I like this grindmonkey chap.
I hate hipsters.
There’s a fucking plague of them in Melbourne.
And they’re starting to invade my cherished little noise ‘scene’. Well, not so much a scene as the same 10-20 people who go to the same improvised music nights every week and know each other on a first name basis because that’s all we do and we are all we know.
But these fucking… hipsters are coming to gigs.
And it’s annoying. They’re loud. Irritating. And I know the person responsible for it all. He’s going to fall.
I love how anonymous forum posts can better facilitate petty rants!
I thought everything up through ‘Untouchables’ had good moments. I wrote them off for years and I don’t even really know many of their songs, but listening back to that stuff it wasn’t half bad it was just way to angsty lyrically and one-dimensional.
I like a lot of their riffs and the music in their songs, and Davis carried his end well just not in the lyric department. Every song was like “my daddy beat me!” it’s like “dude, I’m sorry man. get a new theme though…”
Which Korn album had “Got the Life” on it? I really liked that song but never connected with any other Korn stuff (I was probably a little too old to totally get into it all when it came out).
Which Korn album had “Got the Life” on it? I really liked that song but never connected with any other Korn stuff (I was probably a little too old to totally get into it all when it came out).
That’s Korn? O.K., Korn’s got one (1) under their belt.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Which Korn album had “Got the Life” on it? I really liked that song but never connected with any other Korn stuff (I was probably a little too old to totally get into it all when it came out).
Me too.
I was about 22 when they first got recognition with that ADIDAS track - which I loathed.
I might have liked them had they come out in 1989 though - when I was a lad and listening to ‘thrash’.
Which Korn album had “Got the Life” on it? I really liked that song but never connected with any other Korn stuff (I was probably a little too old to totally get into it all when it came out).
[reply]Which Korn album had “Got the Life” on it? I really liked that song but never connected with any other Korn stuff (I was probably a little too old to totally get into it all when it came out).
Me too.
I was about 22 when they first got recognition with that ADIDAS track - which I loathed.
I might have liked them had they come out in 1989 though - when I was a lad and listening to ‘thrash’.
I was about 22 when they first got recognition with that ADIDAS track - which I loathed.
I might have liked them had they come out in 1989 though - when I was a lad and listening to ‘thrash’.
But then again I might not have.
Who can say?
Mate, I was 8 and a half when I heard that song. And ‘tricked’ my parents into buying me Life is Peachy. I had heard it on JJJ (radio show) and they were playing Good God and ADIDAS all the time, and I loved those songs.
I honestly maintain listening to some of those lyrics at that age was a bad idea.
Look up lyrics to Kill You and Mr Rogers to see what I mean.
I got wind of Korn in 94 when their first album came out, brother picked it up. I was 8 and I thought it was the shit. I can vividly remember Life Is Peachy in '96 and the excitement of listening to certain tracks from that album at home. Ah! the days when Parental Advisory labels on album covers in your collection meant you were cool. One day I left Life is Peachy in the car stereo. Dad found it. Trouble. There was a spectacularly brief attempt by the parentals to censor the music we listened to. A serious threat of mutiny aborted it. Parents were tolerable as long as they didn’t impinge, when they did impinge it was guerilla fucking warfare.
Remember whan Korn changed their sponsorhip from ADIDAS? They went with Pony or some shit, wasn’t it? Ha.
Ah! the days when Parental Advisory labels on album covers in your collection meant you were cool. One day I left Life is Peachy in the car stereo. Dad found it. Trouble.
That reminded me of when the one of my friends, who would eventual be the singer in my old band, left a GG Allin cassette out in his room and his Grandfather found it…
“Needle up my WHAT!?!”
We laughed for a long time about that one.
As for Korn in 1994 I was 21 and had been into industrial/experimental/post-punk music for almost a decade so I pretty much missed out on all that '90s metal as I was very anti-radio at the time.
btw Mick your avatar rocks! One of my favorite movies.
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