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Artist: KornBrand: SONY/BMG
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Word Up!
- Another Brick in the Wall, Pts. 1, 2 & 3
- Y'All Want a Single
- Right Now
- Did My Time
- Alone I Break
- Here to Stay
- Trash
- Somebody Someone
- Make Me Bad
- Falling Away from Me
- Got the Life
- Freak on a Leash
- Twist
- A.D.I.D.A.S.
- Clown
- Shoots and Ladders
- Blind
- Freak on a Leash [Dante Ross Mix]
Free Music Notes for Korn - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Free Music Review: Well Done (For the Most Part)
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of Korn for quite some time now. I have all their CDs, so yeah, I consider myself a Korn fan. So I wasn't sure if I should pay money for this particular collection, considering I already have all the songs except for free. But it was only $9.99 and came with a bonus DVD, so I thought what the hell. I'm glad I bought it.
Now I know I'm going to get non-helpful votes from people who think Korn is no talent poser metal and all their fans are soft. Well I'm proud to say I like Korn, and I also like bands like Amorphis, Primus, Children of Bodom, Gardenian, Lamb of God, Silvertide, and so on, but if you think those bands don't have talent (at least music wise), then you apparently don't know music. Why would metal fans bash other metal or hard rock or whatever you want to call Korn bands when you could be bashing the real s*it: hip hop.
Anyway, now that that's through, I'll continue where I left off. This is a great CD for newbies especially, as well as long time fans. New fans will be introduced to all of Korn's more popular, accessible songs, where fans will just get a collection you can listen to all the way through. The new songs "Word Up" and "Another Brick in the Wall" are quite well done. I don't like how Fieldy simplified the bass riff on their version of "Word Up" from the bass riff of the original Cameo version, since he's a bad ass bassist and I know he could play it. I guess they thought playing lower would give it more of a Korn-sound (even though this song is still very un-Korn). Their version of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" parts 1, 2, and 3 is interesting, and I'm surprised they pulled off the solo so well. As I said before, "Word Up" is like nothing Korn has ever, ever done before, and it's hokey as hell, but it's just plain catchy. You'll more than likely find yourself tapping or singing along with this one.
The remix of "Freak on a Leash" isn't anything special. I don't really care for remixes, though I did like the remix of "Here to Stay" off of "Untouchables". But this remix is just boring, it goes nowhere, and it doesn't even compare to the original. If it wasn't at the end of the album I'd probably skip it every time it was on.
So this is a collection of Korn's six-album (not counting this), ten year career (October 11th of this month marked 10 years), and they started with their most recent release prior to this album, "Take a Look in the Mirror". Overall, "TaLitM" isn't one of my favorite Korn albums, but I still liked it, despite the fact that I thought it got repetitive and bland after a while. However, "Y'all Want a Single" and "Did My Time" were two of the best songs off that album and are presenting here, along with "Right Now", another good song. Though they did make a single for "Everything I've Known", it's not on this collection do to the fact it didn't get too much attention, and I don't think it was that good of a song to be a single anyway. My personal favorite on "TaLitM" was "When Will This End", but that wasn't really a hit, so it's reasonable that it's not on here.
Now on to their 2002 long-awaited comeback album, "Untouchables". Korn had been in absence for almost 3 years when they released this one, and it's one of my favorites. It's a bit less dark than "Issues" was, so overall it was probably their second darkest record. "Here to Stay" is on here of course, since it was the albums biggest hit. The other two singles from "Untouchables" were "Alone I Break" and "Thoughtless", the latter of the two being the better of the track in the opinion of apparently the majority of the fans, so I think it was a bad move on Korn's fault to put "AIB" on here but not "Thoughtless". Oh well.
Now we're on to "Issues". The songs from this album are "Falling Away From Me", "Make Me Bad", "Somebody Someone" (one of my favorite Korn songs ever) and "Trash", which wasn't a single but is a big fan favorite, and a song I love as well, so I'm glad it's on here. 1999 was a big year for Korn; they just got done with their biggest, most successful album "Follow the Leader" and the fans were dying for this one. "Falling Away From Me", "Make Me Bad" and "Somebody Someone" were all big TRL hits (yes, there was a time when TRL didn't only play processed Chingy and Britney Spears videos), and also, "Issues" is one of my favorite Korn albums, so I'm glad that there's 4 tracks from it.
As I mentioned before, "Follow the Leader" was no doubt Korn's biggest album, with two mega hits, the hard rocking, funky "Got the Life" and the slow, angst filled "Freak on a Leash". However, these are the only two tracks from "FtL" on the collection, and I would've liked to see maybe one more. Oh well...again.
Korn's second album, "Life is Peachy", was a raw, roughly produced record, and it is represented here with an under whelming two tracks, both too short: the scat-metal "Twist" at a mere 49 seconds and the album's only single, "A.D.I.D.A.S." at 2:32. Both these songs are great, but like "FtL", I would've liked to see more songs from the album on this collection.
Finally, we reach Korn's debut, their most emotional, heavy, hate-filled record which sparked the "nu-metal" movement. When this CD came out, no one had heard anything like it. An apparent nutcase of a vocalist crying behind the mic. A five string bass tuned lower than any other band would have ever thought about. Two seven-string guitarist, both with guitars tuned lower than a standard-tuned bass. It created a heavy, doom-filled sound, while drummer David Silveria pounded away on the kit. When this CD came out, no one was using seven-string guitars, and no one sounded like Korn. Now days just about everyone sounds like Korn, whether they're trying to or not. That should tell ya something. From their debut, "Clown", "Shoots & Ladders" and of course the classic "Blind" are present, however, the other single, and fan favorite, "Faget", is missing for some unknown reason. That was a big slip for Korn, but still, the anti-bullying message of "Clown", singer Jonathan Davis' eerie rendition of classic nursery rhymes which make up "Shoots" and the all out fury of "Blind" do make up for it for the most part.
As I said before, the "Freak on a Leash (Dante Ross Mix)" isn't much.
So there you go. Korn nearly fills up this CD, as it is seventy odd minutes in length, nearly completed this 80 minutes of available time, which is great, compared to when some people (*AHEM*MARILYN MANSON*COUGH) leave out classic tunes on their greatest hits albums when there was more than enough room for them (I'm not saying Marilyn Manson's greatest hits isn't good, it just isn't as complete as it could have been). Here's my personal rating of the songs on here, 1 being lowest, 5 being highest:
1. Word Up!-5/5
2. Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1, 2 & 3)-4/5
3. Y'all Want a Single-5/5
4. Right Now-4/5
5. Did My Time-5/5
6. Alone I Break-3.5/5
7. Here to Stay-4.5/5
8. Trash-5/5
9. Somebody Someone-5/5
10. Make Me Bad-5/5
11. Falling Away From Me-5/5
12. Got the Life-4.5/5 (overplayed)
13. Freak on a Leash-4/5 (again, overplayed)
14. Twist-5/5
15. A.D.I.D.A.S.-5/5
16. Clown-5/5
17. Shoots & Ladder-5/5
18. Blind-3.5/5 (I've heard it waaaaay too many times)
19. Freak on a Leash (Dante Ross Mix)-2/5
Now that the music aspect has been covered, let me tell you about the DVD. It's the same thing that you might have seen on MTV last year (only it's longer), but it's their performance at the legendary small club CBGB's in New York City in November 2003. The DVD isn't too terribly long, only 35 minutes, but it's still worth it, at least to me, since, as I said before, it was only $9.99 for the CD/DVD pack. Anyway, the songs the band plays are "Right Now", "Here to Stay", "Did My Time", "Got the Life", "Freak on a Leash", "Falling Away From Me" and "Blind". One of my gripes about the performance is Jonathan; he's not near as good of a live performer as he used to be. I don't know if it's just age or what, but he basically just stands up against the mic the whole set and headbangs every now and then, where as watching the original "Blind" music video on the "Deuce" DVD, he just goes off on stage. I'm sure it probably has something to do with age; I mean, when their debut was released they were just energetic kids, now they're probably in their early 30s. But the rest of the band puts on a great show. The highlight for me though was Fieldy. He never ceases to amaze. The bass part at the beginning of "Got the Life" was great, and I love his use of the fuzz pedal in the bridge of that song. David, Munky and Head are all really good as well, as usual, but I do wish the DVD was a bit longer and had more songs.
So there ya go. 10 years worth of Korn on one CD. If you're new to Korn and enjoy this CD, definitely check out the rest of their stuff, since some of their best songs weren't hits or singles.
Here's to hopefully another ten years. Who knows what awaits.
Korn - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Poster
First installment of the track-suited inventors of nu-metal's greatest hits. It draws on their back catalogue, from the1994 self titled debut; right through to 2003's 'Take A Look In The Mirror'. 'Greatest Hits Vol.1' displays the originsof the downtuned early 90's metal sound that went on to influence countless acts. It also includes covers of material by Pink Floyd and Cameo.Hard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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