Reviews (page 6 of 9)
After years of playing guitar hero three as a kid I started to experiment with heavier and heavier rock. Little did I know I was going down a dark path. A few of my friends started trying Korn, just to let of some stress on the weekends. It started slowly taking over their lives. Their whole lives became Korn. I could see the effect it was having on them and threw all away my metal albums. 20 years later I can definitively say this was one of the single most important decisions of my life. This album is too dangerous for our youths. It will turn you into the biggest douche bag on the planet.
An hour I want back. Complete rubbish! Except for Freak On A Leash, which stands out.
Som Rammstein fast sämre.
Ik ben tijdens dit album door alle 9 lagen van Dante's hel gegaan. Waar ik - zoals altijd - against all odds met positieve energie het album tegemoet ging, en het begin zelfs een paar aardige momenten in petto bleek te hebben (einde 'Freak On a Leash', de inbreng van Ice Cube 'Children of the Korn'), werd het beetje bij beetje steeds ondragelijker. En zeg nou zelf, een langzame afdaling in Dante's hel is veel meer confronterend en vernederend dan een directe sprong. Voor ik het doorhad zat ik te luisteren naar de fragile masculinity-rap metal van Limp Bizkit. En wat is dat duivelse gescat? Dat 'uhmushahahuhmushahumushushumu' in nummers als 'B.B.K.' en 'Freak on the Leash'? Zulke fratsen - naast de ronduit toxische energie in de songs - laten me geen andere keuze dan weer eens een grandioze onvoldoende te geven. 2,5/10
Tijdens het eerste nummer It's On kreeg ik zo'n erge zweetaanval en jeuk over m'n hele lichaam dat ik Korn heb afgezet en afgezworen zolang ik fatsoenlijk gehoor heb.
Ei tätä tahdo jaksaa! Liian tekemällä tehtyä mielestäni. 2/5
Nu-metal on kyllä ihmiskunnan suurimpia syntejä. Lapsellista ja raskasta kuunnella. Nyt menee kyl 1/5.
"You look like one of those dancers from the Hanson video, you little faggot hoe Please give me some shit to work with 'Cause right now I'm all it, kid Suck my dick, kid, like your daddy did" So glad english isn't my native language, cause I was for sure NOT listening to the *~eDgY~* lyrics when I was a teenager. 2 stars because I really liked this shit at 13 years old, just for pure nostalgia. ... But god, so fucking edgy. I cringe thinking about it.
thank god this is 70 minutes, they just have so much to say!
5/5 on the playground lol. I wouldn’t say this is one of Korn’s 5/5 albums though in the entire discography they’ve amassed at this point. A nice wave of nostalgia, I enjoyed it! This was my first live concert just after they dropped the next album after this Issues. Amazing.
I expected to hate this. The first couple songs I thought maybe this isn't that bad? But then it kept going, and going. Tracks blended together, I kept opening Spotify to see how many to go. And just when I thought it's finally ending the worst song of all. Horrid, torturous album. Will surely never listen again
1001 Albums #13 the amount of metal this website is generating is FOUL don't like it
That was not fun
I tried but this sucks.
Nu metal. Ni fu ni fa.
Un dosaco en toda la regla.
Freak on a Leash Got the Life
2.5
RAaa hramba uuooh rahaha rata. It's Korn. It sounds like Korn. They have 1 sound. What did you expect?
Can't take these guys in big chunks. Decent listen but too long. Did appreciate the cheech and chong at the end
Not too my taste but technically well done
7/10 Im starting to come around to metal. Good album Favourite Song=Children of the Korn Least Favourite Song=Earache My Eye
Better than I remember it. I always got a bit turned off by Korn. Not sure exactly why, but it just seemed a bit... silly? But having listened to this whole album, it seems that was primarily fueled by the breakdown in Freak on a Leash. Pretty good after all. Glad this came up.
Takes me back to darker times. It was good then, but listening to it now makes me feel like I need a shower.
Haha we were dummies for liking this at one point 2.5 stars
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É um pouco estranho no começo, mas me vejo ouvindo mais vezes. Algumas músicas que eu gostei: * Children of the Korn; * B.B.K. * Pretty
Diferente do álbum do Nine Inch Nails, esse álbum do Korn é um barulhento "legal" e, apesar de algumas musicas ainda soarem meio iguais, as faixas mais voltadas pro hip hop se sobressaem e deixam uma boa impressão pra mim. Recomendações: "Children of the Korn", "All in the family", "Dead bodies everywhere" e "My gift to you"
I listened to this album to death back in the day. It’s so nostalgic for me. But it’s their debut, that really stands out in my book. That one is a genuine masterpiece. This is not up there, but still very enjoyable
The songs on my gym playlist are good. The ones that aren't are not.
I really tried but there is absolutely nothing for me to enjoy. In general I am very reluctant to giving 1-star ratings, but this gotta be my first one. I was actively waiting for this album to end. Added later: In the second part of the album there were few moments that I liked. When they just focus on riffs, the overall style becomes bearable. But not enough to redeem the majority of the album.
This has the definitive Korn sound, but some of the songs have not aged well
Look at the cover. C'mon! So disturbing in a thought-provoking way, it's great. I'm not really a Korn fan because they're too creepy for my liking, but gotta admit that they've mastered their unique sound. Can't help the head banging. Dare I give them a 5?!
Shite
Ahh the memories
It were alright
Not soothing during a time of crisis. Otherwise good.
While enjoyable as most any other Korn album I purposefully listened to, Follow The Leader begins to wobble a bit the longer the album plays on with its 67 minute run time. There are certain elements of their particular music style that I absolutely dig, whether it's the strange unhinged rawness, the slapping bass that feels like it's being drug along the ground, or Jonathan Davis's feral vocals. But this album never really elevates past a 3.5 for me as I feel some of the work they've released after Follow The Leader is significantly better.
Good Korn album, though the 1hr runtime felt like 5hrs. There are some classic songs here, including one with possibly the heaviest breakdown I've ever heard (Freak on a Leash). I get chills every time I hear it. I had never heard this one in it's entirety and it wasn't anything groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Great for angry/workouts
Holy fuck this is bad
Silly nonsense
Whiney nu metal vocals, twice as long as it should have been, and some homophobic lyrics thrown in. Should have left this one in 1998.
I can't recall ever listening to an album from these guys before, and honestly, they've become a bit of a punch line, the look and videos haven't aged particularly well. That said, I liked it. It reminded me somewhat of Marilyn Manson. Any band that covers "Earache My Eye" gets a bonus star!
Confirma a capacidade do Korn criar algo verdadeiramente especial. Sua mistura única de riffs pesados, vocais atormentados e letras introspectivas, Follow The Leader da Korn é um álbum que captura a angústia e a raiva da juventude de uma maneira crua e poderosa.
This is a hard one! It is unique, well-crafted, and the guys can really play. But I absolutely loathe the aesthetics of this — visually as well as sonically. So a subjective 2 and an objective 4 gives this a 3.
Korn was the band that ushered me into metal. I was 14 when the self titled record came out. And it changed my life in a very positive way. I don't listen to Korn much these days. It's cheesy and sometimes embarrassing. Nu Metal is having a resurgence at the moment. But I'm not returning to it. I've moved on to other genes of metal and I'm happy with my memories of Korn and a few other nu metal bands from the era. But I strongly feel like this was the peak album from the era. It's not Korn's best record, but this third record is kind of like a thesis of the genere. It captures all of the elements that make it what it is. It's got a lot of really songs on it. And a few big misses. But it is culturally significant. And it's the last good Korn record.
Honestly, not as dumb as was expected, but the ridiculously drawn out length tied with the goofy, almost parody level delivery takes this album from being just a boring time waster, to something offensive to the ears. This isn't because of the lyrics, although Fred Durst and co. does spew some garbage, but rather because with each additional track your brain dissolves bit by bit. Seemingly the same forgettable guitar, the same vocal delivery, and you're lucky to make it a track without Jonathan Davis putting on a ridiculous voice that is difficult to take seriously. When we got the bagpipes, I knew no one should take it seriously, no matter how badly Korn wants you to. It's just tiring, a product of its era, and the else said about it perhaps the better. Oddly enough, still see plenty of Korn shirts in 2024... huh.
90's!!!
Korny edgy stuff some nice instrumentals tho
yucky yuck & a lot of the same. They're no a7x that's fo sho
I think in another universe I would be tempted to like this more--but in this one it seems kind of one-note. Fairly unimaginative lyrics with high school cursing thrown in. My parents! No! Does every song end by repeating lyrics? I actually enjoy the dissonance and genre mixing, but that is about it. Pretty is disturbing: you don't know who you feel sorry for? What the fuck are you talking about? All in the Family seems desperate, shock value masquerading as serious commentary, on what? I'm not sure. Gonna take me a sec to get this outta my ears.
Earache to my eye? No, just earache! All sounded the same to me.
I like Korn. Not familiar with album but it went well with my "I'm working here"-vibe today.
I definitely could have done without cameltosis and the banter before earache my eye, but I am a sucker for freak on leash.
I was getting a massive Deftones vibe, which is a good thing (I'm not super familiar but really like the album "White Pony"). But this started out with a bang and then sorta held check in the same space throughout. There wasn't much of a journey. It sounds cool, there were interesting elements in just about every song, but nothing differentiated one from the next.
I never paid these guys much attention when they were popular. And I wonder if this is the maybe the first time I’ve ever listened to them. I never cared much for speed mental or thrash metal (Hence, my review of Pantera ) but I do rather like nu metal. I don’t know that this is a great album. The singer’s schtick wears a little thin after a while and the Fred Durst cameo is definitely a minus, but I dig the energy and the weirdness that these guys bring. And the production is first rate. I don’t think Korn is destined to be one of my favorite new metal bands, but this was more interesting than I expected it to be.
All this heavy metal...I don't have any more words to express my dislike.
There are better nu-metal albums. There is even a better Korn album. Nothing here has the raw immediacy of, for example, Ball Tongue. The bass playing is exceptional. Everything else oscillates wildly between being neutered to facilitate airplay (the guitars and production) or being grossly offensive (the infantile lyrics and vocal delivery).
Nunca fui fan de Korn, tampoco mis amigos por lo que los escuché de pasada y no recuerdo nada más que las portadas al verlas en los CD de las tiendas en una época en que había mil cosas que me interesaban más o al menos sabía lo que compraba. Me he guardado "Freak on a leash", "Got the life", "Dead bodies everywhere", "B.B.K.", "All in the family", "Reclaim my place" y "Justin". Una gran sorpresa que me perdí en su momento.
I remember a time when Korn and Slipknot were all the rage amongst a certain subculture - never understood it then and still don't. Some of the riffs are catchy enough but overall it's just a bit immature. I'm not bothered by explicit language but it's used gratuitiously and not even in a clever artistic manner (see: "I say what, say what? (My dick is bigger than yours)")
2.5 rounded down well. ok highlights: it’s on!, got the life, pretty (oct 23 2024)
No. Especially not the obscene bits.
I like a few songs on this album, but good god All In The Family is trash. I was going to call people out for rating this album so low, but... okay, I get it. Jesus.
Yuck
Earache My Ear
I actually didn’t wholly hate this, probably a but because my brother used to listen to this album a lot when it first came out, I have a soft spot for freak on a leash. Didn’t mind it but things went downhill when Fred Durst showed up
Weirdly I kind of liked this album
music the bad kids in elementary school would listen to.
Never listened to korn. Ok I’m gonna skip this one I think. So far I’ve given every album a chance but this is just not enjoyable for me. I’m doing this challenge as a way to educate myself and discover popular music but I can’t get into this at all. I like some heavier stuff like Metallica and In This Moment but this is not the tea for me. Lacks melody and is just so one-tone IN MY OPINION. So I’m gonna respectfully skip this Made it to: track 7, Pretty
Ok
I hated this album
This was a phase
This is some perfectly fine nu metal. I never got into Korn at the time so there's no nostalgia here for me beyond the singles. I liked it well enough in 2024, and I thought the song with Ice Cube held up pretty well, but I'll never listen to this again. 3.4
A very good album that this list confirmed that I cannot listen to at the drop of a hat, sort of like medication. I didn't NEED this yesterday so it sounded like a, well produced, temper tantrum, but I know it is there when I need that precise product.
Original in parts , tho often sophomoric gay panic trash.
Balances out somewhere in the middle. There's some really cool tracks on here, but they are balanced out by the number of similar sounding forgettable tracks and downright uninteresting one. Doesn't justify its runtime too well.
had to use the restroom while listening so some of the last seconds of this album were overrun by the sound of a urinal flushing. i have to believe this is what any nu-metal band would want
Some pretty questionable lyrics, but it hits the nostalgia chord so 2 stars it is.
Real time and place kinda album
Probably the most bland and boring metal album I’ve ever heard. 2/5
It is possible to see several elements of what would become Linkin Park in the 2000s on this album, no wonder Korn is one of the giants of Nu Metal. It's not my type of music but it's not bad.
Je n'avais jamais pris la peine d'écouter vraiment du Korn et si ça c'est considéré parmi leurs meilleurs, je ne veux certainement pas écouter les autres albums. C'est tellement gênant comme musique, je ne peux pas croire qu'encore aujourd'hui les gens écoutent cela non-ironiquement. Les scats du chanteur m'ont tellement fait roulé des yeux, c'est littéralement embarrassant. Le mixing est horrible, les compositions non originales. La seule raison pourquoi je ne donne pas un zero est qu'il faut leur donner qu'ils ont essayé de quoi que personne d'autre ne faisait. 2/10
Thought I would like this more because nostalgia, but beyond got the life/freak on a leash, I didn’t really enjoy this much. Very same-y and not in a way of “I would have liked this song a lot back then too”
was ok
boom na na oom na na inna boom na na oom na na inna boom na na oom na na inna boom na na oom na na inna boom na na oom na na inna- ...GO! (Jilly's Rockworld explodes into a mass of bouncing hair) Why is there no Deftones on this list? There actually were some good nu-metal albums (White Pony) but I'm only being handed ones with a couple of good tracks. Exhibit 108 of stop giving me crummy metal albums that artificially deflate my metal average. Oh dear god All in the Family is absolutely fucking terrible. Was going with 2 but due to both that and 67 minutes it's going down.
Tering wat een troep
Unashamed to admit I like this album. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I genuinely think there are some great songs on here, in particular the first three tracks. Definitely a mixed bag with a few duds, but overall I do like the album. It’s not Korn’s best (their debut gets that crown for me), but I understand why it was the one that was picked.
This is #day48 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma! Love them or hate them, KoЯn will always hold a special place in the 90s alternative and nu-metal music. I first discovered them circa 2003—I had never heard anything like "Did My Time" until then. As unpopular as it might be, Take A Look In The Mirror is my go-to KoЯn album. Looking back, I realize that this era might have felt like a beat-a-dead-horse moment for the band, but who cares? "Counting On Me" is still one of my all-time favorite KoЯn tracks. Then there was 2005’s See You On The Other Side, with a cover that still creeps me out. I also remember reading a wild teenzine article about Davis that claimed he once had sex for like ten hours straight until... his cock started to bleed. What a time! As for Follow The Leader, while it features classics like "It's On", "Freak On A Leash," and "Get A Life," it can be a tough listen from start to finish. The dark, groovy sound encapsulates KoЯn’s signature style, but I grow weary of Davis's angst after a while. Or, am I just growing older? The collaborations with other artists are also a downside for me. But, since it's the only record of theirs and they're kind of an important band to me, especially given the nu metal era, I'll bump it up to a 4. Looking forward to #day49.
What a horrible weird roller coaster ride that was. After three songs I was queueing up texts to friends “Korn is good!” I was RIGHT to like them in 5th grade. But that jubilation was short lived. The remainder of this album is an abomination. I have many questions about this album and nu metal in general. My primary question is why would my parents let me listen to this when I was 10? “All In The Family”, the homophobic battle rap between Jonathan Davis and Fred Durst, may be the worst song ever made. There is a small chance this is some kind of comment on homophobia? The song starts with back and forth insults about each being a "faggot", but the song ultimately devolves into Fred and Jon exchanging "threats" of fucking one another. Truly bizzare. I'm officially OUT on Korn.
I find this album musically somewhat interesting and at times even innovative, but lyrically, aesthetically and maybe even spiritually embarassing. The songs are exuberant and misguided in equal measure. Still, I do appreciate how they ‘go for it’ on almost every song, even if what they are going for ends up being terrible. All in the family is probably the worst song I’ve ever heard, but freak on a leash rocks. The abject unholy awfulness of the former almost makes the latter feel like it must have happened by accident - or from another lens, by miracle? I dunno man. All I know is I respect an earnest, authentic disaster more than an aloof, pretentious one, which is to say I have to rate this higher than sonic youth. Fuck sonic youth.
In effort to catch back up on albums ive missed (down to just 2!), I decided to crack into Korn And… yeah, Im not a fan. I absolutely tried and found the gangsters of rock to be a little too much for me. I get some of the lyrics were tongue in cheek, maybe this kind of poetry shouldnt be set over metal? Freak On a Leash was alright.
Oh boy. I'm not sure why this is an album anyone HAS TO LISTEN TO BEFORE THEY DIE, unless it's what you listen to immediately before you die / during the act of dying. Has to be said that Freak on a Leash is a great song if you're in like 8th grade so that warrants a star. It isn't good, but it's still fun in a shitty way. I like how confidently shitty it is. The rest of it is, well, not good. It sucks.
This was the worst thing to happen to me in a long time. I honestly can’t believe I sat through it all. The lowlights eventually became the highlights: I’ve never heard a song as bad as All In the Family. There was nothing redeeming happening on this album.
Freak on a Leash and a full album of average and underwhelming nu-metal, or just rock/metal. I'm very disappointed, all the other popular nu-metal bands from the late 90s have inspiring albums full of singles and bangers. Korn has only few boring songs, where vocal and specific bass style only gets more and more annoying. With a very heavy heart I'll have to give it only 3/5 rate, Freak on a Leash is not enough.
Uuungh.
Like a couple of tracks, but couldn't get into the album as a whole
I like the singles, but the rest of the album is a drag.
I love Korn...in spurts. 67 minutes of Korn got to be a little much. But still, some pretty personally important songs to me on here, so I have no choice but to rate the album pretty highly. Favorite track: Freak on a Leash
It was okay, not as good as I remember
I've never listened to Korn before. This isn't my usual genre. As I listen to it, it remains not really my usual thing. Why is this over an hour long. The rapping bits with the featured artists weren't bad. They're not the greatest, but compared to the other stuff.
I was going to give this a 2 since it's everything I hate in 90s music. Too long. Shitty guitars. Shitty vocals. But god damn then All in the Family came on and it's just so immature and the fact they thought to release shows me they aren't worthy of a good rating.
KORN!
Ok so at least this one makes sense being here, nu-metal was a huge deal at the time and Korn were a big part of it. As far as the music, oh boy does it go downhill after the first 3/4 songs. The collabs with Ice Cube and Fred Durst might be some of the worst songs i've heard in a long time.
This is a stupid, goofball album and the scat singing is hilarious. I know it was meant to be menacing and scary when it came out, but it's as cute as a button now 🥰
I used to pretend not to like this, but never changed the channel when it came on MTV. There's something deeply embarrasing about this (the over-wraught teen angst, the scatting), but they're probably the most (top 3 at least) original metal band of the 90s and this is them at the top of their game (the riffs are deep and hard as hell, yet have a real groove to them) and working with a producer who knew how to make them sound good (it's thick, heavy and intense, with layer upon layer of down-tuned distorted), the propulsive . They broke open a new sonic palette in metal, following the loud-quiet dynamics and ultra thick guitars of grunge, but going as hard as possible. That's probably mostly for the worst in terms of their followers, but this album undeniably captures a mood, an embarrasing mood, but a real and widely felt one.
You better watch out because Jonathan Davis is gonna say "fuck." Also, Fred Durst shows up to drop some slurs. It was the 90s, after all.
Pretty original. Dig the tunes. Good n' groovy. Some of the vocal and guitar effects were a bit overused, but all in all, a good listen.
5/10…trotz Ohrenschmerzen
Scream mumble and distort the lyrics. Take some old RHCP funk and slam it in behind. Turn your K around. Voila - instant wank noise for skater bois looking for something noisier.
Some songs better than I remember, some far worse. Rating boosted by having recently seen Korn live, a 3.5 going to an admittedly generous 4
amazin album
used to love this record. i can still see a tiny bit of that, but mostly its cringe a la cringe.
An alright album but not something I'd listen to again. I did like Dead Bodies Everywhere and Justin.
Only listened to a couple of songs, having been turned off by the lazy vocal work and mixing.
Solo escuché los singles en aquellos años y ahora entiendo todo. Que fortuna que el disco completo me pasó por encima, qué suerte que para esos años ya había superado los 14, porque estoy seguro que habría salido mas tonto de ahi. Freak on a Leash y Got the Life son buenos temas, populares y todo eso, incluso con ese bajo todo distorsionado terminan siendo buenas canciones, pero ese tartamudeo, ese afán por cantar como una mezcla entre Animal (de los muppets) y el Demonio de Tazmania es tan ridículo que impide que el disco alcance las 3 estrellas para mi. Asi que solo 2 por los singles antes mencionados. Tuve que dejar de escuchar cuando llegué a All in the Family. Que basurón.
Never in a million years would I have thought "Follow The Leader" would make anyone's Top 1001 list. It was unavoidable in 1998 and had people talking while it livened up rock/alt radio. "Got The Life" was all over the airwaves, followed quickly by "Freak On A Leash". Both rock hard, both have undeniable energy & both still get airplay. It was an unmistakable sound for the time and bridged hard rock and alternative rock but I'm not sure overall that the album holds up so well toda - many of the 14 songs sound like they were created from the same blueprint without much change in sound & makeup - kinda cookie cutter. Dark topics, heavy from start to finish, it's a lot to make it through all 14 songs in one sitting! After 4 songs the luster wore off...the Ice Cube collaboration, "Children Of The Korn", was unnecessary, as was "Pretty". "All In The Family" borders on offensive, then and now, while "Reclaim My Place" and "Justin" are just plain boring noise, overall a really weak second half. In my opinion there is no place for "FTL" on the Top 1000, it might make the Top 2000.
1.5 for managing to get through the whole album even though it was a definite no thank you
I hadn't listened to much Korn before, so I definitely learned a lot on this album. It felt very dirty to listen to, and there were a few bops. Don't think I'm really a fan though.
Freak on a Leash got nostalgia points. But I didn't love this music then and I don't like it now. 2.
Is this objectively good music? No. Did this album change the course of music history? Actually, yes. When this album came out it was groundbreaking. Korn helped create nu metal and helped define the genre with this album. Also some songs on here are bangers lol. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5
Oh dear. I was actually quite excited for this as I haven’t listened to Korn in ages and don’t think I’d ever actually heard this one all the way through. Freak on a Leash and Got the Life both hit hard as well as a couple of other deeper cuts, but there is a lot of trash on here as well, most notably the dull and homophobic ‘rap battle’ between lead singer Jonathan Davis and Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst. It doesn’t feel as exciting and fresh as their debut or as mature and introspective as Issues, and is just a bit of a bloated mess that really struggles when it leans into the more hip-hop inspired side of their sound, which they are far worse at pulling off than their signature growly groove metal
First listen. Ok.
I enjoyed this one more than expected. Good three stars album.
I love this album - includes Freak on a Leash. Great metal, unique sound, solid lyrics. Earache My Eye is a little much, but I loved the rest.
The music is like uninteresting Deftones at its best and a trash blend of rock-rap with a circus swagger at its worst. The rap feels like an adopted posture, the style but a pose. While the lyrics seal the deal that it's an empty gesture towards the rap form more than meaningful cultural expression or engagement. There's also a cough syrup derivative of NIN somewhere in here, too. It's as if Filter were filtered down to add as a flavor to this swill. The further I get into this record's track list the less impressed I am and the more certain I become in my assessment. A definite reaction to this despite me being the ideal audience: I love hip hop and I love metal. And yet, the 90s did themselves few favors spawning the likes of metal-rap bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn. What went wrong?
Njae det här funkar inte riktigt. Sången är nästan outhärdlig
Never really liked this band, but had never really listened to them. Now at least I understand why I don't like them.
Better than expected
Freak on a Leash is decent but this is such an edgy album that it could only appeal to a teenager
Not the best Korn album but them at the peak of their powers.
I didn't know those "No parents allowed" signs that angsty pre-teens put on their bedroom doors could record albums. Pretty cool!
BOOOOOM DADA BUM DADA
ick. nu metal sucks.
It was awful.
I knew the big hits and thought okay. Well, the album was actually really good. Better than I expected
Distinctive bass sound, constantly compelling changes in tempo and dynamics, great guest performances, and it’s actually even funny! An achievement for its time, and it still holds up. Many, many imitators, but still nothing sounds quite like it.
Not my cup of tea
Korn is a very influential band, and directly has inspired a generation of metal and heavy music. The band specifically was foundational in the creation of Nu-Metal. This record is when they became huge. My parents had this CD, and I definitely liked a few songs. That being said, it never was a super important record for me. It’s important for Nu-Metal, but that’s a genre that I don’t particularly enjoy. Listening to this as an adult was tough honestly. I will give the record its props for being influential, and delivering a few solid tracks, but it’s just not for me. It’s way too long, and the lyrics are super cringy at times. I know Jonathan Davis really poured his heart into the lyrics with most being about childhood trauma, but some are just hard to listen to and take seriously. All respect to Korn, but I was too young to really enjoy this when it was popular, and I feel like it’s too dated to enjoy at my current age.
The vocals are interesting...
This wasn't good but I laughed at one point so that's something
Harsh, heavy, alt rock
OK, if I must... oh wow. I don't hate it. Did NOT see that coming.
Subject to a few exceptions, I tend to not like shouting vocals being shouted/screamed. That, coupled with the samey-ness of the album meant I found it extremely boring (not to mention offensive in some places - you all know to what I am referring although I'm sure some people would just try and pass it off as "banter" between friends).
The big three really egregious inclusions on this list from the late 90s are Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit and this Korn album, and barring any unexpected later inclusions, I am finally through all three of those. This is the least egregious but man it's bad, but not in a wholly offensive way like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit is. Still it has no business on this list.
Typical korn
5/5 - not my first Korn album, but my fave
I know they’re not everyone’s cup of tea but I don’t mind Korn. They were part of my teenage years so I get the nostalgia hit from listening to this. That being said, this isn’t their best album (imo) but I did enjoy listening to it again. Some songs are a bit of a drag so it’s a low 3
Never really given Korn much of a listen before, outside of Freak on a Leash. It’s hard not to compare them to Slipknot - they’ve both got that nu-metal-with-horror-film-overtones thing going on (music designed to shock, to a large extent). I think Slipknot did it better though. Korn just seem cruder - especially lyrically - and there’s not much variety in this, other than some occasional rapping (the Fred Durst mutual diss track colab, incidentally, might be a fun idea on paper but the execution is poor - the put-downs are really lame). There were enough guitar effects and melodic-but-grungy hooks to keep me interested but I’m not sure if it’s actually any good. 2.5
Angry, aggressive but more thoughtful than their first 2 albums. Maybe the most listenable of their albums. I still generally prefer their first album but I think it is because I was a little more mature when it his one came out and I was moving away from music this heavy. Still a very heavy, enjoyable listen.
I'm still not a fan and I love metal. I've tried but a whole album is just too much. There's some moments but overall it's just not very good.
It’s interesting. Some of it is even good. Overall it’s a bit exhausting.
I won't mind the single if it showed up in a sound track or something. I didn't need a whole album of this. I was never a big fan of nu-metal and nothing about this record has changed my mind. Also minus 1 star for that fred durst song.
It's ... a lot. The industrial sound, especially the guitars aren't bad. But Davis's vocals aren't great. And the songs themselves aren't great. It probably deserves to be on the list just because it's an example of a very popular genre, but it's not for me.
a song with ice cube is fucking iconic tho
2.5 I liked this more than I'm comfortable admitting
I'm starting to think that maybe whoever wrote this list just tricked thousands of people into listening to the worst albums of all time. I literally just listened to emotionally disturbed men singing about dick-sucking, butt-fucking, and Boy George. Korn actually hates any and all audiences that they may have.
I only made it halfway through this trash.
This was genuinely the worst thing I’ve heard. Not a single second did I enjoy it and it’s genuinely insulting that this garbage is on this list. In no world should someone want to listen to this.
White male aggression poorly disguised in nu-metal form - what could go wrong. Corn shit. One of the very very worst things you can do in life is to listen to any of this, let alone all of it. 0/10 1 plunger for my ears/brain 🪠
The songs began to blur together after about the fifth track.
This album does not hold up at all. The nu-metal craze had a huge impact on music however it was a flash in the pan. Not very good except for the two big hits.
Not the most notsble album by Korn.
#278. Bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit are the reason why nü metal went the way of disco. Because like the dwarves in Moria, they delved too fast and too greedily into the cringe, and the public backlash was like the Balrog that came and killed them all. This is where a half star rating would come in handy though. Because 2 stars seems a bit harsh, bit 3 stars seems entirely too generous. Fuck it, I guess, I've given a bunch of mid ass albums 3 stars already, so I guess this isn't worse than those. 3/5: ok-ish Song added to playlist: Dead Bodies Everywhere I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link
01) It's On! - 5,0 02) Freak on a Leash - 5,5 03) Got the Life - 5,0 04) Dead Bodies Everywhere - 4,5 05) Children of the Korn - 4,5 06) B.B.K. - 4,0 07) Pretty - 4,0 08) All In The Family - 4,0 09) Reclaim My Place - 4,0 10) Justin - 4,0 11) Seed - 3,0 12) Cameltosis - 4,5 13) My Gift to You - 4,0 14) Earache My Eye - 2,0 TOTAL: 4,14 (41/100) Current ranking: 233/239 Never in a million years did I think I'd be listening to a Korn album, especially when it's 36 degrees Celsius outside. My brain is mush anyway, God only knows what will be left of it after seventy minutes of this noise. Here I am about halfway through the album, and I have to admit that it sounds different than I expected. Not better, just different. I thought Korn was some noisy, serious metal band and what I got was practically Limp Bizkit. I fu**ing hate Limp Bizkit. This was always between one and two stars, but two stars required a little more effort.
Nu-metal is best consumed in small doses. That said, “Freak on a Leash” was the only bright spot for me on this album, for obvious reasons.
Wonk
Screaming and angst not my favorite.
after listening to some very average music this album came in and saved me i have always loved it but dont revisit it all that often because i thought i was more of a fan of just the hits but this listen really made me appreciate how good korn are and i am happily rating this 5 stars i do want to note that if i did decimal star ratings then this would not stay at 5 just because i feel uncomfortable listening to some of the things being sung and it does make me enjoy the album less
Hateful in every sense of the word.
A tough listen but moments of true enjoyment
Ihan passelia musiikkia, mutta ei ihan ominta juttua.
Alright
Even now I can’t say I’m a fan of their music, strange!
I had a friend who put this on to fall asleep to during a sleepover. I was looking forward to listening to this, but I think it aged worse than Chocolate Starfish.
You have to admit there aren’t many albums that sound like this. It’s a work of art haha
I have Freak On A Leash on my workout playlist so I thought I might like this, but that song basically took the best things about the album and distilled them into one decent song. The rest of the songs all blur together and there are way too many slow interlude-y parts with just drum and bass and weird synthesizer in the middle of otherwise heavy songs that break the flow. I do appreciate the metal take on scatting, it's weird and I love it.
This is trash.
This album makes me wanna go Mmmm nuppa ehh nuppa nuppa rumma loooo ruppa eh Mmmm nama nama reoww Ra re nuppa Mmmm nappa rappa all day long.
Wait why does this go kinda hard?!
Alltid varit mer av en bizkit fan... korn är lite väl dramatiskt och barnsligt. Musiken är helt cool men sångaren och attityden är inte min grej. Mer macho/bigoted än jag trodde det sku vara!
I give this 2 star album 3 stars only because I was in high school when this was popular, and there are a lot of memories tied to many of the songs. Without those memories, it's just a boring nu metal album.
Getting this after Britney's Baby One More Time is hilarious. I loved this album when I was 11. Thankfully I wasn't old enough to participate in things such as Woodstock 99. What a shitshow late-90s American boy culture was. Anyone who is surprised that something like the Trump era would come out of a culture that produced, just a decade and a half earlier, this and Limp Bizkit hasn't been paying attention. To Korn's credit, they are indeed not Limp Bizkit, but that is an incredibly low bar. Fuck the record execs that gave shit like this the greenlight.
Kinda groovy, kinda interesting but at the same time I think listening with ears of an +40 to a music style of his -20‘s.
Honestly, kind of a fun reminder of a certain time and place, except for the risible "All in the Family" which is a mortifying reminder of a certain time and place.
Pô muito bom kkkkkk 4.5/5
In the context of “should you listen to this album before you die,” no.
I really feel like this album/Korn is over-hated. Yes, the gra-a-a-a and the growling was cringey, but the music itself wasn’t the painful noise I was expecting. This was an interesting and unique listen — something I appreciate from this project, even if I won’t return to the album anytime soon.
Jonathan Davis knows his instrument and his audience - is it the crystal meth enthusiasts? I guess capitalisation has its benefits. That, and a debt of gratitude to Trent Reznor. So it’s obviously a pillar of the nu-metal movement but that’s where the “legacy” of this album seems to end. I liked my late 90s nihilistic angst from a band that offered alternate spellings of words featuring the letter ‘K’ when it was called Linkin Park. This deserves 1.5 stars. I’m feeling harsh, though.
Yes ok. It’s fine. They have a big but niche following and are representative of that type of thing. So yeah. Ok.
not my kind
The best thing about my son embracing hip-hop was that almost immediately I no longer had to listen to Korn or Limp Biscuit. I see L.B’s Fred Durst features on Track 8 here - All In The Family. Thankfully Fred was no longer affecting my family. One Star.
This was an exhausting 70 minutes listen; why so long, boys? And why so much whining? This album is perfectly described in the lyrics of Ben Folds' Rockin' the Suburbs: "Let me tell y'all what it's like Being male, middle-class, and white It's a bitch, if you don't believe Listen up to my new CD, sha-mon I got shit runnin' through my brain So intense, that I can't explain All alone in my white-boy pain Shake your booty while the band complains ... I'm rockin' the suburbs, I take the checks, and face the facts That some producer with computers fixes all my shitty tracks ... You better look out because, I'm gonna say "Fuck"" Preach, Brother Ben, amen.
This album defined a new generation. Truly revolutionary and a sound design that really is associated with Korn. I get that this album is not for everyone, but I enjoyed it a lot.
Mostly trash. The two singles from the album are mostly OK (maybe because I've heard them so much), but the rest is not good. Very derivative. Very angry for what seems like no reason.
Tiene temazos, pero es medio denso.
Korn's Follow the Leader album, released during the nu-metal wave, exemplifies their pioneering efforts in blending heavy guitar riffs with hip-hop elements, fronted by Jonathan Davis's distinctive vocal style. The music is undeniably forceful, featuring tracks like Freak on a Leash and Got the Life that showcase the band's raw energy and experimental sound. However, the lyrics can be controversial at times, exploring dark themes that may not resonate universally. Davis's vocal delivery, while emotive, occasionally veers into a whiny tone throughout the album. As one of the forefront bands in nu-metal, Korn pushed boundaries and influenced many peers with their aggressive yet melodic approach. Follow the Leader serves as a testament to their genre-bending abilities and their impact on the music scene. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None
Favorite Track: Freak On a Leash
Nu-metal isn't really my thing, but this was actually pretty decent. Some of Korn's style annoys me a little, but there was quite a bit here that I enjoyed. 4/5
Very heavy. One dimensional. Did not appeal to me in the slightest
The singing was whiny and the rapping embarrassing.
I don't like this album or Korn in general I'm sick of my friends 🚫🚫🚫 ngl I do enjoy a little bit of life is peachy though
Not a Korn fan, but it's not unlistenable. Low 2.
En terme de métal, ça pourrais être vraiment pire. J'aime beaucoup quand le chanteur imite le cri du babouin en chaleur, ça amplifie la qualité instrumentale que je trouve par moment diminué par le mixage qui rassemble toutes les sonorités des instruments dans un pain. Bref, c'est correct
I think this album is important for its genre and has some catchy and memorable tunes. However, not really my style of music.
This shit slaps hard
This sound seems to match how I’m feeling these days with so many things just not going right
Nope.
To be honest, I just find it boring. It just mushes itself up into noise that not even the toe-curling angst can peek its way out of.
It probably helps that I've not been in contact with this album or band before. So listening to it I expected to hate it but to be honest I quite liked it in places. I don't think it's quite as bad as some make out and there is an energy to it with interesting passages.
I’ve always loved Freak On A Leash and that still stands. The rest of the album was fine but I feel that Korn is very much one kind of sound. Listens: 1 Fave Track: Freak On a Leash Rating: 3
топ
очень тяжелый, давящий и злобный ню метал, который сдобрили частичкой доброты для мейнстрима. В общем, топовая штука и в контексте музыкальной истории. Алкоальбом: коктейль нефть, чтобы он прям черный был и крепкий, но слегка сладкий на послевкусии
Ugh!
altern. Rock, Rap, 1998 -> 1
It was a solid 2 until the song about loving another cunt, at that point I said nah I’m out, this is a 1.
Innovative, but only partially good metal. Tendency to 2.
Classic from my teen years. Hadn't heard it in a long while and was refreshing.
Korn was at the forefront of the rap-metal movement of the late 90s and to be honest, there are other bands with a similar style but sound so much better.
At least I never have to listen to it again
Not for me. I got bored.
Korn amuses me, but I couldn't listen to it long-term.
Great but the dumb rap shit makes it less great.
i understand people not liking soad or linkin park now a bit. 2.5
Some good riffs with a lot of bullshit in between. Soft 3
Suddenly I understand why all the other boys in my grade were the way they were.
Really bad.
lmao I'd somehow made it this far without hearing "Freak On A Leash" before. The album hits you in the face with fun insane decisions like that up front, but then drags on so long that it all wears out its welcome extremely hard. Probably my least favorite nu-metal act I've listened to for the project--SOAD was a great time, and even Linkin Park was mostly cute.
Sigh
I truly don't think I'll ever fully recover from hearing "All in the Family".
I was very curious how I was going to feel about this. I mostly missed out on Korn because either I was too young when an album came out (I was 9 or 10 for this one) or just hadn't really developed a taste for that kind of music. That definitely came later. I ended up feeling kinda "eh" about it overall. There were some songs I really enjoyed, and I liked the overall sound. Unfortunately the songs that weren't my thing REALLY weren't my thing. For the first half of the album I was feeling like this definitely would be a 3 star for me but as I listened on I started leaning more towards a 2. The last two songs were weak enough to me that it slid it pretty solidly into a 2. I'd give it a second listen if the mood struck but don't think I'll be reaching for this very much as there are other albums that scratch a similar itch. I'd be more likely to just skip through most of it and stop on a few songs.
Though from 1998, it really helped define what would come in the 00s. Unique sound.
I remember watching the music videos for this album on MTV when I was about 12. I loved it then and surprisingly still like it today.
Best band name ever, very cool drums & guitar
What were they thinking
The more experimental stuff didn’t age well and their self-titled original album was their best in my opinion. Still cannot deny these guys invented a new sound that’s unique
First half is great. Goes a bit south once Fred makes a guest appearance. 3.5 stars.
Despite enjoying some nu metal and generally lots of metal, Korn were never among my favourites, so Follow The Leader doesn't quite hit the right notes for me, but it's good enough in places. Like Freak On A Leash was massive because of the video but the song is pretty meh, but when they go heavier like they do on Dead Bodies Everywhere and BBK and My Gift To You I'm happier. The whole thing is too long and most of the tracks have too much of that weird low screechy hum in them somewhere that is most pronounced in the mix for FoaL and I find it distracting. No higher than a 2.
This is really not good. Wouldn't have recognised a Korn song if I'd heard one before this, and probably wouldn't now, aside from maybe Freak On a Leash which sounds vaguely familiar. It's far too long, it's screamy at times for no real reason, and it falls miles on the wrong side of the edgy / attention-seeking line. Don't think this even merits a 2.
I think you have to like Nu Metal to appreciate this album. I like Korn a lot and love how heavy their music sounds. I think the self-titled debut album and “Life is Peachy” are better than this but “Follow the Leader” still holds up for me.
To be fair I was expecting to give this a 1. But having listened it’s better than others of this genre and I would give 2.5 if I could.
Oh, Korn. I've never spent much time listening to these guys, but I know "Freak On A Leash." The cover to this album is much more memorable to me. and seeing this artwork takes me back to middle school and high school, where the 'scary' kids wore shirts emblazoned with this picture. I listened to a fair amount of alternative rock when this came out, and I used to hear this song on the radio that had the lyrics "so follow the leader down, and swallow your pride and drown." I assumed this must be the title track from this album. Nope, that was "Seein Red" by Unwritten Law, and there is no title track on this album. Anyway, on to the album at hand. I'll admit right off the bat that I was never a huge nu metal fan at the peak of its popularity. I owned a Linkin Park's Reanimation, and I still enjoy Limp Bizkit's "Rearranged" and "Take A Look Around" (look, they're not particularly good songs, but they're fun jams. The lyrics to "Take A Look Around" are so bad, but I love them in the worst way. "I don't even know what I should say, 'Cause I'm an idiot, a loser, a microphone abuser." That just rolls off the tongue so well). I don't mind dark music, but this stuff is dark to the point of where it's dirty, like the darkness has made it mildew. The distortion, with it's screeches and wavering, is just unpleasant to listen to in my opinion. And maybe that's the point, but if so, it's lost on me. The drumming on this album is really good though, and I love how it can go from slower and softer to chaotic and booming in about half a second. The same thing can be said about Jonathan Davis's voice. I'll never understand how he can go from singing to screaming to growling and then back to singing so quickly. "Freak On A Leash" is easily the standout song from this album, with its iconic singing, and the well-known... scream scatting? by Davis towards the end of the song. Most of the songs sounded pretty similar to me, but the album was livened up a bit by guest appearances by Ice Cube, Fred Durst, and Tre Hardson. Durst's appearance on the crass "All in the Family" was particularly fun. I'm a fan of the occasional intentionally filthy song, and this didn't disappoint. Aside from the homophobic lyrics (not that it makes it right, but lyrics like that weren't very rare in the nineties, sadly), the song is pretty hilarious as Durst and Davis take turns dissing each other in increasingly filthy ways. Also, shoutout to the bagpipes on "My Gift to You." This album isn't up my alley at all, but I appreciate its influence. Korn helped push hard rock in a new direction, and popular music would look much different without their influence.
I didn’t hate this, and I thought I would.
Dark and gloomy, can’t work out whether old mate is scratching the record back and forth to get those sounds or if it’s actually coming from his voice. Either way it gets old quickly.
Fucking awful. Shame on Cheech Marin (but not too much. He's a really good guy.) for participating.
I like Korn. This is my least favorite Korn album.
Look, I can fuck with music like this. But this has been done a LOT better since, and before. Even when I heard this as an angsty 13 year old I remember thinking ‘eughhh…. no’. There was this girl called Claire who I became friendly with - she turned out to be a compulsive liar - who I thought was cool because she introduced me to rock music pretty much. But even then, when it would have been cool to like Korn… I didn’t. Some really juvenile / misogynistic / homophobic / horrible stuff in here. It’s all the same. It’s too long and boring. NO THANKS. I looked up Claire recently and all I could find was that she started a computer company that folded within 2 years, otherwise nothing.
A good album, not their best and not the one I would have included in the list but still a solid 4
p838. 1998. 1 star. Foul mouthed, obnoxious, unpleasant and distinctly average heavy metal/rap fusion. This hurt my ears. "You hate me/And I hate you". Yup, about right.
Un dosaco en toda la regla.
Никогда не слушал коян кроме как прям хиты хитяры. Давайте оценивать. Гитара очень сочная, вокал хриплый, но при этом разборчивый. Почему-то в голове у меня корн=дистёрбед, но это вообще разные группы. Слушай, ну первый трек уже кайф прям, мне нравится ритмика! it's On! Я послушал весь альбом и это ТУПО ТОП. Альбом пушка бомба, коян очень хороши. Одобряю!
Jonathan Davis’s singing and vocal scatting, scratching, whatever the fuck that noise he does with his throat is, makes an already tedious album borderline unlistenable. Not even an Ice Cube cameo can salvage this record, and the less said about ‘All In The Family’ featuring Fred Durst the better.
Awful. Nothing redeeming.
it could be 2 if the album was shorter
Dead Bodies Everywhere sums up the project - let’s be controversial and juxtapose shouting ‘Dead bodies everywhere’ over metal noise with lullaby tunes. Well done guys. You made a great point. No, wait, All in the Family sums up the project. Weak ass rap battle with Fred Durst, screaming choruses and jeez, if 'You call yourself a singer? / You're more like Jerry Springer' isn't both the worst rhyme and worst diss ever recorded. No, wait, its Cameltosis, where we're just scattering the C word all over the place. So shocking, lads.
you kiss your mother with that mouth?
A more disgusting collection of filth would exist on the Dark Web. Needs zero stars
Now I know why Korn fans were so weird.
Un dosaco en toda la regla.
Godawful, damaged, whiney, shouty shite. Terrible cover, terrible record, massively overlong. And when they rap? Laughably bad. Not quite 1-star rotten but it was extremely close.
I was a bit confused by the plethora of negative reviews. Chunky riffs gave it promise. Then he started doing whatever you call those vocal twitches. At first time I thought he was about to vomit. Then he does another weird one followed by the dreaded "growl-shout." I agree with the reviewer who couldn't stop laughing. This is hilariously bad. Absolute shit, but funny.
I'm convinced the only people who enjoy this album today feel this way because of the 90s/teenage years nostalgia. in the first song the singer sounds like he's screaming while crying (tbf I'd also cry if I had to sing this) – and this image of an angsty teenager throwing a tantrum remains with me through the rest of the album. in all fairness, though, there are some cool musical moments in there that remind me of a few "modern-day" noise-rock/punk bands
Þetta er... já já, alveg hægt að hlusta á þetta. En ekkert uppáhald.
da-bum-na-da-uuuum-umnamaima
Okay then, my time has come. My first Korn. Here we go. The production on it isn't bad. But the Fred Durst song finally broke me. This one's a big nope for me. It does make you really miss when rock was fun.
Damn, this has aged like fine milk.
Pre-1001 Generator I would have guessed that I wouldn't like this album because I'm not really into metal. Now I can confidently say metal isn't my favorite but it's not without its positives. Still searching for the positives in this one. Can't believe they got Ice Cube on this.
Bombastic side eye @ All In the Family
The band really named themselves after Corn
Korn added rap to metal's vocabulary. Their sound has the bass driven rhythms of metal, with down-tuned guitars to add weight. The brooding, articulate lyrics wander from the scream of death-metal, through rap to scat in some sequences. Follow the Leader is their third album, and perhaps their most successful. Driven by a a few hit singles, like "Freak on a Leash," Korn became one of the biggest bands of the 90s.
it was interesting, I had never listened to Korn before this, probably not gonna listen to this again, but there were definitely some parts I liked
1/5. I heard jokes about this band and didn't want to give it a bad rating without listening to it myself, honor and all that. Today, I regret honor because that was just bad writing. I can definitely see why this is in this book, I should listen to it so I can set the standard of what not to do if I wanted to write music. I mean it was definitely very popular for a reason, which is why I don't have much hope for the future. Not terrible song: Seed, Freak on a Leash, Reclaim My Place
cool unique sound, bangers and refreshing tunes
Freak on a leash is still pretty fun
Back in the late 90's, early 2000's you had two bands that got shared under that weird header 'Nu-Metal' that you would find on almost every summer music festival in Europe: Deftones and KoЯn. One band I absolutely adored the music and albums of. Around the Fur and especially White Pony were landmarks for this new sound. Heavy with a deep underground layer of angst, superb songwriting, the Deftones were fantastic. Korn on the other hand were lyrically childish, musically only had one trick and were by all measures uninteresting. Live though, it was a different story. Deftones just plain sucked. Every time. I don't think I've ever seen them perform well. The sounds and atmosphere they created on their albums never made it to a live experience. And Korn went the other way. They were able to make even the biggest hater of their music dance and jump and get a little smile on their face when all their fans did the back on forth on Reclaim My Place. Now back listening to this album... It really has not stood the test of time and wasn't really good to begin with. I think "Got The Life" is the only redeeming feature on an otherwise dull experience. I will never have to revisit this. I'd see them live though if they were at a festival again.
A few classics here too, though this I mostly remember from older teen days when I was trying to listen to something my friends didn't. I wanted to be one of the odd, cool kids. Man, times flies.
I really need to cast preconceived notions of this album aside. They were popular when I was in high school and liking the put you in a specific social category. For that reason, I never went there. But, as time has gone on my opinion of the band has changed. They’re actually not very different from the other bands of that era. Now, years later, here I am listening to it earnestly and it kind of rocks. The tortured breathy singing is laughable, but fun. The energy is great. I remember liking Got the Life, and that hasn’t changed much. Fun song. Seems like the album really just got worse from there (song 3 lol). The homophobia is definitely not cool. I was unaware of the hip hop elements of this album.
- first 4 songs are peak Korn - this album is where they found their sound - not my favorite from them overall, but totally quality - collaborations somewhat bring it down but they work well enough
- who else is making noises like Johnathan Davis? Truly special - Freak on a Leash and Got the Life are Hall of Famers - legends of the alt-metal sound
Classic Korn
Why???
Best Song: Children of the Korn. I guess Ice Cube was a nice contrast? Worst Song: All In The Family. The combination of Durst literally just speaking garbage rhymes and then the Korn fella shouting random homophobia. I have nothing in common with anyone who likes this track. Overall: That bark-like scatting that they do on nearly every track is so obnoxious. It has this "not matter what I do, its music" hubris that I just find annoying. Music for people who think loud is an emotion.
Well well well - this strikes a deep nostalgia chord - I remember hearing Got the Life as a single and complete being blown away by the sound - I had heard nothing like it before - followed by a mad scramble to purchase the Cd from the low stocked local record store - to countless hours listening it. Oh and the first 13 tracks of the CD intention skipping until ‘It’s On’ suddenly kicks the record off. Now. Does it hold up? Actually in my opinion yes - it’s still a well crafted record - and a good snapshot of the time. Unfortunately casual misogyny and homophobia pepper the record - which was rife at that point in time - and also feels like the proto white incel anthem record. Oh and a terrible and quite aged like white milk rehearsed diss track with Fred Durst somewhere in the middle. But hey that is countered with a good cameo from Ice Cube and Cheech Marin. So .. cringe at many times? Yes. A bit overlong with a few unecessary tracks at the end? Yes - a side effect of the CD era. Fred Durst? ugh yes. Then again nostalgia is powerful. And objectively it does kind of sound unique - and it does have qutie a few banger tracks throughout. It’s complicated but it gets a 4 star from me.
Objectively I know this isn't great, but I love it. Loud brash, nonsensical in your face noise
i tried to be open minded with this one, but it just really sucks
Never liked the band when this was released and dislike them even more now. Nothing of interest here and the more I actually listened, the more I hated it. That was over an hour of time I'll never get back, as it burned so brain cells I'll need to listen to hours and hours of babies crying to recover. In who's hell world goes this album make the list??
This one was one of my favourites when I was 16 and it still is today. I can totally understand people not liking it. It had a very unusual vibe to it when it came out. The kind of music you either love or hate
It's Korn, all right. A classic, and as with most of the nu-metal genre, I suppose it's kind of a guilty pleasure for many. It's not bad, but quite repetitive after a while. And again, way too long. The last ten minutes were quite a stretch
Yikes, I can not believe I listened to this as a child
ugh so shitty
This just wasnt that good sadly.
Nu metal is not for me, but I can appreciate the Nine Inch Nails-ish imprint on some songs and the Ice Cube appearance.
It’s on! 2 Freak on a leash 3 Got the life 3 Dead bodies everywhere 3 Children of the Korn (feat. Ice Cube) 3 B.B.K 3 Pretty 3 All in the family (Feat. Fred Durst) 2 Reclaim my place 4 Justin 3 Seed 3 Cameltosis (feat. Slimkid 3) 3 My gift to you 3 Earache my eye 2
A perfect nu metal alboom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-em
Awww my gawd! It's Korn! Bumts bcbsbbruskendhdbbehsjbsbehsiakkwieiuebebshsjsj Minha! *Cue the bagpipes*
Not for me 1/5
Disappointing metal album by Korn. It has not aged that well.
No thanks.
Listened Before? Y One of the biggest albums of the 90s. It had absolute mass appeal amongst the 18-25 demographic. If you don't believe it, look at the reactions of the crowd when they played these songs at Woodstock 99. Pure energy. The album itself has held up pretty well if you like this sort of thing. Hard rocking, raunchy, and somewhat silly. It's a fun ride. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Got the Life
For people who like it when someone screams in their ear.