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A bit of an unfair review as I didn’t finish the album. I liked most of what I heard so it probably deserves a cautious 3*
I'm usually up for defending nu-metal but never quite got Korn. Extra star just for nostalgia but not great...
Not a huge Korn fan but they're arguably the most defining nu metal act ever. They made a masterful blend of hiphop, rock, and industrial. They didn't focus too much on conventional poppy structures. And of course, they turned teenage angst up to 11. Overall, my inner teenage self is happy to hear this.
# Playlist track - Freak On A Leash # Notes - This cover brings me back memories! Especially memories from the AWESOME music video for "Freak On a Leash" (go watch it if you haven't!). That broke my mind back on MTV days. - Sadly, the whole album isn't as cool. It is a bit too long and repetitive. - Only recommend to nu-metal fans. It didn't age too well, on my humble opinion. But go ahead if that's your thing.
Not my jam.
Too raw and too hard rock for my taste. I did like some of the cartoon videos.
Korn has such an iconic sound. This album put them ON. Those drums with the clicky sound are one of a kind in metal/rock.
Krap
it’s just endlessly obnoxious I get why some people like this kinda stuff but it is not for me at all - 3/10
Much better than I would have anticipated. Got me hyped to go into the office today.
Feller's pretty upset, I reckon
Another desperately American album from a band that didn't every trouble the UK. It's formulaic nu metal with terrible lyrics and dreadful songs. Maybe in its genre it does something but there's a reason none of this ever travelled to the UK.
I had been waiting to hear Korn as I've frequently heard their praises. Normally, metal has me hopeful, and then disappointed. This was no exception. Metal, Nu Metal...so far, not to my liking, even when given a fair chance.
Solid Nu Metal record but not overly cringey (it has its moments tho). It doesn’t rely as much on rap as other Nu Metal albums. Maybe a little overly edgy but not too bad. It was just too long. The CD era produced so many bloated albums.
Wow. I added a few points because of... nostalgia, and maybe the fact that Korn were some kind of precursors, but this album has aged. Some good riffs, maybe two good songs in total, but the rest is disappointing. This should be considered as a stepping stone, that gave birth to new, nice things in metal, but this also should stay in the past.
A lot of cringe lyric-wise. Definitely a product of the nu metal era. Glad that era died out. I like some of the instrumentation. And I would still take this over Nortorious B.I.G.
First couple of songs, I was like this is going to be decent, then it went full trash with language and topics. First album that I have had to quit listening.
I just don’t know.
That was so much worse than anything I could have expected. I was really trying to keep an open mind to start off with but then we got to tracks 4 and 5. That's when I would have stopped if I was just listening to this for kicks. However I am a man of principle so I soldiered on. Then we get to track 8. I mean where do I even start? That made me want to weep and then die it was so pointlessly bad. I mean who thought that would be a great idea to write a diss track between Limp Bizkit and Korn and have it just be a bunch of slurs? Seriously why? Jonathan Davis has a serious problem with women apparently. Almost every other song's main idea was just violence against women. Also what in the world was his attempts at scatting? That was balls. It actually made me laugh a couple times because it was so out of the blue and so wildly awful. I mean Anthony Kiedis does a better job and he's not really known for incredible vocal prowess. The only small glimmer of not terribleness was the instruments, they were played well and sounded at least not god-awful. However almost all the songs sounded the same. This was such a stupid album from a stupid band. I listened through all of it and I still don't know what in the world was the point of all that. Also I would like it to be known that after enduring this I listened to Lenny Kravitz (5 specifically) to help restore my faith in humanity and remind me that there is good music out there that is pleasant to listen to.
not my style at all. ugh. need to go sit in a quiet room for a while. only reason they get 2 stars is that a 1.5 not available. they can play instruments, and have a distinct sound- I just don't care for it
Horrible
Just a little to out there for me.
Like when someone offers me fried livers... no thank you.
Another hard NO!! Noise and incoherent lyrics that I'm guessing harped on about life's hardships, how being a nu-metal fan is a raw deal and any other hetero-minority group that the target listener has chosen to join
Korn has such a distinctive sound. I love how low Fieldy's bass is tuned, making that rattling noise from the strings slapping against the bass. And Jonathan Davis' weird vocal delivery. They encapsulate that whole nu metal movement that was massive in the late 90's - early 00's. I remember my introduction to Korn. I bought a cd at ROW called Family Values '98. It was a live compilation album of a bunch of nu metal/rap artists who played the Family Values Tour. It had Incubus, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Orgy, Rammstein... and Korn on it. I remember my first listen to the cd I had no idea who Korn were. Jonathan Davis comes out on stage playing bagpipes, then they blast into Shoots and Ladders. It blew my mind. So weird and awesome. Not like anything I'd ever heard before. I went out and bought this album (Follow the Leader) after that. That was my skateboarding/JNCO jeans with chain wallets phase. I also distinctly remember after that seeing the music video for Freak on a Leash where the whole video follows a bullet as it flies through the air, going through vases and milk bottles and shit. It was awesome to a young teenager! I also think listening to Korn kind of fed into my rebellious phase of life. Up to that point, mom had us so prim and proper. No swearing in the house, straight laced as can be. This album scratched that rebellious itch I had. Made me feel bad ass because they swore and played heavy music. As corny as Korn may have been (pun intended), this album, and the nu metal movement in general, is steeped in nostalgia for me. This music brings back so many great memories. It is hard to be objective when rating this album because of that. Favourite songs: Got the Life, Freak on a Leash, B.B.K., Reclaim My Place, Children of the Korn, Dead Bodies Everywhere Least favourite songs: All in the Family, Earache My Eye 4/5
Fuck no.
Great album!!
Curious if there's a more polarizing album in this mix. Maybe there's some ICP lurking somewhere. Culturally I feel positioned to try to dislike this album (and I do, haha) but, since I grew up listening to hardcore / alternative rock, there are moments in here that I dig. Got The Life is a track I could see myself hankerin for. Might just be because it reminds me of my sister 🙂
Was ok, I am less into metal generally though.
I'm not sure how this got onto the list, but I would have been perfectly happy dieing without having heard it. Unfortunately that opportunity is now lost to me.
Uhhg my brother really liked this when it came out and I never got into it. I found it really lame and still do. I have skipped about 6 or 7 songs and I'm 9 in right now. Not a fan. I can image everyone in the studio laughing so hard while Jonathan was doing his little scatting but then being like " no no , it sounds good we swear, keep doing it"
Geile Riffs, harte E-Gitarren, coole Rhythmen. Wegbereiter für Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit und andere.
I recognize this for what it is, but nu metal was never my thing. It's too long at over an hour. 35 to 42 minutes is a better length in my opinion. Over that and listening becomes a chore.
Made it halfway through the first song before turning it off
Entirely as I expected. NEXT!
So good. I loved this.
Must have hit a very specific age of teenagers because there's nothing here that's new or better than can be found in a thousand other bands. Bit whiny and samey.
I used to quite enjoy doing the weird beatbox thing in Freak On A Leash. I never really clicked that this album was released in the 90s as I first heard Korn around 2005 as an angsty little tween. I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to this album in full, so let’s listen! Songs I already knew: Freak On A Leash Favourites: Freak On A Leash This is such as album of its time. That’s clear enough by the feature of Fred Durst on All In The Family (which features lyrics such as “I’ll lick your little dick”). Freak On A Leash is a definite highlight here. The rest of the album is a bit naff in my silly little opinion. If you’ve never heard Freak On A Leash, definitely give that a listen. Don’t bother with the rest here though.
I grew up with freak on the leash constantly shown on Kerrange and Scuzz music tv channels. Listening back now just confirms my view that NuMetal really is just angry music for teenagers. Hasn’t dated well and now as a man with a wife and kids in his mid 30s, I really struggle to relate to it. The album is far too long, repetitive and chaotic. It’s made worse by appearances from Fred durst and Ice cube. I listened downward spiral last week, which I rated highly and in comparison this album just isn’t anywhere near that level of focus and atmosphere. Follow the leader is probably one of the best Nu metal albums and a pioneer in the genre but let’s face it, it’s not up against much stiff competition. Just scrapes 3 stars given its genre defining and freak on a leash.
Didn't understand a lot of words but I don't think that's the point of Korn. Sounded cool and the Ice Cube feature was unexpected and also cool.
Oh boy. There's certainly some things to be said about this album. Nu-metal is quite possibly the most polarizing music sub-genres out there. Some people enjoy it, but a lot of people hate it. So, would you be surprised if I told you that I don't hate "Follow the Leader" by Korn? I know, right? I think Korn's sound, at least instrumentally, is actually pretty interesting and I kind of like it a bit. It has this dingy feel to it all that isn't present in a ton of popular music. I think Jonathon Davis is also a fairly interesting vocalist. The weird grunts are not painful to listen to and his actual singing aids that aforementioned dingy tone. The writing could be better, but it's not the worst thing in the world. There are some decent songs on here. There are also some terrible songs on here. Namely, "All in the Family", which is just not good. The features are weird. I wasn't the biggest fan, but they weren't all bad. Overall, while I can absolutely see why others would despise this album and avoid it like the plague, I don't hate it. I find it to be a very interesting album that isn't the worst thing I've ever heard. It was somewhat enjoyable at times, and given how this album, for all intents and purposes, brought nu-metal in the mainstream to reign in the late 90s and early 00s, I can also see why this album was included on this list. Light 3/5.
Seems like NiN, a little aggressive for me
I love the production on metal bands on so much, those heavy guitars, loud drums , it’s amazing but I just can’t stand the vocal performances on most of the songs. PS: Ice cube sounds great over some rock production lol
Great example of nu metal era. Some highs but overall lacks quality across the board. Still enjoyable high 6.
Some really good parts to this album. I thought they nailed the tone they were going for and some of the music was super sick. I liked a lot of the weird vocals and thought they brought it all together really well. Some odds and corny bits here and there, could probably have been a leaner album. Some of the content and lyrics show it’s time.
Bf no puedo con el metal
While there were a few parts I liked, I didn't enjoy this album as a whole. The musicianship is definitely solid, but the tracks were way too chaotic for my taste. The vocals aren't quite my cup of tea either.
Un dosaco en toda la regla.
Not really a fan then. Not really a fan now.
No!
Grunge não é pra mim.
Some of this is woeful (the Durst collab, Earache my Eye), but when it's good it hits hard. Not my favourite Korn but glad I revisited
This album has some great songs and some meh ones. Korn has such a unique sound. Most of this album still holds up today. Cameltosis is the major exception - it’s shit and the misogyny brings this down for me. Earache My Eye is pretty bad too. 3.5 Favorites: Dead Bodies Everywhere, children of the Korn
I enjoyed the multiple features on the album and cross between rock and rap.
For metal, it's quite creative and well-done. But I just can't appreciate the genre anymore.
Wow. Music porn? Murder soundtrack? This is really junk with no redeeming value. I kind of regret listening to it. I usually find something to like or respect - guitar work, vocals, writing - there's just nothing here.
Surprisingly, I liked more from Follow The Leader than I thought I was going to. I remember when Korn was a new band and seeing some of their videos and performances on TV. I didn't like the music back then and I still don't like the music now. I don't dislike the music as much as I used to. I one of the reasons that I don't like Korn is that I'm not as angry and upset with the world, so it's hard to surround myself with that kind of content. There are times when some of the music draws me in but the vocals and lyrics push me right back out. With guest artists like Ice Cube and Fred Durst, you shoul not be surprised that I can't get past 2 stars.
while i appreciate the instrumentation on the album. the riffs and melodies are certainly rememberable and energetic. the vocals and the vibe of it is just not for me. also, i want my music to really sound harsh when it wants to be and this album sort of never gets there. the vocals are meh and the production gets samey after a while. the rapping is not to its credit as well. while i can appreciate some songs like freak on a leash, got the life, it's on!, bbk i just don't see myself listening to it. it sort of just hangs in the middle where i can't understand what it's for. the riffs and overall sound is not dark, rough enough for my liking. the vocals are kinda whiney. and i don't know when i'd like to listen to this. it's a strong 4 to a light 5.
First two albums are classics. This one was the fall. Lyrics are trash.
This was the hardest time I've had finishing an album on this list.
I like Korn; I liked Korn but now I'm 45 and just doesn't hit the same. Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma -3!
I liked it, idk why everyone disliked it, need to stop reading reviews before listening to stuff myself
I haven't had a shitty one-star album in a while. To be fair, I might have gone with 2 stars had this been 40 or 45 minutes, but clocking in at well over an hour? No excuse for putting over an hour of this sucky music down. Blech. 1 star.
Their most notorious album released at the height of their popularity, this is peak nu metal and everything is represents. And unfortunately, it has so me of the bad too. Korn is my favorite nu metal band. Their music takes groove metal and industrial and merges it with hip hop production and rap styles and pop hooks. Korn in particular embodies spooky sci-fi and horror sound effects and brings it modern audiences when combined with 90s electronica and industrial. Combined with the deep grungey bass and solos, and the vocalist who sounds like his head's about to explode, we get an intimate and deeply unsettling record. After their s/t, Korn stood as leaders of the nu metal movement, and this record sees them moving forward with the pop appeal, with catchy choruses, shocking chord progressions, and memorable riffs that leave an unforgettable listen. The downside to this as the songs lose a bit experimental edge from their s/t. The weaker songs on this record repeat the same themes and techniques, and rely on cheap collaborations like an unnecessary rap battle with Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, a messy gangsta rap duo with Body Count's Ice Cube (that has cool scats and effects but cluttered), and a just straight boring and forgettable collab with someone called Slimkid3 (who?). We also get a stupid outro that starts with a conversation and becomes a cringey climax. Limo Bizkit and Deftones do this too, and I don't get why. It's always so lame and edgy. My final complaint is the album length, like my complaints with every 90s album. Over an hour? No thanks. Too many tracks to cut. That being said, this could have been a perfect album if they cut the weak tracks and focused on putting their innovative ideas to work, which I feel like was weakened from their s/t. This record does have a killer start. The entire first half except "Children of the Korn" is fantastic. "Pretty" and "Reclaim my Place" go a bit long but have nice choruses and sick endings. "Justin" turns into a cool death metal song in the middle but the beginning and end are both lame. "Seed" started ok but picked up by the 2-minute mark. Very proggy. My favorite on the 2nd side. "My Gift to You" is a fantastic closer if we ignore what came after. No complaints.
Not my type of music, but at least it has substance, depth and really goes in deep to those icky feelings we all have sometimes. It doesn't just talk about F the dude who hurt me and I don't care. It goes deeper and focuses on the real impact. Probably won't listen again but can give it credit for having depth.
The real challenge of listening through 1001 albums when I get a nu metal album like this that is around 70 minutes long. It's angry, repetitive, musically boring, and lyrically it is nothing that grabs me or what I'd call interesting or even positive. I've never liked nu metal in the early 00s and my opinion hasn't changed in time. It was especially difficult to listen this album from an era where CDs where a thing and artists came out with 60-80 minute longs albums like this one which was over an hour long (these albums would have been double albums back in the 60s, 70s, 80s...). I listened through the whole thing and I still find it just really bad...I rarely give out a 1 but this one just deserves it.
Not my favorite KoRn album but still a good listen!
This band has great sound alchemy. The music is great but I'm not a huge fan of the vocal stylings and the poetry of the lyrics doesn't really grab me. The album starts off strong. I like the first 4 songs then everything goes downhill when they start bringing in the guest rappers. Favorite song is Got the Life. Wish there were more songs like that on the album. I took a listen to Korn's first album which I did like better than this one. If I ever compile a playlist for summonsing a demon, Dead Bodies Everywhere will definitely be on it.
I had this album back in the day and really enjoy Got The Life and Freak On A Leash. Like Limp Bizkit, the angry, aggressive vibe isn’t always my thing, but this album feels more thought out than Chocolate Starfish…
I was a bit disheartened to see Korn come up this morning after Limp B yesterday. As lawdogg remarked, “Did these cards get shuffled?” 😆 It’s not terrible, just not the type of music that moves me. I do like this one a bit more than Chocolate Hot Dogs. Hoping to have a break from this genre after today though.
Really? How does elevator music in Hell rate a spot on this list? I know I gave it one star....but I lied....no star for you
"WHAT THE FUCK" - Korn. 3/5.
This isn't my cup of tea but it has its moments. Korn have no shortage of raw power and they sound good on a technical level. The rhythm section is solid too. Even when I didn’t love the song, I still caught myself banging my head from time to time. But the songwriting is lacking. And without memorable melodies, the tracks blur together. Getting through an hour of this music can feel like a slog. There are some good metal riffs but it wasn't enough for me. This is missing something. The low point is definitely the Fred Durst-featuring, homophobic insult battle "All in the Family." That one was rough. I really like the animalistic grunt-scatting on "Freak on a Leash." I wish there were more strange, creative choices like that in the music.
Just seeing this album cover brings back a lot of great memories from my youth. To an extent I can thank this record for being the one that made me really start to get more into music in a serious way. Funny enough to think back to this and realize it's a Korn album as I don't really listen to them anymore and find a majority of their music to not be really good besides this early stuff. I grew up listening to music that I still like (thanks mom!), like The Beach Boys, Doo Wop, The Beatles, and from there I went to listening to grunge on the radio in the mid 1990's and loving it, and from there I went to buying my own first albums - Ride the Lightning by Metallica, and Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. All through this time my interest as a music listener was building and building, but this album was the one where my brother and I bought it and it took us to a new fascination level. I have really vivid memories of watching TRL after school and waiting to see what pop music videos were going to be fighting "Freak on a Leash" or "Got the Life" for the #1 spot. When Korn would win I would sit and think "great! We beat the popular kids today". Even more vivid for me was listening to this album and playing videogames with my brother- Everquest was our big one around this time. Many hours did we find ourselves in some dark dungeon with online friends and blasting some Korn to get ready for a boss fight. On to the music. It's great! It's so unique in so many ways, and the most memorable bands for me of all time are ones that did their own thing. Korn is heavy metal that grabs elements of other genres effortlessly- slap bass, beatbox rhythmic vocals, 7 string guitar riffs, 808's, evocative lyrics, interesting production techniques, super catchy hooks, and interesting compositions that never get boring. It's funny to think of those ingredients all being thrown together. I can't imagine it working. I think there's times where the music can sound... corny... but I think that they do a good job of not caring about that and making music that they wanted to hear. Korn has kind of permeated and lingered throughout my life in funny ways. My microwave hums a note (i think a Bb) that is final note of the chorus melody of "Freak on a Leash", and if I'm heating something up and not looking at my phone, you can be damn sure I'll be next to it and singing a duet "sometimes I cannot take this place, sometimes it's my life I can't taste". Some day I'll find a good lyric to change that to, like "sometimes I don't like microwaving food, in these times it's my food I can't taste". How great is the backwards R? KoЯn KoЯn KoЯn KoЯn KoЯn For me this is a very biased and strong 4/5. This is probably a top 10 album of my youth, and I'm surprised that the production still really holds up. Unfortunately some of the lyrics don't (there's some rough ones in there), but it still does something for me all of these years later.
Nu metal two days in a row! And it's a very enjoyable one. If this had been 10 tracks long it'd be five stars and nu metal would be much more respectfully remembered. As it is, it's a touch overlong and not quite perfect. But very close (let's ignore the 90s edgelord shit. It was the 90s. I'm hoping they regret it)
Un perico dando voces y cantando la misma canción durante todo el álbum
Great album. Brings back lots of memories.
This was AWFUL-
I don’t think they knew what this album was supposed to be…
I thought I would enjoy the stroll down memory lane, but once I got passed the two singles that the TRL generation heard ALL THE TIME... it was a dreadful experience.
Not really my thing, but better than I thought it would be. Liked the rap element
3.5. Freak. great bass
Emo vulgarcore. What a blast from the past. The last time I saw this album it was probably in a cracked CD case on somebody's brother's car floor.
Så mye edge at jeg nesten kuttet meg selv.
it's Krap
Never thought I would engage in such ragey music. Thoroughly enjoyed
Very boring.
As much as I quite liked some of tracks, it’s a very creepy album. I couldn’t ever quite shake a picture in my mind. Kids in Matrix coats.
No no no no
I feel dirty after listening to this album. Enjoyed the guitar work and that's about it.
not at all my cup of tea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unexpectedly tough, it's an arguably easy listen, didn't expect it.
-- Stimme nervig
Dreadful
I had never heard Korn previously and was expecting something a little heavier and wilder. It sounds a bit by the numbers.
3.5
Mmm. Good memories with this one.
The S/T album is the one and only Korn album that belongs on this list and somehow it isn't. I mean I absolutely loved Korn in middle to sophomore year of high school but I'm pretty much over this. Got The Life is a great song. I will ALWAYS bob my head along to it.There's some other okay to pretty good songs. Some of this shit aged poorly particularly All In The Family. I can give this a generous 3 for the good songs. It really doesn't deserve to be shit on, but it truly has no place on this list.
Wow, misogynism and homophobia! How original! /s This was hardly even shocking or edgy tbh, just boring and lame. At least Eminem expresses his awful views of people creatively.
Lyder lidt for meget som hvis et angstanfald fik et Heavy metal backing travl
This is the kind of album that exists so that parents can yell at their kids to turn it off.
I have beef with Korn. Listening to this album justified it.
This was a total slog for me, even though I did like "Freak on a Leash" and "Got the Life" as singles at the time. This just sounds like mud to me.
Korn review First off, when I was 12, I was a huge Korn fan. It was the perfect successor to grunge music. It had that raw angst that I loved, mixed with metal. I had to listen to this in sessions as I didn't want nostalgia to play a role in my rating/review. If you had purchased the cd, you would be baffled why the songs keep skipping... Does this cd have music on it? Not until track 12 or 13, does the first song play. I think it was supposed to be a continuation of the previous album. This album starts off heavy and continues to follow suit throughout its entirety. It's On introduces the album and it's typical Korn fashion that fans would want. It ends and seemlessly goes into Freak On A Leash. In FOAL - we get to hear that Johnathan Davis classic "Metal Skat" that was introduced in their previous album Life Is Peachy in the first song Twist. Hearing this as a kid, I thought it was cool as hell. It's accompanied with heavy drop tuned riffs that hit you like a brick in the face. Got The Life has to be my favourite written song as it has a sick intro and a memorable guitar riff. There is a part right before the chorus, where the drum fill hits hard and you think it's going to get super heavy, and then out of left field it had this random, almost musicless part with Davis singing "Get your boogy on" - on paper is sounds lame.. But it just makes this song come with an unpredictability. After that part, back into the verse followed by the chorus that we thought we were going to get but instead we got the get the boogy on part. It's just a cool structure that I forgot about as I haven't listened to this song in years.... I'm not going to go track by track with this review, just adding some notes along the way. The song Children of the Corn is shit... But gets saved by Ice Cube's part. Hard hitting gangster raps that dominated the 90s. Rap and Metal = Nu Metal. And it is safe to say that Korn put the genre on the map. Davis does a lot of cool things with his voice. As he uses it as an instrument to add layers to the songs. It gives emotion and depth. Davis often is screaming, at times doing death screams,and almost comes off as this "I will Fuck you up" tough guy... But in the exact same song, he will have vocal parts that sound aggressive and then go into crying and whining... It gets old fast... And listening to it now, it's kind of embarrassing. It worked in the late 90s. And Korn is definitely aimed at angst IDGAF teenagers. Unfortunately, they still try that approach... And they're in their 50s (or close to). The bass guitar is very important to Korns sounds. Tuned low... And slapped hard. Usually, the bass is the structure of the song, while the guitars mimic DJ scratches and sound effects. Along with heavy doomy riffs. Which was new to mainstream music and oddly enough, James Schaffer and Brian Welch were credited as guitar God's in some magazines. Dave Silveria (Sp?) on drums has some tasty fills and parts but otherwise pretty standard drumming that accompanies the band well. The song with Fred Durst might be the worst thing ever written. And if written today, given our woke society, they'd be black listed. Seed is forgettable. And so is B. B. K. The final song almost is a carbon copy of the final song Daddy from their previous album, Life Is Peachy. It's dark. Lyrically (as most of this album is). But it ends as you'd probably imagined, if you're a Korn fan.... Jon Davis crying, once again. I get being vulnerable and true to your music is admirable. But Davis does it in a way where it comes off pathetic... It worked in the last album, let's do it again. I hate thwt. So, if it is a sequel... It sure feels like one. I do remember liking this album a lot when I was younger. It would've been a 5/5. I even thought, while listening to this, it was going to be a 4/5. But as it dragged on... And the second half was incredibly weaker than the first, it lands at a 3/5. I still enjoyed it. It was nostalgic. It pushed boundaries. It pissed people off. It was protested for its lyrical content. But it didn't age well. It was best kept as a memory. I don't need to revisit this aside from maybe one or two of the singles... But even at that, I would be happy to just leave it alone. Oh! I can't forget the cliche 90s trope of ha ING a secret song... But of course if you just listen to it on spotify, it acts as a final song.. The secret song has a cringe worthy conversation between two people. They both sound high as Fuck. Given the now know history of drug use in this band... It was two guys on meth having a conversation between recording songs on this album, I'm sure. followed by a heavy song that is clearly made as a joke. It goes on too long. It's borderline racist and homophobic. It's not serious... But again, it didn't age well.
25 years later and I am still convinced that this is satire. The self-loathing and self-pity, the moaning, the awkward hip-hop breaks - noting about this works for me. Sometimes you get a tolerable instrumental section that all to soon gets interrupted by something stupid like Fred Durst.
Nü-metal is definitely a nostalgic thing for me. I was way more into Linkin Park and thought Korn was a bit too silly at times. I can still appreciate Davis’ manic vocals (when he’s not doing monkey sounds) and the at times bonkers instrumentals. There’s even the singles to back up this album. There’s also a feature from Fred Durst though. It’s despite of that this still lands on the number of stars that it does.
Really not my cup of tea. Freak On a Leash is kinda funny but the album is hard to dance to and overall just sounds angry, not my vibe at all.
Meh. the rapping is embarrassing over 20 years later, but the metal grinding levels that out a bit, but does not save it.
Close to a 4. Added a couple of these to my playlist.
Awful music for awful people
This album has some interesting tracks and I can see the impact it made on music today. I will never listen to this again. Docking a point for the foolish hip hip skits.
Coole sound, maar vaak veel van hetzelfde
Such a banger and an absolute classic.
I started listening to Korn because my friend Dave was into them. We were goofy little pre-teens who thought excessive swearing was the epitome of cool. We scrawled that logo with the backwards R everywhere. Around the time of this album's release I remember thinking it was good, but not as good as the first two albums: too polished and well-produced for my oh-so-edgy and underground self. The album after this, Issues, was OK. I didn't listen to it as much, and from there my interest in Korn kind of drifted off as I got older. Re-visiting this, there are still moments I enjoy here (the de-tuned percussive bass sound is still great), but there's just so much cringe for me now. I mean, the rap battle with Fred Durst, come on. I struggle to comprehend how this record did such numbers at the time.
WHY IS THIS HERE
I really wanted to like this album. Korn weren't really on my listening radar even when I was angry youth, other than Freak On A Leash. I was excited to fill in a gap in my listening history and indulge in some serious adolescent level rage and angst. But maaaaan, so much of this is so naff. And quite boring? I stopped paying attention quite quickly. The. Rap. Battle. Fred Durst. Need I say more? The first few songs are decent but it tails off so fast. Not for me.
I remember being exposed to Koᴙn in my early high school years and hating them with a passion. I've widened my musical tastes since then and can tolerate them more these days, even tapping my feet to Got The Life out of familiarity. Follow The Leader wasn't as awful as I recall from 25 years ago but it's still too heavy and obnoxious for my overall liking.
Thoughts before listening: I didn't like these guys 25 years ago and I probably won't like them now. That being said, I felt the same about Linkin Park and ended up at least enjoying the hits from a nostalgia angle. Perhaps the same will happen here. I know Korn were respected at the time as good musicians, this brand of angry rap metal just never spoke to me. Review: Freak On a Leash and Got the Life are both good songs for this genre. There is definitely a nostalgia to these songs as they were HUGE during my high school and college years. The rest of the album sounds like more of the same with fewer hooks. Then they trot out Fred Durst to get all homophobic on a song and I'm done. This sucks. This is the music Trump fans listened to in high school. 1 star.
I’m a freak on a leash
Nu-metal sucked. Korn didn't, but this isn't a very good Korn album 7/10.
Over produced shouting. Not unwelcome in a playlist but tiresome after three or four in a row.
When the world caught on to post-Grunge hard rock. Peak 90s nu metal from Korn. Great sound, catchiest songs for me are Freak on a Leash, Dead Bodies Everywhere, Children of the Korn, and Reclaim My Place.
Kamalaa. Ensinnäkään en tykkää shokeeraamisesta shokeeraamisen takia (kiroilu, biisien aiheet). Toiseksi ei ole yhtään vaihtelua, samaa läimettä kaikki. Voivatko noi featit olla ylpeitä täällä olostaan.
Laulajan ääntelyssä on tekniseltä kannalta jotain vaikuttavaa, mutta se on myös ihan helvetin typerän kuuloista. En välittänyt tästä bändistä edes 13-vuotiaana, ja jos mahdollista, välitin vielä vähemmän kuin nyt. Sillä ei ole mitään merkitystä, että Got the Life flirttailee tarttuvuuden kanssa. En suostu kuuntelemaan toista puoliskoa.
Freak on a leash deserves better
Heh, cameltosis. Honestly, "freak on a leash" and "got the life" barely pulls this into 3 star territory. And this coming from somebody who actually likes Korn.
Yesterday I learned I hate Korn… more than I originally thought was possible.
that was not fun to sit through
What the lyrics sound like to me: "Gobble, gobble, rabble, rabble, ummagumma, HATE MEEEEEEE!!!! Bunga lunga, wocka flocka, PAAAAIN!!!" This is the kind of music that Faith No More is unfairly blamed for.
I made it to the fourth song so that’s an accomplishment
My parents were super strict and wouldn't let me buy CDs with the Parental Advisory sticker. Right before 9th grade, they relented and this was one of the first albums I bought (come to think of it, 99 was a good year for dumb white teenagers with inchoate rage and some extra cash). This was one of my favorite albums in high school, but the next few years revealed to me that Korn was not a good band. So after tiring of their sound and moving on to better metal bands, I sold this CD to the Exchange and Korn went into my mental "do not listen" file. And there they stayed for several years. Then one day, Got the Life popped up on my Spotify. I had started to recognize that there was good Nu-Metal and it was OK to listen to some of the dumb and cringey stuff I liked as a teen. Got the Life had the stuff I look for when I go for good Nu-Metal- cool use of guitar tone, heavy use of the bass, and interesting use of sounds from funk, rap, and electronic music. That song and Freak on a Leash made their way back onto my playlists and, yes, into my heart. So when this album popped up on the generator I was ready for it. I was still a little skeptical, but I suspected this album could be a 3 for me. It's On started and, indeed, it was on. From that song through to Dead Bodies Everywhere, I was back to being that teenager, filled with a rage that I now recognized was caused in part by the sneaking realization that not everything was OK in America following the Reagan and Clinton years, despite what adults at the time believed. I had fully let Korn back into my heart! Then the rest of the album happened. And just... Fucking yikes.
My friend Spizzy makes a tasty drink called a Tough Guy Coffee. 1 cup of coffee. 3 shots of Ezra Brooks bourbon cream. Whip cream as desired. Mitchels sprinkles for the W. The coffee is a stimulant, gets the heart pumping. The Bourbon is a depressant, slows down messages from brain to body. That's two different drugs. This is dangerous! It's even called "Tough Guy." But it doesn't take itself seriously. It's got whipped cream. That's playful! And sprinkles? OK, is this for kids? But it's boozy/buzzy, so it can't be. Is it really for Tough Guys? If so it probably wouldn't be called Tough Guy. It'd be called Slayer or something. And some people hate coffee, so no amount of whipped cream is going to make it palatable. Some people like all the ingredients of a Tough Guy Coffee and will enjoy one every now and again, but would never drink 2 in a row. It's a once in a while type thing.
I don’t mind the nu metal sound and this album has held up surprisingly well, 25 years removed from its release.
Some rager songs but the vibe is majorly off for me
V repetitive
Reminds me of my freshman year in college and my friend at the time John Walston. 5/5
Didn’t enjoy
All the features were a nice addition My gift to you including bagpipes (?) is crazy
They still suck ass. ≧ヮ≦
I unironically love this shit.
No.
"Scatting".
Closest I have come to skipping an album so far.
1. itz on - 1 2. freak on a leazh - 1.5 3. got the life - 1 4. dead bodiez everyuuhere - 1.5 5. children of the corn - 0 6. bbk - 1.5 7. pretty - 1 8. all in the family - 0 9. reclaim my place - 1.5 10. juztin - 1 11. zeed - 1 12. cameltoziz - 1 13. my gift to you - 1 14. earache my eye - 1.5
4.25
I didn't really like it. Metal isn't my genre.
Heard it before?: Yes Enjoy it?: yes Favourite song: Track 2 - Freak On A Leash
Some nice moments, not exciting overall. Not my type of noise.
More to enjoy than I thought (particularly uptempo tunes had some cool hard-ass grooves), but gets exhausting, then intolerable as it goes on.
Has aged like day old milk out in the hot Florida summer heat.
First few songs are good, generally hasn’t aged super well
Yawn. Excitement for people whose days are defined by hot dogs and parking lot bbqs.
uh ohhhhh another metal album. i can't cope. it was good enough i suppose for metal.
Nah
Is it objectively good... No. Does it have it's issues... Yes. Do I enjoy Nu-Metal... Always! I'm a simple man l, easy 4 for my rock based bias!
"Dead bodies everywhere, Dead bodies everywhere, Dead bodies everywhere, Dead bodies everywhere, Dead bodies everywhere, Dead bodies everywhere" Korn is kind-of a meme of a band, on the level of weezer, and nickelback, so I was excited to get to experience some of the genius that goes on in their albums. I was actually surprised at how listenable this album was, and I enjoyed some of the songs. T9- "Reclaim my place" has a dope ass beat drop off of "What the fuck!!!" so it's going in the playlist. T2- "Freak on the leash" has a funny ass scatting moment. Decent album, didn't hate it, didn't love it. 3/5
Oooooooof. Not my cup of anything.
hey i gave it a shot. did not enjoy my time with this one. this really was not for me. just really the antithesis of music that i like to listen to. the growly noises, the vocals, the instrumentals. mr raggedy man, lmao seriously? i feel like half of this album's lyrics were literally just like "fuck you, you [slur]" there really is nothing for me here. sorry!
Album 206 of 1001 Korn - Follow the Leader Rating : 2 / 5 Favorite Tracks : Earache My Eye Kind of sucks. Was headed for a '1' but the cover of Earache My Eye popped up.
Fantastic, iconic bass tone.
Crunchy, I liek
not for me but neat
You kidding me with this Korn!?
dumb but fun to listen to (even if just for the beatbox on Freak on a Leash) but only once.
If this album is on the list but Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth or Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies by the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies isn’t, than this whole list is bullshit. Badu nam na heee nam na he ma amirite guys?!?
Korn’s lead singer has all the dramatic subtlety of a poorly-dubbed anime villain. I literally died laughing when he did his first muppet intro... an angst-ridden “KOORRRRRRRNNN!” Amazing. I have not really stopped laughing thinking about this. The muppet monster beatboxing is SO FUNNY!!! Omg!!!! I am dying. Such is my Jekyl-and-Hyde reaction to this album: unqualified disgust, followed by incredulous belly laughs. The absolute nadir of this album (yes, I listened through the full hour and seven minutes) is the 14-year-olds-whining-"no, ur gay", poorly conceived diss track “All in the Family.” If I was dissed by Korn, I would be proud. What an honor! It’s really not the band, or even the production, that makes this so bad. The production may be a tad cheesy, even for 90's nu metal. But that's just the price of admission. No, It’s really those vocals, and the heinous, hilariously self-aggrandizing lyrics. No one human has sounded this whiny for this long. He manages to make me cringe so hard until I've collapsed in on myself into a small, cringey ball. Then, from deep within this small super-dense object that has become my disgusted soul, comes... laughter. Deep, uncontrollable belly laughs. Then repeat. It's a kind of enjoyable cycle. I had fun! 1/5
Has some great, creative tracks on it, with some unusual ideas and chord progressions. After the first few tracks it does get less interesting though, and the lyrics and intentional weirdness can get too much at times.
Flashback to junior high…reminded me of sister’s cruddy ex-boyfriend.
MMM ennummepiashe
I wish that we as a society could pretend that nu-metal never happened
Nah. This is not for me. Didn't really enjoy them in the 90's and I don't feel like I missed anything after listening to this.
'Korn is wel leuk, maar al die baspartijen zijn hetzelfde' vertelde een kereltje Arie en mij ooit tijdens onze vakantie in 1999. Niet helemaal mee eens, maar het lijkt allemaal wel veel op elkaar ja. En waarom staat hun eerste plaatje niet in deze lijst? Veel rauwer en beter.
Ik vind dit stiekem toch best lekker
For old times sake wel weer geinig om te horen, maar het doet me nu echt amper nog iets. Vroeger was dit stoere shit.
Kan het nog pathetischer? Toch nog twee punten omdat ik op het einde een doedelzak hoorde.
Soundtrack to child abduction. Creepy in a scary way, like a dark figure waiting around the corner to grab you with long bony fingers, whispery/whiny vocals, funky grooves, lots of talk of rape, edgy, korny, and absurd in an unironic way that has aged like fine wine within the view of shitpost humor. Plagued with a considerable amount of mid, tracks without distinguished melodies, grooves, or subject matter show up throughout, though the korn style is present they can feel like dollar store versions of better work.
“It’s On!” is a good opener, and they keep it going with the next 2 tracks. Starts to get boring from there but when “Justin” comes on don’t be around me bro! I’ll destroy everything around me lol. After that it goes really downhill. Torn between a 3 and a 4 star review. I really only like 4 out of the 14 songs on this album, but they’re so good (especially the break downs) that I’m gonna just give a 4. I see a lot of 1 star reviews and I get it because Korn and heavy music in general ain’t for everybody.
A often engaging, beguiling yet pivotal work for the increasingly popular and despised nu-metal genre of the late 90s, Follow the Leader showcases Korn approaching the peak of their powers, figuring out how to harness their knack for brutal earworm melodies for the mainstream. Things do get a little shaky when the features pop up (most notably on the poorly aged All in the Family) and things do become drawn out and tired by the end but, when it just the band, man... do they fire on all cylinders. Probably not for everyone but there is merit where it can be found. Favorites: It's On!, Freak on a Leash, Got the Life, Dead Bodies Everywhere, B.B.K., Pretty, Reclaim My Place, Justin.
this album was really bad i like it when he makes funny noises "i cannot ever love another cunt" :((( thats not very nice
Interesting. Not what I need in my life now, but I have a soft spot for KoRn.
There’s a lot I like on this album and some cringy elements as well, for sure.
Gosh, this didn’t age well, and I’m coming back to it from a place of considerable nostalgia. Terribly tedious. I guess I still respect the abandonment of western tonal conventions. But the overall effect is terrible after about 6 minutes. Got the Life stays in rotation though.
Fuckin no
This was really not my thing. The guitar sounds were really inventive and interesting but really nothing else about this record 'holds up'. I realize this band/record spawned an entire genre of music that is still popular and evolving today, but it's really not for me. Although the 'hits' are listenable most of the rest of this record is not.
Not my style
Loved it! Always have!
Epic
Terrible
A lot of cringe worthy songs, with a special shout out to the lame rap duel with Fred Durst.
Kind of let down honestly. I thought maybe if I revisit this for the first time in almost 25 years I might dig it. I can’t deny their musicianship. These boys had a sound nailed down.
1 - Woof... This is a slog to get through. If it was shorter, I would've given it a higher score because it's more boring than it is aggravating, but I got very tired of this over the duration of the album. I don't even care about the hit, so no silver lining here.
Another example of Dimery and co. selecting a lackluster record from a band that was once viewed as innovative in their genre, before breaking out with an album that's not so bold compared to their first LPs. Commercial success is often a misleading factor on the 1001 albums book. And here is one of the most ridiculous examples of this particular mindset when it comes to specific subgenres (here, *nu-metal*). Oddly enough, and apart from "Freak On A Leash" (more on that later), the only *truly* memorable moment on this record is that rap battle / "let's-play-the-dozens"-track "All In The Family", with Fred Durst. It's a track whose concept is fun, as immature as it is, but whose execution is a little disappointing, retrospectively--even if Fieldy's bass slapping is impressive in its own right on this one. Some of the insults going back and forth between Durst and Jonathan Davis are funny. But others fall very flat... This is far from being the only missed opportunity in this record. And you could argue that it speaks volumes when one of the two memorable moments on an album features dumb jock Fred Durst. Didn't remember Ice Cube was also on this LP, by the way... but given how much of a mess "Children Of The Corn" is, it's no surprise I had forgotten about it. So the other truly memorable track from *Follow The Leader* is single "Freak On A Leash", as said earlier, with its perfect instrumental imitation of gangster rap samples, its soaring chorus, and its typical "scat" grunting by Jonathan Davis--that he put for better use on previous records, admittedly, but which is still a spectacular gimmick. And... that's it. Nearly everything else is just terrible, plain and simple! "It's On" is a boring opener ; the involutary disco rhythm pattern of "Got The Life" is cheesy and hackneyed (plus, the song is badly mixed) ; and "Dead Bodies Everywhere" starts with creepy glockenspiel shenanigans that are interesting, but thenthe song quickly returns to the usual Korn formula--a particularly soulless one in this occasion. "B.B.K." fares slightly better than most of what occured before, and its short bridge à la The Cure is interesting. More skat grunts from Davis towards the end of this cut. Too bad that, by this point of the LP, this little trick--already heard before--sounds like an option Davies goes to when he doesn't have any better ideas for his vocals. "Pretty" attempts to use subtle Cure influences again, but the result is far more awkward this time around. "Reclaim My Place", "Justin" and "Seed" go through the motions witout much real passion in them. Interesting funk hip hop dynamics on "Cameltosis"--too bad the lyrics are so dumb, even by nu-metal standards. Closing the proceedings, 6-minutes-or-so "My Gift To You" is an exploration of more "classic" metal aesthetics during its first part, before going back to Korn's usual shenanigans... and neither part of the song is convincing enough. Long gone is the neurotic intensity of the first two albums. And long gone is also producer Ross Robinson' trademark sound, so effective in them. Not even bothering to quote the names of the two new producers for "Follow The Leader"... I should not even mention the hidden track at the end of this record either, so stupid it is. Countless teenagers discovered Korn through this album and made it a success. But you can bet your boots that most of the middle-aged men and women they are right now would be embarassed to admit they ever embraced Korn's music when they were younger. Too bad, some of the stuff in the first two albums is still interesting or even thrilling today. But *Follow The Leader*'s interesting moments are scarce compared to *Korn* and *Life Is Peachy*. 1/5 for the purposes of this list, translating to a 6/10 grade for more general purposes (5+1). Number of albums left to review: 438 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 263 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 134 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 169 (including this one)
No
Yikes
Freak On a Leash is one of my favourite songs!! Got The Life is always catchy and All In The Family is hilarious. Great album.
A classic
The longer this album went on, the more bored I became with it Also I think it’s safe to say that (like most nu-metal from this era) this hasn’t aged very well musically and lyrically Favourite tracks: It’s On!, Freak On a Leash
probably one of the douchiest albums of all time. just think, somebody out there has probably masturbated to this. just saying. let that sink in. anyway. if this was just five tracks long with no vocals i’d give it three stars. actually some of the more popular songs aren’t even bad. but it’s too fucking long and too goddamn douchey. and it’s fucking Korn. influential as it may be, i can’t give it anything more than a one. maybe i could give it a two if it was like six or ten songs shorter but ya. if you give this a five, kill yourself.
Nu metal was all the rage back in the day and this was probably the most popular example. It really does not hold up well though. A lot of growly music, adolescent lyrics, and the embarrassing memory that we once thought this was cool. I do like Jonathan Davis's scatting but it's still a cringey album overall.
Sonically brutal, lyrically extreme, absolutely not suitable for children or those of a nervous disposition. I loved it! Takes me straight back to hanging out in the pub with my friends, scaring off anyone who wasn't into "our" music. Not sure it'll do very well with many people, but it's one of my favourite bands and albums
First time hearing a full album of them. I was really not expecting rap in the middle of it. Not bad.
Ice Cube what is you doing on this thing!!! Turns out it was just a phase. Made it to All In the Family and couldn't go any further.
A truly terrible, talentless band.
It’s hard to believe this album wasn’t written by 13 year old wannabe edgelords. Music is ok at best and the lyrics and vocal delivery are garbage.
Always a winner. Can't go wrong with this banger.
Uhhhhh Jesus fuck no
I decided I hate Korn.
Younger me - 4/5 Me now - 2/5
couple of ok songs, but overall it tended towards being shit.
Really enjoyed it, familiar with a lot of the songs but never listened to the album. Headbanging for most of it!
I'm a child of the Korn
hahahahahahahaha... no
After the hype at the time, although i was never a fan, there´s nothing much left right now. Only 1 or 2 songs on this album that do not irritate all the time..
In 25 years my view on this album has not changed.
I thought this was going to be a 2-3 star album for me, similar to Slipknot or Linkin Park, but it turned out to be truly awful.
Man, this is ugly.
Was expecting similar to Slipknot. Not as heavy or industrial. Nothing awful, but nothing special to my ears, so 2.5.
Not for me
Ni metal. Ruido y gritos.
Nu-Metal - combining Hip-Hop with Metal - was an experiment that I think was worth a try in its time. But that time has passed now, and it didn't really work, as it didn't do any favours for either genre. This is mediocre metal music combined with all the traits of Hip-Hop I've come to loathe. 2/5
Putting aside my prejudice against Korn from back then, a lot of these songs just rock. The Ice Cube feature is actually an interesting addition. Could have done without Fred Durst though. Gets a little repetitive by the end.
Not my style of music. Did not like.
Another homophobic and sexist album. Boo.
Boy, that's for sure the sound of a specific 5 years or so. And there's a reason you don't hear bands like this anymore. It's freaking annoying. I'll give them one star for the sheer balls it took to smash so many genres together. It's a bold move and the sales numbers would say that it paid off for them. In the short run, anyway. I'd go so far as to say that, musically, they pulled it off. These tracks are energetic and gritty and I think they accomplished their goals here. The problem (as is so often the case) lies with the vocals and lyrics. Hot. Garbage. Every line is stupid, every delivery try-hard, and every track is shallow. I'd argue that getting Ice Cube to guest on your nu-metal album is a coup... but then there's that Fred Durst track. And that isht is legitimately horrendous. Completely erases any positives that proceeded it. Ultimately, "Follow the Leader" is a valid data point in the evolutionary timeline of modern music but nothing more. It's not really worth listening to. Not even for research.
Korn didn't catch my interest back in the day and after listening to this album that didn't change. This is probably why people can't take nu metal seriously even though there are good bands in the "genre" though Korn isn't one of them.
Angsty mid 90s metal. I can smell it from my speakers. Children of the Korn is one of my top 100 songs, so there's that.
Metal del más asqueroso. Inescuchable.
Bumped from 3 to 3.5 because Freak on a Leash and Fred Durst are goated
Nah I’m good. 3/10
I have a lot of respect for Korn being a groundbreaking act that put nu metal on the map, along with having a super signature style and really talented performances across the board. But I just...cannot stand listening to Korn. They're not for me, there's like maybe 2 Korn songs I like enough to revisit. Granted, one of them, Got the Life, is on this album, but damn these album tracks just blow. Songs like All in the Family and Earache in My Eye are unlistenable, and even on the better songs I really can't stand Jonathan's vocals on this album. I have some respect to this project, but even that is limited when I just HATE some of the songs here.
Never was really into Korn and only knew Freak on a leash from this album, but it was concise, interesting and very groovy. 7.5/10 Fave track: Got the Life
Not my favorite Korn album. Self titled much better. Cleaned up their sound but not as good. Got the Life and Children of the Korn (with Ice Cube!) stand out. All in the Family with Fred Durst is awful. End of the album drags
It's Korn, so of course it's heavy, but it is much more groove driven, accessible and fun to listen to than I had imagined. The lyrics are apparently brutal, but it is mostly difficult to make out the words even though the vocal is closer to singing than it is to screaming. I liked this overall. Korn stand apart and above the early 2000s nu-metal scene. They give the impression that they make the music they do as it's their art, which may not be true of the vibe chasing acts that followed in their wake. Rating: 3.5/5 Playlist track: Freak On a Leash Date listened: 02/07/23
Freak On A Leash is a hit, even with the scat break that sounds like a dog eating a bowl of lumpy rocks and ice cream. Got The Life has a fun dance beat. Dead Bodies Everywhere sucks ass. God this album is cringy to listen to. Woof this thing is awful in the back half.
20 minutes in and I've heard enough. This isn't good.
My biggest question is why... The music is a mix of doom metal, hip hop, industrial etc. This sounds interesting on paper. However, Korn's songs are so formulaic that the predictability really wears on the listener. Here how to write a Korn song. Begin with a high simplistic guitar riff, ideally with bends and double tracked. Then come in heavy with the main crunchy riff and back off the volume for the vocals which may or may not feature random noises and poorly placed electronic/industrial noises. If you want to put a filter on the drums for a bar or two, knock yourself out, why the hell not. Lyrically, this album is all posturing that to the best of my memory, appeals best to white boys in middle school who thinking being edgy is a personality down to the use of the f-slur. Monkee and Head are great guitarists no doubt, but they are as wasted here as the 70 minutes it took to get through this album. It gets two stars solely because of its influence.
Well THIS was a pleasant surprise after weeks of 60s folk rock and foreign artists. Haven’t listened to this album since I owned the CD in high school and oh man does it still rock.
Least serious music. Goofy shit. Prefs : la minute de silence qui précède l'album Moins pref : Tout le reste
Not for me
I was admittedly a huge Korn fan in my early teens so it was kinda fun to go back and listen to this for the first time in 20 years. I didn’t expect it to age especially well but upon listening I’d argue it’s the guest tracks that aged the worst. It starts strong with the first 3 tracks with the classic growls and whines of Davis coming out, Freak on a Leash is simply awesome. All in the Family was so bad it was almost funny, could have done without Cameltosis too. It ran a bit long but Korn is their own sound and I get this isn’t for everyone but Davis and crew earned 4 stars from me
Not a fan at all.
Pretty good throughout, but lacks a standout track
too samey the fred durst feature was really fitting but the ice cube feature was so incongruent
I was surprised to find that I was kind of enjoying this album at first despite it not really being my kind of thing. It was rockin' and I was getting into it. Then "All in the Family" came on (this was their first single release?!?) and it was so terrible it tainted the rest of the album, which seemed to go on forever with the screaming and the fucks and the rest to finish up the over-an-hour with the most painful, pointless skit ever.
I’ve heard of Korn and had some idea of what the album would sound like…I wasn’t very excited about the assignment. However, as I started into it, I was kind of digging it. I think these dudes found an interesting mix of sounds and styles. By the time All in the Family came up, I was getting bored, and then that dumb track was just a complete waste of time…and I think that tainted the rest of the album to the point that I just wanted it to end.
Sorry, boys. Gramma is old and tired and you're just too darn loud. I liked some of the funky bass bits. I might've given this two stars if it were fifteen minutes shorter Three, were it thirty.
I was pleasantly surprised as I started this album. The first half was pretty good, with even a dance-y track (Got the Life) that had me grooving! The lead singer's gravelly scatting opened my mind to an interesting cookie-monster-heavy-metal-jazz-scatting thing. The album took a turn somewhere in the middle and started to lose me as it turned darker and more unpleasant.
When I was about 11, my friends and I thought we were so cool for listening to "Freak on a Leash" and "Here to Stay". We were not, but we had a good time anyway. Not nearly as good as I remembered, but not nearly as bad as I expected.
singles OK, the rest pretty bad
Is this 'death metal'? Whatever, it's for 13 year old boys, not for me.
Loud and shouty again. Getting bored of loud and shouty.
This is pretty much the only Korn album I was into. I love how they were distinctive. Until today, I hadn't listened to this for over two decades, so it wasn't something I needed. Got the Life and Freak on a Leash landed for me as something that sounded different and grabbed me. Nothing else was memorable.
Here's one's \"E\" warning: just fucking awful. A handful of whimsical sound effects can't save this from being a massive tedium of ugliness and stupidity. This doesn't belong on a list of 10,001 albums or even 100,001 albums, much less 1,001.
I loved this album when I was 16. I don’t remember any of the later tracks on the album. The percussive slap of Freak on a Leash and Got the Life drive this album, but it hasn’t aged well as a complete work. The singles still move my head, but the overall album is lacking in something that I would feel a worthy of being on this list.
Not a fan, basically everything here was and is done better by system of a down in the Nu Metal genre
I do admit that I left today's album too late as it's past 1am the next day, which admittedly isn't getting the most of my attention as im trying to stay awake, but i'm still thinking it's a little too much and too samey. Maybe if it caught me on a better day with a drink or two in me I might rate it higher but today isn't that day.
No sé què li va donar al món per escoltar i encimar discos com aquest a finals del '90. Ara ja sona totalment superat i per sort no va generar cap escola ni influència futura. Hi ha algun tema salvable, sobretot cap al començament del disc, però la major part del minutatge només té sentit en aquells temps, a on et transporta automàticament
Great album but it drags on too long. Really heavy, fun listen for the first 40ish minutes but then it keeps going.
Not my vibe.
Meh
I like corn growing up they were my best friend's favorite band but damn I forgot how much homophobia and self-loathing there was in this album
I’m pretty neutral about this.
Not my jam
This isn't for me.
nope
Junk
Man the music from Korn is fantastic but the lead singer just kinda sounds like the youngest of the wild thornberries sometimes
Finally an actual decent album!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Utter crap - should have followed my rule of no Parental Advisory stickers!
As a big fan of the nu metal scene , I really enjoyed this album There was only one song that I didn't enjoy which was the Fred durst collab but other then that all tracks were really good
Amazing how long an hour and change can feel.
Aw yeeeeeeah! This is a proper great album! I fucking love this, total flash backs to being young and foolish! Love it to bits!
Aldrig riktigt lyssnat på korn men några av låtarna va ganska banger.
I wasn't really into Korn back when this album came out, which is funny because I was a fan of Limp Bizkit, but overall this album rips! It was a nice day yesterday and I enjoyed riding around with the windows down and the system up.
damn i missed korn
Nu metal. Ni fu ni fa.
It's nu metal, of which I am not a fan from the getgo. In fact this is the exact thing I think of when I think of nu metal as well. Lyrics make it even worse, using some slurs in a very slurry way. There is one song that I thought was okay but otherwise a big miss from me
It's awful; I hated it. Five stars
I never really got into Korn when they came out, but I get it. I was working at a Sam Goody when there first couple albums dropped and they definitely caused a stir. They were different and quickly created a following. I just always kinda thought they sucked. But, having listened to this album again, I can confidently say they don't suck. I still don't really like it, but they deserve to be on the list. And, I'm giving them a bump for having created a unique sound in the middle of the pop-punk, pop-metal era.
2.5
Didnt really like it then, dont like it now. Aged worse than I expected. Aged worse than I have. Shite.
Korn really aren't for me, took me four tries to get through the 1 hour+ runtime. Freak on a leash is okay but a whole album of the weird whimpering vocals and angry teenager lyrics wore thin quickly. Some of the riffs are okay too I guess but not when presented in this way. Not a 'nu metal' fan!
Not a good week. Got through the first few tracks, and couldn't listen to any more as I'd torn my ears off my head.
I have always enjoyed odd Korn song but not listened to a whole album before. There's something about those down tuned guitars that just hits right. I thought it was overall alright just a bit too long. Don't think I'd listen to the whole album again but I really enjoyed the below tracks. Highlights: Freak On A Leash Got The Life Dead Bodies Everywhere Children Of The Korn
Nu metal hey, was never a fan, but had some mates that were. Made freak on a leash and got the life quite nostalgic. I also remember my mate liking my gift to you with the bagpipes at the start. The video for freak on a leash is also burned into my retinas as it was played constantly on kerrang. The guitar sound and that drums I don't mind, but vocally it sounds horrible. Not sure Ice cube has any place here and the Fred Durst track was absolute dog shit. If this ended after the 4th track I might've given a higher score, but alas, it did not. It's better than kid rock, but really not by much 1.5
Ok, I'm finally listening to this album to get it the fuck off my homepage so that I can move on with this challenge whilst also trying to catch up. Metal is not my thing at all, I have never knowingly listened to a Korn album before. I read some of the critical reception first to try to understand a bit about it. I seems like this might have been one of the first tries at combining scatting, heavy guitar music, AND hip hop and rap music but I could be wrong with that. My first impressions were, this is not the worst metal I've ever heard and actually I quite like the tempering of this metal with hip hop which I generally love. Then it becomes very clear that this music was written by men in their 30s, it's VERY silly isn't it lol, not in a great way either with shitty scatting and stupid lyrics. And as I head into the 4th track I'm starting feel despair bubbling up when I think about listening to this for over an hour. Let's be honest, I'm not going to listen to every second of every track on this one. I enjoyed the intros on quite a few of the tracks where they had nice riffs and hip hop beats, then mostly as the song built and got heavier throughout I begun to hate it. I'm leaving this experience feeling quite sad that I added to the listener numbers of this album on Spotify.
Hard to describe how much I fucking hated this. The lame lyrics, the boring repetitive riffs, how OTT it all is. Made me furious. Can't believe I made myself listen to every minute. Too committed to this challenge
Blimey that was awful. I really tried to like it, and I did like Korn a bit when I was younger but it's just complete trash.
Not bad, bit too much by the end.
At times sonically interesting and enjoyable but oof has not aged well
It's Korn!
Rap rock is looking/sounding it's age.
I tried giving this album a chance. I wasn’t impressed by it. Then I got to “All in the Family”. This song turned an otherwise 3 star album into a 0 star album if I could give that.
Good ol angry middle school music. 3.5
Some people are really into shit like MMA, NASCAR and Korn. That's on them.
I vibe more with the big songs for sure, but I don't dislike the rest of it either
Just awful Nu metal is such humourless whinging
Way more interested in this than I thought I'd be - clearly not an album I'd ever play again, but I can completely understand why my then-teenage cousins were so into it at the time. Being slightly younger, it seemed very illicit, something that was neither for the adults or the kids that gave the teenagers their own little world. There's some definite talent here, and I have respect for how they carved out something new and hugely influential. ⭐⭐ on personal preference, but ⭐⭐⭐ for clearly deserving it's spot on this list.
heavy metal that incorporates rap is interesting.
Not for me