Reviews (page 8 of 8)
it's Krap
Very boring.
No no no no
Dreadful
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Didn’t enjoy
They still suck ass. ≧ヮ≦
No.
Closest I have come to skipping an album so far.
I didn't really like it. Metal isn't my genre.
Has aged like day old milk out in the hot Florida summer heat.
Yawn. Excitement for people whose days are defined by hot dogs and parking lot bbqs.
Nah
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!
You kidding me with this Korn!?
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?!?
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.
this album was really bad i like it when he makes funny noises "i cannot ever love another cunt" :((( thats not very nice
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
Not my style
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
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.
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.
Uhhhhh Jesus fuck no
I decided I hate Korn.
hahahahahahahaha... no
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.
Another homophobic and sexist album. Boo.
Metal del más asqueroso. Inescuchable.
20 minutes in and I've heard enough. This isn't good.
Least serious music. Goofy shit. Prefs : la minute de silence qui précède l'album Moins pref : Tout le reste
Not for me
Not a fan at all.
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.
Loud and shouty again. Getting bored of loud and shouty.
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.
Not my jam
nope
Junk
Utter crap - should have followed my rule of no Parental Advisory stickers!
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
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.
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.
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.
Some people are really into shit like MMA, NASCAR and Korn. That's on them.
This was my shit as a teen - my edgy bread and butter washed down with razorblade cereal. So listening with fresh ears was... actually, surprisingly easy. This album aged like breast milk left in the sun. It's all the same song dude. I can't believe Jon and Fred D sat back after recording "All in the Family" and went "yep, that's the absolute best we could do! Nailed it dood". Guess this is how reformed Mormons feel.
This is my first 1/5 during this challenge. I hate everything about this album and can't find any redeeming qualities. The worst part is hearing things practically stolen from great alt metal bands like Faith No More and then made substantially worse. Why would you listen to that then? Why did it got so popular and put on that list? This is garbage
Not my cup of tea. However, there is a guest spot from Ice-T, which makes for an interesting collaboration.
Fucking awful. I wasn't into these guys as a teen in the 90's, but went into this with an open mind and open ears. But noooooo. Atrocious. File under "gimmick music" along with Marilyn Manson, and Nine Inch Nails.
miellekästä musiikkia jos kuuntelee yhren biisin silloin tällöin...koko albumi toistuva ja tuon ääni niin vitun raastava...amerikka lyriikat... harmi kun on kiinnostaviakin elementtejä mutta vitutus liian suuri its on
Really terrible. Starts out as generic boring whine/grunt schoolboy nonsense, then Fred fucking Durst shows up and it goes rapidly down a puerile hill to sub-1* quality. Makes sense they are from Bakersfield, this dross is the perfect sonic analogue of that shithole.
There were some good sections of metal in there but a lot of weird stuff I did not enjoy along with random rap segments
Why do these heavy metal bands all sound the same, you know the usual trope - quiet passage with soft singing, then heavy guitars and drums with loud singing. Rinse and repeat for all songs, and their fans all seem to lap it up. SMH.
This should probably be a 2. But I used to do support work with a guy who would get filled with rage. And he'd listen to this album to 'calm down'. It didn't work. So I attach some slightly traumatic memories to it. Plus it's a bit shit.
Blood racket mostly.
I feel like my ears have been scrolling through awkwardfamilyphotos.com for the past 67 mins. After the entertainment subsides and the WTF settles in, you begin wondering why you're even listening to this. Once that happens, the embarrassment takes hold. Especially after finding out that Ice Cube decided to be a part of this album. I would note the Fred Durst appearance, but that's like kicking this album when it's already down. Terrible, but there's worse stuff on this list... Linkin Park, I'm lookin' at you.
There are so many dumb background noises in some Korn songs that I began to wonder if Korn invented ASMR. Curious to know where ASMR actually originated, I researched to learn that the weird sounds in YouTube videos are not ASMR. They are using sounds intended to induce ASMR, which is a tingling sensation that moves down the spine. People say it is euphoric and relaxing. ASMR videos do not actually give me an autonomous sensory meridian response. And neither does Korn. Korn does sometimes give me a skin-crawling type sensation, but not a pleasant spine tingling thing. We can mock "Follow the Leader" today, but this album was huge when it came out. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart. It won the Grammy for best music video. In fact, it is pretty quintessentially 1998. The late 90s were bizarre, and Woodstock '99 documentaries aside I think we still don't fully understand what was going on with that cultural zeitgeist. And like much of the late 90s, Korn (sorry, "KoЯn") really doesn't age well. "Got the Life" is the only song on the album I don't hate. It's not all bad though. While much of his growling and nu-metal beatboxing are really irritating, occasionally Jonathan Davis does interesting things with his voice. There are flashes of potential in the guitar and the dynamic drumming. But instead it's track after track of potential-squandering ear-bleed inducing trash.
Whatever you want to call this, nu metal, rap-rock, aggro-metal, alternative metal...it sucks. Look, I like to scream along as much as the next kid, but stop growling your lyrics at me. Wikipedia tells me people liked this album with Entertainment Weekly reviewer Jim Farber calling it "a big load of dumb fun" and said that "going to almost laughable lengths to mess with metal cliché". They got the laughable and clichéd part right.
Garbage. Was back when, still is now
This album was awful. I mean, I guess I can see how it was influential and I do catch myself having Freak on a Leash stuck in my head every once in a while/it is a good pump up song...but overall...these songs are terrible.
Disgusting lyrics and overall very unpleasant to listen to. I never thought I'd see Fred Durst's name anywhere near this list
Tedious and awful. Ice Cube mixes things up a bit but this is nu metal at its most noxious.
Ne soyez pas avares d'affection avec vos enfants, ou ils pourraient rejoindre un groupe de nu metal.
qui a écouté ces morceaux autant de fois c'est pas possible
I could only make it through like 3 song of this cacaphonic maelstrom.
Nie wiem czemu, ale korn kojarzyl mi sie zawsze z polackim darciem mordy, a tu calkowite zaskoczenie, bo darcie mordy bylo z hameryki, magnum opus krindzowatej kultury lat 90 przelanej w forme nu metalowego rzygu, rozlanego na 13 trakow i meczacych uszy godzine z dziewiecioma minutami, jesli ktos mnie zapyta po dzisiejszym odsluchu dlaczego synteza rapu z metalowym brzmieniem byla pomylonym pomyslem bede mogl podrzucic ten wlasnie krazek, co bedzie najlepsza odpowiedzia na to pytanie, co najbardziej utkwi mi z dzisiejszego odlsuchu, beda to pewnie piekielne pajpy
Just a godawful sound. Too heavy, too angry
The Woodstock 99 documentary has scarred me
This is one of the albums of all time for sure
Hated it. Positively.
Holy hell this is awful
Not a fan
Wat een herrie
I disliked this so much. The lyrics are so infantile and cringey I barely made it through
2/10 this was lame as hell
Headbangingly dreadful.
Couldn't make it past the 4th track. Never liked Nu Metal, and these guys are at the apotheosis of that particular trashheap
Not much there there Bu the end of the album it kinda felt like it was all the same song.
CRINGE
Angry teen school project. The beat boxing is terrible.
At around the 3rd or 4th track I thought to myself, "this has to be some kind of joke." Fast forward to the 11th or 12th track and I audibly said to myself, "this isn't funny anymore." 1.5/5
not for me
Dreadful.
Krap
krap
Just about listenable weird metal with the odd scooby doo sound init. Nit my bag soz.
Nope
It's just noise. I get why it's on the list but absolutely not something I would willingly go near again. Over an hour with each song seemingly indistinguishable.
This is really bad. The decent instrumental performances are bogged down by head-scratching hip-hop influences and obnoxious vocals. I can't really see why/how this could take precedent over...any better metal album?
Really bad music. Riffs that have potential but are mixed terribly and have strange effects on them that take away from what it could be combined with Jonathan Davis's awful vocals and lyrics make for an excruciating listen. The fact that this was included on this list and classics like Madvillainy, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, and Soundtracks For The Blind aren't is genuinely baffling.
Not for me
There are a couple songs I liked in middle school, but the fred durst song is so bad I can't give more than 1
Meh
Never liked them.
Really didn't like this one, all the songs sound exactly the same and the vocals range from whining to screaming. I also don't like being edgy for no reason, which is a lot of this album. Also what a weird collab, when I think of who would work with a band like Korn, I don't think about Ice Cube. His verses were low-key the best parts of the album though.
homophobic - ugh
No. 1/5
I refuse. There as absolutely ZERO reasons to listen to this album before you die. Listen to something good instead. Listen to Tool. Literally ANY album by Tool. It's a travesty that they're not on this list but this trash and KID EFFING ROCK are.
Lots of nostalgia tied up with this one for me. I still wouldn't say it's an essential listen at all though. Especially coming right off of Muddy Waters. Putting those two in the same list is borderline offensive.
Nope. Voor de helft geluisterd, kan me voorstellen waarom sommige mensen dit leuk vinden, maar t is niet voor mij.
Nope
sorry, had to shut it down. What a unhappy, angry, sad bunch of people. Would never listen to or buy anything they ever or would do. Life is to short to be so angry.!!!
Hmm, the most tiring experience so far.
Unlistenable to begin with and has aged even worse. Almost single-handedly responsible for the creative and intellectual drought that plagued heavy music at the start of the '00s.
What an abrasive voice. I kind of wish he was screaming harder so I wouldn't be subjected to these lyrics. Why does he need to beatbox. Also why the hell is Ice Cube on here. there are moments here and there where I like what the guitars and percussion have going on, but its pretty standard metal stuff and nothing interesting enough to make up for everything else. is the second to last song about fucking somebody while killing them? jeez. highlights: "generation triple X, we're all about the weed smoke and the kinky sex" "fagpipes" "you pumpkin pie, I'll jack off in your eye" "all you eat is Zingers" a song being called Cameltosis
Oh gosh. That was a lot. There were moments when it was fine but as a whole album it was creepy and didn't feel good. I made it through but I think it was just because I was doing homework the whole time. 1 star.
Just really not a big fan of this album. It’s a shame since I live in the state of Corn
Ashamed I used to listen to this
Full of cringe and those baggy mall-goth pants.
Not my type of tunes.
Bit aggressive and dark for my tastes. Didn't finish.
Awful
Ugh. I just cannot. Made it halfway through one song.