the Best Nu-Metal Song

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Sure, it's a horrible genre, but I find that even in the worst of them there are certain songs that are perfectly enjoyable, even great, and nu-metal is no exception (by the way, who coined this term? He should be congratulated- it's a rare occasion that a genre gets a name as idiotic as the music itself). I will submit "Engine Number 9" by the Deftones (or is it just Deftones?) as the best nu-metal song I've yet to hear. None of the stupid whispering Chino is so fond of is found on this one, just good ol' tortured, indecipherable rapping and singing.

PS John Darinelle posts here! How cool is that? I was up late last night looking for a good music discussion forum, and I find out that the esteemed editor of that most excellent internet music zine, Last Plane to Jakarta, posts here, which of course makes this a great music forum. In fact it was he who inspired this post, by his claim that Slipknot's "Left Behind" is a great song. I'll go so far as to say it's pretty good, but it doesn't touch this one.

― J*hn D*hl*m, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

John Darinelle is the swooniest!!

― Sean, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"in the end" - linkin park

― jel --, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

death disco by pil

― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bitches, by Mindless Self Indulgence. "This is how it should be done." Indeed.

― Prude, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Fake Sound of Progress" by Lostprophets. Mainly because if you strip away all the Robinsonian production, it's actually a pop song.

― Judd Nelson, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Probably something by DMX.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Most of Slipknot
the singles of Linkin Park
'Movies' by Papa Roach

"and JUST liyyyk-ah tha MOOvieees-ah!

er, that's it really.

― DavidM, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think "Movies" is by Alien Ant Farm, who also did the Smooth Criminal cover that was kind of fun for a very short while. Papa Roach, by the way, is a truly terrible band.

― J*hn D*hl*m, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"In the End" - what a chorus, man!
"My Way" - Limp Bizkit
Deftones is the nu-metal band that indie kids are allowed to like.

― Clarke B., Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I think "Movies" is by Alien Ant Farm"

Yeahyeahyeahyeah. Of course, of course, that's right. Whata mistaka to maka. I hate Pap Roach.

― DavidM, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

my way or the highway

― dave q, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chop Suey is the only incrdibly amazing nu-metal song. David, your list suits great for worst nu-metal songs(taking crawling off) being slipknot the worst nu-metal band evah

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Chop Suey!" is the best nu-metal; "One Mic" by Nas is the best rap- rock. NERD is good, too. And "Stalemate" by Limp Bizkit.

― Keiko, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

sugar by system of a down

― doglatin, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Slipknot are goth industrial. Linkin Park are alternative. "Faith" by Limp Bizkit is not only the best nu-metal song ever, but the ONLY nu-metal song ever.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

What indie kid likes the Deftones?

― charlie va, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

That one over there. You know, the dark and moody one.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not a kid, nor do I consider myself "indie," but I do sorta like the Deftones. That last album was all sprawly and croony and freaky, for a "metal" band anyway.

― Lee G, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm pretty fond of System of a Down myself, probably because they remind me of Faith No More, as opposed to the rest of the nu-metal bands, who remind me of Alice in Chains. Anyone who suggests that Limp Bizkit can do anything remotely listenable should be embarrassed.

― pirateking, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Best Nu-Metal Song
Isn't this an contradiction?

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eh......is that the stupidest post of all time?

― Ronan, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

System Of A Down and Deftones are both great. Slipknot has a great image, but I've yet to be convinced by their music. Linkin Park is a boyband and isn't really comparable to other nu-metal acts. Limp Bizkit is slapworthy.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eh....is that the stupidest post of all time?
Nope. That post has a 3.9 GPA and got into Yale on a microbiology scholarship.

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nope. That post has a 3.9 GPA and got into Yale on a microbiology scholarship.

SAFETY SCHOOL!!!!!!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha ha ha ha ha!
That post made it on Jeopardy and got out with $12,500 dollars (it woulda got more, but it screwed up twice in the "Etruscan Pottery" category.)

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I heard a fantastic nu-metal song once that I don't know the name of. The guy had a very distinctive voice. In the verse there was some "electricity/city" rhyme. The chorus was harder than the verse and had a jerky stop-start feel and was almost kind of jig-like in a weird way. The guitars were kind of dissonant IIRC. On the whole it sounded like it could be by a hc/emo band from the mid-90s but was improved enough to get radio play. This song gets my vote right now. I heard a good nu-metal song a couple days ago that was more synth-industrial. The singer sang sort of like a croony new wave guy in the verses and screamed in the chorus. I think the first line was "Tell me what am I supposed to do." I'm glad I'm getting some backup on "In the End". On the whole I think nu-metal is pretty interesting. In some of it I hear the discords and guitar noise used in post-hc and especially a lot of echoes of Goo/Dirty Sonic Youth (which period I'm really starting to see as being a high point for SY).

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sundar, that's Toxicity by System of a Down. In The End is fantastic, especially the first time the guy goes, "I tried - so - hard" with the kick/cymbal accenting each word like they're pretending to be a real rock band or something.

― Kris, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hate "In The End" - for me it's just the sound of a million spoilt teenage kids screwing at their parents because they didn't buy them new trainers. I really hate it.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

for me it's just the sound of a million spoilt teenage kids screwing at their parents because they didn't buy them new trainers.

Part of me is hoping you meant to say screaming while the rest of me is extremely amused.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

whatever it is, has to be Korn's.

― wizard, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would also say Deftones, the song (My Own Summer) Shove It as it has a seriously rockin' chorus and menacing mood.

― Nick Collings, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Deftones My own summer kicks ass. Limp Bizkit suck, little fred durst sings like Michael Jackson's ass. Slipknot are pretty poor, only Leftbehind is good, Papa Roach are the best, Between angels and insects rocks, System of a down are better than evryone else though. Their album is better than all the res.

― Hoax Man, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Punk rock is pretty cool as well. Bands like NOFX, Rancid, Boy Sets Fire and Sublime are better than most Nu Metal bands. Anyway what kind of a name is Nu-Metal. Punk Rock has a much better name

― Hoax Man, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

what is punk rock's name?

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ashley Covington-Pitt.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

nu-metal = camel poo

― Chris, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Papa roach - dead cell

― Shibu Narendran, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

System of a Down- Chop Suey and Toxicity. Korn-Untouchables Limp Bizkit-My Way SlipKnot-Wait and Bleed Linkin Park-All of it

― Mira, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven years pass...

deftones' 'around the fur' has its moments. as does, uh... korn's first one. *ducks*

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 28 September 2009 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Deftones - Street Carp

― Thijs, Monday, 28 September 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link

I agree, Korn's first album is alright.

― chap, Monday, 28 September 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link

it's a horrible genre . . .
― J*hn D*hl*m, Sunday, May 5, 2002

True then, true now.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 September 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ixRvzsaBI

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 September 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link

in the end.

― Josh L, Monday, 28 September 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

good nu-metal trax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrr3lRLjZ1Y

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET3-t1jFmo0

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cftuaUR9wlg

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trinU3VD1Zo

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0S9ck12Cd0

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnykIpoPrrA

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaptZgTDWEg

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Deftones - Street Carp

― Thijs, Monday, September 28, 2009 7:39 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3METMAHEnvk

― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link

there is no such thing as a good Mudvayne song

― Monkeys? Um, no. (HI DERE), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link

just to refresh everyone's memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqbdnaPcT8&feature=player_embedded

― Monkeys? Um, no. (HI DERE), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link

"Dig" is a great, great song

― CATPIFF (2010) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link

and just like *that*, the Whiney/HI DERE detente evaporated in a puff of smoke

― Monkeys? Um, no. (HI DERE), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Drowning Pool - Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Dig is also a contender...

― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link

You're crazy if you don't like "Dig"!

― CATPIFF (2010) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean, but the best nu-metal song is obviously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOESyEljmFE

for the chorus alone

― CATPIFF (2010) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link

promise u j0rdan S would agree with me. shit is str8 goonrock

― CATPIFF (2010) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I wz going to mention Bodies, but it's a bit overplayed. Alive is p great, and redeems POD, a feat unthinkable after releasing Yoof of the Nation.

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link

there is no such thing as a good Mudvayne song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhqRMzoyV4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nVvojfQVBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8y_Y-7P6gg

I like Mudvayne.

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Bodies is overplayed but thats because it was A MASSIVE HIT!

― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link

The least worst of Nu-Metal

Reevaluating Nu-Metal (Or: Top 100 Nu-Metal Songs)

― xhuxk, Monday, 27 September 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link

as someone who will apologize for a lot of the Mudvayne, POD and Deftones catalog, I can say that "Bodies" is fucking awful

― CATPIFF (2010) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link

...Haters gonna hate...

― Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link

System and Deftones need no apology; didn't Deftones come out with one of the best albums of this year?

― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link

that POD song is good

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link

tons of the songs on Mudvayne's End of All Things to Come are good

― markers, Monday, 27 September 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link

I JUST WANT TO RUN FLY KITES WRESTLE JUMP AND PLAY ;_;

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link

omg that lyric

― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:46 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.arthursclipart.org/children/boyscol/kite.gif

― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link

http://images.coolchaser.com/themes/t/380428-i52.photobucket.com-albums-g30-pilonseviltwin-mudvayne.gif

― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZHmwGpNXk

― world class wrecking (crüt), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link

FUCK that Crossfade song.

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Also I'll rep for "Dig" and "Not Falling" when it comes to Mudvayne. What I've heard of their recent work suggests they have fallen into the mope-rock hole, where Staind also reside, projecting the strained and mediocre.

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Also the two Disturbed songs ksh posted are the only two good Disturbed songs.

I have checked.

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjTZLxekig&ob=av2e

― fennel cartwright, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link

― fennel cartwright, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link

that Disturbed album isn't that bad actually. not great either, but decent sense of melody, and those two tracks are the high points for sure.

"Bodies" is a godawful song. sorry, it has to be said.

― u r no man, take the balls (San Te), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Deftones - Shove It

for the mosh pit

― Raccoon Tanuki, Sunday, 23 November 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link

love that markers contributed heavily to this thread

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 November 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link

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