If you think the name is bad, the story of why they chose that name is much, much worse.
― fletrejet, Friday, 20 December 2002 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's a little frustrating to me as a vocalist who is very influenced by rap music that they are often referred to as "rap/rock" even when I don't recall they've ever actually rapped in any of their songs. Like calling Talking Heads a 'metal' band or something. Eh, I'll get over it.
And yes, the story of their name is one of the most disgusting stories in the history of modern music. It might possibly trump the Charlie Parker whiskey/fried chicken/hooker story.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
WOULD MAKE THEM SICK. FINALLY THEY DECIDED IT WOULD BE A GREAT BAND NAME! HE WROTE IT LIKE A CHILD WOULD. IT STUCK, AND NOW THEY ARE BIG."
Great...
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eugene Record, Friday, 20 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eugene Record, Friday, 20 December 2002 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― m, Friday, 20 December 2002 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t''t), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 21 December 2002 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
And they're also one of these anger-based bands (Metallica, et al.)who are doomed to fail if they ever become successful. I mean, scream, bitch and whine about terror and tragedy, it hurts, i'm alone, blah blah blah... SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY! When you've got the cash money chart topping bling bling music videos, when you have fan clubs and your albums are featured in the K-mart circular, none of that shit is valid. But I actually think Korn is pretty talented- the bassist and drummer are tight like spandex on sumo.
So the correct answer is neither classic nor dud.
― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery, Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:37 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
It is too bad that Korn made more than two albums though.
― Schwingung (Damian), Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
If Korn are the Joy Division of Nu Metal, I guess that'd make Limp Bizkit....INTERPOL!!
or, you know, Crime and the City Solution, maybe. Whatev, Bev.
― roger adultery, Thursday, 27 November 2003 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
Oh damn, I hope not.
Rob Zombie/White Zombie have had a couple of singles that kill anything I have heard from Korn or Gimp Trisket. "More Human Than Human" is great. Of course, Rob Zombie is old as dirt and didn't make it until later and probably played in bands that covered Judas Priest.
System of a Down seems pretty respectable to me in comparison to the Korn/Bizquick axis.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 November 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
whoever wrote that review must be hunted down and sterilized in the most unsanitary manner possible, while being forced to watch a cageful of hungry minks eat their just-severed genitalia.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 November 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
haha "kron star marries pron star"
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Hahahahahahahahaha. Parenth00d!!!
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Just to add some balance to the positive aspects being discussed in relation to 'Korn'.
KDud.
― omg my new black hoody is so edgy, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
god forbid they want to take care of their friends!!!
― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― marmotwolof, Monday, 5 March 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki, Monday, 5 March 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― marmotwolof, Monday, 5 March 2007 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujEph5vFwmc
still slaps
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
I was off the Korn train w/ Follow
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 6:02 PM (forty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
this makes sense to me but... the hooks!!!!
"somebody someone" is an AMAZING song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
What I remember most about this amazingly repugnant band is how effectively they utilized MTV (before they dropped the "Music") for publicizing them.They had an incredible contest for allowing a rando to direct one of their videos (the guy chosen professed to hating them and loving Radiohead, to thechagrin of their Tony Clifton look-alike scumbag manager) and they were also the subject of a True Life episode, where Fieldy (the one who assaulted a Spinphotographer for making him pose in a "gay" way with his bandmates) did dougnuts and defaced the front lawn of their Bakersfield high school.
― beamish13, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQNIP4zFP4
this album might be... good?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 2 August 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
As someone who's never really cared about them: it is!!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 September 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
hell yeah
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
it's SO GOOD
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
Me, 1999: Hey, future me, what is the future like?Me, 2019: The best rock albums are by Tool, Slipknot and Korn. The best movie is by Quentin Tarantino. And Wu-Tang Clan has two TV shows. Me, 1999: Sick, is the Simpsons still on?Me, 2019: Buddy, I have some good news and some bad news
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
i really appreciate how often it tries to remind me of issues while also often sounding way more like a meshuggah record
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 September 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
"h@rd3r" completely earns its title
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 September 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
I was totally ready to lazily post this to rolling worst but.....tbh it's goofy and committed and it's for a good cause. and also it tickles me whenever a huge artist makes a bandcamp page
https://kornofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-devil-went-down-to-georgia-cover-song
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
does he sing it in his nasal voice
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
it's even goofier because yelawolf does most of the vox!
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
new album, requiem, in february. they've been on a roll so i'm stoked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aupnj1KpjCg
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
oh wow that song is very good as well
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
thinkin bout the drums on "porno creep"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
then thinking about how david silveria’s drumming totally went to sleep when he was forced to play to a click on successive korn records
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Whoa
― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQP3nP5PUI
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 December 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv7W3EFbVyk
all right i'm going to learn "porno creep"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
i was listening to some korn multi-track stems for a ...project and was really surprised at all the little details that i had never noticed-- particularly the harmonies on the 'falling away from me' bridge. props to the band and producers
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
also crazy how terrible fieldy's bass is in isolation in comparison to how transcendent and iconic it becomes in context
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
fieldy's flicka flicka sproing walked so that brr brr deng could run
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
korn was one of the few major nu-metal bands that never had a dj so i personally think of fieldy as the dj, or at least as much a percussionist as a bassist
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
That drummer oozing Chad Smith vibes.
How come all these nu metal bands have ringing ska band snares? Is it to pop above the rumbling of all the drop C guitars?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
I always have had a soft spot for these guys, feel a little bad for not keeping up from the late 00s onward
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
the bass is fascinating and this band’s sound is addictive, I could seriously listen to them just jam out on one chord for 20+ minutes
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
xxp the piccolo snare! always makes me think of 60s funk… and 311
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
their last one was pretty solid. some of the vocal tics that made them hard to bear back when are less in evidence. they have a thing & it's pretty cool when it hits
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
Korn should now be eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Think bout dat
― DT, Friday, 10 February 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link