I liked early Rammstein too, but damn did they lean grotesquely hard into that Weimar II-level of degeneracy after their third album, and even then it was like yeugh.
@ShariVegas@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed its weird because as soon as Follow the Leader came out I completely dropped them. Issues was so fucking cringe I never listened to anything after it. I have it all but I refuse because it will just taint how I feel about the original couple albums
Life is Peachy was everybody's introduction to korn
Follow the Leader was the normies introduction to Numetal and it ruined a lot
@graf@ShariVegas@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed just curious, why is issues cringe to you? i remember enjoying "make me bad" but it's been a while. "thoughtless" is also post-issues and a decent song imo. you're a bigger korn fan than i am for sure though
A lot of the lyrics are really depressing for one. As far as actual musical talent, they are okay. I really like JD's voice but can only tolerate so much, you know?
@ShariVegas@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed self titled is the only album I ever waited in line for. the only other time I waited in line was for the 2011 release of Skyrim. that album was major to me, even as a child I believe it shaped my taste and path with music throughout my teen years and bands i was in/formed through my 20s
@ShariVegas@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed 1994 was self titled (the official “Debut” although “Neidermeyer’s Mind came out in 1993), 1996 was Life is Peachy which is the album everybody learned about korn from so maybe thats what you are remembering
@graf@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed oh yeah no it was definitely the first album that my dad got bootlegged, and it was definitely way after the record was released... poor White family, we didn't have a lot of money to keep buying music back then lol
@ShariVegas@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed im 37 so i was 8 i think when it came out. i couldn't buy it for myself so we stood outside the store when it opened with a couple dozen other people
I was at the record release party at Tower Records on Queen Anne in Seattle for Follow The Leader, my dad was just like here go stand in line for the record and have fun kthxbai while my mom wailed on him for letting me go by myself at all of 12 years old lol
@graf@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed you can't be that old, are you? my dad brought home a copy of that album on tape for me back from work one day, and it kinda sealed it for me since lol
Yah, it was a family friend or something. If you listen to the song "daddy" he talks about it. The lyrics suggest a family friend and being ignored when he told his parents.
@Tony@burner@ShariVegas@freddie_the_fed I was in line to buy that album with my dad when it came out btw. the store I bought it from is legit hipster tier vinyl now i hate it
I always wanted to see Korn. I love Jonathan Davis, but I love studio Jonathan Davis...I watched some of their taped shows and it sounded not the best.
@Tony@burner@ShariVegas@freddie_the_fed i forgot about him and his sexual abuse from his dad that he made his entire identity i can only imagine how he's turned out
@graf@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed oh man i don't know if i've ever had a chance to regret going to a concert, even my first concert - Garbage, for their tour backing Version 2.0 - was pretty good. I think one of my worst concerts was a Korn concert, but not because of them, but because KeyArena in Seattle is a shitty place to play music in.
@graf@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed i'm gonna try to get to the coal chamber concert in dallas in august I think it is, it's time I find a way to get a final answer to this