Korn
Biography
Korn's cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the post-grunge era. Korn began their existence as the Bakersfield, CA-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch, bassist Reginald "Fieldy Snuts" Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. After issuing an LP, the members of LAPD in 1993 crossed paths with Jonathan Davis, a mortuary science student moonlighting as the lead vocalist for the local group Sexart. They soon asked Davis to join the band, and upon his arrival the quintet rechristened itself Korn.
After signing to Epic's Immortal imprint, they issued their debut album in late 1994; thanks to a relentless tour schedule that included stints opening for Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson, and 311, the record slowly but steadily rose the charts, eventually going gold. Its 1996 follow-up, Life Is Peachy, was a more immediate smash, reaching the number three spot on the pop album charts. The following summer, they headlined Lollapalooza, but were forced to drop off the tour when Shaffer was diagnosed with viral meningitis. While recording their best-selling 1998 LP Follow the Leader, Korn made national headlines when a student in Zeeland, MI, was suspended for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the group's logo (the school's principal later declared their music "indecent, vulgar, and obscene," prompting the band to issue a cease-and-desist order).
Selected Discography
Unplugged MTV
2007
Untitled (Explicit)
2007
Live & Rare
2006
See You On The Other Side
2005
See You On The Other Side (Explicit)
2005
Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Explicit)
2004
Take A Look In The Mirror (Explicit)
2003
Untouchables (Explicit) [Limited Edition]
2002
Issues
1999
Follow The Leader
1998
Korn
1994
Going down the comments a bit, the reason they release a clean version of the album is to expand their fan base. There are parents out there that won't buy a CD with explicit lyrics for their kids, and radios will play the clean versions so they don't have to edit the f word themselves. I admit I like the Explicit versions better, but I'm not dependent on parents to buy them for me.
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I only like Korn because the singer wears a leather kilt & plays the bagpipes!
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Well if you don't like the station that you created (isaacnelson 7 ) just create a few more new ones. This Pandora radio stuff is awsome to listen to and basically none of those fricken commercials. Open your brain and expand on what is in there for a change.
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i dont know why but all they seem to play on my station is stuff i hate i wouldent listen to this crap if i was deaf or retarded Korn isent bad though but thats about it
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is that jonathan playing the drums in lil' wayne's prom queen music video?
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I have no idea why this is playing on my station but it is certainly not a welcome surprise. Nu Metal is precisely the opposite of anything I would ever want to hear, even if I spontaneousl y went insane.
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korn is cool but is as good as slipknot,the gods of nu metal! So keep on singing that s**t you sing,Corey!O , a n d buy the way dorian you should listen to some other s**t then!
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They are an okay Nu Metal band, but Nu Metal is just so f**king boring. And yeah some bands really do just toss about the term f**k like some people use a comma, but those people are just idiots who want to drain all the meaning of such a wonderful word. And f**k is a great word if you don't use it a lot. It adds that extra edge. But editing it out is just lame, they should have just used another word or something, they wouldn't have to make two versions of an album. Instead they were just lazy.
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Anyone who disses Korn sucks. Just saying... they're an awesome band. Don't deny it.
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"See you on the other side" lost nothing just because they decided to edit out the f-bombs. It's still a great ablum either way. My personal opinion is that a lot of bands over do it with the profanity. When you repeatedly say f--- over and over again or any other vulgar word, the word loses it's meaning and shock value, and becomes no more than another useless filler word, like we don't have enough of those in American slang.
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Eh, not all mainstream bands do that, just the ones who care more about pushing product over artistic integrity. Rise Against is a mainstream band and they have the balls to tell Geffen to f**k off and simply release an explicit version.
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Uh, Dorian? They made a clean version of Untouchables too. Plus, they may not've been consulted about the clean version. It's really mandatory if you've got any mainstream success at all nowadays.
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I liked Korn until about the time that they released See You on the Other Side. Then they lost all cred with me, mainly because they made a clean version of the album to appeal to the record company and all the retail chains. And to be honest, I got sick of them after Take a Look in the Mirror. That's about the time that they really got into the mall metal genre too. And they really were only music to piss off your parents anyway.
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LOL, I'm an odd case when it comes to pissed off music myself. I listen to angry music when I'm calm and calming music when I'm pissed.
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*to the guy that said "it's my pissed off music" and to anyone else* You should try "Impending Disaster" by Devildriver :-)
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Korn is good. Well, I think their best album is issues, and the song Got The Life is awesome, the way the vocalist expresses the words is awesome. I only like "Freak on a Leash," "Got The Life," "Falling Away From Me," "A.D.I.D.A.S . , " "Fake" Hmm, I think that's it. The rest of their songs suck a**, except the 5 I named.
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i missed one of their concerts once it made me sad, and its not just metal kids who would spit on you laurawynn, most punks would punch you in the face
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i think that korn has more feeling than most bands they no wat their donig and i love it
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Dear laurawynn, that is one of the gayest things that I've ever read. Please never listen to metal again. Without anger there is no metal. Anyone in a real metal band would spit on you given the chance. I don't evern like korn, but I'm sure they'ed be pissed at you for passionatly "mashing one out" in there name. You are so lame.
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how can the they put god smack in the same class as Korn there nothing alike but yea Korn was the very first metle band i ever linsen to ive love them ever senic
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korn is one of the top metal bands ever, especially the commercializ e d ones, usually they suck in comparison
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lol im so tired of willow calling Godsmack True metal. Ha ha ha its alternative metal at best read the bio jack nut.
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i hate it that people call it "angry" music. to me it is just raw, real, passionate, expressionis t i c ( i f that is a word), intelligent, unabridged poetry that speaks to me. what is angry about mashing out one
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well its true ask him well i guess you cant but wen they were young he almost joind
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funny how its always "my nieghbor" or "my cousin" or "my uncle" or "this guys i know" or "this guy i met" sure...
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