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More KoRn shit:
I really like KoRn because, to me, they are a really, really weird band. Maybe not so much now, but that early shit? Even from someone who is well-versed in underground musics, I find their stuff genuinely bizarre and have to question their mainstream appeal.
For starters, they've never ROCKED. Some people have compared their guitar sound to Helmet -- but Helmet ROCKED. KoRn never "rock", even when they rock out it sounds too droney and ugly. Some of the riffs are just ridiculous... That one part in "Predictable" where he plays the lowest riff ever on the lowest string and THEN he hits a pitchshifter pedal which goes down 2 octaves and he plays the riff AGAIN?! It's ridiculous. Some of the sludgiest, droniest, weirdest riffing on their early stuff.
Look at "Good God" and that riff.. so ridiculous. In the course of a second, they go from 0-1 on the lowest string to the 20th fret on the highest string. Then they do it again. It sounds easy to do but it's actually quite a bitch to play. Either way, who thinks of shit like that?
Some of their guitar sounds are unbelievable, actually. I honestly think if they ditched the "nu-metal" one-string riffs and just focused on the weird-ass noises.. and maybe got a different vocalist.. even jaded SY fans would be into them.
But, really, Jon is quite a unique and interesting vocalist. Between the scatting, weirdly melodic singing (that's very ugly), and crying breakdowns.. I mean, who the hell listens to this shit? Add in one of the best drummers EVER and.. uhm.. Fieldy.. and you have one interesting, weird-ass band.
I don't really understand how they got popular. Most of their songs are just straight-up UGLY-sounding. I mean, at least with SlipKnot (another band who released lots of interesting and weird music), you had the "fuck the world!" teenager-in-his-bedroom-growling vibe. With KoRn... yeah, yeah, they have the "I'm-an-outsider-I-got-the-shit-kicked-out-of-me" lyrics, but then the OTHER half of their songs are about people molesting Jon! One of their best known songs, "Daddy", has a good 10 minutes of crying and screaming at the end. Add in the dirty, dirgey production and... yeah. Anyone know how exactly they were able to sell like 40 million records? Was it the bagpipe solos? Or the song called "KUNT!" which has the immortal lyric "fuck you titty sucking two balled bitch with a fat bruise clit"?
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