KoЯn (album)
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October 11, 1994 |
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13 |
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65:51 |
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KoЯn is the debut album by the American metal band of the same name . It was released on October 11, 1994 under the Immortal Records / Epic Records label. In the USA , the movement produced by Ross Robinson was awarded double platinum for two million copies sold. It is considered to be a pioneer for the Nu-Metal scene that emerged from the mid-1990s .
Emergence
The band had a budget of 250,000 US dollars for the recording. According to Davis, the recording took about 6 weeks.
Music style and content
Typical of the album are, for example, the scat vocal technique or the bagpipes in the song Shoots and Ladders . Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic describes the style as "testosterone-laden, ultra-aggressive hybrids of metal and rap ." Cheryl Lynette Keyes notes that Korns influenced the style of rapper Esham . In terms of content, the album revolves around various interpersonal problems with a focus on youth-specific issues. In Faget, for example, Davis sings about the years of bullying he was exposed to, Need To deals with the fear of letting a loved one get too close and making himself so vulnerable, and in Daddy there is the sexual abuse of Davis by a family friend in the centre. According to Davis himself, Daddy does not affect his father as he was never raped by him.
“When I was a kid, I was being abused by somebody else and I went to my parents and told them about it, and they thought I was lying and joking around. They never did shit about it. They didn't believe it was happening to their son… I don't really like to talk about that song. This is as much as I've ever talked about it ... ”
“When I was a kid, I was molested by someone else and then I went to my parents and told them about it and then they thought I was lying and joking. So you have never done the slightest thing. You didn't think something like this would happen to your son ... I don't really like talking about the song. I've never said so much about it. "
However, according to the Allmusic Guide, this picking up on “alienation and abuse” also has a “cleansing effect”, which is why the album is also forgiven for some blunders in the review.
Track list
- Blind - 4:19
- Ball Tongue - 4:29
- Need To - 4:01
- Clown - 4:37
- Divine - 2:51
- Faget - 5:49
- Shoots and Ladders - 5:22
- Predictable - 4:32
- Fake - 4:51
- Read - 3:22
- Helmet in the Bush - 4:02
- Daddy - 17:31 contains the hidden track Michael & Geri after 5:11 min. Of silence , starting at 14:06
reception
The album was included in Q magazine's Best Metal Albums of All Time list. The magazine also included the first track on the album, Blind , in its 2003 list of 100 Songs That Changed The World and repeated this honor with another mention in its listing 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever! from 2005.
The Kerrang magazine listed the same song on the second place in the 666 Songs You Must Own in the category contemporary metal , in 2002 the title was number 10 of the 100 Greatest Singles of All Time .
The Rolling Stone magazine leads the album at number 30 of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time .
Shoots and Ladders was nominated in 1997 for a Grammy in the category Best Metal Performance ("Best Metal Performance").
Singles and Videos
A total of three songs were released as official singles . After Blind , which was released as a promo version in the year the album was released , Shoots and Ladders and Clown followed in 1995 . With Need To there was in the meantime another promo single, but it was only distributed to radio stations. In 1997, when the band had already released another album with Life Is Peachy , a video for Faget was produced.
Awards for music sales
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 Australia (ARIA)
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 platinum
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70,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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2 × platinum
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2,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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 gold
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100,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 3 × platinum |
2,170,000 |
Web links
- Korn's 1994 Debut LP - The Oral History of the Most Important Metal Record of the Last 20 Years. In: Rolling Stone , December 11, 2014 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ US chart history of the album
- ↑ KoЯn at RIAA
- ↑ a b The Classic Albums: Korn , accessed March 4, 2010.
- ↑ a b Review at Allmusic
- ^ Cheryl Lynette Keyes: Rap Music and Street Consciousness . University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 0-252-07201-4 , Blending and Shaping Styles: Rap and Other Musical Voices, pp. 108 .
- ↑ Steffan Chirazi (October 1996), “Heart of Darkness”, Kerrang!
- ↑ Best Metal Albums of All Time . In: Q . August 2000, p. 127 .
- ↑ The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Award in Australia
- ↑ Distinction in the United States
- ↑ Award in the United Kingdom