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Dopo il mezzo passo falso di "UntOuchables", i "cattivi" del nu metal, i Korn, per contrastare l'irritante espansione di gruppi crossover/pop come i Linkin Park, se ne escono con un album aggressivo e potente che tende un'indietro tutta verso il sound d'origine, quello del fantastico primo album insomma. Esperimento riuscito alla grande, non è certo alla pari del già citato e splendido album d'esordio, ma non presenta cedimenti e dimostra di essere uno degli album più compatti e aggressivi della band.
Si parte alla grande con una traccia come "Right Now", dove Fieldy ribadisce ancora una volta che è lui il fenomeno a livello strumentistico, davvero una bellissima canzone con un groove grintosissimo, ed infatti è diventato un classico del repertorio live. La seguente "Break Some Off" è un ottimo intreccio tra linee melodiche e growl violento che Davis non ci ripresentava da un po', a tratti mi ricorda qualcosa dei Pantera, uno dei pezzi migliori dell'album con chitarre corpose e toste. Altro pezzo bellissimo è "Counting On Me", con un'attitudine che ricorda qual capolavoro che è "Clown" (presente su "Korn"), ritornello coinvolgente. Riff davvero ben strutturato quello di "Here It Comes Again" e ancora basso sleppato che è una goduria ascoltarlo, ritornello con un Davis che ci mostra un growl violento e allo stesso tempo fraseggi melodici, altra grande canzone.
Sono sempre più contento di aver comprato il disco quando sento l'epico riff di "Deep Inside", tipica canzone in stile Korn che anche portandosi dietro gli strascichi di "Untouchables" è davvero molto ben suonata, andamento incalzante e carico e sullo sfondo growl spaventosi! Il riff post-thrash di "Did My Time" ha un unico scopo: far scapocciare i fans sotto il palco! Grandissima canzone, dal ritornello ottimo e dal basso (come sempre) favoloso, David dietro le pelli è sempre molto preciso e sincopato. Canzone banale è "Everything I've Known" che però è abbastanza aggressiva nel riff principale, ma il ritornello è più sullo stile di "Untouchables" e quindi un po' pop/rock-orienteted, comunque rimane una bella song. L'unico cedimento è "Play Me", per carità la struttura musicale è abbastanza decente, ma la presenza del rapper Nas è quanto di più inadeguato per un album che tende un ritorno ad un sound più "metal", però c'è la sfuriata finale del growl di Davis che migliora l'andazzo della song.
Semplicemente un capolavoro è "Alive", canzone che risale al periodo di scrittura del primo disco ed infatti è molto in linea a quel leggendario album, i growl del ritornello sono gustosi. Tempo di cornamuse per l'intro di "Let's Do This Now", molto ben strutturata da un ritornello d'effetto con il growl molto frequente nel disco sempre in prima linea! Vicina al sound del bellissimo "Issues" è "I'm Done", ha un'introduzione con tinte industrial, tinte che rimangono di sfondo per tutta la canzone, c'è una certa influenza da parte della new wave, pru non essendo molto in linea con l'album, è molto bella anche questa! Ecco l'altro capolavoro, con il thrash/rap/metal di "Y'All Want A Single" si prende in giro il music-businness (anche se ormai i Korn ne fanne parte), ritornello e andamento della canzone praticamente ottimi, l'urlo nella parte finale da brivido! Abbastanza buona è "When Will This End" (che però starebbe meglio su "Untouchables") dopo la quale c'è una ghost-track live che è "One", il classico dei Metallica è eseguito alla puntata di Mtv Icon dedicata ai "Four Horsemen" ed è molto ben suonata soprattutto perché Fieldy con la sua tecnica mette in risalto le linee di basso che poco si sente nelle performance dei ‘Tallica, adatta per chiudere un disco ottimo come questo che tende a recuperare i fan di vecchia data, scontenti della commercializzazione dei propri idoli(avvenuto dopo il successo di "Follow The Leader"), e per me ci riesce benissimo perché pur avendo un songwriting un po' ripetitivo "Take A Look In The Mirror" è corposo, compatto e completo!
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01 Right Now (03:11)
I'm feeling mean today
Not lost, not blown away
Just irritated and quite hated
Self control breaks down
Why's everything so tame
I like my life insane
I'm fabricating and debating
Who I'm gonna kick around
Right now
Can't find a way
To get across the hate
When I see you
Right Now
I feel it scratch inside
I want to slash and beat you
Right Now
I rip apart the things inside
That excite you
Right Now
I can't control myself
I fucking hate you!
I'm feeling cold today
Not hurt just fucked away
I'm devastated and frustrated
God I feel so bound
So when I feel the need
I think it's time to bleed
I'm gonna cut myself and
Watch the blood hit the ground
Right now
Can't find a way
To get across the hate
When I see you
Right Now
I feel it scratch inside
I want to slash and beat you
Right Now
I rip apart the things inside
That excite you
Right Now
I can't control myself
I fucking hate you!
You open your mouth again
I swear I'm gonna break it
You open your mouth again
My God I cannot take it
Shut up, shut up, shut up, I'll fuck you up
Shut up, shut up, shut up, I'll fuck you up
Shut up, shut up, shut up, I'll fuck you up
Shut up, shut up, shut up, I'll fuck you up
Shut up, shut up, shut up, I'll fuck you up
Shut up, shut up, shut up, I'll fuck you up
Right now
Can't find a way
To get across the hate
When I see you
Right Now
I feel it scratch inside
I want to slash and beat you
Right Now
I rip apart the things inside
That excite you
Right Now
I can't control myself
I fucking hate you!
I fuckin' hate you
I fuckin' hate you
I fuckin' hate you
I fuckin' hate you (shut up)
I fuckin' hate you (shut up)
I fuckin' hate you (shut up)
I fuckin' hate you (shut up)
06 Did My Time (04:05)
Realized I can never win
Sometimes feel like I have failed
Inside where do I begin?
My mind is laughing at me
Tell me, why am I to blame?
Aren't we supposed to be the same?
That's why I will never tame
This thing thats burning in me
I am the one who chose my path
I am the one who couldn't last
I feel the life pulled from me
I feel the anger changing me
Sometimes I can never tell
If I got something after me
That's why I just beg and plead
For this curse to leave me
Tell me, why am I to blame?
Aren't we supposed to be the same?
That's why I will never tame
This thing thats burning in me
I am the one who chose my path
I am the one who couldn't last
I feel the life pulled from me
I feel the anger changing me
Betrayed
I feel so
Enslaved
I really tried
I did my time
I did my time
I did my time
I did my time
I did my TIME
I am the one who chose my path
I am the one who couldn't last
I feel the life pulled from me
I feel the anger changing me
Oh god the anger's changing me
Oh god the anger's changing me
07 Everything I've Known (03:35)
Away, I see it's going down
Today, hoping in time
We'll bury all this pain
And we'll awake
Something inside
[Bridge]
We pushed our buttons far inside
We tear our hearts out
Then we fight
[Chorus]
I, I know
Feels like I lost everything that I've known
I cannot survive, alone
Feels like I lost everything that I've known
Our lives, were good in every way
Too late, time after time
Our love just turned to hate
But we stayed by
Each others side
[Bridge & Chorus: Repeat]
I keep holding on
I fear I'm where I belong
Everytime time we fight it feels so wrong
I feel so enslaved, fuck my pride
Can we meet again?
[Bridge & Chorus: Repeat]
08 Play Me (feat. Nas) (03:22)
Nas:
Everybody's an Enemy
tellin' me lies and it's killin' me
why they all want to get rid of me
Everybody's my enemy
Several try to disguise the devil in them
Wantin' get in my cerebellum but I'm
Ready and willing to tell them I can't fuck with them
Exhale so hard it got my chest swelling
Like my dick does watching naked teachers
Do sick stuff on my born collection on TV
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
they all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
cause everybody is an enemy x2
Nas:
Watching my own back
Strapped with chrome, to my homies
Where the tombstones at, where the hoes at?
'Cause to many didn't act like dykes, hermaphrodites
With benzene, amen
Look at the trash they biting
The life in times is kinda wetter
Like the time and life of the sandman
On Apollo theater
Imagine that from the black with a hook
Who pulls the wack talent off the stage
I'm in rage
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
they all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
cause everybody is an enemy x2
Korn:
You fill your lies around me
and you think you've won
You feel you can control me
with the things you've done
Jermaine Dupri:
You think that you can take me
you think that you can play me
you're going to start to hate me
I feel that you disgraced me x5
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
they all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
cause everybody is an enemy. x2
09 Alive (04:31)
I cannot ever find a away
To throw these darkened thoughts away
Need a place to hide
It's thrown in my face everyday
Guess that's the price I have to pay
For what's inside my mind
Alive! [x8]
I am alive
I will never run away
Places inside
My heart screams inside with pride
Once I cried
Now I wipe away the tears
Once I died
Now I'm alive
Alive! [x8]
Little things tempt me everyday
Constant pain is how I like to play
Better not cross that line
What's this in my head I didn't say
It's something I can't throw away
What's inside my mind
I am alive
I will never run away
Places inside
My heart screams inside with pride
Once I cried
Now I wipe away the tears
Once I died
Now I'm alive
I bide my time
I'm intertwined
I'm falling in this place
I thought I left behind x2
I bide my time
I'm intertwined
I'm falling in this place
I thought I left behind
(Feeling so alive) x2
Alive! [x4]
I am alive
I will never run away
Places inside
My heart screams inside with pride
Once I cried
Now I wipe away the tears
Once I died
Now I'm alive
11 I'm Done (03:24)
We are the pain
We are the shame
We've gone insane
Inside where no one's around
I am to blame, for everything
I like this game, that you all
make me play
I'm done being there for others
They have their pain and so do I
Don't need to feel it all over
I try to hold on and you bring me down
We are estranged
We are deranged
I can't explain
How you all break me apart
I am to blame, for everything
I like this game, that you all
make me play
I'm done being there for others
They have their pain and so do I
Don't need to feel it all over
I try to hold on and you bring me down
We wait, we hate
We try to get away
Mistake, my pain
It has been lead astray
I'm Looking around, I drop to the ground
Why does this have to end this way
Feeling numb, so long
Oh God it's just everyday
It's everything
Now I pray for all of them to go away!
I'm done being there for others
They have their pain and so do I
Don't need to feel it all over
I try to hold on and you bring me down
12 Y'all Want a Single (03:18)
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Boom Boom Boom Boom
What's going on today? (today)
We gotta break away (away)
We got a problem and
I think it's going to make us go down (hey, hey, hey, hey)
They think we're all the same (the same)
And always we're to blame (to blame)
For shit I think is lame (is lame)
It's time to stop the game (the game)
I think it's time to pay for everything you made me say
Y'all want a single say fuck that (fuck that)
Fuck that, Fuck that (fuck that) (x4)
What's going on today? (today)
Why must it be this way? (this way)
We're going nowhere and
We're still knocking the need to bow down (hey, hey, hey, hey)
They think we're all the same (the same)
And always we're to blame (to blame)
For shit I think is lame (is lame)
It's time to stop the game (the game)
I think it's time to pay for everything you made me say
Y'all want a single say fuck that (fuck that)
Fuck that, Fuck that (fuck that) (x4)
We are the ones breaking you down
We are the hope to drown out your sounds
All Across the world you've fed what you found
All Across the world you're breaking you down
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, FUCK THAT SHIT (x4)
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that
Wanna single say fuck that
fuck that, fuck that
Y'all want a single say fuck that
Fuck that, Fuck that (x2)
Y'all want a single say fuck that (fuck that)
Fuck that, Fuck that (fuck that) (x2)
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Altre recensioni
Di puntiniCAZpuntini
"Se l'importante non è la caduta ma l'atterraggio, questa recensione è l'unica cosa degna di questo disco."
"Nessuna azione da moviolone, ogni volta che 'atterro' dopo averlo sentito, non mi rimane nulla."
Di TheSilentMan
La musica che i KoRn suonano... è molto più pesante di death o black metal.
'Y’all want a single' denuncia il music business in maniera eclatante.
Di AR (Anonima Recensori)
cazzo!che disco!sono veramente colpito da questo disco...COMPRATE!SPENDETE!SPUTTANATE i vostri soldi!
Questo è un disco stupendo accompagnato dai singoli più belli right now e did my time...
Di Metal Man
"Con questo disco i Korn riacquistano lo scettro di portavoce generazionali."
"Jonathan Davis torna a rifulgere di luce propria, tra passaggi melodici e momenti di furia incontrollata."
Di (sic)
RIGHT NOW: Si inizia alla grande, cazzo!!! Basso a tutto gas, chitarre al massimo, batteria più che mai solida e voce perfetta.
Dopo il brutto “Follow The Leader” ed i discreti “Issues” e “Untochables”, finalmente i Korn, nel 2003, si decidono a pubblicare un capolavoro degno del primo “Korn”.
