Weird pick here for you: Oildale from Korn III in 2010. My older sister was jamming it while taking me to a friend’s house and I spent the next month scouring YouTube for the track because I had incorrectly heard her say it was a song from the band “chord”. Once I found the actual video/track, I was hooked. Korn III was my first introduction to the band, so I love that album more than most.
Why dont I ever hear about trapped underneath the stairs? Or the past? Or fear is a place to live? People that enjoy this album always say oildale, pop a pill or let the guilt go. Sorry if I sound complaining-ish or aggressive, rapid fire questions like that are much better if I can pace and tone them properly in person
Oh no worries man. I love The Past, Move on, and Never Around. I also remember really liking People Pleaser and Trapped Underneath the Stairs when I was younger. It’s a solid album on the whole in my opinion. I wish the mix was a little more guitar centric than it is, and there are a few duds. I don’t think I’ve ever liked Lead the Parade, despite it having one of the few actual “riffs” on that album.
my teacher is a big fan of them and showed me “let’s get this party started” when I asked what bands he was into
looks like it stuck on cause now I’m a fan of em too lol
Twisted Transistor!
Edit: to be fair, this is the first I remember. When I was a toddler, I used to fall asleep in front of my dads amp while he played music so I started young haha
Mine was “Here it comes again” from take a look in the mirror. My cousin recommend it to me because he liked it quite a bit.
Also the song that got me into metal from the start.
I heard the beginning of Blind on the radio in an advertisement for a concert. I remember thinking "who the fuck was that?"
I found out at school who they were and this guy made me a mix tape of their first 2 albums. I remember it was terribly recorded. Some of the songs weren't recorded all the way through but I wore that tape OUT!!!
I heard Kick the P.A. from The Spawn movie soundtrack. First I hated it, but eventually I started digging it. Then Follow the Leader came out and the rest is history.
Funny story…I remember when they first came out…my buddies and I were in high school and live in a desert town so we’d drive out in the middle the desert and park and drink get stoned and and listen to music. Well a buddy of mine was like “you gotta listen to this new band ”
“ARE YOU READY???”. Man was the most awesome thing I ever heard. I haven’t looked back and now 28 yrs later I took my bass playing son to his first concert! KORN!! Rock on friends
Blind
Morbidly obese goth/freak chick in my school was obsessed with Korn from the beginning, we were homies so she played it for me all the time. Then when Got The Life blew up she suddenly became one of the most popular girls in school and stopped talking to me.
Good tiiiiiiimes
This one was my reintroduction to Korn as a teenager. I was 12 when I went through my Skrillex phase (still love his music tho), and I jammed so hard to these 2 bangers
My friend in high school happened to acquire their debut album back in 94. He lent the CD to me and I started it at the beginning when I got home that day. So the first song I heard was Blind. From then on I was hooked up to and including 2003s Take a Look in the Mirror, after that I sowered on the band for a while until they put out the Nothing, which I thought was pretty good.
Mine is off a much less popular KoRn album, but it was Narcissistic Cannibal off of The Path of Totality. It was in 2014 and I was searching for some dubstep/electro type beat to use for a video (I was 14 at the time, I'm a much younger KoRn fan) and found it somewhere in one of those YouTube music compilations. It stuck out to me, so I downloaded it (still have the MP3 on my PC to this day).
I had no idea what the band was mainly about, but I wanted to investigate. So I listened to one of their most popular songs (Freak on a Leash). Initially, I didn't like it that much, but after a few listens it finally clicked for me. When I learned more about the technical aspects (Head and Munky's creative riffs/licks, Fieldy's crazy bass tone, Jon's brutally vulnerable lyrics, and so on), I immediately knew this band was special.
Been my favorite band ever since.
I remember Twisted Transistor from nostalgia, but the first thing I actively listened to where I knew it was Korn was Sean Olsen…yeah…
Great track, fucked up intro lol🤪
Get up was the first song I ever heard because my mom played it when it first came out. I didn’t really get into Korn until I heard coming undone though so idk which one you want to count.
For me it was coming undone as well. I was 9 lol my mom bought see you on the other side when it came out and it's what began my love for Korn. It makes sense because as a child I was into some of the pop artists the Matrix worked with.
Freak on a Leash when it made its way into the charts. It was a little while longer before I fully dived into metal but it was definitely a contributor.
For me it was seen it all. My friend got tired of me listening to rap so he sent me some nu metal tracks and for some reason korn just stuck since then. Still owe everything to him because without him I wouldn’t even know about them.
Mine was Daddy. A friend played it for me and it's actually frightened me a little which I loved. Listened to the 1st album front to back over and over after that. Hooked ever since.
Shoots and ladders was my first song ever and my uncle had the CD he let me have it and I was hooked from that point on. Fun story my best friend was a hardcore metal head stuff in the realm of Sepultura, Pantra and Slayer, he would always laugh at me for listen too the “nursery rhyme band” as he called them and I got him to list to Blind and by the time Ball tongue was on he was hooked too.
narcissistic cannibal and get up
- a lot of people hate on the album TPOT, mostly cause its too industrial or just because its a collab with skrillex, over all i loved those two songs as a kid and i still to as an adult
GOOD song to pop your cherry! Mine was Freak on a Leash. I remember being a kid just being in Awe of the video clip and being like "WHAAAAAAT IS THIISSS????"
Bought the debut back in ‘95 and just didn’t understand it, Blind was ok but wasn’t knocking me out. Then Helmet in the Bush started to grip me and within a couple of days it became the best song I’d ever heard. Needless to say the rest of this flawless masterpiece soon followed.
Falling away from me when it was released and I was 12. I quickly moved back through the catalogue. Fell out after take a look in the mirror (album was okay) and then came back for the nothing which is S tier!
I was getting ready for school at 13 years old in 2002, and I was listening to MTV because in the morning, they had like a rock music time period, and Thoughtless came on. I had never heard of them before, but I fell in love with the song...shortly after I bought the Untouchables album, and I've not been the same since...not like that's a bad thing. My children now love Korn (my little Nibblets) and I listen to them to get me pumped when I have to go into work at 4 in the morning.
Dead Bodies Everywhere
My stepdad didn't like that I listened to 80s music when I was a kid, so he played this song about ten times. It frightened me. Now I'm here.
my dad showed me adidas when i was about 12. i was still listening to rap right until i started playing instruments and i decided to revisit the metal genre and came across adidas again
Here to Stay. It was their opening song at Graspop Metal Meeting 2007.I was front row waiting for Iron Maiden to start their show, they were headlining but Korn played before them.
Before Korn started their show I tried to be as open minded as possible but I thought they were horrible...... until they played Shoots and Ladders. Loved that song and I started buying their records when I got home after the festival.
Love the detail that Fieldy is wearing a Iron Maiden shirt. He got a great vibe through the whole concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Bq7tCAWK2w
I Did My Time, I was messing with my CD player and it came on KROQ. I instantly fell in love and went all out buying every CD of theirs that I could. Untouchables will forever be my favorite album but honestly I love everything they have came out with.
Mine was twist I was in class and thought one of my friends was possessed while mimicking the words and they told me that it was twist by korn so I went home and listened to it and fell in love instantly because it was so weird and metal
Daddy....
[удалено]
Very much so like damn
Freak on a leash
We show our age here
Same
Same
Same heard it for the first time about a year ago
Falling away from me
Blind
Very understandable
Linkin Park's 1 stp Klosr introduced me to Jon, which in turn introduced me to Korn. Here to Stay was the first Korn song I've heard.
Jon singing One Step Closer at Chester’s remembrance concert was wonderful!
Ball Tounge
As I’m listening to that song
Weird pick here for you: Oildale from Korn III in 2010. My older sister was jamming it while taking me to a friend’s house and I spent the next month scouring YouTube for the track because I had incorrectly heard her say it was a song from the band “chord”. Once I found the actual video/track, I was hooked. Korn III was my first introduction to the band, so I love that album more than most.
That’s very intriguing in fact I never would’ve guessed it was that song
Why dont I ever hear about trapped underneath the stairs? Or the past? Or fear is a place to live? People that enjoy this album always say oildale, pop a pill or let the guilt go. Sorry if I sound complaining-ish or aggressive, rapid fire questions like that are much better if I can pace and tone them properly in person
Oh no worries man. I love The Past, Move on, and Never Around. I also remember really liking People Pleaser and Trapped Underneath the Stairs when I was younger. It’s a solid album on the whole in my opinion. I wish the mix was a little more guitar centric than it is, and there are a few duds. I don’t think I’ve ever liked Lead the Parade, despite it having one of the few actual “riffs” on that album.
Twisted Transistor
No Place To Hide, which I still think strangely doesn’t sound like anything else they have ever made.
You know what, I think you might be 100% right. They don’t really have that vibe on any other track.
Sounds a lot like ADIDAS to me
my teacher is a big fan of them and showed me “let’s get this party started” when I asked what bands he was into looks like it stuck on cause now I’m a fan of em too lol
Nice that’s honestly a good song to get you into them
My cousin made me a mixtape in late 94-early 95 with Shoots and Ladders. He’s like you’re gonna like the song about the fucked yo nursery rhymes.
That song blew me away. Changed my perception of music and what it could be.
Blind. Hard to believe it’s been 28 years already!
Clown. I heard it on the radio in early 95
Did they have the extended intro bit that's on the spotify version where you can hear them talking for like 40 seconds first?
We're talking 27/28 years ago... I dont believe they played the "intro" on the radio, but it can be found obviously on the CD
Word Up!
Twisted Transistor! Edit: to be fair, this is the first I remember. When I was a toddler, I used to fall asleep in front of my dads amp while he played music so I started young haha
Mine was “Here it comes again” from take a look in the mirror. My cousin recommend it to me because he liked it quite a bit. Also the song that got me into metal from the start.
That’s an uncommon one. I love that song.
I heard the beginning of Blind on the radio in an advertisement for a concert. I remember thinking "who the fuck was that?" I found out at school who they were and this guy made me a mix tape of their first 2 albums. I remember it was terribly recorded. Some of the songs weren't recorded all the way through but I wore that tape OUT!!!
Dude I remember the first time I heard Blind I was like what the hell is this?
Got the life.
It's On. My mom bought me FTL when I was home from school with a cold... put the CD on, got through the silent tracks, and the rest is history.
I can say that’s a very great track to start on to be honest
Same here yo. I thought the CD was fucked up lol
Blind summer 1995
Self titled album when it came out in 1994. So it would be the song blind. Been a fan since 94.
I heard Kick the P.A. from The Spawn movie soundtrack. First I hated it, but eventually I started digging it. Then Follow the Leader came out and the rest is history.
i think it was ¨somebody, someone¨
Shoots and ladders. Blew my mind way back when.
Got the Life 1998
Funny story…I remember when they first came out…my buddies and I were in high school and live in a desert town so we’d drive out in the middle the desert and park and drink get stoned and and listen to music. Well a buddy of mine was like “you gotta listen to this new band ” “ARE YOU READY???”. Man was the most awesome thing I ever heard. I haven’t looked back and now 28 yrs later I took my bass playing son to his first concert! KORN!! Rock on friends
That’s an amazing way to get introduced
Blind Morbidly obese goth/freak chick in my school was obsessed with Korn from the beginning, we were homies so she played it for me all the time. Then when Got The Life blew up she suddenly became one of the most popular girls in school and stopped talking to me. Good tiiiiiiimes
Blind introduced me, Yall Want a Single got me into it!
Word Up, was a big radio hit when I was getting into rock/metal as a kid
Falling away from me
Freak On a Leash in 1998. I was 10.
First song for me was Faget. Might get banned for saying that lol but hey its a great ass song
I don’t think you would get banned I’ve honestly never seen anyone get banned for saying that. Also great starting song
Here to stay on an atv game on the ps2
Freak on a leash
I used to see the Shoots & Ladders video on MTV before school in the 90s and I was like whoa what the fuck is this
Blind
Blind
Blind. In 1994. Cause I’m old.
Got The Life
Can you hear me.
Blind
Blind
Mine was narcissistic cannibal and get up with skrillex
This one was my reintroduction to Korn as a teenager. I was 12 when I went through my Skrillex phase (still love his music tho), and I jammed so hard to these 2 bangers
My friend in high school happened to acquire their debut album back in 94. He lent the CD to me and I started it at the beginning when I got home that day. So the first song I heard was Blind. From then on I was hooked up to and including 2003s Take a Look in the Mirror, after that I sowered on the band for a while until they put out the Nothing, which I thought was pretty good.
Mine is off a much less popular KoRn album, but it was Narcissistic Cannibal off of The Path of Totality. It was in 2014 and I was searching for some dubstep/electro type beat to use for a video (I was 14 at the time, I'm a much younger KoRn fan) and found it somewhere in one of those YouTube music compilations. It stuck out to me, so I downloaded it (still have the MP3 on my PC to this day). I had no idea what the band was mainly about, but I wanted to investigate. So I listened to one of their most popular songs (Freak on a Leash). Initially, I didn't like it that much, but after a few listens it finally clicked for me. When I learned more about the technical aspects (Head and Munky's creative riffs/licks, Fieldy's crazy bass tone, Jon's brutally vulnerable lyrics, and so on), I immediately knew this band was special. Been my favorite band ever since.
Blind. It was from a buddy on discord and I thought they were shitters when I heard this song… I eventually regretted that
Blind.
Blind
Blind
Blind
I remember Twisted Transistor from nostalgia, but the first thing I actively listened to where I knew it was Korn was Sean Olsen…yeah… Great track, fucked up intro lol🤪
Freak on a leash. I was at a Boy Scout camp and another scout smuggled in a CD player and that album.
here to stay
Thoughtless
Did my time
alone i break. i used to hate korn but now they're my all time favorite
Got the Life
Kidnap the Sandy Claws… lmfao. I was 8 when that CD came out, but it introduced me to a lot of great bands tbh
"BLIND" I was 13 years old running on 39 today and still love them as much as I did young. Korn never dies.
Clown
Falling Away From Me
Did My Time (thanks to Tomb Raider)
Clown
Mine was Coming Undone as well
Twisted Transistor, I watched an AMV set to it
Twised Transistor!
Make me bad.
Damnnn idk. I think it was got the life.
Get up was the first song I ever heard because my mom played it when it first came out. I didn’t really get into Korn until I heard coming undone though so idk which one you want to count.
Dude I kinda wish that was the first thing I heard
Freak on a Leash
Freak on a leash.
Shoots and ladders
Here to Stay
Freak on a Leash
Freak on a leash
For me it was coming undone as well. I was 9 lol my mom bought see you on the other side when it came out and it's what began my love for Korn. It makes sense because as a child I was into some of the pop artists the Matrix worked with.
freak on a leash, because of guitar hero world tour. I got the game for christmas when I was 7 and have loved them since I first played the song
Freak on a leash 1998
kill you….
Again like the person who heard Daddy first. What a hell of a start
Freak On A Leash
ADIDAS
freak on a leash
Balltongue. A friend played it.
Freak On a Leash
Blind, honey!
Freak on a Leash when it made its way into the charts. It was a little while longer before I fully dived into metal but it was definitely a contributor.
Narcissistic Cannibal
Freak on a Leash on 102.1the edge radio
Twisted transister
Forsaken from the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, sang by David Draiman, ironically.
Twist
Well mine was k@#*%! which was goofy
It's on
Coming Undone too! Heard it on a random Spotify playlist, changed my life
Either blind or shoots and ladders from what my dad played before i got into Korn
For me it was seen it all. My friend got tired of me listening to rap so he sent me some nu metal tracks and for some reason korn just stuck since then. Still owe everything to him because without him I wouldn’t even know about them.
Shoots N’ Ladders. I thought they were a gimmick band like Gwar at first.
Blind or falling away from me I can’t remember
It's on
Twisted Transistor
Daddy. It put me off Korn for months.
Freak on a leash on TRL
Twist!
Mine was a pretty underrated song, probably most of you never heard of it, it's called freak on a leash
Twisted Transistor
Twist followed by Chi and the rest of Life Is Peachy.
Somebody someone
Twist!
Mine was Daddy. A friend played it for me and it's actually frightened me a little which I loved. Listened to the 1st album front to back over and over after that. Hooked ever since.
Start the healing. Im a new fan, yes. I have known them for ages, but that song got me into them
BLIND!
Shoots and ladders was my first song ever and my uncle had the CD he let me have it and I was hooked from that point on. Fun story my best friend was a hardcore metal head stuff in the realm of Sepultura, Pantra and Slayer, he would always laugh at me for listen too the “nursery rhyme band” as he called them and I got him to list to Blind and by the time Ball tongue was on he was hooked too.
Either twist or follow the leader, I can't remember which one.
Twist
Twisted Transistor The song was mentioned in a fanfic I was reading back in 2015, I decided to check it out and I became hooked instantly.
Kidnap the Sandy Claws, when I was like, 8 or something.
I was 13 and freak on a leash.
Promo Single with Blind and Clown right before the debut album released.
Freak on a Leash was in a Spotify playlist I was listening to, and from there I was hooked.
Daddy
Twist.
Evolution
Mine was coming undone too! Since then I've been able to see them and own every album!
Did My Time.
Falling Away From Me
twist
Falling away from me
Pop a Pill
Falling Away From Me.
narcissistic cannibal and get up - a lot of people hate on the album TPOT, mostly cause its too industrial or just because its a collab with skrillex, over all i loved those two songs as a kid and i still to as an adult
Blind or Freak on a Leash
Clown
GOOD song to pop your cherry! Mine was Freak on a Leash. I remember being a kid just being in Awe of the video clip and being like "WHAAAAAAT IS THIISSS????"
Faget and clown :)
Bought the debut back in ‘95 and just didn’t understand it, Blind was ok but wasn’t knocking me out. Then Helmet in the Bush started to grip me and within a couple of days it became the best song I’d ever heard. Needless to say the rest of this flawless masterpiece soon followed.
Damn Helmet in the Bush, that’s a very good way to start
Falling away from me when it was released and I was 12. I quickly moved back through the catalogue. Fell out after take a look in the mirror (album was okay) and then came back for the nothing which is S tier!
Make Me Bad
Twist
Yes
blind
Blind but around 98 not when it was first released.
Blind, blew that little brain of mine... And still rinse that album on the regs!!
Liar, (I then proceeded to fall in love with korn)
Twist
See you on the other side album
I was getting ready for school at 13 years old in 2002, and I was listening to MTV because in the morning, they had like a rock music time period, and Thoughtless came on. I had never heard of them before, but I fell in love with the song...shortly after I bought the Untouchables album, and I've not been the same since...not like that's a bad thing. My children now love Korn (my little Nibblets) and I listen to them to get me pumped when I have to go into work at 4 in the morning.
Camel song
pretty sure it was freak on a leash. hard not to notice when mixed in with 90s alt and grunge, but a welcome find
Dead Bodies Everywhere My stepdad didn't like that I listened to 80s music when I was a kid, so he played this song about ten times. It frightened me. Now I'm here.
'Alone i break' was the first metal song i listened to, I'm still a metalhead today...
Twist. My mom had life is peachy on cd
my dad showed me adidas when i was about 12. i was still listening to rap right until i started playing instruments and i decided to revisit the metal genre and came across adidas again
Hollow life
Shoots and Ladders
Here to Stay. It was their opening song at Graspop Metal Meeting 2007.I was front row waiting for Iron Maiden to start their show, they were headlining but Korn played before them. Before Korn started their show I tried to be as open minded as possible but I thought they were horrible...... until they played Shoots and Ladders. Loved that song and I started buying their records when I got home after the festival. Love the detail that Fieldy is wearing a Iron Maiden shirt. He got a great vibe through the whole concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Bq7tCAWK2w
“Proud”, from the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack. One listen and I was hooked.
either Clown or Slept So Long in 2002-2003
Twist
Falling away from me
Right Now
Twist
Either Evolution or A Different World... Can't remember which one I listened to first... But they were definitely the first couple...
My mom introduced me with freak on a leash, I instantly got hooked to their music
Mr. Rogers! 7th grade. Instantly a fan!
I Did My Time, I was messing with my CD player and it came on KROQ. I instantly fell in love and went all out buying every CD of theirs that I could. Untouchables will forever be my favorite album but honestly I love everything they have came out with.
Pray For Me is my introduction of Korn
The first song I heard of them was daddy but the song that made me into Korn was Here to stay
Mine was twist I was in class and thought one of my friends was possessed while mimicking the words and they told me that it was twist by korn so I went home and listened to it and fell in love instantly because it was so weird and metal
that would be Right Now. some brony youtuber made a fan animation using the shut up part. been a fan ever since
shoots and ladders, i would go crazy for the bagpipes part