Customer Reviews

Family Values Tour 98

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4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This CD is that live CD with the tour with KoRn and the bands that were related to them the most in 1998. So Videodrone isn't on here. But they got Limp Bizkit on here who gave KoRn their demo disc in '97 to get them a record label, Rammstein, their German friends, Incubus, fellow record label buds, Orgy, the first band on KoRn's record label, and Ice Cube, the rapper on "Childeren of The KoRn." Now I was perticularly interested in this tour cuz I'm a big fan of KoRn, I also really like Incubus and Orgy. Rammstein would be next in line. Limps' aight, and Ice Cube, well I ain't much in rap, but he's one of the good rappers out there. But this live CD is a great complication of all bands I like with 5 interludes, Incubus playing the S.C.I.E.N.C.E. smash "New Skin," Rammstein with their big single in the states, "Du Hast," 2 $3 Limp songs plus a House of Pain song, Ice Cub with a mix of his songs and N.W.A. songs, Orgy with their remarkible makings, and a whole lot of songs from the band we're all here for. But this had to be he best tour on earth with the audience connection and the great CD complication. Limp Bizkit also made a tour like this one, actually, a repeat. It's okay, but I'm not as interested in Primus, Filter, Staind, and Method Man as the ones on here. And KoRn is on there too. Not as if it wasn't great.

I think this album is a great collection of a lot of good music. Korn rocks and they aquired a lot of great bands to make this a great album.

Everybody, you have to go out and buy this CD. It is awesome. Korn sounds awesome, although I don't really like the Shot Liver Medley. "Freak On A Leash" and "Got the Life" sounded awesome. Orgy sounds great, and Rammstein really sounds good with "Du Hast." If you are into rap a little, Ice Cube sounded really great. I'm not that into rap, but he had great songs on it. Limp Bizkit had a really good version of House of Pain's "Jump Around," it was a heavy metal version and sounded really good along with "Faith." If you liked any of the bands original albums, I would DEFINETELY pick this up. It was great. I can't wait to see the video.

i'll be first to say that i was totally unimpressed with the sets by korn and limp bizkit but extremely surprised when orgy played the best set by far on this entire album. like many people i bought it when it first came out in 1998/1999 at which point it quickly earned a place at the bottom of my pile of cd cases. i was still a fan of korn at this point and "nu-metal" in general before it was actually called that. what can i say, it all seems silly and stupid in retrospect (and it probably is) but for about a year it seemed like this kind of music was going to be THE new alternative movement in america; comparisons to nirvana and the seattle sound were rampant in music publications. as we all know, this forecast came to naught and record sales started to slip around the time the three year mark of the 1999 breakthroughs of many of these bands was reached. everyone likes to pretend they weren't picking their jaw up off the floor the first time they heard anything from the first three korn albums now that that kind of music has fallen out of favor into the bottomless pit of passe, but the energy from these bands was definately infectious for the time (except for limp bizkit, who always sucked). the first two orgy albums and first three korn albums still remain a guilty pleasure of mine, having come before they became the generic has-beens they are now. out of all the bands featured on this album, korn seems to be the only one (barring incubus) that even has a single leg left to stand on nowadays.

anyway, onto the music. most of the people that bought this album way back in 1998 bought it for either the korn or limp bizkit tracks, obviously. limp bizkit sounds ok but their music is another matter. in short, you can't polish a turd. korn, on the other hand, sound genuinely bad on many of the tracks. jonathan davis sings like he has the flu while fieldy seems to have doubled his bass volume when the engineer wasn't looking before the show. munky and head sound buried much farther in the mix than they should be. overall, a sense of muddiness prevails. the shot liver medley is about the only salvagable thing korn did with their alotted time on the album. the opening bagpipe strains of "shoots and ladders" float out ethereally and then proceed to fall into a mishmash of recent and older korn songs. ice cube and rammstein sound about like you'd expect them to, a huge-scale listening party of their album. this is to be expected; they aren't relying largely on unpredictable conventional instruments to create their on-stage sound and as such sound much more cohesive.

the biggest surprises by far on this entire live album came courtesy of then-newcomers orgy. they were still very much rookies when they played the first family values tour and even now they come across as strikingly tight, cohesive, punchy, and fresh. as such, orgy takes the cake for the best performance on the album.

case in point, i wouldn't run out and buy this album just because you like the bands on it. many of them have released other live volumes that are generally of higher quality to date. most of the music, although less than 6 years old, sounds sorely dated; especially given the shake-ups in the rock landscape over the past few years.

This cd includes everything I like, everything I have ever listened to! Limp Bizkit, KoRn, everybody. This is a cd you should get whenever you can. Go and buy it!

i love the shot liver medley from korn because davis' bagpipe solo drives my parents crazy i love rammstein and know they have awesome songs because i have live aus berlin.i couldve lived without ice cube and c minus.i diddnt like how fred let the crowd sing in faith.if i wanted to hear them id ask for it.orgy was ok i just dont like them much. after i buy a new cd i stop listening to fvt 98 but about a week after that im hooked on it again.the tour would be so much better if it had rage against the machine & kid rock o well its still kicks ass

All you people who are whining that there isn't enough Rammstein on the CD, go get Rammstein's new one, "Live Aus Berlin", which is like 15+ live Rammstein tracks, and leave us the hell alone. Great disc. Cambodia rules.

This overall was a good buy, considering I never listened to Incubus, I liked New Skin, I thought the Orgy set was decent, Limp Bizkit was good too, Ice Cube just sucked, rap is definitely out of place on FV, Korn was terrible live, so that leaves Rammstein. I know they performed at least two other songs (Bück Dich and Asche zu Asche) because I have the video, and I wonder why they didn't put those two songs on as well, but still Rammstein ruled Family Values, and it's a shame they haven't been invited back this year.

The only good songs on this CD are Blue Monday, Du Hast, Got The Life, and Freak on a Leash. The rest of the CD is horrible. There should have been more Rammstein and Korn.

The cd was so awsem especially korn and ice cube. Ice cube's song f--k the police ruled and all his other songs did to. I say the same thing about all korn's songs. ~Justin~