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Take a Look in the Mirror (Bonus Dvd) (Dig)

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3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Take a Look in the Mirror is the best Korn CD since their first album. Korn is once again pissed off, and it reflects in the music and lyrics. There is a certain raw simplistic brutal sound that resonates through Take a Look in the Mirror, similair to that of Korn's first album. I have to admit, I was not looking forward to hearing this album, becasue of Issues and Untouchables, but I was surprised. This album is brutal.

Release Date: November 21, 2003
Label: Sony

Summary:
KoRn's latest album, which is a disappointment because of how well their previous albums were, still is a good and heavy album. The album starts with the second single, "Right Now", which is a good and heavy way to start an album. The next song, "Break Some Off", is the loudest and heaviest song on the album. "Counting On Me" and "Here It Comes Again" are good songs, that's all I can say about them, as with "Deep Inside". Continuing along, we come across the album's first single "Did My Time", which is just plain awesome! The next song, "Everything I've Known", has similar vocals to "Did My Time". They recently made a video for the song and it's cool, in my opinion. The next song, "Play Me", is the only song on the album I don't like that much, as it has a guest rapper and I hate rap. "Alive", "Let's Do This Now", and "I'm Done" are also very good songs and "Alive", along with the album's first two singles, is my favorite song on the album. The next song, "Y'all Want A Single", funny enough, IS the next single. It also is the the on the album with the most cursing, at 68 cuss words! The next song "When Will This End?" is another good song, but that's all I can say. There's a secret: Go into 9:45 in "When Will This End?" you get a bonus: A live cover of "One" by Metallica! From that song you get awesome vocals from Jonathan Davis. Bottom line: This album is just plain brilliant!

Song Listing/Ratings:
1.Right Now-5/5
2.Break Some Off-5/5
3.Counting On Me-5/5
4.Here It Comes Again-5/5
5.Deep Inside-5/5
6.Did My Time-5/5
7.Everything I've Known-5/5
8.Play Me-3/5
9.Alive-5/5
10.Let's Do This Now-5/5
11.I'm Done-5/5
12.Y'all Want A Single-5/5
13.When Will This End?/One (live)-5/5

Overall: 68/70=97%

KoRn will remain my favorite band no matter how bad they get.

KoRn:
-Jonathan Davis: Vocals/Bagpipes
-Brian "Head" Welch: Guitar/Vocals
-James "Munky" Shaffer: Guitar
-Fieldy: Bass
-David Silveria: Drums/Percussion

Best song: Did My Time
Worst Song: Play Me
Heaviest song: Break Some Off
Lightest song: Did My Time
Song with most swearing: Y'all Wanna Single

KoRn has been a band that has done so well in the past decade, with 4 awsome records and one speed bump, this is their Prime. This CD features some amazeing songs like: Everything Ive Known or Here it Comes Again. They definetly went back to their old roots...but something this great always has somethings wrong with it. In the past KoRn had been this semi Metal-Rap band, only because they had these really cool, creepy, 80's horror like "hip-hop" beats. It was this sound and the heavy, "moshable" , catchy guitar riffs that got me into absoluly loveing KoRn. They did this, and did it well, up till "Untouchables" where they kinda lost grip of it. This CD, on the other hand, gathers back all the right ingrediance in makeing one hell of an album. This album is more Metal and less Nu-Metal. Anouthe iffyr thing was Jon Davises voice. It kinda gets messed up on this album. He is an excellent singer (like hell i could screame like that the way he does live....damn), but he looses his emotion, only a little. Way back when, you could tell he was pissed off on his records because he would sing through his teeth, and really, REALLY screame, unforgivingly. It maybe just my opinion, but on this record his screameing sounds fake, and distorted, and theres less then id hoped.

The songs that really stand out are....well, every song except "Deep Inside" and "When Will this End". All the other songs are pure amazement!

Btw, stop complaining about "Play Me". Its an awsome song, and if you could finda anouther rapper that can flow like Nas does on this record, id like to hear it!

All and all, awsome record, buy it if you havent already! I am hopefull that their next record will fully reach my strict requirements.

a little off-subject but: I WANT RAGE BACK! (I cant stand Audioslave!)

I think this is one of their best albums. It seems that their first two albums were more metal/nu metal and that's how I like Korn to be most of the time. ISSUES, UNTOUCHABLES, and SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE were albums that were very much alike. The band messed around with special effects with the guitars and I like that stuff, but I like the other style a little better. FOLLOW THE LEADER was an album that was unique and had it's own style. I like their self titled album, LIFE IS PEACHY and TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR. This album was one of my favorites because I like how it brings back their older style. Another thing about this album that I liked was the bass in this album. It really stood out in a way that it never did before in this band. So this one def one of my favorites by Korn and I think the band needs to do more styles like this :)

This is Korn's most underrated album. The real reason it didn't do better is that many Korn fans had fallen off by then. Untouchables was not an album many could listen to straight through.

With Take A Look In The Mirror, the boys tried to tap into what made them big early on...and they greatly succeed. This album is dark and full of energy. Even the packaging is reminiscent of the early days.

"Right Now" is a perfect lead-off track. It's full of energy and reminds me of "good god". "Break Some Off" is the same way.

"Counting on Me" slows things down a bit, but is such a great song. Nice and dark. Even the collab with Nas is tight. Many diss because they don't like rap, but "Play Me" is a hard track. The chorus says it all.

"Alive" is from their early days, and is what "Need To" was supposed to be on their first album. Probably my favorite song on here.

"Y'all want a single" is a great diss to the suits who wanted Korn to write a single. Do yourself a favor and check out the video.

"When Will this end" is a great close to a great album. I only wish they would have kept their signature sound. They went pretty soft on See You on the Other Side. This is the only "must buy" from Korn after Issues.

Korn's "Take a Look in the Mirror" was the immediate follow up release to 2002's "Untouchables" (Take a Look in the Mirror was released in 2003). I like this album a little bit better than "Untouchables" because not only did they stop the over usage of synthesizer, there's even the element of hip-hop in a few songs, just like "Follow the Leader". Let me put it out there that I pretty much can't stand the hip-hop/metal fusion thing for the most part (bands like Limp Bizkit, Crazy Town and Linkin Park) but for whatever reason, whenever Korn does it, it's alright. I don't know, call it biased because I've been listening to them since 1995 but maybe it's just because they don't abuse it by doing nothing but hip-hop/metal fusion.

Anyway, I really enjoyed this album. This was a nice refreshment of some of their old school tunes because a lot of the songs on this album are very reminiscent of albums past like "Life is Peachy" and "Follow the Leader". You get a great mixture of heavy songs, 2 hip-hop fusion songs ("Play Me" featuring NAS and "Y'all Want a Single") and even some slower, more eerie songs as well.

"Untouchables" had some great riffs and bass lines in it but this one blows that away, far away by comparison in that respect. It almost sounds like Munky and Head tune their 7 strings all the way down just to get some of the riffs and Fieldy has some amazing bass bridges in this as well. I thought the lyrics were a little stale here and there, but nothing that made me say "WTF! What happened here?!"

This album is a real throw back to their early days so if any fans out there were turned away by "Untouchables", this is a great CD to get you back in the good graces because it's very similar (in my opinion) to "Follow the Leader" (minus the near minute of silence to start the CD). And the cameo by NAS is very impressive. The guy is an amazing rapper and again it's awfully refreshing to see that kind of versatility from a rapper and a metal band that can write a song around him that actually sounds good (sorry but "Children of the Korn" w/ Ice Cube did nothing for me). I'd pick this up in a heart beat. I was very impressed. 4.25 stars (just a little closer to 4 than 5 on the Amazon rating system)

the best korn album ever!! the band does a great job of bringing their original style back to life by adding energy and pace to the songs. korn kinda faded away after their self titled album but this one shows that they can still play their trademark fast-tempo, rageful and at teh same time gloomy music. a lot of people complain that korn doesnt sing about anyhting else other than hate and torture. i dont see what the big deal about a band wanintg to emphasize its music on just a single topic. i do agree that there should be a couple of songs that symbolize something else('Alive' had success with that).hey,if you dont wanna listen to the 'f**k the world',frustration based mentality of korn then this aint your type of music. i thought all the songs were great except Play me. usually rap fans dont like metal and metal fans hate rap; these are two genres that should always be seperated. the top 5 songs were:
1. let's do this now-great combination of rage and mystic+awesome intro
2. right now-a heavy, fast-tempo song which appeals especially after having a bad day
3. did my time-great lyrics, great guitar playing, probably the most "disciplined" korn song ive ever heard
4. y'all want a single-has the best rhythm out of all the songs in the album and gives a slightly comical side to it in addition to the hateful one.
5. alive-great lyrics taht are the most meaningful out of all the songs in the album. it expresses the effort to recover from hardships instead of the typical exploiting of anger. finally something new and experimental from korn.

a must have for heavy metal as well as hard rock fans.

All i have to say is this ablume rocks more than untouchables don't get me wrong untouchables is good but this was like wayer harder. The only weak song is Play Me but it still ok. If you don't have this CD something is wrong with you, so buy it already.^_^

This album will go down in history as one of the best albums of the 00's, KoRn mixes every album they have ever put out and puts it together, and what do you get??? a dark,heavy emotinal album i'd list my thoughts on the tracks but it would be pointless cause they are all perfect, lyrics riffs bass drums amazing album, when it seems metal is down and out and pop stars are saying rock is dead, and bands like metallica are putting crap records out like st. anger there goes KoRn proving everybody wrong, that you can go back to your roots and that rock is still very much alive. The album title describes what KoRn did perfectly, they took a look in the mirror and honestly looked at there past and made this amazing piece of art that's the only way it can be described as this cd is perfect buy it and see for yourself. Take a look in the mirror. later my fellow KoRn kids. P.S.

The dvd is also kick ass, the Videos kut-up is amazing.

Since 'Issues' was released I've been less impressed with KoRn's work. 'Untouchables' was good but nothing spectacular, and with 'Take a Look in the Mirror' KoRn takes it up a notch, but still fails to blow me away. I absolutly haved 'Right Now' but that's mostly because the video is so rediculous that it makes the song itself even less impressive. Songs like 'Break Some Off' and 'Counting on Me' bring me back to what I love about this band, but they still fail to really showcase what made their previous albums so great. 'Let's do This Now' is one of my favorites, as is the cover of Metalica's 'One' which makes for one awsome live performance. The highlight to me though, and I know a lot of people won't agree, is 'Play Me' featuring Nas. Yes I know, rap and metal don't mix...right? I say wrong cuz when it's done right it sounds like this. This isn't Limp Bizkit, this is brutal guitars and Nas people. Awsome track. This is a good CD, but still not great. Judging by the way things are heading though, in due time KoRn will be back where they started, and that's a really really good thing.