 "Untouchables is Just Amazing One of the Best Albums Ever" | 2009-07-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1YPM4GCO8I1W1 |
Untouchables by Korn is my favorite album by Korn, and always will be. The songs on Untouchables I can relate to in my life now, or in my past, witch means a lot to me. Korn with or without all original members will always make great music. I like how Korn has stayed on the same path from their first album all the way up to Untitled. If you don't have Untouchables out of all of the Korn CD's, it's more than just a shame it's very sad not to hear this album. If your a Korn fan, and haven't heard Untouchables I don't know where you have been. I can play this CD over and over again without getting tired of listening, and singing along to Untouchables, this is why Untouchables made my favorite 20 CD's out of 500. Jonathan has stated that Untouchables is his favorite Korn album, and that "Do What They Say" and "Hollow Life" are his favorite Korn songs. So that means you need to go get Untouchables if you don't have this album. This is a must own album even if you don't like them. I don't care what you think, they are original , and a huge part of music. So if you don't have Untouchables go get your copy now I am serious.
My favorite songs on Untouchables in order the whole CD:
1. Bottled Up Inside
2. Thoughtless
3. Here to Stay
4. Alone I Break
5. I'm Hiding
6 Blame
7. Hollow Life
8. No One's There
9. Hating
10. One More Time
11. Embrace
12. Make Believe
13. Beat it Upright
14. Wake up Hate |
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| "Blistering" | 2009-04-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2V0QZEJYC3OMU |
Mikey Beinhorn did very nicely on Soundgarden when he co-mixed DOWN ON THE UPSIDE, so no reason he should overly screw up with Korn. Well, no wonder that this 958th review of UNTOUCHABLES is one of the many more positive than negative. Some will not be too happy at the keyboard add-ons, but that Head, Fieldy and Munky have no prob drowning them out makes them easy to ignore. And there's some actual melody here and there; "Alone I Break" is as close as this version of Korn ever got to a ballad (nice twangy guitar in the middle verses, too). And if you don't want Korn getting 'soft', that and 'No One's There' are about the only instances. The intensity of 'Here to Stay,' 'Hating,' 'One More Time,''Embrace,' and 'Wake up Hate' come pretty close to scary, all the usual bent-nail riffs and raw vocal choruses doing exactly what they did on the 4 Korn recordings previous to this. Beinhorn (formerly of experimental post-punk band Material; he also produced Hole's 1998 release CELEBRITY SKIN) ought to mainly be credited for adding as much fuzz to the mix as possible without actually obscuring any of the good parts. This even works with the drum bits, though maybe he mixed Dave Silveria a little low overall. Forgivable. As for Johnathan Davis... you already know what you're getting. We all have a voice like his inside our heads at least sometimes, and we know it. Few lyric writers can be as articulate about being inarticulate, and he hasn't forgotten any of his multiple personalities (lunatic shriek, baby babble, nose-job trill, full-out bull roar), either. I do kinda wish the relatively upbeat 'Here to Stay' could be swapped with the closing 'No One's There,' because then this CD's feel would be more 'Here's all the stuff that's driving me insane, but it's not gonna drown me and if you think it will, well, screw you' instead of the barely-hanging-onto-the-wreckage feel the CD ends with. No law against going back to the first track, though, and then putting the CD away then if you want. Some folks will wonder out loud how much of this sort of thing the world needs, but yours truly always feels a lot more civilized after I listen to these guys. Kind of like they had the nervous breakdown for me. Thanks, fellas. Good one. And no 'April Fool' jokes intended.
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| "rock amania" | 2008-04-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A5X0G8LTO1J9E |
| yet another awsome album from korn this album was great but the front cover creep's me out a little it's like the children of the korn my favorite songs was hollow life and hating and here to stay and blame and alone i break the best songs on this album it's funny how all their albums had platnium and some song from the other albums was'nt that great i just wonder why they have to put this font cover on iam not a little bitch but it creep's me out a little |
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| "Best Korn album, Head's last." | 2008-01-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A293BVHBY4TIKH |
This cd is undoubtedly the best Korn album in existence. This was the last album the original Korn members made before Head left and they fell down to become one of the crappiest bands nowadays.
All of the songs on here are amazing. If you want to get into Korn, buy this cd. |
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| "Deserves all the praise it has got." | 2007-06-03 |
| - Reviewed By zacpatterson |
First, a confession: for the most part, this album was my first introduction to really listening to KoRn. I had heard a few of their songs in the past and had placed them in the dead nu-metal camp in my eyes. For some reason though, I thought I should give them a chance and since Untouchables is more recent than their earlier stuff, perhaps it would be different. I was very, very surprised.
This album is so creative and so different from the nu-metal genre, shedding away the hard-to-digest rapping in lieu for more melodic vocal melodies (which is something this album is exceedingly good for). The occasional programmed drum beats over the rest of the band are done to great effect and the subtle synths used behind many of the tracks are fantastically layered.
I was left with one clear impression after hearing this album; Untouchables is almost hauntingly vampy. Those in the vampire subculture would find much to be interested in with this album. I love it. |
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 "Back to heavier Korn, while keeping experimental edge" | 2007-05-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3AT7DTU3947U2 |
| I was happy that Korn was taking a step back into heavier territory with this album, and it is a much stronger cd then "Issues" was. "Here to Stay", "Thoughtless", "Alone I Break" are the singles, but there are lots of other songs on here that are great. There are still a couple of weaker songs here and there, but for the most part, I was happy with this cd and still listen to it regularly. Their earlier cds are heavier and have stronger, harder hitting songs. |
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