Slipknot- Slipknot (Self-Titled)
Band Members:
Sid Wilson- dj/turntables
Joey Jordison- drums
Paul Gray- bass
Chris Fehn- custom percussion/backup vocals
James Root- rhythm guitar
Craig Jones- samples/media
Shawn Crahan- custom percussion/backup vocals
Mick Thompson- lead guitar
Corey Taylor- vocals
Producer: Ross Robinson
(Before anything I must state that yes, I know, I’m going to have many people hate me for this. Yes, I know, but that isn’t going to stop me from reviewing this CD which I consider a CD that people should at least listen to first before judging it. Plus some of the stuff in this review was borrowed from [url]www.metabolic666.com[/url] and I give them credit for helping me explain some of the meanings of the songs.)
(This post is pretty big, just so you know.)
Here’s an explanation of the band.
Rarely since the fiery crash of Buddy Holly's plane in 1959 have the words "Iowa" and "rock and roll" been used in the same sentence. As we've come to know it, Iowa means corn, livestock, conservatism, and precious little else. And like a thousand other landlocked heartland nowhere, it brims with kids dying from boredom, and with small-minded politicians trying to keep their little slice of Americana quaint, quiet, and soul-crushingly sterile. But the kids aren't all right - they're getting pissed.
And in Des Moines, their rage has a name: Slipknot. Draped in Ed Gein-style coveralls and nightmarishly surreal masks, touting a sound patched from the best parts of metal, hip hop, violent L.A.-style "new metal," and armed with a multidimensional percussive onslaught the weight of a hundred Neubautens, you could call Slipknot equal parts style and substance. You could also call it payback time for Middle America.
In a recent Alternative Press cover story, drummer Joey explained the band's vitriolic attack this way: "All of us were so used to having the middle finger thrown at us, that when we finally threw it back, we did so with ten times the venom."
Now, on to the songs.
1. 742617000027- This song is just samples and noises. It’s just repeating “The whole thing I think is sick� over and over as it starts to go back and forth from speeding up to slowing down. The name of this track is the barcode number from their boiler suits off their first CD (Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat) and it leads up to the first actual track.
2. (sic) – (sic) is a literary term that a author includes after a line of text that indicates that s/he knows it’s wrong, but s/he’s including it. It means “said in content� and (sic) has been used by the fans to describe the band Slipknot. This is a very angry track and it is a very good track to get some aggression out. The band made this track first for a reason and that reason is to introduce people to what Slipknot is all about
: Anger and Hate.
Favorite lyric: “You can’t kill me cuz I’m already inside you.�
3. Eyeless- This song is heavy. That pretty much sums up the feeling of this song. It’s basically about how Corey doesn’t know his father, hence the lyrics.
Favorite lyric: “I am my father’s son. He’s a phantom, a mystery, and that leaves me NOTHING!�
4. Wait & Bleed- This song is a change from the rest. It’s a little less metal and more rock. That’s not to say it isn’t heavy. Hell, every Slipknot song is heavy, but this ones a little more rock. More safe, you could say. That is, until you know what the lyrics are about. “It’s about this guy that keeps having repetitive black and white dreams of himself laying in a bath of blood with his wrists slit… and one day he wakes up and he finds this dream a reality but he doesn’t want to believe this so he basically waits and bleeds.� Quote from Corey Taylor. This song is defiantly the most known Slipknot song and the most played, though not ruined by mainstream success.
Favorite lyric: “I felt the rise up in me, kneel down and clear the stone of leaves, I wonder out where you can’t see, inside my shell I wait and bleed.�
5. Surfacing- This could be the new national anthem to all the angry people out there (Check out my favorite lyric and you’ll see why.) This song is telling us that we don’t have to answer to anything or anyone. Don’t worry about anybody else. Just worry about yourself.
Favorite lyric: “F*** it all, F*** this world, F*** everything that you stand for, don’t belong, don’t exist, don’t give a sh*t, don’t ever judge me.�
6. Spit it Out- This song was written in response to some people worked at a local radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. They were people who worked hard trying to keep Slipknot off the air.
Favorite lyric: All you wanna to do is drag me down. All I wanna do is stamp you out.
7. Tattered & Torn- This song has been know to creep out a few people. The beginning starts out with some wind noises then comes in the weird noises followed by Corey singing. This song is all about suicide and basically about killing oneself by slitting wrists.
Favorite lyric: “Tearing myself apart, from the things that make me hurt!�
8. Me Inside- This song is about someone who’s fed up with another person and their actions. The story progresses and tells how s/he finally snaps. It’s all about the rage and anger of failing and being mocked.
Favorite lyric: “Giving into what has got me, bleeding, claustrophobic, scarred. Severed me from all emotion, life is just too f***ing hard.�
9. Liberate- Heavy song all the way. If you’re mad this song will be your best friend. This song is about a high school kid who’s scared to death by everyone and everything. It’s about someone who gets bullied and picked on everyday and must go to great lengths to prevent it from happening every day.
Favorite lyric: “Liberate - My madness (One of me, all of you) Liberate - My madness. I just want to...�
10. Prosthetics- Starts out with drums and then follows with some guitar work and enters more drums until it gets really going in song. The song’s about a guy who kidnaps this girl and basically adds her to his collection and keeps her there. At the end of the song he ends up killing her then having sex with her. Really f***ed up song, but awesome at the same time, but that’s how most of Slipknot’s songs are.
Favorite lyric: “Keep in mind, I am with you. Never left out fate, can't concentrate. You will be mine!�
11. No Life- Starts out with guitar and then Corey basically rapping. I feel as this is a prelude to “People=Sh*t� on Slipknot’s latest CD, Iowa. This song is all about how everyone is sh*t. All you have is yourself and so called “freedom�. Everyone’s going to turn around and stab you in the back. It’s like whenever you need them the most they won’t help because they’re to busy worrying about themselves to carry about you.
Favorite lyric: My freedom is best, whole country's on house arrest and everyone's a suspect. You can't feel the flow because you died; face down on a suicide. The muthaf***er's on self-destruct. Nobody guardin' your back, it's all a front. Save this! My rage is bliss! I'm takin' names and gettin' pissed!
12. Diluted- Fast start for this song starting with drums and the guitars going. This song’s about people who are incapable of living. They’re haunted by others, themselves, and emotional problems.
Favorite lyric: “What the hell did I do to deserve all of this?�
13. Only One- Corey is f***ing pissed in this song. He’s pissed at some asshole who’s been talking some serious **** about him. Not only is he pissed, but he’s going to break that f***er’s face! Great song if you’re in a sh*tty mood about someone putting you down.
Favorite lyric: “All I hear is human noise. You made your own f***in' choice. I belong to only me. Silence for my revelry�
14. Scissors- Once again, Slipknot makes a weird sounding song work out. There are no vocals until about 1:43 then it becomes creepy until it becomes heavy as hell. There is no real meaning to this song except nothing matters.
Favorite lyric: “Biding my time until the time is right.�
15. Eeyore- This song is what Slipknot really is. They’re based on the theory that they would never give up any style of music that they loved to play, for anyone.
16. Get This- Starts with a monstrous scream from Corey then goes really fast from there. It’s about how Corey hates all the bands who think they’re so big and stuff. This song is full of anger and is heavy as f***.
Favorite lyric: “Get this or DIE!�
I give Slipknot a 4/5.
Thanks for your time. Please go ahead and praise me or, if you rather, hate me. Hell, at least download a f***ing song before telling me off.
