Review Summary: "Life is Peachy" is NOT meant to be taken seriously. This album is pure comedic relief after a rough, and personal debut album.
Ok, at first I thought Korn was a band of depression and angst. After listening to their debut album so many times, I figured from there on it was going to be more and more of the same thing. Well... I was wrong. I suppose that with the release of "Life is Peachy", Korn was trying to say "Yeah, you know, we feelin tired you know, we ain't got no more ideas". So, yeah, yeah dude, we all good here". Well let me just say I feel pity for anyone who hasn’t laughed at a nu-metal album, or this one in specific.
Just trying to translate the difference between the 2 albums makes me laugh my ass off till I die. I’m not even going try to dwell into the void that is "Life is Peachy". I’m simply here to try to convince you to listen to this album, and NOT take it seriously, and to prove that I can write a KORN review, without ***ing up the page formatting.
"Life is Peachy" kicks off with one of the best intros I’ve ever heard. Jonathan quite literally, goes off into insanity mode blabbering and flapping about with the lips like a cocaine-addict while awesome instrumentals overtake the background. The repetitive line of the word "Twist” makes the title of this song. Right after "Twist", the song "Chi" comes in immediately with a high pitched guitar note and Jonathan screams "Pain". It was at that point I knew I was never going to be able to take this album seriously. Which was actually pretty good, considering I wasn’t in the mood for a second “Korn”? The occasional bass solo in "Chi" is about the best part of this song other than the catchy chorus. After "Chi" was "Lost", a pretty well developed song that sets the listener into a darker area, but still, can’t take it seriously. The first 3 tracks in this album are the only ones I can really take seriously in context. But when "Swallow" comes on, I just smile for the rest of the album at least until "Kill You". "Swallow" is mainly a song that shows passion for the ears, it has no value or meaning until the end comes "Punk ass sissy I’m a freak", with a whirly guitar note at the end that reminds you, "Well ***, I guess this was a just joke".
Tracks on this album after "Swallow" are pretty much destined to fail if Korn expects them to be serious. Like "Mr. Rogers", I guess the depressing part is pretty serious, but the thought of a PBS kids show ruining your life just makes me laugh. Other than this, great track. "Good God" is about the most Korn-like song in this album, with downing lyrics, and heavy guitar and bass, with screeching guitar to make up for the parts that heaviness hasn’t taken over. When it comes to tracks like "Ass Itch", and "A.D.I.D.A.S.", I just can’t form a sense of reality while I’m laughing at them. This album expresses necessity for comedic relief.
"Kill you", is, unlike most of the album, pretty saddening, kind of like the final wrap-up that "Daddy" did in "Korn", this track takes a journey into Jonathan's ***ed up childhood, when his stepmom hated him so much.
This album takes aspects or Korn, including angst lyrics, and awesome instrumentals, and places a sense of comedy into them that calms listeners down after a pretty enduring debut album. I find it almost impossible to believe that Korn is just going to *** themselves like this after such a great release in 1994. So I had no doubt in my mind, Korn was going to come back with "Follow the Leader". Unfortunately I was wrong when I said they would "come back", but that is a different review for a different time.
