unDEADground

This amazing song created by New Order in 1982 have played for many different  bands and there are so many special covers and all of them are amazing, why? Cause the song is remarkable. I just can’t stop hearing the different versions of this marvelous single. Several bands had their version of this song whic is still in our head 27 years after it was released.
Here you have the original version by New Order and a new version made by Jonathan Davis on his Alone I Play Tour.

Hope you enjoy this as much as I do…

Nothing to say about it, just watch it, it’s completelly amazing….

Korn -- Blind (Live Rock Am Ring 2007)

Today I woke up with this thing in my head, what could it be my last wish. I started to think my most precious desire but I couldn’t figure it out.  So it came to my mind this song Justin (by Korn). Justin was a little boy who was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, a terminal illness and his last wish when he knew ha was going to die was to meet the members of his favorite band Korn. This wish reached Jonathan Davis and this is what he thought about it:

“Justin’s dying wish was to meet us and it really freaked me out. It threw a whole new kind of pressures on my head. That’s really intense. Someone’s going to die and the last thing he wants to do is come hang out with us. So I truly just freaked out. It’s like why would you want to meet me? What makes me so special? And in turn I talk about how I admire his courage and his life. I couldn’t stare at him because he was so content with the fact that he was dying. None of us could look him in the eyes. And I totally admire his strength. I wish I had it.”

This made me think how humble they was to admire Justin and how Justin admired them so much. Life is a crazy thing we must enjoy.

Korn made a song called Justin on their Follow the Leadear album, here are the lyrics look carefully at it, it al make sense.

~*~ Justin ~*~
Fuck all that bullshit!

You watch me play.
I look away.
Your lights turn bright.
You found the light.

Take, off in space. You and I.
Time, off in space. You and I.

You’re gonna die!
Wanna meet me, why?
I wish I had your strength
Inside your soul escapes.

Take, off in space. You and I.
Time, off in space. You and I.

Cry, into me.
Help me…
Something…
For all!
The kids that die listening to me.

You are alive!

Time, off in space. You and I stay….

JONATHAN DAVIS: Vocals
JAMES “MUNKY” SHAFFER: Guitars
FIELDY: BASS

Like many other bands of the 90’s korn started in a garage, young dreamers with much hate, pain and things to scream to the world. With their particular personality their first scream to the world was: Are you ready???, and were we ready? Were they ready to what was coming? I think they were, but we couldn’t imagine how far this garage band would achieve all the things they did.

I’ve been listening to them for too much time now and they still keep surprising me. What makes them different from others? The Evolution like they said in their last Untitled album. They were always capable to evolve even though they have their problems, their addictions, their fights, their feelings; they were always trying to evolve. You can see this evolution during the past of the years since the Korn album in 1994 that was full of anger, claims, and feelings but in some way they could touch your fucking mind with their songs. At that moment nobody knew them, just was a little band but, with a big scream of Jonathan Davis voice left us ready to what was about to come. Life is peachy still young starting with an amazing intro (which is like a signature now) and followed with great songs like ADIDAS, who cares what people think, All day I dream about sex and they were telling it to everybody. And they keep on going, then Follow the leader was seen in all stores and everybody knew it. Then came Issues I think it is their best album, is perfect, I love each song of this fucking album. At that moment everyone knew who Korn was and could distinguish John Davis incredible Chameleonic voice that can go from sweet singing to angry screaming and creepy sounds. They were a Pandora box opened at that moment. Then recorded the Untouchables I don’t have anything to say about this album I felt disappointed with it but I think it is good to have the ability of being impartial when you like something so much. After this unpleasing album they went back to origins with Take a Look in the Mirror, evolving like always but with the classical Korn sounds and critics to short-minded people like their video You All Want a Single. Then came the See you on the other side album which completely blown my mind. At this time I was convinced that they couldn’t surprised me anymore but they did, The Unplugged reflects peace, includes all kind of new instruments, great versions of old songs, Amy lee making an angelical voice in freak on a leash, a fantastic mix of  make me bad and a The Cure song completely fusion. And they kept going and going, the Family Values Tour, the See You on the Other Side Tour and then finally came the Untitled their last album until now which shows us that they still can make great music even though they don’t have Brian “Head” Welch who left the band in 2005, and drummer David Silveria who has been on a break from Korn since 2006.

It’s been too many years and as JD says “When we started, most of our fans were 14, 15, and now they’re lawyers and doctors who are bringing their kids. We’re transcending generations. It’s cool.”

Today they are three and Jonathan David Said: yes we’re down three members, but we’re still very creative and still love making music.’ We’re so happy to be doing this 14 years later. This is our eighth studio album, but eleventh release overall. [And eight of those releases sold platinum or platinum-plus]

So what’s coming??? Let’s wait and see.

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