Korn, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Incubus Album review: Family Values 1998 Genre: Nu Metal, Rap Metal, Alternative Metal, Funk Metal, Rap

Korn, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Incubus

Family Values 1998

Genre: Nu Metal, Rap Metal, Alternative Metal, Funk Metal, Rap

So today I'm going to review one of my favorite live albums in my collection, and one of the very few last surviving original CDs from my original collection, that I still have. This CD and DVD are a total Nostalgia trip from me I got this album when I was 18 years old It was one of the first things I ever got with my first pay check from my first job, I discovered two of my favorite bands on this album Incubus and Orgy, and I was tripping out to hear for the first time Limp Bizkit and Korn live, I had a couple of very bad quality boot legs of these guys, back in the day you depended on MTV or Much Music to see the videos and occasional live sets but the Nu Metal bands got very little air time at that moment.

Line up and track list highlights:

·         Incubus ( Note I discover this band on this CD):  Blasts out funk metal with New Skin, which is pretty cool because they don't play this song anymore.

·         Orgy: They have three tracks on this CD they sound great, its interesting to listen how they use Synth guitars and interesting Drum triggers to add to their particular sound, which feels very 80's in a good way. Blue Monday the cover from New Order is one of the strongest tracks from the CD.

·         Limp Bizkit: They play two covers Faith from George Michaels and Jump Around from the House of Pain, the second track is the first time its on a production and its great to hear this song reinterpreted even though it isn't perfect. On the other hand the band play a new track called Cambodia that will latter morph into two tracks on their next album Significant Other

·         Ice Cube: comes out swinging with a couple of Rap classics

·         Rammstein: Play their classic Du Hast, now on the DVD the singer on another track pulls out a rubber penis from his pants and starts pissing on the crowd, now that pretty weird, I guess these guys have some  issues

·         Korn; this band has four tracks on the Album one of them is a mash up medley that isn't that good, the other three songs are great it sort of crazy but Korn sounds much better then than now, tighter more pro better grooves.

·         The DJ C-Minus plays on the interludes from artist to artist

 

 Overall: 56

Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) Genre: Pop, Hip Hop, Dance, Electronic

 

Black Eyed Peas

The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)

Genre: Pop, Hip Hop, Dance, Electronic

So I'm finally back from my vacations, I took my family on a road trip from Cordoba to Uruguay, and so for this 14 hour trip I stocked my pen drive up with some killer music, and to my dismay this album was on the playlist, I don't know how it got there in the first place, and I was surprised to discover it's pretty bad, and one most note I liked some of their older stuff. Vocally and Lyrically there isn't very much and the band knows this so they just can't stop messing around with pitch shifters and auto-tuning ( vocal effects) to hide the lack of any interesting ideas or messages. This album is production heavy taking the album in a electronic dance area, but nothing can save an album that doesn't have well thought songs, if look at the credits to each song their  a whole team of people credited in writing each song like David Guetta is on one of the tracks but each track sounds pretty soulless. Now there are a couple of good songs and BEP could have made a great EP instead of a crappy  full album.

Overall: 35.5