i want to clarify the record, if there was ever any misunderstanding.

the only korn record i got into in real-time was the second one, life is peachy. i picked the self-titled up a little later. i did have a copy of follow the leader, but i didn't like it very much, and didn't spend much time with it. and, when i dropped korn, i dropped them hard - i didn't even pay any passing attention to them. at this point, i am really not remotely familiar with the vast majority of their discography, and i don't think i've even heard any of their subsequent records all the way through.

i think it's generally agreed by their fans, though, that life is peachy is a fundamentally different record than anything else they did, to the point that it's almost unrecognizable. virtually any korn fan would rank it as their worst disc; the fact that it's the only one i ever really liked much is the proper way to understand me in relation to their fan base.

and, it was the changing fan base that was the biggest factor in me dropping them as hard as i did. it wouldn't be fair to suggest that korn was an underground rock band in 1996, but they weren't what they would become a few years later, and the truth is that i didn't actually know anybody else that liked them. before i got online, i would get most of my music recs out of american guitar magazines. ottawa is kind of the northern edge of american civilization in a lot of ways, and things were sometimes slow to get there, before the ubiquitous connectivity of the interwebs. so, i wasn't really exposed to much of what the band is, today, widely associated with.

once i became cognizant of the scene that was developing around them, and that i think was initially curated by a much worse band, limp bizkit, i retreated from it very, very quickly.

so, i had a few korn records, but i did not have a rap-rock or nu-metal phase and i can't think of anything else in that broad style that i listened to at all.

i was listening mostly to post-rock and idm over the 1999-2003 period.