Product Description

Full of shrilly, distorted guitar squeals, bass-heavy darkness and laryngitis-inducing growls, Korn's sophomore turn, the oh-so sarcastically titled LIFE IS PEACHY, is a musical tour through some truly evil corners. The Bakersfield quintet's paranoia-induced rampage makes countless by-the-numbers death-metal acts seem cartoonish by comparison.
Mostly, Korn succeeds in inspiring rage and terror by not overplaying its hand, and by mixing in hip-hop beats, punk abandon and funky humor with its thrash. Jonathan Davis croons as ably ashe roars, making his "Exorcist" impression seem genuine when he does break into it. James "Munky" Shaffer's and Brian "Head" Welch's guitars never explode into bombastic faster-than-light solos; instead, they uphold the album's eerie textures by flying in and out of the mix like samples. And drummer David Silveria is as adept at reproducing the Latin percussion polyphony of War (on a metallic cover of that band's "Low Rider") as he is double-timing on his twin bass drums. Add it up, and LIFE IS PEACHY assembles into far more than your average declaration to Satan.

Track Listing

1. Twist
2. Chi
3. Lost
4. Swallow
5. Porno creep
6. Good God
7. Mr Rogers
8. K@#0%#
9. No place to hide
10. Wicked
11. ADIDAS
12. Lowrider
13. Ass itch
14. Kill you

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10624 in Music
• Released on: 2001-12-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Customer Reviews

Everyone's wrong....this is the BEST one!
Very, very raw sounding album- but manages to be cool and seriously heavy at the same time- helped by some fantastic drumming by David! The first one of their CDs I ever bought and the best album overall (although 'Blind' on the first album is their best effort)....best tracks are chi and good god....and although no-one else has mentioned it "swallow" has a great, dark riff.

AMAZING!!!!!!
Though I haven't heard the first of their albums, I would rate this as the best album Korn have produced. I've heard all but the first one and they can only dream of coming close to Life is Peachy.
The album starts as it plans to continue, with the brilliant mini track Twist which frankly is almost worth the entire price on its own, its that impressive. Other highlights include Chi, Lost, Mr. Rogers, Good God and ADIDAS, the last being evidence that you don't need amazing lyrics to have a good song.

This album is brilliant. If you like any of Korn's other stuff, you will definately not be dissapointed by this outing. It is a masterpiece, combing aggression with excellent melodies.

Good, 1 under appreciated track
I love this album for a few reasons.
It seems to be KoRn's 'weird' stage as I call it. Allow me to make it clearer.
Korn = Strongest stage
Life Is Peachy = Weird stage
Follow The Leader = Drug-fuelled stage
Issues = Party stage
Untouchables = Nu-metal stage
Take A Look In The Mirror = Peak Hardcore Stage.

Peachy really is interesting. People love ADIDAS, Good God and Wicked, but the best song on this album is actually Mr Rogers. This is a truly brilliant song. The fact that it sounds like it's being recorded in a tin can gives it a truly raw sound. It's a jittery song which tells the story of a TV program Jon used to watch: Mr Rogers. If you're not familiar with this show, it was about a nice man who told all kids to be nice to everyone. When Jon tried this on 'school bullies' or 'hard kids' it was obvious they weren't going to take kindly to it. Jonathan Davis really puts on his vengeful character here and I love it. If you are new to Korn, then I highly recommend this album, not for Mr Rogers alone, but also for the opening mini track twist and the genuine sense of being with korn on this recording.