Track Listing

1. Blind
2. Hollow Life
3. Freak On A Leash
4. Falling Away From Me
5. Creep
6. Love Song
7. Got The Life
8. Twisted Transistor
9. Coming Undone
10. Make Me Bad/In Between Days
11. Throw Me Away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38883 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
The long-running MTV Unplugged franchise and heavy music make for strange bedfellows. Yet somehow, nu-metal veterans Korn make the concept work in their favor with MTV UNPLUGGED. From a Latin-groove-infused take on "Blind" to the Middle Eastern flavor that drives "Hollow Life", this set is full of surprises. Incorporating strings, keyboards, and various percussion instruments, Korn's catalog is showcased in new and varied lights. Notable guest spots include Evanescence singer Amy Lee joining Jonathan Davis for a duet arrangement of "Freak On A Leash", and the Cure helping mash up their own "In Between Days" with Korn's "Make Me Bad".

Customer Reviews

Who knew?
When Nirvana recorded their own MTV Unplugged, Korn were probably busy recording their first album. Now, thirteen years on from the sterling effort of Seattle's finest, my favourite band of all time have been given their own Unplugged.

MTV Unplugged albums, as a rule, are usually a selection of unlikely songs augmented by the injudicious application of cellos. The sessions themselves are a chance for a formerly impenetrable frontman to bare his soul to a select audience. However, when you're dealing with a frontman that does that as a matter of routine, where else is there to go? The answer becomes apparent by about the fourth track, when you realise that this album has rendered some of Korn's most popular songs unexpectedly delicate whilst still retaining some of the dark core that made them so compelling in the first place.

It stands as a testament to the band that their songs hold up so well under the exposure of the clean-channel acoustic guitar. None of the bands that followed in Korn's estimable wake would be able to say the same. This is an album for the doubters as well as the fans, proving once and for all the band's ability to play their instruments. This is the sound of a band growing old gracefully, damaged not at all by the now-distant departure of you-know-who, at last finally comfortable in their skin.

For the duration, the songs are compellingly reworked with a fascinating intricacy which will surprise even the most devoted fan- songs which were once bludgeoning in their anger and heaviness are now almost unrecognisable when reworked as the kind of tunes that could restore even the most hardened metalhead's faith in the acoustic guitar. The guest appearances, on some albums a chance for kissing arse or showing off, are difficult to fault. Even Amy Lee, supposed diva frontwoman of a fifth-generation, chav-baffling, pseudo-Goth nu-metal band is incredibly difficult to criticise, no matter how hard you try. The pride and incredulity is audible in Davis' voice as he introduces and proceeds to duet with Robert Smith and the Cure, and, in a man who has done little but suffer on CD for more than a decade, this is deeply touching.

Every Korn album to date has had its collection of curious effects and unusual instruments, but never before has one involved the aforementioned cello, a musical saw and a group of Japanese taiko drummers that make the beginning of Throw Me Away sound like the drumming circle that inhabits Camden's catacombs. This album is as unexpected and surprising as the band's 1994 debut, but somehow, despite parts that shouldn't work, it all just makes sense. This is an album that could change your opinion of one of the most hotly debated bands in metal's 40-year history.

Hmmmmm?
Well is this the best thing Korn have ever done? Or the worst thing they have ever done? I love Korn to pieces and cannot decide if i love this album or not. The first hearing i could not stand it, but after a few more plays it has really grown on me, but there are a couple of songs which i do find don't really work. Its the singers voice for me, that doesn't suit the acoustic style on just a couple of the tracks. Have a listen to the samples or even watch the AOL sessions online (if you use aol), to give you a taste first. I must say i am a fan of unplugged cd's, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and if you can find it, Sepultura. So it's one more for the collection, shame they have not brought out a proper live cd yet though (not acoustic).

Not great
I was exited when i heard Korn were doing an unplugged set and found out when it would be showing on MTV2. Unplugged is meant to provide a chance for the artists musicianship to shine, a set with no effects or electronic aids. You can see from watching (or listening to) them that Korn are all talented musicians from Davis's tormented vocals, fieldy's atmospheric bass playing and Munky providing some cool latin guitar solos, however it isn't just Korn that are playing! Billions of other musicians perform with them from additional guitarists, percussionists, backing singers and an array of people playing instruments that i didn't know existed!!! As well as the extra musicians Amy Lee and the whole of the Cure do duets. Despite the finished product does sound good, it's not Korn.

6.5/10