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R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Thu July 12, 2018 11:42 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Korn - "Blind"


Linkin Park - "Crawling"

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 12:01 am
by bodysnatcher
gonna go with LP here. i have no patience for Korn.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 12:02 am
by LoathedVermin72
"Blind" is not only a stone-cold classic, but it is the first Nu Metal song. It all started here, folks.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 12:03 am
by bodysnatcher
LoathedVermin72 wrote:"Blind" is not only a stone-cold classic, but it is the first Nu Metal song. It all started here, folks.
that's reason enough to vote against it!

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 1:15 am
by Jorge
Holy fucking shit that KoRn song is boring. This is a round with two big songs -- a big "classic" and a big pop hit -- and they both kind of suck

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 1:27 am
by Jammer XCI
Blind legit rules :bammer:

Crawling is a fucking meme song, get that whiny bullshit out of here.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 1:32 am
by Jorge
"Blind" is exactly as whiny as "Crawling"

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 1:40 am
by Jorge
You know what, I'm gonna go ahead and vote for "Crawling" because at least the verses have some color, some texture, and a discernible melody, as opposed to just downtuned chugga-chugga guitars. KoRn got much better at this kind of thing with later albums.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 1:44 am
by LoathedVermin72
I like downtuned chugga-chugga guitars

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 1:03 pm
by bada
Korn. That's a pretty good intro. It's only down from there but still.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 2:47 pm
by Kevin Davis
This is the hardest match for me so far. Two nu-metal tournament juggernauts vying for supremacy with two iconic songs that embody all the rawest cliches of their respective styles.

I'm voting for Korn. I just can't vote for Linkin Park. At the end of the day, aggro-whininess is my least favorite musical trait of all-time, and no one is more aggro-whiny than Linkin Park.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 7:03 pm
by doone
me too, I'm abstaining. Don't like either

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 7:04 pm
by bodysnatcher
i voted LP, but both of these are examples of very bad music.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Fri July 13, 2018 10:14 pm
by Birds in Hell
theplatypus wrote:KoRn got much better at this kind of thing with later albums.
I don't know, all of the later (post 1996 or so) Korn material in this tournament sounds like they largely discarded the interesting things about their sound. The early material chugs, but it's chugging in a way that was pretty unique at the time.



Super easy vote for Blind here, one of the better songs in this tournament.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Sat July 14, 2018 7:10 am
by Anders
The first KoRn album will always be their only classic album. Loved this from the first time I heard it.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Sun July 15, 2018 3:00 am
by Kaius
I don’t understand the level of LP hate in this particular setting. (closet super fan alert!)

“Blind” was very original and “kewl” in middle school. My god the memories flooding in.

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Sun July 15, 2018 3:03 am
by Kaius
“Crawling” gets my vote. Raw emotion. In every instrument and Chesters voice especially.

SO INSECUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRREEEE

Re: R1: Blind vs. Crawling

Posted: Sun July 15, 2018 12:15 pm
by Ello Sailor
Both of these songs are great. I hated LP the first time around, but I came around on a few of their tunes. Chester really belts this one out.