The first time I heard Korn I was in my second year of college. I was going in t work on an audio project and emanating from a room down the hall was Korn's first album. I instantly fell in love, the sound was unlike anything I had heard to that point. I was into metal music, Metallica, Anthrax, that school of metal, plus the thriving alternative seen with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Korn was something new, heavy, primal, influenced by the hip hop world, but not rap-metal. This was a call to arms of the nu-metal world.
What we get here is the first volume of the collected hits. What we get is a 16 track collection of previously released songs, plus two new cover recordings and a previously unreleased mix of "Freak on a Leash." The tracks all appear to have been remastered, they sound great, especially the older tracks. Another interesting thing is the track ordering. Usually there are 2 formats that you see, at least in my experience. One is chronological order from the older songs to the newer songs, the other school of thought seems to just toss them on there in a random order. This album is different, it presents the songs in reverse chronological order, from the newer to the older tracks. I'm not sure why I like this, but I do.
I already own all of their previous releases, so the attraction here was having the big hits in one place, plus the 3 new tracks. The new tracks are a cover of "Word Up!" which sounds pretty good, but the meat is another cover track. They perform a cover of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (parts 1,2,3)," and it sounds fantastic, true to the original song, yet having a distinctive Kornishness to it. The final new track is a remix of "Freak on a Leash" which also sounds good. One thing that Korn's music lends itself to is remixes, there is something about it that mixes well and can create new songs.
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