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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 16533
Released: June 11, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Untouchables Track Listing:
1. Here To Stay
2. Make Believe
3. Blame
4. Hollow Life
5. Bottled Up Inside
6. Thoughtless
7. Hating
8. One More Time
9. Alone I Break
10. Embrace
11. Beat It Upright
12. Wake Up Hate
13. I'm Hiding
14. No One's There
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: KORN
Title: UNTOUCHABLES
Street Release Date: 06/11/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL
Description of Untouchables:
The band that unwittingly begat the current, if waning, rap-metal frenzy, Korn has been semidormant since 1999's multiplatinum Issues, while bands they inspired, such as Linkin Park, have ruled the charts and minds of disenfranchised teens. The wait for Untouchables' 14 cutting cuts is more than worth it, however. The quintet's heavy sound and lyrical angst have not been dulled by success. Singer Jonathan Davis's often agonized, cathartic lyrics and slightly lispy, emotive delivery are as heavy and varied as on previous outings. On the first single, "Here to Stay," which boasts a spooky, Nine Inch Nails feel and Fieldy's aggro, down-tuned bass, Davis growls in pain, "This state is elevating / As the hurt turns into hating / Anticipating all the f---ed up feelings again."
Among and within songs, Korn move seamlessly and dynamically from gentle, spooky, and lushly melodic to a bass-heavy propulsive, explosive musicality. "Embrace" is almost grandiose and Cult-like in its rock drama, in contrast to the punky, straight-up "Wake Up Hate," on which Davis's vocals are especially creepy and Marilyn Manson-like as he rants: "I'm, I'm filthy/ Wasted piece of s--t/ I am disgusting/ Take me away." Untouchables, with its brutal introspection and hints of misogyny, is sure to earn its parental advisory sticker. But the album is still a must-have: 62 minutes of deeply felt, ultra-intense spewings, a tour de force that will strike a chord with fans and critics alike. --Katherine Turman
Untouchables Reviews:
Untouchables is Just Amazing One of the Best Albums Ever 
2009-07-15 - Untouchables by Korn is my favorite album by Korn, and always will be. The songs on Untouchables I can relate to in my life now, or in my past, witch means a lot to me. Korn with or without all original members will always make great music. I like how Korn has stayed on the same path from their first album all the way up to Untitled. If you don't have Untouchables out of all of the Korn CD's, it's more than just a shame it's very sad not to hear this album. If your a Korn fan, and haven't heard Untouchables I don't know where you have been. I can play this CD over and over again without getting tired of listening, and singing along to Untouchables, this is why Untouchables made my favorite 20 CD's out of 500. Jonathan has stated that Untouchables is his favorite Korn album, and that "Do What They Say" and "Hollow Life" are his favorite Korn songs. So that means you need to go get Untouchables if you don't have this album. This is a must own album even if you don't like them. I don't care what you think, they are original , and a huge part of music. So if you don't have Untouchables go get your copy now I am serious.
My favorite songs on Untouchables in order the whole CD:
1. Bottled Up Inside
2. Thoughtless
3. Here to Stay
4. Alone I Break
5. I'm Hiding
6 Blame
7. Hollow Life
8. No One's There
9. Hating
10. One More Time
11. Embrace
12. Make Believe
13. Beat it Upright
14. Wake up Hate
Blistering
2009-04-01 - Mikey Beinhorn did very nicely on Soundgarden when he co-mixed DOWN ON THE UPSIDE, so no reason he should overly screw up with Korn. Well, no wonder that this 958th review of UNTOUCHABLES is one of the many more positive than negative. Some will not be too happy at the keyboard add-ons, but that Head, Fieldy and Munky have no prob drowning them out makes them easy to ignore. And there's some actual melody here and there; "Alone I Break" is as close as this version of Korn ever got to a ballad (nice twangy guitar in the middle verses, too). And if you don't want Korn getting 'soft', that and 'No One's There' are about the only instances. The intensity of 'Here to Stay,' 'Hating,' 'One More Time,''Embrace,' and 'Wake up Hate' come pretty close to scary, all the usual bent-nail riffs and raw vocal choruses doing exactly what they did on the 4 Korn recordings previous to this. Beinhorn (formerly of experimental post-punk band Material; he also produced Hole's 1998 release CELEBRITY SKIN) ought to mainly be credited for adding as much fuzz to the mix as possible without actually obscuring any of the good parts. This even works with the drum bits, though maybe he mixed Dave Silveria a little low overall. Forgivable. As for Johnathan Davis... you already know what you're getting. We all have a voice like his inside our heads at least sometimes, and we know it. Few lyric writers can be as articulate about being inarticulate, and he hasn't forgotten any of his multiple personalities (lunatic shriek, baby babble, nose-job trill, full-out bull roar), either. I do kinda wish the relatively upbeat 'Here to Stay' could be swapped with the closing 'No One's There,' because then this CD's feel would be more 'Here's all the stuff that's driving me insane, but it's not gonna drown me and if you think it will, well, screw you' instead of the barely-hanging-onto-the-wreckage feel the CD ends with. No law against going back to the first track, though, and then putting the CD away then if you want. Some folks will wonder out loud how much of this sort of thing the world needs, but yours truly always feels a lot more civilized after I listen to these guys. Kind of like they had the nervous breakdown for me. Thanks, fellas. Good one. And no 'April Fool' jokes intended.
rock amania
2008-04-05 - yet another awsome album from korn this album was great but the front cover creep's me out a little it's like the children of the korn my favorite songs was hollow life and hating and here to stay and blame and alone i break the best songs on this album it's funny how all their albums had platnium and some song from the other albums was'nt that great i just wonder why they have to put this font cover on iam not a little bitch but it creep's me out a little.
Best Korn album, Head's last.
2008-01-13 - This cd is undoubtedly the best Korn album in existence. This was the last album the original Korn members made before Head left and they fell down to become one of the crappiest bands nowadays.
All of the songs on here are amazing. If you want to get into Korn, buy this cd.
Deserves all the praise it has got.
2007-06-02 - First, a confession: for the most part, this album was my first introduction to really listening to KoRn. I had heard a few of their songs in the past and had placed them in the dead nu-metal camp in my eyes. For some reason though, I thought I should give them a chance and since Untouchables is more recent than their earlier stuff, perhaps it would be different. I was very, very surprised.
This album is so creative and so different from the nu-metal genre, shedding away the hard-to-digest rapping in lieu for more melodic vocal melodies (which is something this album is exceedingly good for). The occasional programmed drum beats over the rest of the band are done to great effect and the subtle synths used behind many of the tracks are fantastically layered.
I was left with one clear impression after hearing this album; Untouchables is almost hauntingly vampy. Those in the vampire subculture would find much to be interested in with this album. I love it.
