When i reached the place i thought FUCK THIS im going to go sit outside and listen to music. FUCKING HELL MAN FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR I HAD TO GO LISTEN TO SOME RETARDED WHITE ROBED PEDOPHILE. This morning i was awoken by my mother screaming that i had to go church. what the fuck."Īnd then i played Age Of Mythology for another 3 hours + chasing my dog around the garden at 2am. After that i finished convulsing at the end of the song, i realised my dog was still in the room and his face said : "dude.
KORN UNPLUGGED TAIKO DRUMS WINDOWS
As i ran around opening my windows i was jumping around screaming and head banging like a crazy fuck. The floor beneath me began to shake and the walls of my house began to pulse. I went over to the stereo and started playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit"at max volume. In order to switch my mood i decided to counter the annoying party music that was being played from all the neighbours. The aerial shots of the fireworks only made it more clear to me how small and insignificant we all are and the countdown only served as a cruel reminder of the fact that I'm still going to die and my life is slowly ending one minute at a time. I continued to watch MTV Classic till about 12 and almost forgot to switch back to Channel 9 because i was too busy laughing my ass off at South Park.Īs me and Poncho both sat watching the fireworks i didn't feel excited or exuberant. I sat in front of the tele watching MTV and playing Age Of Mythology <3. For MTV Unplugged, we were mourning.As the fireworks went off early from my neighbours at 9am, my dog jumped into my lap scared shitless of the bangs and screaming all around. One of just three Unplugged performances in 2015 came from Placebo, who had peaked in 1998 with a song that rhymed “weed” with “need” and “dawning” with “morning”. With Unplugged’s credibility now in tatters, anyone could appear on it. Is he being ironic? Trying to conceal his embarrassment? Why is he involved in this debacle? Has he been taken hostage? In 200 years’ time, when the mystifying Mona Lisa has perished beyond restoration and the public can no longer countenance tediously two-dimensional portraits, La Gioconda’s place in the Louvre will be taken up by a holographic ad infinitum loop of Smith repeating the words “I … I’m actually a big fan of Korn … they’re a phenomenal live band”. More fascinating is the interview snippet where Smith extols Korn’s virtues. At one point, Robert Smith mooches onstage resembling The Last Days of Elizabeth Taylor for a medley in which the Cure’s In Between Days segues into nu-metal turkey Make Me Bad. With Jonathan Davis’s whiny, whispered singing and his band’s lack of refinement starkly exposed, Korn: MTV Unplugged almost transgresses the boundaries of unintentional hilarity to become a masterpiece of a misstep. Instead, they chose Incubus, Staind and, ropiest of all, Korn. Unplugged even neglected to book the superior nu-metal bands such as Deftones and Kittie. Nu-metal was a genre less suited to acoustic reinterpretation than Michael Bay is to direct Phantom Thread II. Taking the riffs and roars of metal, adding the scratches and raps of hip-hop, and upping the misogyny quota of both, a scene was born wherein shorts were acceptable stagewear.
Poorer still were the next generation of angst-ridden white boys. Then horn-voiced Katy Perry arrived after one album to perform lounge-jazz versions of her clumsily problematic songs I Kissed A Girl and Ur So Gay. Unplugged had once semaphored an act rising to significance.
Unfortunately, MTV’s curatorial nous went awry. The show allowed older statesmen such as Neil Young to reach a younger audience, too, but let’s not be rockist because it wasn’t only white guitar dudes who shone: Mariah Carey stormed it thanks to her invincible vocal range Jay-Z’s appearance marked the latest chapter in hip-hop’s infiltration of the mainstream. Alice in Chains had their own Woody Guthrie moment via a bass guitar emblazoned with a slogan denouncing Metallica’s short hair. Pearl Jam made a feminist statement when their singer scrawled “pro-choice” on his arm in magic marker. It was where Nirvana offered up obscure cover versions and the adorable sight of Dave Grohl trying his damnedest to drum quietly. This includes the acoustic performance show MTV Unplugged, which, for a while, showcased stripped-back and often surprising performances from a range of worthy musicians. From Toys R Us to the state of Gary Lineker’s upper lip and chin, many things fared better in the 90s.