Issues (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Issues
Type = Album
Artist = Korn


Released = November 16, 1999
Recorded = July - September 1999 at A&M Studios in West Hollywood, California & Atlanta, Georgia
Genre = Alternative metal
Length = 53:16
Label = Immortal/Epic
Producer = Brendan O'Brien
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ksjgtq3z9u45 link]
*Robert Christgau rating-Christgau|dud [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Korn link]
*Kerrang! Rating|4|5
*Rolling Stone Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/258468/review/6209707?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link]
*Yahoo! Music (favorable) [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12035688 link] Singles
Name = noitalic|this album
Type = Studio
single 1 = Falling Away From Me
single 1 date = December 6, 1999
single 2 = Make Me Bad
single 2 date = May 23, 2000
Single 3 = Somebody Someone
Single 3 date = 2000
Last album = "Follow the Leader"
(1998)
This album = "Issues"
(1999)
Next album = "All Mixed Up"
(2001)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Type = Album


Lower caption = Second place cover design contest winner. Extra album cover 2
Upper caption =
Type = Album


Lower caption = Third place cover design contest winner. Extra album cover 2
Upper caption =
Type = Album


Lower caption = Fourth place cover design contest winner.

"Issues" is the fourth studio album by the band Korn and has sold over 9,000,000 copies worldwide. This album featured four different covers each designed by Korn fans as part of an MTV competition (The winning cover seen at right was designed by Alfredo Carlos; another CD cover for special limited edition of the album features a cartoonish half-caricature for the band).

The first single, "Falling Away from Me", debuted on the hit TV show "South Park" in an episode titled "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" on October 27 1999. The band was featured in cartoon form as "Scooby Doo"-style mystery solvers.

The album includes five short 'interlude' tracks (1, 4, 7, 9 and 14) mixed in with the other regular length songs. "Issues" is also the first Korn album not to have a hidden track, with only static fading out at the end of the album.

Although the album received rather mixed reviews on the moment of release, it became a commercial success and in time it has been considered one of Korn's best by many fans.Fact|date=May 2008 The album debuted at #1 selling 575,000 units in its first week of release in US and has gone triple platinum a month after the release.Fact|date=May 2008 The album marked a change from nu metal to alternative metal by the band.Fact|date=May 2008 According to them in the booklet that comes with "Greatest Hits, Volume 1" album, they did not want to be part of a popular trend and wanted to do their own thing. Thus there was no hip-hop influence or nu metal elements on this album.cite web | title=Allmusic review - Korn "Issues" |work= Retrieved on January 25, 2007 |url=http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=sql=10:oy68mpmh9ffo&sql=10:peq8b5m49sqj] The band also admits that with Brendan O'Brien working alongside them, he kept them more focused during recording so far as to not letting them just fool around and party, and that there was a lot less drinking this time around especially in Jonathan's part since he quit drinking a year earlier.Fact|date=May 2008

The release of "Issues" was preceded by the unusual show at New York's historic Apollo Theater and broadcast the concert simultaneously across many radio stations one day prior to release.Fact|date=May 2008 This performance made Korn only the second white musical group and the first ever rock band to ever perform at The Apollo after the legendary Buddy Holly in the late 1950s.Fact|date=May 2008 The band has performed the album in its entirety, as well a couple of older songs during the encore.Fact|date=May 2008 This event incorporated NYPD marching drum and bagpipe band conducted by composer and friend of Jonathan Davis, Richard Gibbs.Fact|date=May 2008

The special edition of "Issues" comes with a bonus EP titled "All Mixed Up", which is also available as a separate release.

Track listing

# "Dead" – 1:12
# "Falling Away from Me" – 4:30
# "Trash" – 3:27
# "4 U" – 1:42
# "Beg for Me" – 3:53
# "Make Me Bad" – 3:55
# "It's Gonna Go Away" – 1:30
# "Wake Up" – 4:07
# "Am I Going Crazy" – 0:59
# "Hey Daddy" – 3:44
# "Somebody Someone" – 3:47
# "No Way" – 4:08
# "Let's Get This Party Started" – 3:41
# "Wish You Could Be Me" – 1:07
# "Counting" – 3:37
# "Dirty" - 7:50
#* The song "Dirty" ends at 3:43 and is followed up by 4 minutes and 17 seconds of static.

Chart positions

Credits

*Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu - Bass, Programming
*Jonathan Davis - Vocals, Bagpipes ("Dead"), Drums ("Dead", Trash", "4 U", "It's Gonna Go Away", "Am I Going Crazy", "Wish You Could Be Me", "Dirty"), Programming
*James "Munky" Shaffer - Guitar
*David Silveria - Drums
*Brendan O' Brien - Producer
*Brian "Head" Welch - Guitar

References

succession box
before = "Breathe" by Faith Hill
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = December 4 - December 10 1999
after = "All The Way... a Decade of Song"
by Celine Dionsuccession box
before = "Affirmation" by Savage Garden
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = November 22 - November 28 1999
after = "S&M" by Metallica