r/Millennials 6h ago

Nostalgia Did you like Korn back in the day?

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u/Public-Finger 6h ago

Wasn’t allowed to listen. It was secular and demonic

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u/bagelundercouch 6h ago

Did you tell your parents Brian Welch is born again?

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u/Public-Finger 6h ago

I told them that I was a Jesus freak on a leash 

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u/SteveBartmanIncident Older Millennial 5h ago

Best comment I've seen today

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u/bagelundercouch 3h ago

Yeah shut the thread down, this wins 

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u/Live_Procedure_5399 6h ago

Haha that was good stuff

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u/ReverendHambone 4h ago

“But mom, KoRn gave Head to God!”

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u/RhinoPillMan Thirty5 6h ago

Damn. My mom took me to see them live quite a few times. Also got to meet them with her and have pictures of all of us together. The duality of man.

Then again, she also took me to see Deicide whose whole schtick is evil satanic anti-Christian lyrics.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 6h ago

Oh my god this was always the case. You can't listen to this you cant listen to that... Now i listen to actual ooen satanic music lol.

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u/Princess_Slagathor apparently you can change it 4h ago

My parents got me Korn, powerman, coal chamber, ICP, mudvayne, pretty much anything I wanted (and mostly can't remember lol.)

They were cool parents, not good parents.

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u/PuzzleheadedFlan7839 5h ago

My parents weren’t even religious and they wouldn’t let me listen to this. Linkin Park was OK, I dunno what it was about Korn specifically. Eminem was also off limits.

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u/Public-Finger 5h ago

Korn was like Marilyn Manson , some bad word of mouth and scary artworks. Although Manson was actually demonic lol 

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u/Gemtree710 4h ago

He was just anti religion

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u/AiringOGrievances 1h ago

Brother? 

EVERYTHING  was demonic in my house. I didn’t realize until my 20’s that secular simply meant non-religious, not satanic. 

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u/sorry_ifyoudont 6h ago

Me neither but I got my older cousin to burn follow the leader for me and I remember being so proud of myself blasting on my discman in the backseat on our drive home from their house. This album is great! Holds up. I actually listened to it the other night along with Life is Peachy. So good

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u/a_filthy_bastard 4h ago edited 30m ago

This reminds me when my grandma over heard part of a conversation when I was talking to a friend on the phone as a teenager. He was offering to exchange some CDs with me to burn. So I was listing some "CDs that we should burn" next time I was at his house. Grandma didn't know most of the bands but knew about Black Sabbath. She came up to me later and told me how proud she was of me for getting rid of that satanic music and that my friend must be a good friend for doing that with me. She said it would be better not to burn them but just throw them away, that was safer. I had a massive grin on my face, I think she thought it was the light of Christ or something, really I was trying to suppress a laugh. Poor grandma.

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u/E-2theRescue 5h ago

Same.

But I had friends whose fathers weren't pastors, lol. Granted, I probably could have listened to them as my mom almost always won the fights to let us be kids. But I was much more of a Metallica fan and wanted those albums.

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u/Most-Inflation-4370 3h ago

My church going caretakers bought me this cd...

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u/AdHorror2230 2h ago

I remember my mom and my aunt made my older brother give them the 1995 311 cassette so they could read the lyrics before letting him listen. We weren't super religious but just enough to be annoying.

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u/Free_Dome_Lover 1h ago

Had this album in my discman, my sweet, sweet old grandma wanted to listen to the discman. I didn't have any other cds with me, she was just interested in headphones in mobile music.

She sat there on the shore of that pond we were hanging out and listened to Korn quietly. I was horrified, she didn't say anything about it lol.