Upon first inspection, Korn Greatest Hits, Vol 1 is pretty much your typical greatest hits album - all the singles you want, a few classics, and a couple new tunes and remixes to get the hardcore fans to buy the album. The new new tunes are awesome covers, however, that make this collection stand above the rest.
It leads off with one such cover, an amazingly faithful rendition of one-hit-wonder Cameo's "Word Up" - which Jonathan Davis delivers in a manner where you can't quite tell if he is serious or totally tongue-in-cheek, which makes the song that much better.
Following that is another somewhat faithful cover of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2" - probably a song that first exposed me to the concept of radio overexposure. It's good to revisit this song again.
In my younger days, Korn made up a good chunk of my listening time, but I have to admit I kind of gave up on their last few commercial efforts, as perhaps the novelty had worn off, and they all got rich and happy.
so for me, anyway, it's good to have this retrospective collection, as I didn't already own most of what they had to offer.
