Korn felt a lot of pressure to avoid the "sophomore jinx" Fresh as a primary influence: " was the best beatboxer back then."ģ. I was beatboxing because I love to beatbox." Davis told Fader in 2018. "'Twist,' that was really the heavy scat. Freshīefore he was a singer, Davis was a DJ and a drummer, which likely informs the more rhythmic aspects of his vocals, particularly his signature scatting, as heard on Peachy's maniacal opener. The "heavy scatting" on "Twist" was inspired by hip-hop pioneer Doug E. And people will be like, "What? What is this?" No one ever has done that.'. "And we were like, 'Let's open the record with that. "Once did 'Twist,' it was, like, 'What in the hell was that?'" Welch recalled on the "Do You Know Jack?" podcast. Life Is Peachy opens with a bang - via the surreal vocal freakout that is "Twist." As much as the track has thrown listeners for a loop over the years, it also blew the minds of Jonathan Davis' bandmates when they first heard it. Jonathan Davis' bandmates were taken aback when they first heard "Twist" Those influences and more coalesced on Peachy's shambolic 14 cuts. Here are 10 fascinating facts about the milestone album.ġ. Bungle, hip-hop like early Outkast and the Pharcyde, Sepultura records and Rage Against the Machine, just to name a few." "I was probably listening to a lot of Mr. "We were listening to a lot of hip-hop," guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer recalled. More than their first album, Peachy reflected the band's diverse influences. Whereas the band's debut is a tight, cohesive and unrelentingly dark affair, Life Is Peachy is all over the place, veering from Korn-style ragers ("Chi," "Lost") to jokier, more sophomoric jams "A.D.I.D.A.S.") to party-hard covers ("Wicked," with Deftones' Chino Moreno, and "Low Rider," with guitarist Brian "Head" Welch on lead vocals).
I was so scared when it came out, for the sophomore jinx. Davis added, "It's still a cool-ass record. "We just did the first Korn record and we went out and toured for 18 months, and we had to hurry up and do this record and get the fuck back out there to keep touring," he told Vice in 2015. Under the gun to deliver in a short tightframe, the band banged out what singer Jonathan Davis has called a "very rushed, very raw" LP. To do so, they reunited with producer Ross Robinson and returned to Indigo Ranch in Malibu, California, where they had made Korn.
Less than two years after the release of their 1994 self-titled debut, Korn faced the monumental task of following up the commercially successful and creatively groundbreaking album.