Is [url=http://www.postershop.co.uk/Slipknot/Slipknot-Photo-Slipknot-6202743.html=this what they look like, or is that them on Halloween or what??!?
I’m so confused…
I’d never even heard of them. How out of touch am I?
Man, I did my adolescence all wrong 
I was always trying to get my mom to listen to my music and get to appreciate it. I would have LOVED it if she could have said “yeah, Jethro Tull has some good songs” or whatever. I mean crap, it was even HER era, not mine!!
Without defending them as human beings, I have to say that when I’m in the mood Slipknot is a GREAT band. There’s no arguing taste, so I won’t be convincing anyone to like them, but I really do believe that they have talent on some level and that their last album was really, really good. Rolling Stone agrees with me. So does dotmusic.
I will often go to sleep listening to them on headphones, because when you stop paying attention it’s kinda like white noise. Heh.
I will also say that they put on a great show. When I saw them, Corey had everyone get down on one knee as the song started, and when it hit everyone jumped up as high as they could and went CRAZY. For that whole song everywhere around me was one huge pit, everyone went off. Fun fun fun.
LC
I listened to the samples and I couldn’t even tell if there WERE lyrics, let alone understand them. It sounded like shit to me. Maybe I’m just old.
I don’t think I’d ever want to see them live, however, after reading this review:
“Nine guys. Nine masked, demented guys. The members of Slipknot have developed a cult following even more for their gross-out stage antics than for their hateful lyrics. In concert they’ve been known to masturbate, defecate, vomit, urinate on one another and light each other on fire. Sick and twisted. It’s safe to say that young fans of this band have far deeper problems than a simple lack of media discernment.”
Ooooh, Rolling Stone gave them a positive review. Say, how did you manage to find the review in that huge pile of fashion ads, political commentary, and tabloidish media coverage? Rolling Stone hasn’t mean seriously about music criticism for at least ten years, probably much more. CMJ, NME, MelodyMaker, etc. etc. are trustworthy, Rolling Stone’s demographic is middle-class kids with plenty of money to spend and not enough energy to rebel against what they’re being spoon-fed.
UnuMondo
Personally I hate Slipknot and all their ilk. Who do I hate more? The music press.
I just want to do a minor hi-jacking and ask: Do those reviews in the post above seem incredibly up themselves and masturbatory in their use of language? Or is it just me?
I had a vivid mental image of the reviewers, frustrated writers/musicians I am sure, drooling and moaning over their thesaurii as they discovered another word for “loud”
I annoyed my parents with many things. Some of it was Slayer and the CroMags so I really can’t talk. Slipknob … sorry knot are crap though.
most of teh stuff said here is very valid, but just cos they look dumb and act like prats doesnt mean some of their music isnt good. There are tho one song by them i like and thay’re ‘My Plauge’ for the new R.E. movie and i have to say this is one of my favorite songs atm, and ‘wait and bleed’. I like a lot of old rock n traditional metal, but i also like nu-metal, like its already been said its all up to peoples personal opinion and weather or not yopu agree you cant say they’re wrong.
PS Guns n Roses rule, and im going to the Leeds Festival (if its stil on) just to see em
Slipknot, hahaha. They’re so cute. Look at them rebel! Look! Look!
UnuMondo> I can’t agree that Rolling Stone are any worse than the rest. Melody Maker are only as trustworthy as it’s possible to be while not actually existing. And before folding, they attempted to survive by transmogrifying into a glossy rag with all the musical credibility of Phil Collins. NME are ridiculously self-obsessed and need to fire Steven Wells before he implodes and writes solely in capitalised swearwords (some might say this has already happened). As far as the music press goes, I have to agree with Thelonius Monk: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
does a little Gothic Revival dance
So what are these guys anyway? GWAR lite?
More like GWAR Xtra. GWAR has a sense of humor, Slipknot do knot. (sorry)
LC
Punk.
Punky punky punk. PUNK! PUNK-PUNK-PUNK-YOUR-EYES-OUT!
Punk and disorderly! Punk in drublic!
PUNK! PUUUNK! Punkity punkity punk-punk-punk.
PuNk! Dada punk! Postmodern punk! Anti-art punk!
PUNK SPEWING OUT OF EVERY ORIFICE KEEPS THE MIND CLEAN!
All-One-Punk and Moral ABC will save the world! Dilute! Dilute!
-Derleth, laughing punk. 
No, GWAR sucks but at least they weren’t serious. That gives them some points.
Here’s my recipie for Slipknot:
5 parts ANGER AT THE WORLD [sup]tm[/sup]
17 parts Stupid
8 parts Publicity
2 parts Halloween costume rejected ideas
A dash of New Kids on the Block
3 Parts of “Knows how to work a crappy angle for money” (see also M. Manson and any other ‘scary’ star de jour)
3 parts Beavis and Butthead (“He took a poop onstage.” “YEAH! Slipknot RULEZ!! THEY RULE!”)
Take that mixture down to the local mall. Grab the first four 11-year-old boys that see in the arcade. Throw them in there.
Blend this mixture until creamy. This should come out pretty close. If it sounds flat, add more Stupid until it sounds right.
FWIW he does that at EVERY single show they play a full set at. Ill bet is was during the intro to “Fuck the World for all its Worth” or whatever the hell the name of that song is. I have seen them a couple of times. They do play a very energetic show and I enjoyed it, but that whole jump up scene was weak to me. In fact, if you have the TTE CD you will hear them do it on there, almost verbatim how they did it the 2 times I saw them.
Although I believe that Joey Jordison is bar none the most impressive metal drummer I have heard in the last few years, with the exception of Messhugah’s drummer whose name I cant remember right now, I am not a big fan of Slipknot. Its not the masks or the angst ridden lyrics. They just try to hard and think too highly of themselves.
If you old timers wanna hear some ear bleeding, what the fuck are they saying, what the fuck are they playing metal, go download some Dillenger Escape Plan-Sugar Coated Sour, or NORA Losers Intuition. I like them, but can definetly see how most people don’t. Youll think SK sings like angels after you hear Dillenger.
[Random Musical thought]
I thought The Backstreet Boys were the same thing as New Kids on the Block.
[/Random Musical thought]
But then, I’m a fan of remarkable obscure stock music played over the end titles of early 50s BBC serials which haven’t been seen in decades.
I loved slipknot when their first album came out, but there second album sucked wang so bad that it would make Monica Lewinsky do a double take. Most rockers or metal heads I know don’t like them either. They were a fad, albeit a refreshing fad, just like Marilyn Manson.
I do wonder about them though, I mean what the hell kind of band needs nine people? 3 drummers? Do there guitarist’s work in shifts?
I saw them in show, and from what I glimpsed through the haze of marijuana smoke, there was no onstage defecation, urination… I would’ve walked the hell out if there had been. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/page?t=news&id=5006644
Your kid seems to like heavy stuff. You might want to introduce him to thrash metal and death metal. The band Slayer are the king’s of thrash. Their newest album ‘God Hates Us All’ is an example of musical perfection. As for death metal, give Cannibal Corpse (Gore Obsessed is a good album to start with) a try. They are undoubtedly the heaviest band on the planet (I’m not to much into their stuff, but they make Coal Chamber and Slipknot look wholesome.)
Personally, I dont see what all the fuss is about.
Slipknot at The Palladium, Worcester, MA 5/13/00
from the quotes section.
“Slipknot is doing what all the Dead’s musical children should be doing: Taking the spirit of Grateful Dead music in a direction all their own, integrating the source material with their own songs and creating something new that honors what came before without being a slave to it.”
David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour (nationally syndicated)
and …
“These guys connect with those good time, almost jazz, almost country rhythms”
Johnny Angel, Boston Phoenix
they seem a little tame to me.
Slayer on the other hand are without equal.