ARE YOU READY?! KORN’S ‘GREATEST HITS VOL. 1’NOW TO ARRIVE IN STORES TWO WEEKS EARLIER ON OCTOBER 5

DATE:        August 25, 2004

FROM:        MARCEE RONDAN/MITCH SCHNEIDER/

KRISTINE ASHTON-MAGNUSON

ARE YOU READY?!

KORN’S ‘GREATEST HITS VOL. 1’

NOW TO ARRIVE IN STORES TWO WEEKS EARLIER

ON OCTOBER 5
 

Thanks to radio’s great initial response to KORN's new single “Word Up” plus the fan buzz from their incendiary performances on the Projekt Revolution Tour, KORN’s GREATEST HITS VOL. 1 will now arrive in stores two weeks earlier on October 5.  Filled with one KORN classic after another, the 19-track CD features KORN-ized versions of Cameo’s funk classic “Word Up” and Pink Floyd’s alienation anthem “Another Brick in the Wall, Parts 1, 2, 3.”

Debuting at #31 on the modern rock chart, “Word Up” was also the “greatest gainer” in the Modern Rock format as well as the most active phone song at Modern and Active Rock radio.  

“That song (‘Word Up’) was tight back in the day and our version really does it justice,” said KORN lead singer JONATHAN DAVIS to San Antonio News Express (8/18/04). 

“It's just a fun, funky track,” guitarist MUNKY told the Sarasota Herald Tribune (8/13/04), adding that the song “really broke down a lot of walls between black and white music…KORN is not serious all day, every day.  We really do have a lot of fun, and that comes through on that song.”

Fans and critics across the country are already championing “Word Up,” which the band is performing this summer at major venues across the country.   Here’s what a few of them had to say:

Philadelphia Inquirer (8/5/04):  “its cover of Cameo's ‘Word Up’ was an unexpected jolt of levity…”

Providence Journal (7/30/04):  “…getting the audience going and even sneaking in some fun with a cover of Cameo's ‘Word Up,’ still done in Korn style, of course…”

Boston Globe (7/31/04):  “Davis's surprisingly credible version of Cameo's 1980s club classic ‘Word Up,’ in which he nailed Larry Blackmon's funky drawl.”

The complete track listing is as follows:

Word Up

Another Brick in the Wall

Y’All Want a Single

Right Now

Did My Time

Alone I Break

Here to Stay

Trash

Somebody Someone

Make Me Bad

Falling Away From Me

Got The Life

Freak on a Leash

Twist

A.D.I.D.A.S.

Clown

Shoots and Ladders

Blind

Bonus Track- Dante Ross Remix of Freak on a Leash

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