Issues (album)

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Template:Album infobox Issues is the fourth album by the band KoЯn.

This album featured four different covers each designed by KoЯn fans as part of an MTV competition (The winning cover seen at right was designed by Alfredo Carlos; another CD cover features a cartoonish half-caricature for the band). The first single "Falling Away From Me" premiered on the hit TV show South Park, in an episode where the band was featured in cartoon form as Scooby Doo-style mystery solvers. The album includes five short 'interlude' tracks (1, 4, 7, 9 and 14) mixed in with the other regular length songs. Issues is also the first KoЯn album not to have a hidden track, with only static fading out at the end of the album.

The album was considered a disappointment by many of the band's fans, as it featured fewer nu metal songs, and incorporated vocalist Jonathan Davis' Duran Duran influences (for example, the chorus parts of "Make Me Bad"). Despite that, the album debuted at #1 selling 575,000 its first week and has gone triple platinum.

The special edition of Issues includes the bonus CD All Mixed Up.

Track listing

1. "Dead" (1:12) (Interlude)
2. "Falling Away From Me" (4:30)
3. "Trash" (3:27)
4. "4 U" (1:42) (Interlude)
5. "Beg For Me" (3:53)
6. "Make Me Bad" (3:55)
7. "It's Gonna Go Away" (1:30) (Interlude)
8. "Wake Up" (4:07)
9. "Am I Going Crazy" (0:59) (Interlude)
10. "Hey Daddy" (3:44)
11. "Somebody Someone" (3:47)
12. "No Way" (4:08)
13. "Let's Get This Party Started" (3:41)
14. "Wish You Could Be Me" (1:07) (Interlude)
15. "Counting" (3:37)
16. "Dirty" (7:50)

Personnel

Jonathan Davis - Vocals, Bagpipes, Drums on "Trash" and "Dirty", Programming
Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu - Bass
James "Munky" Schaffer - Guitar
Brain "Head" Welch - Guitar
David Silveria - Drums

Charting singles

1999  Issues                  The Billboard 200               No. 1
1999  Issues                  Top Canadian Albums             No. 2
1999  Issues                  Top Internet Albums             No. 2
2000  Issues                  Top Internet Albums             No. 13
2000  Falling Away From Me    The Billboard Hot 100           No. 99
2000  Make Me Bad             Mainstream Rock Tracks          No. 9
2000  Somebody Someone        Mainstream Rock Tracks          No. 23
2000  Falling Away From Me    Modern Rock Tracks              No. 7
2000  Make Me Bad             Modern Rock Tracks              No. 7
2000  Somebody Someone        Modern Rock Tracks              No. 23
2000  Falling Away From Me    Mainstream Rock Tracks          No. 7be:Issues

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