No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: Static X

Episode Date: April 14, 2019

On this week's Sidetrack we take a quick peak at Static X, one of the many bands that "followed the leader" Korn in the Nu Metal movement of the late 90s. Static X brought their own taste to the mix, dropping in some solid "four on the floor" dance beats and more repetitive hooks, leaning heavily into the industrial metal category. We also listen to a song from the movie "Queen Of The Damned", performed by Wayne Static, but written by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis​. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Corn's first four records we talked about new metal and the rise of new metal in the late 90s and into the 2000s and this band that we're talking about today Static X is considered a new metal band

So Q, do you remember that song? That was called Push It. I've never heard that song, dude. Are you sure? If I have, I've forgotten about it, but I was into it, dude. My head was a banging. Yeah, man. Did you look like Wayne Static?

That's the name of the lead singer. And if you just Google, just Google Wayne Static, and some of you may remember this, but he looks like he just basically took, I mean, he had to use an entire bottle of what the hell was that stuff called that everybody used back at the L.A. L.A. looks. Oh, yeah. That L.A. looks. The stuff that turned your hair into like a fucking cement building. That's right. Yeah, he basically looks like...

I mean, it looks like he put his fucking finger in the electric outlet, you know? Yeah. I think that's probably the whole fucking point. Well, it's called static. So that's the whole... point. Anyway, so Static X, what makes them different than corn and some of those other new metal bands that we talked about last week is that they also have the industrial metal flag attached to them. So industrial metal is sort of characterized by like sampling and sometimes like a club music pulse to it, you know, like electronic music pulse. Yeah. And so I think...

And so this album came out in 99. Right. So this is right in the thick of... That's when electronic music was getting big, man. Everywhere. That's true. And also, that's when corn was, you know, at the top of their fame and success was in 1999. That's when Issues was out.

So they had already seen all that success with Follow the Leader. so you know static X. I don't remember this song, dude. I do not remember push it. I think this was their, this was their huge mega hit, if you can even call it that. Because if you don't remember it,

then obviously it wasn't that big, but I don't remember it. I definitely remember it. But anyway, I think when you think about industrial metal, I think nine inch nails is kind of the, you know, they're the biggest name in that genre.

Yeah. Although they're kind of more industrial rock, electronic rock. But, you know, Static X is definitely more metal. And I don't really know why they get the new metal flag. But maybe that's just because they were in that era of late 90s metal that was, that was, you know, alternative metal. It wasn't traditional sounding metal. And you can definitely hear the industrial sound. side of it when you listen to some of their songs.

But anyway, we're going to get right into it. This is going to be a quick sidetrack episode, as all sidetrack episodes should be, quick and dirty. So let's play. I've got two songs for us today. First one is off that same album that Push It was featured on their debut album called Wisconsin Death Trip. This song coming up here is called I Am.

I got to ask you, dude. What part of that is not metal to you? Oh, I never said they weren't metal. Okay. I said, you're wondering why they're thrown into the new metal category. The new metal. Like, why specifically did they get the new metal tag? Yeah.

But I think, you know, like we were saying with corn. Yeah. And with new metal, specifically, it's, it's metal, but with like funk. Funk and hip hop. And hip hop. Yeah. Okay. Now, you know, I think when you listen to him, you know, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he,

he sings his lyrics in a very like, like percussive, like very quick, quick manner. And maybe that's why. Or maybe just because like I was saying earlier, you know, this was just,

they came out in the late 90s. They were a metal band that didn't fall under like the traditional metal like tropes. You know what I mean? So that's probably why. But, well, dude, you know what?

This is making me think of. So our very first episode that we launched this podcast with, was Alice in Chains. But we were very close to doing an episode on Bush, which for some reason got thrown into the grunge category, which I would not put them in. Well, yeah, they came out like on the tail end of it, remember? Exactly. Yeah, they just happened to, you know, get burst on the scene around that time.

Maybe that's why. So here's just a little fun fact here. Wayne Static, again, you know, the founder of Static X, the lead singer. He was in a band with Billy Corgan, aka the frontman of Smashing Pumpkins, before he formed Static X. And Billy Corgan was also doing Smashing Pumpkins, so he was in like two different bands. And as Smashing Pumpkins began to get more and more successful,

Corgan shifted all of his attention to smashing pumpkins and left this band that him and Static X were in. They were called Deep Blue Dream. That's so terrible. Dude, that's almost as bad as the name of the band that I was in in high school. Dude, it's close. And you know what? It's pretty damn close. Days old dream, deep blue dream.

Dude, that's bad. They're both bad. You guys didn't have Billy Corgan in your group. Yeah. That's so true. So anyway, so here's another interesting thing. I literally just found out about today, and that's where we're going to play a second song.

So this is a true sidetrack right here, what I'm about to play, because it's tied directly to Korn. So Mr. Wayne Static was contacted by Jonathan Davis of Korn in 2002. Here's why. So Davis was signed on, to provide the soundtrack for the movie Queen of the Damned. But he had some contract limitations with Sony

and was legally unable to perform the music that he had written for the film. So he reached out to a number of different, like metal vocalists, Wayne Static being one of him. So Static sings vocals on a song that Jonathan Davis wrote for Queen of the Damned. And when you listen to it, it sounds like he's doing an impersonation of Jonathan Davis. It's really funny. So anyway, this song is called Not Me. Like a corn song, man.

Yeah, I mean. I guess it was. Yeah, I mean, you can definitely tell that it's a song written by J.D. Yeah. And like, it sounds like the corn stuff that he was writing in 2002. because I was talking about the album Untouchables by Korn that came out in 2002. So, like, his writing style had changed a little bit, and that definitely sounds like it could have been like a B-side on Untouchables, you know.

So what's funny is when you look at the rest of the artists on this record, like you can tell the new metal was still at the height of popularity, because you've got Papa Roach on here. You've got Chester Bennington, which is the lead singer from Lincoln Park. on here. Yeah. You've got deaf tones, who we talked about last episode because he sang or he rapped on the Ice Cube cover that corn did.

Yeah. Dude, this album was just chock full of that stuff. Exactly. Now, that's the thing. Like what I was saying, you know, Jonathan Davis reached out to all of these metal singers. So that was just that was the time, man. But anyway, interesting, right?

Because you even commented last episode on how you thought it was funny how Jonathan Davis pronounced the word me, right? Boy. Yeah, exactly. So there you go. Like, here's Wayne Static singing a song written by Jonathan Davis, and he just felt. He does it the same way. I guess he felt like he had to do it. Yeah.

But I thought that was a weird choice. I mean, to me, it's like, yes, it's written by Jonathan Davis, but he should have sung it like Wayne Static sings. You know what I mean? Right, I was going to say, like, what did Jonathan Davis, like, specifically tell him, dude, you better sing this like I do or I'm going to be pissed. That's what I'm saying. Like, did he have like the... Doubt it.

Did he have like the little, uh, you know, accent marks above the E and stuff? Yeah. Like on the lyrics sheet that he gave him. But anyway. Yeah. So I'm into it, dude. I like this stuff, man. Well, so go to...

Yeah, definitely listen to Wisconsin Death Trip is what I would say. Because, uh, it's a, you know, if you, if you liked... I am and if you like to push it, that record is a pretty good, just pop it on and rock out kind of album, you know? Yeah. It's funny, dude, he does look familiar. I guarantee you you've seen a photo of him before. Or a music video or something. I just don't remember.

That look is pretty hard to forget, you know what I mean? Yeah, we'll have to put some kind of image. I guess it's a sidejacks. We'll throw an image of the band up there on our website. Cool, man. So there you go. another new metal band from the late 90s and another song written by Jonathan Davis.

Now let me ask you this, dude. Maybe you know this. What's new metal like today? Apparently there's a resurgence of it. But obviously, I mean, and it's the case for most rock and metal bands, it's just not going to get any mainstream attention, you know? Yeah. I feel like kind of like we touched on the late 90s,

and early 2000s was this, I feel like it was the last, like, period where mainstream music was, was, you know, just a mixed bag, you know, because we had talked about how Total Request Live was, you had anything from Tom Green's bum bum song to any number of different boy band and, you know, Britney Spears, Christina Hagulara,

and then you had, like, one of you two, like punk pop, corn, I mean, it was a really interesting time. Yeah, dude. For music. And then that was like, you know, that was our heyday for music back then. So, yeah. I feel like there's, you know, there's a resurgence of a lot of different metal genres.

You know, the funny thing about metal is that it never stops being popular. It just doesn't. I feel like it's, again, like the late 90s seems like it was 90s and into the 2000. that's when metal had sort of its moment, you know, as far as like... Even with Metallica, right? That's what I'm saying, Metallica. You know, there were grunge rock, you know, grunge rock had varying degrees of, like, metal undertones.

Like, we talked about Allison Chains. I mean, they were sort of a metal group as well, you know, so... Yeah. But anyway, metal's always popular. Metal always has a following. But new metal definitely kind of came and went, but apparently it's making a resurgence. I haven't listened to any new metal bands out there. So I couldn't tell you whether or not.

Any new, new metal bands. That's right, new new metal. Yeah. But I'm sure they're just, you know, piggybacking off of what corn and these other groups did back in the 90s, you know. Yeah, yeah. So next week, dude, we're getting into some air. I want to say we're going to pull another 180. Yeah.

That's what we like to do around here, man. We like to keep big guessing. You never know what we're going to play. I'm really excited, dude. So air is this French electronic music duo. And we're going to cover their 2004 release talkie walkie. I'm pumped, dude. Yeah.

It'll be nice to get back into some sort of chill electronic music, you know. Yeah. I feel like they're like a mix between like a kings of convenience and an electronic group, you know. And dude, they're like kings of convenience mixed with Tosca. Yeah. And if none of that means anything to you, we've covered both of those bands in the past. So go back and listen to those episodes, get pumped, get yourself in that mindset. Yeah, it's going to be good times, man.

Yeah, I'm excited. And they, if you've seen the movie Lost in Translation, they have a song from this album called Alone in Kyoto that pops up on that soundtrack. But we'll get into that next week. What do you got for an outro for us, dude? We're just going to listen to some more Static X. Why don't you play Bled for Days? We'll have that play us out. That's another single.

So Push It was a single. Bled for Days is another singles. We'll just have this play us out. Cool. So this is, again, this is Static X. And that was our sidetrack episode for this week. Go to our website, no-filler podcast.com. You can check us out on iTunes or SoundCloud as well,

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