The Family Values Tour 1999

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All in all the concept behind 'Family Values' is a great one...get the most popular bands that parents would never want their children to listen to and throw them on one stage. KoRn started it, then Limp Bizkit carried it on, and then Staind, so on and so forth. This effort, fronted this time by Limp Bizkit, falls a little short of the first album (fronted by KoRn) and the third (fronted by Staind) but it does have some redeeming value. Lets take it one band at a time.

Lets start with Primus, who, while not one of my favorite bands actually put on a pretty decent set, and the of the two tracks selected for the album, the second 'My Name is Mud' far outdoes the forgettable 'Lacquer Head'...

Staind sadly only has one track here as a band but thankfully it's the explosive 'Mudshuvel' and it proves to be one of the biggest highlights on this album. It's pure raw energy, which is something to expect from one awesome band who always delivers on the live aspect.

Method Man & Redman are two of my favorite rappers, but I have this problem with 'live' rap. It annoys me. Instead of having your favorite rapper spitting fire you have him trading lines with his back up rapper, some no-name dude standing behind them yelling random words that Method or Red forget to say. It's just stupid. Anyways, the Rockwilder is one of my favorite songs but I prefer the recorded album material, not this live crap.

A huge fan of Filters first album I was excited to see 'Hey Man Nice Shot' on the bill BUT this recording really, for lack of a better word, SUCKS...the second offering 'Welcome to the Fold' on the other hand kicks major @$$ and serves as another highlight to the album. That's two great tracks so far for those taking count.

The Crystal Method also, while only delivering one track, serve up a great one...but how can you screw up techno, live or studio it really all sounds the same. Kudos.

KoRn may have been having an off night, but the coupling of A.D.I.D.A.S. and Good God was genius so I'll be nicer to them. Falling Away from me was lacking but it's forgivable.

Limp, the headliners, are the only bad to recieve so many tracks on this album, and then do a decent job with it, opening the album with the heavy hitting Break Stuff which still manages to fall short of both Mudshuvel and Welcome to the Fold. Rearanged and I Would for You are decent tracks in themselves, but they disrupt the pace of this album by delivering a soft sided track to a thrash worthy offering. Thank god the redeemed themselves with 'Nookie' which serves as the fifth highlight here.

And the final highlight is 'Outside' BUT, it would have been MUCH Better had Fred Durst kept his mouth shut. This is Aaron's song and he's what makes it brilliant. Fred couldn't touch this kind of genius in his sleep so he should stop trying to capitalize on it. Anyways, so there you go...and the top 6 reasons to listen to this album are, in order...

06 - "Keep Hope Alive" by The Crystal Method

05 - "A.D.I.D.A.S./Good God" by Korn

04 - "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit

03 - "Welcome to the Fold" by Filter

02 - "Mudshuvel" by Staind

01 - "Outside" by Aaron Lewis feat. (oh crap) Fred Durst

"Family values" is pretty good live album that features some most shining alternative/metal stars from end of century.of course Staind's "Mudshovel" or Primus "Laquer head" are great as other tracks but the appearance of Method man and redman is quite scary.And Korn's is not sounding so good on here,without a kick.they had a bad day or what?

also the sound is not superb.bass is vanishing somewhere or it tottaly blows your speakers out so you can't hear other instruments.if the production was better than i would give it 1 star more.also - why do we need it? tracks are all like studio versions (except fred durst's "I would for you" that appears only on this cd) and you can get them with better sound on other compilation albums...

well i have got mixed feelings about it.a good compilation from this tournee.i mean,fans will buy it but i wuoldn't call it a great album.just a compilation.not the strongest one around...