Ewww, why did I buy this?

[Slosh]

Sublime: self-titled
I tried getting into this a million times. While I loved Brad Nowell's voice (still do), it was wasted on mostly uninteresting material and stupid meathead lyrics that get all the Sigma Tau boys singing along. I saved the best six songs out of 18--"Garden Grove," "What I Got," "Santeria," "Wrong Way," "April 22nd 1992," and "Summertime" before handing off the disc to some fratboy schmuck for a couple bucks.

I'm with ya on the stupid lyrics but musically I find nearly the whole disc to be just about perfect. BTW, I was never in a Frat. I can live with being a schmuck though

Korn: self-titled

This, along with their next album (Life Is Peachy), and Helmet's Meantime and Deftones' Adrenaline are among the first nu-metal albums and are all great. This genre quickly turned to shit however, but these albums are the exceptions.

Tool: Undertow
After listening to Lateralus, this album was a huge dissappointment.

I have the opposite reaction. I liked Opiate when it was new. Undertow was a great leap forward and Aenima was even better still. Lateralus is a massive disappointment on this end. They ran out of ideas and turned into a drawn-out prog-metal wankfest. It's truly sad. This was really a shock since the first APC album was so solid. After Lateralus it didn't come as much of a surprise when the next APC album sucked as well.