Brian ‘Head’ Welch
Save Me From Myself
Driven Music
3 November 2008
by Hugh Platt
Let’s just make sure we’re all up to date with the story of Brian ‘Head’ Welch, shall we?
Boy meets other boys. Boys form band. Band helps kick start trendsetting but later much-derided music genre. Band gets big. Band gets stratospheric big. Boys celebrates by getting off their tits on drink and drugs and porn star wives. Boy gets addicted to bad lifestyle choice. finds God. Boy quits band. Boy bitches about Band. Band bitches about boy. Boy writes book about God. Boy makes up with band although does not rejoin. Boy writes another book about God. Boy makes solo album.
Which is where we come in for this, the painfully-titled Save Me From Myself.
If we didn’t already know it was because of the Big Man upstairs, after listening to Save Me From Myself, you sure as shit know that Head didn’t quit KoRn because of ‘musical differences’.
From the Jonathan Davis-copycat vocals, right down to the Nursery rhyme breakdowns, this record sees every half-cocked KoRn-ism have any remaining spark of imagination panel-beaten out of it. What we’re left with is a paper-thin facsimile of KoRn’s earlier output, with one even more tragic flaw.
Head’s riotously literal lyrics veer from the nascently banal to hilariously lacking any self-awareness. “Flush! / All the puke i’m throwing UP! / In the toilet, this SUCK! / not a part of growing UP”, he alternately wails and croaks through ‘Flush’, disregarding subtley with all the grace and charm of a Born-Again doorstepper.
Watch the video to ‘Flush’ by Brian ‘Head’ Welch
Head doesn’t just spell out precisely what concrete-thick message he’s trying to send, but writes it in the lyrical equivalent of giant red capital letters, with underlining just for good measure.
While Brian ’Head’ Welch is probably eager to proselytise the story of his fall and subsequent redemption, it’s hard to see why anyone - and especially anyone with a modicum of taste - could care less.
If you thought the knuckle-dragging Fieldy’s Dreams was the lowest ebb of KoRn-related solo works, then Save Me From Myself is going to be forehead-slappingly dimwit revelation. Amen.
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Brian ‘Head’ Welch - Save Me From Myself tracklisting
L.O.V.E.
Flush
Loyalty
Re-Bel
Home
Save My From Myself
Die Religion Die
Adonai
Money
Shake
Washed by Blood
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4 responses so far ↓
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2 Jacob // Mar 20, 2009 at 10:16 pm
You are an idiot. This is a great album in my opinion. By saying that anyone could care less about his story was a dick move. I can assure that you have probably never had to deal with a thing as hard as drug addiction. Then, to top it off, get your life back together.
3 Doug // Mar 22, 2009 at 6:24 pm
You are truly narrow minded. This is a great album and a great inspiration. It is great to see a musician recover and come back from drug addiction when it claims so many lives.
4 Steven // Jun 19, 2009 at 2:15 am
This is an old article, however, I’m going to still have to disagree with it. While it matches KoRn so much, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It still brings it’s own flavor to the table and actually gives christians a good name, especially with the song “Die Religion Die,” which focused on how man-made religion is tearing youth from following christ. I’m no religious fanatic, but even I can see through the message and agree, rather than being so narrow minded that I have to trash on someone who is actually trying to do some good. This album is for the christians who don’t go around belittling and judging people who don’t think like them. This is for the people who are looking for something that doesn’t complain about my girlfriend left me and I want to die…This is for the people who want to listen to something that might have a dark, foreboding message, but then switches back up to also share the light. Amen.
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