Speaking as a non-fan of CKY, I always appreciated the originality of their guitar sound. They came out at the peak of the nu metal era and hearing them was a huge breath of fresh air!
They’re one of my favorite bands, one of the reasons being their original sound. They had such amazing songs. I just wish they got their shit together and continued to record with one another. I still follow Derons current band 96 bitter beings, but I am not a fan of chads “CKY”. The cky sound was derons guitar riffs and chads producing skills. But it is what it is.
Jess had some kind of magic drumming. He’s not the craziest drummer in the world but he added some special little here and there’s in all of the songs that make it sound really awesome. I definitely miss his drumming style in 96.
They did have a unique and very distinct guitar sound. It's hard to be super original with a rock and roll quartet. That's why Djinn Magik's sound pallet of timpani, Moog, and China Crash is going to raise fire 🔥 A lot of unchartered territory with percussive funk and roll. That's the route I choose. I played drums for a rock and roll quartet. Loved it! I love my Djinn Magik Project even more 💖🎨🎶 LoVe2P∆int$ound
I know it's not a popular statement to make. But this is by far my favorite CKY album. This album was really important to me at the time it had come out, and I think it absolutely stands the test of time. I go back to it quite frequently. Thank you for doing a video on this album.
I like your videos. As a 20+ year fan I disagree with a few of your opinions. But that just shows we all like the music for different reasons. Also, I was shocked to see you used a bunch of my footage I shot on the rock adio tour. That made me smile, because I thought that footage had been lost for over a decade.
Lol same here. Hearing this album reminds me of a summer in college when my buddy and I cleaned on campus apartments for work. And drank like a gd fish; I was super hungover and still kinda drunk my very first day and was late LMAO. What an idiot.
All Power the weakest?! Ahhhhhh! Definitely one of my favourites..I think Tripled Manic is my favourite and Inhuman is one of my favourite on IDR so that checks out. This was my CKY album, dropped when I was in high school and I was waiting for it.. good times. Deron pushed my guitar playing like no other and I’ve been enjoying relearning all his genius riffs lately, so rewarding to get under the fingers. Thanks for all the videos man I’ve been bingeing!
So if you’re coming back around to this video I just wanted to clear some things up: - I was not saying rap music was never popular before the 2000’s, but I see it as a point in which Eminem’s skyrocket fame and the growing popularity of hip-hop that was crossing over beyond what was perceived as common boundaries of genre, race, age, etc. and showed the music industry that hip-hop was becoming more profitable while rock was beginning to stagnate. After 2005, rock pretty much fell by the wayside in the mainstream and has never returned to the level of popularity it once had. - I feel like I probably got a little venomous towards Chad & Jess in this video and previous ones (it has been some years since I’ve actually watched my own stuff so I don’t really know), and while I probably still feel that way, it’s kind of lame to be partisan about fucking rock groups lol
Would love to hear a carver city review. I know it’s been a while since the realest of the album but I think your views would be interesting to hear from the true cky fans
Finally after three long years I'm working on that Carver City review! The script is about 85% finished, just polishing up the details. This time there will also be no review, (very minimal opinions except in certain digressions, get to the facts!) just retrospective info. I venture to guess this video will be at least 40 mins if not more.
This is a great album, they were a great band. Had everything on a plate and wrecked it. They came to my hometown in South West England in the early 2000's. At one point during the show, Chad in a drunken stupor started yelling that all the 'kids' wanted to hear was 'shopping carts'.
It's crazy that you're so passionate about this band and you've "only" been a fan since 2013. I was listening to them in 2003 and I had actual live shows and Ask CKY and the Alliance and all of Bam's peak popularity to fuel my fandom. It's so awesome that new fans are still cropping up with the same zeal (and even more knowledge) than I have. Definite Like and Subscribe. Thanks, dude!
I love to hear that man! Funny enough, I could’ve easily been a slightly more involved fan around 2005 at the age of seven, but at that time I only knew 96 Quite Bitter Beings and Flesh Into Gear and hadn’t thought to really dive into what would become my favorite band 8 years later lol. This video and the two other CKY vids I did before this are much less professional and informational in tone, but my Carver City video is much more documentary-style in its format & presentation. I do plan to create a much larger “The Story of CKY”, rewriting and recording all new narration and telling the entire CKY story from 1991-2016! Be on the lookout for it!
AACBF was the cky album that had the most songs i didn’t prefer, but i still love all of them. they’ve never made one bad album, well that is until deron left. ultimately my most least favorite deron era cky album, but i still love it
Great video. Would love your take on Carver City; it's the only CKY album I couldn't really get into, but maybe with some context I might be able to appreciate it more. And I say it that way, because as far as I'm concerned, CKY ended after that album.
Oh believe me Carver City is indeed coming. I can’t wait to get that one out, but there will be a few videos I want to get out before I close the book on CKY albums. Stay tuned!!
@@adarkerstandard lol looks like it's time for my yearly inquiry, lol. Would still love to see this! Also, have you checked out 96BB yet? I can't stop playing Synergy Restored!
Great review on some great music. I definitely appreciate all their work for these timeless songs, it’s truly unique imo and deron makes it epic but I hate I can’t see Cky tour complete with deron. You earned this subscribe keep going bro!
Love this album and this was a cool look into behind the scenes. Anyone know the song title at 32:00 ? Sounds like a cool rare demo. Would love to hear more…
I do plan on doing some more in due time..got kind of stuck with COVID making my work life very difficult. Then I actually got the fuckin virus so I'm really waiting on the right time to do more
I like this album. Def a fan of their more technical guitar work. As far as Deron not understanding Suddenly Tragic, lmao. If so I'd imagine that's because Chad wrote the lyrics to the song, that's why they're not typical CKY lyrics and are kinda dumb. I think Deron came up with just one line in the chorus if I'm not mistaken? Like "an answer can be found" maybe. Edit: nope, I was thinking of Deron coming up with "you've entered a familiar realm "for that song and Chad wrote the rest of that one (again you can tell from the lyrics). Chad maybe wrote all of Suddenly. Man I love Dressed in Decay, one of my favorite CKY songs. All Power to Slaves is boss.
I like a few songs off of aacbf (Suddenly Tragic, Dressed in Decay, and Don't Hold Your Breath) but the album is largely forgettable in my opinion and Carver City ohhh boy that's a tough one to sit through for me.
I do really wish Deron would've asked Jess to come along with him in 96, they really complemented eachother well. But I did love this album, so much so I even had that A tatted on me.. I was super young haha
Dressed in Decay is a good song, and tables turn has a cool sound to it. Overall the album is very lackluster compared to Vol 1 and IDR, it just doesn't have the musical variety or the solid vocal work. Ending with a heavy fast song and a ballad was what they did on IDR, and doing the same thing again just feels, I don't know, lazy? For a band who would preach about how different and unique they were. And this is coming from a 17 year long die hard fan. I got IDR the day it came out and I got this album the day it came out as well, it just felt like something was missing and you could hear that this was the beginning of the end of the band. There's a reason they refused to play the songs live after a few months.
Pearl City Guitar Lessons I liked the songwriting maturity and the overall complexity of the riffs. I think the production suffered alot when compared to IDR, and I’m unsure whether it was Chad’s fault or that hard drive crash...but after an album like IDR, there was absolutely zero need to strip back the sound the way they did. I also don’t think there was any way the band could meet the high expectations set by the last two records. I liked the formula for the last two tracks, it made sense and retained a tonal consistency throughout the album and overarching discography. It didn’t seem like Sniped or DHYB would really fit anywhere else in my opinion.
This album has taken so long to grow on me. It wasn't until last year that it fully clicked with me, and I've had it since it dropped. It truly gets better with every listen. It's a damn shame they were on Island
I loved an amswer can be found. They clearly died after that, but that album was great.cky was a great band to go with the movies. But once that evolved, the band had to stand on their own. Amd after an amswer can be found,it just fell apart. That said, i love jess margeras drummong on those albums
A solid album dragged down by the lack of synths/moogs and the painfully bland recording quality. The drum hi hats/cymbals are so brittle and lifeless and don't ring nearly enough. It's such a huge bummer what happened with the original hard drive... but I still do really like this album. Besides for Sniped, that one is God awful.
Deron has been re-recording a lot of the old songs with his new band 96 Bitter Beings, so we may very well hear a different/improved version at some point.
@@neszero Hey that's true! I really enjoyed the new album by 96BB. Just add a treble reducing EQ on it from whatever device you are listening to it on and it sounds great!
It's nice to see some one talk about cky
Thanks for clearing that up
The most underrated CKY album ever in my opinion.
Speaking as a non-fan of CKY, I always appreciated the originality of their guitar sound. They came out at the peak of the nu metal era and hearing them was a huge breath of fresh air!
They’re one of my favorite bands, one of the reasons being their original sound. They had such amazing songs. I just wish they got their shit together and continued to record with one another. I still follow Derons current band 96 bitter beings, but I am not a fan of chads “CKY”. The cky sound was derons guitar riffs and chads producing skills. But it is what it is.
Jess had some kind of magic drumming. He’s not the craziest drummer in the world but he added some special little here and there’s in all of the songs that make it sound really awesome. I definitely miss his drumming style in 96.
They did have a unique and very distinct guitar sound. It's hard to be super original with a rock and roll quartet. That's why Djinn Magik's sound pallet of timpani, Moog, and China Crash is going to raise fire 🔥 A lot of unchartered territory with percussive funk and roll. That's the route I choose. I played drums for a rock and roll quartet. Loved it! I love my Djinn Magik Project even more
💖🎨🎶 LoVe2P∆int$ound
I know it's not a popular statement to make. But this is by far my favorite CKY album. This album was really important to me at the time it had come out, and I think it absolutely stands the test of time. I go back to it quite frequently. Thank you for doing a video on this album.
I’m just sitting here waiting patiently for your retrospective on Carver City.
I like your videos. As a 20+ year fan I disagree with a few of your opinions. But that just shows we all like the music for different reasons. Also, I was shocked to see you used a bunch of my footage I shot on the rock adio tour. That made me smile, because I thought that footage had been lost for over a decade.
I remember buying this cd in 2005 and playing it nonstop. You done a fantastic job of analysing cky's work here.
Lol same here. Hearing this album reminds me of a summer in college when my buddy and I cleaned on campus apartments for work. And drank like a gd fish; I was super hungover and still kinda drunk my very first day and was late LMAO. What an idiot.
RIP CKYalliance
LONG LIVE 96BB
So underrated you explained this so well glad you uploaded this. By the way i can wait for Carver City
Derek Marshall thank you man. Carver City is gonna be one fucking packed video. We’re talking almost an hour long at least
A Darker Standard wow and plus its a concept album so theres a story behind it so im pumped.
All Power the weakest?! Ahhhhhh! Definitely one of my favourites..I think Tripled Manic is my favourite and Inhuman is one of my favourite on IDR so that checks out. This was my CKY album, dropped when I was in high school and I was waiting for it.. good times. Deron pushed my guitar playing like no other and I’ve been enjoying relearning all his genius riffs lately, so rewarding to get under the fingers. Thanks for all the videos man I’ve been bingeing!
Now this is content.
Tato Boi thanks! Spread it around!
One of the first CKY albums I had on CD and I'll always appreciate that, been binging all of these the last day and good stuff!
One of my favorite album of all time .
I remember getting it on cd when I was in middle school.
Always has been my favorite cky record
It’s my 3rd fav
So if you’re coming back around to this video I just wanted to clear some things up:
- I was not saying rap music was never popular before the 2000’s, but I see it as a point in which Eminem’s skyrocket fame and the growing popularity of hip-hop that was crossing over beyond what was perceived as common boundaries of genre, race, age, etc. and showed the music industry that hip-hop was becoming more profitable while rock was beginning to stagnate. After 2005, rock pretty much fell by the wayside in the mainstream and has never returned to the level of popularity it once had.
- I feel like I probably got a little venomous towards Chad & Jess in this video and previous ones (it has been some years since I’ve actually watched my own stuff so I don’t really know), and while I probably still feel that way, it’s kind of lame to be partisan about fucking rock groups lol
Awesomeness good video and I'm glad I was able to help you out with the video
Would love to hear a carver city review. I know it’s been a while since the realest of the album but I think your views would be interesting to hear from the true cky fans
Finally after three long years I'm working on that Carver City review! The script is about 85% finished, just polishing up the details. This time there will also be no review, (very minimal opinions except in certain digressions, get to the facts!) just retrospective info. I venture to guess this video will be at least 40 mins if not more.
@@adarkerstandard can’t wait to see it man!
i agree with everyone that we’d love to hear that Carver City review!!! and maybe a compare/contrast video of cky w/o deron and 96BB 🤘🏻
Great review on an amazing album. Man does this bring back some great memories. Your review shows how much of a fan you are. Pretty accurate
I love that your POV comes from a musicians standpoint 😁💖🎶
This is a great album, they were a great band. Had everything on a plate and wrecked it. They came to my hometown in South West England in the early 2000's. At one point during the show, Chad in a drunken stupor started yelling that all the 'kids' wanted to hear was 'shopping carts'.
It's crazy that you're so passionate about this band and you've "only" been a fan since 2013. I was listening to them in 2003 and I had actual live shows and Ask CKY and the Alliance and all of Bam's peak popularity to fuel my fandom. It's so awesome that new fans are still cropping up with the same zeal (and even more knowledge) than I have. Definite Like and Subscribe. Thanks, dude!
I love to hear that man! Funny enough, I could’ve easily been a slightly more involved fan around 2005 at the age of seven, but at that time I only knew 96 Quite Bitter Beings and Flesh Into Gear and hadn’t thought to really dive into what would become my favorite band 8 years later lol.
This video and the two other CKY vids I did before this are much less professional and informational in tone, but my Carver City video is much more documentary-style in its format & presentation. I do plan to create a much larger “The Story of CKY”, rewriting and recording all new narration and telling the entire CKY story from 1991-2016! Be on the lookout for it!
AACBF was the cky album that had the most songs i didn’t prefer, but i still love all of them. they’ve never made one bad album, well that is until deron left. ultimately my most least favorite deron era cky album, but i still love it
Great video. Would love your take on Carver City; it's the only CKY album I couldn't really get into, but maybe with some context I might be able to appreciate it more. And I say it that way, because as far as I'm concerned, CKY ended after that album.
Oh believe me Carver City is indeed coming. I can’t wait to get that one out, but there will be a few videos I want to get out before I close the book on CKY albums. Stay tuned!!
@@adarkerstandard Awesome, looking forward to it!
@@adarkerstandard Hey bud, still in the works or nah?
@@adarkerstandard lol looks like it's time for my yearly inquiry, lol. Would still love to see this! Also, have you checked out 96BB yet? I can't stop playing Synergy Restored!
@@neszero keep asking!! ha we all want it! also synergy…🤘🏻🤘🏻
Great review on some great music. I definitely appreciate all their work for these timeless songs, it’s truly unique imo and deron makes it epic but I hate I can’t see Cky tour complete with deron. You earned this subscribe keep going bro!
My favorite CKY album.
Familiar Realm is one of their best songs, it's a great track.
Darren miller is the hart n sole of the sound of cky
Dressed in Decay is my favorite off this one
I really liked their stuff. Riffage was always good. I like how they genre dabbled earlier on too.
Awesome job 😁 I ENJOYED THIS
Chuck Schuldiner clearly says in the song "Empty Words" that THE ANSWER CANNOT BE FOUND. Idk wtf Deron was thinking but here we are.
Your videos are great, keep it going
Always thought the bridge on Sniped was one of their best moments
Nice it’s back
Very cool channel man
Very good videos! :) CKY fans would really appreciate this kind of content, so try posting it on the r/cky Reddit.
oh im sure itll go on there if it isnt already haha
This album is peak CKY imo, every song is a banger
Except it’s missing synthesizers and the three chord classic cky sound
Familiar Realm is one of my favorite songs on this earth
we need a video on Carver city!
Love this album and this was a cool look into behind the scenes. Anyone know the song title at 32:00 ? Sounds like a cool rare demo. Would love to hear more…
Best band ever!
I never got into the cKy drama or history. I wasnt a big jackass fan or anything. This allowed me to just enjoy the music and I still love it.
In regards to Deceit being about gold diggers, I’m almost positive that was from an answer to a question on Ask CKY.
awesome review
great job dude!
fuck yeah bro, stoked to cheggit out
Where is carver city man?
Love it
What show is 23:00 taken from? Looks like Baltimore's The Sonar 09/10/2005 show from the Rock Adio tour
The Silo 2005 in Reading, PA. I believe someone has uploaded the full vid on YT
@@adarkerstandard
That was the first of many cKy concerts I went to in the Philly area. The next day was the first day of 11th grade. What a time.
I love your videos. Are you gonna make any more? You’ve been gone for about a year.
I do plan on doing some more in due time..got kind of stuck with COVID making my work life very difficult. Then I actually got the fuckin virus so I'm really waiting on the right time to do more
@@adarkerstandard oh damn. Are you alright now?
@@frozenmind8 yeah I’m doing better. Been distracted with work and recording an album too, just gotta get my life back in order lol
This album was good, some of Derons best guitar work on this.
I’m still searching for an answer, and an escape from Hellview. I will escape.
I like this album. Def a fan of their more technical guitar work.
As far as Deron not understanding Suddenly Tragic, lmao. If so I'd imagine that's because Chad wrote the lyrics to the song, that's why they're not typical CKY lyrics and are kinda dumb. I think Deron came up with just one line in the chorus if I'm not mistaken? Like "an answer can be found" maybe.
Edit: nope, I was thinking of Deron coming up with "you've entered a familiar realm "for that song and Chad wrote the rest of that one (again you can tell from the lyrics). Chad maybe wrote all of Suddenly.
Man I love Dressed in Decay, one of my favorite CKY songs.
All Power to Slaves is boss.
Do a carver city review
Say please.
@@bobbythompson4268please mr
Always been "team Deron" but Chad's Ween shirt is pretty cool ngl
I like a few songs off of aacbf (Suddenly Tragic, Dressed in Decay, and Don't Hold Your Breath) but the album is largely forgettable in my opinion and Carver City ohhh boy that's a tough one to sit through for me.
I do really wish Deron would've asked Jess to come along with him in 96, they really complemented eachother well. But I did love this album, so much so I even had that A tatted on me.. I was super young haha
I have a cKy tattoo also. With in 24 Hours of me getting the cky tattoo Deron Miller left the band.
@@VisceraBand oh my haha that's rough. I'm glad he's still making awsome music tho.
@@know1827 Agreed
Dressed in Decay is a good song, and tables turn has a cool sound to it. Overall the album is very lackluster compared to Vol 1 and IDR, it just doesn't have the musical variety or the solid vocal work. Ending with a heavy fast song and a ballad was what they did on IDR, and doing the same thing again just feels, I don't know, lazy? For a band who would preach about how different and unique they were. And this is coming from a 17 year long die hard fan.
I got IDR the day it came out and I got this album the day it came out as well, it just felt like something was missing and you could hear that this was the beginning of the end of the band. There's a reason they refused to play the songs live after a few months.
Pearl City Guitar Lessons I liked the songwriting maturity and the overall complexity of the riffs. I think the production suffered alot when compared to IDR, and I’m unsure whether it was Chad’s fault or that hard drive crash...but after an album like IDR, there was absolutely zero need to strip back the sound the way they did. I also don’t think there was any way the band could meet the high expectations set by the last two records.
I liked the formula for the last two tracks, it made sense and retained a tonal consistency throughout the album and overarching discography. It didn’t seem like Sniped or DHYB would really fit anywhere else in my opinion.
This album has taken so long to grow on me. It wasn't until last year that it fully clicked with me, and I've had it since it dropped. It truly gets better with every listen. It's a damn shame they were on Island
I loved an amswer can be found. They clearly died after that, but that album was great.cky was a great band to go with the movies. But once that evolved, the band had to stand on their own. Amd after an amswer can be found,it just fell apart. That said, i love jess margeras drummong on those albums
GGs broham. wonder what these assholes are doing nowadays... (GETBACKTOGETHER!)
A solid album dragged down by the lack of synths/moogs and the painfully bland recording quality. The drum hi hats/cymbals are so brittle and lifeless and don't ring nearly enough.
It's such a huge bummer what happened with the original hard drive... but I still do really like this album. Besides for Sniped, that one is God awful.
Deron has been re-recording a lot of the old songs with his new band 96 Bitter Beings, so we may very well hear a different/improved version at some point.
@@neszero Hey that's true! I really enjoyed the new album by 96BB. Just add a treble reducing EQ on it from whatever device you are listening to it on and it sounds great!
vern complained about how “easy the songs were” lol… then your bass riffs suck bro cus guitar work is great
Yeah, Vern couldn't even play all that well to boot... he was a cool quirky guy but Matt Deis s**t all over him talent wise.
In fairness, any writer fir Rolling Stone deserves to be harrassed into non existence
where can i fkn find that sarcasm demo???
Just look up “CKY Sarcasm” and it should come up pretty quick
@@adarkerstandard can't find ur version on TH-cam