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Welcome to Our Neighborhood

Welcome to Our Neighborhood is the first video album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on November 9, 1999, by Roadrunner Records and later reissued in DVD format on November 18, 2003. Characterized as a band's home video, it features a mixture of live performances footage of the songs "Surfacing", "Wait and Bleed", and "Scissors", interviews, and music video of "Spit It Out". Additional concept imagery and interview footage is included on the film, while the DVD version features more bonus material. The video was well received by fans and entered number one on the Billboard Top Music Videos chart, and was certified platinum in February 2000.

Welcome to Our Neighborhood
An album cover depicting men wearing masks
Video by
Slipknot
ReleasedNovember 9, 1999
Recorded1999
GenreNu metal
Length
  • 19:38 (VHS)
  • 28:02 (DVD)
LabelRoadrunner
DirectorThomas Mignone
Producer
  • Darci Oltman
  • Marc Stecker
Slipknot chronology
Welcome to Our Neighborhood
(1999) 		Disasterpieces
(2002)

Production and release

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Following the band's highly successful breakthrough 1999 tour on Ozzfest, Slipknot decided to produce Welcome to Our Neighborhood with Doom Films Production.[1] The video was directed by Thomas Mignone, and released on VHS through Roadrunner Records on November 9, 1999.[2] It features the bands' earliest videos: live performances of "Surfacing" and "Wait and Bleed", and the "banned from MTV" video clip of "Spit It Out" — all tracks from the band's self-titled debut were released earlier that year. It also features additional concept imagery and interview footage with lead singer Corey Taylor, guitarist Mick Thomson and percussionist Shawn Crahan, to a total of 20 minutes of video.[3][4][5]

The publisher, Roadrunner Records, promotes the video as "a study in the roots of Slipknot" as a response to fans wanting to see what made the band "tick".[6] In the video, band members explain about the release that "basically [it's] nine people working out every poison that ever affected them in their life and putting it on tape."[7]

A DVD version was released on November 18, 2003,[8] and features bonus material of the band performing "Scissors", behind-the-scenes material, and home footage filmed by the band in their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa.[9][10] The seven minutes-long concert footage of the track "Scissors" was filmed during the band's appearance at Ozzfest 1999, but has the studio version dubbed over.[11]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [12]

The video was well received by fans and entered number one on the Billboard Top Music Videos chart, where it remained in the charts for 54 weeks.[13][14] In the Billboard Top VHS Sales chart, the video peaked at number four, and remained in for 45 weeks.[15] The video was certified gold by RIAA on December 21, 1999, and platinum on February 16, 2000.[16] In Canada, it sold over 50,000 units, and thus, it was certified gold on February 1, 2000.[17] On allmovie.com, the video was described as "killer" and having a sound "as disturbing as the horrific masks they don to hide their true identities".[18] The video remains unrated in the US,[5] while in the UK it received a 15 BBFC age certification.[19]

Contents

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Personnel

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Aside from their real names, members of the band are referred to by numbers zero through eight.[21]

Charts

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Chart (1999) Peak
position
Billboard Top Music Videos 1[13]

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[22] 2× Platinum 30,000^
United States (RIAA)[23] Platinum 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Region Date Label Format Catalog
Worldwide release November 9, 1999 Roadrunner VHS RRV 0981-3
November 23, 2003 DVD DVD 0956-9

References

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  1. ^ Halnon, Karen Bettez (2004). "Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain". Critical Sociology. 30 (3): 743–779. doi:10.1163/1569163042119868. S2CID 220912143.
  2. ^ Arnopp, Jason (2001). Slipknot: Inside the Sickness, Behind the Masks. Ebury. pp. 159–160. ISBN 0-09-187933-7.
  3. ^ Crampton, Mark (2001). Barcode Killers: The Slipknot Story in Words and Pictures. Chrome Dreams. p. 40. ISBN 1-84240-126-2.
  4. ^ "Slipknot – Welcome to Our Neighborhood". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2009.
  5. ^ a b "Slipknot – Welcome to Our Neighborhood". Flixster. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2009.
  6. ^ "Welcome to Our Neighborhood – Slipknot". Roadrunner Records. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2009.
  7. ^ Karen Bettez Halnon (2005). "Alienation Incorporated: 'F*** the Mainstream Music' in the Mainstream". Current Sociology. 53 (3): 441. doi:10.1177/0011392105051335. S2CID 144851159.
  8. ^ "Discography – Slipknot – Welcome to Our Neighborhood". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  9. ^ "Slipknot: 'Neighborhood' DVD To Include Never-Before-Seen Footage". Blabbermouth.net. November 4, 2003. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
  10. ^ "The Times of Slipknot". Roadrunner Records News. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  11. ^ "SLIPKNOT: 'Neighborhood' DVD To Include Never-Before-Seen Footage". Roadrunner Records. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  12. ^ "Welcome to the Neighborhood > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  13. ^ a b "Billboard Top Music Videos: Welcome To Our Neighborhood". Billboard. November 27, 1999. Archived from the original on June 1, 2008. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
  14. ^ "Top VHS Sales Slipknot: Welcome To Our Neighborhood". Billboard. January 27, 2001. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
  15. ^ "Top Music Charts – Hot 100 – Billboard 200 – Music Genre Sales". Billboard. March 25, 2000. Retrieved July 18, 2009.[dead link‍]
  16. ^ "Gold and Platinum database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  17. ^ "Certification Results". CRIA. Archived from the original on April 12, 2009. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
  18. ^ a b Jason Buchanan. "Slipknot: Welcome to Our Neighborhood".[permanent dead link‍]
  19. ^ "Slipknot: Welcome to Our Neighborhood (1999) (V)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  20. ^ "Slipknot – Welcome To Our Neighborhood DVD Movie". Cduniverse.com. November 18, 2003. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  21. ^ "Slipknot's Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved July 31, 2008.
  22. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
  23. ^ "American video certifications – Slipknot – Welcome to Our Neighborhood". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
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