Crying Nut
Crying Nut at Hanyang University Festival
Crying Nut at Hanyang University Festival
Background information
OriginSeoul, South Korea
GenresPunk rock, post-punk, new wave, indie rock, hardcore punk
Years active1993–present
LabelDrug Records
MembersPark Yoon-Sik
Lee Sang-Myun
Lee Sang-Hyuk
Han Kyung-Rock(Captain Rock)
Kim In-soo
WebsiteCryingNut.kr

Crying Nut (Korean: ํฌ๋ผ์ž‰๋„›) is a punk rock band from South Korea. They are often credited as being pioneers of the Korean punk rock and indie rock scenes.[1][2][3]

The group began performing in 1995 in the Hongdae club scene in Seoul. They released their debut album, Speed Up Losers, in 1998, selling over 100,000 copies.[4] Crying Nut became a household name in South Korea following their performances at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.[5][6] The group has released eight full-length albums as of 2018.[7]

Joseon Punk

In the 1990s, the Korean public was being exposed to many foreign musical styles for the first time, following new political freedom.[8] The early punk bands including Crying Nut incorporated foreign genres in new and unusual ways, while still reflecting their inherent Koreanness. They branded themselves Chosun Punk (now romanized as Joseon Punk) in light of this duality.[9] This tight-knit movement is credited with birthing independent music in Korea.[10]

Overseas tours

Crying Nut has extensively toured outside of Korea, having been to Japan numerous times, as well as China, Germany, Singapore, the US, the UK, and Sweden. They played the Fuji Rock Festival in 2000, Trastock Festival in Sweden, and Singapore's Mosaic Music Festival in 2008. Following up on their fame from the 2002 World Cup, they performed at the welcoming ceremony of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Their first concert in America was at the Seattle Korean Festival in 2006, and their first concert in the UK was the London Korean Festival in 2006.

They performed at SXSW in 2012 and toured North America as part of the Seoulsonic 2K12 tour funded by KOCCA alongside 3rd Line Butterfly and Yellow Monsters [ko].[11] Reportedly the police came to their SXSW gig due to concerns the venue might collapse because of the audience jumping.[12] They also played at the Canadian Music Week for a special music showcase sponsored by Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.[13]

They returned to SXSW in 2014 with an unprecedented 13 other Korean bands, ranging from Jay Park and Hyuna to fellow punk band No Brain. An image of member Kim Insoo playing accordion was published on the Grammy website.[14]

Crying Nut sued CNBLUE and its agency FNC Entertainment for unauthorized use of their song "Deathblow Offside" on Mnet's "M Countdown" in 2010. Crying Nut also charged that CNBLUE had released a DVD of the concert in Japan and profited from it.[15] Crying Nut claimed that not only did CNBLUE use the song without permission, but also lip-synced along with the original Crying Nut recording.[16][unreliable source?] Crying Nut allegedly posted online that CNBLUE "must pay the penalties for intellectual property rights infringement".[15] CNBLUE later countersued Crying Nut for allegedly accusing CNBLUE of copyright infringement, filing an injunction against Crying Nut's online criticisms,[17][unreliable source?] claiming that the intellectual property theft was the responsibility of CJ E&M and the unspecified company responsible for the DVD sales, and that Crying Nut's allegations may have permanently damaged CNBLUE's reputation as Hallyu stars.[15] But the Court rejected CNBLUE's assertion.[18]

Band members

  • Park Yoon-Sik (๋ฐ•์œค์‹) - lead vocals, guitars
  • Lee Sang-Myun (์ด์ƒ๋ฉด) - guitars
  • Lee Sang-Hyuk (์ด์ƒํ˜) - drums
  • Han Kyung-Rock (ํ•œ๊ฒฝ๋ก) also known as captain rock(์บกํ‹ด๋ฝ) - bass
  • Kim In-Soo (๊น€์ธ์ˆ˜) - keyboards, accordion

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
MIAK
[19][a] 		KOR
Gaon
[20][b]
Speed Up Losers (๋ง๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ž)
  • Released: June 1998
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, cassette
 40 โ€”
  • KOR: 100,000[4]
Circus Magic Clowns (์„œ์ปค์Šค ๋งค์ง ์œ ๋ž‘๋‹จ)
  • Released: November 5, 1999
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, cassette
 47 โ€”
Poor Hand Love Song (ํ•˜์ˆ˜์—ฐ๊ฐ€)
  • Released: June 1, 2001
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, cassette
 17 โ€”
The Secondhand Radio (๊ณ ๋ฌผ๋ผ๋””์˜ค)
  • Released: December 5, 2002
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD
 โ€” โ€”
Milk Cattle at the OK Corral (OK ๋ชฉ์žฅ์˜ ์ –์†Œ)
  • Released: July 14, 2006
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD
 22 โ€”
Uncomfortable Party (๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ)
  • Released: August 10, 2009
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, digital download
 N/a โ€”
Flaming Nuts
  • Released: June 7, 2013
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, digital download
 32
Remodeling (๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง)
  • Released: October 10, 2018
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, digital download
 โ€”

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
MIAK
[19][a]
Crying Nut Best Wild Wild Live
  • Released: June 5, 2003
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: CD, DVD
 42
15th Anniversary Concert (15์ฃผ๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋…์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ)
  • Released: November 26, 2010
  • Label: Drug Records
  • Format: DVD
 N/a

Compilation albums

  • Crying Nut 25th Anniversary Best Album (ํฌ๋ผ์ž‰๋„› 25์ฃผ๋…„ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์•จ๋ฒ”), released August 24, 2020 by Drug Records

Split albums

  • Our Nation Vol.1, split with Yellow Kitchen, released December 1, 1996 by KM Culture

Extended plays

  • Naughty Boy (๊ฐœ๊ตฌ์Ÿ์ด), split with Galaxy Express, released October 18, 2011 by Drug Records
  • Victory Korea Again (๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ•„์Šน ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„), released June 2, 2014 by Drug Records
  • 96, split with No Brain, released September 15, 2014 by Drug Records and Roxta Muzik & Live

Singles

Title Year Album
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" 2006 Non-album singles
"Bye-Bye Whale" (์•ˆ๋…• ๊ณ ๋ž˜) 2007
"Bye-Bye" (์•ˆ๋…•) 2015
"Here We Stand" (์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—) (with P-Type) 2016
"Luckily" (์šด ์ข‹๊ฒŒ๋„) 2017 Remodeling
"You Can't Stop Us" (์›ฌ๋งŒํ•ด์„  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง‰์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค) 2018 Non-album singles
"Let's Do Better Next Time" (๋‹ค์Œ์— ์ž˜ํ•˜์ž) 2019
"Deep in the Night" (๋ฐค์ด ๊นŠ์—ˆ๋„ค) (25th Anniversary ver.) 2020 Crying Nut 25th Anniversary Best Album
"Isn't That Good?" (์ข‹์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•œ๊ฐ€) (25th Anniversary ver.)
"Let's Get It Out" (๊บผ๋‚ด ๋ณด๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ) (with Raon) 2021 Change Up
"Night Overtime" (์•ผ๊ทผ) 2023 Non-album single

Soundtrack appearances

Title Year Album
"Do The Right Thing" (๋˜‘๋ฐ”๋กœ ์‚ด์•„๋ผ) 2000 Just Do It OST
"Sorry" (๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด)
"Vicious Song" (์ง€๋…ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ž˜) 2001 Kick the Moon OST
"Over The Rainbow" 2006 Rainbow Romance OST
"Isn't That Good?" (์ข‹์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•œ๊ฐ€) 2007 Shim's Family OST
"Funky Dance" Hello! Miss OST
"Clean with Passion for Now" (์ผ๋‹จ ๋œจ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋ผ) 2018 Clean with Passion for Now OST
"The Paradise" (์ธ์ƒ๋‚™์›) 2022 Recruit OST
"The Hero" (ํžˆ์–ด๋กœ) 2023 The First Responders 2 OST

Other contributions

Title Year Album Notes
"Everything and Nothing" 1997 Smells Like Nirvana Nirvana tribute album
"Hwangyaui Mubeopja" (ํ™ฉ์•ผ์˜ ๋ฌด๋ฒ•์ž) 1999 Joseon Punk
"Jeongyeore Bultaneun Taeyanggwa Hatbadi" (์ •์—ด์— ๋ถˆํƒ€๋Š” ํƒœ์–‘๊ณผ ํ•ซ๋ฐ”๋””)
"All Die" (๋‹ค์ฃฝ์ž) Also appears on Circus Magic Clowns
"Oh Victory Korea" (์˜ค ํ•„์Šน ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„) 2002 Dreams Come True Red Devils support album
"Song of the Korean Independence Army" (๋…๋ฆฝ๊ตฐ๊ฐ€) 2005 60 Years of Liberation - Songs Sung Again
"The Hero" 2006 The Hero Korean album for 2006 FIFA World Cup
"Offside" (ํ•„์‚ด) I Love Football - The World Famous Football Song Collection
"My Way" (Korean ver.) 2008 No Future For You Sex Pistols tribute album
"Dream, Let's Become One" (๊ฟˆ์ด์—ฌ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ž) 2009 2009 Professional Baseball Cheer Song (Heroes) Nexen Heroes support album
"Hero's Journey" (์˜์›…์ถœ์ •๊ฐ€)
"Stand Up, Korea" (์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋ผ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ) 2010 The Shouts Of Reds, United Korea Red Devils support album
"Already Now" (์•„๋‹ˆ ๋ฒŒ์จ) 2011 Reborn Sanulrim Sanulrim tribute album
"Train to the World" (์„ธ๊ณ„๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ฐจ) 2013 A Tribute to Deulgukhwa, Vol. 1 Deulgukhwa tribute album
"Ruailrock" (๋กธ์ผ๋ฝ) 2016 Jebidabang Compilation 2016
"We Are The Winners" (์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค) 2021 2021 Kiwoom Heroes Fight Song Kiwoon Heroes support album
"The Thousand-League Road" (์ฒœ๋ฆฌ๊ธธ) Morning Dew 50th Anniversary Tribute to Kim Min-Gi, Vol. 4 Kim Min-Gi tribute album
"Death Song" (์‚ฌ๋ง๊ฐ€) (Studio Live ver.) Wumuji Studio Live, Vol. 1

Awards and nominations

Award Year Category Nominee / Work Result Ref.
Korean Music Awards 2007 Musician of the Year (Group) Crying Nut Nominated [25]
Best Rock Album Milk Cattle at the OK Corral Nominated
Best Rock Song "Luxembourg" Nominated
MAMA Awards 2000 Best Indie Performance "Circus Magic" Won [26]
2001 "Deep in the Night" Won [27]
Seoul Music Awards 2018 Band Award Crying Nut Won [28]

Notes

  1. ^ a b The Music Industry Association of Korea monthly album sales chart was published from August 1998 through September 2008.
  2. ^ The Gaon Chart was first published in 2010.

References

  1. ^ ํฌ๋ผ์ž‰๋„› "์Œ์›์ฐจํŠธ? ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์•ˆ์จ. ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ฉ‹์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด"[SS์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐโ‘ข] [Crying Nut: "Music chart? We don't care. We think we're cool"]. Sports Seoul (in Korean). January 23, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  2. ^ ๋ฐ๋ท” 25๋…„ ํฌ๋ผ์ž‰๋„› "25๋…„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์˜จ ๋น„๊ฒฐ์š”?โ€ฆ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋ฉด ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ " [Crying Nut 25 years after debut: "How do we keep going after 25 years? It's fun when we meet up."]. The Hankyoreh (in Korean). September 28, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  3. ^ Despres, Shawn (August 23, 2012). "Crying Nut and Yellow Monsters". The Japan Times. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Jackson, Julie (June 29, 2014). "[Band Uprising] Crying Nut: Punk is 'one giant party'". The Korea Herald. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  5. ^ Dunbar, Jon (February 28, 2012). "Korean indie bands head to North America". Korea.net. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  6. ^ '์˜ค! ํ•„์Šน ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„' ์œค๋„ํ˜„ ์Œ๋ฐ˜์— ์‹ค๋ฆฐ๋‹ค ['Oh! Pilseung Korea' to be featured on Yoon Do-hyun's album]. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). June 26, 2002. Retrieved October 17, 2022 – via Naver News.
  7. ^ ํฌ๋ผ์ž‰๋„›, ์˜ค๋Š˜(12์ผ) 5๋…„๋งŒ ์ •๊ทœ 8์ง‘ '๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง' ๋ฐœ๋งค(๊ณต์‹์ž…์žฅ) [Crying Nut releases 8th full-length album "Remodeling" today (12th), first in five years]. Newsen (in Korean). October 12, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  8. ^ "Go nuts with Crying Nut". The Korea Times US. March 12, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  9. ^ Dunbar, Jon (February 22, 2013). "Stephen Epstein: Korea's indie rock scholar". Korea.net. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  10. ^ Hough, Brian (August 2, 2010). "Busan International Rock Fest 2010". Busan Haps. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  11. ^ "Seoulsonic 2K12: Crying Nut, Yellow Monsters, 3rd Line Butterfly @ Pianos, NYC". MTV Iggy. April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  12. ^ Au, Johnny (March 24, 2014). "Hello Asia! @ SXSW 2014 Interview: Crying Nut (South Korea)". The AU Review. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  13. ^ Zimmer, Cindy (March 10, 2014). "Interview: Crying Nut (at SXSW)". ATK Magazine. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  14. ^ Gianniny, Amanda (March 13, 2014). "Crying Nut's Kim Insu". Grammy. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  15. ^ a b c Hong, Gil-dong (July 2, 2013). "CNBLUE, Crying Nut copyright spat gets nasty". The Korea Herald. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  16. ^ "Crying Nut releases an official statement in response to CNBLUE and FNC Entertainment's apology". Allkpop. February 18, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  17. ^ "CNBLUE files injunction against Crying Nut for spreading false information". Allkpop. July 1, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  18. ^ "CNBLUE countersued Crying Nut, But..." Law Times, Korea. September 25, 2013. Archived from the original on July 16, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  19. ^ a b Music Industry Association of Korea monthly chart positions:
  20. ^ Gaon Album Chart positions:
  21. ^ "2000.02์›” - ๊ฐ€์š” ์Œ๋ฐ˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰" [February 2000 Popular Music Album Sales]. Music Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  22. ^ 2001๋…„ - ๊ฐ€์š” ์Œ๋ฐ˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ [2001 Popular Music Album Sales]. Music Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  23. ^ "2006.8์›” - ๊ฐ€์š”์Œ๋ฐ˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰" [August 2006 Popular Music Album Sales]. Music Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 30, 2008. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  24. ^ "2003.06์›” - ๊ฐ€์š” ์Œ๋ฐ˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰" [June 2003 Popular Music Album Sales]. Music Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 16, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  25. ^ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ, 2007 [Archive, 2007]. Korean Music Awards (in Korean (South Korea)). Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  26. ^ "Winners from Past Years, 2000". Mnet Asian Music Awards 2013 (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 3, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  27. ^ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ตœ์šฐ์ˆ˜ ๋ฎค์ง๋น„๋””์˜ค, ์™์Šค์˜ 'ํ™”์žฅ์„ ๊ณ ์น˜๊ณ ' [Music video of the year is Wax's 'Fixing My Makeup']. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). November 25, 2001. Retrieved March 18, 2024 – via Naver.
  28. ^ [์ข…ํ•ฉ] "ํŒฌ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์•„์ด๋Œ"โ€ฆBTS, ์„œ๊ฐ€๋Œ€ 3๊ด€์™•โ€ฆ๊ฐ๋™ ์ˆ˜์ƒ์†Œ๊ฐ [[Full list] "Fans are our idols"...BTS wins three awards at Seoul Music Awards...Moving acceptance speech]. Sports Chosun (in Korean). January 16, 2019. Archived from the original on June 8, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
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