the best Limp Bizkit single

voted for the worst to sabotage poll

Yeah but how do you even know what's worst if you hate on all of it?

"Gold Cobra" is about equal with "My Generation" I guess

bunch of album tracks on Chocolate Starfish, in addition to the lol value from Durst's lyrics, have real solid grooves on the verses. was surprised after I wrote group off for the longest time as crappy notrealmusic I only liked cuz it was "cool" in middle school

"Gold Cobra" is about equal with "My Generation" I guess

― some dude, Saturday, March 8, 2014 7:24 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

what the christ

It's all about the he said / she said bullshit

I was 15 when Rollin came out and everyone I knew agreed that LB had bceome teenbopper bull$#!t., and that Fred had turned into a clown. We would've all laughed in the face of anyone who suggested it was better than Break Stuff.

voted for the worst to sabotage poll

― Neanderthal, Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:18 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

Wow, brave position to take here, hope you make it out of this thread alive

Don't think they ever got better than Counterfeit, personally......

would have voted for "the truth" if it existed

I know it's a boring choice (what with it being the critical favorite: http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres99.php) but going with "Nookie". Lotta contenders for the silver medal, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgGz2nBTMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91_ax6ppsk

I have a confession to make... once I realized what "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water" meant I couldn't listen to the album anymore. I didn't realize the meaning was so GROSS. LOL. Sorry... I know this makes me seem weird...

It's all about the he said she said POLLshit - Limp Bizkit Singles

would have been kinda interested in a version with "gold cobra" i guess, that song isn't exactly good but it's soooo much better than any of their other post-heyday singles. That one from last year with Lil Wayne was just O_o, "GO FUCK YOURSELF!" notwithstanding.

fred durst singing "behind blue eyes"?!? dope!!

I have a confession to make... once I realized what "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water" meant I couldn't listen to the album anymore. I didn't realize the meaning was so GROSS. LOL. Sorry... I know this makes me seem weird...

Careful looking up the meaning of the band's name...

my local hard rock station STILL plays the Bizkit version of "Behind Blue Eyes" semi-regularly. recently i heard someone call in and request the song, and the DJ asked "The Who's version?" because they probably get just as many calls for the LB one.

would love to know what led to them adding a "discover l-i-m-p, say it" speak'n'spell break on that track

probably the disinterest or inability to perform the "if I swallow anything evil" bridge from the original song

I guess Stuck wasn't a single? Always been my favorite LB song. Out of this...? Probably either Rearranged or N 2 Gether Now

y'know, i don't think i've ever actually heard the who studio version (first time i heard the song at all was flipping by their WTC memorial concert on TV) so it was a leap of faith (no pun intended!) that the who hadn't asked us to discover l-i-m-p as well

Behind Blue Eyes was a travesty. They should only cover songs by former members of Wham!

*am now wondering if LB could do a slamming version of Freedom '90*

"check it out!"

"you guys are, like, flying"

"man..."

"I wonder what just happened"

"did we just drown in the milk?"

"I don't think so, I can still breathe and talk"

"are we in Heaven? I think we're dead!"

"dude, if we were in Heaven, man, I'd be kickin' it with Method Man right now"

i didn't think it was possible to grow up a rock fan in late 20th century America without knowing the more popular half of Who's Next by heart. if you lived in the suburbs you were issued it, it came in the mail with samples of Tide.

Well I was in enough of a SPIN-led alt-tunnel that I managed not to hear stairway to heaven until senior year of high school, so...

jesus, you were like a 120 Minutes Mennonite

i'd certainly read about that old shit thanks to Rolling Stone Record Guides, but focused my money and attention on the stuff in the SPIN one until my 20s, for sure

i knew baba o'riley though

Surely you meant to title this poll as 'the least worst Limp Bizkit single'.

Surely you meant to post on some message board where boring received wisdom about uncool bands never fails to be upheld

i didn't learn what a "limp bizkit" is until just the other day

i don't know if my respect for the band has increased or descreased

The only non-covers I remember from this list are "Nookie", "Rollin'", and "Break Stuff". I listened to them today. Imo, the latter two are just embarrassing but "Nookie" actually sounds convincingly cold and desperate now.

"counterfeit" >>>>>

although yeah this is "re-arranged" for me

I think it's easily "Rollin"

"Behind Blue Eyes"

Limp Bizkit has not crossed my mind even once in at least ten years, but looooool-ing at myself for how angry I used to get about their popularity.

Voting for Nookie because heyyyyyyyy

http://i.imgur.com/svSPL0U.png

so empire

Went w Re-arranged in the end

"Nookie", closely followed by "Re-arranged"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN - we've all done that 'driving with one hand' dance at some point while ripped to the sheets on cheap smirnoff ices..

haven't we?

Clearly Break Stuff.

Does Let Me Down not count?

What about that song Crushed? Think it was on a soundtrack to something in 1999.

the beat to nookie is the most classic thing they've ever done. also the entirety of break stuff

Gage the Walrus1 week ago

What's the difference between white and black anyway. The way i see it, everyone is just another shade of gray, not outward, but inward. Eitherway, were all the same, and all different. Equally unique. Maybe your just one of the less forward thinking people out there, and though your intellect very low, your still equally a human being so i won't discriminate against you for being a simpleton.

Oh god, this is what the jukebox selection looks like in my own personal hell.

Last version of this was a close victory for "Rollin'," perhaps partly owing to Britisher sentiments. Wonder if ILX's hivemind has shifted much on these guys in the last six years.

funny to have a song about not caring about haters

a song called "snacky poo" is inauspicious (haven't reached it yet)

for years they were supposed to come out with an album about a Giant Disco Elephant Stampede or something. I'm guessing this is not that

i think this album is what some of that material might have eventually turned into

I had never heard "N 2 Gether Now" until DJ Premier did a video about it a couple of weeks ago and it would have earned my vote.

“N 2 Gether Now” is the closest thing to cred this album has.

I’m also partial to the bassline in “rearrenged”, that’s a good one.

Fred Durst is awful throughout though

my teen friends and i were pretty up on "N 2 Gether Now," but mostly for the beat, Method Man, and the squiggley censoring effect for the chorus on MTV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4GcD7X-hs

So this DJ Premier walkthrough on the build of “N 2 Gether Now” is really good and a +1 for durst

wow, that was really enjoyable. might dig into the rest of that series!

yeah that was gret

“no sex” is embarrassing

ahahaha i'm an idiot, that song is dope

haha wow would not have imagined such a song in their catalog

it's like the anthem of Clem in Crossroads (Franzen novel)

not bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSTX2xVpfPw

not sure how i missed this back in '21 when the album came out. i guess there was a lot of other stuff going on back then

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kyy3l-ODZKE/sddefault.jpg

do you think he has a favorite armand schaubroeck record?

https://i.imgur.com/chbefV5.png

Today I learned that MTV aired a feature length making-of "Results May Vary." I've never seen it and never will, but I bet one of you lunatics will want to see it, discounting those that no doubt already have seen it and love it and think it is better than "Let It Be."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrA-Y2GAdzY

hell to the yeah i will be watching this

josh is this revive relating to the recent todd in the shadows video on results may vary?

i remember seeing that mtv doc in pieces because i really liked that series it was a part of ("album launch"). the blink-182 episode was kind of redemptive for me, and while i never became a proper fan, that one painted the band in a pretty enthusiastic way. definitely left a good impression on me.

the limp bizkit episode was a slog. and again: i watched it in pieces, never seen it from start to finish... you know how mtv replayed everything ad nauseum. the recent todd in the shadows "trainwreckords" episode on the album really digs into the doldrum-y vibe that a lot of 2000s pop music had (and still does for me), and todd definitely nails it from a retrospective pov, but i don't think anything will ever come close to conveying how completely justified the hatered of that band,and specifically fred durst, was. good lord, the album WAS awful but have you tried to watch even 10 minutes of that mtv bullschitt!!??!!?

josh is this revive relating to the recent todd in the shadows video on results may vary?

Absolutely! As soon as he mentioned it I googled it and thought I would share the wealth.

Todd really does get to the heart of it, too. All these assholes, they're bullies while playing the bullied. Except that they're sort of being bullied (by the haters) for being bullies! It's like they took all the wrong lessons from the alt-rock explosion - be loud! be aggressive! - but not the other lesson of being vulnerable or smart or subversive or, like, an alternative to aggro backwards baseball cap shit like this. At least Slipknot had the good instinct to hide behind masks and know how to play (I think?). All these losers, it's like they looked at metal bands and thought, nah, too hard, I'll just get an extra string or two on my bass, tune way the fuck down, and yell a lot, that'll do it.

i recently listened to the whole limp bizkit discog mostly bc i was fascinated by what results may vary would actually be like. very tortured process of getting that record out, and unfortunately they scrapped the really good first sessions (which float around the internet on various bootlegs... the only problem with these songs is several of them are SO misogynystic bleh) and ultimately recorded a way more boring album. still, only lb record that flirts with failure-esque space rock, however briefly

it's also fine to not understand this band, they're unbelievably stupid, but i love the music largely because it's unbelievably stupid. i don't watch youtube critics

so many of these guys i can just never un-hear the stuff they said about gay people when they were on top of the world. they can go vegan and grow out their beards and say sensible stuff about climate change or gun violence or whatever, but fuck them forever imo

be loud! be aggressive! - but not the other lesson of being vulnerable

ftr there are a number of limp bizkit songs that qualify as vulnerable, shallow as they may be. also i think "bullies playing the bullied" mistakes fred for the band. idk wes borland is obviously a freak

kind of enjoying this doc honestly. frontman struggles with lack of talent after his incredibly talented guitarist's departure. good stuff

Is Fred vulnerable, or whiny based on how people treat him, in turn based on how he behaves and what he says and does?

I don't know what to make of Wes. His apparent "weirdness" always made him seem to me like a wannabe John Frusciante, down to his off and on relationship to his meal ticket.

Im legit excited to watch it, not as a hater (ok not just) but theres always something fascinating about in-depth docs about the making of flawed/failed albums, i could watch them endlessly. Ime films about the making of good/successful albums are never as interesting.

I think the Todd guy brings that up, how often making-of docs are about disappointing or bad albums.

limp bizkit's greatest hitz is a lot of fun until the results may vary stuff comes on - or maybe the final single from chocolate starfish - at which point not even i can mine anything.

I rewatched Some Kind of Monster recently and aside from enjoying the obvious Spinal Tap qualities, it really does capture some deep stuff about creativity, inspiration, talent, the nature of being in a band, etc, on a level that I cant imagine in a doc about a bunch of effortlessly talented musicians painlessly collaborating to record classic songs in the first take every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGX9OlaiTw

Is the doc posted above good for laughs like Some Kind Of Monster?

It's honestly pretty depressing, but I suppose there is some schadenfreude in that.

xxpost Now that Pinkpop show, at least going by the couple of minutes I watched, *that* shit is funny.

I saw them downbill at Ozzfest in '98, the giant toilet days. I recall them being shitty.

I think I saw them again, but for the life of me I can't remember which of the many similar package tours it was. Family Values, Anger Management, something with Slipknot and System of a Down, I think ... did they ever do a headlining arena tour in the '90s, or were they always coasting on, like, Korn vapors?

In what universe does that man get to touch his lips to Halle Berry. WTF

hell to the yeah i will be watching this

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