the best Limp Bizkit single

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"

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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.

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2008 results for comparison - remarkably consistent, some flips in position but nothing radically shifting here. ILM knows how it feels about "Break Stuff," I guess.

2000 "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" 6
1999 "Nookie" 5
2000 "Break Stuff" 3
2000 "Re-Arranged" 3
1999 "N 2 Gether Now" (featuring Method Man) 2
2001 "My Way" 2
2000 "Take a Look Around" 2
2003 "Eat You Alive" 1
2000 "My Generation" 1
2005 "Home Sweet Home/Bittersweet Symphony" (Medley) 1
1998 "Faith" 1
1997 "Counterfeit" 1
2000 "Crushed" 0
2005 "The Truth" (Internet only) 0
2003 "Almost Over" 0
2003 "Just Drop Dead" 0
2003 "Behind Blue Eyes" 0
2003 "Crack Addict" 0
2001 "Boiler" 0
1997 "Sour" 0

omg every single song got a vote lmfao

http://i.imgur.com/1ZKA3dD.png

i saw them live in 2003 or 2004

goku blew 'em out of the water tbh, really a passing-the-torch moment i thought

organ in "counterfeit" underrated

first three tracks on three dollar bill y'all go so hard ... shame about the misogyny

''Hey, excuse me, sir. Are you Fred Durst?''

I've always loved "N 2 Gether Now" no shame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdr7wBlbbs0

Go fuck yourself
Limp Bizkit
Oh no
Check one-two
Turn it up, come on y'all
Hold up, turn it up
Y'all ready for this?
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
Back, it's the motherfucking rock god
I'm so poker-faced, ladies going Ga-Ga
That's right it's Freddy D, the public enemy
You know, the one to have Britney droppin' to her knees (Oh!)
I don't give a fuck, I probably never will
Bitch get at me if that ass is like Jessica Biel's
Who down with me tonight? You know I'll treat you right
You shake for me until they turning on them ugly lights
Throw them fingers up, and finger fuck the sky
She like the way we pump it, I call her pumpkin pie
I ain't about to lie, I came up in it high
You got a problem, I'll bust you in your fucking eye, player
(Baby you're a rockstar) I know who the fuck I am
Forty million records later, I am still the fucking man
I came to rock, all she wants to do is roll
Now she at my house sliding up and down that pole
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
[Lil Wayne] What the fuck is up, uh?
Fuck the world, bust a nut
I'm on this and that, and such and such
It's ashes to ashes, dust to dust, come on
Rock, rock, rock with a real nigga
Everything I touch turn to gold, she a gold digger
Shots, shots, shots, have a lil' liquor
Got the bitch taking shots like Reggie Miller
Uh, Lil Weezy in this bitch ho
She want the green light, let the bitch go
I go hard, I go nuts, I go schizo
And now they wanna copy me like ten-fo'
Uh, I can't stop, I won't stop
I got the pistol on me, I guess I went pop
Now I'm free-falling, yeah, head first
Red hat to the back like Fred Durst, uh
[Durst] They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore (uh, yeah)
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho (young money)
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor (yeah)
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
Lil Weezy that's my partner, we drinkin' Russian vodka
Bout to take your bitch 'cause she ain't never fucked a rock star
I'm a fucking outlaw, packing me a chainsaw
I'm at the afterparty 'bout to start another brawl
I'm getting fucked up, so you can go to hell
I'ma need a ride home, I know myself
And you know I put it down like no one else
I'm the champ bitch, I ain't gotta show the belt
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
They say the rock shit, doesn't rock anymore
They say the whole game done went pop so I'm back in this ho
We drinking gin till we pass out and fall on the floor
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?
She's ready to go, she's ready to go
Is that your bitch, 'cause she told me she's ready to go?

Throw them fingers up, and finger fuck the sky

poetry

I saw them live in 97 a couple of months before 3 dollar bill, y'all came out and counterfeit slayed

I was 12 and weighed about 100 pounds so the mosh pit was quite overwhelming

three dollar bill yall > chocolate starfish > significant other

significant other is an amazing-sounding record and i enjoy the kitchen sink parts of it, like, who would ever want a limp bizkit song with strings??? yet there is one and it rocks (“don’t go off wandering”). i think it just has one too many songs about how cool it is to be in a band (“nineteen ninety nine” vs. “show me what you got”) and “no sex” is embarrassing. “a lesson learned” is a trip-hop song

chocolate starfish feels just ever-so-slightly more accomplished musically, the songs all have interesting twists or weird harmonic things going on (cf. the riff in “rollin”). as for fred durst......... well one side effect of his limitations as a rapper and his v whiny grapplings with fame is that this record is very fucking funny. this is dedicated to you ben stiller!!!! you are my favorite motherfuckaer

haha .. basically my reaction when i watched it last night.

I kind of empathize for Durst. Dude seems like an earnest dorkus who just wants to bang models and play caveman riffs and listen to the Smiths but turned himself into music's whipping boy, perhaps as a defense mechanism, perhaps because he's not clever enough to turn himself into a 50 Cent-style heel, perhaps because he's not confident/rich enough to be an ICP-style "we're gonna do our thing regardless." He's worked with Pauly Shore and Corey Feldman and John Travolta, all of whom kind of have the same vibe of like fairly talented guys who clearly love their medium but don't really have the same artistic insight that drives their peers

album is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKAOAnPmp2E

yeah idk if I'm just overly nostalgic for the 90s but this actually seems pretty decent

Wait, what?

This decent enough C+ LB, better than anyone has a right to expect in 2021

I shall not be tricked into listening to a new limp bizkit album in 2021.

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)