Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Drit

Enormt fjollet sangstemme og sangtekster, men på en eller anden måde fungerer det med mærkelig 00'er nu metal vrede

horrorizada que curti muito umas três músicas disso

I was there, Gandalf. I was there, 3000 years ago, when the strength of men failed. Fred Durst should have been cast into the fires of Mount Doom. But instead, he was embraced, and the world was that much more for the worse. *** Yeah, in the late nineties when Limp Bizkit was breaking out, I hated their guts. Fred seemed like a douche, their music sucked, and they were popular. Three strikes against them I could not forgive. But as much as I disliked the band and their music, I couldn't escape it, and must have heard "Nookie" and "Break Stuff" a million times, and I found something to enjoy. The riffs were hard and fun, the band was pretty tight... I could stomach it. And so Limp Bizkit became my least-hated nu-metal outfit, and listening to this album for the first time, 25 years later, only confirmed that. I'm amazed at how much I didn't actively hate this record. One thing I didn't know that Fred Durst had in his toolbox was self-awareness. His lyrics are dumb, and he knows it, and he isn't afraid of making fun of himself for it. The sequencing of the tracks, the inclusion of some actual lower-intensity songs, and the arrangements show some real artistry that I wasn't expecting. At the same time, the lyrics are mostly dog shit, and Fred's delivery is whiny and ridiculous. That being said, I was fully expecting to give this a 1 and came away with a very surprising - THREE STARS

I actually enjoyed this album more than I thought I would because, back in the day, I was never really a big fan of nu metal and groove metal. A lot of it just came across as sleazy, with sleazy lyrics, and I always viewed it as super-commercial music made for the masses. Even though I'll probably always feel that way about Limp Bizkit, I have to admit that listening to this album was enjoyable for the pure nostalgia. It took me down memory lane and reminded me of a world that no longer exists.

This is corny

It could be a lot better if Fred Durst’s voice wasn’t so annoying. Many of songs have really well produced openings and works well with the soft vs heavy transitions. Other songs, like Hot Dog, is just a bad idea. Favourites: Take A Look Around, Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)

🤠 And this here creature... is Wes Borland LB was my first ever concert, and even though CSatHDFW isn't my favorite album of theirs, I do think that the culture peaked during this time. I know this because it was the first time I'd seen boobs in real life RIP Sam Rivers

How many fucks does Limp Bizkit give? Quite a few, apparently. For fuck’s sake, though, I don’t give any.

what a weird experiment in music this era was

I don't like hot dog flavoured anything...except actual hotdogs.

Yeah look it's not the greatest, and definitely of a particular time and for a particular douche.. But it's not as bad as some of these other reviews would suggest.

Los tenías olvidados a ellos y a este disco. Mucho mejor de lo que recordaba, me he guardado: Hot dog, Full Nelson, My way, Rollin' y por supuesto Take a look around. Los 2000 y su mezcla de rock y rap. Grandes tiempos.

Wow, they sure like to say "fuck" a lot. My god does it drag on and as the album continues the songs become longer. Unfinishable. 1/5

I have no preconceived idea coming into this, didn’t actually know what genre it was going to be. Turns out cynical corporate rock of the nu-metal variety. So after hearing, yes I listened to it all, Yeah definitely an album you need to hear, kind of like watching a Ewe Boll movie just once, how bad a thing can be. This has to be one of the lamest and most puerile records on here. Not surprised by the score distribution on here, this is truly awful. Good example of popular don’t mean shit. It’s like taking the ethos of nu- metal and making it sanitised populist friendly, like a boy band of nu metal, and that’s a truly hideous idea. Where to start; over an hour of this monotonous drivel. That the lead vocals are the poster boy for a whiny white American, who seems to want to say a lot while saying absolutely nothing, and yeah he can swear, - do you know when every other word is fuck it kind of looses any impact. I guess he don’t give a *****, his rapping is god awful. The music is repetitive, dull, and so washed out ( production?) it’s the audio equivalent of lying in a 2 inch puddle of mud for an hour. They even manage to make the glorious mission impossible theme a wash out, knew MI 2 was the worst film of the series, here is another reason why. This is one shitty album, the cover wtf is that, and limp bizkit what a crap, flaccid band name, even the urban legend around that is ass weak. My usual stance is if you like this good for you, and that still stands but if you hear this and think it’s “banging” ???? what are you hearing? are you 14yr old white American with anger at the world issues, just blame your parents. Genuinely would like to know, I mean why this band has sold the number of records it has. Bloody sheep. Shit corporate rock. 1 Star, would like to say zero as believe removed from the list now, makes the other nu-metal bands sound like genius and that’s something.

Back in teenage land here ! 3.5

Brings back memories of borrowing the album as a 12 year old. One listen through is probably enough for another 25 years though. See you when I'm 60

Thought this was gonna be fine but this lowk sucks ass

Pereza terrible, lo siento.

Move over, Eddie Murphy. Stand aside, Richard Pryor. Fred Durst has created the greatest Comedy album of all time.

Any of you who are taking this album seriously as a serious piece of art are completely missing the point. Did you read the title? Look at the album art? Limp Bizkit was always deeply unserious and having some fun with it, and you’ve all got sticks up your asses lmao. And joke’s on you, this album sold platinum in the first week and 17m lifetime, so drink up that hot dog water. So what is it that captured the imagination of the world in 2000? What did bizkit do that was so earwormy? I think it’s several things. 1. Their unabashed adherence to individuality. What has sounded like Limp Bizkit before or since? Strip off Fred Durst, love him or hate him, and this is basically another POD, Saliva, Etc one hit wonder. Bizkit brought this adolescent rage and aggression to their music- it’s not threatening anymore than a middle school punk is, but it’s instantly relatable. Sometimes you just wanna break stuff. Yell at the void, say fuck over and over fuck this fuck that fuck everyone, fake tiddies on a fucked up chest (real lyric). It’s cathartic. We don’t live in repressed Victorian times, it’s okay to scream at the clouds sometimes. 2. Commercial appeal. Sure, KoЯn was doing the downtuned rappy turntable thing in 1994, but that was edgy memes for edgy teens, hardly mainstream. Bizkit kept enough of a lid on the aggressive sound and amped up the rap elements to appeal to the audience at the time, successfully. They also stood out for the fashion and image choices they made, love it or hate it- you can quickly and easily imagine Fred Durst in his backwards red baseball hat over his eyebrows, cholo shorts down to his ankles, trash bag sized t shirt, and chain wallet. 3. Playing the heel I think they really enjoyed being villains of music. They got a lot of hate, but had a lot of fans too. Maybe similar to the insane clown posse- they had a lane and rode it as far as it could take them. Trashy at times, confrontational, electric live shows, headline grabbing- the formula was there. They took advantage of it to the highest level. But also, they had fun with it. This ain’t a serious artistic statement. It’s just fun music to jam in the car to. Additional bits: Mission impossible theme nümetal breakdown? Check Disgusting drop D breakdowns on basically every song? Check (love these, still sound so huge and good) Bizkit knew Rollin’ was gonna be such a mega hit that it’s on the album twice, once in its glorious angry nümetal form, and again in rap form with guest verses from DMX and the Method Man. It’s actually different enough that it doesn’t feel like the same song until Fred starts repeating himself. Trashy, brash, aggressive, and fun in all the best ways. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Snap niet waarom deze ratings zo enorm laag zijn. Ik vond t hartstikke leuk. Mensen vinden de tekst slecht enzo. Who cares

Energizing

Het duurde in m'n jeugd jammer genoeg redelijk lang voor we thuis breedband internet kregen, maar een cd-brander hadden we al wel vrij snel in onze huis-pc. In die tijd was je dan een soort buurtheld. De buurjongen vroeg of we dit album voor hem konden kopiëren en toen hebben we ook maar meteen een kopie voor mij gemaakt (op x2 brandsnelheid nog, dus een cd branden was best wel een onderneming). Op die kopie ontbrak het Outro weet ik nog, volgens mij omdat je toen nog cd-r's had met een wat mindere totale capaciteit. Met die kopie begon m'n liefde voor lompere muziek. De eerdere albums van LB heb ik pas ruim nadat ik dit album leerde kennen geluisterd, dus dit is altijd hét Limp Bizkit album voor mij geweest. Het is misschien wat commercieel (al lijkt het me daar te expliciet voor), het is misschien wat schijtlollig, maar het is onderaan de streep echt wel een dik album. Ik kan me voorstellen dat mensen dit gaar vinden, ik kan me voorstellen dat ze Fred Durst een kwiebus vinden, ik kan me voorstellen dat je niet helemaal warm loopt voor de raps op dit album, ik kan me voorstellen dat mensen op de eerste indruk afgaan en al op de één drukken voordat het intro goed en wel is afgelopen. Maar dat is zonde. De ontzettend lompe adrenaline riffs, maar ook de wat subtielere elementen, de ruimte die de drums krijgen op dit album, de laagjes die pas opvallen als je aandachtig luistert, die Mission Impossible theme waar naast de gitaar ook op de bekkens compleet wordt losgegaan op een manier die ik tot dan toe nog nooit had gehoord, tracks als My Generation en My Way, maar ook onbekendere tracks als Boiler en The One die echt wel goed in elkaar zitten... Als je van hardere muziek houd en je neemt jezelf niet te serieus dan is dit toch gewoon vet man. Ik laat m'n leeftijd hiermee duidelijk zien en ik ga niet doen alsof nostalgie niet meespeelt, want uiteraard is dat wel zo. Ik weet niet zeker of ik dit vandaag de dag een 5 zou geven als ik het nog niet had gekend, maar iets in me zegt van wel. Maar dat zijn wat-alsjes. 5 sterren.

How the fuck did this make it on the list. #7 As the album went on, so did the quality decline. This whole mess screams "I'm emo and the whole fucking world hates me". Luckily you can sniff out a few highlights when the energy and the performances click better than in the rest of the album.

Generally a 3/4 but 5 for the memories!!

Take a Look Around

I forgot about this group, which is a good thing. I learned that this genre is called nu metal. Wiki states that nu metal rarely features displays of musical technique, and vocal styles include singing, rapping, screaming, and growling. This is the opposite of what I want to listen to. The album also runs pretty long. The overall rating was two stars until I heard the final track.

L...ol? On the plus side, it's a band I know, but I can't help think there MUST be better options. And 'Nookie' isn't even on this album! Though on the plus side, neither is 'Behind Blue Eyes'. Instead they're taunting me with the idea I could be listening to Nine Inch Nails instead. :< Apparently 'Take a Look Around' was in Mission Impossible 2, which is appropriate because that's one of the 2 movies I've fallen asleep in the theater for. The second version of 'Rollin' (the OG one, I guess) is better than the first one, but both are bad. Slur count = 12. Highlights: Dated 00s shoutouts to "Shockwave" (that's pre-Adobe Flash!), Xtina, Fight Club, and BSB; "Every single second I'm alive, I'm a mess" (me too Freddy) Lowlights: (gestures expansively)

Wes Borland didn't deserve this.

Private session used for Spotify. It took several sessions to get through this 74 minute crap show. I have trouble thinking of anyone who has accomplished so much in music with so little talent than Fred Durst, I mean that as a compliment, don't over think it. I don't think Limp Bizkit is a top tier Nu Metal band, but their association with label did sour it.

3.5

I think a lot of the reviews for this were people listening to one song and writing it off. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty terrible, but not nearly as bad as I was prepared for. Mostly, it's boring and way too one dimensional, with Durst whining like a little bitch. Towards the end of the album there's actually a really good song, "Hold On" (though it's sung by Scott Weiland). There are a lot worse albums on this list.

Imagine you're a guy in 1900 who time travels a century ahead, expecting flying cars and colonies in space and encountering Chocolate Starfish and the Hot dog flavored water instead. In all seriousness, I think it's funny that Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory is sitting at like 3.4 stars on here; I find that one pretty indistinguishable from this and honestly might have preferred this one. Like this is pretty shit, but it's really no worse than other 00s numetal sludge. Has comical moments too, kind of entertaining, like watching schlock horror films

the riffs are pretty nice but the vocals are annoying and the lyrics are just terrible. The lead singer just sounds wimpy. The only track I like for the moment is "The one". I think the album gets good when the lead singer stops his irritating screams. These mfs remixed the laughter to make the outro 9 fucking minutes long.

I like Rollin' Not really a fan 2 star for me

Extremely outdated and objectively bad, but still some fun to be had

So not interested in this...

I'm not even a Limp Bizkit fan, and there is obviously better offerings in the nu-metal genre out there... but you know what, fuck the haters. 5 stars! For the unabashed we-don't-give-a-fuck attitude and sheer level of THUMP. Pre-9/11 2000-2001 was a truly unique and peculiar period in American history, and this album encapsulates that feeling pretty well. When the 90s spirit was still alive and well, and people weren't taking life *nearly* as seriously as they do today. Also, the album set a record for the fastest-selling rock album in the country, which IMO warrants its place on this list. So the peanut gallery can suck it.

The pure encapsulation of a very rancid time for rock

Even as an unashamed Limp Bizkit fan, I am completely baffled by the inclusion of Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water on this list. This isn't the first band I've seen included as a sort of participation trophy entry and paired with their most commercially successful album... While it was a massive success in 2000, selling records does not equate to their best work, as both Significant Other and 3 Dollar Bill Y'all are magnitudes better. Aside from "My Way", which only was elevated for me because of its unforgettable soundtrack role in the WrestleMania 17 main event video package, this album is just the drizzling shits.

You know, I was almost enjoying the first half in a “this isn’t as bad as I thought it would be” (I don’t mind Limp Bizkit, I’d say I “tolerate” them). But then the second half fucking draaaaaaaaaaaaaagged. And then they didn’t even have the decency to just end it! They made me listen to like 5 minutes of some tool chuckling on a loop before hearing some random convo that didn’t need to be included. Man, I don’t hate all of it, but I have a real distaste for a majority of the album.

I refuse to believe that this is an essential album for anyone. Thankfully, even Robert Dimery came around to the same opinion and removed the album. Don't get me wrong, Blur and Oasis are British blinders bullshit, as well. And yet again, here is the proof that the 00's were the worst decade of Western Popular Music. Least annoying: "The One" (enjoyed the Borland's nice jazz guitar licks and getting to hear John Otto explore more of his jazz drumming)

No. Definitely not. I added “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” to my playlist. It is the shortest track.

I knew this album was on the list but nothing ever really prepares you for having bags of hot garbage that’s been baking in the sun for hours and full of liquid from old meat and chew spit being thrown at you for for SEVENTY-FIVE FUCKING MINUTES. Like seriously what was the compulsion to full an entire CDs length with this? I like the intro? But then of course here comes Fred Durst to accompany the rest of the album and sound like, in all honesty, a giant bitch. I knew of Limp Bizkit very tangentially as their sound was really never my particular thing. Someone i knew in 6th grade came to school with this in his portable CD player and i think that’s the perfect time to be interested in them. If you’re a full grown adult listening in earnest to this, i highly encourage you to broaden your horizons. Every single song save for a couple sound exactly the same. The random beep boops in Getcha Groove On sound like someone playing the only 3 notes they know. I’ve always liked the riff in Take a Look Around though! That was nice to hear. I can’t pretend to know the psychology behind putting this record here. Was it the perfect encapsulation of an era in music and pop culture? How much does the author genuinely get out of this? I can honestly say i’ve been a little in the trenches of this list now. I can’t imagine it getting MUCH worse than this.

This is just awful, annoying, cringe, too long; I hate his vocals, I hate the intro, I hate the outro. Some riffs were okay but then Fred opens his mouth.

Day961 - what a bad day to have ears

Immaturity in music can be reflective or nostalgic, or at the very least provide some cathartic fun. This immature album fits none of those categories. Fred Durst has no nuance in his aggression, lashing out at anyone and everyone with simple insults. "My Generation" kind of has a point, but it's communicated so poorly. Durst is also a terrible rapper, so it was brave of him to put real rappers on some of these songs to remind listeners what rapping is supposed to sound like. Musically most of these songs are loud and aggressive but mostly sound like other nu metal of the era. Some of them try to be atmospheric, and those are the worst songs, because they feel like nothing is happening. At least the louder tracks occasionally feel fun. And like many albums from its time, it's padded out with nonsense to fill up the CD, the final nail in the album's coffin.

The employed, white-collar, 401k me says this album is 3 stars at best. However, the metal-loving wannabe skater-boy inside me wins today.

Very weird; Take a Look Around is the only good song I knew.

It opens with "This is not a test", but my oh my it was a test. This is what happens when you ask a 12 year old boy to make music that sounds tough enough for a WWE walk on. Some decent riffs.

I can’t believe I’m doing this. They’re derivative, juvenile, self referential, and were only edgy to 10-15yr olds back in the day but a banger is a banger. Durst may not be brilliant lyricist but he knows how to write a hook & is backed by slick production and surprisingly competent musicianship. This has aged better than it has any right to.

Tf w this album cover not Rollin' 😭😭😭 (idk why that song makes me giggle) Uhhhh idk, 2

Classic

this is one of the ugliest things i've ever heard

The Good: We know we are getting nourished! The Bad: Turns out we are allergic to shell-fish... The Ugly: Barfing up the Hot Dog water... Fuck me, and Fuck this, and Fuck that! Loved it! Oddly enough, did not love it when it came out back in the day... but now, older me, the angsty Gen-X'er, well, I got nothing but pumped. Yes, I know that Fred D has the label of douchebag wrapped all around him... but damnit, there he is, knowing just what to say in case I want to break shit... which was the only song I was missing here... Then there is mr guitar jingle-jangle man, who is one of the greatest showman on that instrument of his generation, as far as I'm concerned. This album was generated on my list on August 17 2026, and I've played it about 5-6 times since then... and today, just to refresh my memory, I played it again and just smiled. Well deserved you fuckers!!! 5*

트랙 10번에 유명 브금 존재 기억나는 건 퍽업~

If you knocked 35 minutes off the catchy singles would make it not seem so heinous.

Vile bile from a man-child gone wild.

Fred Durst may be in the bottom 5 worst singers on this project. Without him, this might be a decent record. It’s like I said before with the Red Hot Chili Peppers: without Anthony Kiedis they are a great band. Same thing applies here. The lyrics are inane at best and the vocals are wretched. This is easier to listen to than Throbbing Gristle, who I heard just yesterday, but much less interesting and will likely get the same rating. 1.5 stars

This sounds like a parody album. The impressions are spot on and that's all I hear hahaha. Ok I'm coming around to this. This fucking fucks like fuck. TAKE EM TO THE MATTHEWS BRIDGE

What. The. Actual. Fuck. Faen ass! Dette 1001 album-prosjektet er ikke noe gøy lenger. Møkkaplate! Kom ett minutt utti Hot Dog før jeg bestemte meg for at dette orker jeg ikke å utsette meg for. Jævla drittband! Fred Durst har den verste stemmen i verden! Kan ikke ha sånn sytete “det er synd på meg for jeg har au-au på tåa mi”-stemme og samtidig late som om du er beintøff. Det kunne vært kjempemorsomt om det ikke var så jævlig dårlig! Dette er musikk som gjør verden til et verre sted! Man blir et dårlig menneske av denne musikken. Limp Bizkit har ikke gode låter, er et helt ok band om man trekker fra Durst, og topper det med en vokal som er så dårlig at Eilert Pilarm kunne gjort en bedre jobb på denne plata. Da hadde det i det minste blitt frivillig morsomt.

Dei spelar jo greit, og det er eit og anna riff her som har noko for seg, men altså…eg har ikkje tenkt å lata som om at Fred Durst er noko anna enn Fred Durst og Fred Durst er no eingong noko av det jævligaste som finst. Han kliner driten sin utover kvar einaste musikalske idé her. Stakkars band. Eg trur ikkje på eit kvekk av det han lirer av seg, ikkje når han vil vera sår (The One) og ikkje når han tøffar seg (alle dei andre). Det går kanskje an, om ein legg godvilja til, å ha litt omsut for ein så tossen og ubrukeleg vaksen mann som likevel bruker ein time og eit kvarter på å gni inn med utestemme kor forbanna rå han er. Men han er no eingong like tossen og ubrukeleg for det.

En musikalsk utskraping, ikke er fosteret noe å gråte over heller.

Ikkje all musikk som trenger å bli gitt ut.

Livets første hele gjennomlytt av ei limp skive og der gikk bedre enn fryktet. Bandet låner jo mye fra 90 tallets hardere band og nailer jo nu-metal lyden. Som russ’96 burde denne bølgen treffe bra, men det gjorde den aldri. Helt greit det altså for det finnes så mye mye bedre musikk der ute. Lander på skikkelig midt på treet 3/5

Å høre gjennom en hel Limp Bizkit-plate var ikke noe jeg hadde på radaren min, men ja, her er vi. "Mission accomplished" som det heter i den avsluttende outroen. Selvsagt helt meningsløs bruk av tid. Usikker på om det er egen motstand som brytes ned eller om låtkvaliteten øker utover plata, men noterer meg at det gjorde mest vondt aller først. Tror vel helst at det er noen mer anonyme spor mot slutten, ting som ligger et stykke unna kjernen i det Durst og banden driver med. Måtte det bli lenge til vi møtes igjen.

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And the Hot Dog Flavored Water Overraskande at denne dukka opp, men kanskje vel så interessant som å høyre “Abbey Road” nko ein gong? Limp Bizkit er som kjent ei musikkgruppe som lagar musikk midt mellom Crazy Town og Korn. Det er jammen ikkje berre kjekt å høyre den skingrande stemma til Fred Durst i over ein time. Det heile startar med Nine Inch Nails-parodien(?) “Hot Dog” som har den mest ynkelege sjå-kor-tøff-eg-er-teksten verda nokon gong har høyrt. Vidare må me gjennom velkjent eder (“My Generation”) og galle (“Rollin”) før me endeleg, når me er over på tosifra låtnummer, får Mission Impossible-songen “Take A Look Around” som er einaste her det kan være verdt å la spele ferdig. Sidan denne plata fekk plass i boka så antar eg forgjengaren, som jo er mykje betre, dukkar opp og? Berre å glede seg. Fucked up AIDS from fucked up sex Fake-ass titties on a fucked up chest Fred Durst får Bloodhound Gang til å likne på Bob Dylan. 2/10

Some bangers with a bit too much filler. This has certainly aged better than anyone could've guessed twenty years ago. A lot of people have criticized LB for being agro/frat boy music, but to me they sound like the usual sorta lovable weirdos who made nu-metal and maybe lost themselves a little bit in the unexpected wave that lifted so many of those guys to mainstream success. For that reason I'll always have a soft spot for them. Still, I would've chosen "Significant Other" as the one LB album on this list.

Not without its virtues, but no thanks.

Very enjoyable—he knows how to pack power into his vocals. ★★★★

No one‘s going to mistake Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst for genius lyrics and insightful music. But, if you need something that’s going to energize you and get you moving, Limp Bizkit will do the trick.

Minus five stars for being Limp Bizkit, plus five Stars for being Limp Bizkit.

WTF? This doesn’t belong on this list. Someone lost a bet or is trolling everybody.

A massive album in my teens and a real obsession for me at the time It still absolutely slaps and needs to be a 5. No question

Not a fan of this band

You're kidding, right? I was 14 when this came out and even then it is what prompted me to move on from Limp. They were my first concert at 13. Loved the prior albums. It is trash. Nu metal and rap rock mostly does not hold up. The music was never good (not even those early albums), you were just 14.

Really cool one, ICONIC album from Limp Bizkit. The last track that had like 3 hours of laughing kinda drove me insane but its ok because I powered through. AMAZING album tho, ROLIN ROOLIN ROLLIN RLLIN ROOL AND RLLIN

I really thought I was going to hate this album. Hot Dog is genuinely one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my entire life, and it was about to set the record up for failure. But after My Generation proceeded it, the whole thing did a 180 and blew me away. This album is so fucking good. Fred Durst is definitely an awful lyricist, but on some tracks there are some decent stuff. Something I do want to focus on is the incredible instrumentation. At the end of the day, this is a metal album, and holy shit does it rip. Some of these riffs are so nasty and the added FX from the rap aspects bring it to a new level. I was shocked when they started playing in 5/8 on Take a Look Around, which definitely added some brownie points to my prog ears. Bizkit's blend of metal and rap is just perfect. I also love the continuous announcer dude throughout the record, making it sound more cohesive. This album is also very consistent track for track with only 2 or 3 misses with the rest being absolute bangers. I thought the extensive runtime would make the music stale or repetitive, but each song really has something fun to offer the entire ride. The drum sound is great, Fred Durst's energy is infectious, I just really like this album way more than I thought.

Esta vaina es inescuchable

After reading the Wikipedia write up on this album, I almost didn’t listen to it. I don’t know how I miss Limp Bizkit when I was listening to the chili peppers and other groups like that.

I respect Fred Durst but this man never should've been given a mic. Wes Borland saves this.

4/5

There was a time when I would be down to listen to some of these songs, but that time hatch passed

How are you going to throw out multiple references to incredible songs by incredible bands across the album, only to learn absolutely NOTHING from those examples and go on to make an absolutely awful album? I understand that a good listener needs to be well-rounded but removing this from the 1001 albums book is 1001% justified because it’s a bit insulting to make the average person listen to this.

I have had no desire to go back to this album since listening to it at the time. But I enjoyed the nostalgia and it really did help the popularity of nu metal at the time, I think its also better than a lot of people give it credit for.

Come on Limp Bizkit fans, in their OWN outro, they diss themselves. Who needs rap battles, and rivalries when you make a diss track about yourself? Then, frontman Fred Durst is just hated. The poor man has been twelve years old for over 40 years now. I was dead set on giving this album a one star for obvious reasons(the title of the album itself tells us the nonsense we're getting into), but the riffs actually had me banging my head at times. Favorite Track: "Rollin'(Air Raid Vehicle)".

How in the world is this album on this list? I read some of the lyrics to some of the songs on this album and most of these songs have disgusting, braggadocious and completely unoriginal songwriting. Could this list's curators really have not added any better artists like Florence and the Machine, Toto, Mazzy Star, Explosions in the Sky, Interpol or countless others instead of stooping to endorsing appropriately widely panned trash that only stands out for breakout shock value?

At least the record is not as bad as the cover...

Awful, truly awful.

Listening session: july 30th, while taking the train back home Listened to before: listened to a few songs before Thoughts: I don’t understand the relatively low rating on here because I really like this album. I think there are better nu-metal albums out there, but this album still contains a few bangers Favourite tracks: Hot Dog, Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle) & Take A Look Around

Christ on a cracker --- this is some awful shit.

Some nostalgia factored in. Some bad songs but overall still a solid listen.

Fuck these guys

What is it with numetal bands and making albums over an hour long

Metal/Rap crossover from the biccies

What are we doing here? I would like to meet the person who thinks this is essential listening. I need to know how they live, who they are. There were a couple, I guess you could call them, classics, but so much is forgettable. The outdoor pissed me off more than anything.

Even as a kid and a fan of the prior album I thought this was crap. A handful of decent songs but overall pretty terrible 1.5+

It was gonna be two stars until the outdoor, then it got stupid

Lyrics can be hilarious at times, but can't deny, they are bangers 3.8/5 Favorite Songs: Hot Dog My Generation Full Nelson My Way Rollin' Livin' It Up Take A Look Around

There were much better bands in this scene. Album starts off poor (too many Mutha Fu**ers in the lyrics for my liking, but gets better once it hits My Way. Has a few decent songs but overall not a great album. A 2.5/5 for me

Shiiiite

The intros and outros are useless, the album is bloated enough without them at 74 minutes. If this stopped at like track 6 or even 11 then this would've been 3 stars because the guitarist goes hard and this is fucking dumb, funny headbang music. This is probably most entertaining bad record. Instrumentation is good. Big problem on it is Fred Durst. Lyrics and his attitude is most times shit, beside classics "Rollin'" and "Take a Look Around" . His rapping is corny and his singing is so bad. Really makes you feel like you're in the hot dog flavored water ooo Fred Durst real great immersion you got there. Literally insufferable.

sigh i guess we doing this why is this 80 minutes long i guess there's a couple good cuts here outro is truly awful 💥my generation (???) 💥my way 💥rollin (air raid vehicle) 💥take a look around

Hell yeah, I'm living life in the fast lane! I used to listen to this so much growing up, and can still remember most of the lyrics. Whilst it was a much more mature offering from the Bizkit, I still prefer some of the less commercial earlier music. Great album, but once again slightly missing the mark.

I hate the vocals on this so much, the instrumentals are fine but not interesting enough to balance it out into anything good.

Incredibly embarrassing

The famous songs are good and they saved this album from 1* because Christ the rest of it is so annoying, and why is this over an hour long?

Limp Bizkit catching strays but this album slapped in the 00s and still does. Favorites: My Generation, My Way, Rollin, Livin It Up, The One, Hold On

Of its time but it was a good time

Keep on Rolling

a lot of the same yelling and music to go along with it. Not enjoyable at all. Giving this a 1

I was kind of on a rollercoaster with how I wanted to rate this one. The start of the album I felt was pretty mediocre and not Limp Bizkit’s best work. But considering the mood I was in when I stated listening it was working for me. Then one of my favorite songs of theirs played and after that the rest of the album started getting better. Now I like Limp Bizkit don’t get me wrong but I also honestly have to say I never considered them to be brilliant or the best music ever but when the son Hold On started I was blown away. That was an amazing song by any standard.

I have absolutely no idea who Fred Durst is. On his Wikipedia page he looks like an accountant in a baseball cap. So anyway my listening isn't clouded by an opinion about him personally. Although he seems to clearly divide opinion (and I totally respect people who want to put personality before music - I mean I myself wonder how anybody still listens to Michael Jackson) The album title and art is completely lame, and the posturing lyrics are clearly more targetted towards adolescent incels than anyone else. The final track, 'Outro', is a long boring early podcast which I gave up on. But... I quite enjoyed the music. And since I wasn't praying for it to end then it must have been ok - though it won't be going on my playlist.

the fred durst of it all

Not horrible, some dumb lyrics. Nobody cares how many tunes you say f*ck. But I appreciate the overall energy. Just got to the outro and I am now tempted to take every star away from them.

Hate his voice. Hate the whiney lyrics. Luv' Rollin'. 'Nuff said.

I don't need this near my ear holes again. The looped laughter in the outro has taken years off my life. Standout Track: The chorus of Rollin'. That's all. Rating: 1

Did not enjoy this

I suppose this is here to remind us of those 5 minutes when Nu_metal was about. Aged really badly. There is some nice use of sampling /other peoples tunes. Suffers from CD bloat though. The last two tracks could definitely be missed off.

Это очень крутой и веселый альбом. Буквально такой подростковый средний палец всему миру, лютый стиль ТОГО САМОГО MTV, реально дерзкий и пошли все в жопу. Кому не нравится это альбом и Limp Bizkit - просто скучные душнилы.

This was kinda fine as sound but whenever i started to listen to it as music it was pretty eh.

On the whole, not for me, but I did like it more than expected. Obvi Rollin’ is where it’s at but I cannot place where in my childhood it exists

1. I'm pretty sure the first time I ever went to No Lights No Lycra they played Rollin (Air Raid Vehicle) in the middle and nothing at all could have prepared me for Fred Durst's voice to suddenly come in and for that song to follow. Blew up all expectations but kinda incredible song. 2. Was listening to the New York Times Popcast the other week and a listener had a question about being in his late 30s and whether he was allowed to listen to Limp Bizkit in 2026 and the hosts were like "the first problem is you asking this question. you're allowed to listen to anything [don't worry if society says it's cool]" Put off listening to this album because I knew it needed to be played as loud as possible but also didn't want to offend other people. Parts of it are a lot of fun, some bits are quite annoying and sound badly like 2001. I was surprised how mellow it was around the middle (songs like The One) for a band who frequently tell people to break stuff. The intonation of "my way or the highway" in one of the songs I also found very funny. Very much a product of the time

So… the song I actually know off this album - Hot Dog - really owes more to Trent Reznor for its hook than anyone, for which he’s given songwriting credit, as another reviewer pointed out. Coming up with over 50 ways to say f* is just about what it sounds like. But the crazy thing is, Limp Bizkit DOES have musical talent. Somehow they turn that Mission Impossible theme into something far more interesting with Take a Look Around. But… yeah, they’re generally happy just being a bunch of idiots for entertainment. So… 2 Boolean: very hard to say. ———— probably false

When this popped up on my screen, I audibly laughed. This is borderline a so bad it's good movie in music form. There are some catchy musical pieces, but the album does get pretty repetitive and the lyrics are mostly bad. One of the songs rhymes here with here, which is just so so bad. 2/5 Might listen again

The whiplash going from Sgt. Pepper to this has my neck fucked up. I cannot believe both this album and Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause made at least one version of the book, but somehow Evanescence' Fallen (which was nominated for AotY at the Grammys!) couldn't make the cut. Another sun rises on another day where this author doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to music. But I digress, let's get to the actual album: outside of the three hits, it's garbage, and even those hits aren't particularly great. The best thing to ever come out of Limp Bizkit's music was the WWF hype video for The Rock vs Stone Cold at WrestleMania 17. 2/5, enjoy the vid:

Another "not really my thing" artist and album. I'd heard the more well-known tracks a few times down the years. but that's about it. I did make it all the way through without ever really considering turning it off. There were a couple of decent tracks, but all-in-all it was just repetitive and boring.

Dans les abattoirs, à la fin d'une journée, y'a plein de marde dégueulasse par terre. C'est de ça que limp bizkit est composé.

Kinderachtig, puberaal, onsubtiel en veel van hetzelfde. Maar hetzelfde is wel erg tof. Iets te lang -1

This album gets a second star because Fred Durst copied so many NIN lyrics when trying to write a NIN diss track he had to give Reznor a writing credit and millions in royalties

Iconic Limp Bizkit with the infamous Rollin' - the beginning of the album was weak but it got better. Intro/Outro were weird.

Need to get back on and read about these puppies!

Overall Rating - 2.19/5 (4.38/10). Unpleasant post-grunge, 2000s noise.

Has a couple of listenable songs, pretty bad, better than Moby though.

Really not my bag

*Wes' bass is great and the guitar tone is cool and unique *These lyrics do NOT stand up 26 years later and seem very cheesy....its hard to believe albums like these were "tough". *Their first albums were great and notable entries into rap/rock/nu-metal...but this album jumps the shark and they start to become a meme of themselves. My Way and Rollin' are great singles, but not nearly as strong as the ones from earlier albums.

You know how the movie 'Armageddon' is in the Criterion Collection? Yeah, kinda like that.

Silly. Silly silly silly. (Rollin' is an absolutely monster track though isn't it) Probably the most "junk food" album on the list. It's not good for you, but when you're in the mood for it, oh boy does it hit the spot.

I'll be brief. I have fonder memories of Significant Other, this album has some interesting moments but it's a mess and I feel it's aged terribly. It's an ugly album, very gringo coded. If kids are listening to this nowadays, we have serious problems as a society.

I actually enjoyed this album more than I thought I would because, back in the day, I was never really a big fan of nu metal and groove metal. A lot of it just came across as sleazy, with sleazy lyrics, and I always viewed it as super-commercial music made for the masses. Even though I'll probably always feel that way about Limp Bizkit, I have to admit that listening to this album was enjoyable for the pure nostalgia. It took me down memory lane and reminded me of a world that no longer exists.

2.2

Wiki: "Readers of Kerrang! voted it as the worst album of 2000, with the band and Fred Durst also being voted the worst band of 2000 and "Arse of the Year", respectively. Even so, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water was listed in the book for 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, but later removed in recent editions of the book." 'bout says it all.

These guys were being cringe for the absolute love of the game and honestly it demands a bit of respect LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ‼️‼️ INTRODUCING 🗣🗣 THE CHOCOLATE STARFISH ⁉️💥 AND THE HOT DOG FLAVOURED WATER ❓️🌭💧 Fave track: Rollin'

The epitome of “unfortunately, this goes hard”. 3.5/5

I was 10 when this came out but have heard some of the tracks over the years. I went into the album fully expecting to hate it but was pleasantly surprised!

I went into this expecting the worst having grown up through this era and hearing all the hits on the radio. After listening all the way through it was much much worse than I expected. This is music for angry 13 year old boys who are angry and don't know why. I have never heard someone as whiny in recorded history than what I'm hearing from Fred Durst on this album.

I listened but I didn't like it

Intro - 2/5 Hot Dog - 1/5 My Generation - 2/5 Full Nelson - 2/5 My Way - 3/5 Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) - 3.5/5 Livin' It Up - 2.5/5 The One - 2.5/5 Getcha Groove On - 2/5 Take a Look Around - 3/5 It'll Be OK - 2.5/5 Boiler - 2/5 Hold On - 2/5 Rollin (Urban Assault Vehicle) - 1.5/5 Outro - 2/5 I can finally feel validated for why I always disliked Limp Bizkit for some reason. The riffs on the some of the songs are actually somewhat decent. Then Fred Durst opens his mouth and it instantly becomes worse. It just sounds like a bratty teenager who's upset that his mom took away his Xbox privileges for the week because he foulmouthed her. I knew I was in a rough spot when they essentially ripped off Nine Inch Nails in the first track, and Trent Reznor reasonably hated it. Some of this is like junk food, you know it's bad for you but still consume it anyway. Rollin' fits in with this criteria, being just good enough for something on this be decent. This would be so much better if Durst just shut up and they made this way shorter than 75 minutes. No one deserves to suffer for that long. Overall: 2/5 Favorites: Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)

This sucked 25 years ago and somehow plays even worse today. Musically it’s not terrible but Fred Durst completely ruins any of it. 1/5

GOD I LOVE THIS SHIT

Not my music, not my metal

Recognized a couple tracks here. Having a hard time rating this… I'm no prude but the overuse of profanity cheapens the lyrics, and I’m to the point in life where if I hear someone swearing nonstop I think they are too stupid to find any better words for what they’re trying to say. I enjoyed the heavy music much more than Durst’s whiny singing, but it sorta worked (or it’s my memory showing a bias). Overall I think I gotta go 3/5

I’d like to shake the hand of whoever gave Fred Durst a platform and thank them.

Weird shit

My Way is a pretty good song, but this album is mostly reprehensible trash that doesn’t belong in the material world.

Okei tästä mulla onkin sanottavaa. Muistan kun luin jostain että tää levy on tällä listalla kun joku valitti siitä että miksi ihmeessä. Mää ymmärrän kyllä sitä miksi tää levy tai Limp Bizkit ylipäätään ei maistu jollekkin. Ohan tää ainakin ameriikassa vähän sellaista lukiokovis musaa ja Fred Durst kanssa antaa sitä samaa vibaa. Levyn nimikin meinaa kusta ja paskaa. Mutta kyllähän tää oli tosi iso 2000 lukua ja tää soundi on niin nostalgista. Tällä levyllä on tosi monta hittiä ja Wes Borlandin kitarariffit on oikeasti helvetin kovia. En mää välttämättä kehtaa tälle 5 tähteä antaa kun ei tää ehkä sitä ihan ansaitse, vaikka kyllä hittien määrällä ansaitsisikin. Ja tuo Xzibit featti biisi yllätti. Parhaat: Hot Dog, My Generation, Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle), My Way, Take A Look Around, Boiler, Livin' It Up

This had me Livin’ It Up

It has it's place, never really listened to this at the time, I really thought I would dislike this but I don't surprisingly, Fred's vocals do get a bit much after a while and some of it is juvenile garbage spew, but mostly I don't mind it, 3.5 so ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I cannot describe how much I hate this album and this band. You can draw a line from late 90s rap rock to incel culture. If I could give this album less than a star I would

Not for me, but they were doing something different at least

This is music for adolescents - nothing wrong with that but I'm in my 50s.

Very interesting album. Super long not really for me. Outro was cool. 5.1/10

Not quite sure what to make of this one, quite a strange collection of songs. Probably never going to win many songwriting awards. Doubt I’ll ever listen to it again.

I liked some of the hits but generally this is a weak album.

I never knew there was so much hate on these guys until reading the reviews. Who knew. Never really listened to them other than the singles. Yeah the lyrics are rather childish and stupid, but the punchy riffs are top quality and there’s some decent variety in songs (not the lyrics). It’s all rather fun really, and Rollin’ is always a banger.

Might be a "must-listen" only as a cautionary tale. If we don't revisit this miserable pile of musical trash every once in a while, we are at risk of forgetting its "Jacob's Ladder"-like effect on young males and having to suffer another Woodstock '99. Another nail in the coffin of 90's Optimism. Subtract one half-star for being way too long and another half-star for the horrible cover art.

Everyone hates on it, but it's no worse than any other nu metal. I'm giving it a 2 even though I'll hopefully never listen to it again.

Very nearly skipped the whole album as my patience for this project wanes. Scrubbed through a lot of songs. Rollin still tickles some nostalgia but it’s pretty painful overall. RYM: N Saved a song: N

I imagine this is a very divisive album, but I like it, its edgy and fun.

Honestly, I was not expecting to enjoy this album but it's pretty solid. I don't know if it was because it was a Friday or if it was just the work for that day but I was amped. This is weirdly close to a 5 for me and I can't even explain why.

Enjoyed it a lot more than I expected after reading some of the 1 star reviews. Sure there are some pretty ordinary tracks but some of it rocked. I’ll definitely give it another play when the most is right.

If I wasn't 14 when this came out, I probably would have given it one star, but I was so it is getting 5 stars. I can't objectively judge this album, so take it with a grain a salt. Just have to say, you needed to be there.

I kind of dig it hahah

I guess some people like it, I am not in that group. It seems to be one of those genre mashup attempts where they took the worst aspects of each genre and combined them.

I grew up with this album so I cannot give a fair first time listener rating. Not as good as Significant Other, but still solid. "My Way" is probably the best written LB song to date. RIP Sam Rivers.

Y aquí vemos como el “arquitecto” no tiene ni p*** idea. Yo puedo ser fan acérrimo del primer disco, pero en una lista de “1001 discos a escuchar antes de morir”, que pongas “Chocolate starfish” antes que “significant other” …. Voy a llamar a la policía.

I don’t understand how this made it on the list. Their first record was at least somewhat innovative, but this is completely insipid, boneheaded, self-congratulatory bs from the first song which is apparently some sort of diss track against Trent Reznor. The best that can be said about this is that it produced at least two memorable pro-wrestling themes and that it has Method Man, Redman, and DMX on one track. The saddest part is that without Fred Durst, the music really wouldn’t be that bad. There are moments where I couldn’t help headbanging a bit, but they’re quickly ruined by his obnoxiousness. The 9 minute outro of that idiot laughing was no more endearing.

i had forgotten how much fun this album was. i went into this totally expecting to be rolling my eyes, but no man, they had it back then. especially loved the outro skit with ben stiller making fun of them. i remember the early 00s and how delicate one's persona was and it's actually super confident to put that kind of thing on there. really fun time

I know every single word and haven't heard this in full in 15 years or more

5/10 - it's a lot more vulgar than I remember but there are some good beats here

I don’t know what I just listened to. I just know… it wasn’t my cup of tea.

Nah

I dont mind a lit of the crunching guitars, but Durst is not w vocalist and the lyrics ate just purile. It all feels manufactured to appeal to immature boys. ‘Take a Look Around’ and ‘Rollin’ are at least reasonably enjoyable, but that isn't enough to lift this from the garbage heap of history. I think Fred sums my feelings up perfectly on ‘Boiler’. “Wwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyyy?”

Frankly, this lost me at “kiss my chocolate starfish.” Which was 3mins in. The outro nearly put me in a coma. Why this was deemed worthy of inclusion on this generator is absolutely beyond me.

Why the fuck is it so long?! As I have very little to say about this disaster, I'm going to recommend the Todd In The Shadows Trainwreckords video about "Results May Vary", Limp Bizkit's next album. It's a genuinely enjoyable look at a band in it's death throws (at least in terms of commercial success). Todd's genuine appreciation of Wes Borland's guitar playing combined with his enjoyment at exactly how much Wes Borland hated his own band, makes it a good watch. Well that, and all the footage of a 2 hour MTV documentary on the making of the album where none of them look like they want to be there and Fred Durst is trying to learn how to play guitar. Excellent stuff. Back to the album, the lyrics are dreadful and Fred Durst can't sing. And it's far far far too long. 1/5

GTFOH

Take a look around... TOP! lo demás no hay x donde cogerlo

Skate punk, thrash metal, hip-hop with lots of adolescent rage. A lesser Rage Against the Machine, and I say that as one who is less than enthused by RATM.

It really is a testament to what the music landscape was like in 2000 that THIS album debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200. I'll admit, a small handful of Limp Bizkit's discography exists as guilty pleasures for me, but unironically listening to Limp Bizkit or most other nu metal acts is admittedly a trying endeavor. The guitar riffs hit, sure, but Fred Durst is just an unserious lyricist and a handful of these tracks are just crass for the sole purpose of being crass. It's all just unnecessarily bloated too, 75 min of this is a tough ask for anyone. You can pretty much stop listening here after "Rollin'".

Dachte am Anfang es würde mir nicht so gut gefallen wie Korn oder LP aber bin dann gut reingekommen und hat schon gegrooved und gevibed

Wasn’t good back in the day and isn’t good today

Meeeeeh

The best part about this was Apple Music censoring the album's title to C***************h. Potentially an award winner for most use of the word fuck in an album? Either way, they were never my favourite band growing up but they bring a sense of nostalgia for me so bonus points for that

I don’t know how I feel about this.

I surprisingly found this quite entertaining

The only plausible explanation for Limp Bizkit is that someone went back in time to take out Trent Reznor and this album is what happens when the timeline tries to correct itself. Each timeline gets worse and worse as they try to remedy it until we end up in an AI nightmare future with a cartoon villain as a president and people stop believing in science. Too dumb to be a psy-op.

My understanding of the book upon which this interactive website is based is that Robert Dimery is editor and that the individual entries were written up by various music critics. However this one came about, the person nominating it deserves to have his/her credentials revoked and be forced to find a new line of work. The red flags start with the band's name: What exactly is a limp bizkit? They continue with the album cover art, which takes a literal interpretation of the ridiculous album title and presages AI slop. Anyway, I've already spilled way more words than this release deserves. Unlike other duds like Linkin Park and even Kid Rock, I'm not even going to try and actually listen to this motherfucker.

I listened to this album all the way through, ngl, it's not my jam and it was pretty annoying but still, I saw little creativity or sonic variance in the album.

I rated Slipknot a 1, and I'm rating this a 1. That is not fair to Slipknot, in as much as I would not want herpes, it would be wrong to equate herpes with ebola or cholera in sheer awfulness. This was like a combination of ebola and cholera.

Amaze, amaze! Ta album mam na cdju, iz OŠ cajtov. (Mi je pa kot odrasli osebi kinda disgusting naslov albuma.) "Hot Dog" je a banger. The amount of fucks je delightful, reimagined "Closer" od NIN & pa neverjetno of the time izraz 'You better check yourself, before you wreck yourself' - amazing. Po pa "My Generation"? Dj nehi. "Full Nelson" - super za teenage angst. Oooo, "My Way". Pa sledi mi "Rollin'", fuck me. So far, all good. Če ne bi glih ta teden vidla reel, kjer nekdo quota začetek tega komada ("Livin' It Up"), ne bi po možnosti nikol dojela, da je na začetku shout out Ben Stillerju, ha. "The One" je glede na celoten vajb so far surprisingly vulnerable? Ha, Xzibit, k je bil glih v Kino Šiški (komad "Getcha Groove On")! Ful sm rada gledala Pimp My Ride. Uuu, "Take a Look Around". Moram rewatchat Mission Impossible. "Boiler" je hud. Remixa od "Rollin'" je vseen, če ne bi blo, kljub Wu Tangu. Alas, nostalgia prevails. (Fak, sam ta loopan smeh od Ben Stillerja v "Outro" je pa za popizdit.)

Esse álbum grita uma americanidade branca dos anos 2000, quase como uma cápsula do auge do nu metal. Eu esperava odia-lo do começo ao fim, mas fui surpreendido por algumas faixas realmente boas. Instrumentalmente, funciona muito bem dentro da proposta e entrega aquele peso acessível que dominava o gênero na época. O problema, para mim, está nas letras: comparado a contemporâneos como System of a Down e Deftones, o conteúdo soa muito raso e repetitivo (um show de “i don’t give a fuck”, “shit” “Fuck you” “motherfucker”) preso à caricatura do adolescente revoltado. Ainda assim, seria injusto chamar o disco de lixo. Entre excessos e clichês, há boas músicas o suficiente para torná-lo uma experiência apenas mediana, mas longe de ser descartável.

Couple of good songs to sift through in here

Nu metal, doesn't know what it wants to be My way

Honestly, better than I expected. It’s all silly fun. It’s not mind blowing, but it’s not like they take themselves seriously.

There’s a lot to unpack here. I’ll start with the biggest positive, WES BORLAND. He’s the saving grace of this band, I don’t think this is a hot take anymore, but if it wasn’t for Wes, this album would not be on this list and frankly, Limp Bizkit would be not be THE nu metal band. And that’s this albums greatest strength, because of his insanely inventive and original guitar playing, they have this sound that’s both iconic and wildly copied. I don’t think Linkin Park exists without Wes, or they’d just copy somebody else sound. The biggest problem with this album is, obviously, Fred durst. He’s just so painfully cringey and immature. Don’t get me wrong you can have a crass inappropriate album without it being cringey and bad, look at all of Gwar’s discography for examples of dirty gross song topics but done in an elevated creative and silly way. At one point Fred brags about how many times he gets to say fuck… like its bottom of the barrel but not done in an elevated creative way. I also find his vocals to be hilarious, not even in a negative way, I just think he sounds funny. Like one minute he’s growling about Rolling rolling rolling only to follow that up with the highest pitched YEAH! Literally comedy gold. But despite the fact that this album has a bunch of cringey songs that need to be skipped everytime, there’s also a ton of songs that are total mirrors to how young men were feeling and they are undoubtedly THE nu metal band. When you list nu metal bands you HAVE to start with Limp Bizkit (or Korn). That’s how synonymous they are with the music scene at that period of time. Also ona small side note/rant, Limp Bizkit did nothing wrong at Woodstock. For those that don’t know, the Woodstock 99 organizers screwed over their customers and didn’t provide them with clean water, or affordable food, or shelter, or security, etc. so when Limp Bizkit came out on the second day, the crowd went fucking nuts and became pretty destructive. But I can’t stress this enough, that’s not Limp Bizkit’s responsibility, that’s Micheal lang and the other promoter’s job. Seriously go watch the Netflix and HBO documentaries about Woodstock 99, they are great.

Album #173 Limp Bizkit: Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavoured Water I mean, I guess it was popular so I’ll give it a pass for being here, but my god I never anticipated myself listening to this thing in its entirety. I really don’t feel like writing a lot about Limp Bizkit, because truthfully they are specifically designed to be a band that nobody puts any real thought into. Maybe I just don’t get their gimmick; I’m going to have to assume they are being tongue-in-cheek because no serious person would ever buy that the Mickey Mouse-sounding dude singing about chocolate starfishes and hot dogs was an actual badass that kicked ass and fucked bitches as he claims. The funniest line that Durst said to prove his bravado was that he watched “The Fight Club” 28 times, which might be the most 2000 thing ever said. Honestly, there are moments on this album where I think I get it, and I’m like this ain’t so bad, but then again, that is like 5 minutes out of an hour plus. The issue is a lack of identity really; ok, make goofy rap-metal, but don’t intersplice it with mind-numbingly boring ballads. It’s either we’re here to listen to some trash while we sniff glue, or we are actually taking you seriously as a band; you can’t have it both ways, Fred. Best Songs: Rollin’, My Way, Take A Look Around Worst Song: Outro (Normally outros aren’t 10 minutes of some dumbass babbling unfunny lines)

295 I have the opposite problem with this album as I have with the likes of Miles Davis. I know in my heart of hearts that the music here is an absolute embarrassment with lyrics so terrible that I genuinely think Fred Durst may be brain dead but I can’t help but enjoy it. Can’t listen to My Generation without immediately watching the stone cold vs Rock wrestlemania 17 promo video, such an ace time in my life. Highlights My Generation Take a look Around Hold on Highlights

Terrible.

Awful in just about every way

Love to see that this album is slowly gaining points now that we're 2 or 3 years removed from this site being overrun with Brit Wankers during COVID who heaped praise on derivative dogshit like Blur and boring Proto-EDM like Kraftwerk while shitting on this because the frontman is a bit of a douche. I wont sit here and say it's a 5, or even LB's best album, but it had broad appeal at the height of nu-metal music and for that it has value.

God this was terrible. Not just because I don’t like this sort of thing generally, but because it doesn’t have the humour of Blink 182 or the intensity of Slayer. The lyrics are whining, desperately self-conscious & totally unthreatening.

No. God. Please god no. Update: didn’t absolutely hate this. Suffers from what I call RHCP syndrome where there’s good musicians with pretty decent production and just the worse front man you’ve ever heard in your life

Gear: ZMF Auteur Classic LTD Shedua Artwork: 🧌🌭🍫 Production: 🔊⚔️💥 Music: 🍟👶😋 Rating: 🧢🧢(🧢)/5

Guilty pleasure

16vyear old me lived this and 41 year old me loves this. Don't get me wrong, its not good by most metrics, but it encompasses 2000s Nu Metal perfectly.

Nope. Not going to do it to myself.

The only good parts of this album are when Fred Durst is not on the mic. The bonus track of Rollin' with DMX, Redman, and Method Man Would be so good if there was also no Fred Durst. I also think they had an internal contests to see how many times you can say fuck on one album. It's horrendous.

Классика, что скажешь

Keep rollin rollin rollin rollin, buenardo

Nu Metal was our warning that the 21st century was going to be awful. I can’t decide if I hate this more than Lincoln Park, but I definitely like it more than Korn.

Derivative and douchey.

What a disgusting food combination!

Lots of screaming but some interesting cool sounding stuff

- Ummmm wtf is this - On paper I should hate this album, but I am actually enjoying it a bit - It’s like a harder version of the beastie boys

This actually isn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's still a 1. If we had half points, I think I could get to a 1.5.

rollin rollin rollin

What a 2000s throwback! I wouldn't call this album one of the greatest or one of the most creative, but it definitely was influential and one of the faces of the pop-metal era. And yet, although I do like the hits because I grew up hearing them on radio and music channels, the album itself falls flat for me a bit.

Saturday, 23 May, 2026 I’m actually offended by the inclusion of this album. It makes me question this entire project. This album is absolutely not one any human should ever listen to. If I could give it. What I’ve stars, I would.

absolute peak

Yes, it is a pretty terrible experience to get through a single listen of Chocolate Starfish. Though the reason I am giving it a 2 instead of the more obvious 1 is because Limp Bizkit is actually quite entertaining. I'm not saying the ENTIRETY of this record is fun because it's not. The last few tracks all run at least longer than 5 minutes and it's fucking abysmal. Their message of FUCK EVERYONE WE FUCKING RULE BRING IT ONNNN washes out half-way, so any new variation of that is met with "Ok, we get it, we'll suck your dick". Then they want to get into more personal topics and that leads to Fred Durst's uncomfortable rage on It'll Be OK and Scott Weiland holding down a confused attempt at a ballad. The last two songs are basically filler - a rap remix of Rollin' and the nine minute long outro. Swizz Beats usually has some impressive stuff up his sleeve, but this shit sucks. I know it's a remix with extra verses, but I still don't think it should be nearly 3 minutes longer than its FAR SUPERIOR counter-part. Then the outro is basically a toss-back to the robot Durst at the beginning before becoming four-ish minutes of Ben Stiller praising the band, three minutes of him laughing on a loop and then the last two featuring voicemails from Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind), Rob Dyrdek (MTV King) and Mark Wahlberg (assault suspect). This brings the album's total runtime to about 75 minutes which is the length of a single compact disc. AKA it's all meant to be filler. But while I say all this negative shit about Chocolate Starfish (didn't even mention the cover), when Limp Bizkit is at their best, they provide a good time. To me, Limp isn't trying to be taken seriously. They're trying to piss you off or get you in a mood, but that mood makes me want to bob my head. I see Fred Durst's whiny vocal delivery even at its most obnoxious to be a novelty. Like him saying FUCK a bunch of times on the first real track, that's just a bit to me. Limp was for the times and their artistic statements needed to fit for a generation that justified the events of Woodstock '99 (and guess who was blamed for that). When I hear a track like Rollin', My Generation or Livin' It Up (with an Eagles authorized sample?), I know it sucks, but it's fun to listen to at times. I think what's worse is someone who actually makes a serious attempt at music and then fills it overbearingly with repetitive ideas, loud noises and a long run-time. Chocolate Starfish is all these things, but they are saved by the fact that their music garners a reaction. I'd rather hear Fred Durst whine about how I should shut the fuck up for 10 hours straight than be sucked into a vacuum of shoe-gaze emptiness with The War On Drugs - or god forbid - be in a room with the POUSSA POUSSEZ guy. In conclusion, Limp Bizkit isn't terrible. This album is pretty bad, but I choose to keep on rollin' baby (4/10, 2/5 on this scale)

Better than expected but still so long.

You know that feeling you get when you look back at pictures of yourself during that awkward development phase of middle school and think, "wow, look at that awkward nerd, how embarrassing..." That's this album. Nu Metal from this time can be good, but this is not, it's forever stuck in that awkward development stage, and anyone who likes this beyond any nostalgic recollection of those times should be embarrassed.

Really liked this album! Favorite song off it is "Hot Dog"

i HATED this when it was released. Viewing it through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia makes it more bearable. I think because at the time of its release my friends thought it was the height of artistic expression...i mean, we were, like 12, but still. Now, if I view it as junk food, rather than listening to my contemporaries view it as Michelin starred dining, I can admit there's always a time and place for Taco Bell. That being said, this does not belong on this in any way shape or form.

Finding "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water" on a list of 1001 albums to hear before you die is certainly a surprise for the day. I'm not going to tell you that it is an essential record, because it's not and the main reason is too much filler. The album runs at least 30 minutes too long - but it is good fun - when the mood strikes - which I confess isn't too often (I own the album!). The production holds up well. The band are tight and in particular the rhythm section provides a rock-solid foundation throughout. The star of the show is guitarist Wes Borland, who has a very distinctive style. In contrast, Fred Durst’s vocals can occasionally sound akin to a whiny teenager and can easily get on your nerves. Stylistically, the album relies heavily on the Limp Bizkit template: - A quiet opening, often accompanied by catchy keyboard motifs or samples. - A shift into rap-style vocals. - A heavy drop, accompanied by crushing, down-tuned guitars and an explosive chorus. This is best demonstrated on the the standout track, 'Take A Look Around' - a genuinely superb song. It follows the standard Limp Bizkit template perfectly, but the clever integration of the 'Mission: Impossible' theme motif makes it highly effective. Oddly enough, the weakest song on the album, 'Getcha Groove On', is the one track that completely abandons this formula. This album represents three stars of genuine fun. It simply suffers from bloat; it would be a much tighter, stronger experience if it were trimmed down to 10 tracks and a 45-minute runtime. 1 "Intro" (2/5) 2 "Hot Dog" (3/5) 3 "My Generation" (3/5) 4 "Full Nelson" (3/5) 5 "My Way" (4/5) 6 "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" (4/5) 7 "Livin' It Up" (3/5) 8 "The One" (3/5) 9 "Getcha Groove On" (featuring Xzibit) (2/5) 10 "Take a Look Around" (5/5) 11 "It'll Be OK" (3/5) 12 "Boiler" (3/5) 13 "Hold On" (featuring Scott Weiland) (3/5) 14 "Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)" (featuring DMX, Method Man & Redman) (3/5) 15 "Outro" (1/5) Total - 45 Average - 3 329/1001 179/329 albums reviewed were new to me.

Didnt fully hate it

This was not enjoyable. I have a history of not liking Limp Bizkit, going back to their debut album and their cover of George Michael's "Faith" My friends loved it (and the rise of Nu-Metal) whereas I thought it was a terrible joke. The same friends subjected me to a long road trip with their second album on repeat. Chocolate Starfish is worse somehow then those experiences. Durst whines like a tweener who just discovered swear words. His raps and rhymes are outshined by the guests including Xzibit, Redman, Method Man and DMX. Their inclusion and the decent Hard Rock chops of the rest of the band almost give some reason to experience this album, but then Durst drops in with his sniveling wailing and whinging, and the moments are ruined. I never want to listen to this or Limp Bizkit ever again.

Limp Bizkit is the shit! And fuck you if you wanna talk shit! Shit fuck tits cunt yeaah baby!

Super funny to see this one here, makes this book about as credible as a UFO documentary. Rollin will always be a fun listen and the drumming is pretty top notch throughout, but most songs on this album just suck and their intended audience only lives in rural America.

My first time listening to a Limp Bizkit album. It’s not bad. It’s not great. It’s an album of its time. The music is decent the lyrics are dumb. But you can get into it if you just ignore the stupidity of it. But I did kind of enjoy this.

Average nu-metal decimated by Fred Durst, very generous 2

Combing the funk metal stylings and anger of rage against the machine or claw finger, the punk ( modern American flavor) attitude of green day , some musical influences of nine inch Nails … all the elements to be great album , just feels a tad puerile. Loaded magazine as an album or the sound of booming from a 13 year old boys bedroom .

Not a single redeeming quality - 0 stars

0 stars

This album has all the class, grace, and nuance as the cover art... and the title for that matter. (1.8) ½★

Absolute garbage. 0.5 stars

It wasn't as bad as I assumed, which is the highest compliment I can give this. 1.5 stars.

“It’s a fucked up world and a fucked up place. Imma throw 3 and a half stars in Fred Durst’s fucked up face.” Not a masterpiece by any means. There is some crud (especially in the back half) but also some blinging anthems with dumb crunchy riffs and big smatterings of dumb lyrical genius. Album went to number 1. Rollin’ went to number 1 and its video with Ben Stiller and World Trade Center in their pomp won MTV awards for best Rock Video. I think the general record buying public spoke very assertively here. Album is a cool, timeless and important one. My favourite songs are the Mission Impossible one, the one where he disses NIN by quoting their own song Closer and therefore paying royalties to them and of course Rollin’. Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’! Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’!

Ugh. The first album, Three Dollar Bill, was good. It was fresh. It wasn’t a sellout album. And this is one of the biggest sellout bands ever. Not to mention how juvenile and tasteless the album name itself is. As a band, there’s a lot of good, crunchy stuff on here. I actually really like the music of about the first half of the album. The problem is that Durst is a world class D-bag and a poser, as the kids used to say. He is constantly posturing as a tough guy. I didn’t buy it, nor did I know anyone who did. Also, when he ”sings” in a higher register it comes out as whiney. The second half of the album seems to take a turn and is less heavy instrumentation and more vocal driven. The worst possible direction they could have gone. It’s also possible I was just over Durst by that point. Admittedly, I liked this more than I expected, again, mainly just the first half. And also, almost entirely just the music, as much as I could focus on it than the vocals. Also, it is a better album than their second, which I took as being more of a cash grab based off the success of their first album, which I still believe to be their best album. It was before they were noticed and before Durst seemed to think he was the best, toughest guy in the building.

#943. I had a good run, there. There was a solid couple of weeks where this playlist was serving me good shit (kinda like what I expected this whole list to be like). But now I've been given Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, and now Limp Bizkit, so I can see the party's over. Oh well. 1/5: trash

no. hard pass. slipknot is far more interesting.

The heavy Wes Borland songs are absolutely fantastic and are part of the reason that Limp Bizkit are now a Download headlining band. That guy is a genius. I like it when John Otto takes it to the Matthews Bridge. But my god the other songs are really bad. Just chop out 30 minutes of the problematic and difficult-to-listen to stuff and you have a very good album.

Aguante Rollin'

Despite having enough understanding of music now that I really shouldn't be scoring this well, I can't deny my 12 year old self a reasonable rating on this one. This got me through many unnecessarily angst-filled moments in my teenage years with it's catchy, shouty lyrics that were so simple that a stupid 12 year old could sing along to. Its driving, growling guitars helped fuel the teenage rage. 'Significant Other' was my favourite album from them mind, I would have probably given that 5 stars.

Not a fan. Didn’t get past a few songs.

2000er edgelord Musik- weiß ich jetzt nicht so

1 of the worst albums of all time!!

Review - I liked nü metal as a kid but even so found Limp Bizkit rough to get into. I never got on with this album, and I still don't. It's got the big singles. The Mission Impossible song isn't bad. Rollin' is a fun throwback. But I was kind of blown away at how self-pitying the lyrics are. I thought of Limp Bizkit as being at the bombastic, bro-y, hip-hop end of the nü metal spectrum, as opposed to the more proto-emo-y end of a KoRn or Papa Roach, but it turns out it was self pitying all the way down. Not a good album, doesn't hold up, but probably worth listening due to the time capsule nature of it. If you're trying to learn about rap metal you should probably listen to this piece of shit. Score - 3.5/10 Need to listen? YES

The album cover and album title and band name make me extremely uncomfortable. What is strange is that the contents are pretty standard for the genre and year.

not my fucking jam

Fred's working through some big feelings. I'll say this: some of the songs aren't as bad as some of the other ones.

75 minutes is just cruel

La roba mi gasa, è un genere che va preso a pillole altrimenti stufa.

I spent most of the album just waiting for it to end....foul language, repetitive music, rap, just really not my scene. I did like the start of "My Way" and then it descended into the group's usual madness. Too bad. The next song which caught my attention was "The One" as it was a little different than the group's usual style. Another song that was a little different was, "Hold On". Again, another group that just has to keep their songs way too long.....my ears get tired of all the noise. Make it stop.....what is going on with the "Outro"? Who wants to listen to members of the group talking about nothing....well....I found something worse....just an endless round of honestly it sounded like fake laughing....then a phone call with a beat behind it. Please make it stop....almost 10 minutes I'll never get back, what a waste of time....at least it is done.

I loved this album as a kid but listening to it now...woof. Fred had NOTHING to say and it goes on way too long. Just bottoms out near the end until the Rollin' remix. Some bangers despite the dumb shit Fred is saying but otherwise it's nothing compared to Significant Other.

Not for me. Too many "fuck its", "Mother fuckers", and "fucks" in general. I didn't like this album at all.

A little embarrassed to say I didn’t hate this…

Started out awful, got a bit better, 1.5 rounded up.

A few thoughts: -I think the only time I’ve heard this was on the way to Foot Locker regionals in my XC assistant coach’s (a former runner 3 years older than me) car. Kenosha wasn’t ready for us: the bad boys of fading in the last mile to finish in the high 17s! -is a song whose entire chorus is NIN lyrics a sample, an interpolation, an homage, a ripoff, or some combination of those? -not enough lyricists count the fucks they use and then write a metatextual lyric about it. NYT, there’s still time to amend that “greatest living songwriters” article! -In “my way,” he sings “just one more fight about your leadership.” “Leadership” is a more jarring word than any of the cursing on this album. Is it a song about fighting with your significant other, or your boss? -when he says “to all the ladies, to all the fellas, and to all the people who just don’t give a fuck,” is that an early example of nonbinary acceptance? Was Fred Durst progressive for his time? In this essay I will… -I had a suspicion the rollin remix would still hit me just right, and it did. A little embarrassed, but not that embarrassed. I like that song and I like the soundscape/production of my way—I would listen to an instrumental version of my way, I’m saying. And i also didn’t hate the mission impossible song—they certainly played the notes of the mission impossible theme. Let’s call that 2 songs (1 for rollin remix + .5 for the other two). So that’s 2 songs on this putrid, juvenile, excessively long album. It should be a 1, but know that if I give it a 2, it’s so this album cover doesn’t appear on my summary page. -it was a little endearing including Ben stiller making fun of your band

Este álbum salió en mí cumpleaños número 6. I'm definitely limping with the Bizkit.

More soggy biscuit than teatime at Eton

Middle school swearing layered onto basic riffs and beats, decorated with the worst artwork imaginable. Quite an achievement. Fred Durst is such a turd.

Full Nelson // Rollin’ // Take A Look Around //

I'm not a judge person when it comes to art, people like what they like. But give this anything more than a 2 and know that someone somewhere is judging you. Abysmal by every metric. I don't believe anything in this "album". Fake tough guys.

keep rolling on outta here

I had such low expectations yet still it fell short.

Thought experiment: Would Limp Bizkit be better without Fred Durst? If yes, would they be anywhere near as popular without him? Anyway, this is pure goofy nonsense that is entirely overhated. Everything here is stupid. Just so, so dumb. But dumb isn't bad, and maybe I'm just more fun in my old age, but I don't hate this. This is all juvenile idiocy, but it doesn't strike me as mean spirited. I'll take this over a lot of the other butt rock schlock coming out at the time. And you may not want to hear it, but this band's sound was deeply influential once you remove the Durst of it all. That said, I don't know man, I'll bust out "Rollin" as a goof from time to time, but I'm not really going back to this, whatever my nostalgia for my early 20s might say about it. It's also way too long and burns through the best songs too quickly. Also major demerits for invoking the fucking Eagles. Gross. And also bold of Fred to interpolate Nine Inch Nails right away. Like you wish, dude. Now im stalling because I have no idea how to rate this. I feel like I should counterweight all the self-serious wankers and their entirely predictable reactions to this lowest of hanging fruit. By which I mean deeeez nuts! Anyway, hands up now hands down.

Начало прикольное дальше так себе и однообразно

Good god, nice try Fred Durst.

Limp bizkit get a hard time these days but at the time they tapped into the tone of the era. Honestly, I was surprised how much I enjoyed this. Yeah okay. The lyrics are childish but the music really varied

Not a Limp Bizkit hater, but a lot of this is pretty lame. The Ben Stiller stuff is great. Livin It Up and Getcha Groove On stood out. 2/5

I appreciate that this list includes major albums from less popular, more controversial genres, but this album runs away from everything that makes nu metal good and isn't even a particularly good Limp Bizkit album. Impressively low-effort.

super annoying "music" from super annoying people. I have to break the rule by giving this crap 1 star. Tough to listen to the complete album. I gave up at the 20 min. mark when I noticed that this album is over 1 hour and 15 minutes long. What really puts this down in the rating are the singer and lyrics. so dumb and annoying.... did i mention that i find this annoying? ;)

Full Nelson

Last night, my basement flooded during a storm. Today, I’m listening to Limp Bizkit. Both experiences are equally enjoyable.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? I am not allowing this crap anywhere near my algorithms. Unplayed. No stars. In fact, this record should give ME some stars.

There are 2 things that stopped me falling asleep during this horrific bloated abortion of an album. 1. The regular use in faux-angry voice of "chocolate starfish", what bizkit mean by this and what I understand by it surely very different, hysterically funny. 2. I got it in my head that the 6 year old having a tantrum sound of it (unreserved apologies to 6 year olds everywhere) sounds like the internal sweaty spoilt ramblings of Trump. But less intelligent.

Nope. Can’t do it. Heard it enough the first time around.

Very much of its time. I don't really care for it now, but back when it came out I had this shit blasting on the discman.

Hard pass. Never again. The odd moment of hey maybe then the knife gets shoved deep into my eardrums over and over.

The very worst of the worst.

It’s just one of those days

plesant surprise

This just annoyed me. Even the great Scott Weiland couldn't lift this above 1 star.

it's like an oasis of piss on a stranded island

Easily the best album on this list.

I thought this was supposed to be bad. Why are there some actual bangers on here?

I committed a lot of musical sins in my adolescence but I'm happy to have passed on this Album