Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Hip-hop mosh rock for angry 13-year-old boys. Except for Hold On which he actually sang in and was actually pretty good.

I didn't like this group when they were popular and I still don't. I'm not sure what's so great about this.

Probably should be more embarrassing than it actually was listening back. Durst’s vocals are easily the worst part.

This band has a song or two that I can appreciate off of the album. I respect that he was able to call in heavy-hitting artists to feature on a track but it doesn’t change the fact that he can’t sing and his lyrics are pretty one-dimensional.

Pretty dire in places, but with recognisable bigger hits mixed in. So a real mixed bag, but stays at 2* due to the other parts of the album.

Hmm not a huge fan

Obviously some people like this, but I don't. I'll give it two stars but man that wasn't pleasant for my ears.

There are some good guitar riffs in there, but the whiny self referential lyrics just suck. It also gets repetitive the longer you listen to it. Could have done with 5 fewer songs on the album. At least the outro is kind of self aware.

Not my fav of theirs but a couple good hits.

Where you at? Enough said....

- Vocals are annoying. - It's quite repetitive. - There's some nostalgia thinking back on the edgy videos and 2000s vibe that prevents me from giving this a lower grade.

Rollin is still a banger

Doing a crunchy riff and screaming fuck doesn't make you Rage Against the Machine. I really don't know which is worse, Durst's voice or the lyrics. Why did they hire angry 14 year olds to write them? Seriously, sometimes they sound OK but most of it is poor.

too long. rollin is a classic but most the songs just sound the same. the outro is too long too. 10 minutes of shit talk🤷‍♂️

Irytujący wokal

Okay as a first draft. Cut half the material, revise the other half, and resubmit.

Woo. I fucking liked this band as a 13/14 year old. I distinctly remember this coming out and being hugely disappointed. Was their other stuff better? Because this is awful

Oh so much worse than I remembered. I liked this! How? It’s bad. It has moments I’ll always be fond of but as an album, this just sucks.

stolen from another review: Chocolate Starfish is a messy, vulgar piece of work that isn't worth anybody's time but will still be remembered for it's moment.

I've never actually listened to this band before and honestly it was better than I expected (which isn't saying that much as my expectations were catastrophically low). A lot of it is just so dumb though.

franchement je met 2 et c'est bcp pour cette énorme merde mais bon comme je l'avais emprunté à la médiathèque et que je kiffais à l'époque ... le feat avec DMX Methodman Redman sauve l'album

Fred durst is a douchebag, that’s certainly true but my actual problem with the album is first it’s length and how much the singing kinda sounds like shaggy off scooby doo. Some songs are okay though so I don’t think it’s a 1 but it’s not very good 2/5

It's dumbfounding that Limp Bizkit became any sort of cultural force, because it's so damn dumb. Most of the personality of Limp Bizkit comes from frontman Fred Durst, who is only ever obnoxious in his delivery. Whiny vocals, repetitively crass vocals, all overpowering the mix so the only thing you can think about is whatever garbage Durst is spewing at any given time. The first actual song, Hot Dog, is this odd diss track that riffs on Nine Inch Nails' Closer. It sucks because it's reminding me of a much better song. Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water (quick sidebar, does not need to be said but terrible album title and cover) has moments that I would actually consider to be good. The rest of the band brings unmatched nu metal riffs that feel like the peak of the genre. Dynamics are used to great affect and I'm consistently impressed by everyone except Durst. There are two notable exceptions where everything falls into place and you get the best of Limp Bizkit: the first is My Way, which is incredibly hype and utilized in the greatest video package ever made, promoting the all-timer WrestleMania 17 match of The Rock vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF Championship. Hearing that outro over the quote "I need to beat you, Rock. I need it more than anything that you could ever imagine" gives me chills. Masterpiece. The second exception is the immediate follow-up Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle), where the band manages to completely make up Durst's shortcomings as a vocalist. It was also used as an entrance theme for the Undertaker during his biker era. I'm noticing a trend here. At the top I questioned how Limp Bizkit became a cultural force. I guess the answer is that the culture preceded the band. Professional wrestling (only one part of the puzzle, but still) had hit a fever pitch in the late 90's and was only going to get dumber. Spectacle had become the game and it was bombastic in every way. Limp Bizkit was more than happy to be a part of that spectacle. Fred Durst is the perfect in-your-face guy to bring the energy. People wanted that sort of unfiltered, unpretentious music that you could break stuff to. Chocolate Starfish is a messy, vulgar piece of work that isn't worth anybody's time but will still be remembered for it's moment.

Having recently blustered to Linkin Park, this “rap”/metal/electronica was a good comparison. Musically I think it might be slightly better produced than Linkin Park. Lyrically it is not as intense “emo” although covering similar themes, but with an incredible puerile tongue-in-cheek tone. The swearing is world record level! With a little more seriousness this could have been improved, but nothing here helps me think that Fred Durst is not a pollock.

Les gens qui note 1, on probablement acheté l'album dans le années 2000. comme tout les jeunes de 12 ans a cette époque. C'est devenu un meme band donc c'est nice de détester, mais c'est vraiment pas si mal. Si on compare avec ce que les jeunes écoute comme rap aujourd'hui, c'équivalent. Juste un band moyen dans un genre qui a existé au début des années 2000 et qui a peaké dans ces années là avant de sombrer dans l'oubli. C'Est vrai que Fred durst est une bitch mais bon il es quand meme pas tout seul dans le band... C'est quand meme drole que la meilleur partie du CD soit le verse the METHOD après 1h00 d'écoute... sauf que l'outro est vraiment la pire toune que j'ai entendu de ma vie j'ai le gout de descendre la note a cause de cela. 2.50

Why Limp Bizkit, but even more importantly, why this one? I guess this one got removed, which is good. I kind of do like the intro to Take a Look Around. It’s not the worst thing in the world but definitely not required listening. 2/5

Incredibly juvenile and far too long? Oh undoubtedly. But are there moments of genuine dumb fun and some good riffs? Shockingly yes.

So Limp Bizkit is like a dirtbag Rage Against the Machine? I never thought of that before but they sound like they're explicitly imitating Rage's musical style on a lot of these songs. But Fred Durst is no Zach de la Rocha, and without the latter's political lyrics, Limp Bizkit's anger sounds performative rather than righteous. It's just an act. Most of the time, Durst directs his anger at critics who don't like Limp Bizkit. His rage doesn't have a higher cause; it's self-indulgent. But I can't get too mad at some of these dumb lyrics. I just roll my eyes. And even a watered-down version of RATM rocks pretty hard. I found myself banging my head from time to time. I also find it charming how much Limp Bizkit wears their influences on their sleeves. There are interpolations of Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses right at the top of the album. Later, on the second verse of "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)," Durst sounds like he's imitating Eminem. I’m surprised to hear some more emotional tracks near the end. The music gets pretty heavy. And “Hold On” is surprisingly gorgeous. The album cover is so bad that I almost kinda like it. It’s so unpleasant to look at. I remember being drawn to it and disturbed by it as a kid.

Fucking hell

I've definitely heard this group's name before but I have no recollection of having heard any of their music, so this is all new to me. They play very well and this is some impressively tight work. Stylistically, it's not what I am usually drawn to but I can easily see why a lot of people like it. And there are definitely moments that I enjoy.

Hmm

I am not ashamed to admit that I was a big fan of theirs when their music first came out. I was a teenager so I was naturally drawn to the high energy and rebellious nature of their music. Going into this I am suspecting that this music won't hold up very well at all. It's probably been 15 or 20 years since I've actively sought out to listen to their music. And my prediction totally holds up, the music is just not good. Sure the big hits might have brought back some fun memories and nostalgia, but the fake tough guy routine got stale real quick. The filler songs were awful. I'll give it 1 star for quality and 1 for nostalgia, but I won't be revisiting this album any time soon.

Tout ce qui touche de près ou de loin au métal est ignoble, vise un peu les bébés-cadavres.

For all the hate I give the author(s) of the list about being so biased of 90s/00s UK unoriginal pop, I'd easily swap any of those albums for this. This is the example of Limp Bizkit they chose warranted inclusion? Must be a must-listen so you know how bad it was in the 90s. 2/5.

Is it metal, punk, or rap or some combination of all three? They can't seem to make up their mind and neither can I - some tracks are boring, and some are meh, but nothing really grabs me.

C Intro - 3 Hot Dog - 2 My Generation - 2 Full Nelson - 2 My Way - 4 Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle) - 2 Levin’ It Up - 2 The One - 3 Getcha Groove On (Dirt Road Mix) - 2 Take a Look Around - 3 It’ll Be OK - 3 Boiler - 3 Hold On - 3 Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle) - 2 Outro - 1, this has to be Ben Stiller. I love Ben Stiller. He’s one of my favorite actors. Definitely in my top 5. While we’re on the subject, my top 5 are Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Jason Bateman, and idk who’s fifth. I’m just going off the top of my head. Also, if this isn’t Ben Stiller, idk what tf I’m hearing. IT HAS TO BE HIM. I’m now listening to a never-ending loop of Stiller’s laugh. Similar to Kid Rock's album, I had zero expectation to like this, and it took me by surprise. Limp Bizkit is more than screamy BS. They had some real musical quality.

Really makes you feel like you're in the 6th grade. Fred Durst has a fun personality, with vocals and delivery clearly inspired by Korn, NiN, and Eminem. The alt metal components are generic guitar work with distortion and chorus to the max. But compared to other nu metal works, he places a greater emphasis on the chill funky hip hop components which make it a bit more captivating and diverse. There's a lot of trash on this album, and certainly doesn't warrant the exhausting double album length. But a lot of it is just ok and bearable, with some decent hits. Significant Other had better songs and was more consistent, but this one isn't so bad either. If it cut a lot of the trash and unnecessary outro, I'd upgrade this by a star.

A little bit too heavy for me

Not as good as Significant Other Mostly nostalgia stars for being young and dumb

This is in no way as bad as the reviews here suggest - I mean, "outro" is legitimately one of the most obnoxious tracks to ever have sullied my Tidal account, and there's nothing which even slightly tempts me, on a day to day basis, to think "I know, I'll play this again", but we can't argue that numetal wasn't something that happened, and we can't argue that it dominated music for a few years. Coincidentally, around the early 2000s when music was utterly, utterly awful. Give me a choice between this and Bob Dylan, it'll be this literally every single time.

Het gitaargeweld kan ik nog wel waarderen, maar die stem is niet om aan te horen en de teksten zijn verschrikkelijk.

Wel lekker, maar ik trek die arrogante stem van Durst echt heel slecht.

Die teksten!

Stopppp

Sure, it's mediocre, but at least it is unbearably long!

Ugh. Why are there two versions of Rolling? Why is this album 75 minutes long? There were a couple recognizable songs but not really good songs. I really did not care for it. It is better than a one but not really a two. I will round up.

Meh it's alright. I want to rate it higher because I love Numetal but I also want to rate it lower because it's Limp Bizkit.

Pretty forgettable for me. I don't know Limp Bizkit really, I think of them as Green Day-ish, or Linkin Park-ish, but at least this album feels pretty vapid. Like it has the sound but not the emotion. Maybe it's just Durst's voice that lends a different feel. But anyway, for me this is a nothingburger.

Even as a teenager who loved Limp Bizkit knowing it wasn’t great stuff lyrically, the music was good behind it. Today, it’s hard to listen to and not laugh at how silly it is today. Definitely hasn’t aged well and wasn’t great to begin with.

It's hard to put this into words. This doesn't belong on the list, unless the goal of the list is to give a spectrum of significant albums regardless of quality. Even if the idea was to represent rap rock, or 2000s post grunge alternative, this isn't the album to do it. Taproot, Deftones, something. Not this. This is objectively awful. It's a whiner whining for 75 minutes, yipping like a puppy with empty and stupid insults. With that said, it sure is nostalgic.

I was about three years too old when Limp Bizkit hit the scene. It was the first music scene I didn’t enjoy. When this came up I thought hey it’s been 20 odd years let’s give it a go. I think the back half was better than the first. However that opening group of songs sounded juvenile. Third album rage I just wasn’t buying. They probably all rolled up to the recording studio in fancy cars and said ok guys time for us to complain about the world.

Yeah, this obviously isn't here for the musical quality, or lyrical dexterity, but it does have something about it. It's mostly either incoherent, unpleasant or both, but I guess you could say that about a lot of punk? Appealed to me to an extent when it came out (I was at an age when I didn't appreciate nuance quite as much as I do now), My Way / Rollin / Take A Look Around still great songs, but they are surrounded by total dross. 2/5.

Rather bracing

Couple of tracks that take me back to my youth, but the album hasn’t aged well and the schtick wears thin pretty quickly.

angry

Wouldn't say I hated it, and it did have potential, but overall just sounds like Fred Durst had some unresolved mommy issues and was angry at the world, with a bit too much time on his hands. 2/5

Honestly? Not that bad. The core band can come up with some killer grooves. No comment on Fred Durst’s vocal performance.

Is nu metal the worst genre ever? Maybe. Is this the worst nu-metal album ever? No. Rollin is an absolutely large tune SoT: Hot Dog Full Nelson Rollin’ (air raid vehicle) Getcha groove on intro 2/5

Didnt age well. Even with the nostagia I cant stand it

Fred, saying fuck doesn't make you cool. I believe this genre is typically called Nu-metal? And I think it's a valid genre, even if I'm not mad about it. The problem with this isn't the grungy guitars, or the heaviness, or even the vocal style that he seems to be going for. It's the writing and the execution - his voice is terrible, the lyrics are so much worse still, and the production is mostly god awful. If I'm being generous, I think there are some cool electronic and guitar noises at points, and maybe with a bit of work, a completely new vocalist, and a rewriting of all of the lyrics, it might be okay. The second half of "The One" is one of the worst things I've ever heard. I'll give it a 2 for some of the musicianship, which is actually good at points. But the production and vocal performance is so good damned disgraceful that it nearly overrides all of that. The outro made me angry for wasting my time

It never dawned on me how bad his voice or raps were. However, it still has some good stuff on there, in amongst the cringe.

Yes, OK we get it, everything's fucked up. Can't you just choose another subject? You know, variation? This is for sad 13 year old boys only.

It's utterly overproduced (with the exception of that bizarre second half). The lyrics are vacuous when inspected. But if I'm honest those are hardly unique complaints, and I found myself shocked by how not-bad Chocolate Starfish started. As a corny white fellow myself, Durst's voice doesn't bother me so much, though the ad-libs are universally terrible. At speed at intensity, the album's not too bad. But then it extends and slows down and the long tail is appropriately underwhelming.

T3B 1. My Way 2. Take A Look Around 3. Livin’ It Up As cringy as it sounds I found myself bobbin my head while listening to this. It didn’t age well but it does have its place. 2

was expecting more

A couple of the songs sounded vaguely like music. Ones that sounded like they had a tube were ‘Ny Way’ ‘Rolling’ and ‘Hold On’. They did a really lovely cover once of ’Behind Blue Eyes’. I wanted them to go back to that style. This was just fucked up. I guess at least they’re not beige!

Not actually as bad as I expected, but not really something I see revisiting ever. It comes across as extremely juvenile, like something my 8 year old Smashing Pumpkins and The Offspring loving self would have enjoyed if I'd been allowed to listen to it. But honestly not bad musicianship. And a fuck-everything attitude that I can appreciate. But if I was in the mood for this I'd play Rage Against the Machine or something instead. 🤷

Album starts out rough, Hot Dog = hot mess, mostly the vocal style in the chorus rubs me the wrong way. Things don't really improve until My Way which actually has a nice melody. Things improve from there...Livin' It Up isn't too objectionable, The One is a good song. So bottom hit an miss sounds like 2.5 stars

The album is a mix of nu-metal, rap-rock, and funk-metal styles. Its overall quality is somewhat questionable. The lyrics are often immature and some of the songs feel repetitive and formulaic. "Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water" is definitely not a masterpiece of music. This album is supposed to be fun and energetic but I just wasn't able to feel this vibe all the way through the album, I think due to its repetitiveness. Still, it can be enjoyable for some people for its catchy riffs and heavy beats, which were the best part of the songs for me.

sound like a poor mans Beastie boys

Like a crappier Linkin Park

Rapcore has its place on this list, but this is not the banner carrier that I would have picked. The Judgement Night soundtrack was the groundbreaker for me. Otherwise, you could point to some Run DMC, Beastie Boys, or Linkin Park. Even Limp Bizkit's prior album ('Significant Other') would've been more logical in my opinion. Now, with that out of my system... This is a better album that I had always assumed it was. I was completely exhausted by the celebrity drama surrounding Fred Durst at the time this album came out. Once I heard the infantile album title, I wrote the whole shebang off. The band is true to what brought them into success. Fluid energy that ebbs from chill to explosive and swaggered lyrical delivery. The tracks that show this off well (with minimal lime-light grabbing tough guy posturing from Fred) are 'The One', 'Take A Look Around', and 'Boiler'. The absolute highlights of the album 'Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)' and 'Outro' are buried way at the end. Granted the first sounds more like a DMX track than a Limp track, and the latter is made by Ben Stiller, so maybe neither should count.

Meh.

I used to like My Way but I have no idea how this got on the list.

Top 3 Songs: 1 - My Generation (3) 2 - Full Nelson (4) 3 - Take A Look Around (10)

2 I didn’t hate it as much as I expected to. But it’s too long to be as repetitive as it is and the nine minutes of laughing for an outro isn’t the best thing in the world

Oh come on, really? Durst and his limp bandmates? Pass the Kid Rock please. I mean I guess these guys were big in the nu metal movement and in 20 yr old white boys' yearning for something hip-hop(ish) that was still white (again, Kid Rock) - I know because I saw how crazy all the other white guys went at the clubs every time the rock set came on (often with a Limp Bizkit tune in there). I always felt embarrassed and usually left the floor. Just because you say f$ck 100 times a song does not make for a good album. The band is actually pretty solid. And admittedly Rollin' is a good pump up song; really, if you're looking to amp up the anger or aggression, this album is pretty good. So despite his vocals and style being annoying as hell, there's something redeeming about Durst's lyrics and energy. And there are times when I might be in the mood for this album. Still, if you're looking for nu metal, Linkin Park was far better.

A few years ago, I listened to ALL the top rock, pop, and alternative song playlists on Apple Music for every year from 1955 to 2018. It was interesting to listen to the ebb and flow of styles and genres at the top of the charts. I recall thinking that the early 2000s were a wasteland of angry frat boy rock at the top of the rock charts. This is a perfect example. It's an aural assault with coarse lyrics. I like a good heavy groove, but I just find the constant cursing and coarse lyrics tiring. I like some of the music, but the lyrics clearly bring it down to a 2. Thankfully this isn't in the 1001 albums anymore. Oh, and the outro made me regret my commitment to listen to every album on the 1001 albums entirely twice - stfu with your stupid looped laugh.

The hits are still hits. The filler is still filler.

Some interesting moments. But overall couldn't get into it.

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

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

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

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 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 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

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'".

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.

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)

Terrible.

Awful in just about every way

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.

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.

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.

What a disgusting food combination!

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.

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.

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.

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.

#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.

2000er edgelord Musik- weiß ich jetzt nicht so

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

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'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.

Good god, nice try Fred Durst.

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? ;)

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

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.

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

A master piece of shit

Hard to believe people bought this

When listening, digesting, and rating these albums, assholeness should not be a factor. Musically 3 stars, Fred's lyrics and vocals drop it to two. Adding this album to the list and denying all of Tool's catalog drops it another star. And honestly, how fucked up is Ben Stiller? Just because there is space left on the CD doesn't mean every minute needs to filled.

maybe the beginning of maga?

I think people tend to look up to or idolize songwriters because they are able to articulate things that we struggle to find words for. No need to worry about that here. Not a single redeeming thing about this album and the only musical part worth a damn is just the mission impossible theme.

That was fucked up!

Did not enjoy this at all. Angry boy music is not my thing. I forced myself through 5 songs.

Fuck Limp Bizkit

That was absolutely awful.

I’m sorry, why in the hell is this on here? This is a joke, right? Who in their right minds would think you needed to listen to Limp Bizkit before you died?

Nah thanks.

This album influenced nothing positive in music. Never liked anything they did and never respected their music

Wanted to be contrary and like this but it's really really bad

'Ain't it a shame that you can't say "fuck" (fuck) / Fuck's just a word & it's all fucked up.' Compare that to Eminem's crusade against censorship, & you'll see who has the cultural & cerebral edge: 'Will Smith don't gotta cus in his raps to sell records / Well I do, so fuck him, & fuck you too.' I don't give a fuck if you don't give a fuck, unless you don't give a fuck freshly & revolutionarily. 'Burn this motherfucker down.' Nothing 'bout Durst & co. is impressively countercultural or subversive. The problem is they also sound bad, i.e., their songs aren't helpful or creative examples of pop metal, rap-metal, or rage styles. I love the word 'fuck' - I think it's English's best & by far most versatile word - but after this record, even I need a break. F this!

I will never forgive Fred Durst for killing fun 90’s alternative rock.

3/24 Shit

lol. No. -1

Whoever kidnapped DJ Premier and made him produce a track for Limp Bizkit, please release him.

1/10 die

The fact that I got this the day after “Court and Spark” is hilarious and one of the reasons I am loving this experiment. That being said, how the fuck is this album in this list. As a junior high student I was obsessed with Limp Bizkit, I even had the red NY fitted cap. That being said, even 14 year old me knew this album blew when it came out. Ass all around and waaaaayyyyy too long. 0/10

Gay

This was a terrible album when released and the years have not been kind to it.

Not so much for me

Worst representative of the nu metal thing. Childish butt rock. Some bands from the time were pretty good, but somehow theses guys sold more records? Insane. He can't sing, writes immature basic rhymes, and curses every other word, That's not for emphasis or because you're being aggressive/cool. You just don't know enough words to put there, so "fuck". There are some decent chunky guitars and that's cool. But there aren't any changes in tempo, tone or anything. So, every song sounds pretty much the same. The only 2 things that had any worth here are: 1. "The One" sounds like a different band and it's not terrible. 2. "Getcha Groove On" has Xhibit who brings something interesting to the game. Are either of those fantastic? Nah. But at least they're a bit different and not as cringe-worthy as all of the est! This album is a 1 and does not belong on this list or in anyone's collection.

What complete and utter trash. Mindless hate and ignorance expressed with profanity and repetitive noise.

In every generation a genre emerges with the primary intent of annoying the old people. Sometimes this creates new and interesting music. Sometimes, as with most nu-metal, not so much.Then again, I'm the old fucker they were trying to offend, so mission accomplished? Nu-metal, especially as exhibited here, strips the best part of metal and tries to replace them with hip-hop void of it soul. The result is a vacuum of anything musically interesting. I can appreciate the fact that the intent is to just be fun and annoying. Many punk bands did this too, but they were not doing it while also being overtly commercial. That difference makes this music seem more like a commercial scam than genuine revolt. The personalities reinforce that impression. I've got pretty diverse musical interests, but there was no joy in this music. Maybe if I saw them live I'd feel differently, but I'm not sure I'm willing to take the risk. How in the fuck did they sell so many records?

Ew. Might have made 2 stars but the album art was gross too.

And I was really enjoying the nu metal up until the Xzibit feature too.

No

Really don't see the appeal in this one. Monotonous sound, and noticeably poor lyrics - I usually don't even listen to the lyrics but this was terrible.

If I could give it zero stars I would

Nope

sisi ahi escucho nu metal

I didn’t even listen it, the name is nasty I’m just a girl

this is horrific but at least it was entertaining ...until it went on too long and became insufferable listening to this made me turn off recently played artists being visible on my spotify profile

What!? Why???

This is dreadful. Why is it on this list?

A generationally embarrassing album. Bummed it was on this list, even more bummed this is 75 MINUTES LONG. Still, it did tickle some nostalgic areas of my brain as a member of the generation that should be embarrassed by this album.

I’m not sure what this album is doing on this list. It had a brief moment in the 90’s. It’s not good.

This was a bit of torture for me. In searching for the reason why some of these albums are on the must listen list, I find the purpose may be for me to identify or validate musical genres that I absolutely dislike; this album certainly falls into that category.

Just as stinky as its title implies. Nu metal in general usually combines lots of elements into a whole that I don't care for - a muddy, congealed, solo-less mush of guitar, annoyingly bouncy and often slapped bass riffs, and usually nasally and reedy rapped vocals. Combine that with the infantile lyrical talent of Fred Durst, and you have something that is just utterly anathema to me. Fred Durst writes lyrics like a 13-year-old who just learned the word "fuck", and has no greater insight into the world than "fuck the haterz!!!1!1!1!!" Particularly egregious, and easily the feature that cemented my 1-star rating, is a song in which Fred and a guest rapper boast about beating up gay people, using an anti-gay slur common of the time period, and then on the very next song, Fred tries to complain about all the hate in the world (and, pertinently, the hate directed at him). You couldn't write a stereotype of an early 2000s edgelord that's that on the nose. Then the nearly 10-minute "Outro" ends off this hour and a quarter of sewer ooze, with a spoken word diatribe about how great Limp Bizkit is followed by three minutes of an incredibly annoying laugh on loop. Fuck you. The only song that had both musically interesting elements and non-god-awful lyrics was Hold On, but this was far too deep into the album to change my opinion, and if anything pissed me off even more, because they could've just been writing songs like that across the entire rest of the album. That song is the only thing saving this from a 1/10, and it's still a fairly low 2/10. Fuck this album and fuck Fred Durst.

I was genuinely embarrassed listening to this.

Pack it up guys, I found the cause of the "male loneliness crisis". In all reality, this album has some really good bones it and it makes me mad that Fred Durst is on it at all. The drumming is generally great, the bass is interesting. There were even two or three songs on here I might listen to again. BUT I can't stand how much of nu metal is self pitying trash about how no one understands me, mom. They could've gone reflective and after pairing a bunch of songs about fuck the world and wrecking shit with songs asking why am I so alone, tried to bring those two ideas together and you know, say something. People make fun of Linkin Park but I believed that Chester was suffering. I think Fred Durst is the type to kick himself in the ass and cry that his foot hurts.

I had successfully avoided this album for 26 years. This stupid ap ruined that streak.

Look I tried to approach this one with an open mind. And some of the instrumentation isn't bad. But man, Fred Durst's voice and rapping just is grating and relentless. And the lyrics are insane - Rollin' is basically a nu-metal version of hokey pokey and that's one of the better tracks. Limp Bizkit has mellowed since their heyday and Durst seems like an alright dude now, but unfortunately this album is still too excessive and over-the-top for me.

You can’t be serious with this one.

Det er længe siden Kid Rock men tror måske det her er den værste plade på listen indtil videre! Teksterne er måske endnu mindre cool, vokalerne er utvivlsomt værre

Nah, fuck this.

Absolutely the worst genre.

Fortunately I'm anonymous here so I can say a slur. Fred Durst/Limp Bizkit in this era is the ultimate wigger. A combination of backwards sideways fitted caps, baggy pants, skate shoes, graffiti and skate culture infused with a nu metal sound. Fortunately he's mellowed in recent years and he's just kind of a shrewd business man cashing in on some nostalgia concert runs. But we're here to discuss Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored water. Its udder shite dude. Spats on the face of nu metal, the art form and hip hop the art form. But it sure does excite the whites. I refuse to accept that this is a credible album to consider before you die. The Wes Borlan riffs are okay but the end product stinks. The only true saving grace is the Songs "The One" and "Hold On" both sound much like Alice in Chains songs. If they stuck to this sound and let it develop it might have been a superb album.

Music for kids that think Mountain Dew is hydration. At least “My Way” and “Rollin’” remind me of mid-to-late WWF Attitude Era with the Undertaker and Stone Cold vs The Rock

you have to listen to this album before you die so that you understand how truly abhorrent the human mind can be

I know I've listened to this before and didn't hate it so much, but this go-round I'm just finding the lyrics annoying, to the point that its distracting.

Not a fan of this style.

What a gross album The cover manages to catch the albums spirit very well. Disgusting and unnessecary. The frontman’s voice is extremely bad and the beats never dissapoint, if you’re looking for something even a baby could cook up. It might just be me not liking the fusion of Metal and Hiphop, but I don’t understand a single aspect of this. How many times does the vocalist mention something about how cool Limp Bizkit is during this? It wasn’t cool at any time, but it only gets worse when he chooses to do it like 30 times. I don’t recommend this to anybody. Maybe if you’re absolutely nuts, but if else please stay miles away at all times. This is also literally the worst album name and cover I have EVER seen before. I mean it. Why the actual Fuck would anyone name their album after hotdog flavoured water? This is also probably the worst outro EVER. Shut Up!!!!!! So anoying. Of course credit shall be given where credit is due, so I have to say that I did think that “Getcha Groove On” actually was fine.

Aggressive, overstuffed grooves built from chugging nu-metal riffs, rubbery bass slaps, hyperactive drum loops, DJ scratches, and relentlessly shouted vocals move this nu-metal album like being trapped at a bad frat party that won’t end—loud, juvenile, and exhausting, mistaking constant noise and swagger for actual substance.

Music Flavored Truck Nutz "Hey I'm throwing a party and thinking of inviting Jimmy Shits." "Why is he called Jimmy Shits?" "He shows up and shits his pants." "That sounds awful." "It is. He absolutely reeks, of course. And don't let him sit on ANYTHING." "Explain to me why he is invited?" "Enough people think it's hilarious. They'll pay to see him! He's such a good businessman. Also, even if you don't like the shitting thing, Jimmy's a really good guy." Following the audience violence that ensued from their Woodstock 2001 performance, the defensible excuse from the Durst was "all we did is what we do. I would turn the finger and point it back to the people that hired us." That is absolutely true, but it doesn't excuse the band for an entire career built on milking money from puerile antics. Certainly, Woodstock 2001's booking made an indefensible move in booking an indefensible band, but the band remains the source of the trouble. The nice things I have to say about this album are that Wes Borland crafts guitar textures that are catchy, inventive, and inviting. The drums have heft and groove, even when locked in middling tempo (for the whole album). The band plays in tight sync with a dynamic range of cool lows that pounce to unleash crashing, scorching catharsis. The lead "Intro" snippet, without significant vocals from Fred Durst, even at around one minute long, promises so much more from pulsing plucky arpeggiation than will never actually be deliverable in this album beyond a tool to force feed you Fred Durst's frat boy act. Emotionally stunted lyrics orbit around a cycle of defensiveness, bragging, self-pity, and violent retribution. "Hot Dog's" dogging on NIN is well into the territory of insecure preoccupation. "Livin' it Up" teaches us that Fred Durst proudly drives a truck and has spray paint in his backpack for doing graffiti. "My Way" shows us that no one understands him and it's tough to be so disliked. (There clearly is no reason why people would dislike you, Fred?), and in "Full Nelson," Fred tells us about the violence he's gonna do to you if you hold him accountable for something he's done. I also have to point out that it's a weird flex dissing on Nine Inch Nails via such heavy recycling of their own musical ideas. Especially in the lead off song of the album, and especially when the reference tends to go on and on. Just when you think eight bars of the joke is enough ("Haha he's doing 'Closer' but making it fukkin' LiMP!"). Durst doubles down on another insecure eight, just to make sure you got the joke. Clocking the amount of time Durst repetitively spends on the Nine Inch Nails inspired material in the choruses to 'Hot Dog' could certainly reveal a shameful and disturbing percentage, but that would involve listening to the 'Hot Dog' again. --- - Do/Did I own this prior? No, not even in my younger years of more questionable musical tastes did I care for this. - If so, how has this day in the project changed my view of the album? - Otherwise, do I look forward to listening to this again? I wither to think I would have to listen to this album ever again. - Is this album's inclusion on the list justified? GTFO. Honestly, "1001 Albums..." compiler Robert Dimery, who I am otherwise grateful to for giving me this project to work on, can fuck right the fuck off for validating any single moment of Limp Bizkit's venal bad-joke-turned-business-venture career.

It is awful, but there is a certain baggy, cargo-shorted charm about Fred and the gang not seen in their sterner contemporaries (looking at you Messrs Manson and Davis). So, one star, but without prejudice or hate.

So bad it made me rethink my other 1 star ratings to ensure I wasnt being too harsh on them.

I knew I couldn't fairly assess this album because I despise the genre, the juvenility and Fred Durst himself, so I casually put on the album with my unwitting son in the car. His immediate review was "Eugh, what IS this?" So, one star.

awful

I was dragged to a free outdoor limp bizkit concert 20 years ago. It was still not worth it.

That was horrible.

Dogshit.

Nope.

I could write at length about what a broken human Fred Durst is. But no, I am here to tell you what I think of this album. Puerile name. Shallow content. The first half is ragey with cliche lyrics. The second half is less ragey. The target demographic for this work appears to be 12-year-old boys. I am not that, so I was unimpressed. I'm not sure why a 30-year-old adult would feel the need to make such content, but hey, I am not here to tell you what a broken human Fred Durst is.

Nope

Trying so hard but ultimately boring. Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful

If I could give this negative stars I would

There is a genius to this album: stupid band name, disgusting album title, hideous artwork, all working together to create incredibly low expectations. And for a moment, it almost worked on me. That is, I went in thinking this would be an easy and obvious 1 star. But then there were some interesting bass lines, decent guitar riffs, and a few memorable hooks. I was almost lulled into giving this an undeserving 2 stars before I remembered that it’s an irritating, grating, and offensively long album, and that I’ve given the other albums 1 star for less. So fuck this shit, it gets 1 star.

How dare this be included

Yuck

Hard pass

Yea no

🍫⭐️🐟

…what am I even listening to? These lyrics are painful.

Why is this so long?? We needed the 20 mins of the annoying laugh at the end. This is so ugly in every way and very little redeeming about it

I did actually listen to this, and I'm sad that it will mess up my algorithm. It's utter shit. I don't find much of anything redeeming here. If anything, I'd say Wes Borland is a talented guitarist. But the songwriting and Durst's singing are just intolerably bad. He's insufferable, and the lyrics are filled with the same toxic masculine persecution complex that persists into 2025. The Woodstock 99 documentary does a great job capturing the gross culture that this album embodies, and I wish it would just die off. Why is this on the list? Because it sold a lot of copies? It's a bad inclusion.

In what world is this an album that everyone needs to hear? This is like a nine year old boy who just found out about porn and also realized that he can curse without repercussions. This is quite possibly the worst album I've ever heard. To think that this album took up space on the list that could have been taken by so many others who are vastly more deserving. It’s not right. It's just disappointing. 1/5 and dear god please take this one out.

I don’ty likey

This is on the 1001 list and not Voodoo from D'Angelo. 1

Förlåt men det går inte.

True, it's awfully long, music and lyrics are shite, and the voice of what-the-fuck-is-his-name is outrageous... but look at the cover art!

Here we go, over 70s albums in and it's finally time. I've been dreading this since day one of starting this project and today is the day. I actually feel relief more than anything, I don't have to wake up every day dreading this album anymore. But enough about that, let's talk about the awful music on this thing. Man this is a mess, it's frustrating because there are just a handful of moments that do have a genuinely killer guitar riff, but they are so few and far between that it's barely worth acknowledging. 99% of this is just cringe lyrics and musical clichés that were even predictable at the time.

Went in with some preconceived notices, and it pretty much met them all. Cheesy, one note, and uninspired. Im not a Nu Metal fan to begin with, and this was bad even for Nu Metal. It tried really hard to be edgy and cool, and it didnt land for me. One the plus- the instrumentation was energetic and sometimes enjoyable Overall- 1.5/5, definitely not a 2

Sonofabitch.

I found it difficult (but not impossible) to finish to this.

Not a fan

Aged about as well as a hot dog.

This was even worse than I expected it to be.

Bruh

Limp Bizkit is actually a very talented band, but Fred Durst is the Fred Wurst. Looking at the lyrics, Fred just comes off as some sort of cringy edgelord literally saying the word "fuck" 50 times in the song Hot Dog alone. Considering this album to be one you have to listen to before you die is just ridiculous...

I think a lot of people can collectively agree this is where Limp Bizkit's ego got to their head. I mean did you expect an album that disses Nine Inch Nails and interpolates a song about using sex as a substitute so the main character doesn't kill himself in the first song would be any good? It shows how surface level they are and that is painfully obvious by the horrible aging this album has gone through in the last 23 years. I could deal with Fred Durst on the last two albums but now he sounds obnoxious and annoying, almost like a prepubescent 13 year old with how squeaky his voice is at times. Can we also mention how terrible this album cover is and was even for 2000? Like I've seen way better usages of the stock text, color, and font on a high school powerpoint presentation. I can't lie the music here isn't bad, I mean the production is pretty solid but it is a matter of how wimpy Fred Durst sounds that holds this project back. The mission impossible sample on Take a Look Around was actually pretty cool but that's easily the best thing to come out of this album by a long shot. I just wish this album didn't try being so mean because it just comes off so laughable in every way, again I can understand it for the time but again this album shows just how childish the band can be at times in the worst ways. It's again not as bad as people say but you can also very much see the downfall in quality start picking up here, and it'll only get worse the more we go on... This album solidified Limp Bizkit as the secretly racist, homophobic, etc. person's favorite rap group.

If Nu-Metal had to have some representation of this list, this was a poor choice.....

What a shit band

Did not realize I opened up the spin-off: 1001 Albums You Should Listen to Before You Turn 14

Absolute and utter garbage! It has absolutely no business on this list! Hey Fred what rhymes with f*ck? Oh yeah F*ck ….. did I mention that it is garbage?? Really wish I could click Zero stars … I will click 1 start because I have to but just know that it’s a “negative 1” rating! Only a real chocolate starfish would put this trash on a this list!

Is this the worst album I’ve heard on this list yet? No. Would I ever listen to it again? Also no. I was going to be generous with 2 stars until the absolutely insanely long outro that brought it back down

The Intro, The Outro and Hot Dog sealed the 1 star rating for this album. There were a few songs in the middle that could have gotten a 3 star if they were standalone songs or on an EP but to start and end ann album with such garbage is unforgivable.

No.

Really really struggled with this album. Just really not a fan of this type of music.

Sometimes in life, we’re going to have moments where we do things we don’t want to do. I refer to these as “vegetable moments”, as much like eating your veggies as a child, you’re going to come out the other side with the experience under your belt. While eating your veggies is beneficial for you in the long run, listening to this album is not going to provide you with the same health benefits. It’s loud, it’s crass, and it KNOWS it’s both of these things while going out of the way to give nu metal a bad name. There’s one song I adore on here, and that’s Rollin’. Everything else was good to listen to in the sense that I gained exposure to new things, and am now glad to say I don’t have to listen to Fred Durst again.

This is what happens when toxic masculinity goes unchecked.

Are you kidding?! Everyone back in the day knew this was their worst album. I remember they tried to hype it up like it was their Sgt. Pepper. Rollin' was so weak. Take A Look Around was the best track and that's only because of the Mission: Impossible riff.

Almost every song shares its title with a better song. I can only assume this is so when kids were downloading the better songs off Napster they might accidentally download these and inadvertently spread this garbage.

Helt grusomt

An heinous situation

Bad start taking the biscuit out of NIN, and it got worse! It's fun and maybe would've been more fun in 2000

It’s just absolutely awful.

Fred durst can suck my

crap

Shite.

I remembered not liking this album when it came out, and it's actually worse than I remember. Fred Durst might be the cringiest frontman in history. How did I used to be a fan of this group?!

I'm guessing this really appeals to 14-year olds, because it sounds like it was written. by 14-year olds. Also, a 9 minute outro is bollocks, particularly when 4 minutes of it is a loop of somebody laughing.

This doesnt even have break stuff or nookie which are least fun terrible. This is all just terrible.

I tried to come to this with an open mind. I failed.

1/10

Aged absolutely horrendously. I could be listening to Linkin Park, Slipknot, or System of a Down. Perfectly fine until the moment he starts rapping with his annoying ass voice. Also really appreciated the 3 minutes of looped laughter on the Outro. Hot Dog references nine inch nails and I was enjoying it until I realized that I could just be listening to that. This deserves its spot here, but it sucks.

Nope

Sorry.

Screetch from Saved by the Bell is all grown up, and not taking your shit anymore, so you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

Just awful. Rollin' is semi fun though (get's the extra 0.5) 1.5/5

Why am I wavering so much on this one? It's not a good album. It's not groundbreaking in any way. The lyrics are dumbfoundingly bad. But I have a hard time giving it a one, mainly because "Take A Look Around" is actually decent and I made it through the whole album (okay, I quit 2 minutes into Outro, but really, was there something amazing in the last 7 minutes?). On a 1-10 scale this would be a solid two. There are worse. There are much, much - much - better. I guess I'll go with 1 here. But really it's like a 1.5. Only saved by "Take a Look Around".

Now that I have heard this album, I need to go and wash my ears out with GOOD music. Holy cow, this album is bad except for the ONE song that was a hit somehow. The Outro track is just them attempting to justify their band's existence. I quit listening after they started saying no one else but themselves could take rock and rap and make an album that didn't sound like crap. They lied. Plenty have done it FAR BETTER than them.

I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where Limp Bizkit originates, in the 90's and early 00's. I went to school with second cousins of Fred Durst. In my early formative years I experienced the pop culture saturation of Limp Bizkit in real-time. "Rollin'" and "My Way" were inescapable. (Even "Weird Al" Yankovic had "My Way" in his "Angry White Boy Polka" medley from Poodle Hat (2003).) It was never really my thing. So today, 1001 Albums Generator wants me to listen to this album even though it's no longer technically on the list. Thoughts before I listened: This feels like it was included on the list for historical context (late 90's/early 00's white boy nu metal / rap metal) rather than as an example for an incredible album. I don't have any of the books, so I don't know the write-up. I also don't really like Nu Metal. It was such a Thing when I was growing up, but any nostalgia I may have for it is laced in irony. But surely there must be better examples of early 00's Nu Metal to go on the list. Is Hybrid Theory on the list? Also, I am so reluctant to listen to this album on my streaming services out of worry it will fuck up my algorithm. (I know how pretentious that sounds.) "Intro": Feels like an OutKast rip-off. "Hot Dog": Tidal doesn't have this uncensored. There's almost no lyrics without the expletives. I had to seek out the uncensored version elsewhere. I was absolutely shocked that the chorus is shoplifted from NIN's "Closer". Absolutely egregious. "My Generation": Are we invoking The Who with this? Begins with a Jax, FL reference with the Matthews Bridge, which connects Arlington to Downtown over the St. John's River. I do not like driving over this bridge. The turntable riff is monotonous. "Full Nelson": The lyrical perspective is defensive, prosecuted. The vocal delivery is smarmy and then angsty. It posits both that the narrator will physically assault their enemies for verbal harrassment, but the bridge pleads for everyone to get along (and that people are awful). "My Way": The most successful song with lyrical consistency and a solid hook in the chorus. Except the post-chorus guitar riff feels way too close to "What It's Like" by Everlast to be considered original (in my book). "Rollin'": Absolutely crazy how popular this song was. Designed to be a Wrestler intro song. (It was The Undertaker's entrance theme from 2000 to 2002.) "Livin' It Up": Sampling the Eagles. Lame. Imitating Cyprus Hill. Weird. "I'm the starfish." So you're the... asshole? "The One": I don't really care for Durst's singing, but the guitar tone is nice and the bass line and drums are funky. Is this secretly the best song on the album? I do not like Fred whispering in my ear. "Getcha Groove On" (featuring Xzibit): The synth sample is so unusual compared to the rest of the album. Turns out it was sampled from a Cirque du Soleil trapeze act. They sued Limp Bizkit for using the sample. Even French Clowns are out to get Fred! "Take a Look Around": No one else would be brave enough to do a Mission Impossible Nu-Metal song. John Woo, what hell hath you wrought? So strange that this was made for the film when it's so lyrically irrelevant to the subject and themes. This song had a Grammy nom, but it lost to RAtM's "Guerilla Radio", which we can all agree is a better song. "It'll Be Okay": The guitar tone reminds me of going to Guitar Center and hearing people fuck around with too many pedals. Part of the guitar riff in the chorus sounds like the guitar riff from "Swamp Thing" by the Chameleons, a song I love. "Boiler": Has anyone ever written an essay on Limp Bizkit's lyrical anal fixation? I'd read that. "Hold On": The musical equivalent of someone grabbing you when you're trying to walk away from a conversation. "Rollin'" (featuring DMX, Method Man & Redman): It is very nice of three legitimately good rappers to just let Fred Durst do his silly shit before they eclipse him with their verses. "Outro": You know, this vocoder is also a rip-off of "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys. "This is a Phat Beat...by DJ Lethal." No arguments here, it is a nice little beat. Shame it's spent on...this. Overall Impression: This debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Sold over a million copies in the first week. Eventually certified platinum. Pretty much all of the best choices on this album are taken from better songs with more sincere intelligence and creativity. The term "shoplifted" kept coming to mind. It's 75 minutes, and that's just stupidly long for what's on offer. I think the band--Wes Borland on guitar, John Otto on drums and Sam Rivers on bass--are technically competent but uninspired. It's interesting that a band with such influence and popularity had such short staying power. My conclusion is they never fully had their own identity, something that couldn't easily be traced as being lifted from another artist. Every artist learns from their heroes and influences, but good artists distort it through their own taste and interests into something unique. I don't think Limp Bizkit ever wholly became their own, and so there was nothing for the mainstream to hold onto once the shine of the pop culture spotlight burned out. Considering the artist behind the art, Fred Durst seems like a dick. For everyone who likes this album, I am so happy for you. This isn't my genre. I would rather hear the bands they're lifting inspiration from than this.

Ugh. So happy I missed this the first time around

Hate that this is culturally relevant.

Just plain stupid

A 75 minute musical interpretation of 2 drunk douchebags who bump into one another at the bar, and then puff up real big. "Hold me back...I ain't the one...dont disrespect me...imma knock you out!"...All that unimaginative bluster and you know they aren't really going to inflict any damage.

After I heard the first song on the album, where the singer keeps singing (or should I say shouting) “fuck me like an animal”, I just knew this was going to be a poetic masterpiece. If I took a shot every time they said “fuck” (or some variation like “fucking” or “motherfucker”), I’d be dead from alcohol poisoning by the second track. But to put it in the words of the ever-creative and oh-so-poetic Fred Durst (or whoever came up with these impeccable lyrics): fuck this album and fuck Limp Bizkit.

русню не слухаю

i was considering making a list of all the very y2k elements of this album but then in the first three tracks they mention downloading Shockwave and so i just considered my list complete and left it there. generic whiny lyrics abound. main adversary seems to be people "talking shit" which is too vague to be concerned about. 1.5

I got through about four songs. This stupid fucking thing is 75 minutes long! Zero stars. The thing about the "no redeeming qualities" charm of punk rock is that there actually are a lot of redeeming qualities, they just fly in the face of conventional taste, and appear juvenile to those outside the target audience. If this has any redeeming qualities I couldn't begin to tell you what they are... and I was young when this came out, so I feel entirely qualified to say that this sucks ass.

God awful. I love life too much to take this album seriously

nah

Rotten. And far too long, including a 9 minute outro just to make sure every second of the CD is packed with their malodorous tosh. It would be slightly less rotten if it was trimmed to 45 minutes, but - to be clear - would still be rotten. Blustering, belligerent, whiny, tiresome, puerile tosh

Poltifact Truth-O-Meter Statement: “I'm just a crazy motherfucker livin' it up - Not giving a fuck” Exhibit A: “Why is everybody always picking on me? - Full Nelson Exhibit B: I can see it when you laugh at me, look down on me - My Way Exhibit C: “And now you wanna hate me! - Take A Look Around Exhibit D: “Now who's the star sucker? I'm the Starfish. You silly motherfucker.” Fact check ruling: Pants on Fire - Fred Durst very much does give a fuck and this album is pretty much only that. It may also be relevant to know that the man who wrote these "lyrics" was 30 years old at the time.

Completely average weiner mall-ninja rage extract with decorative foil skulls allllll over the thing and the tags still attached.

herrie. minder dan 1 ster

Limp Bizkit is music for people who think society is mean to them just because they are misunderstood... but who society is actually.mean to because they are intellectually uninterested, self-absorbed, misanthropic assholes (or chocolate starfishes in Fred's parlance). Its easy to make fun of Limp Bizkit, so you don't really have an excuse not to. They probably thought it was a win getting DMX, Redman and Method Man to perform on the second version of "Rollin'" but their presence only makes me A) doubt their judgement and B) drives home Durst's lack of talent through direct comparison.

This album is bad in so many ways. Boring and repetitive. Unimaginative lyrics when the lyrics aren't simply copying better songwriters ('Closer' and Nine Inch Nails are so far above Durst & this band that they might as well be on another planet.) Too long. And ultimately a reflection of white dudes who feel put upon when they have to treat women and minorities like people.

I can imagine the acne-riddled boys that related to this shite.

Nu metal continues to haunt me. It's just so so lame. Rating: 1.3

If you like a rapper doing his thing over heavy metal guitar riffs and thunderous drums, you'll love this. Not my thing.

No thanks.

why is this here

ugh. unlistenable.

I only know My Way because of Weird Al's Angry White Boy Polka. Honestly, I went into this expecting to hate it, and whilst I still don't overly like it, it exceeded my low expectations (partly formed from whatever that cover is). Still gets 1 star though.

00f. (1/100)

Total garbage. Next.

shit

Bara för att det är amerikanskt så verkar författaren acceptera vad skit som helst.

1.0 / 5.0 ughhh

This is the first time I've ever listened to Limp Bizkit. I definitely wasn't missing anything. The music is fine, but the potty mouth lyrics and the whining and fake anger is just all so over the top it ruins everything.

This seriously sucks.

How the hell can anyone justify THIS being on a list of must-hear albums? There are no words strong enough to describe just how bad this is.

I have not given up on any of these albums ... but I was close so many times on this one. Pretty much every track I wanted to turn it off. This would be that situation, where your buddy pops in a Limp Bizkit tape into your car, and without thought, you hit the eject button and whip the tape out the window.

It’s an odd sensation to listen to something and feel your brain cells dying as it happens. This album is so frustrating because there is some musicality and genuine hook to the songs, but the extremely juvenile nature and the constant feeling of impotent rage makes it impossible to care. I had almost considered giving this two stars before being forced to endure the outro track and minutes of the same laughing sample. Maybe I’m jealous because I wish I could equally rich and famous by being a useless, vile, lazy person.

Horrible band name, ridiculous album title, ugly cover art, terrible music. The best moments were when the music became so stupid that I started laughing. Thank you so much for making 75 minutes of hot dog flavored water. I’d pay money to guarantee that I never encounter any of this again.

The last song on this album was so pretentious I couldn’t handle it. I see why this album was removed from the list in later versions. Good thing it was over an hour long

Year 2000 can keep this one...

From Wikipedia: 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. I wasn't even going to bother listening, but then I thought, what the heck, it might not even deserve the default 3 stars I was going to give it. It might deserve a 1 or 2. So I listened. How the hell was this ever included in the 1001 book?? Did Fred Durst do favors for the author? 1 star

DNF...epic album title tho

I didnt like it, and didn't think it was objectively any good either.

I have too many brain cells for this shit.

This is something I need to hear before I die??? - My favourite fact related to this album was that Rollin' was the final music video shot at the World Trade Center in NY. They sent Limp Bizkit a thank-you fruit basket...on September 10, 2001.

Didn’t like it at all. Cookie cutter crap.

Nah.

Im impressed i made it through so you dont have tio. Trash

Hallo, wij zijn hele stoute jongetjes, wij zeggen lekker poep en pies. En dat dan keihard. Na vier nummers was ik deze Kreupele Kaakjes al spuugzat. Wat een treurige sukkels.

New Metal is bockmist

Wow, even worse than I remembered.

Holy shit did I hate this. The intro was terrible. This sounds like an old man writing for teenagers. If I had to write lyrics for kids now I’d say a bunch of cuss words, cap and bet. It would be just as shitty as this.