Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Unbelievably wack. It's an hour long tirade of douchey, yet trashy rhymes that make you feel like you had one too many monsters before booze cruising around the streets of Jacksonville. The same way we look back in time at questionable fashion choices, I look back at this album and think "how the fuck was this ever popular?". This album is a cocktail of bud light, testosterone, energy drinks, cigarette smoke, and insecurity that gets spit out at the listener through the corniest bars of all time. Silver linings: I'm now realizing that I should be grateful that I was too young to ever get into this album or know who Fred Durst was while the album was popular
lol wtf even is this. what an actual drag of an album. i never even understood why rolling was so popular. the album would have gotten a 2 if it was just rolling alone tbh
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
Floored by the blatantly immature and ridiculous album title and cover artwork. Seriously, this is such a pathetically bad attempt at some kind of innuendo. I can’t believe actual music business professionals shipped this. And honestly, you’re gunna tell me the Limp Bizkit album that doesn’t have Nookie or Break Stuff on it is the one worth a damn? Fuck off.
An album that really hasn’t aged well over time but one I have fond memories of. Trashy, grungy but worth 3 stars
Atrocious album.
Incredibly juvenile and far too long? Oh undoubtedly. But are there moments of genuine dumb fun and some good riffs? Shockingly yes.
This album sucks lol
Ah, good old Limp Bizkit. My memories of the emergence of nu-metal in the early 2000s as a late-teen/twenty-something, was that it was the domain of a particular social subset, not quite goth and not quite emo. Whilst I did not subscribe to either, I was quite partial to 'My Way' and 'Rollin''. This was my first time listening to this album in full, and beyond the juvenility inherent (not just the album title), there are some pretty catchy tunes on here, perfect for a good bit of headbanging. I'm sure a lot of purists will hate on Fred Durst and crew, but I would listen unapologetically again.
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.
Uhhh yea? Limp Bizkit is on this list but it's not even "Significant Other"? Not the album with "Nookie" or "Break Stuff"? I guess that means we're going to get 2 albums by them on this list which leaves me perplexed. I can appreciate what they did for metal, as the rap metal / nu metal contrast to TRL's omnipresent pop showings in the late 90s/early 2000s was a cool and fun battle for music fans of wildly different genres. It was enjoyable to see if a metal band would be the number 1 on TRL and have this feeling of winning something... until the next time TRL was on. It was fun to see them and Korn doing their thing and getting a fair amount of play on the radio to the pop music of the time but man... they just kind of suck. Fred Durst has one of the most annoying "singing" voices of all time. It's like a mix of the quintessential bully voice, a whiney kid, and a comedian trying to make music by masking his voice and having it be passable to some extent. It's just weird. At the same time I don't really appreciate what they did for metal too much. Korn was the band next to them doing it and Korn was a really good band. They had good musicianship, good songwriting, lyrics, themes, and in general a lot that LB didn't have. Now that I think of it, it feels stupid that LB is even on this list if it's not for the album with "nookie" and "break stuff" on it. For my personal starting point on this list, to have Korn not come up already feels dumb and it feels dumb that LB's second-best album from this era is on this list before any Korn record. I know that you can start this project at any point and it will revolve day after day so this might not be everyone's experience, but this is mine (ours) and that's just bleh. It's a 1/5. I don't like the music. It doesn't need to be heard before you die.
C'est très laid
I wasn't expecting to see this on the list. Memes aside its not that bad of an album. Has some fun tracks on it if you don't take it too seriously
3.5
I really hope this doesn't appear on my Spotify wrapped for 2023. 'The most embarrassing album you listened to was...' the best bits of this are all samples, and the whole thing is so utterly cringeworthy: from the band name, to the album name to the artwork to the utterly unimaginative swearing.
Past the ridiculousness of Fred Durst's persona and word choices are some fairly catchy songs. I admit this album has a special place in my heart, as I remember the excitement when in 7th(?) grade my friend introduced me to this. It was something I would not have been able to access due to my parents relatively strict policies about what I watched and listened to. Many of these songs still hold that power for me, the feeling of magic of hearing something I had never heard before, something off limits - perhaps strongest with "My Way" and "Take a Look Around." The album is way too long and that final 10 minute track with Ben Stiller is garbage, but I did appreciate listening to the album again.
And I thought it couldn't get any worse than Kid Rock. Turns out I was deeply mistaken. I can now barely hold down my job as I have become significantly dumber after listening to this. Limp Bizkit. Not even once.
Fuck off with this title omg. It could be a 2 because it’s competent at what it is trying to do… but I certainly don’t wanna hear it. Apparently this album was removed from later 1001 albums as well. I wouldn't have missed it.
Horrible
God this is a dumb band. And a dumb album. But not as bad as I expected? Except the outro. Ugh.
Fucking hell
This was the worst album I have ever heard. Sounded like a whiny 13 year old wrote the lyrics and a screechy 45 year old sang them. The music is generic and the only good parts were from the guest musicians. Totally sucks!
M.A Nummisen Tallinnan ja Tukholman laulu kertoo kaiken meitä ympäröivistä naapurivaltioista, jota on olennaista tietää. Parasta tässä albumissa on se, että nämä henkilöt ovat hyvin suosittuja ja sinun pitäisi tietää heidät. He ovat Ruotsin ja Viron tavoin olennaissia entiteettejä tässä maailmassa. Outro
I didn’t have a great day today and that may be because this album got generated 1/5
I didn't make it all of the way through the album because it's noted that this album was removed from the project at a later release. This should've stayed and Fetch the Bolt Cutters should never have made it. This isn't good, but its' cultural relevance may make this album worthy of a listen. I could totally mosh if drunk enough. This created a whole subsection of people who wore Neon too big gym shorts with TAPOUT Shirts. Ahhhh youth. I see what they were going for with the Rap/Rock and how hype they were on themselves given the time, but I can't stand it.
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 tried. I listened to a few songs, but it’s so bad I can’t stand it.
first listen consistently mediocre
fuck off
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.
Mega new metal 1994
Excuse me, I seem to have ended up on the list of "Albums that no one should have to hear before they die" somehow. This is shit. Its just bad. Lyrics, music, themes, its all shit. 1/5
Amazing production, crisp, clear, layered perfectly. I love the dynamic changes when the beat goes from hip hop to rap rock, the guitar elevate the energy perfectly. Some legendary features included as well. Lacking the melody and songwriting diversity of Linkin Park, but a solid entry from this genre.
Refreshingly heavy yet melodic album
it was fire but i hate the album cover.
Tout ce qui touche de près ou de loin au métal est ignoble, vise un peu les bébés-cadavres.
Je suis asez fan du groupe Limp Bizkit pour l'ensemble de leur oeuvre, et allait donc leur accorder un 4/5 bienveillant. Malheureusement l'outro m'a fait changer d'avis, y en a mare de ces groupes qui veulent faire les interessants avec des outro ridicules.
Load.
oh fuck yeah dude. Never did own this album nor have I listened to it other than what they would have played on the radio. So this will be nice. Dude I actually really like this. Love the attitude and the rhyming. This album is great! 5 ✨
Certainly a mixed bag of an album. The pros: - While Fred Durst seems to be up his own ass most of the time, he's got a unique style both rapping, singing, and screaming that does work. It's all over the place and that's part of the allure. Also interesting is you can actually understand everything he says. - DJ Lethal is legitimately great. - Wes Borland and Sam Rivers are perfect for each other - their tone and articulation (guitar & bass) complement each other for powerful, punchy instrumentation. - Sometimes you just want to listen to some angry yet braggadocios music. The cons: - The album is WAY too long. - The first half blows the second half away This is an album not to be taken seriously - it's basically the professional wrestling of music. But if you can separate your brain from your ears, it's a lot of fun.
what an enigmatic band these guys are. heavy rock guitarist who wears masks and big goth outfits 6 string bass player (weird) a wiki wiki wiki scratch DJ a drummer with a kit the size of small country and fred durst these people shouldn't be in a band together, i don't have a clue how they met, but weirdly they landed in that rare band place where every member adds something to the whole that improves it. i dislike most of this album but considering how much shit they get as a band (mostly because fred was a grade A bell end) i respect what they did. they created a genre, admittedly one that was a bit shit, but they're quite a tight band and the downtempo stuff is genuinely nice to listen to. so that said, i'm of to go and break stuff.
What is this filth? Preposterous lyrics and terrible clothing, but somehow it moved me to tears. A quite remarkable piece of music. Limp Bizkit will be the name of my first born child.
Haha of course it's a 5. It's Limp Bizkit. Fuck it. I mean, it's not a 5, but there we go.
This album is awful, even for me, enjoying a significant part of the nu-metal movement and its bands. It's entirely inutile for 2023.
Got maybe 3 songs in. Couldn’t get into it
This made me re-evaluate other albums I thought were 1 star.
It like someone singing through their chocolate starfish.
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.
OK, I'm only about halfway through, and two things immediately come to mind. First, I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying this, I've never listened to these guys at all, really, other than random hearing of their bigger hits. That said, I like industrial (Ministry, KMFDM, Front 242) and I like rap (Beastie Boys, Digable Planets, Tribe) and I'm not scared of noise (Swans) and so this is kind of great. Second, I am blown away -- amazed -- to hear there is a "clean" version of this album. What the hell?!? I am just going to have to check that out, as the level of profanity in this record is off the chart. The album runs a bit long and some of the tail end of it is rather meh, but overall still surprised and impressed that I enjoyed it as much as I did.
It's a very melodic rap record, which leads me to wonder if it's actually a rap record... Still really good.
Conflicted on this one. The album/music itself is a master class in pumped, angry, air boxing motivational music. The production is good, when Fred tries to sing it work, when he spits anger, it's a little whiny, but it works. In addition to the problem of Fred Durst, the place where this title comes from it not just juvenile, but they still think its edgy and cool. Blink-182 gets away with the same thing (Take Off Your Pants) but are making fun of themselves with it. Entirely different dynamic. Fred doesn't earn his self-pity anger on this album, but the energy and music work if you're just singing it by yourself. Entirely engaging.
Great angry album, lyrics are some nonsense tho lol
Devido à MTV foi o meu primeiro contato com o NU metal. Achava que algumas músicas interessantes para escutar um peso com alguma coisa de irreverência. Vale pelos hits.
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.
Plus one star for the Wu Tang track. I was in Jr High when Limp Bizkit hit the scene, and I was way too into them, even for the time. This album is the one where they jumped the shark (if that's possible). If this band has to be on the list (they don't), it should have been one of the first two, and I'm not saying they would hold up at all; what I am saying is whoever added this to the list didn't have the ear of the pimply-faced target audience of the day. Btw, the outro includes a dude making fun of the band for like six minutes and it's by far the most relatable thing they've ever done. Best track: Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)
hate this shit
Honestly, this is much better than I expected. It kind of reminds me of a worse Red Hot Chili Peppers with a touch of Metallica? Ya know what, I vibe with this, it's goofy enough where you can laugh and bob your head at the same time because the music is still decent. Big props to the drummer too, very stylistically impressed by him. I will say, I still played this at a *very* low volume at work, just in case.
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.
The fucking peanut gallery, sheesh. This album fuckin thumps. It isn't as good as significant other, but it has its charm. Not that anyone here plans on giving it a chance. Willing to bet half these reviews were written before the first song finished, and the album was turned off after that. Pussies. 5/5 and keep fuckin ROLLIN!
Oh god... this album is just what I hate about music. Nu metal and rap metal from the 2000s... ugh. just awful. I hated this music at the time and I still hate it now. This is just such trash. I wanted to give it more but god no. It's just garbage. The album cover just adds to the insult. Fuck this trash.
No, no. You can't trick me. I'm not fouling up my music recommendations for this obvious troll pick.
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.
I like this band to a certain degree. Yes, they had a big influence on the genre for a solid 1-2 years? But next to every great song is a clunker. But this one is probably my favourite album all together of them. Take A Look Around, Boiler, My Way, Rollin', Livin' It Up are classic though 7,5 out of 10
A little bit too heavy for me
Why is this garbage on the list? Oh wait, it got taken off, rightfully so. And why does it have to be so long? Thanks for including a 9 minute track at the end of some douchebags laughing, that's art. Ugh. 1 star.
Fred Durst still sucks mondo ass.
Not as good as Significant Other Mostly nostalgia stars for being young and dumb
No
I kind of went back and forth between a 1 and a 2 because it's objectively not *that* bad and has some genuinely good moments. But ultimately for me, it's just so stressful and unfun to listen to.
Absolutely awful. Easily the worst music I have ever heard
Poor garbage
I'd have more respect for this album if it was called 'Buttholes and Dick Water'. But not much more respect. Production is pretty clean, the music itself is fine. Imagine if there was something to hear, lyric-wise. Could be something. This is sort of like if you took Eminem's music and removed any hint of introspection. "Maybe life is up and down But my life's been "what" till now I crawled up your butt somehow And that's when things got turned around" Hmm. Given the choice proposed, between his way or the highway, I have chosen the highway.
I thoroughly expected to hate this album. Guess what? I didn't. That said, I think the act of listening to Chocolate Starfish... reduced my IQ by a few points; and certainly the replay value is limited. Fred Durst has, for better or worse, a distinctive voice, but his whelping is of the register of a man having his sunburnt shoulders being slapped (a distinctive possibility, as one imagines Mr Durst lives a largely sleeveless life). In terms of lyrics, it's an absolute shambles, although I have been enlightened as to many ways 'fuck' can be deployed as noun, verb and adjective. And yet? Well, it's hard to deny the animating spirit behind this endeavour - a celebration of boneheaded machismo and exxxxtreme attitude. For all the posturing, there's a good-natured vibe throughout, and moreover, it's often very fun. I'm also never going to complain about huge riffs and huge beats. The cherry on top? 'Rollin'' is a true five star song. It's a monster - a riff as big as a house wedded to a chorus that is beautiful in its Neanderthal simplicity. Of course you've also got the celebrate three genders "hey ladies / hey fellas / and the people that don't give a fuck", which is frankly ahead of it's time in its inclusivity. Listening to 'Rollin'', I feel like I can run through a brick wall. I feel like I can successfully invade a micronation. Few songs hold such potency.
Truly one of the worst lyricists of all time. If there weren't enough reasons to dislike Fred Durst, I had no idea that they had this song where they basically just took Nine Inch Nails lyrics and turned them into a shitfest. How? Why? Why again? What on earth are they thinking here? Goddamit, why again?! I hate, hate, hate his stupid whiny voice. Dude sounds like angry Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I hate his "singing" voice. I hate that there's a line about how he doesn't even smoke marijuana, but he loves the smell. NOBODY thinks that. Even if they did, who the hell decides that's a cool thing to rap about?? Just stupid. So, so dumb. I hate the title of this album. I hate the font they chose. I hate the cover "art." I hate that there's a butthole on that starfish, and typically that's an idea I could get behind, and I hate them for that. There's one song on here that would be a good Deftnes song. I don't even want to say which one, because the title is dumb and the lyrics are dumber. The Mission Impossible song would be good minus the vocals, but then separating Durst from this band is the real impossible mission, innit? You can't. I can't. I won't. The only thing I can appreciate is the probability that the album is on the list for the sole purpose of fucking with us. That's the only explanation here.
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.
Holy god make it stop my ears are bleeding this is so bad I might cry. NO NO NO. Help.
the absolute worst of roided fat headed backwards hat wearing white frat boy bullshit that somehow gets called music. I don't have enough terrible things to say about everything and everyone responsible for creating and liking this. 0 anythings and if you like this I hate you too.
I think this is the worst album we've had so far. It probably isn't since we have had a few doozies but in recent memory . . .
If you crossed the Chili Peppers with The Beastie Boys you might get decent group, it Limp Bizkit ain't it. The album cover and album name also suck
My God, Limp Bizkit. This takes me back to middle school. I can remember being a rebellious youth, and thinking the song Hot Dog was great because Fred Durst says the word "fuck" 48 times in the song's 3:30 runtime. This rap rock/Nu Metal movement that occurred in the late 90's - early 00's was crazy. You can see a bunch of these bands if you watch reruns of Woodstock '99. Fred Durst was actually blamed for instigating a riot during that festival by singing their song "Break Stuff" to an audience of pissed off young people. I can distinctly remember listening to Limp Bizkit's previous album, Significant Other more than this one, however, this album had its share of hits: Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle), My Way, My Generation, and Take a Look Around to name a few. Fred Durst's lyrics are corny as hell, but the energy conveyed through his angry lyrics and heavy instrumentation made for one hell of a "pump up" album. This is another one of those albums that is deep rooted in nostalgia for me, so it is hard for me to give an objective opinion on this record. I always felt that liking Limp Bizkit was a guilty pleasure. I get that they are cheesy, and dated, but I still can't deny that the music got my head bobbing a few times. I listened to the record twice today to try and separate nostalgia from fact, but couldn't do it. If nothing else, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Will probably listen again. Favourite songs: Take a Look Around, Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle), My Generation, My Way, Full Nelson, Get Your Groove On (Dirt Road Mix), Rollin' (Urban Assult Vehicle), Hot Dog Least favourite songs: The One, Hold On, Outro (I don't need to listen to a looped track of someone laughing for 4 minutes) 4/5
Misogynist egocentric juvenile pap. Averagely played. No subtlety. No nuance. I’ve rounded up the star rating. This is an album no one needs to hear.
Let's do this. Nü-metal. If not for a film soundtrack for The Matrix, I'd have never heard of these danger dudes ("Take a look around" still does pack a sweat punch). It can be grating and rythmic and still I can heal some begrudging praise, but the subject matter is awful. So, debasement can be an aim, in music, and life. Does it belong in the list? Maybe. So does Tool, maybe more so? Do I like it... But Man, it's wrecking music for an insane workout... not sure I want to listen to music as loud as this needs to beheard (it's better when it's so loud you can hear it bouncing off a neighbours' house... I do believe it is designed to do that). but those few catchy songs, what can I say? It's not completely awful but it's so damned RARE to feel this angry and destructive.... Overall 3
I was doing ok about 30 minutes ago, now I'm feeling so well.
I lived through Limp Bizkit when my 12-year-old son got into them. Those are only unpleasant memories, so I became extremely nervous when this album popped up. Still, I skimmed it (pretty quickly) & the nausea was only mild. It’s just not for me, for a plethora of reasons that I’d rather not go into. Thank Christ he moved onto hip-hop, which, while also challenging, at least threw up some great music. Not like this.
I do not even know where to begin with my loathing of this album. The juvenile title, abysmal cover art, the terrible songs, the annoying vocals that swing between yelling and whining, the terrible production, the angry and misogynistic lyrics, and just plain base idiocy of it all. I only just managed to get through all 75 minutes of it, and now have to wash the nasty taste out of my mouth. God, this is just awful....
4.2 whats with all the hate, its such a solid and pretty accessible nu metal album. faves: hot dog, rollin, livin it up
Lot of nostalgia with this album. I only remember Rollin from Yr6 at school. It makes me laugh that it’s in albums you must hear before you die Favourite track: My Way
Shit. Always was, always will be. I doubt the parents of the band listen to this.
”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” Aivan sietämätöntä. 1/5
Keskivaiheilla oli joku hitti, jossa oli joku onnistunut elementti, mutta ihan jäätävää kuraa muuten.
tuskallista. ja 10 min outro vielä. 1/5
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.
2,5 nummer geprobeerd en toen had ik meer zin om m'n teennagels met een tangetje eruit te trekken. Wat een enorm gedateerde zielige over de top nep-stoere bagger is dit toch!
Die teksten!
Hmmmm, couldn't much get into anything in this. Even the title is offensive or juvenile, I'm not quite sure.
Yeah nah this was pretty much unrelentingly awful.
its limp bizkit… its bad. the name of this album comes from a joke about anuses and shit smells. theyre dumb as hell. this got taken off this list for a reason (though it was here in one of the earliest iterations). yucko stupid shit.
One of my all time favorite bands, how can I not give 5 stars?
really? why did i say publicly i would listen to all of these... it takes a lot of effort to be this bad
Surprised how many songs I recognized, and despised, from this album. This is LB at the height of their global hatred.
Stopppp
Sure, it's mediocre, but at least it is unbearably long!
Mediocre nu-metal with a lead vocalist I do not like. It woke me up, at least.
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.
Another Limp Bizkit album! The group that will always remind me of Even Stevens and poor Louis' mom who had to listen. While this album cover and title are both disgusting and gross, the album itself was good! Some songs in here it felt like I had heard before in the past like Rollin' and My Way. Good kick off to the week, minus having to see those gollums holding starfish laying on hot dogs. Insane.
The Limpy Biscuits. Fred Durst and company. This album really captures what there is to both love and hate about LB. Lyrically, their stuff can get pretty dumb and cringe (if you'll excuse the anachronism), but damn they do be putting down some heavy riffs. I loved the intro a lot (which actually returned as the outro with a funny skit of a guy talking bad about the band, followed by his infinite looping laughter). It's definitely a product of its time, angsty teenagers the world over found comfort in this goofy stuff. But I love it for that reason, and it's certainly more interesting (and more deserving of a spot on this list) than a lot of the humdrum stuff we've had lately. Favorite tracks: Intro, My Way, Rollin', Hold On. Album art: Wretched, filthy. We all know what that chocolate starfish is, and this creepy cretins are swimming in hot dog-infested water. It's awful and I hate and I also love it. 3.5/5
What garbage. Listen, I love metal. I love rap. I even like a lot of rap rock. But man, I hated this so much. It's just so bad. The lyrics are juvenile. It's not just that they sound like they were written to appeal to 13-year-old boys. They're also just... bad. Like a notebook filled with curse words written in crayon. I try really hard not to come across like some sort of elitist snob (I mean, my favorite band is Ramones so I don't have much of a leg to stand on there) but this is just SO DAMN IDIOTIC. I tried to ignore the dumb vocals and find a star for the musicality but even that's not great. It's so basic and emotionless. This whole band comes across like a bunch of middle-school boys standing by looking for cops while their leader yells the two curse words he knows as he gleefully chucks rocks into traffic.
I liked the anger in this, but the amount of "fucks" are off-putting.
Ugh. Terrible. Everything about this album is idiotic, from the name of the record, the name of the band, the artwork, the songs, the lyrics, the themes. It is a terrible terrible record. There was a time when Limp Bizkit had some fun songs, but by the time this album was out, they were jumping the shark, pushing their luck on how much patience the world has for them. All these years later, with the benefit of hindsight - it's even more terrible - the songs are about nothing, but the whining of a petulant white asshole, starting off with a very badly executed diss track towards Trent Reznor, and ending with an attempt and self-deprecation that is even more cringeworthy than had they avoided it. I can't even laud any of the hits from this album as they are totally hollow and just remind me of jocks with baggy pants and backward baseball caps and wallet changes doing the 'rolling' dance. ugh. This was Limp Bizkit which I had a little sympathy towards a very narrow selection of their older stuff when I was younger - I shudder to think when Kid Rock's album will turn up. I'm bracing myself.
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.
Machtige combinatie van rap en metal. En een beetje nostalgie laat de rating ook wat stijgen
long and bad
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.
Not a fan
Crispy
It's been 23 years? Wow. Still love this album! Brings back a lot of memories. Standouts: ------------------- My Way, Rollin', Take a Look Around, Boiler, Intro/Hot Dog, My Generation Others: ---------------------- Full Nelson, Livin' It Up, The One, Getcha Groove On, I'll Be OK Rating: 4.5
Enjoyed this one but only because I am more open to limp biskit after Woodstock 99.... Interesting that I didn't feel anxiety on this one like on Hole.
Echt genoten hiervan, veel meer dan ik verwacht had. Het heeft veel weg van Rage Against the Machine, dus dat is altijd goed. Ik krijg ook heel erg het gevoel dat dit is hoe het zou klinken als Linkin Park niet zo commercieel zou zijn. Dit album heeft meerdere hoogtepunten (Rollin, Take a look around) en eigenlijk geen dieptepunten. Het voelt een beetje ongemakkelijk om dit 5 sterren te geven want het staat natuurlijk niet op gelijke hoogte met andere 5 sterren albums, maar ik vond het wel een stuk leuker dan 4 sterren, dus dan doen we het gewoon.
Absolute pish. Grew incredibly tired of the constant forced angst this record seemed to present very quickly. There is only a number of times I can hear a man shout 'F*ck that sh*t' before I start pull out my own eyelashes in frustration.
Even morons find this moronic.
ok
The intro is the best song on here.
Actually enjoyed this album more than expected
honestly insulting that this album is even on the list
It's OK, I was never a fan of these bands, though upon listening to the album, I did enjoy the tongue and cheekiness...
I genuinely think the guitar riffs are amazing, but what doesn't make the whole album amazing is the lyrics and vocals. Some songs aren't too bad with the lyrics (the second half), though. The album cover, name, and intro are definitely interesting. They clearly aren't afraid of being strange or different, in a good way. Fave track(s): The One, Take A Look Around, It'll Be OK
no
I'm quite surprised but I kind of enjoyed this album. A lot of the vocals and lyrics are corny but there were some solid head bangers and the guitars were fun to listen to.
Ugh. Another album I haven't listened to since I was like 15, but unlike Kid Rock, I felt like I owed it a refresher since Wes Borland's Big Dumb Face side project has a really good album under its belt. It's kind of amazing how little charisma Fred Durst has. "Aggressive bro whining" really shouldn't be a thing that exists. While Kid Rock swims in a cesspit that matches his tobacco spit personality, Durst lowers the quality of some mid-tier grooves that could have otherwise been saved with a better frontman and some better production.
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.
Not the best LB album, and I was surprised it made this. There’s a lot of creativity but Durst just overpowers that creativity with mediocre lyrics.
This isn't a situation where, "I wish it could be rated less than one star." No I think this is actually a deserved 1 star. This is not a zero star record. That's the nicest thing I could say about it.
Need more healthy angst white male music
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.
Sophomoric and utterly putrid.
Je me suis déjà exprimé sur le sujet.
babe wake up un nouvel album de nu metal just dropped 🥰
Nice und fun. Limp Bizkit halt
Lyrically terrible but some of this goes really hard and evokes some great memories. Objectivity is hard.
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.
1.5 stars, because "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" is nostalgic and not as obnoxious as the rest. Try hard angsty lyrics that overpower any semblance of musical acumen that might have showed up in the second half of the record. So many albums run only 30-40 min and thanks to a nearly 10 min pointless outro this album is 75 min of something only a 'rebellious' young teen could put themselves through.
Savne barneskulen (neida)
Rock industrial, en ocasiones un tanto más rudo, pero aún así con buena combinación de instrumentos, ritmos y estilos dentro del propio álbum
This album reminds me of the music edgy middle schoolers would listen to in the early 2000s. This album is so strange; I kind of want to like it and some songs are alright, but it's just all over the place. Some songs I'm familiar with but for the most part it's a musical version of what I'd guess hot dog water would sound like as music. 5/10.
Naw, screw that. A 3-star album on release, and later taken off the 1001 list?!? Not even gonna dignify that with a listen - give me something else from The Fall, it might surprise me. I got enough of Fred Durst's bulllshit in the 90's.
Oh lord. The cover, the album title, boy I'm not looking forward to suffering through this album. I was on a good run with some great music I hadn't heard before, so statistically this was bound to happen. Let's see if I can see why I need to listen to this. Yeah, no. Zero stars. That outro was just kicking a man when he's down.
Listened to this on the Walkman sewn into my Jnco's like Fred Durst intended.
Dismal. The band was somewhat OK but the lyrics and vocals were so bad I actually laughed a couple times. Oh and the cover is the worst.
I think this is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Even nostalgia couldnt save this one for me.
Hilariously bad in loads of places but it's got some riffs and it's hard not to feel nostalgic, they can have a 3 and count themselves lucky the cheeky scamps
Rather bracing
Was surprised to see this on the list. Thought it held up better than expected, mostly because of the great guitar riffs. It's definitely not the 5 stars my teenage self would have given. The album is too long and some of the tracks should have been edited down too. It shouldn't really be on the list when you consider some of the other more interesting nu-metal that was out at the same time. It's easy to see why it was removed from subsequent books. Having said that I still enjoyed many of the tracks, nostalgia still going with this one. Highlights: My Generation Rollin' Take A Look Around
No idea how this has made the list... Although I do remember my generation and Rollin being on every music channel for a long time. Can't remember if I liked it when it first came out.. Think I probably did but I remember a lot of taking the piss out of it too. It is, and I'm sure always was terrible, no matter if I did like it as a angsty teenager and it goes on way too long. Trying to be so edgy and just quite bizarre in parts really. Actually cringed during one track... Think it was "the one". Take a look around is probably the best track. Given I just gave genesis a 2 and I also gave slipknot a 2, I can't give this any more than a 1. Would feel too harsh on Phil Collins... Also it was terrible.
Why is this on this list?
Can I give this 0 stars? I thought nothing could possibly be worse than Kid Rock but clearly I was wrong. It took everything I have just to get through the second track (first actual track after "Limp Bizkit in tha house!" intro). This flaming pile of excrement is dated to a specific moment in pop culture and toxic masculinity that I hope is forever buried in the past.
Couple of tracks that take me back to my youth, but the album hasn’t aged well and the schtick wears thin pretty quickly.
3.4/5
Nu metal. Rap metal. Se hace pesado.
LMAO 1/5.
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
Ok
Boring guys singing clichee songs, singing as much FUCK etcetera as possible or trying to be tough without any meaning. Don't mind any FUCK the Police if you have something to say. Which they don't seem to have. Worthy only to polish Trent Reznor's shoes.
I actually kinda like this? what the hell? it’s definitely not my genre, but once you get past the obnoxious metal tropes, it’s a surprisingly enjoyable and creative album I’ll still always prefer bands like Rage Against the Machine or Mr Bungle over this stuff, but honestly, this album ain’t bad at all 7/10
One of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
I grew up listening to most of the songs in here. I know some of it by heart. 3.5/5
Boss album
Honestly? Not that bad. The core band can come up with some killer grooves. No comment on Fred Durst’s vocal performance.
Tanke jag hade: Fred Durst är som Eminem om han hade samma mognadsnivå men lät bättre då han rappade, hade mer swag och actually kunde skriva catchy låtar. Jag tycker det är rättvist att säga att Limp Bizkits bästa låtar är bland den främsta idiot-rocken, och de har en viss energi som mycket annat inte har. Lyricsen och Fred Dursts vocals må vara barnsliga och pinsamt avslöjande för honom, men det tycker jag mest är roligt. Mognadsnivån känns också som en naturlig match med musikstilen. De flesta låtarna är helt bra men en vettig kritik av skivan är att den borde vara kortare, och fair enough.. . Alla låtar är tyvärr inte My Way eller Hot Dog. Ändå har jag stor respekt fär Roberts val att sätta med denna skiva, den är unik och står för något, fast detta något är de djupaste känslor och övertygelser som den genomsnittliga 12-åringen känt i sitt liv.
Man I wanted to hate this one, but my preteen self wouldn't let me. I shamelessly raged out to this.
Top bobble
Lives up to its album cover. Getcha Groove On was the only one I enjoyed, mostly because 90% of it was Xzibit My Way and Rollin’ are listenable, but overall this album is not my cup of sludge
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
Not for me
Hate this - immature crap
Oh FFS. This shit should have been incinerated with all of the other hazardous nu-metal waste and relegated to - at best - a minor, MINOR footnote in music history. Just utter garbage that wasn't worth anyone's time when it was released, let alone now. If only we could rate 0 stars...
Cheap sounding production. Cheap references to other music acts -- and Macromedia Shockwave (wtf). Cheap dick jokes. If I was a wrestler looking for a new entrance song for an upcoming heel turn, this is the album I would start with. I like when the vocalist goes into his weird falsetto whine raps -- especially on the hokey-pokey sections of "Rollin'." There's a part of "The One" where the bass kind of sounds like The Cure. That's my favorite part of this record which I will never listen to again. "Boiler" gives some Deftones vibes but the vocals, again, are just really not good. A pile of crap at the intersection of Eminem and Linkin Park.
Fun album. But you got to be in the mood for the abrasive lyrics. Appears to be an album for those who think others reject them.
I came so close to rating this album 2 stars just so I wouldn't have a blatant anus spoiling my otherwise nice summary page, but I can't in good conscience give this album that high of praise.
Hot Dog- 2 My Generation- 1 Full Nelson- 1 My Way- 1 Rollin'- 1 Livin It Up- 2 The One- 5 Getcha Groove-7 Take A Look Around- 7 It'll Be OK- 5 Boiler- 4 Hold On-6 Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)- 1 Total- 33%
Your mouth is writing checks your ass can't cash. But this album can.
Listened Before? Y Ohhhh boy! This one is a surprising selection for this list! I absolutely love this record, and the band too. They're heavy, dirty, aggressive, and unapologetic. The perfect 2000 album. Just before 9/11, when everything was excess and aggression. So much cussing, and so many heavy riffs. One of my favorites, although I bet the ratings are very low overall. We'll see! Added to Library? Y (was already there) Songs added to playlist: My Generation, Full Nelson
Didnt age well. Even with the nostagia I cant stand it
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Hot dog, My generation, Rollin, Take a look around
What a blast from the past. I knew more than I thought I would. And was transported back to my youth. Pleasantly surprised.
Is this a fuckin prank
five stars and five hot dogs flavored water
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
Nostalgia glasses on for this one, some awesome tracks and some meh.
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.
Evidently, this was removed (for good reason), but I persevered anyway... for over an hour.
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.
Lol. This is a joke the app pulled on us all, right? So, lemme just get it straight... The album starts with two tracks ripping off choruses by Nine Inch Nails and The Who over horribly *dated* nu-metal sounds, and you're supposed to think this is a "creative" proposal here? Fred Durst's so-called "rapping" is grating to the extreme, aptly and faithfully evoking the sound of fingernails on a chalk board, the guitar hooks are competently played but miserable or bland, and when the band is seemingly out of stupid ideas, they rake the undersized glands that serve as brains for them to pull off an even stupidest idea: "Hey guys, let's use the Mission Impossible theme for our next hit single!" "Duuuuude, that's a *great* idea! But I'ma take one last hit from that bong first, OK?" Oh. I almost forgot. This album cover is *also* the ugliest cover *of all time*. Not "artistic-ugly" or "ironic-ugly". Just plain, I-don't-know-what-I'm-doing-here-with-my-computer-yet-I'm-doing-it-nonetheless ugly. Jesus H. Christ. I've counted: there are only *three* reviews that are giving a "5" to this turd. Three. But a 2.55/5 overall rating is still *way* too generous. And there are not so many reviews written yet. I hope that grade will go even lower with time. I've spotted a few records on the list that actually have an even lower score, and conversely deserve far better appreciation from music fans (records such as Robert Wyatt's *Rock Bottom* or even the last one ever in the global stats, Einsturzende Neubaten's *Kollaps*). No wonder someone in Dimery's team later put their foot down and decided to place "Chocolate Fish And Whatever Your Fried Brain Is Having A Thought About" right where it deserved to go: down to the toilets flush. Number of albums left to review: 714 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 143 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 69 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 79 (including this one)
Pretty good album. Never caught it the first time. Worth a listen
nobody needs to listen to this before they day except for maybe ben stiller
I have some contrasting feelings about this project, but in the end I think that it is just a pretty normal record.
Æji
I was very surprised when I not only didn’t hate this album, but actually enjoyed most of it. I think Limp Bizkit gets a bad rap for some reason. How they present themselves? Wasn’t the best metal I’ve ever heard, but it isn’t the worst. Just respectable music for the most part, though some of the lyrics can be a tad corny at times. 3/5
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.
If I say fuck one more time, that's 46 fucks in this fucked up rhyme, he says, as he basically shows the chasm between Limp Bizkit and NIN. I mean, the rapping is terrible, and a lot of the songs sound very similar. Dmx, Meth and Red should be ashamed! But yet, there is a certain childish charm to the whole affair.
Just the worst.
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
No, thank you.
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!
Most people seem to hate this just because of the Fred Durst of it all. I hate it because it's awful.
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
Comfortably the worst record I’ve ever heard. Managed three tracks and that was two too many
Is it possible to give this pile of sh!t less than one star?
Well that was terrible -- but at least it was long.
3.0 - This record seems to channels the spirit of that dude who's always hanging around the gas station mart of his podunk town. He's got a cigarette hanging out the side of his baseball cap, and is often shirtless. His swings his gangly arms menacingly as he ambles around the parking lot, hyped up on Monster Energy. You keep him in your peripheral vision as you gas up your car in case he tries to pull some shit. After a final quick scan of his surroundings, he jumps in his Chevy Monte Carlo, revs the engine aggressively. As his car fades into the horizon, you hear "rollin' rollin' rollin'" tailing off from his speakers.
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.
The riffs are good and the guitarist is putting in WORK but the rapping is god awful. If there were any other vocals it would be a lot better but i guess it defined an era. One star for rolling tho KEEP ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN
Effin rubbish
sound like a poor mans Beastie boys
Like a crappier Linkin Park
Artless stuff. The music, cover and name. No taste.
No. I refuse. You've made me listen to a Korn album and a Marilyn Manson album, and there were ways that I could reasonable criticize those albums, but I refuse to believe that any human being could be so brain damaged as to think that Limp Bizkit deserves to be represented on this list. What could I possibly be meant to take away from this other than the idea that rock music was a crucifying hellscape in the early 2000s? Jesus. I'm on the second song, and it's not just that I want to turn the album off, I'm losing the will to keep going. It's like Fred Durst just found out about NIN and the word fuck at the same time. Like, how did he think that anyone would find this interesting? What is the point of any of this? Fred Durst might be the worst lyricist I've ever heard. All of his songs are just a word salad put together from South Park episodes. Every song has basically the same sound and structure. Most of his choruses seem to be lyrics stolen from other songs in a way that suggests that Durst doesn't really get any of the music that he likes. I genuinely have nothing positive to say about this. This album should have been buried in the desert next to old copies of ET on Atari. It's really shocking the extent to which even the best elements of this album are mediocre. I'm genuinely angry that I wasted my time listening to this 1/5
It's weird to see how hatred has become nostalgia over the years. What we used to despise 20 years ago is being listened now with a mix of remembrance and a feeling of 'ok, it wasn't that bad'. This record, coming from the spectacular success of 'Significant Other' and their infamous appearance at Woodstock, takes you back at a point in time, the turning of the century, when so much things were going on and these songs happened to be part of their soundtrack. So, after all these years, hats off to Fred Durst and co
Awful. Awful lyrics, awful music, awful everything. Embarrassing.
notes - boy oh boy - this album really starts in a way thats like “if you dont like this, you wont like the rest of it” - i have a soft spot for nu metal - the riffs on this album are SO GOOD - but fred durst just comes in to be a goof on it which works some of the time - and if you listen to ben stiller laugh for 5 minutes you get to hear a hidden track wooooow fav - my way - good blend of funny and hard hitting, chord progression in the chorus is so good least fav - the one - chiller vibe was cool but out of the quiter songs it was my least favourite enjoyed this more than i expected, if freds vocals were more serious i could see myself returning to it 3/5
I've always had a soft spot for Limp Bizkit. In the 90s, my older brother sent me on a mall mission to find their debut album. Every CD store employee looked at me like I was speaking gibberish (I guess I kind of was...limp biscuit, three dollar bill???). A year or two later when they were massively famous, I thought Fred Durst was the coolest dude ever. I even wanted to buy the same red Yankees cap he always wore. It's fortunate I never did...I was a 14 year old, white, middle class girl from southern Ontario and I'm pretty sure I would have looked ridiculous. But damn it, in my heart of hearts, I really thought I was a badass. I never, ever listen to Limp Bizkit anymore but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this trip down memory lane.
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.
bizkit's magnum opus
Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle) needs to be a war track in Warzone 2
this sucks
Zero stars if I could
I remember this differently. I shamefully admit that I thought some of these songs were bangers back then. Boy was I wrong. This was terrible. His voice is almost unlistenable.
Not for me.
This album brought back more memories than I thought could be hiding in back of my jnco jeans. I was surprised how much I still enjoyed it, and I also remember Limp Bizkit seeming so angry to me, and they really do not come across that way to me as a 38 year old.
I'm sure it's a lot of rose-tinted glasses, but I really enjoyed listening to this album again. It ended up taking me down a rabbit hole of old nu-metal for a couple hours. I can't make a case for Fred Durst being a virtuoso or anything, but Limp Bizkit is definitely a guilty pleasure.
Meh.
Banger
Completely nostalgic review from me. I thought these guys were the coolest. I was 16 when this came out and listened to it for hours. It hasn't aged super well, but still gets the blood moving.
Embarrassing. Did they think they were cool for sampling the Eagles?
Can this get zero stars?
Why have you done this to me
This is just... terrible.
I listened to and loved this album in my teens. Turns out I still really like it. Banging album.
Dug out a mini disc for this, therefore familiarity bias. The riffs save it over 'singing' or lyrics
Lol I don’t remember this record being this long, it is a fun record but that’s it. Not a good effort in anyway. Third star only due nostalgia for that my way song
Kind of my péché minion. But I spent a lot of time listening to that album and limp bizkit overall ! I really like the rap and metal mix, it's both angry and efficient. I have to admit that the mix is not always perfect but overall I really enjoy this album ! 4.25/5
Rock album that really rocked me!! Crazy energy and I loved it. Would gladly listen to again... Some hip-hop musicalities also really caught my attention!! Really nice 4/5
Klasik.
I used to like My Way but I have no idea how this got on the list.
ugh
I didn’t realise this list included comedy albums!
No.
I didn’t save any songs, this is the kinda album you listen to once per lifetime.
I should have known this was garbage before wasting my time verifying every song is unlistenable. I’m so thankful this genre of music was brief.
God they’re annoying
Actually not bad. Very much of its time, but it's easy to see why they were so popular; Fred Durst's cartoony, juvenile persona matched with punchy, compressed guitars and flawless production.
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
genuinely unlistenable. 90s nu metal was a dark period in history
I get that the album title is supposed to make me throw up a little each time I encounter it, but really do we have to make an effort to make the world a worse place? Same thing with the music tracks here. I won't deny that after a particularly distressing and upsetting morning that it wasn't a little cathartic to hear someone screaming "fuck" 49 times and "burn this fucker down" and so on two hours late on my way to work... But that was only 1/4 of the way through the album. And then it went on and on and on and got worse and worse and worse. Whosoever wants to hear the last track more than one miserable time? I mean really?
I did find the music catchy...the tone and content of the lyrics, not so much.
I kind of wish I hadn't been paying attention to any of the lyrics because I actually did enjoy the music here. But the words... My goodness, these guys sound like they are just SO MAD at their moms. So much whining. So very much whining. Too bad.
The cover of this turned me off. The explanation of the title turned me off. So I hit 'play' fully expecting to hate this. I want genuinely surprised when I didn't. I enjoyed the anger-filled songs. The talented and catchy performances temper those hard edges. It was surprisingly good to listen to while I was working. Maybe Limp Bizkit is addressing some latent rage. This may be just the ticket the next time I want to throw a tantrum in the back seat. I went on to listen to this a second time today, except for the last two songs which the album doesn’t really need.
This whole thing is just a giant collection of garbage and it's inclusion on this list is an insult to every other artist and to every one taking part in this exercise. There is nothing about this that even makes sense, the artwork, the title, the construction of the track listing, the inclusion of two version of "Rollin'" and the Outro is just a big ol' heap of garbage. I can't believe I made it through this whole thing. I'm exhausted and need a fucking beer. Giving it one star since it will not allow me to give it anything less.
Lots of questions here... So this album was on the original list of 1001 albums, and then later pulled. Why was it put on the list? What are the qualifications of being put on this list? Furthermore? What made it get pulled off the list? Looking at Oct 2000, there were a number of albums that were released around that same time that I hold in higher regard that did not make the list. I have to wonder why they did not make the list. The album itself is not bad. There are a couple of songs I knew from previously. But I mean... Fred Durst? Really? Not exactly the most skilled artist. But hey, Limp Bizkit sells, so there must be something to it, right? There is a definite energy there. But 75 minutes of it? Nope. Just tiring. Next.
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.
So egregiously bad that, often enough, it wraps around to being funny. Made even worse/funnier that sometimes the riffs are actually good until Mr. Durst comes and opens his mouth.
The biggest problem here in my mind is best represented in comparison to other Nu-Metal that I am a fan of. SOAD - Not enough melodic talent from Durst to rival Serj. Slipknot - Not enough actual edge to even get close to this sound. RATM - No real political message besides "Fuck everyone else". Linkin Park - Not nearly the same even blend of rock, hip hop, and electronic. Korn - Much heavier, and handles experimental pieces better all around. Evanescence - 2000s Goths and Emos know what I'm talking about. No authenticity in comparison here. That isn't comprehensive at all, but you can see the core issues of authenticity, talent, and meaningfulness on display. On top of that, the album suffers from major bloat, with almost every non-explicit song needing a cut. That being said, this is the junk food I grew up on, and so I do have to rate it an honest 3 for all the stuff I do like. Could be a 4 or 5 even if the right cuts were made.
The hits are still hits. The filler is still filler.
Suck a dick, Fred Durst
So, so bad
The day has come. I mean saying fuck 48 or whatever times i guess is an accomplishment. Having just listened to Rage's self titled, there are so many sonic parallels, but replacing Zach D with Fred Durst is almost a crime. So its the complete vapidity of the lyrics, coupled with Fred Durst having a voice for silent film makes me feel so down about this album. Like the instrumentals are actually pretty competent and the sonic structure is sold. It's not just the lyrics, I also don't think his voice is a good fit for this style. Rollin' is a bonafide piece of shit song. It'll Be Okay has some great hooks, and if it had Chester, I would believe that this was a Linkin Park track. Jesus, why is there a 9min outro?!
Kinda decent for a meme of a band
chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water
I'll sue for the cover which scared the shit out of me. the music is ok
TapouT brand rap rock edgelord
Loads of songs with samples from famous other song and new lyrics. As much as I like nu metal this is a bit of a hit and miss album for me with exception of select songs. Still, would give it a go again
Not quite sure what's going on with the reviews and whether or not this is in the 1001 at all but I quite enjoyed it. I initially took one look at the album cover and groaned but there are a few tracks i've heard before and it actually helps knowing nothing about them or the genre. But you need to be in the mood for loud music........
Ovaj album je toliko jebeno loš da je to nevjerojatno. Razina lijenosti songwrittinga i čista nepatvorena glupost tekstova je baš fascinantna. Ovaj album je u trenutku izlaska bio najprodavaniji rock album u prvom tjednu u sadu s čak 1.1 milijuna primjeraka. Nije ni čudno što je cd era ubrzo došla kraju😄
Hot take: this would be a semi-decent metal LP (maybe mid-tier deftones level) if you cut a few tracks and the lead singer didn't sound like Ron Stoppable.
Rap metal. A ratos me ha recordado a RATM. Venga, un 4.
Before I even spin the first tune, I'll say this is a band I consciously avoided. Not sure why. Let's see if I denied myself something fabulous. Oh right... now I remember. Fred Durst may be the biggest little bitch in music. Jesus, he's insufferable. Did you know he doesn't give a fuck? I just Googled "how many times does limp bizkit say fuck on chocolate starfish," and apparently, the title track is noted as having the word "fuck" 48 times. So multiplied by 15, that's 720. So, I still listened to the album (how some of these songs have over 200 million spins on Spotify is confounding). "My Way" has something that resembles a hook, "The One" is actually not offensive or juvenile, and the blend of electronic and metal has promise, but the message in the music is so self-focused and inane, and it's so flat and uninspired, it's hard to endure. I guess some folks feel differently. Great. Makes me wish I rated The Teardrop Explodes as a 2 because this sets the bar for a one-star rating. Next?
i don't think i could hate this music more. How the hell is this on any list of albums you need to hear? Now i feel bad about giving Hail to the Thief 1 star, because that alsbum is light years better than this trash. Also, this is clearly the worst album cover of all time.
I really only knew the name of this band and that they are from Chicago. "Intro" hit and I'm like "woah...am I a Limp Bizkit fan?" "Hot Dog" started to hit a little hard but then I found myself grooving and laughing. While this is not my preferred genre, I'm really surprised that I kind of enjoy nu-metal rap!
Some interesting moments. But overall couldn't get into it.
Ugh….
Appalling - one of the worst records I have ever heard.