Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

there will always be some nu-metal nostalgia festering inside of me, and while that does extend to Limp Bizkit to a certain extent, that advantage can only go so far. Fred Durst has one of the worst voices of all time, this is unbearably long, and at the end of the day, it's just not that interesting. the kind of hybridization that nu-metal and rap-rock is built on and was much maligned for will always be interesting to me, but Limp Bizkit feels like much less than the sum of its parts. practically anybody could rattle off a neverending list of better rappers, better metal bands, better hard rock, better etc etc. I can't really imagine any reason to reach for them besides nostalgia. the main appeal at the time was the kind of vaguely apolitical, directionless rage and anti-establishment sentiment, the provocativeness of it all, but in retrospect it's easy to see how other bands of every era much more genuinely, meaningfully, powerfully and most importantly entertainingly communicate anti-establishment and anti-authority ideas. Fred Durst just comes off as a whiny, effete poser when compared to the likes of Rage or Public Enemy or NWA

to also briefly engage with the most common arguments in the favorable reviews here, despite my personal dislike, i do agree this deserves its spot on the list just for the cultural relevancy, how well it captured the contemporary zeitgeist. but the other thing that seems to come up is the classic bristly "you're a pussy if you don't like this" bullshit, and to ignore the obvious misogynist and nonsensical aspects, is just stupid on the face of it. this is radio friendly, super accessible rock with metal and hip hop elements where he says "fuck" a few more times than we were used to in 2000, if you think this is "abrasive" or "tough" or "confrontational" or whatever, you seriously need to broaden your horizons and listen to some Blood Incantation or Backxwash or something

Should be in a special section of this list for teenagers. No one over the age of 17 needs to hear this. Thanks Freddy.

Um disco que me deixa sentimentos mistos, se revelando bastante irregular, embora possamos dividi-lo em duas vertentes: rock e rap. As opções de rock são interessantes: guitarras potentes e baterias bem conduzidas, já as partes de rap são aquela mesmice de vocais declamados (às vezes gritados). É um disco muito longo, que se tivesse se fixado na linha de temas como "The One" e até mesmo "Take a Look Around" que revelam competência em fazer um som pop agradável na primeira e um rock potente na segunda, ao invés de enveredar pela chatice do rap, me agradaria mais.

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?!

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

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.

18 year old me had a terrible taste in music.

where's break stuff. this is so fucked

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

more nuanced than I expected. 2.5

Ah yes. I remember...

Ugh. So happy I missed this the first time around

I regret wanting to buy this album when it came out. I’m sure it would have spoken to me in 2000 and I’m glad it doesn’t anymore.
To the extent that”pop nu-metal” is a genre, this is a prime example. Musically, this is interesting enough, it pulls in a lot more hip-hop than I think was normal at the time. Unfortunately, it’s not doing anything lyrically exciting. Fred seems fixated on insisting he’s misunderstood and under appreciated while also reveling in his newfound fame and privilege.
It’s just not for me.

Зараз звісно стидно оцінювати лімп бізкіт позитивно, бо всім відомо який чорт Фред Дарст.

Якщо ж залишити це за дужками, то цей альбом я слухав просто мільйон разів і знаю там кожну ноту і кожне слово буквально. В школі ЛБ були одним з моїх улюблених гуртів, якраз клас 7-9 десь, і цей альбом я мав спочатку на касеті, а потім і на СД.

Насправді в музичному плані вони завжди були дуже цікавими, бо гітарний стиль Веса Борланда є унікальним, Джон Отто це джазовий драммер оригінально, та і взагалі ритм-секція сильна в них. Тексти звісно гамно, але треба віддати належне Фреду, він завжди вмів зробити хукову вокальну мелодію. І на цьому альбомі нема слабких пісень, як на мене.

Тому якщо просто оцінювати не як українець - я б поставив 4, забравши одну зірочку за тексти, а якщо як українець - то 1. Тому поставлю середнє - 3.

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

1 - Bizkit > NIN
2 - This isn't as bad as y'all making it out to be, and it's one of the biggest selling albums OF ALL TIME weirdly enough.
3 - Was lovable but dim-witted Jason Mendoza of The Good Place based on Fred Durst?
4 - Why does Durst look like every suburban dad walking around the home depot checking out sprinkler parts and the newest grills? Or does he look like them?
5 - Just... let it be. There's a place for the lowbrow stuff on the list. Also more entertaining than a lot of what shows up here.
6 - Finally, think for yourself. Bandwagoning is not being an open-minded free thinker. Get over yourselves.

Rauwe rap en metal. Het is een krachtexplosie waar ik wel blij van word. Op zich al een wat ouder genre, waarvan ik vooral de oudere bijdragen van Rudeboy waardeer. Limp Bizkit staat symbool voor een hele horde die deze categorie eind jaren '90 in een nog iets ruigere, maar tegelijk ook meer toegankelijke versie duwde. Een schijnbare tegenstelling. Daarom werd iets te vaak de oplossing is wat kinderachtige teksten gevonden. Ook heel sterk door Limp Bizkit. hun bekendste nummer, Break Stuff, zie ik dan ook als een quilty pleasure, maar dus wel een pleasure. Het album dat de lijst heeft gehaald komt pas daarna. Als Limp Bizkit nog een stukje commerciëler klinkt. Hoe krijg je het voor elkaar? In zo'n ruig genre bijna een vergeetbare 3 opleveren. Ik heb het met plezier nog eens opgezet. Maar dit hoort echt niet in de lijst.

Despite having a couple of catchy songs, LB is just too cringe for me.

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
I owned this on CD.

Take A Look Around was the gateway, and doing My Generation and Rollin’ at Shidax Karaoke in Hanno with Paul, Bernie, Natsumi, Toru-sensei, Maki, Jason, Chieko, Jay, Ulf, Kim and Kim’s mum was the high that made me buy the album.

It is terrible, but I cannot bring myself to truly hate it as there are some very funny memories attached, and, as silly as they are, Take A Look Around, Rollin and My Generation I still like - for all their witless stupidity and narcissistic whinging, I cannot not enjoy them.

The remaining of the songs though are objectively lamentable, they’re more pitiful versions of those good songs, and the principal, recurring, overriding, exhausting theme of how everybody hates Fred Durst and are jealous doesn’t exactly give the album much light or shade.

If I’d never heard this before it would have been a 1, It’s wretchedness is undeniable, but as it carries some nostalgic weight and as I do like Rollin, My Generation and Take a Look Around , I’ll nudge it up to a juvenile, infantile, baggy jorted, red capped 2.

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Playlist submission: Take a Look Around

Fred Durst yells like a teenager who just found his mom’s energy drinks, the riffs sound like they were copy-pasted from a 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟣 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘴 CD, and 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘨 drops “f**k” so often it feels like an edgy thesaurus had a breakdown. At over an hour long, it’s the aural equivalent of being locked in a locker by a dude in a backwards cap who thinks he invented anger.