Limp Bizkit

zhao

there are no accidents
is this the part you thought was "OTM"?

And yet, despite this, when I recently listened to the band's biggest-selling albums, 1999's Significant Other and 2000's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, I experienced an unexpected sensation: pleasure.

i hear Durst is doing a project with justice: stadium-electro-rap-rock IS THE FUTURE and anyone who doesn't believe is either too old or too tired.
 
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Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Is this your way of admitting that you once liked a rock band, Swears?!? :p;)

Actually, I have to say I hated LB even when I was 15/16. I sort of wish it wasn't so, but there's just something inherently lame about them. They weren't a touch on the Offspring! :D
 

swears

preppy-kei
You know, when I was about 16 the only places I could go out to with my friends and get pissed in Liverpool were student dives that played stuff like Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach. I tried to just tune this stuff out as background noise, and get on with the serious business of getting hammered off three pints of Fosters, gutted that my mates didn't want to see Dave Clark at Bugged Out. But to this day I still feel a certain affection for this terrible music. Nostalgia value for sure.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
This would actually be awesome.
2 pieces of shit makes gold
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You know, when I was about 16 the only places I could go out to with my friends and get pissed in Liverpool were student dives that played stuff like Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach. I tried to just tune this stuff out as background noise, and get on with the serious business of getting hammered off three pints of Fosters, gutted that my mates didn't want to see Dave Clark at Bugged Out. But to this day I still feel a certain affection for this terrible music. Nostalgia value for sure.

Nice to see I'm not the only one on here with damaging memories of the Krazy House.
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
You know, when I was about 16 the only places I could go out to with my friends and get pissed in Liverpool were student dives that played stuff like Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach. I tried to just tune this stuff out as background noise, and get on with the serious business of getting hammered off three pints of Fosters, gutted that my mates didn't want to see Dave Clark at Bugged Out. But to this day I still feel a certain affection for this terrible music. Nostalgia value for sure.

Heh, I had totally forgotten about Papa Roach. There seemed to be this period of a few months when they were huge, then, nothing, or thereabouts.
 

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
My Top 10 Fred Durst moments (in no particular order):

1. When Fred Durst went on Howard Stern and told everyone in graphic detail that he'd had sex with Britney Spears.

2. The whole situation with Christina Aguilera when Eminem made fun of them, and Durst decided to do a performance with her at an award show when it had all cooled down. His fans got really mad for "selling out", so he went on his website message board and said he "did it all for the nookie." Christina assured everyone that this didn't happen.

3. When Durst went on stage at a festival and cussed out Creed frontman, Scott Stapp, because they hogged set time. Scott Stapp challenged Durst to a charity boxing match, and Durst declined.

4. The live version of StainD's "Outside" that "features" Fred Durst, though all he really contributes is saying "I'm feeling those lighters" to the crowd.

5. When Fred Durst leaked a sex tape for publicity as if anyone would be interested, and as if anyone wouldn't be totally disgusted by it.

6. Fred Durst's contribution to James Lynn Strait's tribute CD. This is possibly the worst thing ever recorded with the possible exception of Dizzee's Ting Tings cover on live lounge.

7. Fred Durst's cover of Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise" where he changes the line "Radio stations, I question their playlists/ They say that they're black, but we'll see if they play this", to "they say that they are white but we'll see if they play this", and the line "Farrakhans a prophet" to "Farrakhans a racist"

8. When Fred Durst held a competition to replace Wes Borland where everyone had to sign a document saying that Limp Bizkit would retain ownership of any riffs they played (and they had to play original riffs), even if they didn't get selected. In the end, they didn't choose any of the contestants and went with Snot's guitarist, Mike Smith.

9. Fred Durst's gorilla dance where he balls his fists and looks like he's pulling up his knees by strings attached to them.

10. At the Grammy awards, Fred Durst, in an anti-war speech, said that he was "not in agreeance" with the war. Everyone made fun of him so he responded with this: "Oh, by the way, AGREEANCE is a word according to the OXFORD-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. So the dumb asses at the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER and everyone else who didn't bother to check are welcome to intern at FLAWLESS RECORDS until they learn enough about journalism to write for a major daily newspaper. I love you and kiss my ass!"

Bonus: When he made everyone at Woodstock 99 go on a raping and burning and fighting rampage with the song "Break Stuff" and then pretended he didn't later.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
My Top 10 Fred Durst moments (in no particular order):

I'm well well well disturbed that you know so much about Fred Durst, Sickboy. tho that bit about the guy from Creed wanting to beat him up is hilarious...

anyway I was well into Crass & The Mob & whatever by the time nu-metal came around but I remember thinking at the time that 1) isn't lthis just like a massively dumbed-down ripoff of RATM but minus every shred of funk & 2) didn't Faith No More do this all in like 1989 or whatever anyway - & "Epic" only worked cause it was f**king Faith No More when Jim Martin & Mike Patton were in the band...
 

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
I'm well well well disturbed that you know so much about Fred Durst, Sickboy.

Grade 9, guilty as charged.

While I regret buying their albums, I don't regret knowing all that about Fred Durst. Swears is right, he is truly hilarious as this celebrity who just could not hack it at all. That man was not cut out to be famous at all - just too much of a real born loser.
 
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padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Grade 9, guilty as charged.

well that's alright, if I'm honest Rage Against the Machine was a big influence on me...hipping me to Mumia & the EZLN & all in 7th grade...a total gateway drug to punk rock & politics...I remember buying the Support Your Troops tshirt (w/four masked Zapatistas under a US flag) at a gig & then wearing it years later in Chiapas & being told by the Chiapas Indymedia people that Zack de la Rocha had personally bought like all of their computer equipment...

musically well underrated RATM was too I reckon, especially compared attempts to fuse rap & (punk - de la Rocha did vox for obscure hardcore band Inside Out who put out a decent 7" on infamous SxE label Revelation Records - there's some hopeless triva for ya!) rock...great rhythm section (a la Led Zep if not quite at those lofty heights) & Harvard grad (& I believe former Marxist?) Morello had a totally unique style...of course everything they've done since has been utter utter shite...
 

BareBones

wheezy
10. At the Grammy awards, Fred Durst, in an anti-war speech, said that he was "not in agreeance" with the war. Everyone made fun of him so he responded with this: "Oh, by the way, AGREEANCE is a word according to the OXFORD-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. So the dumb asses at the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER and everyone else who didn't bother to check are welcome to intern at FLAWLESS RECORDS until they learn enough about journalism to write for a major daily newspaper. I love you and kiss my ass!"

haha, that's excellent.
from urban dictionary:

agreeance

What stupid people say instead of agreement
I am in "agreeance' that KMart is NOT pronounced KMarK.

however...
Is Fred Durst redeemed? According to the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, "agreeance" is actually a word. During his Grammy statement, apparently the Limp Bizkit frontman even used it correctly. The people at the OED did note that the word has not been in popular use since the 1500s. Instead of asking Durst for forgiveness, we'd like to congratulate him for accidentally stumbling into a correct sentence.
http://gregdooley.com/archive 2003/0222Durst.html
 

Piotrek

3,5,0,1,2,5, Warsaw!
actually his version of "Wish You Were Here" performed on Tribute To Heroes night in 2001 (after September 11 attacks) was quite moving. otherwise nu-metal = worst music ever, but I must admit that Linkin Park "My December" - one of their b-sides - and their biggest hit, "In The End" are great, I really enjoy them.

anyway it would be so unfair if suddenly nu-metal turned out to be new hipster nostalgia thing. because the music sucked then, no question about it.

but the article defending LB is fun to read, and somehow OTM
 
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