Limp Bizkit - bunch of arse

[Rich]

Am I the only one who sees this? From their oh-so-hip spelling of the word 'biscuit' to their 'terrific', 'meaningful'lyrics, they just suck. Oooh! Swearing! That'll bring down the establishment! If I hear Fred Durst 'rapping' about how rubbish life is again, I'm going to stick that red hat where the sun don't shine, the whiny bitch. Arrrgh!

Sorry, had to vent a little there...

[XtremeGod]

Main corporate stream, oh please give me a fucking break. Dont cry to us because your garage band sucks and you cant hold a fucking tune. You are just jealous, go home and cry to mommy now.

[Smackdaddy-OG]

I used to think Limp Bizkit was complete crap headed by an overweight frat boy wannabe. Their music isn't technically impressive or original. Know what though? They have a lot of energy and there's something to be said for that. I mean, "Break Stuff" incited people to trash shit at Woodstock. Now, that's energy being put to a very bad use, but the energy is there. "N2 Gether Now" is actually a great song too.

And yes, Fred nails top of the line hotties. More power to him!

[Kyle]

Fred Durst nails really hot chicks, and all the time (I'm talking playmates people). He gets a huge thumbs up from me for that. Plus Limp's stuff is pretty up tempo, I don't mind it.

[Chicken]

Limp Bizkit sucks my ass. I don't care who the guy sleeps with, he's still a main stream corporate rock whore. Fuck that band.

[Renard]

Limp Bizkit has accomplished something that no other band really has... They've slowly combined Rock-Techno-Hip Hop.

The transistion is obvious if you listen to all of their albums, which i have all 3 and like all 3.

[Chris Cheung]

I like Rock, Techno, and Hip Hop all but don't really see where the Techno fusion comes into Limp Bizkit's work. Maybe if we cranked it up a few bpm I'd hear it.

I personally think Limp Bizkit is shit, Fred's voice annoys the fuck outta me. Seems to be a rock reject with no flow to his 'hip hop' lyrics. This is blatantly obvious on the track with Method Man who's regular voice is dark enough let alone rap.

All said, they make a good effort to combine the genres but are just overrated.

I think any popular celeb/artist can bang top notch hotties so Fred is no different.

If you're looking for some real Rock-Techno-Hip Hop fusion try BT. His lesser known recent non-trance work is very experimental if you're comparing it to this mainstream stuff.

[MeK]

I'll say this about Bizkit, then close the subject from my mind forever.

Having always been a hard rock/metal fan, I picked up Bizkit's first album, "$3 bill y'all" soon after its release and thought it was the coolest shit I'd heard in a long time. Sure it was the same ol' tired rap/rock shit that a million bands had done since Aerosmith and Run DMC did "walk this way" together, but there was an incredible energy spurred by their honesty - a "we're gonna kick your ass just because we can" attitude that shocked me out of the pop/rock phase I was suffering at the time. In short, I became a fan.

Everywhere I went, I told people to check out Bizkit. Here was a band doing something really wicked - and for once, it wasn't spoiled by over-production or ridiculous subject matter spurred by some corporate ass kissin' faggot getting high off his own ass fumes.

Alas, it all went downhill from there. Enter a music scene ripe for revolution. KoRn was great starting out, yeah yeah yeah, but fuck did they sell out. Now before I continue, let me just reply to the "so they aren't allowed to make money? Geez you're dumb, uh-huh-uh" arguement immediately. OF COURSE band are allowed to make money. Hell the more they make, the better for me - it means they have bigger budgets for their recording studios, equipment, tours, live shows, etc. Making money isn't selling out. Dedicating your post-success musical career to making money on the other hand IS. There's something called artistic integrity - if any of you pictorial-goobin' losers would ever pick up an instrument and get lost in it for 5 seconds, you too would realize this. This integrity propels an artist forth; it is both the muse and the voice of reason of an artist. The reason integrity matters in music, which is arguably just an entertaining product and not necessarily anything more, is because well...it IS more. It's art, and some of us live for art. Music, literature, sculptures, paintings - I've dabbled in all of it and I fell in love with all of it. So when somebody tries to sell music off as "art" when all it is in reality is dinero-inspired tracks thought up by somebody's cousin while he was masturbating in a phone booth...then it's neither art nor music. An extremist opinion perhaps, but it's mine. When you have a passion for the fine arts, any such desecration of the more upstanding motives real artists have for creating quite simply infuriates me more than de-caffeinated coffee. It fucking sucks not only because they're lying about their product, but because ignorant teeny-boppin' retards still high from inhaling all the glue off their big brother's model airplane are buying that product. It's clever marketing and minimum effort, not music.

So - back to the point. KoRn sold out, that much is evident even to the blind and deaf. I still respect them for opening the doors for metal to gain a foothold in the largely pop-dominated mediums of TV and Radio, but they sold out and I haven't purchased an album of theirs after "Life is Peachy". That's not to say I don't have them, I just haven't paid for them.

So. Now Bizkit sold out. I mean come on. Anyone who's heard all 3 records can map the degeneration of real musicians to CEO dick suckin' media rejects with crayons. The temptation of making more money just got a hold of them, and it SHOWS. The music has become uninspired and dull, the energy - the honest energy is gone, and the lyrics have become little less than glorified hymns of self-gratification. Or the debasement of far more talented artists. In short Bizkit sold out, and their music is no longer music because of it.

Bizkit has all of my music-related hatred at the moment. Even 'N Sync, Britney Spears and other pre-manufacture teen icons lip-synching their way to the IRS hall of fame take a backseat when somebody screws their real fans this badly.

Bizkit = fag0ts, as anyone familiar with somethingawful might say.

Cheers,
MeK - not musically minded but opinionated, sure.

[Smackdaddy-OG]

What's so wrong with artistic change? You can't fault people for learning or changing their style. Maybe part of the joy is seeing how many millions of people you can make go fucking bonkers listening to your sound?

Korn paved the way for metal??! You ever hear of Metallica man? Like em or not, they were a very early cross over. I still remember Korn's early stuff including some nursery rhyme song "This old man, he played one, he played knick knack on my thumb ARGHH!!! RAHH!!!". WTF was that about? The only Korn stuff that I can half stand is the recent stuff.

Know who's completely reinvented themselves? Anyone remember early Mariah Carey? Then she dumped her husband and POW, she goes right into hip hop (which isn't bad, but I liked the earlier stuff better). Is this a reverse sell out? She started off making music the record companies wanted her to make and now she's doing the music she likes? Is it wrong of me to like my artists sold out?

[Renard]

Personally i don't really care if an artist "sells out" or not, its whether or not I like what I'm hearing from them.

Eminem sure as hell doesn't make music his studios want to, but he's had a "sell out" song or two.
The song "my name is" got him on the map, and he doesn't play that song in concert nowadays, the one time he did... he apologized for doing it and immedietly started up another song.

What does "selling out" really have to do with anything to us consumers, if their music becomes something you don't like: fine don't listen to it, if you still like it what the hell does it matter?

[Fitzgibbon Guy]

Uhg. Limp Bizkit.
Okay, let me get this over with.
Fred Durst tries to rap and sucks.
Their guitarist tries to play and sucks.
They have a song called "Break stuff". What an intelligent, creative title. What a shitty song.

Fred Durst's "rapping" is annoying. He has no authority in hip hop, no power or meaning in his lyrics.

Of all the rap/rock bands out there, only Rage Against The Machine combined the two genres fluidly and with great inventiveness. The lyrics are truly great, especially in their last original work, "The Battle of Los Angeles". Zach De La Rocha brought the rage to bear with strength outweighing any rapper who vocalizes about his "big pimpin'" self, or how he wants to "break stuff".

Limp Bizkit is juvenile, disposable rock/rap wannabe crap.

And now with the sudden Break-up of RATM, rage fans will have a very hard time finding a replacement. And Limp Bizkit is no substitue.