Why does everyone hate Limp Bizkit?

lowendgenerator · #1 02-12-2009, 07:22 AM

I just read that they have reunited (again) and I'm actually pretty excited. I never got to see them live, but I was a fan of their music. Maybe not so much of Fred Durst and his antics, but damn could that rhythm section get me pumped up!

So, why does everyone hate what was arguably the hottest band on the planet back in 1999?

Jared Lash · #2 02-12-2009, 07:26 AM

I don't hate Limp Bizkit.

I hate Fred Durst.

Actually that's not even true. I don't care enough to hate Fred Durst. I just wish he would go away.

The guitarist plays some interesting stuff. And the rhythm section seems decent. I just really can't stand Durst. Don't like his voice, his lyrics or his generally douchebaggy behavior.

And this probably belongs in Misc.

lowendgenerator · #3 02-12-2009, 07:37 AM

Hmmm, misc? Perhaps you're right, I think it fits here too. It's pretty OT to everything TB is about. It's more a discussion about how a band can go from white hot to dog pewp in a matter of minutes. Is it all Fred Durst's fault?

bassman1185 · #4 02-12-2009, 07:39 AM

Fred Durst was the archetype for all the nu-metal douchebags that came after him. He was a talentless, loathesome human being.

If not for him, maybe LB wouldn't be quite so universally hated.

lowendgenerator · #5 02-12-2009, 07:56 AM

But was it his douchebaggery outside of the band that earned him his reputation, or was it what his lyrical content? I seem to remember him talking a bunch of wierd random stuff every time a camera was pointed at him.

I gotta say, after not hearing it for a few years, Chocolate Starfish sounds really good to me.

Thanks for the move, mods!

**TheEmptyCell** · #6 02-12-2009, 08:14 AM

I loved LB when I first started playing bass... Sam Rivers was what made me wanna play. Three Dollar Bill is still a listen-able album, but the rest of Durst's lyrics and vocals make me wanna puke.

Wes has a cool new band, Black Light Burns. I wonder what Sam and the drummer are doing?

bassman1185 · #7 02-12-2009, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by lowendgenerator

But was it his douchebaggery outside of the band that earned him his reputation, or was it what his lyrical content? I seem to remember him talking a bunch of wierd random stuff every time a camera was pointed at him.

I gotta say, after not hearing it for a few years, Chocolate Starfish sounds really good to me.

Thanks for the move, mods!

It was both. He was obviously a total a-hole outside of the band, plus he wrote some of the worst lyrics ever recorded. Crap, listen to the radio edited version of "Rollin'." There was so few words that WEREN'T bleeped out that you can't tell what the heck he was saying (answer: Nothing). Anyone who relies on obceneties for that much of their lyrical content clearly lacks the intelligence to make a real point. And Nookie?

I did it all for the nookie
What?
The nookie
What?
So you can take that cookie
And stick it up your
YEAH
Stick it up your
YEAH

That's some lyrical gold, right there.

sarcastro83 · #8 02-12-2009, 08:18 AM

I think a great deal of it has to do with both rap and heavy metal being watered down to the point where it was virtually unlistenable for me. It's just my opinion, but Limp Bizkit sort of represented incredibly awful examples of both of those genres. Just wasn't my thing, I guess.

Nu Metal and I don't really get along... I can see the appeal for some people though.

I think it's universally understood that Fred Durst is just a man who should have never been exposed to as many people as he was. He's just a very loutish, inarticulate, insufferable douche. I just look at the man and cringe... more so whenever he opens his mouth...

MaxRossell · #9 02-12-2009, 08:23 AM

I always thought that Limp Bizkit were just an average jock-metal band fronted by an untalented wigger. They score a Paris Hilton on my "justifiably famous" gauge.

Thunderscreech · #10 02-12-2009, 08:40 AM

I never really hated them. I didn't actually get a chance to listen to Limp Bizkit until I grew out of middle school. And then I was like: "Wow, these guys kinda sound like Primus mixed with Linkin Park."

The Golden Boy · #11 02-12-2009, 08:58 AM

Just wasn't a fan of the nu-metal.

And I was in a nu-metal band at the time...

kasanovakarl · #12 02-12-2009, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TheEmptyCell

I loved LB when I first started playing bass... Sam Rivers was what made me wanna play. Three Dollar Bill is still a listen-able album, but the rest of Durst's lyrics and vocals make me wanna puke.

Wes has a cool new band, Black Light Burns. I wonder what Sam and the drummer are doing?

John Otto, the drummer, just recently recorded the drums for Scooter Ward's (from Cold) solo project The Killer and The Star.

Valerus · #13 02-12-2009, 10:09 AM

Limp Bizkit represents hell on earth, that's why.

**john turner** · #14 02-12-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by lowendgenerator

Is it all Fred Durst's fault?

yes.

/thread.

baalroo · #15 02-12-2009, 11:07 AM

I wouldn't say "everyone" hates them, just the people who don't watch football highlights while date raping cheerleaders on top of a keg full of keystone light. When Three Dollar Bill Y'all came out I honestly thought they were kind of cool and interesting, but after that it became obvious they were going to allow Durst and the record companies to call the shots and cater to the deuchebag demographic.

jimb213 · #16 02-12-2009, 03:52 PM

yup. pretty much all fred durst. The band was pretty darn good, they had some great riffs, and the guitarist did kinda cool out-there techniques in a fairly mainstream context that worked pretty well. Durst just had an annoying voice, junior-high-level lyrical content, and was a turd sandwich in public. He wasn't a very good singer, and he wasn't a very good rapper.

For me, a singer will make or break a band. No matter how great the music is, if I don't like listening to the singer, I don't like listening to the band. LB is one of those cases.

tycobb73 · #17 02-13-2009, 06:55 AM

He tried to sign a local band that had 1 hit called Taproot to his label. When Taproot signed eslewhere he left a voicemail saying how he is what got them into the industry and they didn't know how big he was and he would crush them. It was played on the local radio station. Ahole #1.

NickInMesa · #18 02-13-2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by jimb213

For me, a singer will make or break a band. No matter how great the music is, if I don't like listening to the singer, I don't like listening to the band. LB is one of those cases.

Same with Creed. They were a good band, they had some great songs ("One", enough said).

But his attitude signed the end of their gig.

There again, rumors of them getting back together.

McHack · #19 02-13-2009, 11:26 AM

Fred Durst is a tool, but they rock in concert.... Gene Simmons is a tool, but gets a free pass? Limp Bizkit rocks, & I would go see them again in a heartbeat!

Swerve · #20 02-13-2009, 12:29 PM

Eh, I thought they were O.K. when I was 14. I really respect Wes Borland and his playing, the rest of the band seem talented enough. Durst's lyrics make me cringe, even back then. They are cheesy and predictable IMO.