Last week I got to experience one of the best rock bands ever, live and in person Metallica. It was an amazing show! They played almost all of their hits...they had Jim Breuer open, and we left with :20 seconds left of Enter Sandman so my wife could get to work, it honestly was everything you could ever ask for in a show! But it got me thinking, who was my generations (age 32-40) band? THE BAND!?
Clearly each decade had a band or two that were theirs. The 60's you liked the Rolling Stones or the Beatles. The 70's you had Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin. The 80's you had Guns N Roses or Metallica. The early 90's were Nirvana...but after them, who? Who is our biggest band after Nirvana?
Creed?
Nickelback?
No to all of them (although I came across a Nickelback song a while ago, and shockingly it didn't age horribly, I found it not...bad. Shhhhhhh! Don't tell.).
And who would my favorite band even be? All time it's the Beatles, and I really like the Strokes...but who is a sneaky contender for my favorite band of all time for pure rock?
Oh fuck...no way!?
Limp Bizkit?! Could it be? It...it is!
I love Limp Bizkit. And I hope I don't offend Mr. Durst if you are improbably reading this, but I think the reason I like it so much, I don't have to think too damn hard about the music. Fred, Mr. Bizkit, has basically 5 ranges of emotion:
1. Angry
2. Really angry
3. Angrily rocking out
4. Wearing hats
5. Songs that make him want to awkwardly dance and use of hands...
But it's all catchy! It's all great...for the most part! And if you ignore they came out with an album in 2011 (what the F!?) or legit have had an album in development for years after that, (the name you may ask!? Stampede of the Disco Elephants...Limp Bizkit were either incredibly innovative with naming things...or never great with names...ever) they really had, at most, a limited time to deliver some arguably great music.
Significant Other came out in 1999, that was my senior year of high school. I was oddly shy at that time, so I spent a lot of time playing PS1 and listening to music at that time. I listened and bought every type of music (thanks BMG!), but there was no album I played more than Significant Other at that time. The next year I went to the midnight release at my local On Cue to buy Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water when it came out (I told you...not the best with naming things), it was arguably played more than Significant Other.
They then followed that up with a criminally (see what I did Ras!?) underrated album in Results May Vary. I liked it, it bombed, it was the beginning of the end, save for one last comeback with a song called "The Truth" which came out in 2005. Then they were done. And since then have there been any "new" bands to get as big as them?
Go ahead, try to name someone as big. Maybe Linkin Park? But to me that's the same era, and Limp Bizkit was bigger. Korn? Comparable, but same argument. Bizkit wins. Green Day had the one brilliant album in the mid-2000's...nothing that great since (and they are a 90's band to me anyway). Since then the biggest selling band is Imagine Dragons. The best tours are nostalgia acts (sorry Metallica, that's you). My favorite to listen to? Besides a handful of new songs, I go to the 90's for my rock music.
Rock is so different now. Rock radio honestly sucks. It's just the same old songs over and over again and then they throw in The Pretty Reckless every now and then because she's hot.
She's Cindy Lou Hoo by the way in the Jim Carrey Grinch movie...think about that for a second...
Don't believe me on rock radio? Go turn to your rock station now. It'll be AC/DC...then a 90's rock band...then Ozzy, then Shinedown...then The Pretty Reckless, repeat. Rock tours are nostalgia acts or recent ish bands that are good, but not great (and this is only my opinion, but bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle, Shinedown are good, and I love at least 2-3 songs by each BUT they aren't Metallica, the mystique isn't there for me. If I met James Hetfield I would shit myself, if I met anyone in those bands above, I would literally have no idea. I would have to ask Ras or Dino who they are.).
We need some new music...and until we get that music I'm going to listen to what I like, and dammit, what I like is the BIZKIT!
So what's this surprisingly, incredibly long intro leading up to? We are doing a Favorite. Biggest. Best. Limp Bizkit. I have recruited Ras and James to give their choices, as well as mine. If you missed the last one, we covered blink-182 (arguably a band that should be in the discussion of best 90's band) with Beach which you can find Here!
Let's get started before this gets any longer! And....go!
Ras's Selections:
Favorite: The Truth
Biggest: Nookie
Best: Full Nelson
I can't argue with any of Ras's selections, and I love the Full Nelson pick. He dug deep in to that library. The Truth is a song a lot of people haven't heard, and that's disappointing because it's really, really, really freaking good.
James's Selections:
Favorite: N 2 Gether Now
Biggest: Nookie (a trend is developing!)
Best: My Way
My Way is arguably their 4th biggest song (full disclosure, I, Jeff, do not like Rollin'...blame the Undertaker.). Clearly we all agree on Nookie, and N 2 Gether now is a classic that started them having a rap feature on their next two albums (Xzibit on Getcha Groove On and Snoop on the CRIMINALLY underrated Red Light, Green Light).
Jeff's Selections:
Favorite: Re-Arranged
Biggest: Nookie (trend developed)
Best: The Truth
Nookie is clearly their biggest song. Faith would be after that, then Rollin', then My Way...if I keep ranking them I'm just going to do another Limp Bizkit blog, and nobody wants that after this one.
The Truth is such an underrated song, and at the time, it was really exciting to see if that was the direction they were going in since nu metal was dead in 2005. Unfortunately red hats stopped being sold, so with red hats went Limp Bizkit.
That's it for this week! If you want to do one of these Favorite. Biggest. Best. Be my guest. Literally! A few of you posted last time, so maybe 3 Doors Down would be a unique one. Or Incubus. I'd LOVE to do Eminem, but that ones too easy.
Next blog will be the long awaited "The Kind of People Who Suck"...clearly flat earthers and anti vaxxers make this, but we all know there are more kinds of people that suck.
Until next time,
Jeff
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