Limp Bizkit changed the heavy-music landscape with the rap-rockin’, stuff-breakin’ sounds of sophomore album Significant Other and its 2000 follow-up, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Those two multi-platinum-selling juggernauts were filled with a cavalcade of MTV-smashing hits, and put the Floridian act on the world’s biggest stages.
While those landmark releases cemented the band’s place in rock history, true fans know there’s more treasure to be found in Limp Bizkit’s songbook beyond vocalist Fred Durst’s iconic red hat period.
But what’s the biggest banger in Bizkit’s post-Starfish era? We asked Revolver readers to weigh in on that exact question, and they rolled into our comments to rank their picks accordingly.
“Almost Over”
Driven by a spidery, delay-slapping riff from then-guitarist Mike Smith, Results May Vary’s “Almost Over” is a moody, life-contemplating cut that’ll blow your mind, baby.
Fred Durst examines his punk-rock-loving childhood, and the rage and frustration that ultimately put him on the path towards assembling the heavy crew we now formally know as Limp Bizkit. Lessons are learned, and “Almost Over” acts as pledge to never stop your grind.
“Dad Vibes”
Bizkit boosters felt the nu-daddies delivered big in 2021 with the release of “Dad Vibes,” a song that suggests aging gracefully doesn’t mean growing up entirely.
The swagger-heavy boom tune from the Still Sucks era is super playful, unserious fun — the kind of track that hits hard like a hot dad ramming a rhino into a brick wall, just to get a laugh. Outside of a catch-all maxim (“Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em), there isn’t much such advice in here, but Bizkit bounce exactly the way their progeny need them to.
“Gold Cobra”
It’s so golden, y’all.
While lot of fan votes this week came pouring in for Limp Bizkit’s 2011 LP as a whole, the faithful likewise confessed that they were drawn in by the hypnotically heavy sway of Gold Cobra’s title cut, too.
Popped and pounded with to-the-point open riffage and bare-but-booming drum beats, the song has the venom-spitting Durst “throwin’ matches on the gas” as he shouts-out Korn, threatens to slice and dice haters and pronounces himself a gold-plated King of the Hill.
“Eat You Alive”
Before landing on Results May Vary, Limp Bizkit almost titled their fourth full-length Panty Sniffer — this being a reference to a line in “Eat You Alive.” Cooler heads prevailed, but readers are still attracted to the scent of the record’s first single.
It’s definitely one of their weirder tracks. The hypnotically chugging groove has more in common with Quicksand’s “Fazer” than much else in the Bizkit songbook. Tonally, Durst’s devotional raps towards the “totally hot” but unreceptive “Mrs. I-Don’t-Know-What-The-Fuck-Your-Name-Is” are either nakedly vulnerable or giving off some serious stranger-danger vibes — results may vary on your reading of this. Fitting the cut with a conflicted, Stockholm Syndrome-coded music video doesn’t clear things up any better.
Either way, “Eat You Alive” presents us with a supremely lascivious Bizkit.
“The Truth”
Fans aren’t “slightly obsessed” with The Unquestionable Truth’s de facto title cut — they’re outright adamant that this is the most ruling Bizkit banger of the past 20 years. Without a shadow of doubt, it’s not hard to understand why.
The track steamrolls through panicked, chromatic riff-outs that penetrate the psyche. Bizkit’s lyrical pendulum swings Durst towards a set of bars about mistakes, regrets and payback — while more existential than irreverent, his rebellious heart is pumping hard as ever.
For those reasons and more, it’s hard to imagine accepting “The Truth” as anything but one of the best in the Bizkit-verse.