Disco de Limp Bizkit: “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water”

Overall, this album was a good one. However, I was slightly disappointed about how little Limp Bizkit has changed.

Now, call me crazy, but I thought LB was going to soften up a bit. Comparing "3 Dollar Bill, Y'all$" to "Significant Other", it seemed that Limp had made a drastic change. There were more melodic songs, some better rhymes, and meanings behind the songs. I noticed that the amount of profane language increased a tad, however. And to tell you the truth, I wasn't very happy. But I say, what the heck? It's a good album.

No matter how many times Fred would say the "F" word in "Significant Other", nothing would change my mind about Limp Bizkit changing. I expected A LOT more melodies, some good rhymes, and a lot less language...

Okay, the melodies were good. Yes, the ryhmes were excellent. But I was absolutely stupified when i heard "Hot Dog". He say the mother of all cusses, what, 48 times? I suppose the next Bizkit (if there is one) will be worse.

This was a great CD, but can't we lay off the cussing?

p.s. to whoever wrote the review saying "Rollin' (UAV)" is the best song: Xzibit isn't in it...he's in "Getcha Groove On"

Especially now that nu-metal is dead and korn and linkin park are the only thriving nu-metal bands it is embarrasing to admit to liking a limp bizkit album. I am not a huge limp bizkit fan, but this album is definately worth listening too. Every song on this album is entertaining if you are a hard rock fan. This album is definately a good album to get the adrenaline going. Even if you are embarrased to have anyone know that you are listening to limp bizkit it is definately worth listening to in secret.

It is all too obvious that many supporters of Fred Durst that backed up the band when I was in high school have abandoned him in 2005. Those who steadfastly listen to Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood have succeeded in driving the star rating of this record to be as low it as it today.

Rap-rock may have gone the way of disco and hair metal. And to some, Chocolate Starfish should belong in an ash heap with its pubescent whining and naive skills of guitarist Wes Borland.

But who will really have the last laugh?

After the sounds of Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock and Korn departed the rock stage, someone had to fill in the voids of MTV and radio. It would be 50 Cent, Eminem, and Outkast, artists who have had records sell over five million copies in the past three years. Rap has dominated everything from the single charts (This week the top 5 are all hip-hop influenced) to Courvoisier and car customization.

In that same three-year period though, the three big sellers for rock this milleninium were Evanescence (only one that went at least 5x platinum), Linkin Park's follow-up to their smash debut, and Maroon 5.

That does not sound like a golden age of rock to me.

Yet I remember in how rock used to be the dominant genre in the 1990s, even after Kurt Cobain's death with Dookie and Weezer's blue album being a big hit. Pearl Jam was still going strong, "Self-Esteem" was on the radio and Tool was on 120 Minutes.

The big double album was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, not Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

Now radio stations in Philadelphia and Florida have switched their formats from rock to urban. I know the alternative one in my market went from playing an all alt-rock slate in 2000 to including 70s classical rock because so little has come out in the past few years.

Lollapalooza, once the pride of post-grunge, is now history.

Limp Bizkit, despite that they were even better than Ashlee Simpson in turning off anybody, did much for their industry by incorporating the aggressive rhymes of hip-hop into a standard heavy metal sound.

No doubt, they are out of the spotlight today- but so is rock music to a certain extent.

Really, Bizkit was not just a nu metal-rapcore, etc group but a band that puts its primacy in the vocalist before the guitar player. The same principle made rap and also country become the two hottest genres today-- it doesn't matter how hard the riffs are but the vocals that a listener can relate to.

The tunes in both genres focused about specific affections like patriotism or inner-city life however the lyrical content in rock music today is too abstract and generic for a mass audience to connect with.

LB had that energy and rage in how their songs were delivered and they succeeded because the way their music was delivered, in whatever way it was, meant *something*.

You don't remember the riff on Rollin' but anyone can recall the shouted "breath in/now breath out" and track 5 can be best summed up by the taunting "My way or the highway".

It is fitting that the two biggest acts of modern rock in 2K5, Green Day and System of a Down, are putting politically-minded songs instead of just plainly singing about falling in love. That is good enough, but not to end hip-hop's domination of the singles charts or American dress or slang.

^ My point is this. ---> Chocolate Starfish with its unabashed yelling and cursing is a better example for rock and roll in the future than Coldplay's X & Y.

Who listens to that that isn't under 30 or lives in the blue states?

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I'm aware that the hard rock genre is balancing on a tight rope these days. People are more concerned with the image than they are with the sound. However, I can't understand how anyone could be interested in the whiny, non-musical voice of Fred Durst. When I first heard this guy I thought he was joking. The band may have a future if they kick him out and find someone with talent. To the current hard rock standards, the music is not that bad. It's weak, it's bad--but it's not that bad. Yet if they had any comprehension of the art, Fred Durst would have been gone long ago. You can't take Limp Bizkit seriously. Not worth one star.