Limp Bizkit Still Sucks

[imitationleather]

Hang on, I thought Limp Bizkit and Travis were both shit and I was right then and I'm right now.

MAN KNOWS

[The Mollusk]

I'm afraid that man does not know.

About Limp Bizkit I mean. Man does know about Travis.

[bushwick]

I was 25 or 26 when "Significant Other" came out, wayyyy too old to be the target audience, and I was always aware of the ridiculous/corny aspects but loved it still. Was into NWOBHM when I was little so ridiculous and corny were comforting sentiments to me anyway, I think. Plus I was listening to loads of No Limit Records and Triple 6 Mafia and suchlike at the time, and Bizkit had the same cartoony/glossy/unreal/OTT vibe and aesthetic. Also, as an adult i seem to subconsciously like new music that I would have liked as a kid, had it existed, if that makes sense (like when I first listened to "Boy In Da Corner" and was proper fuckin elated and blown away - imagining what I would have thought hearing that at 13. Same with "Break Stuff")

[ASFTSN]

It's perfectly fine to dislike metal but if people want to try and sneer and poke fun at the faults (which, I'd argue, are actually its strengths) then they're simply not getting the full picture.

Someone pointing out the faults of Limp Bizkit are probably not going to be perceiving those same supposed faults in proper metal bands[nb]It's too loud it's too angry, all the songs sound the same, you can't understand what he's saying blah blah blah all the same shit I haven't heard anyone say in real life since I was about 14[/nb] (sorry, I just can't think of a more apt term than proper) unless they know absolutely fuck all about heavy music and have no interest in getting any kind of full picture anyway.

[Famous Mortimer]

I rather liked some of the songs on that remix album they did - "Re-Arranged", for one.

[chveik]

this nu metal revival's acceptance feels way too contrarian to me.

[PaulTMA]

Fred Durst was the last person to appear on the cover of Melody Maker

[Pauline Walnuts]

NME's last printed one was Stefflon Don

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NME_covers


I don't know where I'm going with this.

[madhair60]

this nu metal revival's acceptance feels way too contrarian to me.

nu metal got me into metal and hip hop, it rules

[The Mollusk]

this nu metal revival's acceptance feels way too contrarian to me.

For me personally, chiming in somewhat with what bushwick said above, nu-metal is something which I vaguely enjoyed at the time but have a lot more respect and appreciation for it now that I further understand the general workings and traits of pop music. The same thing is true for pop-punk, which I really fell in love with a few years ago when I hit 30.

As for the broader scope of things, going from their recent Lollapalloza set where he asked how many people in the crowd had never seen an LB show before and about 2/3 of the crowd stuck their hands up, the genre appears to be having a resurgence in the generation below ours which is happily coinciding with how hyper-pop (see: Poppy, Rina Sawayama) has incorporated elements of metal into its roster, so I can see a justifiably sudden new spike in popularity there at least.

[JaDanketies]

Nu Metal is back again, kinda. Ho99o9, Ghostemane, Bob Vylan. I saw a poster for a festival in Leeds that seems to have loads of neo-nu-metal playing. It's better than it was, too.

[BeardFaceMan]

There are also bands like Tetrarch currently flying the nu metal flag.

LB's cover of Faith is a lot of fun. But for me it's not worth sitting through their misses to get to their hits because when they're bad, they're (well, just Durst, really) absolutely fucking awful.

[Famous Mortimer]

neo-nu-metal

What will its next resurgence be called?

[boki]

Ho99o9, Ghostemane, Bob Vylan

Nah, they're all more directly influenced by hardcore punk, but that said there is a nu-metal revival of sorts underway.

[bushwick]

there is quite a lot of the old sports metal vibe in rap now, such as ZillaKami and SosMula aka City Morgue, hip hop duo from NY, two young lads with a massive nü influence to their sound and look, to the point of covering Slipknot when they play live.

[madhair60]

I'd never seen this video before https://youtu.be/qex0OjXolzc

[imitationleather]

I'd never seen this video before https://youtu.be/qex0OjXolzc

Let me guess: It's 2Girls1Cup.

[idunnosomename]

Fred Durst was the last person to appear on the cover of Melody Maker

man never made a melody in his life

[boki]

man never made a melody in his life

That's how they knew they'd reached the end.