Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary Audio CD

A fair review of the Limp Bizkit "Results May Vary" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Limp Bizkit reviews here, or go back to the Limp Bizkit tabs.

Limp Bizkit Band: Limp Bizkit
Title: Results May Vary
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-09-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Re-Entry 2: Eat You Alive 3: Gimme The Mic 4: Underneath The Gun 5: Down Another Day 6: Almost Over 7: Build A Bridge 8: Red Light-Green Light 9: The Only One 10: Let Me Down 11: Lonely World 12: Phenomenon 13: Creamer (Radio Is Dead) 14: Head For The Barricade 15: Behind Blue Eyes 16: Drown

Adaquate, but lacks direction and originality
) After so many years (what, like 5 or 6?) I finally decided to check the album out and it only confirmed what I was thinking about it before: the album lacks a large amount of direction and originality. Everyone wants to hate on Limp Bizkit, right? Isn't how that it goes for "Take A Look Around?" All kidding aside, I try to be fair to the band's releases (I did give TUQPart1 three starts out of five.

Now, there are a few highlights here. John Otto and Sam Rivers are an excellent rhythm section, and the guitar work of both Rivers and Mike Smith isn't bad, so it's not like the music's horrendous.

The songwriting in terms of however, leaves a lot to be desired. "Eat You Alive" sounds exactly like every aggressive Limp Bizkit song with the rapped verses and overly aggressive choruses, only the hook isn't as catchy as the previous Limp Bizkit songs. "Lonely World" goes on to feature some of the most disjointed rapping I've noticed in a while. And for a guy who accomplished a lot from 1997-2003, Durst's lyrical topics seem to bring up the fact that he has it so bad. I guess my eking out a living as a middle-class nobody is far less challenging in comparison to living the high-life as a media mogul.

The originality of the songs should rightfully come into question. "Gimme The Mic" sounds like the lyrics were taken from a B-side Beastie Boys song, "The Only One" is a blatant and shameless Helmet rip off, "Red Light-Green Light" sounds unremarkable to every other rap song coming out during those times, and "Drown" sounds like it should have been performed by the Limp Bizkit buddies in Staind.

All and all, this sounds less like an album and more of a compilation of songs crammed together in an attempt to try to salvage whatever portion of their fan base was left once Wes Borland quit the band (and whatever fan base was left after Durst started to worry more about his career as opposed to his band's. ) The band can't seem decide what style of metal they want to be, they can't seem to decide what style of rap they want to be, so they just throw darts all over the place and hope it will stick. Maybe that was good enough to get enough people interested, but considering how rapcore had been beaten to death by the time this album was released, and how many of their fans had grown disinterested with what was becoming a stale sound, it isn't any surprise to me that the album ended up the way it did: critically reviled and a shadow of what their previous releases were.


Huge Limp Bizkit fan
Limp Bizkit is a great band and i think this is their most creative cd. Great CD!! I don't care what all the haters say.


Something New
If you would like to see how limpbizkit has evolved as a band and gone in new directions but still kept some of the same stuff that we all love then pick up Results May Vary. If your a traditional limpbizkit fan then you might not enjoy this album much as it only has 3 heavy songs(Eat You Alive, Gimmie the Mic, and Head for the Barricade) however limpbizkit with temporary guitarist Mike Smith take a new approach in this album as the songs like Build a Bridge and Down Another Day are emotional and have real meaning.


Wimp Bizkit!!! HA!!!
Why? Because they were loud, heavy, cussed a whole bunch, and were utterly mesmerized with the idea of sex. In my 8th grade year(2000), it somehow became the epitome of `cool' to own any album by LIMP BIZKIT. Since all of these things were completely contrary to all the morals our parents had taught us keep, we, the rebellious pre-teens we were, obviously embraced it. The same could be said for KORN, METALLICA, NINE INCH NAILS, and all those other bands that love Satan alot. NOW, of course, we realize how silly and retarded LIMP BIZKIT truly is.

Unlike my hard-core peers, I'd never quite connected with all of these `unconventional', rebellious ideals, so I've never really experienced the stupidity of this band until my friend burned me a copy of "Results May Vary". I'd heard the single `Eat You Alive', and I thought it was pretty cool. I mean, that riff was SICK, and the vocals from Fred Durst were pretty strong and interesting. I thought.

So I listened. And to tell the truth, I like most of the music on the record. Some of it is sorta heavy(`Eat You Alive', `Gimme the Mic', `Head for the Barricades'), but most of the album is sort of not. The second single, the WHO cover `Behind Blue Eyes', is a very soft and, seriously, a very touching song when played by these guys. Please forgive my ineptitude, but I really just could never connect with it the same way when played by it's original creators. The closing track `Drown' is my favorite on the album. There's absolutely NO heavy parts at all. It starts soft and stays that way through the whole track. I love Fred's voice, alright? It's great on this song, on `Behind Blue Eyes', on `Eat You Alive', on `Underneath the Gun', on `Build a Bridge', on lots and lots of songs. If I were grading the album solely on it's musical/vocal merits, it would get a solid four stars, no joke. BUT. . . the lyrics that are causing a travesty that I simply can't ignore.

Almost every song, besides a select few, contain some of the most mundane lyrics ever put to record. I assume relentless `cool' references to sex, extreme usage of `radical' cusswords, `intense' whining of depression over your consistent failure in life and how miserable your existence has been are all a bunch of things that will you sell millions of records. And I don't know about your other albums, but this one is definitely proving that. Retards.

MY TOP PICKS:
- `Underneath the Gun' (LIMP, you'd be a fool to NOT release this as a single)
- `Drown'
- `Behind Blue Eyes'
- `Build a Bridge'
- `Down Another Day'
- `Let me Down'

These guys are down alot. 2. 5 stars, blown up to three. If you're a rebellious eight grader, this is all you need. As well as some MUDVAYNE, or whatever else is mindless metal.


Dunno about the CD, but they ripped off The Who
The Who did a much better job with that song, and if you think that Limp Bizkit is a genius for that song, you are dumb. They ripped off The Who's song "Behind Blue Eyes". Get The Who's version and enjoy it instead.


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