Honestly I hate the soundboard the videos were better before when he had to suffer but now he looks for any opportunity to use the soundboard I feel he's not really trying to listen
the band instrumentally is great, but the main problem is that Fred Durst is very goofy. However, if goofy is what your looking for, then Limp Bizkit is the greatest band of all time.
Thats the typical comment about it and without Fred durst that band would last 2 allbum, Goofy lyrics it's another thing that makes them unique in a style that most of it it's depressed teenagers talking about how much bully they received in school
This is something prevalent in a majority of heavier music. The lyrical matter is for the most part not important. It's more about if the vocals add to the song or not. Personally I've never liked Fred as a singer or a rapper. He has his moments where his talent shines through, but most of the time he's just fucking around and not making any real attempt to be as good as he could be. It's always been the thing that held Limp Bizkit back from being talked about as this amazing band that got lost to time. Cause people don't really talk much about how so well made the instrumentals are in like all their songs. They just focus on Fred's whiny singing or his try hard rapping. But he was also trolling before we coined the term trolling so he's got some points for originality at least.
Since we’re on the Nu Metal train, might I suggest Slipknot self-titled? I know I mentioned this a couple videos, but I cannot stress how great this album is. It was some of the heaviest, rawest, most unhinged music at the time, and Corey Taylor’s vocal work was phenomenal. Highly suggest it!
@@perplexed1783 Nah you're just hating way too much as everyone does when discussing Limp Bizkit. Fred's the only issue with the band and like it or not without him the band goes nowhere and nobody would know who any of the talented musicians in the band are today. So even though yes Fred's a shitty rapper, not the best singer and a troll majority of the time he's also a great businessman and an integral part of the band. This is a role that gets so overlooked by most people that discuss music. There's a reason Lars is still in Metallica despite being complete ass at the drums for longer than he was great at them. It's cause he's the guy that does the business and knows what'll make the band more money and get more fans.
My anxiety has been in a really bad and dark place lately - sometimes I wonder if Brad knows how much these goofy reaction videos help as a distraction and a laugh when viewers like me are at their lowest. Rock on, dude.
Limp Bizkit is a product of its time but I still..like it? It’s cheesy but my brain likes every aspect about it. I like how Fred ‘raps’, how he sings, how he “harmonizes” badly. The record scratching, the bass, the beats, all of it. It’s like eating junk food, the emptiest of its kind, but it fulfills me even so.
I'm not a fan of Limp Bizkit by any stretch, but I do really like Re-Arranged. It's still not great lyrically but I think dismissing Durst's attempts at sincerity as being inauthentic is reductive.
Saw LB live once when they toured this album. Wasn't too familiar with them at the time but not embarrassed to say that the crowd energy was like nothing I've ever experienced. Overall, they gave an awesome performance; Wes guitar rifts were pretty catchy for the time. Method Man also performed (he was meh) and the first opener was an unknown group called System of a Down. My other takeaway from that concert was that System would probably be headlining someday (incredibly talented). Always fun discovering new bands right before they break.
There is a time and a place for Limp Bizkit, and that time and place is watching videos of skateboarding and mountain bikes bombing downhill. Nothing else is as perfect for that
Brad how much experience do you have with Nu Metal? There's a lot, my biggest reccomends (that you haven't reacted to) would be LA's Static X album "Wisconsin Death Trip" and Brazil's Soulfly album "Primitive"
The greatest thing about The Fanatic is that the film grossed a bit over a thousand dollars, which is so little money that you can accurately see the single dollar amounts
We need more metal reviews from Brad, I'd suggest Bloody Kisses by Type O Negative, Dirt by Alice In Chains and The Great Southern Trendkill by Pantera.
Limp Bizkit knows how to give us a heavy groovy hook but when they try to do more subdued songs or do the quiet part of the “quiet-loud-quiet-loud” dynamic they fail pretty consistently. And yet I still love them so much for those riffs alone.
I don't know, it the opposite for me with this band. Whenever the music goes serious it sounds infinitely better. That's why Re-arranged is probably the best LB song ever made.
I gotta give Fred credit for giving 10 year old me something to introduce me to metal. Linkin Park did it first but LB were next. Looking back I cringe at the lyrics but the delivery is ok mostly. The melodies are better. The riffs are the absolute highlight but maybe because I'm a guitarist myself. Then there's the bass which kicks ass and so do the drums. The drums bring it all together and always have that hip-hop feel. Love it. So nostalgic. Maybe if I was introduced to it all today I wouldn't love it as much but I'm guilty of loving me some LB. Shout-out to Wes Borland. He could've potentially had a bigger career and more respect and recognition outside of LB but who knows. Maybe he wouldn't have gotten a break if not for LB. Either way it's all nostalgic and I like going back sometimes and listening to some old Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park all that Nu Metal goodness
@@embertheraccoon37 I can already see him saying "nondescript" to every 5 bars. Tbf most of the subject matter was handled in a pretty surface level way but damn do those instrumentals carry in that album
I love this album so you better not say anything bad about it! edit: 6:30 I really think the vocals fit to the songs, it's the later albums where his vocals got weaker and bad. But maybe it's justv my Nostalgia speaking. 10:50 I love the song Re-arranged, I never really looked into the lyrics that much, but the "think about it" sample at the beginning and such actually do fit with the style of vocals and I love the song in general. 13:00 i actually enjoy the rhytmns here but the chorus is kinda trash. 15:00 it's corn! 17:50 I actually enjoy the chorus of this one, but the lyrics are ...eh 19:50 this guitar intro is too good, a shame it gets so slow after that, I do like the break at 20:20 tho 21:20 N 2 Gether now is probably my favourite Limp bizkit song, just cause it actually features a great rapper on it. But I do dig that keyboard sample. also 22:30 I'm pretty sure Limp bizkit was like "lets get some rappers to rap on a metal album to create like a mishmash and get those two groups together" whch I actually think is a great idea. 24:10 I dont actually remember that song from the album, when I first listened to it I also couldnt understand english so hearing the lyrics now I get why I dont remember it. 23:35 Show me what you got is such a great tune live, Fred would like change the city names depending on where they performed btw lol. Still, I remember loving that song. I do enjoy the gnarly beats that Lethal puts on on this album,. Lesson learned kinda sucks. The intro and the outro are awesome tho ... Lukas Grahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam
Once it occurs to you that Fred Durst is biting DMX the entire time, you can't unhear it. That said, Nookie>Break Stuff>Rearranged is an early 2000s vibe if you were a lil fella in your dad's lifted Chevy Blazer getting picked up from your mom's house.
I imagine that first song was crazy innovative when it came out hearing a TB303 which was primarily an acid house instrument in hard rock I imagine was pretty forward thinking for the time
