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Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 09/23/2003
It took a long, long time for
Limp Bizkit to get their follow-up to
Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water into the stores. First, guitarist
Wes Borland, generally regarded as the band's musical force, up and left the band, and it took a long, long time to find a replacement guitarist. After a national talent search performed at Guitar Center stores, where candidates had to sign contracts that gave up their rights to anything original they played at their audition,
Limp Bizkit settled on former
Snot guitarist
Mike Smith and recorded an album. Then scrapped it. Then they recorded another album. Then scrapped it. They were going through album titles, too -- it was called
Bipolar and then, charmingly,
Panty Sniffer. Finally, all the sessions and the turmoil were whittled down into one very long album called
Results May Vary. Without
Borland on the album,
Limp Bizkit turns to frontman
Fred Durst, who already dominated the band's personality and now must provide direction in addition to bravado.
Durst doesn't come up with any new musical ideas, apart from slight hints of
Staind and
emo on the
ballads, and he generally runs amuck, spewing bile at targets including
Britney Spears, ranting about how she broke his heart. He complains about being picked on in high school and about radio and
MTV playing the same old bands, and invokes icons like
Kurt Cobain.
Results May Vary would have been improved if the music had a fraction of
Durst's anger (no matter how misguided it is) or had energy to match the clown jumping up and down and screaming in front.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
;)
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