At some point, it becomes socially acceptable to like even the most universally-reviled bands. Sometimes they even do a 180 and become “legendary, seminal pioneers.” For example, everybody hated Thursday and Saves The Day when they came out and you were definitely a mallcore poser if you liked them, but now they’re heavily jocked by Absolute Punk kids and other annoying dorks.
I’m not sure if Limp Bizkit has reached the point of being socially acceptable yet, but fuck it, I love their early shit. “Nookie,” “Break Stuff,” and “Faith” are all sick tracks and I give Durst major dap for popularizing North Face jackets. I’m sure some of you also have love for Bizkit, so what do you think of their new song “Gold Cobra”?
I don’t think the song is very good but I love that they are straight partying like it’s 1999, like they were just brought out of a 12-year cryogenic sleep and assumed nothing changed since the days of LFO and Kid Rock. I’ll spare all the obvious, low hanging fruit jokes about rap metal and Fred Durst, because I think we’ve all heard those before.
Instead, I will ask a question: why didn’t people make fun of Wes Borland and his fucking stupid costumes more often?? Say what you want about Durst being a wigger douchelord, but in my eyes Wes’ “HEY GUISE LOOK AT MY SILLEE OUTFIT” zanybro antics are a thousand times more annoying.
I think I know the answer, actually. In spite of his costumes and stage antics, he seems like a real nice guy who’s just a little on the dorky, weird side- like someone you would’ve known since you were in 2nd grade, only when you got into hardcore in 8th grade, he was still into Primus, Weird Al, and making horror movies with his parents’ video camera. You kind of grew apart but were still cool whenever you ran into him at Guitar Center or whatever. He’d come out every time your hardcore band played, and even though he would be wearing a Dr Suess hat and silk, button-up Dragonball shirt, everybody was cool to him because he’s probably a really nice, considerate dude. When someone from an out of town band would ask “What’s up with THAT guy? Why is he at THIS show?” you would shrug and say “Uh, I’ve known him since like 2nd grade. He’s cool, that’s just how he is…”
Something you want to tell us, Sarge?
LOL @ last paragraph…EVERYONE has that friend.
haha i felt the same way, dudes reppin’ the 90s so hard I love it. Glad to see durst is still rocking the red yankees cap.
Fun Fact: Wes borland was in a band called “Big Dumb Face” with his brother with him (stage name :Tongue Of Colicab) and his brother (stage name: Cardboard Urinal). Just thought I’d leave this to strengthen the argument of his weirdness. All in all a talented musician/artist (his online art gallery is pretty fucking sweet) and anyone who says otherwise I just have one thing to say: the riff to “Break stuff”
i remember Big Dumb Face existing, but no details about their actual music
Pretty much the band you would expect the aforementioned dude to be in. Half death metal and half Monty Pythonish goofyness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDBZ1Dyxo4&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcisoDOOhswo3NTPARoCNxC&index=6
Glad to see Fred Durst’s ideas for music videos still involve hand motions and fish eye lenses.
Could never get into this band… but srs about Borland – I always kept my eyes drawn to him in the videos cause he looks sooo weird and out of place. Very ’90s tho…
wait.. there was a band playing behind that slow motion hot girl?
I feel a little bad for Rajon Rondo.
It is quite amazing how they seem to have made no attempt to change their style since they left off. I have always hated this band so I have no idea how this will be received by their fanbase. I wonder if playing music relevant to 1999 will help or hurt the album sales.
Durst looks like a total Pennywise fan (complete with bro-hoes).
When did they kick out the guy from Judge / Side by Side/ Gorilla Biscuits/etc?
Whenever I lived in Atlanta in 2007 we had this sloppy druggy friend and supposedly Wes lived down the street from were we hung out and sloppy druggy dude would go hang out and smoke heroin with him? that was the story…never got any more deets
Cool story bro
Downvote.
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last paragraph hit so close to home i thought you might actually be talking about a buddy of mine for a second. we call him “the hulk.” not cuz he gets mad easy or anything, but he had this under-cut like down to his ears and bleached it blonder then when it grew out he looked like hulk hogan. complete with “bald” spot. he had two cds in his car, disturbed and some candiria cd. but he only got candiria because he saw them in an issue of high times.
fucking amazing.
Not bad. I got into lb in 8th grade back in 2005. Yeah I went through this weird late 90s early 2000s nu metal phase back then. Was super into lb, papa roach, kid rock, crazy town, staind, and alien ant farm lol. I also used to dress the nu metal style so I had a backwards baseball hat, baggy dickies, camo jackets, and adidias shell toed shoes lol. This was partly cuz I had no idea what hardcore was yet, all the new rock people liked was awful indie and alt rock like the new pornographers and the white stripes and my best friend at the time was a juggalo who hated emos so I had to secretly listen to fall out boy, mcr, and panic at the disco when I wasn’t hanging out with him lol.
Being young = hard times!
I can’t pretend to really like Limp Bizkit like all you guys, but I will say this: I saw Wes Borland playing guitar for Combichrist and I was OK with it. He was all shirtless and body-painted and stuff. Plus, his wife and her cronies were dancing side stage. As far as his wife is concerned, “Would smash.” I think is how you guys say it?
Also, I posted this video on FB under the headline “Most Embarrassing White People EVER” and crushed my skater friends dreams when he saw the Mike Vallely cameo.
Celtics tank = instant cred?
this is what its like to live in southern california. the video is genius.
Fuck no….
Did you not see the Boston jersey?
Fucking hate this video and fuck Boston
You can’t rap about Hollywood in a Celts jersey
#LAmotherfucker
But SoCal is also full of people jocking shit they know nothing about because it looks cool. Fits.
+1, very authentic
i feel like all their clothes came from a store like zumiez.
bro you do not insult Zumiez on this blog (srs). they are backed hard.
3 Dollar Bill was pretty rad when I was fifteen, and it was 1997. Durst’s bringing back the “casual bird flip,” so I know it’s cool to just toss it around like it doesn’t mean “fuck off and die” anymore. Grandma? Bird flip. Girl Scout? Bird flip. Priest? Bird flip. Thanks Fred!
Anybody remember N 2gether now???! That was my shit
Ok I’m gonna sound like a music nerd saying this but whatever, I totally am. What the hell are those amps they’re playing through? Is that some non-uniformly sized limited black Orange cabs with a Marshall bass combo amp? And it would seem the bassist has a crappy portable radio on top of a box of fake speakers that the designers did not even put any effort into making look like real speakers or anything really.
they slap son
hahahaha “portable radio”
I have no idea whether to congratulate you for even bothering to analyze the video and their equipment or ridicule you for the very same reasons.
Srs, how did these guys not get caught up in the ‘Gathering of the Juggalows’ or whatever the fuck that clustershit is called…? Seems like they could slide right in there without missing a beat, and keep bringing the ’99 rap/mosh.
LB’s bass and drums are always top-notch. Sorry haters, that’s all you need to make them trunks bang.
wes also put in time with scenecore favorites FROM FIRST TO LAST on guitar when skrill-whatever left. Apparently body paint was welcome then too.
I get what you’re going for with that last paragraph, but MAN, Durst never fails to come off like an uneducated, unwarranted-like cocky douche in interviews and stuff.
Wes Borland is the only thing I like about LB. He’s like the new incarnation of Flea (RHCP)
So Golden Cobra is what he calls the weed he grows in his basement, right?
wes borland needs to do a project band with that dude Buckethead.
http://heavymetalist.com/2011/07/01/limp-bizkit-gold-cobra/