Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
by Jessica
McCartney
Ok, like always, let’s see
what’s in my 3 CD changer right now so you get a feel for my mood:
Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Nicholas Lens - The Fire Requiem
And now…on with the show.
I must say this about Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other. I won’t lie, that
I can’t deny, I bought it all for the Nookie. What- The Nookie. What- The
Nookie. I mean, really, ever since I heard this band on the
Family Values tour last year, AND heard them break bad on my boys DURING that
tour, I have railed against Limp Bizkit like they were a strong and long
standing cancer wiping out everyone in my family. But then, I was confronted
with a problem. A year went by, I stopped hearing that crappy cover of Faith,
and I really really liked the song AND the video for Nookie. So, I had to be a
big person and say, maybe this Limp Bizkit ain’t so bad. Of course, then I sat
through a Fred Durst interview on MTV and he made me realize that tattoos may
indeed have a direct effect on brain capacity and sentence formation.
This being said, I bought the CD, Significant Other, anyway. I also hid
it in my desk at work so that no one would ever know I had it. My one line
summation is that I think if you are really really angry and
longing to jump around and tear paper, this album is for you. The amazing
gig-neck inducing trio of Nookie, Break Stuff and Rearranged is strong enough
to warrant purchase, but beyond that, I only really listen to the song No Sex,
which, ironically is about TOO MUCH SEX, and the second song, which isn’t even
good enough for me to remember the title, although one of the lyrics intrigues
me: "It ain’t fake when the girls get naked." Well. I guess not.
I do have to thank Limp Bizkit though, for bringing me back to my senses.
Because right at the end of the CD, after No Sex - RIGHT when you’re just about
to say…Limp Bizkit, they’ve got it all together, they have a song which might
as well be titled "I Like To Suck Cock" because it’s seems to me that
it’s a 35 minute white boy rap version of the LINER NOTES. And if I have to
hear Limp Bizkit vocally bend over and offer their proffered bottoms to the
dicks of mother f-ing KORN one more time, I’m going to make them eat their own
eyes. And by the way: NOTE TO LIMP BIZKIT: Something is lost when you give a
"shout out" to Lewiston, Maine. No one in Lewiston, Maine knows what
a shout out IS, and I would venture to say that if you gave them a face to face
shout out, they’d hunt you down and mount you on their beautifully paneled walls.
All things considered, it’s just NOT THAT BAD of an album. If you can try and
get that last song out of your head and just focus on the four songs I’ve
mentioned, it’s well worth the $15.
Overall Rating: B-
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