[reply]i got into them at like 12-13 lol. looking back now i still like some of their songs. i’ve always really liked wes borland, and they have a really good drummer (john otto) and bass player (sam rivers).
if anyone is interested wes borland has his own industrial rock side band called black light burns. they have some pretty good tunes.
I thought Borland quit the bizkit. Is he back with them? Admittedly the only songs I know by them are blue eyes and nookie. Blue eyes was decent enough but nookie made me not wanna hear anything else by them.
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yeah, he’s back. he quit twice. i talked to him a few years back at a black light burns show in mtl, and he personally told me he’s only doing it for money to fund his band.
some of you old guys here might not get it, but man… when i was growing up, i was about 9 when Limp Bizkit became the BIGGEST band in the world. Fred Durst’s eternally adolescent attitude and rhymes will forever be a part of that young period of my life. now of course i can pretend to be ‘os so much more artisitc’ than all that and talk about how much i love Jesu and Converge and Wolves in the Throne Room (god… i love Converge and Wolves in the Throne Room) but hot damn, i would be lying if i said that hearing Fred Durst doesnt make me wanna get up and dance.
sue me, i grew up under the influence. i rather love Limp Bizkit. haha.
I was young and still in middle school/high school when Limp Bizkit came out. I hated them then. Not because I was smarter or cooler but because I didn’t like that particular brand of shit music.
I’ve liked some terrible bands when I was younger but I can say with all honesty that I’ve never been a Limp Bizkit fan. Lyrically they never appealed to me and musically they never did either. Always felt something missing musically and could never get past the lyrics. Also, everyone I hated liked them so it made it kind of difficult to relate to.
I’m just going to take a moment and point out the irony here . . . That on a MINISTRY forum there are more people that openly admit to liking Limp Bizkit than admit to still liking Ministry. Hahahahaha!!!
I never cared for them. I was a teenager in the 90s and remember everyone raving about their first CD. When I heard “Faith” and “Nookie” the adolescent cringe thermometer shot to the top and shattered. They had a couple decent songs later on like “Re-arranged” but nothing worth buying.
I’m just going to take a moment and point out the irony here . . . That on a MINISTRY forum there are more people that openly admit to liking Limp Bizkit than admit to still liking Ministry. Hahahahaha!!!
Yeah, well Al set the bar pretty low these past 13 years. I’ll openly admit that I wouldn’t have bought any of the post-Dark Side albums if they weren’t Ministry albums. Out of all the stuff I grew up with, I can honestly say Trent and Depeche Mode are the only ones releasing albums that I 100% enjoy.
I honestly didn’t give a rat’s ass about them when they were at the top of the world. “Nookie” was okay by me, and “Faith” was just annoying. I didn’t have the seething hatred for them that all the cool kids seemed to foster, but then again, I was already out of school and beyond caring what was cool or not.
When I finally saw them live and bought their used CD’s, they had already been pretty much pushed off the mountain and were just about as uncool as could be (hence the $3 CD’s, haha!). But I’m serious that their performance was one of the most impressive I’d seen, if for no other reason than their courage in facing the hostility of an 80,000 crowd at the Collisseum and turning their hearts . . .
Limp Bizkit. The guy with the red hat. I remember a friend played a cassette sampler back in 96 with a song of there’s on it. He was angry about people always trying to get his cash or something. Guitars sounded OK.
I don’t know if he still lives there but I went to a Halloween party at Wes Borland’s house up in the Hollywood Hills many years ago; some friends of mine knew him. He was a real nice guy, actually solicited a conversation from me even though I was a nobody/stranger at his party.
Curious George and The Man With The Red Hat. Next album.
The song about smashing the shit out of things is one of the funniest songs ever to be played. I nearly broke myself laughing at that song one drunken night.
yeah, he’s back. he quit twice. i talked to him a few years back at a black light burns show in mtl, and he personally told me he’s only doing it for money to fund his band.
Haha no shit. Borland is talented, even if I am not into the music he makes (BLB included). I liked Bigdumbface for what it was though. He’s another one of those guys who is great on the tech end, but he’s no idealist (see: Charlie Clouser, Danny Lohner, etc)
I’m not dissing Borland but could somebody link me to something that shows how supposedly “talented” Borland is compared to other members of the band?
Every time Limp Bizkit is brought up people go out of their way to bash the band but talk about how talented Wes Borland is. I seriously wanna see/hear this talent. I’ve yet to hear him do anything where I thought, “Fuck, he’s talented. Why is he in Limp Bizkit?” His style seemed to fit perfectly with the band.
The thing I like the most about Wes is his creativity. He’s a personality. Not the greatest guitar player. He makes up for it though with some of the crazy stuff he can do.
And he’s definitely better when working with others. Probably something that really affected the more recent BLB stuff. I really liked Lotus Island though. On the first BLB, it was him, Lohner, Eustis and Freese. He seems to thrive a lot more in band settings than solo settings. The second album was mostly him. Not sure about the third one though.
Limp Bizkit are one of the worst American bands ever.
They’re like a sanitized version of Korn but run by a businessman who plays golf and smarms with his bosses. Nothing against golfers or businessmen per-se, but that’s just not rock n roll.
Wes Borland is unremarkable apart from his zany clothes and face paint. He’s the sort of guitarist I imagine Axl would get in the new gnr.
When I was younger, I really liked the first two bizkit albums. Can still probably go back and listen to them. If you can block out Durst, you’re set. Anything after that…not so easy. Personally, the music from that era are nostalgia acts. Korn hasn’t put anything good out since the 90s. I can probably say the same about the other “big” bands like that of the era.
The thing I like the most about Wes is his creativity. He’s a personality. Not the greatest guitar player. He makes up for it though with some of the crazy stuff he can do.
And he’s definitely better when working with others. Probably something that really affected the more recent BLB stuff. I really liked Lotus Island though. On the first BLB, it was him, Lohner, Eustis and Freese. He seems to thrive a lot more in band settings than solo settings. The second album was mostly him. Not sure about the third one though.
Seemed decent. The stuff around 2:30 was interesting. I can see what you mean about his creativity.
I suppose I can respect - and would enjoy listening to - that more than some dude doing the same boring, over rehearsed solo over and over again while doing pinch harmonics every other note (Zakk Wylde).