Limp Bizkit is one of the best known rock acts in the world, which is no surprise, but this is hugely impressive if we consider everything that happened throughout their career. These guys only recorded five albums and invented nu-metal, a genre which was erased from the collective memory some ten years ago. There was a high chance that they too be forgotten permanently by everyone. And yet, they’ve managed to sell over 40 million copies of their albums and have been nominated for three Grammies. They keep performing in live concerts all over the world. Which is not bad.
How did they manage to do it? It’s quite simple. They released hit after hit after hit. And hits are usually eternal. It doesn’t matter whether they’re nu metal or hair metal or punk. What sounded cool twenty years ago will still sound cool forty years from now. The EC7 headliners’ songs transcend any trends and charts. This is how they’ve managed to secure a special place in the history of rock music with several tracks which we’ll probably also hear on July 18th:
Break Stuff
There are two categories of people on this Planet. Those who listen to aggressive music at the office and those who listen to chill music to avoid stress. For the first categories there’s rock, metal, punk, something to keep you awake during the day. The second category include people who stream stuff like “Slow Jazz 24 Hours for Studying” on YouTube. Break Stuff is an essential piece for both sides. Why? Because even patience has its own limits.
N 2 Gether Now
As opposed to other rap and rock combos, the N 2 Gether Now track is the shit because Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit’s frontman, is also a rapper. So this is not the typical rock-rap pattern, but mostly a rock-rap-rap one. Fred has a rhyme show-down with Method Man and he doesn’t seem to be embarrassed at all. There’s no earth shattering contrast between them, like in the case of the Aerosmith-Run DMC collaboration, for instance. This is why the song is among every DJ’s favorites — it stimulates both rockers and rappers to dance in the same time.
My Generation
You don’t need a huge budget to create an iconic video. My Generation is basically a video-shoot with the boys in a well-lit industrial warehouse. From time to time, there are scenes taken from concerts, but mostly the entire action is similar with what we would see during a rehearsal. And we all remember the video. Because Limp Bizkit’s energy can’t be faked with special effects.
Take A Look Around
Everybody loves this song thanks to its riff, which is inspired by the Mission Impossible theme song. It’s the most memorable feature of the song, but not the only one. Take A Look Around is also one of the most violent songs of the American group’s discography. Just listen to the chorus and you’ll notice that it inspires the same mood as Break Stuff.
Behind Blue Eyes
The guys of Limp Bizkit are not famous for their romanticism. To cover a The Who track is a challenge in itself. But if you’re dealing with a soft track as well, when you’re used to writing hardcore music, there’s a high risk of failure. Fortunately, this is a version which rivals the original.
Rollin
It’s very difficult to name the biggest Limp Bizkit hit, so I’ll help you with that. Rollin is the song which best defines the essence of this band. A catchy chorus, an easy dance and a lot of energy. But you already knew all that. Everybody knows Rollin and it will most surely play in many people’s headphones on the bus to Bonțida on the second day of the festival.
