Closer Two
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They used to make me cringe but now I find them so bad they're good. Hard not to rap along and laugh.
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Was/Is Limp Bizkit really that bad
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drtomoe123
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I always gave Limp a lot of shit over the years but I found Chocolate Starfish at a Book Off or something once and put it in my car...it totally changed my mind. They're legit and I thought Fred's lyrics were actually pretty deep -- he's got a very intense awareness of people and how they operate.
chixdiggit
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Eh that's not really fair though. You can mix anything with something Wu-tang related and it will be decent.
Koopatrol
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I haven't really listened to much of them until recently, but yeah, Sevendust are pretty good.
Train is way worse than Nickleback for this decade.
Not even remotely close.
Train is at least entertainingly bad. Decent pop-rock hooks meet hilariously dubious lyrics. Sure, I wouldn't want to think what I was listening to too hard, but I could put that on while I was painting the garage and not feel like it made my day measurably worse.
Nickleback, though... it's like wallpaper paste was autotuned, time corrected, post processed, and packaged solely and specifically for drive-time radio.
I mean, seriously, just listen to this shit. It's like an all-dad garage band who live on the same suburban street in four consecutive cookie-cutter houses. They get together, and pinch off another song indistinguishable from the last one. In celebration, they drink a beer (but only one, because they have to go to work tomorrow) and complain about the neighbor across the street who leaves his garbage can out just a little too late after pickup on trash day. Then, feeling wild and crazy from their single beer, they'll free-associate a song out of random childhood nursery-rhyme verses.
Clearly, the worst thing Canada has inflicted upon the world.
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Everything you need to know about Nickleback in a nutshell. They're like a black hole of blandness.Wikipedia said:
ThisGuy
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You nailed them down to a tee. And it's mildly surprising they still sound the same after all these years.
I remember being showed this song:
https://youtu.be/PR_oGP4az3k
And thinking they might become something interesting. But they became bland. 👤👤👤👤
Alter_Fridge
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Was? Nah they were great late 90s/early 2000s. Break Stuff was *THE* anthem for angsty young teens
Is? The pic in the OP tells you everything you need to know
Is? The pic in the OP tells you everything you need to know
breadtruck
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Yes, all of it.
No. That was Ace of Base
Reasons?
Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Kid Rock, all were, and are awesome.
drtomoe123
Member
I agree with all of this except the crapping on Ace of Base! Every band listed here put out catchy, good stuff.
PaulBizkit
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The thing with Limp Bizkit was that the frontman acted in a very douchebag way, which was his own method of revenge against all the bullying he went through during his life. it sucked because everybody said "ok, he's a douchebag, so it's ok to hate him".
I still don't know WHY that made people HATE the band, it had a lot of personality, the songs were great and they had the obligatory hidden gems that made you go "well, that was unexpectedly great".
You can already tell by my user name that they are very important to me. They are my favorite band ever
because they made me love music and appreciate the mixture of genres. Their lyrics are great, very concise and real, and I feel like I can relate to them.
When they came to
in 2011, with all their 5 original members, they put out an amazing show that blew everybody away.
tl;dr they were always great, but listen to the band and not what's around them.
Do you want actual bad, uninspired, empty music? Go listen to reggaeton, the whole genre consists in ONE (1) beat and the rapping is a million times worse than anything you've ever heard.
I still don't know WHY that made people HATE the band, it had a lot of personality, the songs were great and they had the obligatory hidden gems that made you go "well, that was unexpectedly great".
You can already tell by my user name that they are very important to me. They are my favorite band ever
(are there better bands? of course, as long as radiohead is still around)
When they came to
Argentina
tl;dr they were always great, but listen to the band and not what's around them.
Do you want actual bad, uninspired, empty music? Go listen to reggaeton, the whole genre consists in ONE (1) beat and the rapping is a million times worse than anything you've ever heard.
Sapiens
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LB always makes me think of the suburbs and this comfortable middle class existence. Its the kind of music people in suits listen to. Thats the feeling it gives me.
And the way they dressed, its some weird version of glam, but the uniform is made in China stuff off the rack from a skate shop or something. Its so boring. All that effort for just blah skate clothes. Besides the weird paint dude-but even that is a high effort for nothing effect.
Catchy songs though.
Yeah, theyre okay I guess, but theyre so...of their time. And thats a time I dont look back on in a happy way (early 2000s)
And the way they dressed, its some weird version of glam, but the uniform is made in China stuff off the rack from a skate shop or something. Its so boring. All that effort for just blah skate clothes. Besides the weird paint dude-but even that is a high effort for nothing effect.
Catchy songs though.
Yeah, theyre okay I guess, but theyre so...of their time. And thats a time I dont look back on in a happy way (early 2000s)
17 Seconds
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complete trash music
PaulBizkit
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A million other bands just use jeans and t-shirts, fred durst had a simple style: cargo pants, adidas shoes, black/white t-shirt and his red cap. That red cap itself was a big part of the image, during their shows, you could see dozens of people wearing it.
I see no problem whatsoever with the guitar player dressing up, I think it's great. Kiss dresses even weirder, give that whole menacing metal band look and then sing I Was Made For Loving You.
I love bands with distinct looks, I think it's a nice addition to the package. And on the other side we have Brandon Flowers from The Killers, a person that never keeps a style for more than one video. You see Fred Durst and you can recognize him, you see Brandon Flowers and you just can't (mustache, no mustache, beard, beard + mustache, different hairstyles, different clothes).
The gallagher brothers never had a distinct look either, but their presence on the stage was more than enough.
Yes they were and are bad
We went from Nirvana, Alice In chains, Pearl Jam, STP, Soundgarden being top musical acts in the early-mid 90's to Limp Biscuit, Korn, Spice Girls, Britney Spears being top acts in the later 90's.
They are a joke.
Music hasn't really recovered as far as top 100 Billboard acts go. We never really had a resurgence of legit serious rock music that became popular.
We went from Nirvana, Alice In chains, Pearl Jam, STP, Soundgarden being top musical acts in the early-mid 90's to Limp Biscuit, Korn, Spice Girls, Britney Spears being top acts in the later 90's.
They are a joke.
Music hasn't really recovered as far as top 100 Billboard acts go. We never really had a resurgence of legit serious rock music that became popular.