Top 10 Limp Bizkit Songs

Alright partner, keep on rollin' baby, you know what time it is!

Time for my Top 10 Limp Bizkit songs then, is it? Been a while and this is going to be my first top 10 of the year by the looks of it, so woo hoo! Limp have some awesome covers too, but I will not be including them here (sorry).

This list was recommended to me by James Davie. Cheers mate!

10: Eat You Alive

This song is just about pure primitive animal-like sexual attraction. It TOTALLY KICKS ASS tho, and I think it's great. The song was written by Fred Durst, John Otto, Sam Rivers and Mike Smith, and is Limp Bizkit's first single without Wes Borland, who had left the band in 2001. Durst filmed a music video featuring known actors Thora Birch and Bill Paxton

9: Ready To Go

Limp Bizkit revealed plans to release "Ready to Go" in 2012 after they signed with Cash Money Records on February 24, with Fred Durst stating, "It sounds like a monster; it literally sounds dangerous. It sounds like that left of center, that place of discomfort that created rock 'n' roll, created the (heavy) metal, where it all spawned from." This song feels like we have been waiting for, for like the past decade from Limp because it was a return to form of the Bizkit of old and of course Wes returned.

8: Livin' It Up

This song is simply, just about doin' your thing and not letting people bring you down... that's all there is to it. props to Fred for being himself and doing whatever the fuck he wants, he's free in all the ways a lot of people are not. Limp Bizkit were, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars like it was nothing when Bizkit hit the scene and became massive.

7: My Way

Chocolate Starfish really does feel like the album where almost every track could make a mad dash for radio at any moment. My Way proved to be a radio hit and entered the charts internationally, even breaking into the Billboard hot 100. While not the band's most successful single, it was popular enough to catch the ears of execs at WWE, who ultimately took the track for the official theme of WrestleMania X-Seven, helping the band expand their reach even more. 

6: Hot Dog

The opening song from Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water was the scourge of parents worldwide, its profanity-laden verses seeing Durst drop the f-bomb 49 times. Controversial, yes, but also the perfect way to kick up a storm in the mainstream media at the start of the album. This one comes from the Reznor/Durst beef. Hot Dog was the perfect clapback to Reznor dissing Durst and Fred even went as far as crediting Reznor as a songwriter, Bizkit lifted directly from Nine Inch Nails' Closer while openly mocking him throughout the track. Say what you want about Limp Bizkit, but the band could be brutal when it was time to step up to the plate. 

5: My Generation

It's almost inevitable that each new generation will face criticism from their forebears for hollowing out the spirit of society, a trope that stretches back to the 50s and possibly beyond. Limp Bizkit might have been on the nose in their reference to The Who's song of the same name (and subject), but Durst and co. had some justifiable gripes with how they were portrayed in the media, particularly following their experiences at Woodstock '99. My Generation was an anthem for exactly that, a disaffected generation of youth who were blamed for the decline of society while their elders brazenly ran the planet into the ground. 

4: Take A Look Around (Mission Impossible)

Durst was never shy about professing his love for movies (once stating he wanted to be "the only musician who puts true, good, original thoughts into music and into films that have a major impact worldwide"), so it makes sense he'd be well on board for a song which uses the Mission Impossible theme as its main motif, even moreso when considering it got inclusion on the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack. The single itself went on to become a huge hit in Europe, topping the charts in countries like Portugal and Iceland whilst achieving top 10 status elsewhere (including a no. 3 placing on the UK singles chart). It's a little goofy, but also perfect for Limp Bizkit at the height of their powers and frankly the beefed-up, metal take on Mission Impossible is everything you would hope it would be. 

3: Nookie

Fred Durst wasn't pretending he had any greater calling or drive with the first single from 1999's Significant Other, Nookie's chorus stating things plain and simple, he 'did it all for the nookie'. The song's straight-up obnoxiousness helped it crash-land into the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, peaking at No. 80. It's brash, it's dumb but to many it nonetheless represents Limp Bizkit's inexplicable charm and helped the band land a no. 1 album in the US in 1999. 

2: Break Stuff

A simple song fuelling the inner angst to drink up, party hard and say fuck the world and basically to break stuff. Break Stuff was the final line Limp Bizkit needed to cross to truly become superstars, one of the most important bands on the planet (for a hot minute, at least). The song hones the angst and aggression at the heart of Limp Bizkit's most aggro moments into a sub-three minute anthem that came to define the band more than anything else. Break Stuff's star-studded video (featuring everyone from Jonathan Davis and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea to Alec Baldwin, Dr. Dre and Eminem) also helped establish that Limp Bizkit were pop culture heavyweights, moving beyond the realms of mere music stardom. It also became a metal club staple, a mosh-call for every subsequent generation and such an inescapable force that chances are more metal fans know the opening verse of Break Stuff than the Lord's Prayer. It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up/Everything is fucked, everybody sucks'. We've all been there, Fred. 

1: Rollin'

Oh come on, I cannot put this any other space besides NUMBER 1. The first song I ever heard by Bizkit and best song Bizkit ever made, popular as fuck and people still do the dance motions to this day. Fred teaming with Undertaker also helped this song's popularity to mainstream. It topped the charts in the UK and Ireland, and made a decent showing elsewhere (including a no. 10 spot on the US Mainstream Rock charts, though only reached no. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100), released on the same day as My Generation to help Chocolate Starfish become an international smash. Its video featured Ben Stiller and has been streamed over 500 million times between Spotify and YouTube, such is its utterly colossal reach. To many, this song is Limp Bizkit. 

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