Greatest Hitz (Parental Advisory) [PA] - Limp Bizkit

This greatest hits collection from Limp Bizkit was finally released in late 2005. With every band on earth seemingly having a greatest hits album available these days, it was only a matter of time before Limp Bizkit would be issued with one. What I love most about this release is the refusal of the band to spell 'Hits' with its correct ending of an 's'. Through spelling it with a 'z', Limp Bizkit are being highly original and Fred Durst continues ...
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This greatest hits collection from Limp Bizkit is definitely an album that I would recommend. The album spans the first four albums of the band; Three Dollar Bill Yall$, Significant Other, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, and Results May Vary. The first three of these albums I was a great fan of, the fourth I paid little attention to at all when it was released, but most of this album is greatly impressive and whilst there ... more

This greatest hits collection from Limp Bizkit was finally released in late 2005. With every band on earth seemingly having a greatest hits album available these days, it was only a matter of time before Limp Bizkit would be issued with one. What I love most about this release is the refusal of the band to spell 'Hits' with its correct ending of an 's'. Through spelling it with a 'z', Limp Bizkit are being highly original and Fred Durst continues in his quest to place a 'z' wherever an 's' should truly lie. The man is a genius.

You may be under the impression that the latter half of my last paragraph was ever so slightly riddled with sarcasm, and for thinking this you would most certainly be correct. Whilst purposely misspelling words is not cool, what I will say is that some of the tracks present on this album certainly are. Such top tracks are present here as the excellent George Michael cover 'Faith' from their début album 'Three Dollar Bill, Yall$', the brutal 'Break Stuff' from 'Significant Other', and the smash hit 'Rollin' from their 'Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water' album which was released in the year 2000. There are also a number of tracks here from the 'Results May Vary' album such as the cover of The Who's 'Behind Blue Eyes' and also their own original track 'Eat You Alive'. To be honest, I have little of an interest in the tracks from the 'Results May Vary' album, but I'm certainly a great fan of their 'Behind Blue Eyes' cover.

I will never tire of hearing the track 'Break Stuff' and had it not been included on this album then I would have been greatly disappointed. Thankfully though, it is indeed present here and there is therefore no cause for upset. The track is greatly powerful, Fred Durst spits the vocals out with intense venom and every time I hear the track I can't help but smile. Few Limp Bizkit tracks impress me as much as this, but seven years on from the albums original release and I still find it to be greatly enjoyable.

Were it not for the great guitar talent of Wes Borland in Limp Bizkit then their music would be nowhere near as impressive as it is. However dire the rest of the music happens to be, the riffs of Borland always come soaring through in the tracks of Limp Bizkit, something that has always helped the band stand out strongly from the crowd. There are a good few Limp Bizkit tracks I would not consider myself to be a fan of in the slightest, and yet the guitar ability of Wes Borland still provides me with positive things to say about them. His talent as a guitarist truly is phenomenal, I always felt his talent was a little bit wasted with him being in Limp Bizkit actually but his musical expertise is always great to hear. Limp Bizkit are not exactly the most talented of bands, but their guitar riffs give them a strong basis for building their tracks around and most of the time the music is hugely impressive as a result.

'Rollin' was a massive hit in 2000, The Undertaker of WWE had it as his entrance music and the band even performed the track live at the annually held Wrestlemania event. I remember this well, I was a massive fan of the WWE (then called WWF) at the time and Limp Bizkit performing live at a WWE event just seemed to complete it all for me. I always got so excited when I listened to 'Rollin', it was my favourite song for a long while and once upon a time was actually my ring tone on my phone. I'm not quite such a fan of it as I once was, but it's certainly still a great song. I listen to 'Rollin' very rarely nowadays, but it's definitely a good one to listen to on a purely nostalgic basis. Fans and former fans alike of the Nu Metal genre I'm sure will agree that 'Rollin' is a Nu Metal classic, one of the most popular tracks of the genre and one that will no doubt be cranked out of sound systems at parties across the country for years to come.

I mentioned earlier that 'Behind Blue Eyes' is a Limp Bizkit track that I love. There just seems to be something about their cover tracks; 'Faith' is yet another cover that the band pulled off to perfection. Both of these tracks are amongst my favourites of all that Limp Bizkit have ever recorded. It's not saying much about the original recordings of Limp Bizkit that two of my favourites of theirs are cover tracks, but that's just the way it is. They are the masters of covers, a band that pick up the music of other bands, adding their own unique and interesting touches that improve upon the original recordings. It's hard to say just why they are so successful with covers, but when they cover music they never seem to put a foot out of place. Perhaps they should try taking on Nickelback next time, if anyone can inject some life into their music then it would be Limp Bizkit.

This greatest hits collection from Limp Bizkit is definitely an album that I would recommend. The album spans the first four albums of the band; Three Dollar Bill Yall$, Significant Other, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, and Results May Vary. The first three of these albums I was a great fan of, the fourth I paid little attention to at all when it was released, but most of this album is greatly impressive and whilst there are a couple of tracks that should have been included that weren't, on the whole the 'Greatest Hitz' album is supremely effective. There are eighteen tracks present on this album, you'll probably not appreciate all of them but there are bound to be some here that you can gain great enjoyment from listening to. Limp Bizkit are a band that are hated by many, predominantly due to the factor of their loud mouth singer Fred Durst, a man who thinks a little too highly of himself and has his head a bit too far up his own 'chocolate starfish'. Although they're greatly hated, I personally think quite a lot of the music of Limp Bizkit and am a huge fan of their powerful guitars and crushing choruses. A great album? Well it's pretty good, that's for sure. 

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