Limp Bizkit
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
Limp Bizkits much-anticipated second album, Significant Other, was released in June 1999, and it and the accompanying video for Nookie made the group superstars. Significant Other debuted at number one and had sold over four million copies by years end, also helping push Three Dollar Bill YAll past the platinum mark. Durst, meanwhile, was tapped for a position as a senior vice president at Interscope Records in early July. However, in the midst of this massive success, controversy dogged the band following that summers performance at Woodstock 99. In the wake of the riots and sexual assaults that proved to be the festivals unfortunate legacy, Durst was heavily criticized for egging on the already rowdy crowd and inciting them to break stuff. Not only was at least one mosh-pit rape reported during the groups set (in addition to numerous other injuries), but the ensuing chaos forced festival organizers to pull the plug in the middle of their show. Even though Limp Bizkits performance took place the day before the infamous festival-closing riots, the band was raked over the coals in the media, who blamed them for touching off the spark that inflamed a potentially volatile atmosphere. Undaunted, Limp Bizkit headlined that years Family Values Tour, with the newly controversial Durst grabbing headlines for periodic clashes with Bizkits tourmates. During the Napster flap of 2000, Durst became one of the most outspoken advocates of online music trading; that summer, Limp Bizkit embarked on a free, Napster-sponsored tour. All of this set the stage for the October release of the bands third album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Wes Borland left the band soon after, necessitating a long search for a replacement guitarist of comparable value; finally, after going almost three years without a new album, the band released a disappointing record, Results May Vary. Borland returned after its release, and the band issued The Unquestionable Truth, Pt. 1 in 2005, and album that was roundly ignored even if it was marginally better than its predecessor. The Bizkit then released Greatest Hitz, a 17-track career survey that included all the hits from their heyday.
