Trivia / Limp Bizkit

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• Approval of God: The city of Austin, Texas put up a public poll to rename its sanitation services. While some names like Lemon Party and Hufflepuff were submitted, the winner by a landslide with almost 30,000 votes? Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts ("We’re picking up garbage and he’s been producing it for 20 years, it made sense.”). And just to show how much people liked this, the second place winner only had 2,069 votes. And for what it's worth, Durst himself responded to the campaign (while it was still ongoing) on his Twitter: "I want to thank all of you who are helping me in Austin. I hope we win."
• Bonus Material:
  • Deluxe edition of "New Old Songs" has three additional remixes of "My Way".
  • Some versions of Greatest Hitz ends with "The Truth", from The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1).
• Chart Displacement: Their sole #1 on the Alternative Chart is... "Re-Arranged" (which probably benefitted from being the follow-up to their breakout song, "Nookie"). And the single after that, "N 2gether Now", is the band's second highest entry on the Hot 100 after "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)".
• Creator Backlash:
  • Greatest Hitz. Borland in particular called this release "a piece of crap" and "a waste of money".
  • Another Borland example. In a 2008 interview he admitted to hating the lyrics for the song "Nookie" and also regretted coming up with the name of the song. Which he originally came up with as a joke title and didn't think anyone would take seriously.
• Development Hell: The Unquestionable Truth Vol. 2 and Stampede of the Disco Elephants. The latter may or may not have become Vapor Ware, as it is not clear if it eventually became Still Sucks or if they scrapped the whole album and wrote a new one.
• Directed by Cast Member: Fred Durst directed most of the band's videos.
• Disowned Adaptation: According to Wes Borland, George Michael hated their version of "Faith" and "hated us for doing it".
• Genre-Killer: They were probably more responsible than anyone else for killing Nu Metal. At their absolute biggest, they were the face of nu metal. Even Korn was overshadowed by them, Slipknot, Disturbed, and Linkin Park were all in their infancy, and Deftones had already ditched the genre. If you look at cultural depictions of nu metal from 1999-2002, Limp Bizkit was the template, and they were probably one of the biggest bands on the planet at that time. When they fell, they fell hard, but it wasn't even Results May Vary that destroyed them (though it didn't help), it's that people were sick of them. The Chicago date of the 2003 Summer Sanitarium Tour (where they were booed off the stage, with Fred Durst probably making things worse by insulting the crowd back and dropping homophobic slurs) provided a pretty accurate look at what mainstream audiences thought of them by the end, and within nu metal, there was the perception that they had made the genre turn into everything that it shouldn't have been: a stupid, creatively bankrupt cash cow that had gone from being music made by and for outsiders to music being made by and for the bullies who tormented said outsiders and fed their trauma, and it led to a very real effort within the genre well before they ever actually fell to make it crash and burn. When they finally did implode, they had become so thoroughly intertwined with nu metal as a consistently viable mainstream genre that they took everything down with them, and the bands that did survive either did so by changing their sound to get away from the genre (a notable example being Linkin Park) or because they barely qualified as Nu Metal to begin with. Wes Borland himself echoed this in 2021, stating that they had gotten way too big for their own good and had become grossly overexposed, and people just got sick of seeing their faces in every single corner and were ready for an end to Bizkitmania even before he left the band.
• He Also Did: Fred Durst also directed music videos for, in addition to Limp Bizkit, Staind, Cold, Puddle of Mudd, Deadsy, Korn, Dwight Yoakam and Tommy Lee, and the feature films The Education of Charlie Banks (2007), The Longshots (2008) and The Fanatic (2019).
• Hostility on the Set: This revelation from Fred Durst confirms that no one in the band got along with each other when they first met:
  "The first time I saw Wes Borland, he had ponytails and girly half-shirt on. He was playing in a band called Cronk and was like Les Claypool on guitar, with a little Manson in there. So he joined and the other guys taught him the songs. I actually met Wes for the first time at our first gig! It was wild but it worked. I made up vocals on the spot! We never took time to consider friendships, that wasn’t part of it. It was just about the magic that happened when we were together… none of us were ever friends."
• The Red Stapler: Let's just say that red baseball caps like the one Fred Durst wore became very popular in the late-'90s.
• Referenced by...: Sports Maxx, a major antagonist from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, has a Stand named Limp Bizkit, which allows him to resurrect invisible zombies.
• Working Title:
  • Chocolate Starfish was originally announced as Limpdependece Day early on, then just Limpdependence, then the final title. Despite this, Limpdependece would be reutilized as the title of a pre-release tour they held that same year.
  • Results May Vary had a lengthy Troubled Production, which is reflected by having several working titles. Among them are Less Is More, Fetus More, Surrender, The Search for Teddy Swoes, Bipolar (likely not used since it was already a fairly recent Vanilla Ice record) and of all things, Panty Sniffer.
  • For a long time, Stampede of the Disco Elephants was the working title of what eventually got cobbled into Still Sucks.

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