History YMMV / LimpBizkit

** 2000's ''Music/ChocolateStarfishAndTheHotDogFlavoredWater'' is often considered the band's best, or at least definitive, album, but it does have its detractors that view it as [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks a shallow rehash]] of 1999's ''Music/SignificantOther.''

* AudienceAlienatingEra: ''Music/ResultsMayVary'' can't be entirely blamed for the downfall of NuMetal, but it sure didn't help. At the very least, it stopped any momentum the band had right in its tracks. Without Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit's direction became unclear, and it wasn't any more clear when people finally got to hear the album, the end result of multiple scrapped concepts so the band could have something to show for all the difficulty they had making it (which is best explained in the Trivia section). As such, the album lives up to its title by pulling in different directions, like a more "emotional" sound ("Underneath The Gun," "Build A Bridge"), attempts to recapture their rougher early rap-metal sound, some PostGrunge by way of Music/{{Staind}}, and an inexplicable cover of Music/TheWho's "Behind Blue Eyes" with a Speak-And-Spell(?) on the bridge. Whatever they were trying to accomplish, fans didn't respond well to ''any'' of these elements - Fred Durst's attempt at being more vulnerable and sympathetic was a particularly tough sell - and ''Results May Vary'' proved to be a huge misstep at the worst possible time, right when the band was suffering from serious overexposure. Thus, critics had too much fun tearing into the album. Even the band's biggest supporters tend to agree that ''Results May Vary'' was a low point.

** 2000's ''Music/ChocolateStarfishAndTheHotDogFlavoredWater'' is often considered the band's best, or at least definitive, album, but it does have its detractors that view it as a shallow remake of 1999's ''Music/SignificantOther.''

** ''Music/TheUnquestionableTruth'' is either a refreshing new direction for the band, or it's a clumsy attempt to invoke the feel of a Music/RageAgainstTheMachine record.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: ''Results May Vary'' can't be entirely blamed for the downfall of NuMetal, but it sure didn't help. At the very least, it stopped any momentum the band had right in its tracks. Without Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit's direction became unclear, and it wasn't any more clear when people finally got to hear the album, the end result of multiple scrapped concepts so the band could have something to show for all the difficulty they had making it (which is best explained in the Trivia section). As such, the album lives up to its title by pulling in different directions, like a more "emotional" sound ("Underneath The Gun," "Build A Bridge"), attempts to recapture their rougher early rap-metal sound, some PostGrunge by way of Music/{{Staind}}, and an inexplicable cover of Music/TheWho's "Behind Blue Eyes" with a Speak-And-Spell(?) on the bridge. Whatever they were trying to accomplish, fans didn't respond well to ''any'' of these elements - Fred Durst's attempt at being more vulnerable and sympathetic was a particularly tough sell - and ''Results May Vary'' proved to be a huge misstep at the worst possible time, right when the band was suffering from serious overexposure. Thus, critics had too much fun tearing into the album. Even the band's biggest supporters tend to agree that ''Results May Vary'' was a low point.

* HarsherInHindsight: The line "Burn this motherfucker down!" from "Full Nelson" becomes this whenever Fred Durst's house burns down in 2019.
** The music video for Keep Rollin' prominently features the Twin Towers. Bizkit even received a letter from the World Trade Centre, thanking him for featuring them in their video, [[NightmareFuel the day before 911]].

* NightmareFuel:
** The SurrealMusicVideo for "Boiler," some scenes in particular include Wes Borland’s head [[OffWithHisHead randomly falling off]] and the creatures from the Chocolate Starfish cover art being [[CruelAndUnusualDeath grinded alive into sausages]].
*** Also, the vocal distortion before the guitar kicks in during the song itself.
** "The Priest" off of Music/TheUnquestionableTruth, which might just be not only the darkest song that Limp Bizkit ever wrote, but one of the darkest metal songs ever. Similar to most of the EP, the song lacks all of the [[LargeHam hamminess]] and fun that they are usually known for and is played completely serious throughout. The song describes a CrapsackWorld where it is [[RealismInducedHorror scarily accurate]] to real life.
--> Oh, what's this world coming to?
--> I see a [[PedophilePriest priest molesting children]]
--> I see [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror terrorists blowing up buildings]]
--> I see someone in rage, killing [[Music/{{Pantera}} Dimebag]] on stage
--> What the fuck is this? What the fuck is this?
--> I got a kid
--> Should I send him to Sunday School?
--> I got a kid
--> Should I send him to Sunday School
--> So you can [[SuddenlyShouting FUCK HIM]]?
** The intro track to "Music/GoldCobra." It simply features a loud [[HellIsThatNoise blaring sound]], complete with people screaming in terror. Not to mention the LastNoteNightmare at the end.
** The track "You Bring Out The Worst In Me," from "Still Sucks" could be considered this. Never before has Fred’s voice sounded so threatening.

* NightmareFuel: Yes, even a frat boy-ish band like this can have some creepy moments:
** The surreal music video for "Boiler," some scenes in particular include Wes Borland’s head randomly falling off and the creatures from the Chocolate Starfish cover art being grinded alive into sausages.

** The intro track to "Music/GoldCobra".
** The track "You Bring Out The Worst In Me," from "Still Sucks" could be considered this.

* NeverLiveItDown:
** Fred's behavior once he became famous.
** Wes Borland's ''very'', '''very''' rude attitude towards Music/DreamTheater and [[{{Jerkass}} insulting them for little to no reason]] and criticizing their [[{{Irony}} usage of insane time signatures]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Fans also were enraged at the fact he]] '''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constantly]]''' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking kept calling the band "Dream Theat]]''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking re]]''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ", instead of "Theater"]].
** The band's Chicago set during Metallica's 2003 Summer Sanitarium tour. The band was booed any time one of the preceding bands mentioned them and the audience started pelting them with garbage once they finally came on stage. Fred insulting the audience at length, even after he walked offstage, didn't make anyone look good (especially since he repeatedly called them "faggots" and dropped other homophobic insults) and their set ended after only six songs. The local papers noted that it took an hour and a half for the road crew to swap out the backlines for Metallica's closing set, yet there was no further incident from the crowd. ''Literally an hour and a half of silence was considered better than listening to Limp Bizkit''. Critics cited this moment as the true beginning of their mainstream downfall.
** Their notoriously {{wangst}}y cover of Music/TheWho's "Behind Blue Eyes," widely considered to be one of the worst covers ever.[[note]] Limp Bizkit cut out the verse that used a less depressing tone where the singer reaches out to a friend for help, the end result making it seem like the singer ''wants'' to be miserable[[/note]] Tellingly, it [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity got a lot of youngsters at the time into The Who]].

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Wes Borland is the most loved and respected member of the band, and his other projects, particularly Music/BlackLightBurns, have received more favorable reviews than Limp Bizkit. Sam Rivers and John Otto are also respected in bass and drum circles, and most dedicated bassists and drummers will agree that they were an objectively excellent rhythm section.
* FaceOfTheBand: Durst was considered to be this by many, but his role in the band has been largely overshadowed by Borland, so much so that if you load up the band's official website, Borland is the one in the background photograph.

* ArcFatigue: After ''Still Sucks'' was praised for its extremely brisk pacing, it has been noted that perhaps an issue with previous albums was that they simply dragged on for far longer than Limp Bizkit's style was designed to support. Compare ''Still Sucks'' managing to squeeze 12 songs into 32 minutes, to ''Chocolate Starfish'' being 15 songs long yet having a run time of ''74 minutes''.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Wes Borland is the most loved and respected member of the band, and his other projects, particularly Music/BlackLightBurns, have received more favorable reviews than Limp Bizkit. Sam Rivers and John Otto are also respected in bass and drum circles, and most dedicated bassists and drummers will agree that they were an excellent rhythm section who were held back by the band they were in.

** Fred Durst's legendarily horrible attempt at playing a guitar solo, followed by this: "SHAVE MY FRIENDS TONIGHT!"

* AudienceAlienatingEra: ''Results May Vary'' can't be entirely blamed for the downfall of NuMetal, but it sure didn't help. At the very least, it stopped any momentum the band had right in its tracks. Without Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit's direction became unclear, and it wasn't any more clear when people finally got to hear the album, the end result of multiple scrapped concepts so the band could have something to show for all the difficulty they had making it (which is best explained in the Trivia section). As such, the album lives up to its title by pulling in different directions, like a more "emotional" sound ("Underneath The Gun," "Build A Bridge"), attempts to recapture their rougher early rap-metal sound, some post-grunge by way of Music/{{Staind}}, and an inexplicable cover of Music/TheWho's "Behind Blue Eyes" with a Speak-And-Spell(?) on the bridge. Whatever they were trying to accomplish, fans didn't respond well to ''any'' of these elements - Fred Durst's attempt at being more vulnerable and sympathetic was a particularly tough sell - and ''Results May Vary'' proved to be a huge misstep at the worst possible time, right when the band was suffering from serious overexposure. Thus, critics had too much fun tearing into the album. Even the band's biggest supporters tend to agree that ''Results May Vary'' was a low point.

** The line from "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" regarding 'Ladies, fellas, and the people who don't give a fuck'.

* CondemnedByHistory: As the TropeCodifier of NuMetal, they caught the brunt of the genre's backlash, and it is generally agreed that they were responsible for nu metal's later association with late 90s/early 00s [[JerkJock frat boys]] and TestosteronePoisoning, and for shifting it from being music for the misfits escaping their tormentors and exorcising their demons to being music ''for'' the bullies who tormented them and fed their trauma. There is a reason why it is mostly agreed that they bore the brunt of the responsibility for destroying the genre.