5 Metal Albums We Should Still Crank (And 5 We Should Tank)
2. Tank It! Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Nu-Metal. Old hat. This Fred Durst ego-trip still smells a lot like teen spirit. While there is a strong argument to be made that Limp Bizkit should have been tanked in 1994, it was their 1999 release, Significant Other, that pushed Limp Bizkit to the front of the Nu-Metal movement.
It was here that we find that threadbare hit single Nookie. It was EVERYWHERE at the time. Fast forward nearly 25 years, and a straight, white guy rapping badly about doing it all for the nookie somehow seems even more juvenile now than it did then. The sad thing is how many truly talented musicians collaborated on this album: Les Claypool, Method Man and Scott Weiland just to name a few.
Oddly, Significant other was met with both critical and commercial success at the time (and it was of course, a different time). Besides Nookie, tracks like Break Stuff and No Sex offer the record about as much thought provocation as a commercial for life insurance. Once the initial shine of Nu-Metal wore off, so did Limp Bizkit's popularity.
Like grunge, the few survivors of Nu-Metal have been able to hang on a loyal audience by keeping the nostalgia train rolling, but there's no need to rekindle the vows with Significant Other. Tank it.