Limp Bizkit: How Significant Other Saw The Nu-Metal Anti-heroes Take Over The World
“You wanted the worst. You got the worst.” Right from its wibbly-wobbly electronic intro, Limp Bizkit’s smash-mouth second LP Significant Other pulled precisely zero punches. The derision and controversy that would plague the Jacksonville five’s subsequent stellar ascent had yet to truly hit pace, but there was a sense that they were ploughing into a chaotic future with eyes, fists and defiant middle-fingers raised to attention. When frontman Fred Durst announced “It’s Nineteen Ninety Nine, BABAY!” on the bemusingly-titled ‘9 Teen 90 Nine’ it was the sound of a gang realising their time was now. It was, indeed, the turn of the millennium. Two years on from their 1997 debut Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$ the world is beginning to get a grasp on Limp Bizkit. Where their buddies from Bak...
