Episode 82: Limp Bizkit's "Results May Vary", or Fred's Worst

How do you follow up selling roughly 16m copies of each of your last two records while dealing with your guitarist leaving the band and nu-metal collapsing? You release whatever this is, Limp Bizkit's 4th studio album and easily their worst, as Fred Durst is allowed to act on all of his worst instincts and the results, indeed, vary wildly. He runs a nationwide "contest" to hire a guitarist then hires his buddy from Snot who he then fires and tries to play most of the guitar parts himself. He sings WAY more than he should. He does his laziest rap song ever. He covers The Who, badly. There's an awful lot going on here, and we dig into all of it. At least if nothing else, it made both Fred and Wes realize they need each other, for better or for worse.

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