Catalog of Disaster

[dust monkey]

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/06/limp_bizkits_gold_cobra_a_cata.php

This made me smile this morning, Dan Weiss was in an especially witty mood when he wrote this.

[destructo]

Pretty funny. I love the last line.

Come to think of it, this album didn't even suck in a spectacularly interesting way.

[Turchinator]

did I miss the beastie connection

[Brother McDuff]

did I miss the beastie connection

i did

[DrunkenMantis]

"goatee metal rap please say GOODNIGHT !"

[dust monkey]

"goatee metal rap please say GOODNIGHT !"

dear god thanks to the mantis for coming to the rescue

there is absolutely ZERO connection thankfully, except for the fact that this is the spawn of that

you have to admit to a correlation between "goatee metal rap" and the BIG 4 from 86 being PE, Run DMC, LL and the Beasties. and anyone who was a fan of the big 4 was hungry for anything/something that was all hard rock ain't nothin' soft. so when these songs/groups came along...years after the LTI and Raising Hell cassettes had been FW'ed and RW'ound so many times that all that remained was plastic, if you were curious like I was then you thought....hmmmm maybe....but the maybes quickly turned into what nu-metal's legacy is, and thank god that most have dissipated from our collective existence like the Young Black Teenagers. still at the time, most Beastie fans I ever knew jumped on this because it was close, and it was what most of us would have done if we had bands or won a contest on Star Search. it was a very imperfect mash up of the genius that was Check Your Head, but it was not LL Bad, it was Surfer MC's bad.

anyway you are right, no connection at all, I just thought the article was very well written and it made me laugh....LB is the weakest link in the 6 degrees of Beastie Bacon and I thought you might have a laugh like i did to brighten up your Monday morning!!

[EastcoastJL]

Nice! That's the best 'worst' review i've read in awhile! I really thought we'd seen the last of Limp Bizkit.
Looking back though, i think Check Your Head was a key jump off point for that whole rap/metal thing. Rage's 1st album hit right after, then Limp Bizkit & Korn, RHCP,then Everlast decided to pick up a guitar.
The Beasties are one of the few groups though that actually made it work. I think the reason is b/c they never tried to blend rap & metal. Rap & funk- yes, rap & punk-yes, but really CYH was a like an incredible mixed tape. The punk songs are classic punk, they didnt complicate the jazz instrumentals by rapping over top. To me bands like Limp Bizkit try to do too much in 1 song. Pounding metal riffs in the background and Durst's yelling/rapping were competing w/ each other out instead of complementing. Still surprised they're doing a "comeback" at this point, but it should be funny to see their 40yr old overweight, pierced & tattooed fans dusting off their chain wallets and making appearances at a summer festival near you!

[Odie]

Rap/metal that works starts and ends with Public Enemy/Anthrax - Bring the Noise. Maybe throw in Biohazard/Onyx - Judgment Night.

[Kid Presentable]

You, um, uh, want to rap but what you're making ain't hip-hop? B?

[Monsieur Decuts]

Rap/metal that works starts and ends with Public Enemy/Anthrax - Bring the Noise. Maybe throw in Biohazard/Onyx - Judgment Night.

meh disagree...

Cypress Hill has had some fun with it...our Beastie Boys....lots of others too, but its just not digestible by the masses.

[camo]

The weird thing with LB is that their first record did kinda sound fresh and new. It's just that they completely dumbed it down for every other release thereafter.

Pollution. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqyoM8pI7Xc)