Just Me Ad The Biz...Kit (Significant Other - Limp Bizkit)

Member Name: XICripZ

Product:	Significant Other - Limp Bizkit
Date:	05/01/09 (94 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A few bangers

Disadvantages: Inconsistent

"Significant Other" ame out in 1999 as the second album from the Nu-Metal band, Limp Bizkit. Of all the acts in this sub-genre, these take the Hip Hop side of it to the max as pretty much all the lyrics are rapped by Fred Durst and they implement DJing techniques such as scratching and transforming throughout their material.

1. "Intro"

2. "Just Like This"

To get things going, you have Joh otto, their drummer getting things into a big hype as he excites you with fresh beats, before guitars are introduced, and then DJ Lethal put in a littel Electronica, before it breaks into a straight Metal track. This one is great at introducing you to their music and what they are about as it has each individual element explored in a high quality.

**Four Stars**

3. "Nookie"

This was the first of the singles from this album, and the one which managed to get them up in the world as stars in the Nu-Metal scene. Durst raps on a mean break, and it allows him to re-tell a story of how his was once used for his money by an ex-girlfriend. Once the Metal is introduced in the chorus it completes the thing, as the beats verse in only a transitional section.

**Four Stars**

4. "Break Stuff"

This is another of the singles from the labum, and gets them doing a powerful one which is just full of straight careless fight music, which gets them just ripping everything up whislt tlaking about how they get annoyed by people talking about each other and causing things like this as they just wasnt to let all the tension loose.

**Five Stars**

5. "Re-Arranged"

I must say that this one had lots of potential, but it never really reached where it was heading for. It is a mellow one and stands out amongst the majority of the track here whihc tend to be a lot more exciting. You don't get any Metal in it until quite late as it teases you for the first two verese, before breaking down at the end, but the build-up was over-hyped.

**Three Stars**

6. "I'm Broke"

To bring the quality up again, you get Durst start things off with a ittle Rakim to match the type of exciting music that you heard in "Break Stuff" as you get the guitars interacting with the DJ scratches to coem out with great reuslts which take ull advantage of all that the group have to offer with what they are about. It could be called a little predicbalte in its composition, but it works.

**Four Stars**

7. "Nobody Like You"

You have Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland and KoRn's Jonathon Davis singing along with Fred Durst on this one, and together I thought that it translated into a rather plain one. I felt that it was rather ruhed, and a lot of it soudned quite forced in the way that it was composed as it never really came together that well at any point, however the more Grunge-sounding backing helped to give it a lot more originality.

**Three Stars**

8. "Don't Go Off Wandering"

This one has them bring down the energy levels for a short while as Durst does some rhyms to speak on his pain towards a girl who clearly didn't care for him at all. You can feel his hurt, but the backing which he was given for it didn't quite fit well enough onto it, so I wasn't really into it at all. It never worked at all for me as it didn't really sound like Metal, and too much was going on.

**Two Stars**

9. "9 Teen 90 Nine"

This is a lively one to refelct the mood that everyone was in at the end of the last millennium. The band capture this with a chaotic track which gets them simply partying with a energetic recording of them just jamming whilst intermixing Metal and Hip Hop by doing general Metal guitar rifs, and then matching this with Hip Hop beats and scratches.

**Four Stars**

10. "N 2 Gether Now"

For all of those who are into the more Hip Hop side to the band, this is one which you are boudn to see as amongst the best in the release. You have them collaborate not only with Method Man, who raps out almost all of the verses in the track, but it also gets the vet producer, DJ Premier doing his signature scratches over the tune.

**Five Stars**

11. "Trust?"

This ia a hardcore track from them that doesn't stop giving you its extreme hype, which is all brought about through the high tempo and poundng guitar sections. It is just a banger of a track with lots going on, and it all adds together to come out with great results which you can't help but enjoy as it is simply care-free hyping with no particular aim.

**Four Stars**

12. "No Sex"

Staind's Aaron Lewis joins in for this one, and although I couldn't say that his input did much for me, it works in it. This track seems to stay on the same sort of level for the whole of the recording and this can only be a negative as it doesn't change and you can guess where its gogin for the whole thing.

**Two Stars**

13. "Show Me What You Got"

As always, Bizkit chats a load of crap in his rhymes, but this isn't really important as it always leads to them coming out with a killer tune which you are bound to enjoy as they back him up with the most explosive Metal which makes you forget about hw pointless his listing raps were as he just states different city's names without cause.

**Four Stars**

14. "A Lesson Learned"

The final musical track in the album gets them experimenting. Much of this comes from DJ Lethal, who is made to be the lead role in this as he composes the majority of it with dark, haunting sound effects and percussion to drag you down as a distorted voice of Fred Durst sings almost uncomprehendable words.

**Three Stars**

15. "Outro"

There are some great successes in both the Hip Hop and Metal side of things, but when they have nothing and it all falls apart. It doesn't quite make sense when they do this, but when they keep to what they are good at, fusing the Metal and Hip Hop, the results are always killer.

Summary: Limp Bizkit's second album