| Results May Vary | ||||
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| Studio album by Limp Bizkit | ||||
| Released | September 23, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | August 2002–January 2003; May–June 2003 in Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Nu metal, alternative metal, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 68:35 | |||
| Label | Flip, Interscope | |||
| Producer | Terry Date, Fred Durst, Rick Rubin | |||
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Results May Vary is the fourth studio album by Limp Bizkit, released on September 23, 2003 through Interscope Records. The album debuted at #3 in the United States with over 320,000 copies sold on the first week, breaking the group's #1 spree on the Billboard 200 and was eventually certified Platinum on June 3, 2008 in the US,[1] and Gold in the UK in October 2003.[2] The album's first single, "Eat You Alive", gained significant airplay on modern and mainstream rock radio stations.
The second and last single, "Behind Blue Eyes", was also a moderate hit cracking the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at number 71) and its subsequent music video receiving heavy rotation on MTV. Promotional singles were issued for "Red Light-Green Light", "Build a Bridge", and "Almost Over".
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It went through many name changes, originally going by the name "Lessismore", and later "Bipolar". Other names the album went through include "Panty Sniffer","The Search for Teddy Swoes", and "Fetus More". At one point Fred Durst even said "Whatever I'm feeling it is on the day the artwork is due, then that will be the final title."
For the first recording sessions, the band recorded without a permanent guitarist in the band (since Wes Borland left in 2001). Vocalist Fred Durst and bassist Sam Rivers played guitar on some songs, and engineer Elvis Baskette was hired to play guitar on some others. This is the only Limp Bizkit album featuring former Snot guitarist Mike Smith. Fifteen songs were written and recorded for the album. Then Mike Smith was recruited, and four more were written as well.
After a discussion with Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Records, the band decided the vibe they had with Smith was good enough that they should go back into the studio and write a whole new album's worth of material. In the end, ten more songs were written and recorded. The best songs were chosen from among these, and they made it onto the album. The others, including songs like "Masturbation", "Cowgirls from Hell", and "Relentless" are collectively known by Durst as the "Off the Record" tracks.
Tim Burton collaborated with the band for the cover art while it was still going under the 'The Search for Teddy Swoes' name. On the inside cover the artwork shows a bottle of pills with the prescription from "Dr. Tyler Durden", a reference to Fight Club, of which Fred Durst is a fan. The song "Head for the Barricade" was also in the Fight Club game, in which he is a hidden character. In the credits of the album, Pete Townshend's name was misspelled.
The song "Just Drop Dead", one of the songs discarded from the album, was purposely leaked by Fred Durst, supposedly as an insult to Britney Spears, after the Fred Durst and Britney Spears romance controversy. It was later released on the "Eat You Alive" single. The song "Gimme the Mic" features lyrics from the Eric B. and Rakim song "Microphone Fiend". The bridge in the song "Head for the Barricade" also features the only thrash-styled uptempo beat ever heard through all of the bands discography.
| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (33/100) [3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [4] |
| Q | [3] |
| The Guardian | [5] |
| Laut.de | [6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| Martin Charles Strong | [8] |
The album has been panned by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 33, based on 11 reviews, tying with Viva Brother's Famous First Words as the fourth worst ranked album of Metacritic's history.[9]
The album has a lone supporter in Q Magazine, which called it "A far more rounded proposition than 2000's water-treading Chocolate Starfish."[10] Rolling Stone's review was also somewhat less unfavorable than others, "songs such as "Creamer (Radio Is Dead)" and "Lonely World" get by on Linkin Park-style electronic textures, stutter-step rhythms and catchy, cathartic choruses."[11]
It has been rumored that Wes Borland, who had departed from the band two years before, listened to the album and stated it was "more of a Fred Durst solo record, and not a Limp Bizkit effort at all."
The song "Build A Bridge" was the theme song of WWE Survivor Series 2003. The B-side "Crack Addict" was used as the theme song for WWE's WrestleMania XIX. It was also released as a downloadable song for the Rock Band platform in December 2009.
The song "Red Light - Green Light" was used in a commercial for Snickers candy bars.[12] Limp Bizkit's cover of The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" was used as the theme of the film Gothika; the music video featured the film's star, Halle Berry.
All lyrics written by Fred Durst except where noted, all music composed by Fred Durst, John Otto, Sam Rivers, and Mike Smith except where noted.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Re-Entry" | Durst, Otto, Rivers | 2:37 | |
| 2. | "Eat You Alive" | 3:57 | ||
| 3. | "Gimme The Mic" | 3:05 | ||
| 4. | "Underneath The Gun" | 5:42 | ||
| 5. | "Down Another Day" | Durst, Otto, Rivers | 4:06 | |
| 6. | "Almost Over" | 4:38 | ||
| 7. | "Build A Bridge" | Durst, Otto, Rivers | 3:57 | |
| 8. | "Red Light-Green Light" (featuring Snoop Dogg) | Snoop Dogg, Durst | DJ Lethal | 5:36 |
| 9. | "The Only One" | 4:08 | ||
| 10. | "Let Me Down" | Durst, Otto, Rivers | 4:16 | |
| 11. | "Lonely World" | 4:34 | ||
| 12. | "Phenomenon" | Durst, DJ Lethal, Otto, Rivers | 3:59 | |
| 13. | "Creamer (Radio Is Dead)" | Durst, Otto, Rivers | 4:30 | |
| 14. | "Head For The Barricade" | 3:34 | ||
| 15. | "Behind Blue Eyes" (The Who cover) | Pete Townshend | Townshend | 6:05 |
| 16. | "Drown" | Durst, Rivers | 3:51 |
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 2003 | Top Canadian Albums | 3 |
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Singles - Billboard (America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 2003 | "Eat You Alive" | US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 16 |
| US Modern Rock Tracks | 20 | ||
| 2004 | "Build A Bridge" | US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 33 |
| "Behind Blue Eyes" | 11 | ||
| US Modern Rock Tracks | 18 | ||
| US Hot 100 | 71 | ||
| US Mainstream Top 40 | 25 |
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