Limp Bizkit, My Way - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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This is my first listen of a Rock song from the new millennium in this History Series. And boy, was I surprised!
Here’s the link to the original song by Limp Bizkit:
• Limp Bizkit - My Way
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I've never clicked faster than watch a professional musician listen to early 2000s Limp Bizkit 😂. Let's see what you think
Yes I was prepared to be amused, and wasn't disappointed haha
As I thought... She thinks it's crap
@@mauriciomijares7286 I'm glad she is being honest and not bsing to appease her audience.
this band was and is still quite amazing.
I'm listening to this because of how often i see the interwebs severely mock Limp Bizkit, and how strongly one always disliked them. Was looking for a second, more informed opinion. :)
On behalf of humanity, I'm terribly sorry for all this.
Limp Bizkit is a cruel and unusual punishment that nobody should be subjected to.
One of the greatest bands of all time, creators of a new genre. And btw, they fit in to show 2000s musical development perfectly.
😂😂😂
@@MetalGearyaTV this band is grossly overpriced rubbish.
@Jaspertine: Some of their deeper tracks are quite good, imo. I just started listening to them recently. (I had only heard a few of their biggest hits back in the 2000s.) I really like their drummer. I just started learning drums, and have been surprised by the drummer in this band when I focused in on him or her. In fact, I've "liked" almost every song I've heard from them on Spotify so far, except some of the big ones that were on the radio. That's not to say you will ever like any of their songs.
@@Marnie-hates-winter Well, I know that among us haters, there is at least some begrudging respect for some of the individual members of the band (guitarist Wes Borland in particular), and there are some who would argue that the band would be decent if someone other than Fred Durst were the main frontman and lyricist.
There is an uncanny aspect to music from the 2000s that is explainable by the brickwalling that Karl talked about in the 90s mixed with the fact that now producers were able to shift the sounds note by note, chord by chord into perfect time, stripping the music of the imperfections that humans will always have.
Yeah. "quantization" will instantly kill any sort of life a song has. Add ontop of that autotune and brickwall compression and its practically dead.
But half a dozen producers want it to be like that.
Just watch the loudness graph at the bottom of the frame. Looks like a (brick) wall! Either the playback levels were set terribly wrong (not likely) or the track has been compressed to within an inch of its life. Also: yes quantization sucks bad. Just cuz we can doesn't mean we should.
This is true for a lot of recordings, but there are lots of imperfections on this track.
Here we go again.
In the early 2000s while Limp Bizkit was very popular they do not Give a great representative take of what was going on during that time.
And this song By Limp Bizkit is not one of their best songs.
I love it the way she has a “do people actually intentionally listen to this crap?” look on her face the whole time the song is playing. And when she starts talking at 7:19, she sounds genuinely angry that she is being made to sit through it.
Can you blame her? This isn't even music. It's complete garbage.
This was the theme song to the greatest wrestlemania of all time! I had no idea people actually hated this song
@@Csnich96 it is cool to hate Limp Bizkit, because they are sellout, because they radiof-riendly, because they do not write symphonic classical music, because vocals does not sound like Pavarotti, even because their music does not sound crappy like rock bands 50 years ago, overproduced, etc. F this people, i listen different music from classical to extreme metal, but i sometime like to listen some good old Limp Bizkit and find it groovy, minimalistic, but creative at the same time, everything in it's place and not more. You do not need to have complex musical sheet to be considered a "good" music, sometimes 3 basic chords and a good melody is enough
A. She is not being made to sit through anything. The point was supposed to be learning about musical genres with which she is unfamiliar.
B. Why would anyone be bothered that other people like something that they don’t?
I swear I thought she was going to say "the thing that bothers me is that the performance sounds like...a closeted man pretending to be overtly heterosexual"
Best reaction ever: "I don't know if I like this." This misses a lot of context without Rage Against the Machine or any of the previous alternative or rap or punk crossover influences that led to this commericalized Frankenstein's monster.
One of the the many things I appreciate with this channel is that Amy is so honest. In many other reaction channels I've seen they seem to be compelled to always like what they hear (not to disappoint people I suppose). I think it was clear what Amy thought about this song... :)
Limp Bizkit... dear lord. But they were popular at the time and if Carl wants to show you how music slowly went to shit, this is a good pick 😊
Music did NOT go to shit. Carl is simply incompetant at introducing music historically and picking representative songs. This whole project has been a disaster from the start.
@@shacharh5470 Music mostly became bland and overly produced. That does not mean that there wasn't some good music. There were good bands in 2000's. The point here is to show how music developped through decades. Rock went from mainstream to alternative or fusioned with rap, hip-hop, pop. The 'real' rock became a niche thing, whether we like it or not.
@@shacharh5470 Oh I was also dissapointed with some picks but it is what it is. Hopefully it will get better when they do decades in-depth.
@@daisy9664 Their plan is to revisit decades and go more in depth? I missed that somehow. I literally thought the whole project is one video and 2 song picks to talk about each decade. The whole concept/design is bad. But if I were wrong it could yet prove interesting after all
@@daisy9664 I disagree. The music community and market gradually became more ad more fragmented ever since the 1990's. So today it's no longer about big names vs. small ones. Every niche has its own superstars and smaller acts.
And most niches have consistently had at least some good quality music made every year, for decades, and even ground breaking artists continue to pop up in many genres every few years, up to these days.
It's just that the best ways of discovering music are different today than what they used to be, so old (or old fashioned) people get the wrong impression.
Amy I want you to know that this is definitely not representative of 2000 rock, this is actually the very low end of it. There are bands like System of a Dawn, The Killers and others way better, I can't believe Karl is making those choices for you!
To be quite honest with you a lot of Karl’s picks Are not helping Amy learn about the progression of rock music generally.
It seems to be a team of this series.
Yeah Carl‘s been making off-the-wall picks since the beginning. Think how much better this series would have been if she had someone making good pics
sad!
@@johnnada. indeed sad. It is the fastest way to get Amy back to the classical corner. And Totally justifyable!
The biggest issue is sticking to TWO SONGS per decade. Yes, they said they will go back, but just two songs isn't enough to really describe a decade, especially as music progresses, or regresses when it comes to Limp Bizkit.
While I was kinda glad he didn't pick Smells like teen spirit, he picked a very mid 90s (1994) song to represent the start of the decade? Honestly wish he did pick teen spirit in retrospect.
Amy, dump Karl and learn from YT channel Professor Of Rock instead. Karl is teaching you all the wrong information by picking poor choices as examples of music to represent an era.
As for what I would have picked for the early 2000s it would have been "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes.
Harsh, but true. I am really surprised he picked this. Seven Nation Army is a way better choice.
@@willasacco9898seven nation army is a horrible song. Limp Bizkit helped define a generation
who are picking these songs lmao
Iron Maiden? Queensryche? Nirvana? Alice in Chains? Slayer? Judas Priest? Anthrax? Kreator? Meshuggah? Muse? Radiohead? Yes? Death? Immortal? Ozzy Osbourne or Dio solo work? Wintersun? Faith No More? Another symphonic metal band? Better/more well known songs from artists that Amy has already reacted to? No, none of that.
The complete and utter travesty that is Limp Bizkit? Yep! That's the one!
Cudos for at least mentioning one Black Metal band. We could've been talking about the genre ever since the '80s and definitely should've done in the '90s. BTw check out Mercenary's "Everblack" 2002 album for an outstanding 'Death Metal that has gone Melodic' album - if you haven't already that is.
Great list past to present.
@@MotorbreathChannel Would love to see a classical musicians perception and breakdown to the more symphonic Black Metal like Dimmu from Puritanical to present or Cradle of Filth, Satyricon with the Norway orchestra.
@@NPK476 I dunno, I've never been much of a fan of Dimmu and Satyricon. I love CoF though and agree that there are interesting tracks to analyze there. Have you ever encountered Enslavement of Beauty? Neoclassic Black. If not, then check out their composition called "And To Temptation's Darkness Forever Abide"
Such a pretentious and boring comment
that "boredom and lack of ambition" you're hearing is the over-commercialization of the music industry at the time. A lot of "Producers" thought they knew what people would pay to listen too, then found a group of people to portray that style, and there you have 2000's pop. This is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the early 2000's "nu-metal" movement. Eventually, you'll hear music by groups like the Deftones, Tool, Incubus, Linkin Park, and System of a Down. Bands like these were elevating music and being quite experimental. Limp Bizkit was created by the industry, as vanilla pudding for rock radio, which began it's slow death around this time.
I’m glad she heard this for that point though. I really hope it comes up in the discussion.
Sure, that's why they spent 3 years being rejected, by labels working clubs and having to build relationships with signed bands like Korn, before they got signed.
It's fine to not like them, but don't spit on the work they put in by making it sound like they were a Spice Girls, KPOP sort of manufactured project.
They did, and still do, write their own songs. They went platinum many times over, and they did it themselves.
And no, I'm not some fanboy... but to act like a band, ANY band, that put in the work and made it big was some sort of manufactured product just because YOU don't like them... that is beyond disrespectful, not to mention incredibly pretentious.
Limp Bizkit's first album is pretty original and not commercial at all
Nah, it's just that Fred Durst never took voice lessons and isn't a professional singer, and never really planned on being a singer when the band first started, so all the notes he hits are very flat. He came into the nu metal scene as it was starting at the beginning almost entirely focusing on screams and harsh vocals. By the third album, the band had gotten way bigger than intended and everything sort of wound up out of their control, and they eventually mutated into this commercial, confused product as a result. His flat, dull clean vocals coupled with the nauseating repetition of the chorus over, and over, and over again really shows a band struggling between trying to write their own music and being pressured by the label into copying and pasting two simplistic sections over and over to fill time for a radio hit. The structure is uninspired and bored, the singer is bored, the band is bored. Her analysis makes sense, but this isn't the same Limp Bizkit as the Limp Bizkit from 1996 or 97.
Also, it's hilarious of you to include Linkin Park in that list, a band practically manufactured in a lab by a record company to be the perfect nu metal version of a boy band, with pretty faces, fake emo edgy lyrics, and equally cookie cutter and formulaic song structures. "In the End" and "My Way" practically follow the same formula of watering down nu metal, removing most of the metal and harsh vocals, endlessly repeating the whiny chorus, throwing in some generic rapping, and calling it a day. Both songs even have the exact same cringey turntable effect. There's nothing experimental going on in what was an even more refined and commercial product than what Chocolate Starfish ended up being lol.
I had no idea the goats LB were that hated before reading these comments
Am disappointed this is veering towards uninspiring music. I thought Wonder Wall was a blip but not limp bizkit...please.
There are so many great songs to go deep on.
Radiohead, karnivool, Jeff Buckley, etc...
Oh Carl, I'm sure you knew what you were doing by picking one of the most hated artists of this era, but you have kicked the hornet's nest for sure. Perhaps this was a necessary exercise in order to grow her appreciation of the better stuff, or maybe you are just an iconoclast, idk.
I was a teenager when this type of music was very popular, I think it's such a big reason why I shunned trendy music my peers liked and discovered the underground. GOD DETHRONED!
Indeed. I was a school kid about this time too, I believe only Green Day, with American idiot caught my ears. Most of what I listened to this time was Classic Rock from 70's/80's and power metal. By the time, I hated Linkin' Park and Limp Bizkit with my whole heart. Nowadays I feel more open to this kind of music, but I still don't like, I just don't hate it.
I can see why this might appeal to a teenager. A very young teenager.
Aaaahhh, now I understand. Karl is Punking you. Got it. Looking forward to his suggestions of Collective Soul and Nickelback.
And both of them are better than this crap
Using Limp Bizkit as introduction to any era of music is like using dog food as introduction to breakfast cereals. 😆
Kinda ya lol
😂
I can't believe I still have to be haunted by this crap! I thought I was free!
@@adamhenton6221 It's funny how RUclips offered me to translate your comment into English
That was perfect 😂
I'm not sure why Limp Bizkit. I would have chosen Linkin Park. I have see both live. Limp Bizkit was good but Linkin Park was on totally another level.
Disagree with that and limp bizkit came out before them. Linkin Park not original at all
@@johngotti9552 And KoRn came out before Limp Bizkit. But we're in 2000's music now, not 90's.
I don't know exactly what happened. But something went terribly wrong in 2000 and things haven't been right ever since.
The start of widespread use of Pro Tools and mixing templates in music production. With a few button presses you too can sound like your favorite band!
@@allisonal Lauren Daigle, K.K. Downing, and Dan McCafferty are my last hopes.
Alot of elitism in these comments... "I don't listen anything newer than 90's rock", well wohoo, congrats on becoming stagnant...
Limp Bizkit had their brief moment in the spotlight. A lot of people liked them and alot of people hated them at the time. They do represent the culture of the 2000's quite well. I can see why this was chosen, even if there are clearly better songs and bands from that era. Here's hoping that the next song is more interesting and shows that the 2000's also had good rock music coming out.
The bigger difference, at least for me, is that starting around 2002-ish, was kind of the point where I felt like I had to start doing my own research and digging up obscure indie bands in order to find listenable rock music, because TV and Radio were fixated on Creed, Limp Bizkit and Nickelback.
Things did get better. But the early to mid 2000s were pretty dire.
I listen to rock music from the 50's up to today. I listen to lot of bands from the 2000's. You can find good rock music from every period. Sometimes you have to dig a little. Elitism because not liking this band, no. You don't have to like everything and there is a reason for why so many don't like this. But Carl can have a good reason for choosing this. The band was very popular and the were many bands similar to this.
I'm so sorry you had to listen to Limp Bizkit. Your sacrifice is appreciated.
I’m not gonna complain about the song choice although yes there were many much better options. Even linkin park would’ve been a more interesting pick. However let’s be real this stuff was huge in those days .
I was just thinking the other day "I hope Virgin Rock listens to some music that she would have classified as 'noise' before this project started and see what she thinks of it now."
Mission accomplished.
The "stutter" effect I believe is made using turntables, where the DJ will pick a hook (like "check out my melody") or two (or more depending on how many turntables they have) and manually spin the record(s) back and forth as it plays for various effects. This is one of the influences of hip-hop getting absorbed into rock.
please don't be disturbed by the haters. This is a decent example of the era. I never bought anything by Limp Bizket...But they did have a fan base at that time.
I actually think the best thing about LB is their grooves. It’s the soft parts of this song, with the killer bass and razor sharp drums, that I think are the best.
yep, groove, minimalism, amazing bass and drum playing, that's the whole point of this music to be catchy and groovy. But people here will not understand, there is a bunch of elitists, who think, if music does not have a harp and trombone in it, or if no complex polyrhytms or chord progressions, then that music sucks.
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I agree. I think that the host - whose channel I adore - often fails to meet the music on its own terms, and brings inapt considerations from other musical genres and types. Taste is taste of course, but if one is going to try and understand a genre that is alien to oneself, an effort not to bring a lot of preconceptions is necessary. Coming to pop or rock with classical preconceptions and standards will just insure you that you “get” the pop/rock closest to classical. It’s no surprise that she loved Genesis and disliked this. But that seems somewhat at odds with the point of the exercise.
London ontario! Saw 226 on the wall "hey thats my area code". Was very likely just 3 buildings over when this was being filmed. Always weird when you come across a local connection online randomly.
Well, I expected Linkin Park, but definitely not Limp Bizkit. I am really not sure how much they were even popular. Maybe they were in USA but certainly not that much in Europe. Or maybe I wasn't aware of their popularity and importance back then. I don't know.
And also, I hear this song for the first time, but I know they have several much bigger and, in my opinion, better songs (although I have never really been a fan of any of their songs).
People forget how big Limp Bizkit actually was during their time. They may have been disliked by the general metal/rock crowd but in terms of stardom they were dumby thicc. Way bigger than most others. I would’ve gone for Linkin Park but I reckon Karl wants to talk about something pertaining to LB here.
Hey Jovana, great to see you here. I have missed seeing you in the comments lately. Maybe you have and I just haven't seen them.
@@LeeKennison Hey Lee! Great to hear from you! No, you haven't missed anything, I am just really not in the mood lately for most of reaction content, so I'm definitely not as active here as before. But I am checking what's going on.
Hope you are doing fine and hope to talk more. 😊🤘
@@jovana_r Same to you Jovana. I always enjoy chatting with you.
Once again Amy nails it!!! Boring is probably why I began to tune out most commercial music after the 2000's.
Glad I'm not the only one.
You missed a lot of great stuff.
@@rockof.1793 I mostly filled in the gaps that the radio never played the first time. I am sure I missed a lot of good music.
I appreciate your perspective, although as a 16 year old when this hit, I f*cking loved it!
Glad to see you can be honest and say when you don't like a selection.
Because the song sucks😂
@@AbcdEfgh-xj4qyMost reaction channels won't ever say they don't like a particular group or song. It's refreshing to see one that is honest about it. I can also tell she isn't very impressed with heavy metal, but doesn't quite come out and say it directly. So far it seems like she is more favorable to easy listening rock and progressive rock, but even then she doesn't display the natural tendency of the head bob or finger tapping.
Limp Bizkit asks us to check out their melody... erm... what melody?
Sorry, I love Limp Bizkit! I also love classic prog and neoprog, classic rock, metal, R&B, motown, new age, folk, celtic, techno, new wave, alt rock (including grunge), industrial, jazz fusion, movie scores, the latest rock from Japan, and classical. And no, I definitely do not love ALL music.
It's kind of hilarious seeing Amy, who seems like a really sweet, nice person and polite to a fault, try really, really hard to not be mean or harshly critical here, even though it's obvious that she doesn't like this, and come up with all sorts of roundabout ways to avoid saying what she's clearly thinking.
And, if she wants to listen to a much better rock-rap song, Aerosmith's collaboration with Run-DMC on Walk This Way is vastly and incomparably better.
It's ok to not like a piece of music and say so, and people will respect you for it. But it's also good to sometimes listen to music you normally wouldn't listen to and don't like, to be open-minded.
The “stutter effect” you are referring to is a turntable. Also, the reason everything sounds so big is because of specific “scratches” & inserts from the turntable, I think there’s a keyboard in there too. If you get to it Sid Wilson of Slipknot has, in my humble opinion, mastered the art of underlying specific tones, effects, “scratches” etc under the bass & guitars to make them sound monstrous while being almost imperceivable at the same time.
I would never have decided to introduce anyone to 2000’s music with Limp Bizkit. I guess it’s good to put the rest of the music in the context of the time. Why not Deftones if you want to explore that style of music?
Because this series is not about what the best music of that era was. It’s about what played. I’m sure we’ll get to deftones over time, just have to get through the hard parts first :/
Well, it'll certainly make everything else seem amazing by comparison.
“Deftones good LB bad” is such a generic opinion
"I don't know if I like this". Welcome to the club. I think I may be a founding member.
Is Carl trying to make Amy despise rock music?
Wow this is definitely an interesting pick.
As you've probably noticed, Limp Bizkit doesn't have the greatest reputation among rock fans, but that's fine, since the band itself didn't really intend to be liked by everyone.
Their sound is fine overall, it's mostly the lyrics that are hard to take seriously, that's the case for me at least.
In terms of music from around the same time, System of A Down is a must listen.
Yeah, Limp Bizkit for me was always like the stupid little brother of Rage Against The Machine, who was swapped at birth and raised by rednecks. The first 2 albums were pretty good, but with the success came the downfall. Though I still like Take A Look Around from the 3rd album.
Yes maybe that's it, lyrically they are an acquired taste.
Talks about lyrics then throws system of a down. Bwahahaha
@@mikekarlik9897 Yeah, a good point, SOAD have some silly lyrics too now that I think about it, still prefer their lyrics to bizkit's obviously
@@lightlezs7048 The thing about SOAD is that when you listen to them, you know that they have a sense of humor - they don't always take themselves too seriously. When you listen to Limp Bizkit, it's difficult to tell whether they are being serious or ironic. Then again, I don't think this kind of "let's make fun of douchebags by being one" kind of irony existed back then - pretty sure they didn't write the lyrics to be funny, but they legitimately thought they sounded cool. And I'm sure the teenagers back then also bought it.
So, the difference between SOAD being silly and Limp Bizkit being silly is that SOAD were clearly self aware about their silliness, whereas Limp Bizkit were (most likely) trying to sound cool, and the silliness is more unintentional.
Then again, there's a certain kind of charm about honest boasting. These days, you can only do that ironically. But back then, it made you cool. Like, back then people were like "yo yo, look at how cool I am", and they did it honestly. Try doing that today, and people will just laugh at you. People today tend to be a lot more self aware. And this kind of stuff only works if you do it ironically. Even if you are somewhat serious about it, you still need to approach it through a couple of layers of irony.
this is looking like carls playlist
On behalf of all Metal fans and lovers of music, I applaud your stamina and patience while listen to this 'music'.
Limb Bizkit rock the 2000 era. If I was selecting, I’d choose Bizkit too. They appealed to the young, like the Beatles, and looking back, My Way, says more about Bizkit than 2000s, When I think about music from the 2000s, how it grown, and expanded.
You would rip and burn CDs. The internet, iPods, Napster. Parents asking what you listening to? Limp Bizkit
And the 2000s was the era where I would listen to just about anything other than contemporary rock, so maybe they are the band of the decade.
no musical substance just technical games and quite childish
They appealed to the deaf.
Some of the instrumentals of Limp Bizkit are actually musically interesting and appealing. It's all about the sound wall created by guitar effects.
I agree. Set aside whatever you think about Fred Durst as a frontman, the musicians in Limp Bizkit are great at what they do.
in some eras certain genres are not giving you the best of what you could hear... lots of creative and entertaining rock music at this time .. karl went nu-metalish and that's his mistake in showing what rock had to offer . this is his old head perspective . he's tunneled out .
That's true! I used to hate Limp Bizkit (as did most of the people) durin 2000's. I was a metal girlie listening to black-, death-, progressive- and doom metal (with also a classical music training after playing violin over 25 years) as well as many othe genres I deemed worthwile. Nu metal wasn't that for me in any way. I couldn't see anything good in the band. It was way later, when I got over my snobbish attitudes towards music genres and started also to listen to the styles of music I didn't understand before, that I started to listen to hip hop as well. Now I really love old school 90's hip hop and hear it's influences in LB music also. I started to date a guy who listens a lot of LB and got to know their music from the time before they were popular. There's some great stuff (and nice cover art) there. And yes, the instrumental version of Creamer is one of my favourites from them. Most of the stuff that played in the radio from LB during 2000's is defenately not their best work. Sometimes you have to dig a bit deeper to find something worthwile in a band. Also Fred Durst may be a controversial lead singer in many ways but I do respect the fact that he refused to use autotune in an era when everything was autotuned to pieces.
Korn and Limp Bizkit are both NU Metal genre leaders from early 2000s expect Korn is on a different level and massively loved for their creativity, theme and style or just go with everyone's favorite System of a Down.
Limp Bizkit... my god. Why not "System of a down" or "Queens of the stone age"? You know... good bands?
System of a down are no better than Limp Bizkit
@@Csnich96 I'm sorry but you're very wrong. Starting by the SINGER. You can't begin to compare the two.
@@FontenlaAndres Serj sounds absolutely insane the lyrics are dumber than LBs !
Limp Bizkit is great...if you need to know what it's like to vomit while being sober.
Good LAWD!
People need to quit comparing Limp Bizkit to vomit.
Vomit doesn't deserve that kind of shade.
So sorry to hear about the tragedy in the area there. Hope everyone you know is safe and unaffected, Amy.
Mmm....Linkin Park or System of a Down are much better options than this. Or even other's songs from Limp Bizkit to show the influence of rap. If the other song of the decade isn't Radiohead, I don't know what Carl it's doing
I listened to a LOT of rock radio in this era, and I found many of the heavy hits incredibly beautiful despite the overproduction, cookie-cutter sound, uninspired lyrics, etc, etc. I’m sad that this song was chosen as Amy’s first impression. I don’t think it represents the highlights of the nu-metal era very well at all. I haven’t watched her reaction yet but I predict the gist will be “WHY would anyone listen to this kind of music” … for which there are many excellent musical responses. Oh well.
So sorry you were forced to listen to this! I didn't. I just fast forwarded to where I could see you were talking to hear your comments on it. You weren't off base at all. Although there are certainly exceptions (Tool, for example, continues to put out amazing music), IMHO rock took a deep dive for the worse after the 90s. The producers engineered all of the soul/humanity out of it. Maybe that will be Karl's point, I dunno.
Rock might have taken a deep dive after the 90s - I don't know. I do not listen to much Rock. Extreme Metal has never died though. Maybe it is just that a lot of creativity went underground?
@@MotorbreathChannel Oh yeah - Definitely some great stuff still out there. You just don't hear it on the radio. I should have specified "commercial" rock.
@@jcparker500 Nah, it's all good. I am glad that we agree on that. And also I am from a country, where radio is not that much of an influence. MTV was back when it actually played music. And ever since it was either the CD stores or the internet. Word of mouth basically.
Now I recall why I stopped listening to rock music after mid 90's, and only listen to rock pre-mid 90's.
For what it's worth, rock did eventually get better. Still ain't what it was, but it's still a hell of a lot more listenable now than it was in the 2000s.
Someone is salty about 21st century rock. Why would he pick the worst. I would rather listen
to barenaked ladies.
Having her listen to Limp Bizkit was like taking the Mona Lisa to a hotdog eating contest.
🤣🤣🤣That's the perfect analogy
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Im assuming youre referring to after effects to enhance sonic quality.
Because I have been a musical instrumentalist my entire life and i recently aquired turntables.
The skill, precise timing, musical understanding and just overall talent needed to just play that, "Check check out my melody" part cannot be understated! Lol
One reason so many rockers tuned out beginning in the 90s was the incorporation of rap into rock.
Me all day long
Some people fall into the misconception that music is something evolutionary. Yes, there is an evolution, but "evolutionary" in the biological sense would mean: evolution towards a better adaptation. And that implies a progression from the less to the better-adapted. An optimization.
But the musical development is NOT an optimization, but an adaptation to the taste of the time. The taste of the time is a factor without value. value neutral.
As a result, this means two things:
1. All those who believe that modern music is better than "old-fashioned" are wrong.
2. Old music can be significantly better at modern.
This was impressively demonstrated by this example of music, if you compare it with the 1960s or 1970s. 😉
Such nonence. There is development is a good way. Its not general. Like System of a Down, Radiohead, White Stripes. You can find tons of examples with creativity and authencity.
@@addickkelders2265 And you think: development means that the quality increases. To put it on another subject: Picasso's pictures are better than Rembrandt's?
Or do you agree that art is only evolving by changing their means of expression. But this has nothing to do with quality.
@@PeterBuwen you’re not reading well. I said that its not general quality increases or decreases. And I think you’re right that development isnt always the right direction. Whatever that may be, it is different for everybody. But I think Amy deserves a better introduction to popmusic than Motley Crue or Limp Bizkit. Why? Because they not the impact than many other big names.
@@addickkelders2265 Sorry for misunderstanding (I'm german). And I agree with you.
I'm still going to have to have faith in Carl's method into the musical madness ... am anxious to see and hear where it goes, as it approaches the present. I'm even more looking forward to the tour through each decade's chronology of hits, etc., presuming that's coming soon. Thanks Amy and Carl, et al 😉 (Baby's getting some early educational vibrations from all this, too!) 😛
Limp Bizkit. One of the most overrated and THE WORST rock bands in the Rock Music history. This kind of commercial rock is pure junk.
My first reaction when saw the thumbnail was to check the date. No, it's wasn't the 1st of April. My next reaction was, " Oh, my goodness! Why? " There are actually "Nu-metal" bands out there that are interesting and much more worthy. This isn't even one of Limp Biskit's better songs. I can't even bring myself to watch, such is the cringe.
Beautiful reaction! Youre missing the MPC machine with turntables. That is a computer and was massive during this era. They can computerize all instruments (guitar, bass, drums) and make their own sounds in top of that. But 💯 such a geuine, wholesome reaction
Wow! I really expected Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park for 2000s :)). Thx Karl!
Also bored is a great way to put it, in my recollection it was popular with teenagers trying to affect apathy and stones, as well as the overlap between both groups. That might have also been part of the appeal for them.
Unpopular opinion: Nickleback is more representative of the 2000s. They were all over Top 40 radio. Limp Bizbit is the reason why I never listened to Linkin Park, because I thought that mixing rock and hip-hop would all be as boring as Bizkit.
Oh Carl... Lol I hope you balanced this out with your other 2000s pick.
I've never listened to Limp Bizkit before but I'm aware they were an influence for Linkin Park (a favorite band of mine and for many). I'd be very curious to hear your opinion on their music from the early 2000's. If you also don't like it, I understand :)
LB early albums are phenomenal man. I’m also a huge fan of Linkin Park
Interesting that Linkin Park would describe LB as an influence given they both formed about the same time. Maybe LB got popular sooner? I preferred LP in this genre and rarely listened to LB, so I can't remember which band, if either, got opular first.
I want one of those Axl Rose pianos that plays the song automatically no matter which keys you hit. There was a South Park episode where Randy saw the kids playing Rock Band and got out his guitar and played the songs for them and they didn't understand what he was doing and thought it was stupid because it was way too hard. Soon it will just be a text box that you put words into and the computer will create a song based on your text and everyone will think they are amazing musicians. Same as what happened to painting and photography. Technology is moving in a horribly wrong direction. My hope for the future generations is that they begin see through the fakery and reject it.
AI - this is how creativity ant talent will die, IMO
The nice thing about car radio is that you can change the channel by pushing a button.
You have to remember in Nu MEtal there was a MASSIVE hip hop influence too hence the record scratching and sampling
Fantastic song of theirs, ignore the miserable sods shitting on it just because they saw the band name. LP did do some rubbish, but this is a rare great one.
No. Why?
One of the things one can do as research while listening to Limp Bizkit is investigate whether there is more than one type of ear punishment.
New metal was very devicsive with metal fans .
I don't mind them and didn't mind the rise of new metal in the early 2000,s .
But give me Metallica instead and I'm happy
I wonder if she'll ever check out any of the christian rock/metal etc.... that I was getting into about the time this song came out. Red, pillar, P.O.D., tree63, kj52, chevelle, project 86, skillet, blindside, petra (my dad likes them, they are basicly the original "Christian rock" band.)underoath (who are no longer christian music industry types but still chriatian... just grabbing the more secular crowd by the throat so to say).
Overproduced music. The cancer of our time. That's why it's better to just listen to jazz nowadays haha
I'm from Jacksonville, FL (Limp Bizkit's hometown) and I like them, but as a break down and study of, I would not recommend them. You could do much better in the 2000's with Nine Inch Nails, (since you've already done Tool) or if you wanted a nu-metal band, go with Korn.
You'll have a tough time convincing Karl.
My leaky old memory can't place the advent of "Shouted" or "Yelled" lyrics: 90s?, 00s?, but this has hints of that coming. I think the adjective Amy was searching for was "snarky" to describe the vocals (or the whole package). They just seem snarky.
I am going to be brave and admit I had a phase as a teen where I liked some Limp Bizkit. Embarrassing, I know, but I also was not a native English speaker. Overall their music aged quite badly compared to their peers but they were selling well for a moment in the 2000s.
I was a teenager in the 80's, and I can't believe some of the bands that I listened to. About the only good thing I can say about most of them was they knew how to play their instruments well. I hope in 10 to 20 years there will be grown-ups saying they can't believe the garbage that they listened to in the 2010's and 20's.
Amy, feel free to never listen to a Limp Bizkit song ever again. A Patron could offer you $10,000 to react to "Break Things" and it still wouldn't be worth it. They truly are one of the worst things to happen to music as a whole. It all comes down to Fred Durst (lead singer) and their producers. The rest of the band is actually quite talented and capable, they just got saddled to this garbage.
Whycwould someone use Limp Bizkit? I was certain one of the two bands HAS TO be Linkin Park for this era, but now im doubting it will be the second one, and it totally HAS TO be. I cant believe anyome would use limp bizkit in this series, for what?
Linkin Park were a manufactured boyband with emo lyrics
@@Csnich96 wow you have very deep understanding of music wtf XD
So many Limp Bizkit haters in the comments, I am surprised. But I think haters don't actually listen to their music carefully. Yes, a lot of Limp Bizkit songs are just groovy and catchy anf in-your-face but they have songs like Re-Arranged, Phenomenon, Cream and Behind Blue Eyes (which is a cover but still) that show band's musical prowess.
I do not like LB too. But they were very succesful. So i think Karls choice is good.
So was Kid Rock, it doesn't mean he still doesn't suck.
I agree. It very much represents a lot of music from the era.
Limp Bizkit was part of the "Underground" music world and then they got a recording contract releasing their debut album in 1997. Not one of my favorites, far from it, but they had a couple of catchy songs that I vaguely remember. Another band, Linking Park, released their debut album "Hybrid Theory" in 2000. That record went diamond. The debut song was "One Step Closer" which for me takes what Limp Bizkit tried to do in "My Way" and jump started it or shocked it with 80,000 volts to bring it to life. I hope you get a chance to react to Linking Park.
obviously you know nothing about this music and probably heard few popular songs on MTV someday, "My Way" in no shape or form has something similar to "One Step Closer".
"My Way" is a mellow and melancholic, that is why the singing is "boring" to some people, it is not heavy song at all, it does not have screams or breakdowns, minimalistic approach, whole song - 3 chords.
While One Step Closer is a depressive angsty teen reflection on his/her relationship with all the bells and whistles of nu-metal.
@@oleksiistri8429 That's exactly what I said! "One Step Closer" is "My Way" shocked to life with 80,000 volts of electricity! What are you saying? Can't I offer an opinion and share other artists that I'm familiar with?
One of the worst bands and trends to come out of the 90s. “Goatee metal rappers say goodnight” - Beastie Boys.
And here I was looking forward to Queens of the Stone Age, or Muse. I neither anticipated Limp Bizkit (definitely period appropriate) nor how hilarious it would be to have Amy react to it.
Sorry for that Amy! 😭
Well, this was the representation of "nu metal", so I'm gonna guess the other choice for the 2000's will be one of the following: Coldplay, Muse, Kings of Leon, The Killers, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend.
Karl be nice now: suggest Amy "Fix You" (It's the Wonderwall of the 2000's; and so much better by the way).
But I got a feeling he's going for a Muse song
The repetition of "check out my melody" is called Record Scratching , a hip hop flavor they added to their Heavy Metal and Punk music. I can't relate to classical music and people like to pile on but Limp Bizkit connected with a lot of people. CHECK OUT MY RECORD SALES.
There are some great musicians in this band. But the songwriting is derivative and shallow in an attempt at gaining mass appeal.
I didn't coin the term "Over Produced", but I love to use it to describe stuff like this. Bands that are introduced as "recording artists".
This is a good example of how much music from this time was trying to be the big new pop sound by stealing bits and pieces from what was recently popular.
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Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
Volume is brick wall except few quiet parts. It's brick even when they aren't going for the most powerful parts in the song. Compressed to the max where the sound gets digital distortion.
I am very confused. The Wall reactions halted over a month ago. I was following them all, but now the continuity is lost. I do not understand the scheduling on this channel. When it stopped, it was not even at the completion of the first half of the album. This channel is all over the place. Very disorganized.
It continues to be the case that if this history of rock was the channel's introduction to rock, she likely would have quickly thrown in the towel and said rock isn't worth listening to. The sad thing is that the early 2000's was an inventive period in rock, and because I'm old, the last one that I really kept up with, so I am not likely to have feelings about the later songs in theseries (is this history going to go all the way to the '10s?)
2001 saw a bunch of bands that were fusing different sounds with radical switches in style mid-song. System of a Down is the obvious here, but Linkin Park and Evanescence, and are also great examples. Lesser examples, but still not bad, were Sum 41 and whoever did "Bodies.
Soon afterwards there were great albums by Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, and Modest Mouse. All of these bands would reflect better on rock music than the song above.
On the other hand the talk of singing like they are bored made me wonder what she would think of Nirvana and Radiohead both of which at times sang like they were bored, but made it a statement, and so less boring in itself.
Agree… it almost seems like the series narrative came first, and songs were chosen to support the narrative. (From Karl’s foreshadowing last episode, he doesn’t think much of this decade. Hence the dismal song choice.) I would have preferred to see him use a more objective metric like airplay for song selection, and then simply discuss the new features that entered popular rock music in each era and why people might have been drawn to them. So far the discussions have been a lot more sociological than musical, which is disappointing given that Amy is a musician rather than a historian!
You are not alone in disliking this. There was a paradigm shift in how hard rock and heavy metal music was produced and how it sounded.
It essentially split the rock/metal world in two, one who embraced this new sound and the other who rejected it fully.
Also why the genre is called "Nu Metal".
If you where into rock and younger than 15 when this song came out you probably swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
It might also be why rock music is not so popular in the public eye anymore. It became too divided.
I actually like early Limp Bizkit, sue me haha
Part of it is nostalgia too though, because I associate the music videos with their songs and I was in middle schools watching them on TRL at 3:30pm eating pizza rolls with friends.
Wow, talk about hitting a nerve amongst viewers. I'm 61 and I want to put my 2 cents in on this journey. First I love Limp Bizkit. It's raw rock and is not heavily overproduced. I don't even understand how you could make such a statement after traveling through the dramatically overproduced music of the 80's and early 90's. By the mid 90's many rock fans including myself had seen the birth of classic rock stations that had become so obnoxious it was hard to listen to despite the fact I loved all the bands from the past. Then something magical happened. The birth of the internet and the power of streaming what you wanted to hear. Many of the bands of the mid 90's up until now couldn't even get their music on commercial radio because of the advertising media and attitudes of people who believed whatever they listened to when they were a kid was the "best music of all time". The sound of rock of the early 2000's was loaded with great bands doing their own thing. But there was a difference, they were no longer playing to the masses. They were doing there own thing and depended on holding on to a smaller audience to survive. This brings me to my second point. The criticism you sometimes bring to the artist seems to be born out of a lack of perspective of the music at the time and the industries environment than the actual work. Limp Bizkt was and still is a good band. If you don't like hard rock and some of its dervivatives why waste your time critiquing it.
I would have thought Linkin Park - in the end would have been better. Good song, good band and is a good example of the rock/hip hop mix. Limp Bizkit is a good example of the hybrid aspect but not very good musically. Evanescence would have been good too.
It's really unfortunate that you've been subjected to Limp Bizkit this early on in your journey! There are hundreds if not thousands of bands you should be listening to before even entertaining this idea.
😂 This is like a parody of your regular videos
Yes, I checked the calendar to see if it was April 1st already.
I need more of these technical roasts
I like this song but it is so funny to hear classical musician try and make sense of it. It’s like Bach trying to understand Fred Durst lol