{"id":41276,"date":"2016-01-07T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=41276"},"modified":"2016-01-07T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:40:20","slug":"mcnultys-retro-reviews-limp-bizkit-three-dollar-bill-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/mcnultys-retro-reviews-limp-bizkit-three-dollar-bill-yall\/","title":{"rendered":"McNulty&#8217;s Retro Reviews: Limp Bizkit &#8211; <i>Three Dollar Bill, Y&#8217;All<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>So there are a lot of new albums out there, right? As it turns out, there were also lots of new albums released <em>in the past<\/em>! In this Toilet ov Hell segment, I&#8217;ll be reviewing classic albums from the perspective of when they were released. For the first installment I&#8217;m going with <strong>Limp Bizkit&#8217;s<\/strong> debut LP <em>Three Dollar Bill, Y&#8217;All<\/em>. Join me on this trip back to 1997&#8230; *Cue dream sequence music*<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Driving to high school as a Junior, I always tuned to a local alternative radio station that played mainly indie rock; it wasn&#8217;t great, but it sure beat whatever talk radio that was going on and on about President Bill Clinton&#8217;s second-term election. That&#8217;s where I first heard &#8220;Counterfeit&#8221; by Limp Bizkit, a band hardly anyone knew at the time (their <strong>George Michael<\/strong>\u00a0cover hadn&#8217;t reached the airwaves yet). I wasn&#8217;t accustomed to this combination of hard rock and rap, but I REALLY enjoyed it, so I absconded to my local CD Warehouse where I found <em>Three Dollar Bill, Y&#8217;All<\/em> right between <em>Fat of the Land<\/em> by <strong>The Prodigy<\/strong> and <em>Zoot Suit Riot<\/em> by <strong>Cherry Poppin&#8217; Daddies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_92305\"  width=\"320\" height=\"240\"  data-origwidth=\"320\" data-origheight=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDdGrlylcEU?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Limp Bizkit&#8217;s debut LP kicks off with an intro featuring a religious extremist giving a speech about &#8220;kill the pollution, kill the pollution&#8230;&#8221; which leads right into the first real song &#8220;Pollution&#8221;. This is a genre-defining riff for the nu-metal community: down-tuned crunch with a funky bounce, and it did a\u00a0great job of preparing all 266,490,000 red-blooded Americans (as of January 1st) for the onslaught of this hip-hop\/metal band. Next up is track three\u00a0&#8220;Counterfeit&#8221;(I already told you I love it, and for argument&#8217;s sake I&#8217;m going to call it the greatest nu-metal song ever written). Just listen to Fred Durst rapping over a\u00a0bassline so sexy it could compete with Victoria Silvstedt as Playmate of the Year, leading into the signature line &#8220;cause you&#8217;re sick of yourself&#8230; WHILE I&#8217;M SICK OF YOU TOO!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are two factions (or musical genres) working against each other on this album: the hip-hop and the heavy metal. And while the word &#8220;against&#8221; brings on a generally negative connotation, it really aids the music in this case. These two elements are going head-to-head against each other just like the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers at the Super Bowl. It&#8217;s this rivalry that inspires a creative spark in the music that would eventually become stale and over-used. Fred Durst separates most of the rapping and turntable-ing for the choruses while the heavier portions,\u00a0riffs and screams,\u00a0for the verses. This riffing, nu-metal though it may be, is pretty darn heavy, super catchy, and often speeds up to a comfortable speed towards the end of a particular song, approaching\u00a0what we could consider appropriate heavy metal. I mean let&#8217;s face it, this is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/the-noobs-guide-to-devin-townsend-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>City<\/em> by <strong>Strapping Young Lad<\/strong><\/a> here, but really what was at the time?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_11922\"  width=\"320\" height=\"240\"  data-origwidth=\"320\" data-origheight=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n4k1V45b-Ww?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the songs follow a similar formula as &#8220;Counterfeit&#8221;, but it&#8217;s track 7, &#8220;Stalemate&#8221;, that really stands out.\u00a0A magnificent\u00a0song that plays out in really cool fashion, &#8220;Stalemate&#8221; starts out slow and creepy with rollicking bass riffs accompanying whispers and after about a minute gains in\u00a0momentum and weight as the thick riffs slowly kick in, with shifting tempos all throughout its 6:14 run time. Are we\u00a0allowed to call\u00a0this song &#8220;progressive nu-metal&#8221;? Heck I&#8217;m going to say yes;\u00a0we might as well, considering Princess Diana called for an immediate international ban on land mines. Progressive indeed! Then, at the 33:29 mark our ears are assaulted with an abomination of modern music, the song everyone knows: a cover of &#8220;Faith&#8221; by George Michael. It&#8217;s obnoxious, unnecessary, painfully unfunny, and sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of the album. Thankfully, once it&#8217;s over the album returns to greatness just as Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule; but still if I ever burn this CD for somebody I&#8217;m surely leaving the song out.<\/p>\n<p>When Limp Bizkit released their debut LP, it paralleled the U.S. launching its first commercial satellite&#8230; unfortunately this album turns out to be\u00a0similar to <em>The\u00a0Matrix;<\/em>\u00a0subsequent follow-ups never achieve the same level of quality as the first. BUT much like Zaire officially joining\u00a0the World Trade Organization, <em>Three Dollar Bill, Y&#8217;All<\/em>\u00a0is joining the ranks of McNulty&#8217;s classic albums; I enjoy it as much, if not\u00a0more, than when it was first released. While Hale-Bop was\u00a0the closest to the Earth as it would be until 4397, <em>Three Dollar Bill, Y&#8217;All<\/em>\u00a0came as close as it could to being a perfect album, a collection of great songs with only one real stinker, that I will confidently award:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4_of_5.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41310\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4_of_5.jpeg?resize=600%2C116&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4_of_5\" width=\"600\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4_of_5.jpeg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4_of_5.jpeg?resize=300%2C58&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 200%;\">4 out of 5 Dolly the Cloned Sheep<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there are a lot of new albums out there, right? As it turns out, there were also lots of new albums released in the past! In this Toilet ov Hell segment, I&#8217;ll be reviewing classic albums from the perspective of when they were released. For the first installment I&#8217;m going with Limp Bizkit&#8217;s debut LP Three Dollar Bill, Y&#8217;All. 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