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  1. DME
    Jun 12, 2012
    4
    Some good tracks: Build A Bridge, Behind Blue Eyes, Creamer (Radio Is Dead), and Head For The Barricade. The rest of the album is either yawn-worthy or just a mess.
  2. Feb 17, 2014
    4
    Often renowned as Limp Bizkit's worst piece of work (keeping in mind that a lot of critics denounce every piece of work done by Limp Bizkit in what is one of the worst cases of a band being subject to unfair bias due to factors that have nothing to do with the actual music at all), Results May Vary has often been seen as the album that completely derailed Limp Bizkit's position as aOften renowned as Limp Bizkit's worst piece of work (keeping in mind that a lot of critics denounce every piece of work done by Limp Bizkit in what is one of the worst cases of a band being subject to unfair bias due to factors that have nothing to do with the actual music at all), Results May Vary has often been seen as the album that completely derailed Limp Bizkit's position as a mainstream Nu-Metal band. Much of this infamy and drop in musical quality can be attributed to the temporary departure of Wes Borland for this record, whom had left the band for a short period due to personal conflict with other members of the group , and as a result saw Bizkit going out on a limb with the absence of one of its main writers and its most talented musician.

    When listening to Results May Vary it becomes obvious that Bizkit's sound has been effected greatly by this change and saw a great variety of sounds being implemented with little consistency or sense of direction; following up a very familiar and Limp-style opening on Re-Entry with screeching guitars and searing vocals on what has to be Bizkit's heaviest track of all time: Eat You Alive, though this turn doesn't hold throughout the rest of the rest of the record and the only other song on the record to even come close to matching its aggression being: Head for the Barricade, which is catchy but nowhere near as memorable. Most of the other songs on the record see Bizkit take more of an alternative approach to the metal sound with songs such as Build a Bridge and Underneath the Gun packing little punch and coming across as incredibly formulaic. The album's worst is a pointless and forgettable cover of The Who's Behind Blue Eyes, one of Bizkit's worst pieces to date.

    Despite this negativity however there are elements of Bizkity goodness spread throughout the record, with several enjoyable intervals such as Take it Home providing small periods of laid-back enjoyment whilst the track: Red-Light Green-Light sees a catchy and fun collaboration between Bizkit and Snoop Dogg in an amusing lyrical trade-off.

    Overall the criticism levied at this album in particular can indeed be justified: it's inconsistent and fails to pack a punch in multiple aspects, thanks mainly to the lack of Bizkit's greatest feature: Wes Borland and his experimental style. Despite the fact that it indeed lives up to the title of being Bizkit's worst record there are several moments of enjoyment to be had and it deserves at least a listen or two if only to be appreciated as a reminder of the downfall of mainstream Nu-Metal.
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  3. Oct 25, 2018
    5
    Not as bad as people make it out to be. Way better than the atrocity, that Korn released in 2005. Some songs on Results May Vary are total garbage, while others like: Eat You Alive, Drown, Gimme The Mic, Head For The Barricade, Down Another Day and Phenomenon are great tracks. This record would be much better if they'd include more songs that they've recorded with Mike Smith on guitar...Not as bad as people make it out to be. Way better than the atrocity, that Korn released in 2005. Some songs on Results May Vary are total garbage, while others like: Eat You Alive, Drown, Gimme The Mic, Head For The Barricade, Down Another Day and Phenomenon are great tracks. This record would be much better if they'd include more songs that they've recorded with Mike Smith on guitar... the unreleased tracks are better than the actual album and they make you wonder, what would happen if they'd release them instead of the tracks that ended up on the record. This is a 5/10 record for me. Better listen to 3DB or TUT which are the best Limp Bizkit records. Pickens approves? Expand
  4. FrankB
    Jul 10, 2005
    5
    This is Limp Bizkit's further decline into mediocrity. Now, it's not lord mercilessly awful like the critics and the "hatas" would have you beleive. Let's start with the bad: The insipid autobiographical "Almost Over" has such hilarious contradictions as "took alot of crap as a little boy, learned how to rap as a little boy" and "I'm singing in the rain as an older This is Limp Bizkit's further decline into mediocrity. Now, it's not lord mercilessly awful like the critics and the "hatas" would have you beleive. Let's start with the bad: The insipid autobiographical "Almost Over" has such hilarious contradictions as "took alot of crap as a little boy, learned how to rap as a little boy" and "I'm singing in the rain as an older man" coming from an MC who just cleverly rhymed "rap" with "crap" and a bold optimistic lyricist who spent his past three albums complaining about his girlfriend. "Gimme the Mic" and "Phenomenon" are so outlandishly overblown that they make the late 80's Beastie Boys claims of lyrical dopeness seem like accurate representations of hardened gangsta veterans, and that was shtick! Fred expects us to take boasts like "baggie jeans and a bottle of crack hits" seriously! The ballads (which take up a large chunk of the album)are for the most part woefully trite, with the exception of the genuinely pretty "Down Another Day", and when they're not generic, they're self-indulgent and bitter. If that doesn't make you tap the skip button fast enough, the Snoop Dog collaboration, "Red Light Green Light" is vapid, bland, and just plain lame-o. (wipes sweat off forehead) Okay, but amidst all these debacles, there is a fair amount of Bizkity goodness to partly compensate. "Eat you Alive" and "Re-Entry" have ham-fisted, thunderously catchy riffs balanced with pretty melodic bits. It's a reminder that under all the teen-angst and occasionally awful writing, the Bizkit really do know what they're doing, and there's some genius behind the jock. "Creamer" and "Lonely World" have desolate, Linkin Park style electronic gawthic pop beats, that you can dance to and sulk to at the same time. Plus, the rapping is a few notches above Mike Shinoda. "Head for the Barricade" has a tribal war-chant drum beat that works wonderfully, and the songs nu-metal ingenius climax would inspire riotous moshing, as would the clever riff trickery of "The Only One" And that's pretty much the whole sha-bang. About 5 or 6 really good songs on a 16 track album with the rest ranging from mostly mediocre to laughable. Still, Limp Bizkit isn't the worst of Nu Metal's evils, they're just the most renown. If Fred didn't stir up so much annoying controversy here and there, and the Bizkit weren't once the biggest, most arrogant band in the world, the critics would probably grant this comfortably mediocre album in the 50-60 range along with Linkin Park. This Bizkit may be a bit soggy, but focus your hatred on nu metal bands like Crossfade, Seether, Evenescance, and P.O.D, as they're what you should be worrying about. Expand
  5. Feb 20, 2019
    5
    Not as bad as people make it out to be. Way better than the atrocity, that Korn released in 2005. Some songs on Results May Vary are total garbage, while others like: Eat You Alive, Drown, Gimme The Mic, Head For The Barricade, Down Another Day and Phenomenon are great tracks. This record would be much better if they'd include more songs that they've recorded with Mike Smith on guitar...Not as bad as people make it out to be. Way better than the atrocity, that Korn released in 2005. Some songs on Results May Vary are total garbage, while others like: Eat You Alive, Drown, Gimme The Mic, Head For The Barricade, Down Another Day and Phenomenon are great tracks. This record would be much better if they'd include more songs that they've recorded with Mike Smith on guitar... the unreleased tracks are better than the actual album and they make you wonder, what would happen if they'd release them instead of the tracks that ended up on the record. This is a 5/10 record for me. Better listen to 3DB or TUT which are the best Limp Bizkit records. Pickens approves? Expand
  6. Feb 2, 2021
    5
    "Eat You Alive", "Build a Bridge", "Red Light, Green Light", "Lonely World", "Head for the Barricade", "Behind Blue Eyes", and "Let Me Down" are good songs. Every other song isn't very good. Overall, I think this album is not as bad as people make it out to be.
  7. Lukic
    Oct 6, 2004
    4
    this cd sucks badly
  8. Apr 28, 2014
    4
    I'm a fan of Bizkit's previous album, but I have to agree that this is bad. The problem here is that this isn't really a Limp Bizkit album. The majority of it sounds like the work of a sub-par and overly emotional alternative rock band. When I listen to Limp Bizkit I am doing it in order to just rock out, not listen to Fred Durst slow things down in order to sing about his feelings.

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    I'm a fan of Bizkit's previous album, but I have to agree that this is bad. The problem here is that this isn't really a Limp Bizkit album. The majority of it sounds like the work of a sub-par and overly emotional alternative rock band. When I listen to Limp Bizkit I am doing it in order to just rock out, not listen to Fred Durst slow things down in order to sing about his feelings.

    The first three tracks, along with "Head for the Barricade,"carry the same loud and heavy style that I want to hear from this band, and that makes me wonder what happened with the rest of the album. It is honestly like another band did the rest of the songs, and did a crappy job at that. I'm sure there are some Limp Bizkit fans who will appreciate hearing the band display a softer side of sorts, and this different style might even attract new fans or make the haters think twice, but I know all it did was alienate me.

    This is just a bad album, Limp Bizkit or otherwise. Truly I feel it deserves all of the negative attention and reviews it has got. It just isn't Limp Bizkit. Because of that I didn't enjoy the vast majority of it at all. I give it a 4.5/10-Bad.
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  9. Apr 28, 2015
    4
    An easily forgettable follow-up to his good 2000's album, Results may vary is disappointing enough to make you not enjoy Wes Boreland gutar riffs and the cool panel of guests on the album.
  10. as
    Nov 21, 2003
    5
    Why did fred durst decide to release this album? If you had never heard of limp bizkit before you would have thought this was a band who recorded their songs after meeting each other 2 days prior. I hope the new guitarist can bring back the old Fred Durst, form the Three Dollar Bill Y'all days
  11. KellyO
    Oct 11, 2005
    6
    This is actually not half bad, if you listen with an open mind. Yeah, Limp Bizkit sold out...but that's in the past.
  12. Jackson
    Aug 11, 2007
    4
    This album isn't very good and I'm not saying that because I hate Fred Durst. I actually like Limp Bizkit's previous albums. It's just that Wes Borland has always been a creative force for Limp Bizkit. Without him, this band will flounder. That really showed on this record.
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33

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

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  2. Negative: 6 out of 11
  1. This is so so crap.
  2. Q Magazine
    80
    A far more rounded proposition than 2000's water-treading Chocolate Starfish. [Dec 2003, p.132]
  3. Eventually, 'Results May Vary' could become a fascinating document - a frightening insight into the vacuous state of 21st century culture.