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Results May Vary is the fourth studio album by Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1995, the group's lineup consists of Fred Durst , Wes Borland , Sam Rivers , John Otto and DJ Lethal . The band achieved mainstream success with their second studio album Significant Other, released in 1999...

, released on September 23, 2003 through Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...

. The album debuted at #3 in the US 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, and Gold in the UK in October 2003. The album's first single, "Eat You Alive
Eat You Alive
"Eat You Alive" is a song by the band Limp Bizkit from their fourth studio album Results May Vary. It is the band's first single from the album....

", gained significant airplay on modern and mainstream rock radio stations.

The second and last single, "Behind Blue Eyes
Behind Blue Eyes
"Behind Blue Eyes" is the title of a song by English rock band The Who. It was released in November 1971 as the second single from their fifth album Who's Next and was written by Pete Townshend originally for his Lifehouse project...

", was also a moderate hit cracking the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 (peaking at number 71) and its subsequent music video receiving heavy rotation on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

. Promotional singles were issued for "Red Light-Green Light", "Build a Bridge", and "Almost Over
Almost Over
"Almost Over" is a song performed by Limp Bizkit and it is included on the band's fourth album Results May Vary.This song, along with "Build A Bridge", was meant to be Limp Bizkit's next single after their second single "Behind Blue Eyes"...

".

Production

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
Wes Borland
Wesley Louden Borland is an American musician and artist, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well including: Black Light Burns, The Damning Well, Goatslayer, Big Dumb Face, and Combichrist...

 left in 2001). Vocalist Fred Durst
Fred Durst
William Frederick "Fred" Durst is an American musician, director, producer and actor, well known as the frontman of the band Limp Bizkit.-Early life:...

 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
Snot (band)
Snot was an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California. Formed in 1995, the band released their debut studio album Get Some with founding vocalist Lynn Strait in 1997 and disbanded after his death in 1998. In 2008, the lineup of guitarists Mike Doling and Sonny Mayo, bassist John Fahnestock...

 guitarist Mike Smith
Mike Smith (guitarist)
Mike Smith is a musician, best known as the former guitarist of Snot, TheStart, and Limp Bizkit. Currently he is the singer and guitarist for the band Evolver.- Rumbledog :...

. 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
Jimmy Iovine
James "Jimmy" Iovine is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.-Biography:...

, the chairman of Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...

, 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
Tim Burton
Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

 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
Fight Club (film)
Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job...

, of which Fred Durst is a fan. The song "Head for the Barricade" was also in the Fight Club game
Fight Club (video game)
Fight Club is a fighting video game based on the film Fight Club, which was based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. It was released in 2004 by Vivendi Universal.-Gameplay:...

, in which he is a hidden character.

In the credits of the album, Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...

's name was misspelled.

Music and lyrics

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
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

, after the Fred Durst and Britney Spears romance controversy. It was later released on the "Eat You Alive
Eat You Alive
"Eat You Alive" is a song by the band Limp Bizkit from their fourth studio album Results May Vary. It is the band's first single from the album....

" single.

The song "Gimme the Mic" features lyrics from the Eric B. and Rakim song "Microphone Fiend".

The bridge
Bridge (music)
In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section...

 in the song "Head for the Barricade" also features the only thrash-styled uptempo beat ever heard through all of the bands discography.

Critical reception

The album has been panned by music critics. At Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...

, which assigns a normalized
Standard score
In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...

 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average
Weighted mean
The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...

 score of 33, based on 11 reviews, tying with Viva Brother's Famous First Words
Famous First Words (Viva Brother album)
The album was panned by critics upon release, with reviewers criticizing the lack of original content and the clumsiness with which the band attempted to emulate popular acts of the 90s...

 as the fourth worst ranked album of Metacritic's history.

The album has a lone supporter in Q Magazine, which called it "A far more rounded proposition than 2000's water-treading Chocolate Starfish." Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

'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."

Legacy

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
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...

 Survivor Series 2003
Survivor Series (2003)
Survivor Series was the seventeenth annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...

. The B-side "Crack Addict
Crack Addict (song)
"Crack Addict" is a song by Limp Bizkit written and recorded in 1997, and produced by an uncredited Al Jourgensen.On March 7, 2003, Limp Bizkit announced they would be performing live for the first time in two years, at the WWE event, WrestleMania XIX March 30...

" was used as the theme song for WWE's WrestleMania XIX
WrestleMania XIX
WrestleMania XIX was the nineteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on March 30, 2003 at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. The event was the first WrestleMania held in the state of Washington, and the first...

. 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
Snickers
Snickers is a brand name chocolate bar made by Mars, Incorporated. It consists of peanut nougat topped with roasted peanuts and caramel, enrobed in milk chocolate. Snickers has annual global sales of $2 billion....

 candy bars.

Limp Bizkit's cover of The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...

's "Behind Blue Eyes
Behind Blue Eyes
"Behind Blue Eyes" is the title of a song by English rock band The Who. It was released in November 1971 as the second single from their fifth album Who's Next and was written by Pete Townshend originally for his Lifehouse project...

" was used as the theme of the film Gothika
Gothika
-Box office:Gothika was released on November 21, 2003 in North America, grossing $19,288,438 in the opening weekend and ranking at #2, behind The Cat in the Hat. It went on to gross $59,694,580 in the domestic market and $81,896,744 from foreign markets for a worldwide total of $141,591,324...

; the music video featured the film's star, Halle Berry
Halle Berry
Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...

.

Track listing

  • Robert Allen, Arthur Baker, Roger Ball, Eric Barrier, George Clinton Jr., Malcolm Duncan, Stephen Ferrone, Melvin Glover, Allen Gorrie, Wiliiam Griffin
    Rakim
    William Michael Griffin Jr. , known by his stage names Rakim , Rakim Allah, R.A.K.I.M., and The Master, is an American rapper. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled emcees of all time. Eric B...

    , Owen McIntyre, John Miller, Mark Morales, John Robie, Carlton Ridenhour, Darren Robinson, Sylvia Robinson, Eric Sadler, Hank Shocklee, James Stewart, Ellis Williams, and Damon Yul Wimbley receive music credits on tracks 3, 12, and 14 for samples only.
  • Brian "Head" Welch plays guitar on "Build a Bridge", but receives no writing credits.

Bonus tracks

  1. "Let It Go" [UK & Japan] – 5:10
  2. "Armpit" [Japan] – 3:52
    • (remaking of a track of the same title from 1995 Mental Aquaducts
      Mental Aquaducts
      - History :Limp Bizkit was formed in 1994 by Fred Durst and Sam Rivers. Rivers introduced Durst to his cousin, aspiring drummer John Otto. The band were named "Limp Biscuit" and later "Limp Bizkit". The band then recruited Rob Waters as guitarist for their first demo tape entitled Mental Aquaducts....

      )

"Off The Record" Tracks

  1. "Cowgirls From Hell" - 3:56
    • posted on LB MySpace
  2. "Crack Addict" - 4:40
    • posted on LB MySpace & Played live once with Brian "Head" Welch and Mike Smith at Wrestlemania XIX
      WrestleMania XIX
      WrestleMania XIX was the nineteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on March 30, 2003 at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. The event was the first WrestleMania held in the state of Washington, and the first...

  3. "Fools Game" - 4: 21
    • Demo of "Underneath The Gun"
    • posted on LB MySpace
  4. "Lean On Me" - 4:27
    • released on Greatest Hitz
  5. "Masturbation" - 5:00
    • posted on LB MySpace as 'Masterbation'
  6. "Poison Ivy" - 4:10
    • posted on LB MySpace
  7. "Press Your luck (Pollution Recall)" - 4:08
    • Released on The Search for Teddy Swoes Sampler
    • Demo of "Re-Entry"
  8. "Relentless" - 3:17
    • posted on LB MySpace
  9. "Until The End" - 4:53
    • posted on LB MySpace
  10. "When It Rains" - 4:20
    • posted on LB MySpace
  11. "Why" - 4:05
    • released on Greatest Hitz
  12. "Relax
    Relax (song)
    "Relax" is the debut single by British dance group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in 1983. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome ....

    "
    • Verse lyrics reused for "Creamer (Radio is Dead)"
  13. "Shot" - 3:47
    • released on the Eat You Alive Single
  14. "Just Drop Dead" - 4:05
    • released on the Behind Blue Eyes Single
  15. "How Do We Get Through This" - 4:26
    • Demo Version of Masturbation

Personnel

  • Limp Bizkit
    Limp Bizkit
    Limp Bizkit is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1995, the group's lineup consists of Fred Durst , Wes Borland , Sam Rivers , John Otto and DJ Lethal . The band achieved mainstream success with their second studio album Significant Other, released in 1999...

    • DJ Lethal
      DJ Lethal
      Leor Dimant , better known as DJ Lethal, is a turntablist and producer and member of the bands Limp Bizkit, House of Pain and La Coka Nostra.-Early life:Leor Dimant was born in Riga, Latvia, when this country was still part of the Soviet Union...

       - turntables
      Phonograph
      The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

      , keyboards
      Keyboard instrument
      A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

      , samples
      Sampling (music)
      In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

      , programming, sound development
    • Fred Durst
      Fred Durst
      William Frederick "Fred" Durst is an American musician, director, producer and actor, well known as the frontman of the band Limp Bizkit.-Early life:...

       - vocals, guitar
      Guitar
      The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    • John Otto
      John Otto (drummer)
      John Everett Otto is the drummer and co-founder of the band Limp Bizkit.-Limp Bizkit:Otto, along with his cousin Sam Rivers, and Fred Durst, founded Limp Bizkit in 1994, while attending Douglas Anderson School of the Arts...

       - drums
      Drum kit
      A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

      , percussion
    • Sam Rivers
      Sam Rivers (bassist)
      Sam Rivers is the bassist and one of the founding members of the band Limp Bizkit. He is the cousin of the band's drummer, John Otto.-Early life:...

       - bass
      Bass guitar
      The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

      , guitar
    • Brian Welch
      Brian Welch
      Brian Phillip Welch , better known as Head, is an American musician best known as the former guitarist and co-founder of the nu metal band Korn...

       - guitar
    • Mike Smith
      Mike Smith (guitarist)
      Mike Smith is a musician, best known as the former guitarist of Snot, TheStart, and Limp Bizkit. Currently he is the singer and guitarist for the band Evolver.- Rumbledog :...

       - guitar
  • Terry Date
    Terry Date
    Terry Date is an American record producer and engineer, specializing in the rock and metal genres...

     - Producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

  • Elvis Baskette - Engineering
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

    , Guitar
  • David Holdridge
    David Holdridge
    David Holdridge is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 7 games for the Seattle Mariners in . He also played in the California Angels and Philadelphia Phillies organizations.-External links:...

     - Additional Engineering, Digital Editing
  • Ulrich Wild
    Ulrich Wild
    Ulrich Wild is an American record producer, engineer and mixer specializing in the rock and metal genres. Born and raised in Switzerland, Ulrich is now a naturalized citizen living in Los Angeles...

     - Additional Engineering
  • Andrew Scheps - Additional Engineering
  • Brendan O'Brien
    Brendan O'Brien (music producer)
    Brendan O’Brien is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.At age 14, O'Brien played guitar for the Atlanta-based cover band Pranks. In the late 1970s, he moved on to writing, performing and recording with the Samurai Catfish band...

     - Mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
    In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

  • Billy Bowers - Additional Engineering
  • Mark Valentine - Mixing Assistance
  • Michael Patterson
    Michael Patterson (producer)
    Michael Patterson is an American record producer and mixer. He has worked on the critically and commercially acclaimed albums Midnite Vultures by Beck , Life After Death by Notorious B.I.G, the debut album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, B.R.M.C. , and dark pop duo She Wants Revenge's first...

     - Mixing
  • Aaron Lepley - Mixing Assistance
  • Jason Spears - Mixing Assistance
  • JD Andrew - Recording Assistance
  • Jun Ishickeki - Recording Assistance
  • Jason Carson - Recording Assistance
  • Jason Dale - Recording
  • Brian Humphrey - Recording Assistance
  • Zack Odom - Recording Assistance
  • Steve Robillard - Recording Assistance
  • John Morical - Recording Assistance
  • Neal Ferrazzani - Recording Assistance
  • Sergio Chavez - Recording Assistance
  • Stephen Marcussen
    Stephen Marcussen
    Stephen Marcussen is the founder and chief mastering engineer of Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood, California. Marcussen is one of the most sought-after mastering engineers in the music industry and his expertise has been coveted by a wide range of artists over the years...

     - Mastering
    Audio mastering
    Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...

  • Stewart Whitmore - Digital Editing
  • Jordan Schur - Executive Producer
    Executive producer
    An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

  • Scott Thomas
    Scott Thomas
    Scott Thomas may refer to:*Scott Thomas , American district attorney*Scott Thomas , ice hockey player in the NHL*Scott Thomas , English football player...

     (Ringside
    Ringside
    Ringside is an indie rock band from Hollywood, California, originally formed in Los Angeles. They specializing in fusing indie rock with electronic beats. The band consists of Scott Thomas, who does the vocals, guitar, and keyboard, Kirk Hellie , Sandy Chila , Max Allyn , and actor Balthazar Getty...

    )

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
2003 Top Canadian Albums 3
Top Internet Albums
US Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...



Singles - Billboard (America)
Year Single Chart Position
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
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

71
US Mainstream Top 40 25
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