Limp Bizkit Strikes with the "Gold Cobra"

The Limp Bizkit album "Gold Cobra" was released in June of 2011. I listened to this band in the 90s and rocked out to more than a few tracks, while bagging on them for some of the filler. "Gold Cobra" was not an album I was holding my breath for, yet I found myself jumping in to give it a listen as soon as I noticed it was released. Heck, I went all out and listened to the extended version. This is a return to form for the band, which some people will choose to hate, but I think Limp Bizkit fans have been given something strong to fly their flag behind. My song by song notes are what follows.

"Introbra": It's an intro, nothing boss fly about it.

"Bring It Back": Thump party bass driven dance rap, turns into old school metal rap where I can smell the nookie, and then back to the fist dragging bass thump rap. Lyrically it's just more I don't care what people think and we're cool posturing. It's a nice mix, good opener for the Limp Bizkit fans.

"Gold Cobra": The first time I heard this song was when I realized Limp Bizkit's new album was out thanks to a Yahoo music video link. The music video is worth seeking out, Limp Bizkit rocking out with some very sexy ladies shaking their fronts and backs in slow motion. This song is cool, except for the delivery of the actual chorus, it sounds off on its own tangent from the rest of the sound flow. Fred Durst is on point with his rhymes on this one, even though are just more of the "I don't care what you think" theme. Great single even with its weak points.

"Shark Attack": Opens with a clear nod to "it's all about the he said she said BS." A new animal, but same theme, Durst needs some inspiration. The music itself is tight though, kudos Wes Borland? It's not a bad listen, pretty good, funny breakdown later in the song, tightropes corny, but remains as cool as Shark Week.

"Get A Life": Weed smoking, hood crawling rap, the metal guitar is teasing in the background, shark circling, will it attack? Screamo yo! Bring it on lyrics screeched against guitars, balance the B Real rap style, and make this an interesting enough listen, even though back to basics rhymes lyrically "Get a life, you don't want to see what I can do with a knife." They do drop into some power pop rock bridge crossing at one point too, which gives away to deep voice robot voices: it works. I'm going to download this one.

"Shotgun": I don't know, the cobras and sharks were cool, now Limp Bizkit is switching to a shotgun and that's just not as awesome. This one is a throwaway for me, though rife with old school Limp Bizkit guitar riffing.

"Douche Bag": Put this in your fight song shuffle. It might not get the blood actually bubbling though, just a warm up before you crank something slightly heavier and less tongue in cheek feeling. Very catchy profanity in it though.

"Walking Away": One of Limp Bizkit slow flow ballads, the kind of music you can imagine listening to while staring really hard at something, like the horizon. Good tune.

"Loser": Finally the lyrical exploration seems to be going out beyond the "we're cooler than you let's fight" theme. A softer rap delivery about living in a rut and losing the important things, but sparked with the desire to get them back. At the end of the track is the intro for the next song, making fun of autotune.

"Autotunage": Fred durst delivers his promise made at the end of the song "Loser" and sings over metal guitars while using autotune. The lyrics are rock party in nature, "Let me see you rock. Turn this place into something they cannot stop." It's not really as fun or funny as the intro set it up to be, just kind of basic/ dull.

"90.2.10": Another song giving shout outs to themselves and how they rock a party. They give shout outs to other musicians at their party too. Skipable.

"Why Try": Classic Limp Bizkit sound, which is good and bad. I would skip this track back in the day and only give it the full listen here for nostalgic purposes.

"Killer In You": A song about a killer on the loose and questioning what are you going to do about it? Find the killer in yourself. This song has some decent bass thump and growl with Wes Borland going to town with his guitars, but it lacks the creativity of say, ICP, when it comes to songs about killers. There is something catchy in the build up lyrics to the ultimate chorus punch line, but it works best as background drone. Might make a cool short film music video though.

"Back Porch": The guitars fire off in loop like a laser show, while the vocals interchange between some emotion laced heavy rock delivery and rap. It is a pretty smooth and cool listen even if nothing said in it is exactly all that interesting.

"My Own Cobain": Rap made for an acoustic session over some flavors of India twang guitar and a drum beat with a pop rock chorus. Actually at times it sounds like a Natasha Bedingfield song.

"Angels": A pop rock ballad more VH1 than not, which is not a bad thing, it makes for solid diversity. When the tempo picks up more in the guitars Durst is a little held back, but it is a good song.