Music Review: Limp Bizkit - "The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)"

Was I ever a Limp Bizkit fan? I would not go so far as to say "fan," but I did own every album. For every decent song they made they would have a couple of bad ones, but at the end of the day there was enough to like not to hate. They died somewhere back in the late 90's and just inside the new millennium I guess, and when the short six song album "The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)" came out I never even noticed. Limp Bizkit is plotting a new album for 2011 as I write this, having reunited, and so I thought I would check out the tracks I missed between "Three Dollar Bill Yall$," and the future album. I made song by song notes as I listened to "The Unquestionable Truth (Part1)."

"The Propaganda": This actually rocks. It's got hot hit late 90s Limp Bizkit tattooed in it with just the right dose of Rage Against The Machine vibe giving it a boost. It is a five minute and something long song though and he kind of runs out of things to say after two minutes, so, broken bat single and they're picked off first before the next pitch.

"The Truth": The guitars are heavy cool, the rap vocals are little less cool, but digestible. The tone of the recording once again reminds me of Rage Against The Machine sounds. It lacks Zack de la Rocha's hardcore passion.

"The Priest": Fred Durst opens the song with whispers into the mic and then cracks into his whiny tone almost rap musings or poetry, whatever he may want to call it. He says "something's not right. The planets are not aligned." That is kind of how the song feels. He;s got something to say, but he might as well just say it instead of attempting to make a song out of it. Limp Bizkit are a whole, successful sound when the music is tight and Fred doesn't wander all over it with mumbling. He doesn't make me care about his issues in this and the music is in the backseat, no, it just blew out of the back window, Fred is driving alone mostly, alone and slow, pull over, get out.

"The Key": A more beat based , constant drone of sound in the background, rap song. Short enough to not get annoying, short enough to forget immediately.

"The Channel": The guitars grind in with a static quality to them, melody makes me think of a tv channel fuzzing in and out. However, this creative approach is killed by Fred rambling on about what things he does not like in the world and people ripping people off, ect. Not interesting, less a song and more like the singer trying to sound smart and edgy.

"The Story": The rap delivery on this song makes me think of their album "Three Dollar Bill Yall$" The music doesn't take off and soar in any way and the chorus hook is a shout out to "The E True Hollywood Story." I do like the line abut "the white kids who aren't white anymore," ha ha.

"The Surrender": A slower ballad with repetitive lyric scheme that is dull. - "Don't label me a monster, I'm a monster just like you. don't label me a victim, I'm a victim just like you," so on and on. It slows and slows, lazy dazy Durst just kind of mumbling on again. Glad the album was only six songs long! In like a lion out like a molested lamb.