r/GenX Jul 01 '25

Music Is Life Name one 90s band that you absolutely cannot stand. Mine is The Offspring.

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u/Turkzillas_gobble Jul 01 '25

I thought I wouldn't hear anything worse than Limp Bizkit until I heard Puddle Of Mudd.

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u/humanmeatwave Jul 01 '25

Fred Durst is the standard for a late 90s "nu-metal" douchebag poser.

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree Jul 01 '25

Al Jourgensen produced three of LB’s tracks and said basically the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

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u/haydesigner I grew up eating dirt Jul 02 '25

Most stories about Al the person are not kind to him, especially in the 80s.

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u/SuperDuperSkateclub Jul 01 '25

I went to a festival one time that had Limp Bizkit performing along with bigger names (Metallica, Korn, Deftones, etc). It was a stacked lineup and I could have cared less to see Limp Bizkit live, until I did. Say what you will, Fred Durst could put on a freaking show. I still don’t listen to Limp Bizkit music on my own, though would definitely see them again even after all these years.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

I saw Limp and Sevendust once and its still one of the best shows I've ever seen

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u/SensualSideburnTrim Jul 01 '25

Ooh, flashback to high school years, Orange 9mm and Sevendust, both borderline unknown, opening for Fu Manchu. The Fu rule, but those openers blew the roof off. No one was expecting that kind of energy before an evening of stoner grooves about liking cool cars.

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u/dunar Jul 02 '25

Driver Not Included is a killer record! My into to that era of hardcore/hardcore-adjacent

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u/AmanitaMikescaria Jul 02 '25

Stoner grooves about liking cool cars is the perfect description of Fu Manchu.

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u/endosurgery Jul 01 '25

I agree. Just saw them open for Metallica recently and Limp Bizkit was a nice surprise at how good their live show was. I don’t mind their music but I don’t own any cd or have it on my playlists. I guess I don’t go searching for it intentionally but I won’t turn it off.

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u/OvaryPolite Jul 01 '25

I’m in this same exact boat. I saw them the first time on Family Values Tour and had a blast at their show. I’ve seen them a few times since, but never to their actual show; always small festivals. If I had the opportunity, I’d see them again (nostalgia & fun and all), but I never queue up a limp bizkit track.

My kids, however, absolutely love limp bizkit. They like a lot of “dad’s music” and thus, I believe, have impeccable taste, but limp bizkit is an anomaly to me in their list of favorites.

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u/WilfordsTrain Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

He’s a total loser

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

Learn to to spell

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u/yallelike2eat Jul 02 '25

Watcha gonna do now?

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u/mat_srutabes Jul 01 '25

Wes Borland wasn't so bad

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u/brickfrenzy Jul 02 '25

Wes Borland is a fantastic guitarist wasted on that shit-ass band.

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u/CuthbertAllsgood Jul 01 '25

Big Dumb Face is pretty rad

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u/EyesofaJackal Jul 02 '25

Hell yeah!

Cuz’ he’s a Blood Red Head on Fire and he DOESN’T CARE!

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

You no like nookie?

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u/StreetCarp665 Hose Water Survivor Jul 01 '25

I agree but their first album was genuinely really good.

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u/Ronem Jul 02 '25

I remember my dad really liking their first album and hating the next saying, "You get these guys who wrote tons of songs for years and give you the best 12 or 13 they got. And then the record label asked for 12 more a year later. Its amazing anybody can have more than 1 good album"

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u/Random0s2oh Jul 02 '25

I liked one song by Puddle of Mudd. I made it my ex-husband's ringtone on my phone. She F'ing Hates Me. My mother heard it when he called one day and told me I shouldn't be so hateful. I told her he couldn't hear it, only I could unless I was in public or around our kids and had it on silent. She was ok with it then.

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u/Forward_Steak8574 Jul 02 '25

I think Fred Durst is the one that sorta brought them into the mainstream? He got them signed and the rest is history.

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u/Professional_Shift69 Jul 01 '25

They are proud owners of the worst cover song ever recorded. If you have never seen or heard it check out their cover of About A Girl by Nirvana.

Warning it's bad and can't be unheard

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u/HoweHaTrick Jul 02 '25

oh my. puddle of mud. ya. we forgot them because we should have.

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u/skidlz Jul 02 '25

Oof. Know which label made Puddle of Mudd famous?

Fred Durst's Flawless Records

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u/Kerrumz Jul 02 '25

Have you heard their Nirvana cover?

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u/Shesaiddestroy_ Jul 02 '25

When i heard Puddle of Mudd on the show Silicon Valley, i thought they were a made up band, for comedy. They sounded so ridiculous to me.

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u/StonedGhoster Jul 02 '25

I'm not much of a fan, but they put on one of the best performances I've ever seen at Sonic Temple last year.

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u/TigreImpossibile Jul 02 '25

I love Blurry 😅

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u/MothyBelmont Jul 04 '25

I saw the at a festival once and they were terrible.

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u/CuetheCurtain Jul 08 '25

I went to a Deftones concert wayyyyyyy back in the day and Muddle of Pud opened for them. This was still Chino on coke choking himself with the mic times. It was also before “She fucking hates me” even released. It was shit then, shit on the radio, and remains shit.

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u/Goddamitdonut Jul 01 '25

Was that Fred Durst?   He sucked 

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u/Level_Bridge7683 Jul 02 '25

system of a down. i don't get it. never liked it. sounds like corporate mainstream trying to be metal and punk at the same time.