Boiler

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"Boiler"
Single by Limp Bizkit
from the album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Released	November 20, 2001
Format	CD
Recorded	2000
Genre	Nu metal
Length	5:47
Label	Interscope
Producer	Josh Abraham Swizz Beatz Terry Date Fred Durst DJ Lethal Scott Weiland
Limp Bizkit singles chronology
"My Way" (2001) "Boiler" (2001) "Eat You Alive" (2003)

Boiler is a song by the band Limp Bizkit from their third studio album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. It was released as the fourth single from the album.

There was a limited edition Gold numbered version of this single that includes DVD music videos from the band. The music video was directed by Dave Meyers and Fred Durst, and filmed in Portugal.

Music video

In the beginning, the video shows a woman in a bikini in an apartment looking in the mirror with Fred Durst watching her. Then she turns around and opens her mouth and spits out a mechanical arm holding a levitating bomb that is aimed in Durst's direction, causing Durst to jump out of the window and then blows up the whole apartment. Durst then goes to a burger stand called Bolacha Mole (which means Limp Bizkit in Portuguese), where he sits next to a person with a scar under his eye, across from Wes Borland, whose head falls off. Durst starts to eat his burger, but discovers that it is crawling with maggots. After this, a car crashes into the stand and it explodes.

Durst wakes up in a bed with a woman who starts to kiss him, and then he pulls off the wig that she was wearing to discover that she has plugs all over her shaved head. Looking around, he discovers that there were dozens of couples kissing and having sex in similar beds. Prompted by this revelation, he starts to run away. While running, Durst turns into a cartoon and is chased by an army of humans with round bellies, and a sea of hot dogs (all resembling the Chocolate Starfish album's cover art) which turns into a giant sea monster that tries to kill him. After escaping, he changes black into his real form by ripping the cartoon character apart to reveal himself again and jumps on to a stage with the rest of the band. The stage is located in the center of a pool, which is in a temple where several dark monsters try to get to them and many sparks fly onto the stage. After the band finishes performing the song, Durst drops his hat on the ground and walks away.

Parts of the music video are a clear homage to Pink Floyd's The Wall. The opening scene, the conveyor belt of people falling into a hole and being made into sausages, and the use of worms are all very similar to parts of the epic Wall movie.

Trivia

The song Boiler was never played live since it came out of the album, not even during the stay of Mike Smith as the band's guitarist. Boiler was performed live for the very first time in the reunion of Limp Bizkit in 2009 at Riga, when the band started the Unicorns N' Rainbows tour. Fred Durst says to the crowd "Is anybody wanna hear Boiler, for the first time ever?" and them the band starts playing the song.^[1]

Track listing

Normal Version:

1. Boiler
2. Faith
3. My Way (P. Diddy Remix)
4. Boiler (CD-ROM Video)

Gold Version:

1. Boiler
2. Faith (DVD Video)
3. My Way (P Diddy Remix)
4. Rollin, Boiler, My Way, My Generation 30 second DVD Clips

References