Significant Other

Significant Other
Studio album by Limp Bizkit
Released	June 22, 1999
Recorded	November 1998 - February 1999 at NRG Recording Services in North Hollywood, California
Genre	Nu metal, rapcore
Length	62:35
Label	Interscope/MCA Records INTDE-90335
Producer	Limp Bizkit, Scott Weiland, Terry Date, DJ Premier
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Entertainment Weekly (B) link Robert Christgau link Rolling Stone link
Limp Bizkit chronology
Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ (1997) Significant Other (1999) Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) Singles from Significant Other "Nookie" Released: June 15, 1999 "Re-Arranged" Released: October 12, 1999 "N 2 Gether Now" Released: November 9, 1999 "Break Stuff" Released: April 18, 2000

Significant Other is the Grammy nominated^[1] second studio album by Limp Bizkit, released on June 22, 1999. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 834,000 copies in it's first week. The RIAA certified it 7x platinum in September 2001 in the US alone^[2], with total worldwide sales exceeding 14 million. It features the singles "Nookie", "Re-Arranged", "N 2 Gether Now" and "Break Stuff".

Album information

"N 2 Gether Now" features rapper Method Man, "Nobody Like You" contains guest vocals by Korn's Jonathan Davis and Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland, the demo for "Don't Go Off Wandering" contained guest vocals by System of a Down's Serj Tankian. It was later removed in the final album version after Fred Durst had a fallout with band Taproot, who shared the same management team (Velvet Hammer) as System of a Down (this controversy also led this band to be dropped off the Family Values Tour in 1999). However, this version of the song exists on the bootlegged version of Limp Bizkit's demo CD for this album, Significant Demos From Hell, and can be found on the internet. "No Sex" features guest chorus vocals by Staind frontman Aaron Lewis.

The majority of its songs are dedicated to the failure of the relationship between Fred Durst and his long-time girlfriend.

The song "9 Teen 90 Nine" was originally supposed to be a cover of the Prince song "1999". The song was recorded and played at many of Limp Bizkit's shows preceding the album's release. Prince refused to allow the band to put the song on the new album, causing Fred Durst to disparage Prince before playing the cover. A completely different song was created by the band with the same title, but has no similarities to the original source material.

Significant Other was released in a "clean" version that censored out most profanity and violence, a lot different from their barely censored version of Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ which left in a lot of profanity and all violence. Strangely, on the song "Nobody Like You", censorship ceases about half-way through the track leaving the latter half with some uncensored moments of profanity. Other than this, the album is quite tightly censored.

The song "Show Me What You Got" was partially played on The Simpsons episode It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge.

The song "Nookie" was nominated in the Best Hard Rock Performance Category at the 42nd Grammy Awards ceremony, but lost to Metallica's "Whiskey In The Jar". The album was nominated in the category of "Best Rock Album" but lost to Santana's "Supernatural".

Reception

Rolling Stone (7/8-22, pp. 143-144) - 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5) - "At this point, hating them seems a little disingenuous. They're actually (gulp) good."

Entertainment Weekly (6/18/99, pp. 74-75) - "...It takes it cues from hardcore hip-hop...grunge...the post-80's metal of Metallica, and, to a lesser degree, electronica....But overall, Significant Other isn't simply modern rock; it's postmodern rock." - Rating: B

CMJ (6/28/99, p. 5) - "...[Significant Other ] has an intensity that never lets up, surpassing the musical scope of its predecessor with rap-core gems such as "Nookie" and the blunted hip-hop of..."N 2 Gether Now"....The unholy matrimony of metal and rap celebrates another victory...superb."

Track listing

1. "Intro" - 0:57
2. "Just Like This" - 3:35
3. "Nookie" - 4:29
4. "Break Stuff" - 2:57
5. "Re-Arranged" - 4:45
6. "I'm Broke" / "Phone Messages (Interlude)" - 2:58
7. "Nobody Like You" (featuring Jonathan Davis/Scott Weiland) - 4:21
8. "Don't Go Off Wandering" - 4:01
9. "9 Teen 90 Nine" - 4:21
10. "N 2 Gether Now" (featuring Method Man) - 3:56
11. "Trust?" - 5:00
12. "No Sex" (featuring Aaron Lewis) - 3:54
13. "Show Me What You Got" - 4:09
14. "A Lesson Learned" - 4:21
15. "Outro" / "Music Sucks (Interlude)" - voiceover by Matt Pinfield / "The Mind of Les (Interlude)" - voiceover by Les Claypool - 2:44

Track 16 is six seconds of silence.

Unreleased

1. "Hell of A Band" - 2:08
2. "Don't Remember (Feat. Serj Tankian)" - 5:52
3. "Instrumental" - 3:59
4. "Turn Me Loose (Feat. Eminem)" - 5:03
5. "Prop The DJ" - 0:42
6. "No Control" - 5:46
   • These Tracks are available on the Bootleg "Significant Demos From Hell".

Personnel

Limp Bizkit:

• Fred Durst - vocals
• Sam Rivers - bass
• John Otto - drums, percussion
• DJ Lethal - turntables, keyboards, samples, programming, sound development
• Wes Borland - guitars, artwork

Additional personnel:

• Method Man
• Les Claypool
• Matt Pinfield
• Anita Durst
• Mathematics
• Scott Borland
• Jonathan Davis
• Aaron Lewis

Producers:

• Limp Bizkit
• Scott Weiland
• Terry Date
• DJ Premier

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

References