Limp Bizkit: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (Interscope)
Bill Holdship, LA New Times, October 2000
YOU GOTTA WONDER when it go so ugly and so ... well, beyond anger and rage. If you trace this angry post-adolescent thing from James Dean to Kurt Cobain, Limp Bizkit still doesn't make a lot of sense (unless you want to include figures like Mark David Chapman and those Columbine jackasses – and you really shouldn't).
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