Customer Reviews

Three Dollar Bill, Y'All

5 star:		(357)
4 star:		(104)
3 star:		(35)
2 star:		(24)
1 star:		(113)

 

 

Because Limp are mad. Thanks to KoRn, Limp Bizkit was lead the way to great music, starting with 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Songs like Stuck, Nobody Loves Me and Leech show their heavy metal work that sound like they had problems in their life, while Sour, Faith and Stinkfinger are really groovy beatz, really heavy songs, while Pollution and Counterfeit are very good intro songs.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
1)Intro: Religious Intro, a little funny. 3/10

2)Pollution: Screechy guitars, pretty cool drums and turntable work make this song a classical Limp Bizkit song, as well as the funny segment at the end, with Fred yelling "back" over and over again with the other members telling him to shut up. An excellent song to open the CD. 10/10

3)Counterfeit: The first Limp Bizkit song. A pretty interesting intro, and then suddenly........ BOOM! They start cranking up the metal, this reminds me of KoRn's Clown, pretty solid hit. Definately one of the best songs on this CD, along with Nobody Loves Me, Sour, Clunk, Faith and Stinkfinger. At the end they start going insane one last time to end the song, and at the end, Fred's making some weird sounds. The entire song is great. 10/10

4)Stuck: This is another great hit. Finally, a song that has loads of DJ Lethal. And this is a longer version of Significant Other's Break Stuff, which is good. Limp Bizkit show just how heavy they can be. 9/10

5)Nobody Loves Me: Another anger song. Fred writes pretty good lyrics, a kinda weak outro, but the rest of the song is heavy as hell. My 2nd favourite song, totally heavy, but weak ending. Very good song. 10/10

6)Sour: Another DJ Lethal song. About Fred's ex-girlfriend (At least that's what I've heard). Insane guitars, turntables, and nice, calm drums. That made this song as my 3rd fav song. An insane song, one of the best. 10/10

7)Stalemate: Nice song. The beginning isn't too good, but the chorus is quite heavy, 6 minutes don't cut it. Maybe Pantera's This Love or Drowning Pool's Soul but not this. But still pretty hard though. 7/10

8)Clunk: Sweet stuff, interesting bass lines, unreal vocal effect, and insane turntable work by the legendary DJ Lethal. Complete metal, this gets 5th place. 10/10

9)Faith: A George Michael cover. But a little guitar and turntable work totally change. And it's one of the heaviest songs. And to top it off, this is my favourite song on this CD. Advice: skip to track 10 when it gets to 2:25 so you don't have to hear that awful hidden track. Limp Bizkit rock on. 10/10

10)Stinkfinger: Another great song, heavy, turntable-infested and a dark bass line. this makes 4th fav. 9/10

11)Indigo Flow: Uh, not so bad, but not so good either. It's great, but it's bad compared to Significant Other's Show Me What You Got. 5/10

12)Leech (demo version): The heaviest song, really cool. The only problem is that it's too short. Imagine this song at 4: 15, not at 2:11. Still good though. 9/10

13)Everything: 16 minutes long. The longest song I've heard without any skips. Really cool effect in the middle. An above average song. 8/10
-----------------------------------------------------------------
And that's it. 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$ is a great debut CD! I also recommend Significant Other, Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog Flavored Water, Drowning Pool: Sinner, KoRn's self titled album or Eminem's Slim Shady LP. Bye.

I first heard this back in 1998, and I was overwhelmed by the raw sound this album contained. This is one of my all time favorite hard rock albums. Well... back then, I did not know that Fred Durst is an idiot.

This is best described as an "attitude album" (so are all other LB releases). Anybody who ONLY listens to serious music should stay away from this. The guitar, bass, drum playing are exceptional except that the vocal has nothing to spew but childish rants. It's fun.

It is SUPPOSED TO BE FUN!

...until Fred started saying at awards shows that "music is everything, music touches the soul... blablabla". Yeah right, people get touched in the soul when told to "get the f* up" or "I did it all for the nookie". The stupid lyrics wouldn't have mattered if Fred himself chose not to be taken seriously.

So there you have it--- critics and haters everywhere. If only Fred would just shut the hell up and maybe this band could've had a better reputation at present.

I just want to be completely honest with a few things:

1) In this album, Fred CAN rap. He's got some flow however little on most of the tracks here ("Pollution", "Counterfeit", "Stuck"). Saying he can't rap is an overstatement- and you know it. Hatred blinds you for the most part.

2) I cannot stress this any more clearer: STOP TAKING THIS BAND SERIOUSLY! If you want serious music, stop thinking Fred can give you that. Fred Durst can rot in hell, but this band's all about having fun. If you have gone to some of their concerts (before the damage done to the band's image became irreparable--- that is, sometime before 2001) it's all about dynamics. People enjoyed their live shows then. Today, I honestly do not know how the people would take it if they see Fred Durst on stage again.

3) For those saying Wes, Sam, Otto suck at what they do, again you are blinded by hatred. They are truly the reason why the band is popular. Wes is truly the talent of the band. He is innovative and his riffs are catchy apart from heavy. Sam has a unique groove to his playing... perfectly fits a rap-rock band. And otto, so far he's the only drummer of a mainstream band with the best groove- although at times his style can get predictable, but nonetheless, he is a good drummer. I just hate hearing comments that "Otto sounds like he just got out of his fourth drum lesson". These comments are all too stereotypical, I pity the commentator.

Anybody who wants to listen to hard rock as raw as it gets, get this album. If you're more into lyrics, go get Incubus instead. Lastly, if you hate Limp Bizkit that much, get over it and see the talent of the people behind Fred Durst's shadow.

Peace and love.

I have been into limp bizkit since about faith and got signifigant other first. since i loved that cd i figured that i would like three dollar bill yall$, so i got it (i had listened to it some at my friend's houses). i put it into my cd player and loved every song of it. if you like limp at all you should get three dollar bill yall$.

Three Dollar Bill, Y'all puts Significant Other to shame. I don't understand why the latter was endorsed so much. There are few albums I can listen to continuously, and Three Dollar Bill, Y'all is one of them. It is more representative of Limp Bizkit's raw sound and talent; plus it's a lot more intimate and less commercial. Why it's remained so obscure is beyond me.

And why you ask? Because this CD has a buttload of edge, with the intense screaming of Fred (the man) Durst,and the heavey guitar parts. But now they've seemed to lose that balls of steel, anger, rage kinda thing. So i think this album rocks. And for those who hate it...you gots some bad taste in music.

It all started out in 1993. When such a wonderful form of music started. The band was Limp Bizkit from Jacksonville, FL. I love this cd for so many reasons. The lyrics are so real and in your face. The sound is very unique. The band contains five members. Featuring x-House of Pain member, DJ Lethal. The album starts out w/ a great intro, and then busts into an in your face song titled "Pollution". Fred Durst (lead singer), preaches, screams, and rhymes to the people who purchase this cd about different topics such as; fake people, greedy women, having faith, thanking his homeboys, followers, etc. Nothing will get your attention more than Fred's voice over a low-end six-string bassist, w/ Wes Borland screeching on his seven-string guitar, w/ John Otto keeping the beats, and last but not least DJ Lethal doing his thing behind two turntables. If you're into heavy, in your face kind of music w/ extreme amounts of talent, I highly recommend purchasing Limp Bizkit's debut album, "Three Dollar Bill, Ya'll". Limp Bizkit is currently touring w/ Korn on their Family Values tour, so check them out if they come to your town. Some other bands that have some similarities to Limp Bizkit's style are Korn, (Hed)pe, Deftones, Snot, etc. If you're into heavy music w/ some hip-hop flavor, I highly suggest running out to your closest record store and purchasing this.

From the intro where Fred preaches buying a gun to kill "the pollution of satan" to the seemingly endless but well done none-the-less "Everything", Three Dollar Bill is definately for real, is anything but limp, and will not leave you wanting change. While the album has it's moments of nothing but mindless screaming, Fred Durst's redeeming lyrics are incredibly real, moving, and in many cases just f***ing brilliant. Presented in the form of hip-hop with metal backing, the engaging songs will get anyone who really appreciates either metal or rap moshing and bustin out the phat lyrics sung (or yelled) only as Fred can (a white guy rapping, go figure). The band did an incredible job of mixing both hard rocking from start to stop beats, such as Pollution, Nobody Loves Me, Clunk, and Leech, with slowly inticing, soon to rip you with killer riffs, like Counterfiet, Stuck, Sour, Faith, and Indigo Flow. The slow paced to absolute mosh can be reminiscent of the old Metallica. Although it has the slow paced openers, the album as a whole, rocks hard, fast and furious, relentlessly pounding on on your ears and all the senses. At the end of the album, you say to yourself, "What the hell just happened?" You got hit with something limp, a premeir band from Jacksonville who has a long career ahead of them. You got hit with a Three Dollar Bill...

I refuse to let the average of this album drop as low as their new releases because of stupid reviewers who just hate LB in GENERAL, but know nothing about this album. Giving every LB album 1 star due to their later embarrassments might seem like a good idea, but anyone who actually gives this a listen will realize they had a lot of musical potential, and not even Fred could ruin the music on this album. Even if you hate his vocals, the lyrics on this album aren't quite as mind-numbingly stupid as later CDs. In fact, I think he only says the name "Limp Bizkit" once on the whole album, they weren't famous yet, so he couldn't talk about them being so. This album has nostalgic value for me, as I used to listen to it all the time, I still find it enjoyable today.

In conclusion, I very much agree with the Wickerman's "they had potential" review. LB has a very unique melodic style. The only difference between our opinions is I find the album more tolerable.

This album is an energetic fusion of hard rock and hip hop.The first five tracks stand out as the best,"Conterfeit" being won of the songs you will listen to again and again.The production on the album is quite rough which adds to the albums brash energy.Songs like "Faith" and "Stuck" show Limp Bizkits `Quiet to Loud` ethic in full flow. Its only when the album is over do you ask yourself "Dont you just love hot Chix?"

Limp Bizkit is the perfect example of a band with little talent, yet has succeeded in the music industry. There are several reasons for this anomaly. One, they were introduced by Korn and their album was produced by Ross Robinson. Two, they surfaced during a time period when "rapcore" was getting popular, although Korn and the Deftones do not fall into that category. Finally, and most importantly, the band Limp Bizkit has phenomenol stage presence and an incredible live show. Unfortunatley, this cd does not caputure that energy or intensity.

The sound quality on this cd is terrible, sounding more like some kind of garage demo than a major-label debut. The sound is very raw and downtuned, an unfortunate trademark of Ross Robinson. The music itself is a hybrid of hip-hop meets heavy metal in the Sepultura tribal type vein. Featuring aggressive beats, chunk-filled riffs, throbbing bass, and accented by the amazing scratching, Limp Bizkit's sound may not be original but it is tempo-laden and nonstop energy. The song structures are simple as well as the music but the flow is there, although limited.

Fred Durst has an amazing stage precence. He knows how to get a crowd riled up which is very important. However, as a songwriter and a vocalist, he has much to learn. He cannot rap, his lyrics are simplistic, almost childish featuring idiotic rhymes, and his voice has an annoying sounding quality. The only strongpoint is his ability to switch to his heavy side featuring some sick screaming. Sure, he may talk about everyday issues that people deal with, but the emotion and conviction are lacking behind his words.

To say that this is one of the best cds out there today is beyond me. Sure songs like "Pollution" and "Counterfeit" are awesome featuring cool riffs, high energy and in-your-face choruses, but the rest of the cd is sorely lacking. "Stalemate" is another very good song, more dynamic with just a cool groove. "Stuck" is also decent. "Leech" which is a cooler, heavier song, and supposedly a demo version, had the same sound quality as the rest of the songs, showing that Limp still had a ways to go. "Sour" is short, but sweet, previewing what was to come from Limp Bizkit. In conclusion, a couple of very good songs, then some fair efforts, nothing special.

Aside from DJ Lethal and Sam Rivers, possibly Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit has very little musical talent. What they are lacking in talent they more than make up in style and energy. If this was a concert review, the rating would be higher, but it's not and this cd is just not good enough. Sounding like nothing more than a demo, Limp Bizkit merely showed that they had much farther to go if they wanted to become a staple in the music industry. While they do the rapcore thing decently enough there are many more bands out there that may not be mainstream but do the entire rapcore thing much better. Examples: Superheist, Madhops, Spine, Papa Roach, Primer 55, 20 Dead Flower Children, Frontside, and Greedy Edna.