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Significant Other is the second album by American rock band Limp Bizkit, released on June 22, 1999. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 834,000 copies in its first week and received a Grammy Award nomination later in the year of its release. The RIAA certified it 7x platinum in September 2001 in the US alone, 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 in 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, greatly differing from the barely censored version of Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ which left in much of the profanity and all of the violent content. 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-'80s 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) - "... 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

All lyrics are written by Fred Durst, except where noted; all music is composed by Wes Borland, John Otto, and Sam Rivers, except where noted

Track 16 is seven seconds of silence.

• Eric Barrier, Charles Bobbit, John Brown, Bobby Byrd, and William Griffin receive music credits for "Re-Arranged" for samples only.
• Scott Weiland's sample "hey" is featured in the pre-chorus for "Nookie".
• Hidden track (9) "My Billygoat" features vocals by Durst's mother, Anita.
• "No Sex" features backing vocals by Aaron Lewis.
• Les Claypool played bass on the track "Trust?",as well as bass and vocals on the hidden track "The Mind of Les"

Unreleased tracks

1. "Hell of A Band" - 2:08
2. "Don't Go Off Wandering (feat. Serj Tankian)" - 4:10
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 in 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 musicians

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

Production

• Produced by Limp Bizkit and Terry Date
• Mixed by Scott Weiland and DJ Premier

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

References

1. CMJ: 5. 28 June 1999. 4 stars out of 5 - "...An absolutely storming debut....packing more punch than Lennox Lewis armed with a rolled up copy of well...Punch....Award this album the red baseball cap of merit..." {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. Robert Christgau review
3. http://www.metrolyrics.com/2000-grammy-awards.html
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