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Billy Corgan says Limp Bizkit are "underrated"

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edited June 2012 in Other Music
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Do you agree with the mighty BillCo?
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  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Billy Corgan is better than that... :crazy:
  • toodeetoodee Posts: 89
    If Limp Bizkit are 'underrated', what does that make Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins?
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    toodee wrote:
    If Limp Bizkit are 'underrated', what does that make Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins?

    Overrated
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,429
    toodee wrote:
    If Limp Bizkit are 'underrated', what does that make Billy Corgan

    a dumbass?
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Is he saying this all for the nookie?
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  • Stardog3..Stardog3.. Posts: 1,527
    That must have been a joke. Good one Billy.
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Well, everybody has their own opinion, I always found them overrated myself. I'm assuming Billy means now, as opposed to how popular they used to be. These days Limp Bizkit, or more specifically Fred Durst, are more of a punchline than anything. But there was a time when Limp Bizkit were the kings, a time I'm guessing Billy isn't referring to. Back in the late 90's and early 00's you couldn't escape Limp Bizkit. After all, their third album had a better first week in album sales than Vs, which once held the record for best first week album sales. It sold, 1.05 million in the first week, where the record set by Vs was 950 thousand plus change. It didn't take the record because between Vs and Limp Bizkit, Garth Brooks had broken the record with 1.08 million copies of his live album.

    So I don't really think they were underrated in their heyday, people just got over them I guess. I know several people who liked them back in the day who will not admit it now.
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  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,050
    Wasn't Fred Durst supposed to be on a sitcom called, Douchebag?
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  • jethrojam420jethrojam420 Foxborough MA Posts: 1,075
    SatansFuton wrote:
    Well, everybody has their own opinion, I always found them overrated myself. I'm assuming Billy means now, as opposed to how popular they used to be. These days Limp Bizkit, or more specifically Fred Durst, are more of a punchline than anything. But there was a time when Limp Bizkit were the kings, a time I'm guessing Billy isn't referring to. Back in the late 90's and early 00's you couldn't escape Limp Bizkit. After all, their third album had a better first week in album sales than Vs, which once held the record for best first week album sales. It sold, 1.05 million in the first week, where the record set by Vs was 950 thousand plus change. It didn't take the record because between Vs and Limp Bizkit, Garth Brooks had broken the record with 1.08 million copies of his live album.

    So I don't really think they were underrated in their heyday, people just got over them I guess. I know several people who liked them back in the day who will not admit it now.


    i bought 3 dollar bill y'all the day it came out. Counterfeit helped me through my anger phase, and it wasnt' that bad of an album...that being said, fred durst turned into a douche when he got rich, and his music suffered.
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  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    The title of this thread made me literally laugh out loud
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,429
    SatansFuton wrote:
    Well, everybody has their own opinion, I always found them overrated myself. I'm assuming Billy means now, as opposed to how popular they used to be. These days Limp Bizkit, or more specifically Fred Durst, are more of a punchline than anything. But there was a time when Limp Bizkit were the kings, a time I'm guessing Billy isn't referring to. Back in the late 90's and early 00's you couldn't escape Limp Bizkit. After all, their third album had a better first week in album sales than Vs, which once held the record for best first week album sales. It sold, 1.05 million in the first week, where the record set by Vs was 950 thousand plus change. It didn't take the record because between Vs and Limp Bizkit, Garth Brooks had broken the record with 1.08 million copies of his live album.

    So I don't really think they were underrated in their heyday, people just got over them I guess. I know several people who liked them back in the day who will not admit it now.

    Doesn't Vs. still sorta hold some record b/c of some change in the way album sales were tallied? I remember reading something, like it was pre-Soundscan or something like that.
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    DewieCox wrote:
    SatansFuton wrote:
    Well, everybody has their own opinion, I always found them overrated myself. I'm assuming Billy means now, as opposed to how popular they used to be. These days Limp Bizkit, or more specifically Fred Durst, are more of a punchline than anything. But there was a time when Limp Bizkit were the kings, a time I'm guessing Billy isn't referring to. Back in the late 90's and early 00's you couldn't escape Limp Bizkit. After all, their third album had a better first week in album sales than Vs, which once held the record for best first week album sales. It sold, 1.05 million in the first week, where the record set by Vs was 950 thousand plus change. It didn't take the record because between Vs and Limp Bizkit, Garth Brooks had broken the record with 1.08 million copies of his live album.

    So I don't really think they were underrated in their heyday, people just got over them I guess. I know several people who liked them back in the day who will not admit it now.

    Doesn't Vs. still sorta hold some record b/c of some change in the way album sales were tallied? I remember reading something, like it was pre-Soundscan or something like that.

    It may still hold some record, but I don't think it's because of it coming out before Soundscan. According to a Google search Soundscan has been in used since March of 1991.
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  • dustinparduedustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    The band is underrated. Fred Durst is an overrated douche.
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Is he saying this all for the nookie?

    I believe so.

    In all seriousness, I really think he is fucking with the media. I have watched videos where he said he enjoys fucking with them. Years back I saw a video of him talking with his own crowd for a solid ten minutes and he was totally fucking with them because one guy was being a dick. Not the usual yelling at the crowd, pissed off kind. He was just dragging on a conversation just to piss them off a bit.
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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    Billy is a premadonna fuck who talks jiberish to rile people up...with that said I love his music.
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  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Is he saying this all for the nookie?

    I believe so.

    In all seriousness, I really think he is fucking with the media. I have watched videos where he said he enjoys fucking with them. Years back I saw a video of him talking with his own crowd for a solid ten minutes and he was totally fucking with them because one guy was being a dick. Not the usual yelling at the crowd, pissed off kind. He was just dragging on a conversation just to piss them off a bit.

    Yeah, I get the impression he likes fucking with people. I don't follow them that much (other than listening to some of their music) and don't know much about what Billy is like. But I saw Smashing Pumpkins open for The Rolling Stones back in '97 and at the end of the Pumpkins set everybody left the stage except Billy, he walked around for a little bit swinging his guitar like he was about to smash it, getting the crowd all excited, then he goes for the smash and just sets it down in a guitar stand and walks off stage. At the time I thought it was kind of lame, but in hindsight I think the reaction of myself and everybody around who went from "Hell Yeah!!!" to "Wait... what the fuck just happened?" was pretty funny.
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