Significant Other

This article is about the Limp Bizkit album. For the social term for an intimate relationship, see 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, rap metal
Length	62:35
Label	Interscope, MCA Records INTDE-90335
Producer	Limp Bizkit, Scott Weiland, Terry Date, DJ Premier
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 second album by American nu metal 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.^[1] The RIAA certified it 7x platinum in September 2001 in the US alone,^[2] with total worldwide sales exceeding 14 million. The album was met with general acclaim from music critics.

Production

"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.

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
About.com	[4]
ARTISTdirect	[5]
CMJ	(favorable) [6]
Robert Christgau	[7]
Entertainment Weekly	(B) [8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Amazon.com	[10]
Amazon.co.uk	[11]
CD Universe	[12]
Play.com	[13]
hmv.com	[14]
Ultimate Guitar	[15]

• Allmusic called the album "considerably more ambitious and multi-dimensional" than the band's previous album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall$. "There are flourishes of neo-psychedelia on pummeling metal numbers and there are swirls of strings, even crooning, at the most unexpected background."^[16]

• Rolling Stone (7/8-22, pp. 143–144) - 3¹⁄₂ 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) - "...[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

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

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Intro"			0:37
2.	"Just Like This"			3:35
3.	"Nookie"			4:49
4.	"Break Stuff"			2:47
5.	"Re-Arranged"			5:54
6.	"I'm Broke"			3:59
7.	"Nobody Like You" (featuring Jonathan Davis and Scott Weiland)	Jonathan Davis, Durst, Scott Weiland		4:20
8.	"Don't Go Off Wandering"			4:00
9.	"9 Teen 90 Nine"			4:36
10.	"N 2 Gether Now" (featuring Method Man)	Durst, Clifford Smith	Chris Martin	4:49
11.	"Trust?"			4:59
12.	"No Sex"		Borland, Brendan O'Brien, Otto, Rivers	3:54
13.	"Show Me What You Got"			4:27
14.	"A Lesson Learned"			2:40
15.	"Outro"			7:17

• Track 16 is four 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.
• Alternate editions of the album feature one of two hidden tracks, "The Mind of Les", featuring Les Claypool, "Rant", featuring Matt Pinfield, or both.

Special Edition Bonus Disc

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Break Stuff" (Live)	04:03
2.	"Re-Arranged" (Live)	04:56
3.	"Nookie" (Live)	06:49
4.	"Break Stuff" (Video)

Unreleased tracks

1. "Hell of A Band" (feat. Les Claypool) - 2:08
   • Track available on the Bootleg "Significant Demos in Hell".
2. "Don't Go Off Wandering (feat. Serj Tankian)" - 4:10
   • Track available on the Bootleg "Significant Demos in Hell".
3. "Instrumental" - 3:59
   • Track available on the Bootleg "Significant Demos in Hell".
4. "Turn Me Loose (feat. Eminem)" - 5:03
   • Opening lyrics used on Eminem's "Who Knew"
5. "Prop the DJ" - 0:42
   • Track available on the Promo CD "Rough".
6. "No Control" - 5:46
   • Track 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, Terry Date, and DJ Premier
• Mixed by Brendan O'Brien

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard 200	1
1999	Top Canadian Albums	1
1999	Top Internet Albums	1

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"N 2 Gether Now"	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	53
1999	"N 2 Gether Now"	Rhythmic Top 40	7
1999	"N 2 Gether Now"	Rhythmic Top 40	7
1999	"N 2 Gether Now"	The Billboard Hot 100	70
1999	"Nookie"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	6
1999	"Nookie"	Modern Rock Tracks	3
1999	"Nookie"	The Billboard Hot 100	80
1999	"Re-Arranged"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	8
1999	"Re-Arranged"	Modern Rock Tracks	1
1999	"Re-Arranged"	Modern Rock Tracks	2
1999	"Re-Arranged"	The Billboard Hot 100	75
2000	"Break Stuff"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	19
2000	"Break Stuff"	Modern Rock Tracks	14
2000	"N 2 Gether Now"	Hot Rap Singles	17

End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard 200[17]	83

Preceded by Millennium by Backstreet Boys

Billboard 200 number-one album July 10–30, 1999 August 14–20, 1999

Succeeded by Millennium by Backstreet Boys

References

1. ^ http://www.metrolyrics.com/2000-grammy-awards.html
2. ^ http://tsort.info/music/8fb98h.htm
3. ^ Allmusic Review
4. ^ http://rock.about.com/od/reviews/fr/Significant.htm
5. ^ http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,861948,00.html
6. ^ 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..."" 
7. ^ Robert Christgau review
8. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,273790,00.html
9. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/256861/review/6068000?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview
10. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Significant-Other-Limp-Bizkit/dp/B00000JCB2
11. ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Significant-Other-Limp-Bizkit/dp/B00004YTUI
12. ^ http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1076526/a/Significant+Other.htm
13. ^ http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/138542/Significant-Other/Product.html
14. ^ http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=689407
15. ^ http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/limp_bizkit/significant_other/index.html
16. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r421388/review
17. ^ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&lr&rview=1&pg=RA1-PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 15, 2010.