Limpbizkit - BittersweetHome

Thu 3rd Nov, 2005 in Music Reviews

Appearing on the soon to be released Limpbizkit Greatest Hitz album, the single Bittersweet Home should serve as a cautionary tale for artists to stick to their own greatest hits not kill other peoples!

Limp Bizkit has taken Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve and melded it with a deadpan rendition of Motley Crue’s Home Sweet Home, hence Bittersweet Home. Fred Durst does his own take on Tenacious D’s inward singing by getting through most of the song in monotone. Its practically spoken so unenthused is the vocal. It steps up a little in pace when we move from Home Sweet Home to Bittersweet Symphony, the instrumentation is a bit more lively but does little more than highlight that Fred can’t actually sing, merely hold a tune.
Well, actually he has changed the tune of both songs so it doesn’t prove that he can hold a tune either – maybe all of the Limp Bizkit songs are intended to sound much different! It takes two classics, strips the charm from them, strips the lyrical quality and turns it into a dirge. The instrumentation does little to save this depressing, dull number from the skip button and I’m hard pressed to decide which song he killed the most.