2011’s Most Underrated Music: Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra (album)

Only real men can embrace unpopular bullshit and never let it go. Limp Bizkit’s return to the mainstream on 2011’s Interscope released Gold Cobra was a bold move. It’s 2001’s best album, as if the chocolate starfish had kept on rollin’ (BABAY!) through the hot dog flavored water. Their fellow nu metal friends Korn and Linkin Park have pussied out and embraced dubstep, turning in their guitars and amps for pacifiers and Serato boxes, the latest victims of dance’s mainstream extravagance. Wes Borland’s guitar shreds all over this album. Fred Durst is still an unapologetically annoying grade A shit bag (but that’s why we love him), and John Otto, Sam Rivers and DJ Lethal are still on point. Gold Cobra? A remembrance of things past, a moment for all the kids on the dance floor to do like the Supremes, and have a reflection of the way life used to be. In standing pat in the face of the bassline of an oncoming runaway train, Limp Bizkit deserve respect, and a listen.