Results May Vary

Results May Vary
Studio album by
Publication (s)	September 22, 2003
admission	August 2002 - January 2003, May - June 2003
Label (s)	Interscope Records , Flip Records
Format (s)	CD , download
Genre (s)	Nu metal , alternative rock , crossover
Title (number)	16
running time	68:33
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Fred Durst Drums : John Otto Bass : Sam Rivers Guitar : Mike Smith Keyboard , turntables : DJ Lethal
production	Terry Date , DJ Lethal, Fred Durst, Rick Rubin
chronology Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) Results May Vary The Unquestionable Truth (2005)
Single releases September 15, 2003 Eat You Alive November 24, 2003 Behind blue eyes

Results may vary ( English for about " results may vary ") is the fourth studio album of American nu-metal - band Limp Bizkit . It was released on September 22, 2003 on the Interscope Records and Flip Records labels .

background

After guitarist Wes Borland left , Results May Vary is the first album that Limp Bizkit recorded without a permanent guitarist. At first, Fred Durst and bassist Sam Rivers recorded the guitar parts alone. In addition, the sound engineer Michael Baskette played guitar on some of the songs. Mike Smith, guitarist for the band Snot , was later hired for the recordings. Most of the recordings themselves took place in Los Angeles between August 2002 and January 2003 .

Cover design

The album cover is in green tones and shows the face of Fred Durst, who opens his mouth wide. The Limp Bizkit logo and the title results may vary in white are at the top right of the picture .

Guest Posts

In addition to Limp Bizkit, other artists are represented on two songs on the album. So who has rapper Snoop Dogg a guest appearance on the song Red Light / Green Light , while Brian Welch , lead guitarist for the nu-metal band Korn to Build a Bridge participated.

Track list

#	title	Guest Posts	length
1	Re-entry		2:37
2	Eat You Alive		3:57
3	Gimme the mic		3:05
4th	Underneath the Gun		5:42
5	Down Another Day		4:06
6th	Almost over		4:38
7th	Build a bridge	Brian Welch	3:57
8th	Red Light / Green Light + Hidden Track Take It Home	Snoop Dogg	5:36
9	The Only One		4:08
10	Let me down		4:16
11	Lonely World		4:34
12	Phenomenon		3:59
13	Creamer (Radio Is Dead)		4:30
14th	Head for the Barricade		3:34
15th	Behind Blue Eyes + Hidden Track All That Easy		5:58
16	Drown		3:58

Bonus songs in Europe:

#	title	length
17th	Shot	3:45
18th	Just drop dead	4:02

Bonus songs in Japan:

#	title	length
17th	Let it go	5:10
18th	Armpit	3:52

More songs that were created during the album production:

• Cowgirls from Hell
• Crack addict
• Fool's Game
• How Do We Get Through This
• masturbation
• Poisen ivy
• Press Your Luck (Pollution Recall)
• Relentless
• Summer of Bipolar Love
• Until the end
• Welcome Home (Sanitarium) ( Metallica Cover)
• When It Rains

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Results May Vary   DE 1 10/06/2003 (32 weeks)   AT 1 05/10/2003 (31 weeks)   CH 6th 05/10/2003 (38 weeks)   UK 7th 04/10/2003 (7 weeks)   US 3 10/11/2003 (32 weeks)

Singles

Eat You Alive   DE 13 09/29/2003 (9 weeks)   AT 16 09/28/2003 (10 weeks)   CH 31 09/28/2003 (6 weeks)   UK 10 09/27/2003 (8 weeks) Behind blue eyes   DE 2 12/08/2003 (25 weeks)   AT 3 07/12/2003 (27 weeks)   CH 5 07/12/2003 (35 weeks)   UK 18th 12/06/2003 (9 weeks)   US 71 03/06/2004 (11 weeks)

Results May Vary entered the German album charts at number 1 on October 6, 2003 and was at number 6 and 9 in the following weeks. In total, the album stayed in the top 100 for 32 weeks. The record also topped the charts in Austria, while he was second in Australia and New Zealand, third in the United States, sixth in Switzerland and seventh in the United Kingdom.

A week before the album was released, the first single was Eat You Alive . Of Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson , the song was sharply criticized and called Fred Durst as a horrible songwriter. Nevertheless, the track reached number 13 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for nine weeks.

In November 2003, Behind Blue Eyes, the album's second single was released. The song, which originally comes from The Who , achieved second place in Germany, third place in Austria and fifth in Switzerland . Oscar winner Halle Berry plays in the music video for the song . Behind Blue Eyes received a gold record for more than 20,000 sales in Switzerland and a gold record for over 500,000 copies in the United States .

Sales figures and awards

Results May Vary received a gold record in Germany in the year of publication for more than 100,000 copies sold. It was also awarded gold in Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, while in the United States it was awarded a platinum record for over a million sales in 2008.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	platinum	70,000
Germany (BVMI)	gold	100,000
Japan (RIAJ)	gold	100,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold	7,500
Austria (IFPI)	gold	15,000
Russia (NFPF)	gold	10,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	20,000
United States (RIAA)	platinum	1,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	100,000
All in all	7 × gold, 2 × platinum	1,422,500

Main article: Limp Bizkit / Music Sales Awards

reception

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	33%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Plattentests.de
CDStarts.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic

Overall, the album received average to negative reviews from critics :

Laut.de rated Results May Vary with three out of a possible five points. Critic Eberhard Dobler writes that the record is solid, but that there are no real highlights on the album.

Plattentests.de awarded four out of ten points. Editor-in-chief Armin Linder says that although the album is better than its predecessor, it still doesn't sound really good.

Matthias Reichel writes on cdstarts.de that the album is not the expected catastrophe, but also offers nothing new. He awarded six out of ten points.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine only gave 1.5 out of five stars on allmusic.com and says that music lacks passion and energy.

whiskey-soda.de awarded the school grade 2 and describes the album as suitable for charts and varied.

Trivia

• The song Behind Blue Eyes is the theme song for the film Gothika .
• Crack Addict , available as the B-side of Build a Bridge , was the theme song for the 2003 WWE Survivor Series .
• The title Red Light / Green Light is the music in a Snickers advertisement .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Chart tracking Results May Vary on officialcharts.de
4. ↑ international chart tracking Results May Vary
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Eberhard Dobler: A few alternative rock parts, otherwise everything is the same. On: laut.de. Retrieved June 17, 2011
6. ↑ Bruce Dickinson versus Fred Durst. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: whiskey-soda.de, September 25, 2003. Retrieved June 17, 2011 
7. ↑ Dickinson disses Limp Bizkit. On: laut.de, September 19, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011
8. ↑ Halle Berry plays in the new Limp Bizkit video . On: shortnews.de, October 2, 2003. Retrieved June 17, 2011
9. ↑ Awards: DE AT CH UK US EU ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
11. ↑ ^{a b} Armin Linder: The little subtle difference. On: plattentests.de. Retrieved June 17, 2011
12. ^ ^{A b} Matthias Reichel: Criticism on cdstarts.de. Retrieved June 17, 2011
13. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone ( Memento from March 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ ^{a b} Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved June 17, 2011
15. ↑ Criticism ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on whiskey-soda.de. Retrieved June 17, 2011 
16. ↑ Gothika (2003) (Soundtracks) in the IMDb, accessed on November 13, 2016
17. ^ WrestleMania XIX from Seattle / Washington . On: wrestling-infos.de. Retrieved June 17, 2011
18. ↑ Snickers Commercial - Red Light Green Light ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved from: noob.us, March 2, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011