Six months after
Limp Bizkit
released
The Unquestionable Truth, Pt. 1
to near universal apathy -- which is what can happen when you release an album without any promotion -- the band rushed out the compilation
Greatest Hitz
, a generous 17-track stroll through the past. Frankly, it's hard to imagine how this collection could have been executed better. While this may not contain anything from
-- which is actually kind of too bad, since it was a much better album than its 2003 predecessor,
Results May Vary
, but a cardinal rule of hits (or hitz) albums is that they should contain songs that people actually heard -- it does contain every major
MTV
or active
rock
hit the group had. Two minor charting singles are MIA -- 2000's
"Crushed"
and 2004's
"Almost Over,"
to be precise -- but anything anybody remembers is here. There's their first single,
"Counterfeit"
; there's
"Faith,"
the first of their never-ending series of embarrassing covers, is here, along with their worst (
"Behind Blue Eyes"
) and their latest (a monumentally silly medley of
Moetley Cruee
's
"Home Sweet Home"
and
the Verve
"Bittersweet Symphony"
-- one of three new songs here -- that sounds as if it were recorded alone by
Fred Durst
on Apple's GarageBand application); there are the big hits
"Nookie,"
"Break Stuff,"
"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle),"
"My Way,"
"My Generation"
; and there's
"Take a Look Around,"
their contribution to the
Mission Impossible 2
soundtrack
, which is less forgettable than the three selections from
. None of this has aged well -- as a matter of fact, it's aged incredibly quickly, sounding older than
alt-rock
hits from the mid-'90s -- but that's almost beside the point, because this does its job well, and listeners who want to have some
in their collection will find this to provide them with more of what they want than any other
Bizkit
dizc. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine