New Old Songs\nLimp Bizkit\nInterscope\nIn a way, New Old Songs by Limp Bizkit is the most predictable album of the holiday season. Don't be fooled by Bizkit's rebel pose, they are a processed product in the same way as the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and Britney Spears. New Old Songs is exactly the type of album you'd expect for the holiday season market. \nWhile it was too early for a Limp Bizkit Greatest Hits package, they chose the next best thing -- an album of remixes of the old favorites. It's all here, including five different versions of "My Way." Are you excited yet?\nBizkit trotted out the best known in the business to sell this album. \nMadonna crony William Orbit, former Nirvana and Garbage producer ButchVig, Puff Daddy, Timbaland, Everlast and Xzibit all appear in guest spots as remixers or featured artists.\nUnfortunately, the remixes shed no new light on the testosterone-fueled rockers. \nIt is also interesting that almost all of the guest remixers chose to drop the group's music, leaving Fred Durst's vocals as the only reminder that this is a Bizkit product.\nThere are a few tracks like the Neptunes' remix of "N 2Gether Now - All in Together Now" and Butch Vig's remix of "Nookie," that turn out to be good, butt-shaking, dance numbers. \nToo often though, the remixes are sound textures strikingly similar to Kraftwerk and the Beastie Boys, using their much belabored drum-box beats and techno pops and buzzes.\nIf there is one bright spot to New Old Songs, it is that it may alienate their fan base enough so we can get these guys off of the radio and television. That probably won't happen and this record will probably be in the top five its first week out. This is market opportunism at its best, because Bizkit is all about the Benjamins and doing it for the nookie, but what happened to doing it for the sake of the song? \n
