Song · Limp Bizkit
“Counterfeit” by Limp Bizkit
From the album Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ (1997)
“Counterfeit” by Limp Bizkit appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1997 and 1999. It was first released in 1997 on the album Three Dollar Bill, Yall$. Its best result is #2 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #130 alternative song of 1997 and #7,471 alternative song of all time.
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"Counterfeit" was Limp Bizkit's first single, pulled from their 1997 debut album Three Dollar Bill, Y'all, and it's a grudge match set to riffs: the band wrote it as a shot at local acts who had started copying their style. It's also the song that put Wes Borland's experimental guitar playing out front. Borland, DJ Lethal, Fred Durst, John Otto and Sam Rivers wrote it, with Durst on the words.
Ross Robinson produced it with the band, Richard Kaplan engineered, and Andy Wallace mixed it. It came back around in 1999 as a reissued single called "Counterfeit Countdown", and in 2022 Revolver's Eli Enis counted it among the 10 heaviest nu-metal songs ever.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 2 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1997 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 978 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
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