Song · Limp Bizkit
“Take a Look Around” by Limp Bizkit
From the album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000)
“Take a Look Around” by Limp Bizkit appears on 16 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2000 and 2002. It was first released in 2000 on the album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Its best result is #2 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #14 alternative song of 2000 and #252 of the '00s.
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Limp Bizkit hijacked a spy theme for "Take a Look Around". It surfaced first on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack in 2000 before turning up as the lead single and tenth track on the band's third album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. The main riff is lifted from Lalo Schifrin's original Mission: Impossible theme and run through a nu metal grinder, which is why Schifrin holds the composer credit and Fred Durst the lyric credit.
Terry Date recorded it and produced it with the band, and it's all slow-build menace, Durst sneering over a creeping groove until the guitars slam down like a vault door. It was the band's first single release in the UK, where it reached number three, and it went to number one in Iceland and Portugal. It also drew a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance, losing to Rage Against the Machine's "Guerrilla Radio".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 77 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
Also listed as: Take A Look Around.
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