Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third studio album by Limp Bizkit. It was released on October 17, 2000, through Flip and Interscope Records. The first part of the title is a slang term for the human anus. Hot Dog Flavored Water is an in joke started by Wes Borland at a truck stop while the band was on tour, where Borland saw bottles of Crystal Geyser flavored water, and made a joke about having meat or hot dog flavors.
Durst himself refers to the album name in three songs. First, Livin’ It Up, where he declares that, “The chocolate starfish is my man Fred Durst.”
Wes Borland has stated in an interview when questioned on the naming of the album that:
“Fred calls himself Chocolate Starfish, because people call him an asshole all the time.” Second, “Hot Dog”, where he tells his detractors to, “Kiss my starfish, my chocolate starfish,” and “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” where he mentions “Chocolate Starfish” in the introduction.
The longtime working title for the album had been “Limpdependence Day”, but this was abandoned after the band failed to meet the deadline for their original intended release date of July 4. Numerous critics and fans speculated that the name was a humorous parody of Smashing Pumpkins‘ 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Tracklist:
- Intro
- Hot Dog
- My Generation
- Full Nelson
- My Way
- Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)
- Livin’ It Up
- The One
- Getcha Groove On
- Take A Look Around
- It’ll Be Ok
- Boiler
- Hold On
- Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle)
- Outro
Limp Bizkit
Fred Durst: vocals, art direction, liner notes, photography
Wes Borland: guitars, cover art, vocals on “Snake in Your Face”
DJ Lethal: turntables, samples
John Otto: drums, vocals on “It’s Like That Y’all”
Sam Rivers: bass
Additional musicians
Scott Borland: keyboards on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12 & 13
Xzibit: vocals on “Getcha Groove On”
Scott Weiland: vocals on “Hold On”
DMX, Redman, Method Man: vocals on “Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle)”
Rich Keller: bass on “Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle)”
Stephan Jenkins, Ben Stiller, Mark Wahlberg, Rob Dyrdek: spoken word on “Outro”
Run: vocals on “It’s Like That Y’all”
Production
Produced by Limp Bizkit and Terry Date, additional production by Scott Weiland and Josh Abraham (all tracks but 9 and 14); DJ Lethal and Fred Durst (track 9); Swizz Beatz (track 14)
Executive producer: Eve Butler
Assistant executive producer: Peter Katsis
Production coordination: Erin Haley
Editing: Domenic Barbers, DJ Premier, Carl Nappa
Editing assistant: Cailan Mccarthy
Engineers: Eric B., Joe Barresi, Barney Chase, Terry Date, Jesse Gorman, Kevin Guarnieri, Scott Olson, Ted Reiger, Dylan Vaughan, Darren Venbitti, Rakim
Assistant engineers: Barney Chase, Steve Conover, David Dominguez, Jaime Duncan, Fran Flannery, Kevin Guarnieri, Femio Hernández, Matt Kingdom, Carl Nappa, Pete Novak, Ted Reiger, Doug Trantow, Alex Morfas
Mastering: Vlado Meller
Mixing: Andy Wallace (all tracks but 9, 10 and 14), Rich Keller (track 14), Brendan O’Brien (track 10), Michael Patterson (track 9)
Assistant mix engineers: Steve Sisco, Josh Wilbur, Ryan Williams, Karl Egsieker
Art coordinator: Liam Wars
