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Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Studio album by Limp Bizkit
Released	October 17, 2000
Recorded	March - June 2000 at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles, California
Genre	Alternative Metal Nu Metal Rapcore
Length	75:08
Label	Interscope Records
Producer	Josh Abraham, Swizz Beatz, Terry Date, Fred Durst, DJ Lethal, Scott Weiland
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau rating review Rolling Stone Amazon.com
Limp Bizkit chronology
Significant Other (1999) Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) New Old Songs (2001)

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third album by Limp Bizkit, first released on October 17, 2000. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and sold over a million copies in its first week breaking the record for a rock album.^{[citation needed]}

It is their most commercially successful record, with 12 million copies sold worldwide to date. The record received very mixed reviews, for example; it is featured in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die," yet also appears in Q magazine's 50 Worst Albums of All Time.

Contents 1 About the album 2 Trivia 3 Track listing 4 Personnel 5 Charts

The first part of the title is a scatological reference to the appearance of the human anus (Chocolate Starfish). However, Hot Dog Flavored Water is an inside joke started by Wes Borland at a truckstop while the band was on tour, where Wes noticed a jar of pickled eggs, and made a joke about doing the same thing with hot dogs (he took it further when he suggested they should bottle the water and sell it, hence 'Hot dog flavored water'). The cover art, which features an actual chocolate starfish amidst a field of hot dogs, is perhaps an allusion to anal sex.

Durst himself refers to the album name in both 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 naming of the album that Chocolate Starfish is a "weird nickname Fred has for himself") and Hot Dog, where he tells his detractors to "Kiss my starfish, my chocolate starfish, punk." Both lyrics make the metaphor in question quite clear. The vulgar inferences led people to mix up Limp Bizkit with fellow nineties rockers Third Eye Blind. The mix-up was caused by the similarity when Third Eye Blind's lead singer, Stephen Jenkins, says the word 'bump' in 'Semi-Charmed Life,' sounding like the f-word.

The album features several high-profile guests, including rapper Xzibit on "Getcha Groove On", Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland on "Hold On", and rappers Redman, DMX and Method Man, including production by Swizz Beats on "Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)", which is a remix of "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)". Actor Ben Stiller appears in the hidden track of "Outro" as well.

"My Generation"'s video clip featured a raucous attitude that is displayed at concerts. Limp Bizkit were surrounded in a steel fence/cage in which audience members climbed up and jumped off.

"My Way" was the official theme song of WWF WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001. The WWF (now known as World Wrestling Entertainment or WWE) used Limp Bizkit's "Rollin'" tune to signal the arrival of one of the company's greatest and legendary wrestlers, The Undertaker. He used the song in the PlayStation 2 game WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It and the Xbox game WWF RAW, both of which featured Fred Durst as a "hidden" playable character.

The song "Hot Dog" is notorious for featuring the word "fuck" 48 times. The chorus,"You wanna fuck me like an animal/You'd like to burn me on the inside", is a reference to the Nine Inch Nails' infamous hit Closer (the lyric is altered in the Bizkit version). Although during this period, a feud existed between Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor and Fred Durst, Durst still cleared the sample for this song.this song was intended as an attack on Reznor (made clear by the line "A nine inch nail that gets knocked the fuck out")

"Cum On My Shoes", "Nuthugger", "Karma", "Naive", and "Asleeping" were some of the original titles for songs on the album. None of them made the cut. They also were supposed to feature Kid Rock and the nu metal band KoRn.

The album was voted up to number 11 at Q magazine's 50 worst albums of all time.

There was a "clean" version released for the album. The lyrics in some songs cut out graphic profanities and violence, alike their Significant Other album. In "Hot Dog", in the line "A fucked up kid with a fucked up knife," the two "fucked-ups" and "knife" were left blank. The lyrics in "It'll Be OK" are oddly uncensored at different points of the song, in spite of the lines "Tell me why you fucking up my whole life/Yeah! Fucking up my whole life." In "Just wanna kill myself for you," "kill" was taken out, then both words, then "myself", then both words left in. In "Take a Look Around", for some unknown reason, the word "shitcan" is left in.

• "Livin' It Up" samples "Life In The Fast Lane" by the American rock band, Eagles.
• "Chocolate Starfish" happens to be also the name of an Australian rock group.
• "Take a Look Around" was the theme song for the movie Mission: Impossible 2.
• The video for "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" was directed by Fred Durst at the World Trade Center in late 2000. The video won the award for best rock video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards.
• Mad TV comic Will Sasso famously parodied the song Rollin' on a sketch, calling it "Posin'".
• In the album booklet in Fred Durst's thank you passage, Travis Tomko, the real name of former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler (then as Tyson Tomko) and current Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) star (as simply 'Tomko') is one of the people thanked. Also, Tomko is also shown on the adjacent page which is a collage of images.
• "Hold On" is the only mellow song on the album and is not sung about bitterness, neither are profanities used.

1. "Intro" – 1:18
2. "Hot Dog" – 3:50
3. "My Generation" – 3:41
4. "Full Nelson" – 4:07
5. "My Way" – 4:32
6. "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" – 3:33
7. "Livin' It Up" – 4:24
8. "The One" – 5:43
   • Contains the hidden track "I Want You To Stay" - (1:59)
9. "Getcha Groove On" (feat. Xzibit) – 4:29
10. "Take a Look Around" – 5:22
11. "It'll Be OK" – 5:06
12. "Boiler" – 7:00
    • Contains an interlude - (1:13)
13. "Hold On" (feat. Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots) – 5:47
14. "Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)" (feat. Method Man, Redman, DMX, and Swizz Beats)– 6:22
15. "Outro" ft. Ben Stiller – 9:49

• Redman - Vocals
• Joe Barresi - Engineer
• DJ Lethal - Producer, DJ
• DJ Premier - Editing
• DMX - Vocals
• Terry Date - Producer, Engineer
• Rich Keller - Guitar (Bass), Mixing
• Carl Nappa - Editing, Assistant Engineer
• Brendan O'Brien - Mixing
• Scott Olson - Engineer
• Michael Patterson - Mixing
• Rakim - Engineer
• Steve Sisco - Mixing
• Andy Wallace - Mixing
• Scott Weiland - Vocals, Producer
• Eric B. - Engineer
• Mark Wahlberg - Vocals
• Xzibit - Vocals
• Dan Paslay - Back-Up Vocals
• Fran Flannery - Assistant Engineer
• Doug Trantow - Assistant Engineer
• Stephan Jenkins - Vocals
• Femio Hernández - Assistant Engineer
• David Dominguez - Assistant Engineer
• Fred Durst - Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes, Art Direction, Photography
• Vlado Meller - Mastering
• Ryan Williams - Mixing
• Ben Stiller - Vocals
• Josh Abraham - Producer
• Peter Katsis - Assistant Executive Producer
• Ted Reiger - Engineer, Assistant Engineer
• Swizz Beatz - Producer
• Eve Butler - Executive Producer
• Sam Rivers - Bass
• Jesse Gorman - Engineer
• Karl Egsieker - Mixing
• Erin Haley - Production Coordination
• Rob Dyrdek - Vocals
• George Trosley - The Boss
• Dylan Vaughan - Engineer
• Wes Borland - Guitar, Cover Art
• Pete Novak - Assistant Engineer
• Kevin Guarnieri - Engineer, Assistant Engineer
• Scott Borland - Keyboards
• Domenic Barbers - Editing
• Barney Chase - Engineer, Assistant Engineer
• Steve Conover - Assistant Engineer
• Jaime Duncan - Assistant Engineer
• Matt Kingdom - Assistant Engineer
• Cailan Mccarthy - Editing Assistant
• Darren Venbitti - Engineer
• Liam Wars - Art Coordinator
• Josh Wilbur - Mixing
• John Otto - Drums
• Trent Reznor - Co-writing credit for "Hot Dog"

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2000	"My Generation"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	33
2000	"My Generation"	Modern Rock Tracks	18
2000	"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	10
2000	"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"	Modern Rock Tracks	4
2000	"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"	Modern Rock Tracks	5
2000	"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"	Rhythmic Top 40	38
2000	"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"	The Billboard Hot 100	65
2000	"Take a Look Around"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	15
2000	"Take a Look Around"	Modern Rock Tracks	8
2001	"Boiler"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	30
2001	"My Way"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	4
2001	"My Way"	Modern Rock Tracks	3
2001	"My Way"	The Billboard Hot 100	75
2001	"My Way"	Top 40 Mainstream	40

v • d • e Limp Bizkit
Fred Durst · Wes Borland · Sam Rivers · John Otto · DJ Lethal Mike Smith · Rob Waters · Scott Borland · Terry Balsamo
Albums	Mental Aquaducts · Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ · Significant Other · Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water · New Old Songs · Results May Vary · The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) · Greatest Hitz · The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2)
Singles	Counterfeit · Faith · Nookie · Re-Arranged · N 2 Gether Now · Break Stuff · My Generation · Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) · Take a Look Around · Boiler · My Way · Eat You Alive · Behind Blue Eyes · Home Sweet Home-Bittersweet Symphony
Related articles	Discography · Black Light Burns

Preceded by Rule 3:36 by Ja Rule

Billboard 200 Number-one Album November 4, 2000 - November 17, 2000

Succeeded by The Dynasty: Roc La Familia by Jay-Z