Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third album by Limp Bizkit, released on October 15, 2000 through Interscope Records. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 1.05 million copies in its first week. According to the RIAA website, the album has sold over 6 million copies in the United States alone as of 2008 and an overall 12 million worldwide. It features the singles "My Generation", "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle...
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Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third album by Limp Bizkit, released on October 15, 2000 through Interscope Records. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 1.05 million copies in its first week. According to the RIAA website, the album has sold over 6 million copies in the United States alone as of 2008 and an overall 12 million worldwide. It features the singles "My Generation", "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)", "Take A Look Around", "Boiler", and "My Way".
In August 2009, Kerrang! anointed it the 30th best album of the 21st century.
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 Borland 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 ...
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