Eat You Alive

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"Eat You Alive"
Single by Limp Bizkit
from the album Results May Vary
Released September 23, 2003
Format CD
Recorded 2003
Genre Nu metal
Label Interscope
Producer Fred Durst, DJ Lethal
Limp Bizkit singles chronology
"Boiler"
(2001)
"Eat You Alive"
(2003)
"Behind Blue Eyes"
(2003)

"Eat You Alive" is a song by the band Limp Bizkit from their fourth studio album Results May Vary (2003). The song was written by Fred Durst, John Otto, Sam Rivers and Mike Smith, and is Limp Bizkit's first single without Wes Borland, who had left the band in 2001.

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[edit] Release and reception

In promotion of the single, Durst filmed a music video featuring known actor Thora Birch.[1] The single peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[2]

Allmusic gave the single one out of five stars.[3] A 2004 readers poll published by Spin tied "Eat You Alive" with "Headstrong" by Trapt and "Me Against the Music" by Britney Spears as "worst song".[4]

"Eat You Alive" was included on the compilations Greatest Hitz (2005),[5] Collected (2008)[6] and Icon (2011).[7]

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Eat You Alive"   4:12
2. "Shot"   3:47
3. "Just Drop Dead"   4:04
Total length:
12:03

[edit] Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 16[2]

Hurensohn

[edit] References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Results May Vary - Limp Bizkit". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/results-may-vary-r657916/review. Retrieved 7 January 2012. 
  2. ^ a b "Limp Bizkit - Charts & Awards". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/limp-bizkit-p213327/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 8 January 2012. 
  3. ^ "Eat You Alive - Limp Bizkit". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/eat-you-alive-r660519. Retrieved 8 January 2012. 
  4. ^ "Bad to the Bone". Spin (SPIN Media) 20 (3): 67. doi:March 2004. 
  5. ^ Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "Greatest Hitz - Limp Bizkit". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hitz-r806177/review. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  6. ^ Christopher Monger, James. "Collected - Limp Bizkit". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-collected-r1385351/review. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 
  7. ^ Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "Icon - Limp Bizkit". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/icon-r2212178/review. Retrieved 20 December 2011. 

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