special introductory
paragraph!
Hybrid Theory
Reanimation
Meteora
Live In Texas
Minutes To Midnight
I'm about to make a crazy-eyed, controversial statement
that may offend you, but I'm feeling it deep (spelled backwards is "peed"!) inside and
the
force of my will is nearly splitting my body into two halves with discord. Here goes the
statement: Rap-metal is not going to go down in history as a good idea. No no, you
don't have to call me a blind soothsayer or a fool on wings or any of those other
epithets
you monsters use when trying to drive a genius insane - I'm sticking to my buns on this
one. So this week's entry in the rap-metal marathon is a bunch of humorless, stone-faced
men who go by the misspelling "Linkin Park."
When you shove the CD in your dick-go-pop,
the first three songs will blow me away with their exciting mixture of neat electronic
melodies, neat techno/industrial noises, rap beats and heavy metallic riffing. The
vocals
alternate between white fellow rapping and generic-voiced but note-hitting singing, and
the
choruses are REALLY anthemic, soaring and angst-ridden. They sound a lot like the best
tunes from the last few Anthrax albums - YOU know the ones I'm talking about! (insert
sound effect of crickets making cricket noises, to signify that nobody has heard the last
few Anthrax albums and that, in fact, nobody has even THOUGHT of the word "anthrax" in
years and years! Ha ha! Can you imagine having any reason to think of the word
"anthrax"? Aww jeez. This is such a wonderful day, this September 10th, 2001). But
then after track three, the neat electronic melodies suddenly disappear, the riffs turn
into
mindless, forgettable thudding and the far-too-earnest rapping starts to sound really
damn stupid. But those bombastic, pained choruses don't go away! You know
"Crawling," right? "CRAW-LING IN-MY SKIIIIIIIIN!" Well, the entire rest of the album
sounds pretty much identical to that song. The verses are unrememberable and the
choruses are catchy as heck because they are really loud and follow pre-established
"tortured" chord sequences. "Cure For The Itch" is cool though. I'm not knocking
"Cure
For The Itch.".... Especially with my gonorrhea acting up!!! HA HEHEHE!!! F
AHDHHEHEHE!!! Does gonorrhea even itch?
I mean, Christ, my 14-year-old brother, who doesn't even listen to
music, hates this crap. He wandered in one day while I was watching MTV2. The
video for In The End was playing, and I was contemplating whether or not the
CGI animators bothered listening to the song before doing their jobs.
(Probably not.) After like 10 seconds, his exact words were: "This is fucking
terrible. Turn this shit off."
Side note: I saw the funniest commercial ever the other day: Best Buy's
best of rock ad, featuring none other than Linkin Park, P.O.D. and Staind. (I
am ashamed to be from the same city in Massachusetts as those no-talent
dipshits.)
The riffs represent why I stand firmly against any bands but Anthrax and
Black Sabbath de-tuning their guitars- any fucking half-wit can play a
one-fingered power chord, which is all Brad Delson does. Oh, wait, just like
the dickhead from Papa Roach, he overuses octaves for "variety." And I love
how all rap-metal guitarists use the same cop-out when asked politely by a
guitar magazine about their total lack of instrumental ability: "When was the
last time you heard a guitar solo in a rap-metal song?"
As a matter of fact, I believe the last time I heard a guitar solo in a
rap-metal song was the last time I listened to Rage Against the Machine, who
I don't like too much, but at least, unlike every other rap-metal band, or
nu-metal band as well (Drowning Pool, Disturbed, etc.) THEY CAN ACTUALLY PLAY
THEIR FUCKING INSTRUMENTS.
But back to Linkin Park, I am forced to ask: Am I the only one who
cannot grasp the popularity of these bullshit bands like P.O.D., Drowning
Pool, Alien Ant Farm, Static-X, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Adema, Primer 55,
Staind, Spineshank, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit et al?! I can't be alone in
this.
I bet all these bands were thinking the same thing, too: "Hmm, maybe I
should tune my guitar down to C#, play the same boring chord progressions as
every other band (just in a lower register), and write songs about running
away from home, or about fighting with my parents. But it'll be different
because I won't sing the lyrics, I'll RAP them. Yeah, that'll be so
different."
Fuck de-tuned metal.
Wow, this may be longer than the review itself. In conclusion, I guess,
I'd give the album 2 stars- one for each year until Chester Bennington's
voice drops once he finishes puberty.
What's wrong with musicians following a popular trend? It's been done
throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s too. But hey music is all about
expression so they can't copy somebody else. Well if it's all about
expression maybe their just expressing themselves in the same way as
Limp Bizkit (I don't know how that bunch of talentless sell outs went
multi platinum). HEY MAYBE PEOPLE LIKE THIS STYLE OF MUSIC. Oh yeah,
fuck de-tuned metal except for the bands I like. Those are okay.
By the way, Linkin Park is actually a meld of three things. Rap, metal, and boy bands. Man, what a combo. Can it possibly get any worse on pop
radio? Whats next, rapmetal gospel music?
Eeek.....I hope no MTV execs read that suggestion.
Sorry?
What's that?
Limp Bizkit on the wireless? .... Singing a cover of
George Michael's 'Faith'? Really, really BADLY?? Wow!
Oh man this is some great stuff... Gotta have faith..
na na... ooh baby... THRASHTHRASH-THRA-THRASH... touch
your body... HUUUUURGH... oh it'd be nice...
MY GOD! I take it all back!! Rap-metal is awesome!!!
Delete and rewrite your misguided, stupid review of
the epochally magnificent Hybrid Theory at ONCE! Call
yourself a music critic...
I'm bored. I have the mother of all 500-page French
creole historical novels to read by Wednesday and I'm
sat here writing drivel. C'est la vie.
I'M SORRY, BUT I THINK LINKIN PARK ARE THE BEST BAND IN THE WHOLE WORLD! I
THINK YOU LOT SHOULD STOP CRITICISING THE GOOD MUSIC WHERE PEOPLE PLAY THERE
OWN INSTRUMENTS AND WRITE THERE OWN SONGS! I FEEL SOOOO SORRY FOR ALL YOU
LOT WITH EVER-INCREASING DEMENTED MINDS WHO THINK BRITNEY SPEARS WHERES THE
RIGHT AMOUNT OF CLOTHES! I MEAN, OOPS! MY CLOTHES FELL OFF AGAIN! LINKIN
PARK'S SONGWRITING IS THE MOST WICKED THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. AND HELLO,
HAVE YOU LOT SEEN CHESTER! AHHH! I MEAN, FIT GUYS, GREAT VOICES. WHEN HAVE
YOU HEARD AN MC AS GREAT A MIKE SHINODA! OH YEAH, I FORGOT, YOU LISTEN TO
REGURGATED CRAP THAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BRITNEY SPEARS!
I do not fucking get it, these guys go out and sell SEVEN million copies
of this wretched CD! What has become of our youth????? And I am one of
them, just turning 18. I am so ashamed of what has become of my
generation. I see them at my high school. Little suburban white rich
boys who think they are rebelling against society and their parents by
dressing punk, and having one of those dumb ass haircuts! If I'm not
mistaken, didn't punk happen in the late seventies? And also, aren't
Blink 182 in their 30s or something, and that other guy said that the
leader of Linkin Park is 30 as well! The damn Beatles broke up before
they even turned 30, and these guys are just making it! If they were so
great, what in the hell were they doing for the past ten years! (Back to
the youth)
Christ, they all fucking look the same, I thought punk was about
being different, but they are all exactly the same!!! It has to be a
giant secret underground fascist revival of loud mouth ridalin eating
teens who are all talentless musicians who can't sing for circus
peanuts. Please, if you are one of these lost children, buy some real
music, listen to the Beatles or the Stones, and if you want something
newer get the Strokes (oldest member 22 or something) or Radiohead,
almost anything is better than this mindless collection of insipid,
soulless, and bombastic crap. You straight edge fucks, take some drugs
and expand your damn minds, please!!!!!!
detuners: melvins. sonic youth. robert johnson. godheadsilo. charles mingus.
***LINKIN PARK IS A TERRIBLE BAND***
The lyrics are truly some of the worst I've ever heard, and Mike Shinoda is the second worst MC around, right behind Fred Durst. Anyone who actually thinks either of the
vocalists have talent must not listen to anything but TRL garbage. There's nothing even remotely punk about this God-awful band, either.
Since I don't feel like responding to each stupid argument for the band provided by each moron, I'm only going to pick a few.
Moronic argument #1.) "Chester really is a good singer. He has the perfect "ROCK" voice"
No, Bon Scott had the "perfect" rock voice and attitude, and did he sound like a twelve year old? Not even close. I'm also fairly sure that if someone would have asked him to
sing the line "I had fall / To lose it all / But in the end, it doesn't even matter," he would have shanked them in the throat and pissed on the gaping wound.
Also, if I can't fucking stand a band's shitty CD, like Hybrid Theory, why the fuck would I want to see them live?!
Moronic argument #2.) "You can relate to their lyrics. You can get a different message out of their lyrics every time you listen to the cd, it just depends on what kind of mood
your in."
If you can relate to shit like "crawling in my skin / these wounds they will not heal," then you must admire Blink-182 for their incredibly deep lyrics as well. Watching my
21-year old roommate sing along to their songs makes me want to shit blood.
To the girl who thinks we al listen to Britney, I say the following: fix that Caps lock key, and also, pay much better attention in your freshman English class next year, when
you begin high school.
And Roland, "So what if their sound is "trendy", as long as the music is decent"?! Thing is, it's not "decent." It's boring. It's the same boring crap that bands before have
played, and bands after will play. All they did was take a well-defined sound created by dozens of bands before them and add nothing to it.
It's almost like if a bunch of Rage Against The Machine fans said "Well, we want to be just like them... except I can't play guitar, he can't rap, the other guy can't write lyrics or
rap so he sings in a very annoying voice, the drummer only knows one basic beat, we have a useless DJ, and the bassist just follows the incredibly basic guitar lines. But we
still want to be just like them."
Fucking wankers.
Last night, we sat in a dorm room, waiting for several of his friends to
arrive (standard 20-something upper-middle-class kids wearing Gap clothes
and 'hip' black jackets) when they blasted Linkin Park from the nearby
computer, and every time someone would enter the room they blew up about how
good they were, and how original they sounded. "Nobody sounds like this
band! How'd they get so big?" And well, while I kept my mouth shut about
this absurd comment, it really just wanted to put on the latest by Bjork or
Buffalo Daughter and cry for the death of good taste....
LINKIN PARK ARE SOOOOO KOOL THERE MUSIC IS WHICKED!!! CHESTER BENNINGTON IS THE MOST NECTA MAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROCK
INDUSTRY HE IS SO GOOD LOOKING, MIND MIKE IS OK TO, HEHE
I THINK THAT THEIR MUSIC IS REALLY GREAT COS YOU CAN RELATE TO IT NO MATTER WHAT MOOD YOUR IN
IT REALLY SENDS A MESSAGE ACROSS
OHHH YEAH AND CHESTER IS FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember the days as youth where I would remove people from their bad taste (or their good but limited taste e.g. all zeppelin or all stones etc.) with a good
dose of The velvets, the stooges, The feelies (this was the 80s alright?) and so on, slowly building them up to The Sex Pistols, the Damned, Husker Du, the
Replacements etc. Usually they ended up starting indie punk bands.
Do you think it is possible to do that with the kids today? I certainly hope so-some of the posters on this thread give me hope-as the man says in Galaxy
Quest-"never give up, never surrender".
Moving on, this stuff really isn't as good as everyone thinks it is. The moment radio and MTV stop
overplaying it, people will forget who the f*ck Linkin Park are. Just like everyone has forgotten about Limp
Bizkit.
By the way, "My December" might be one of the most boring songs played on the rock radio in years.
The songs sond very much alike, indeed. Even with
that, it could be a good album if the songs had some
kind of originality and "deep" aspect. But what you
hear is the oh-so-established nu-metal cliches by
bands like Limp Bizkit and KoRn. There is a thin line
between inspiration and imitation. Linkin Park fits in
the second category, for sure. The screaming is so
irritating 'coz it's so monotonous and by the end of
the CD it's pretty sure that the singer doesn't show
any emotion but just ... screaming. The rapping? Well,
just when you thought Fred Durst thought he is the
most tough rapper in rock, you've got this poser from
Linkin Park - Mike ... whatever his last name is. Am I
the only one that can't stand him? Since when did he
decide to take up rapping? Guess just to fit the
rap-rock trend. Can you say P-O-S-E-R? The rest of the
group is just like what the ugly boys from N*Sync are.
They are just ... there. So I guess I would give them
a 3.
On another note, I'm sick of the teenyboppers who
think they listen to "real" rock by listening to
Linkin Park. No wonder the majority of their fan base
is below 13 years old, which means that they haven't
developed their own music taste. As far as I read the
comments here I can say that my thoughts are right ...
there wasn't any intellegent comment from a Linkin
Park fan, so far. No wonder people are getting bored
of Linkin Park. Here very few people like them and
they are all N*sunc fans too. Oh, the irony :)
1. Did ANYBODY here mention anything good about Britney Spears?
2. Did anybody say they were a fan of hers?
Since the answer to both one and two are NO....
3. Why do Linkin fans start with some tirade about us all being Britney Spears fans or NSync fans?
4. Can we please get a halfway intelligent Linkin fan here? Or is that an oxymoron?
I think the reason that we haven't gotten any intelligent people who don't
have much of a problem with Linkin Park is because whereas the idiotic fan
will become so shocked by the discovery of a negative opinion towards the
band that they will deny its existance and react violently in a flippant
attempt to cope with the shock, the person who actually DOES have some taste
in music, who knows about the underground scene and the ire that underground
music audiences show towards mainstream rock, yet enjoys some of the band's
music for some strange reason will just become worn by all the declarations
of inferiority and feel too confused and ashamed to even respond. I know
this because that's how *I* feel, yet I'm going to try and respond anyway.
I guess the reason I don't hate Linkin Park so violently is because I
actually haven't experienced any of their younger followers or mainstream
media touting them as the new Jesus, nor have I heard any interviews with
them proclaiming themselves as such, so I don't have the bias of those who
aren't in a position to ignore such things. Take Creed, for example. I
actually don't hate their music as much as the average non-sheep, and while
I certainly wouldn't want to listen to Human Clay every day for the rest of
my life, I do have to admit they have *some* modicum of instrumental prowess
and melody. However, there's no getting around the fact that as people the
band are a bunch of dicks, and visually they're so pretentious that they
probably make Yngwie Malmsteen uncomfortable. Plus there's the annoying
Christian overtones in their lyrics. That alone is enough to drive me to
make cruel jokes about them and present opinions of their music that are
often more negative than I normally feel.
I think what a lot of the people here on this board are lacking is
PERSPECTIVE. It's easy to lump Linkin Park in with the likes of bands that
ARE truly terrible like Drowning Pool and Papa Roach. But unlike the
aformentioned neanderthal bands, their music does have melodies, some even
decent. They may not be entirely original, but they're THERE, dammit!
Where's the melody to "Down With the Sickness"? And the lyrics, though
cliche'd and also often unorginal, sometimes show SOME semblance of
intelligence, even if the subject matter often says otherwise. It's no
Dylan, byt you can't deny there's a pretty big gap between "And the memory
now is like the picture was then / When the picture's crumbled, it can't be
perfect again" and "It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up
/ Everything is fucked / Everybody sucks".
Another reason I don't mind LP all that much is that I don't take them quite
as seriously as most cynical listeners. Sure there's quite a bit of
juvinility in the lyrics and music, but when you don't put any pretensions
on yourself it sort of lends itself to a form of comic relief. It's
exaggerated drama. Entertainment. Now if I read an interview with Chester
Bennington claiming the line "Shut up when I'm talking to you" to be full of
deep meaning and a powerful, mind-expanding poetic statement, I'll be sure
to break every peice of electronic equipment containing that song in two.
But as for now I can have FUN listening to the overt kitschiness of the
lyrics. It's pretty much my main attraction to the music. So why do I
still state heavy dislike for the millions of Korn clones who have similar
comic value? Because behind said drama, songs like "Papercut", "Runaway"
and "In the End" do have solid, catchy hooks and nice melodies making them
somewhat listenable, wheras crap like "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" have
absolutely ZIP to offer musically.
Why do teenagers buy Hybrid Theory, you ask? Same reason I find myself
listening to it repeatedly despite the shame; 1) The songs are really
catchy, and they bounce around in your head all day to the point where you
get the urge to listen to them again even when you know better, and 2)
Teenagers can relate to the lyrics. While I'm not about to write a 5 page
essay detailing the theraputic factors of "In the End", nor claim "By
Myself" as a poetic masterpiece worthy of being mentioned alongside the
works of Roger Waters or Greg Graffin, they say more about what's on my mind
than, say, anything that Paul McCartney has ever wrote. I mean, how exactly
is the average teenager going to relate to the writings of John Anderson or
Mark E. Smith? One of the main reasons I have no desire to listen to
bubblegum dance pop is that all of it is celebrating boy/girl love
relationships, and I'm not, have not been in, nor plan to be in a
relationship anytime soon, so I just can't identify with it.
In summary, we all have our guilty pleasures. It just so happens that when
a guilty pleasure is taken as something higher than such it, and the people
who enjoy it, become the victims of critical people's emotinal retribution,
which is why this page is filled to the brim with angry responses, yet the
Madonna page is surprisingly stagnant in terms of society-focused
negativity. Fuck, I'm started to feel ashamed for defending Linkin Park.
Guess I better go listen to some Emperor to cleanse myself...
I'd firstly have to say that Hybrid Theory is one awsome cd. It's the
first cd I've bought where I actually like all of the songs.You go out
and buy a cd and listen to it. Normally there are a few good songs.
Otherwise, the rest are crap as. Not with Hybrid theory. All of you
people critisizing them, go get stuffed. I'd like to see all you guys go
out, create new music like them and hit it big and get crowds the sizes
they get. Linkin Park are bloody awsome. Their next cd will be wicked
as. As good as the first. Maybe even better. You never know.
As for my two cents on Linkin Park, I do agree that they're somewhat more melodic, interesting, and intelligent than most of the bands they get lumped with, and I don't mind
them at all. But honestly... Who would spend money and time on this when there are so many bands out there that are actually great. And I'm curious... Of the devoted Linkin
Park fans on this page, I wonder how many are actually familiar with the works of, say, Alice In Chains, Marillion, and Pink Floyd, three "angsty" bands I find myself turning
to when I'm in a bad mood and need something to identify with.
Too bad the rest of the album that I've heard only convinces me that the band should be murdered. Basically, WBinder007 hit the nail on the head. There is nothing remotely
creative or interesting about this band, it's just more rap-metal exploitation crap that we'll hopefully all forget in a month.
To all the apparently braindead Linkin Park fan club members (they are a pop band, you know, just like NSync) who believe "you can relate to the lyrics!" - well, trust me, it
ain't hard to write a line like "crawling in my skin/these wounds they will not heal". It takes some effort to write something NOT so hackneyed, so cliched, so predictable, so
boring. Face it - this MTV slop that has been shoved down your throat HAS NO REAL DEPTH. It's infantile chest beating by petulant, angsty suburban white kids. (I'm a
young, angsty, quasi-suburban white kid but you don't see me recording cheesy "rap-metal"). This is basically worthless. Sure, it looks cool to request on your TRL show and
such, but if you look a little further than what's shoved down your throat you can find some real music.
Ok this is um.. Rap Metal am I correct? Ok I have only heard two songs on the radio by this band and they are both mediocre and pretty much
lame. First off this IS NOT METAL. It does not resemble metal in anyway. There is no thrashing, no blast beats, no deadly guitar work, no guttural
vocals and no one is singing about fucking their dogs and raping their mothers. If anything it resembles ALTERNATIVE ROCK mixed with some
rapping parts. It is easy to see why so man rich upper class kids would jump on something like this thinking they are REBELLING when all they are
doing is bending over letting commercialism shove one more dick in their ass. Because in their sheltered lives where their only way reaching any
kind of music is MTV this would seem really radical to a lame ass tard who doesn't know shit about shit.
Park have this thing where they fool dumbasses into thinking they are heavy by doing this thing where the singer will sing like a complete whiny
faggot wuss then when the chorus comes he will scream out the lines. Sounds like a fucking little spoiled fag who should be slapped. Thing is it
wouldn't be bad if were SCREAMING THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SONG instead of backing down when Mr.Radio Safe waves his hand
signifying if he screams one more second the song will not fall into the prewritten radio safe pattern of music. Another laughable thing is how shitty
the songs are to begin with, the guitar work is lame and has been done 20 million times before and will be done again. De Tuned my fucking ass,
hear some fucking Devourment if you want something de-tuned.
And the band themselves, they look like a GAP commercial and have been assembled by Record Execs looking for a quick buck before Rap Metal
goes out next week. Anyways even in the world of radio safe manufactured Mcdonalds Core rock this is mediocre. Korn is a fucking shitty band
but I'll be damned if Follow The Leader wasn't a well made piece of shit (btw I do not own any of these CDs, like Michael Jackson's Thriller,
through other people you unwillingly are forced to listen to it at least once in your life) (amusingly enough Nu-Metal fans were all over that album
when it came out, now it be considered WHACK to like it cause it be OLD YO, you can just see the longevity of the music can't you?)
Some people act like there's really no such thing as a "sell out." Oh
but there is my music purchasing friends. A sell out is a band that
makes its music according to marketing strategies and mass consumer
desire, and in the end, for a big load of money that the band usually
doesn't see anyway because a record company always finds a way to tax
everything they can so they can keep their private jets and their
multimillion dollar fine oak desks, while each band member pulls in
about $20,000 a year after taxes. So they make as much money as a
fucking secretary. And these people are supposedly the great musical
deity that kids think is the BEST NEW BAND BECAUSE A BEST BUY
COMMERCIAL TOLD ME IT'S ON THE "BEST OF NEW ROCK" COLLECTION.
I used to post reviews here mainly to rant about Metallica selling
out. I was a bit harsh, mostly bored, and shocked, SHOCKED!!!!!!!
that a band that was pre-established would "change its sound" that
coincidentally was softer and more marketing friendly. But I think I
was a bit harsh. The enemy really isn't individual bands like this
(especially since they can put out a catchy song or two, make a
single, and then disappear). The real enemy is the record companies
that tie everyone down with a huge dollar sign. I don't blame them
for wanting to make money. I blame them for wanting to make all the
money they possibly can, they're getting too greedy, and it's biting
them right in the fucking face.
So when we target a specific band, like this one, or a few others I
won't mention (their names start with KISS STYX METALLICA), we may get
too touchy, because we aren't thinking of the band itself. We're
thinking about something more important than the band, we're thinking
of the PRINCIPLE of a company brainwashing us into believing that
their marketing division's fabrication is really art made by people
with free will and an artistic statement or ideal.
This is not a rant.
PS: Linkin Park sucks anyway.
ALL you guys need to get a life! What Is your idea of fun sittin here and dissin linkin park!?!?! I'm pretty sure there makin a LOT more money than you, and
are prolly WAY more talented than all of ya put together!~ so why don't u just shut the fuck up! Thanx
not to mention the NO ORIGINALITY PART OF THIS SHIT!!!! THEY SOUND JUST LIKE POD AND PAPA
ROACH AND ADEMA, WHIUCH I MIGHT MINTION SUCK TOO...music need originality...as a very
wise man once told me..."its better to be an original band but be shitty than it is to be
good at ripping other bands off...theyre all ripping off mid 90s good music like nirvana
and rhcp. i mean, my band "three geeks and a red head" have our own original kind of music
which we feel may not be the best music but we can do what we believe in. all mtv does is
advertise for pop! backstreet boys were more original than linkin park as much as i hate
to say it! all kids do is get sucked into mainstream bullshit liek lp and abercrombie!
bring back the good music...will some band step up to the plate and do a favor for music
and SAVE IT!!!!! i mean, even fucking ozzy osbourne sold his soul to the devil known as
mtv.....he lied when he said he sold hios soul for rock n' roll...hes just as bad now as
linkin park...ozzfest is just a scham to get a few goths to kill themselves...thanks a lot
ozzy!!!! NOT!!!! U RUINED URESLF OZZ, U COULDA BEEN SOOO MUCH BETTER!!BUT I GUESS U LOST
CONTROL MAN!!! E-MAIL YOUR OPINION TO ME AT bigred40009@mac.com or RYAN CHARTIER at
ryanchartier@msn.com
THIS ONE TIME...AT BAND CAMP...MY FRIEND JIMMY TOOK OUT HIS LINCOLN PARK CD AND POPPED IT
IN...I GOT SO MAD IN FRUSTRATION I SMASHED THE KID OVER THE HEAD WITH BASIC PSALMS OF
ROCK N ROLL LYNYRD SKYNYRD GIMME BACK MY BULLETS CD AND STRANGELD HIM WITH A LED ZEPPELIN
SHIRT TO SHOW THE RESPECT FOR HOW LED ZEP AND SKYNYRD CAN KICK MTVS ASS ANYDAY...I ALSO GOT
VERY SICK WITH THE MODERNIO TWATILISTICAL VENSISIO DESISE OR FOR SHORT M.T.V....I ALMOST
DIED AND NOW IM LUCJY TO BE ALIVE..THANKS CHESTER U RUINED MY LIFE!!!!!! WHYD U HAVE TO
WRITE SUCH UNMEANINGFUL SHITTY LYRICS?!!!?!?!?!?!
As for the album, I've heard two songs off of it. They were both pretty unassuming. Songs that can float by without making me perk up on some level
often tell me to stay away from the band. I usually take this advice. To Linkin Park fans: like them all you want, but realize you will outgrow them,
because they can never do more for you than they can right now at 14-16, and that makes them very pathetic. Also realize they are very old(30 years
old!) to be playing such silly music.
I got some Motorhead records with your name on them, dude.
1. I haven't seen the band ever before, meaning I'm not gay and not a teenie bopper.
I am a huge rock fan though... Mainly mainstream, but to prove that I REALLY like them and not trying to be cool is that I live in Jersey City, New
Jersey meaning that 95% of the people hate rock and listen to the three genres I listed before... I only have two friends who listen to rock. I had a
third, but he decided to be part of the "in crowd" and drop rock and make believe he likes rap/hip-hop.
Back to Linkin Park... I say some people who liked Linkin Park, and don't like them now, say they don't like them because of the teenie bopper factor.
Teenie boppers started to buy the cd and you rockers don't want be associated with those boppers so you HAVE to leave Linkin Park and bash them...
which is sad, I'm ashamed of ya'll who did that!
" I've had voice training and Chester Bennington's
voice is actually one of the better one's out there, "
Hey...guess what. I've had voice training too. 10+
years of it. And he sucks. End of story. He could
be in a boy band with a voice like that, except he's
probably too "tuff" for them. Whatever that means.
Very interesting. I'll just put my two cents in, diss LP but not everyone who likes them because you are including me in the disscussion.
I like Linkin Park, its the only "alternative" music I actually bought besides various club/dance music and rap (majority I didn't even buy). I don't own cable, I'm too broke to own merchandise, and the few friends who like LP also happen to be in the same situation.
So why do I like it? I can relate. (ex. wth>you) Then again, "mindless" music comments have been aimed countlessly to the listeners of rap and techno/trance/house/happy hardcore/break-beat type music. Obviously the people who made the comments hate those genres.
I really don't care about the strings or w/e bs some of you are arguing. I pretty much get the same satisfaction as I would on the other genre and moreso. Email me sometime.
wow, odd you should say that! I notice its becoming incresingly ok to have
some Crue et al stuffed in the back of your cd rack these days isnt it if
you are doing it with a hint of irony....
And theres your answer folks, in the midst of the "Hey, lets all sound like
Korn" slew of post grunge nonsense Linkin Park, though about as likely to
leave a long imprint on my record collection as GG Allin was to sing
delicate Jazz in a white tux are in fact the Whitesnake of the numetal crop
- you hate em, theyre pretty boys and they have big silly glossy albums that
kids and girlies like.... but damn try getting those chorouses out of your
head!!!!
In he current climate, give me these guys over Eminems new stuff, Britney
and any boy/girl group you can name anyday... at least its a bit of rock n
roll entertainments and Chesty Barraclough or whatever the bald dudes name
is can sing as opposed to grunt!
not that its any good of course!
and yeah, so what if there are teeny boppers? boo fucking hoo-its not linkin parks fault, its MTVs fault..theres always ganna be a group of people who just fuck everything up for the real fans...
another thing that fuckin pissed me off is how u retards say how linkin park's chester bennington & mike shinoda have "no talent" who the fuck are you to go and say that? like you fucking retards have any talent yourselves? oh yeah sorry, your too fucking lazy to get off the computer chair because ur too fuckin busy whining & complaining about how famous millionaires have "no talent"-hey, if they sell, it obviously MEANS something doesnt it?
get a fucking life
Anyway, your comment about them being "humorless, stone-faced men" is what actually bothered me. What are you looking at? The picture on the back of the album where they're standing there? Well no fucking duh, usually bands don't have promo pictures of them busting up laughing and rolling on the ground. I reccomend you check out Linkin Park's DVD, Frat Party At The Pancake Festival to see how they really are. If you don't feel like spending money, then I recomend you check out some episodes of LPTV. Next time you make an assumtion about a band, at least make sure it's right. Please respond, although I dought you will because that's how people like you are
There albums ARE Fuckung shit and would be better being used for toilet paper!. All there gay ass albums have ben only like 15 20 minutes that bullshit!
Most band make albums every year but the assholes from warner make a gay ass cd they dont give it time the little fucks
dont complane about the speling
stay (sic) maggots and children of corn
(a half hour later)
well i have to add more to wut i just wrote u or whatever u are. well i don't think black sabbath or all those other shitty heavy metal bands rock at all at least with linkin park u can HEAR and UNDERSATND what chester and mike are saying. they don't sound like blah blah blah blahviwanna die!! right cause listening to that kind of fucking music can probably make u retarded well what do u know no wonder u guys that are all lp,limp bizkit and all RAP ROCK SUUUUCKS!!! are all stupid and dropping out of high school cause the crappymusic that u listen is telling u UR TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL!! well isn't that funny. WELL ALL U WANNABE HARD CORE I LISTEN TO REAL ROCK WANNABE I LOVE OZZY,IRON MAIDEN,BLACK SABBATH LISTENERS DON'T HAVE A MIND OF YOUR OWN. JUST WAIT AND SEE WHEN UR DEPRESSED I KNOW UR GONNA POP IN A LINKIN PARK CD AND ENJOY IT. i respect all linkin park and rap metal/punk rock listeners whether i know u or not and all u HATERS DON'T KNOW WUT REALL MUSIC IS!
Keep It Real!!!
I dont listen to heavy metal music, cuz i just dont like that kind of music, but yeah, linkin park has helped me through so much when i was feeling like shit. Don't say that linkin park sucks because there are people out there who respect the music just as much as you respect your Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and other heavy metal bands, etc. so watch what you fucking say.
you can email me @ akaako69@hotmail.com if you wanna say something about what i just said
FUCK YOU
Linkin Park is not a boy band, and the rumors you heard about them being put together by their label...thats a bunch of bull shit. It actually makes me laugh, OKay I will gladly give you the history of them...
Delson and emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda attended the same high school together, where Delson also met the bandƒ?Ts drummer, Rob Bourdon. Shinoda then hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying painting at the Pasadena Art Center. The final piece in the puzzle was singer Chester Bennington, a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when he was sixteen.
Linkin Park's origin began in 1996 when rapper guitarist Brad Delson and the
infamouis Mike Shinoda started a band called Xero. Other members of the
band were Mark Wakefield the vocalist, Joseph
Hahn the DJ, Rob Bourdon the drummer, and "Phoenix" Farrell the bassist.
Xero made a four track demo tape including: Fuse, Stick N' Move, Rhinestone,
and Reading My Eyes.
When Mark Wakefield left the band, they changed their name to Hybrid
Theory. Later "Phoenix" chose to leave the band to tour with another band,
called"The Snax". The rest of the gang continued to play together primarily
for fun. They later, signed with Zomba Music an occasion that came about
when they played at The Whiskey Club in Los Angeles. The final addition to
the band came in the form of Chester Bennington. (Chester while in high school was in a band for years called Grey Daze they actually have an EP out) They then changed their name to Hybrid Theory but due to some legal wrangling made it necessary to change the band's name. True to their "hybrid' spirit Linkin Park was chosen. Members drove by Lincoln Park regularly so why not use a similar sounding, unique name. Chester has been
recorded to say he wanted a name which was unique, "where the music could
define the name rather than the name define the music". Phoneix pulled a
mythical rebirth and rejoined the band fulfilling his destiny. New demos
were made and the chase for a record label was on. Warner Records were lucky
to hear the music, like it and sign up Linkin Park. A massive page in their
history was written.
By the way to the people that are throwing a fit about their ages when they first came out with Hybrid Theory, well since your so interested in knowing okay, Chester isn't 30 something...when Hybrid Theory came out he was about 24/25...mike is exactly one year younger, brad is the same age as mike, joe and Phoenix are around the same age as mike and brad, and Rob is the baby of the band.
OKay well I hope you enjoyed learning something about a band that you obviously knew nothing about......and that one guy even spelled their name wrong...its not lincoln its Linkin...
Also Their songwriting has helped me and about millions of other people about things in our personal lives....and I think them every day for that...
Now, someone commented here that most of the people who don't like Linkin Park are high school drop outs that wear all black and don't wash their hair. Actually, even though I like wearing black (it's a slimming color), I have an exceptional level of hygiene and I'm rather intelligent and I don't plan on dropping out of high school. Just because a large amount of people in one area adore a band, doesn't mean everyone does. Most people that are punk (for lack of a better term-I hate labels) and metal heads dislike such bands as well; everyone is diverse so don't get pissed because people have their opinion. This just happens to be mind. I'm not saying that Linkin Park sucks...I'm just saying that I can play bass better, I can sing better, and don't confuse rap with metal, it ain't a good combination. If you fans want to get pissed off, go ahead. I don't really care, because it just shows your level of immaturity to not accept someone else's uniqueness. Oh, album rating! I give it a two, cos there are two songs I can tolerate. The rest is shat at its finest.
1. I know other good music too, such as Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and listen to them sometimes.
Now if one more teenybopper fan on here tries to tell people Linkin Park is a good band by saying: YEEAHHHH LINKIN PARK ROCKS DON'T DIS THEM WOOOO.
That is all.
What I mean by that is that they have only a couple of chords, and the play them over and over throughtout that chorus or verse. Have you ever heard Brad or Mike break into a badass guitar solo? Nope. Compare the songs of Linkin Park to some of Sublime. Different genre, yes, but the guitar sounds are WAY different, as in Sublime actually has guitar solos in their music, but Linkin Park strums on one main chord throughout the song.
I kind of fell bad, dissing my own favorite band...but I've realized that they're not what I thought they were before. Either way, I'll always love them above any other band, because they've saved me...saved me from myself. With that being said, you have your opinions, and I have mine.
Now, in 2004, I don't know if Linkin Park will keep on selling. Maybe the
will sell more, maybe they won't. But what I wanna say, is that mainstream
music is getting worse with the time. I'm not the person that thinks that is
"cool" to criticize anything that sells more than some copies, but c'mon.
Many people don't know how to listen to good music nowadays. I've heard some
songs but I don't have Hybrid Theory. I just think that people that love
this band, are not the most smart people in the world. Trust me, I know
that. I know how they are and reading the emails of those that defend them,
is easy to notice how immature and/or ignorant that they are.
First off, the only intelligent thing you said was you liked Black Sabbath.
Linkin Park is not, "Rap Metal," and there most certainly not, "New Metal,"
but the things you were describing seemed to be characteristics of emo, or
bubble gum punk. Linkin Park is there own bread called Hybrid (i.e. Hybrid
Theory). In all the other bands you insulted and compared to Linkin Park you
can tell were the rock verse is and were the rap verse is and were the
Electro Bridge is; Linkin Park is a pure mix, a, "HYBRID." You can't tell
when there doing rock, or rap, or electro, each on is going on all the time,
that's why there popular because know one has bin able to do that before.
And you dissted Blink 182; A nether one of my favorite bands, It's called
PUNK, have you ever heard of it?????? I bet if you listened to the Sex
Pistols, or the Ramones, or the Clash, or The Offspring, you would say they
blow too. It makes me sick that you can't identify talent when you hear it,
but spit on it because you try to keep a death metal image to be cool. I bet
you own a pair of Chucks too. The only reason you don't like LP is because
you're too, "Metal," to accept rap and electro in metal music.
"Cure for the itch." The last time I can remember a song done by a band that
was written to showcase a members talent was by a little band called, "Led
Zeppelin," and that song was Moby Dick, and it showcased John Bonhams
drumming skills.
To end - LP Rules - Fuck you - And I don't know what your 15yo brother was
on, but I'm 15 and I know more about music than the both of you.
And tell your room mate he fucking rules
"i think its really damn funny that a bunch of you fucking retards who hate
linkin park would actually spend time and write this shit about them..do you
want a fucking medal for not liking them? Heres a fucking idea: go shove a
fork up your fucking ass and go listen to what you think is real music..you
dont have the fucking right to go & say that shit about the members of
linkin park & theyre fans."
What is your point? This is a comments section. Is it not for giving both
positive and negative reviews of the album?
Let's face it, this is the site of MARK PRINDLE. You know, the guy who
listens to real music like Metallica, The Melvins, The Meatmen, and so on?
This guy is getting an audience with tastes quite reminiscent of his own,
and many of these people have sought out freedom from the
corporate-dominated, cookie-cutter mind-frying crotch-rot music humping gear
on the TV screen where you're likely to see a bunch of sports clothes toting
gimps shoving gestures back and forth while shouting "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HE
SAID SHE SAID BULLSHIT".
Also, I wouldn't hold my breath on the rest of us refraining from saying
'shit about the members of linkin park & theyre fans', especially when... Oh
wait, I'm about to get bitter, aren't I? Ah, yes, I guess I'll say it...
Especially when we get fans like you who pump up angst-driven banter in
between writing the word 'fuck' 12 times while suddenly turning around to
kiss the ass of a band that makes so-called 'music' that repeats the same
old distorted detuned chords over and over in the midst of uninspired 2-beat
drums while rappers and/or whiney-voiced singers chip in on crummy teenage
angst. Admitted, the lyrics can be related to and they DO have some abstract
thought and creative metaphor that illustrate their point... But the way
it's presented is simply horrible.
"And yeah, so what if there are teeny boppers? boo fucking hoo-its not
linkin parks fault, its MTVs fault..theres always ganna be a group of people
who just fuck everything up for the real fans..."
Oh, but it IS Linkin Park's fault. I'm not accussing them of being
teenyboppers, but if there's anything or anyone to blame for them joining
MTV, it certainly has to be them, correct?
I'm not sure if any further comment is necessary.
"another thing that fuckin pissed me off is how u retards say how linkin
park's chester bennington & mike shinoda have "no talent" who the fuck are
you to go and say that? like you fucking retards have any talent yourselves?
oh yeah sorry, your too fucking lazy to get off the computer chair because
ur too fuckin busy whining & complaining about how famous millionaires have
"no talent"-hey, if they sell, it obviously MEANS something doesnt it?
get a fucking life"
Do you honestly think that if people give a detailed and reasoning criticism
on why they think the band's music sucks that they are simply jealous and
have absolutely no talent themselves? I may not be these sorts of people,
but I kind of doubt that they'd accuse a band of not being talented without
at least feeling remotely credible. Personally, I think that Chester
Bennington is crisp with his vocals, but nonetheless abuses them the wrong
way, either breaking down into an annoying flow of ape-like screaming or
whining his way to the point in which you can just picture him just twisting
his face and wailing like one of those little toddlers in the 50's style
pro-paintings you find in one of those Christmas postcards.
At any rate, of course these sorts of albums are going to sell: Because
they're masked, cut-corner, cookie-cutter, angsty, mostly thoughtless and
easy to digest. People from all over the world are going to dig this because
grasp on real music is being degraded to the point in which most people just
let their minds decay on this music that can be gulped down like a seltzer.
There's a REASON I'd rather listen to Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast or
Testament's Souls of Black as opposed to this shitting cop-out, and it's not
just because it's 'old', or because it's some type of minority trend to hate
bands like this. It's because it's REAL metal. There's THOUGHT put into the
work. There's TALENT in the instrumental use. Hell, there's even more of an
actual background to these sorts of bands rather than a history of being
fantasizing outlets by infatuated 14-year-old girl chumps.
Jeez Mark, where do they get these people?
Hybrid Theory::
Papercut 01 - This clearly has a catchy verse aswel as chorus "Why does it
feel like night today?Something in here's not right today.
Crawling 05 - Seriously.. the only reason a fan of Metal/Rock music could
not like this song is jealousy they didnt come up with it theirselves.. you
really should listen to the lyrics on this one, you'll understand a hell of
alot more of LP's lyrics if you listen to them, and the crackly voice? if
you could do that any better then where the hell is your name in the music
industry.
In The End 08 - Any fan of music loves this song, if you dont then you
seriously need to listen to more music than Screamo and Emo shit, do you not
like it because Shinoda doesnt mention slitting your wrists or death? this
song was written as a resemblance to someone's failure in something, maybe u
should listen to it more if u fail to realise this is one of the best songs
ever, and has quite possibly the most catchy lyrics of the whole album and
back when this was first released in 2001 as a single it was sang everywhere
by everyone... because they didnt like it? that would make sense...O.o, and
now for the part you dont know, In the end was first wrote as a poem then
made into a song for Hybrid Theory... now if that isnt impressive to make a
small poem into a Number 1 hit.. you seriously need some help.
Cure For The Itch 11 - Ok, i take it alot of you find this one good due to
the beats which makes me think you dislike lyrics all together... This is
definately one cool ass song, but if beats is all you want to hear i suggest
you try listenning to ReAnimation you might prefer that.
Additional Comments::
Forgetting that the album I'm discussing is just a bunch of bland hip-hop with no catharsis (they even dulled the edges in "Crawling," which is like the only Linkin Park song I actually honestly LIKE), I finally figured out what Stinkin Park is: They're a dumbed down version of Faith No More. I urge, MAJORLY urge all Linkin Park fans to visit the Faith No More page on my web site (http://www.markprindle.com/faithnomore.htm) to read about a rap-metal band with BRAINS. Linkin Park rewrite the same fucking song over and over and over again, with a boring rap verse and anthemic sung chorus. Faith No More did that too at times, but the results were stunning. Check out the song "Midlife Crisis" if you can. That's Linkin Park done RIGHT. So is "Crawling," you understand. I love the chorus in "Crawling." But most of their songs are just full of poor chord sequence choices. But this is all off-topic. ON-TOPIC, this is a boring attempt at remixing rap-metal tracks into rap-electronica tracks. The guitars are nearly all obliterated. But - hey, the chorus to "In The End" is good too! "In the end it doesn't even matter." That's good stuff! Here's the deal with Linkin Park in general: BOMBASTIC ANGST. I was a teenager once and holy SHIT did I feel angst. Being a teenager sucks because your hormones are running wild, you're interested in girls, you're lonely, your parents don't understand you and Linkin Park's loud obvious choruses like "I wanna run away! I wanna know the truth! I wanna know the answers! I wanna shut the door and open up my mind!" totally say exactly what you're thinking. Even though they're all in their mid-20s and fucking morons. But hey - they're fucking morons making a lot more money than I am! Presumably, anyway. I shouldn't make assumptions. As Samuel L. Jackson once said, "If you make an assumption, you're making an ass out of 'u' and 'umption.'" Hilarious piece of dialogue. I don't remember a single other bit of that movie, including the title, but what a great line! Loud guitars are a powerful tool, but this album deletes them in the name of "remixes." Fuck you, the hip-hop culture. You're boring.
"My cock's so hard, it shot so far
I put my fist in you. Pushed as far as it could go.... etc." (yes they actually had to sing the words et and cetera because Latin music is big these days)
And the verses were just "Birdie/Birdie in the sky/Why'd you doody/in my eye?" repeated over and over again. That's some serious rapping you know.
Anyway, I wanted to say that I luff your reviews. That's Hybrid for Love and laugh. Do I owe Linkin Parka royalties now?
Too much of the production relies on the "empty, tinny rap verse merges into heavy nu-metal chorus" cliche, and it gets really goddamned samey after a while (especially after you realize that both "From The Inside" and "Numb" are complete rewrites of "Crawling," down to using the exact same chord changes in the chorus). Plus there are a lot more truly atrocious songs on here than on Hybrid Theory. However, having said that, I absolutely LOVE "Don't Stay," "Somewhere I Belong" and "Breaking The Habit," so let me dwell on those to explain why I would love Linkin Park if they weren't such lousy songwriters. "Don't Stay" sticks a MONSTROUS Helmet/Nirvana unresolved chord sequence atop the drumbeat from "She Drives Me Crazy"! Stick Mr. Sissy Vocal Man on top of the pounding sludge and the overall effect is along the lines of "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?" Great song. Next is the hit single "Somewhere I Belong," which I always thought was Eminem because it sounds exactly like Eminem. The melancholy, frightened, sorrowful piano/violin chords backing up One-Note Shinoda as Chester sings high and prissy to mark the changes. It's a GREAT goddamned radio song! Probably as good as "My Milkshake Brings All The Boys To The Yard" and definitely a damn sight better than that godawful Outkast song that sounds just like Smashmouth. And track three of my three favorites is "Breaking The Habit," a bizarre mixture of violins, electronics, cutesy boy singing and a punk rock-speed beat -- with NO loud distorted heavy guitars! I'm listening to it right now and thinking to myself that I honestly have never in my life heard a song quite like it. It books along really really fast, but it sounds like a ballad! Like an electronica ballad played at 45 RPMs. With no loud heavy catharsis at all -- just lots of very soft, pretty tones being pushed along by the fastest 4/4 beat on either of the band's studio albums. Weird!?!?!?! Great stuff. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is as formulaic, bland and unmemorable as the worst tracks on the first album. It's a cool style they have here, but their apparent inability to come up with more than a few honestly great songs per record is kinda gonna kill their chances of ever becoming a legend like Captain Cody and the Corduroy Cowboy Band. I don't think that was actually the name of the band. Either way, Meteora is a bunch of boy-band ballads with loud distorted choruses, and anybody who rages about how much it "kicks ass" really should take a moment to realize what a fucking pansy they sound like when trying to make that argument. Maybe check out some Slayer or Napalm Death or something?
Anyway, there aren't many reasons behind my decision to write this reader comment. I don't have this album and I haven't even heard it, but "Somewhere I Belong" is NOT a good song.
To prove my point, I'm gonna make an embarrassing confession, that my close friends actually know about already, but here it goes; I LIKE "Crawling"!
I'm pretty sure I have other reasons for enjoying it than the members of the band, they seem to take their work very seriously, and I don't. I loathed it at first, then the electronic sounds of the verse stuck to my head, and as for the chorus... I just like how the drama is so over the top, that's what makes me like it. If you're gonna turn it sentimental, just go all the way. But whatever the reason, I actually like the song and I don't skip the channel when the video comes on.
But this first single of their recent studio album is probably THE most annoying HIT SONG that was played in 2003. And it may sound like Eminem does these days for all I care, I fuckin' HATE EMINEM! It's just pointless... As I said I started to like "Crawling", and "In The End" isn't all that bad, so when Linkin' Park's was coming out with a new album, I was actually interested to see if these guys really have something...Because it just felt that they were somewhat above the average...Well, post-grunge rap metal bands. But, it turned out...Well it's just one song, but if they really had something, I doubt they'd be doing such a horrendous song as the first single of their awaited somophore album. Plus, I heard the other singles and I didn't care for them much, although they were both clearly better.
Also, the Outkast song is really good and does NOT sound like Smash Mouth!
I started to listen to the CD more and more, and then my friend bought me a copy of Hybrid Theory. I fell in love with it. Then in December of 02' I bought Meteora. I watched the features on it, and I began to not only like their music, but develop a respect for them. They put so much effort into their music, and the art of the album. They see their whole process as an art, and to me, that deserves so much respect. They probably will not last as long as some of their infunces such as the aboved mentioned band Metallica, but I think that for now.. they are a great band, and I will respect them until I see a reason not to.
Now, before people like billyjoesluvslave start berating me for even daring to make such an allegation, hear me out. First of all, every Linkin park song is in the same key: B minor. Coincidentally, they use a guitar tuning that makes it very easy to play in B minor. Most of meteora uses only four different chords (G, A, B, and D; and they're power chords of course. Anything like majors, minors, or sevenths would be too much to ask), and they often reuse the same pattern in several different songs. There are no solos, every one of their songs has the same structure, the drummer sounds like he could be replaced by an electronic drum machine and it would be an improvement, and not once do they ever make it interesting by straying from the standard 4/4 time signiture. The effect that this produces, is that-- with a few exceptions like "Breaking the habit"-- almost the entire album sounds like the same song played over and over again at different speeds.
Secondly, I really feel sorry for them if they're trying to sound like Metallica, because they don't even come close. Metallica is actually heavy. Linkin Park is softer than the stuff my dad listens to. And did I mention that "MC Mike" sounds like he's reading lyrics off of cue cards at four in the morning?
I think entirely too much ink has been wasted on what is fundamentally average (and basically harmless music). I mean, I don’t love it, but like any pop band they do have their hooky moments, and I’ll take Linkin Park over any Nickelback sack of shit any damn day of the week. Truth be told, though, mainstream rock in general is pretty dire right now..I’d suggest either looking to the margins (Rilo Kiley, Spoon, Grandaddy [R.I.P.], Libertines a few of my favorites over the last couple years, none particularly obscure but certainly not pushing platinum stateside either), looking to the past, or just fucking looking beyond rock for a change. Audiences are so fragmented these days, and usually when people say there’s no good music it’s because they haven’t ventured beyond their own small comfort zones. I’m often guilty of this same sin myself, but dammit, any true music fan ought to be constantly exploring, and if we want to grow we need to look outside of our respective niches. As for me, I’ll keep listening.
Okay, fist off, the do not "mis-spell" Linkin Park. They would have named
the group Lincoln Park if the website was'nt already taken. --At first they
called themselves 'Hybrid Theory' after the addition of Bennington (the idea
being that they were a hybrid of hard rock and rap), but due to a trademark
issue with a band called Hybrid they were forced to change their name. Some
discarded ideas were Clear, Probing Lagers, Ten PM Stocker and Platinum
Lotus Foundation. Eventually, they settled on Lincoln Park, suggested by
Bennington because after band practice he would have to drive past Lincoln
Park in Santa Monica to get home. However the domain "lincolnpark.com" had
already been taken, and to buy it from the owners cost more than the band
could afford, so they changed the spelling to Linkin Park.-- If you want to
really read into it, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkin_Park AND
ANOTHER THING! plz post this on your online thing, plz and thanks.
When i first this album, i thought it probably
deserved a 6. Now, i listen to it, and i could never
give it anything higher than a 4. Sure the electronic
noises are cool, and the choruses are catchy, but this
genre is so tired and overdone. If Limp Bizkit and
bands like them didn't exist, i probably would have
enjoyed this album more. Every time i hear this, i
can't help thinking about how uninspired and
one-dimensional it sounds, despite all the electronic
beats and noises. so dull, and manufactured. Most of
the melodies just aren't good at all. The first track,
"Paper Cut" is decent, "One Step Closer" is bareable,
but "With You" is just a song i cannot enjoy. the
vocals for this band sound VERY flat and the lyrics
are really, really awful. I'm definatly glad to hear
that i'm not the only one who thinks most of these
choruses are annoying. i'm sure there are many others,
but NOT in my school. Damn preppies. anyway, the last
two songs are decent though. They put two decent songs
at the beginning and two decent songs at the end, and
everything in between is shit. At least to my ears.
I'll definatly agree with your statement about
Rap-Metal music. Rap-metal music? there's an oxymoron
for ya. ;) so, i think i would have to give it a 3. Poo.
Oh, where to begin... well, I guess this is as good of a place as any.
Linkin Park fucking blows. Hybrid Theory is the only album my roommate
listens to, and every time I hear Chester Bennington's
12-year-old-going-through-puberty voice cracking during those oh-so-anthemic
choruses like Crawling, Runaway (hands down two of the worst rap-metal songs
ever... right behind everything ever recorded by Limp Bizkit) and the rest of
the piece of shit album I want to strangle somebody, and not necessarily my
roommate. Just somebody. I see people walking around the camps where I go to
school wearing Linkin Park clothing, and I wonder, are they oblivious to just
how bad this music is? How could anyone think this is good?! Then again, take
Blink-182 and Limp Bizkit. (Please. Now.) How they ever went multi-platinum
is beyond me. I'm convinced there's some sort of subliminal shit going on in
today's popular music, because 99.9% of it is embarrassingly bad.
I just have to say that I can't listen to too much more of your cynical
bull shit without giving my opinion. When is the last time you guys
listened to music to enjoy it and not to analyze every cord and
criticize every style of music that doesn't compare to the two CDs you
like? Well Wbinder007 if you don't like all these bands that have no
talent but millions of people like why don't you stop listening to
them. I've had voice training and Chester Bennington's voice is
actually one of the better one's out there, but hey 99.9 percent of what
most people like is embarassingly bad. Maybe everyone's under some
spell and they should join your small little cult of people that agree
with you. Hey and most those people are high school drop outs who wear
all black and don't wash their hair. Actually not, but I was just
trying to do some of those sweeping generalizations that you enjoy so
much.
Hoo boy. Another ripoff rapmetal band. Excuse me if i'm not thrilled.
I couldn't agree more with the above comments.
Although I don't like the idea of bashing bands that much (one man's meat is another man's poison, even if it does taste like shite), all these little
pop-metal-rap-crap bands are absolute garbage. I haven't heard it, but I'm guessing giving this album a 3 would be a stretch. What I don't
understand about this recent rush of rap-metal bands is why they keep pretending to be "hardcore" when they're just a buncch of whimps in
khakis replaying the same old pop tunes (just heavier) over and over again.
anyway, it's just another MTV fad that'll be gone by January.
Owning this record in 2001 is the equivalence of having a Winger or
Ratt album in your collection in '89. Where to begin? Hilarious
lyrics, boring guitar, shitty vocals, a worthless dj, and an
oh-so-marketable image. Can someone tell me exactly why all MTV bands
at this point dress "punk", regardless of their genre? It reeks of
clueless label executives coming to the conclusion that duplicating
Blink 182's image will result in similar sales figures. I'd call
Linkin Park the Ed Wood of rap-metal, but their unintentional
hilarity factor isn't high enough. Someone please beat these guys to
death in their sleep before I have to do it myself.
How could you? I really thought I was getting a
comprehensive cheat guide for Air-Sea Battle there! I
actually think these guys are nowhere near the worst
of the nu/rap/whatever-metal crowd, but that's not
really saying a whole lot. The problem is that record
labels have sta
I was enjoying reading everyones comments on "lLinkin Parkr" and rap metal in general. But i have to agree with something another gentlemen
said. If you guys don't like it, then why listen to it. I think that the people who run around saying, "rap metal blows, Fuck de-tuned metal" are just
as bad as the people who actually think that rap metal is good. I Hear peole saying "oh my god , Linkin Park is the worste shit i ever heard in my
life. i listend to the whole album 3 times and it sucked". Well, jackasses, i think thats the problem right there. I know for damned sure that if i
don't like a particular style of music, it wouldn't take me three times of listening to an entire cd to realize that shit. I think that it is a popular trend
these that people think that it somehow makes them cool to bash "pop" music. Well, only to the less enlightened,is this so. Real, intelligent
individuals understnd that if we disslike anything , then the smart thing would be not to dwell on it. Unless somehow you "bashers " are secretly in
the closet about your relationship with pop music. If thats the case, then it is disturbingly obvious. I personally think that de-tuning your guitars
has nothing to do with the quality of music that is played. Look at bands like Black Sabbath and "old" metallica, and you will see what i mean. If
you honestly think the key a song is in has anything to do with it's quality, then you really know nothing about music and should just keep your
mousth shut from this day forward as not to embarras yourselves any further. So, to end my rant, do i like rap-metal? Hell no, but who fucking
cares?
Hey rooster, have you ever considered that some of us who you so pointlessly attacked here dislike rap metal for the same reasons you do?
That paragraph about Anthrax was priceless.
You are so right about rap metal.I tell you something(people will think i'm
nuts or paranoid)but i honestly believe groups like linkin park,blink
182,limp bizkit etc..are promoted by the US record industry and MTV mostly
cos they are american.Ever since The Beatles and their contempories arrived
on these shores the US music industry has promoted all sorts of shit to try
and beat it.I'm american but i tell you one undeniable truth.The british
have always produced better groups than us when it comes to rock music.Even
now Radiohead,Travis,stereophonics etc...are so much better than the above.I
listened to the best of Pink Floyd yesterday,i mean hell,we haven't produced
a prog rock band that comes anywhere near them.Am i missing something here?
Hmm....Now if only they would play any OTHER cd besides this shit whenever I
work out at GOLD's GYM at 200 am then maybe I would have better abdominal
definition and chicks would lick blueberry syrup off my pecs. Curse thee
prepubescent preppy Linkin bastards.
There are people in this world who only see what they are shown and only hear what they are told. They do not know that there is music other
then Linkin Park, Korn, P.O.D., and what not. I say to you my ignorant friends is that MTV and your local radio is not the music center of the
world!!!! If you dig a little deeper you will find great bands like the Melvins, Mudhoney, Seaweed, or any other band on Mr. Prindle's web site. I
think everyone should stop listing to that crap on the MTV and storm the front door of your local radio station with a Melvins cd in your hand and
show the world what real music is supposed to sound like. Music is not this polished crap that is easy to listen to, it is supposed to make you
think. Linkin Park cant make you think! Its the same shit that we have been FORCED to listen to for years. Who wants to here a millionaire talk
about how much his life sucks ( if hear another 29 year old talking about how he wants to run away from home, I am going to do something bad
and violent and something not pretty.) I know I should stop talking now or I am going to 5000 little pissed boys at my door step all dressed in black
and wanting to kill me (or feel sorry for them because their mom hates them or something)
I think Linkin Park is a great band... Chester can actually sing extremely well. I think many of you think they suck only because you
are so caught up in your music that you have been listening to for years... well, sometimes you got to just open up to the different types
of music. Quit being so fucking closed minded. Obviously you have willingly listened to there music of you know about all there
choruses... your just trying to follow the trend of hating the new music.... you can't dwell in the past... you got to listen to a variety of
different music. All in all, Linkin Park is a great band that should be appreciated because they actually have talent.
Well fellow readers, probably already absorbed into the world of crappy rap-metal and rockbands who write songs thinkin theyre punk, when
only thing they can write about is well......suicide. i find linkin parks o so crappy overplayed "rap metal" songs about taking a step closer, whats
gonna happen in the end, even tho they claim that they dont know why so diligently, and o ya crawling. well i wouldnt be surprised if chester
bennington crawls, hes thirty or so years old and his voice is still that of a 6 year old child. if configured how we can use the simple math they
proby dont even know to create what this odd blend of music. crap+rap+crappy metal= crap metal. the other day i heard something that mad me
sick. "lincoln park" was in an interview and they were comparing themselves to the likes of the beatles, nirvana and nine inch nails saying that they
were bringing something more to the table like those bands did. Ha HA HA HA thats a funny statement mr. bennington u should probably burn in hell
now! theres no way that kurt cobain under 8-10 doses of lsd could write songs as bad as these children do. NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER
COMPARE YOURSELVES WITH THE BEATLES CHESTER!!!!! i was informed the other day that lincoln park is not a real band. they were put
together by some record exec who knew all the band mates but the band mates didnt know each other. that reminds me of ......let me think....... A
BOY BAND!!!! i am so sick and tired of everybody thinking that linkin park is metal when i just heard it the other day on pop radio. u sellouts make
me sick. by the way pat d is my god. rap metal should die rage was the only rapmetal band and will always be. all of this other shite sucks total
wang. peace
I just want to say that in my opinion Linkin Park is one of the best bands that has come out in a long time. The reason for their success is not because of just mainly their
music, but their huge fan base. They have been very well excepted before they hit the main stream. Music is not all about the technical crap that a lot of these people are
saying like, oh the rapping is stupid, Chester's voice sounds like a little kid going to puberty, the music gets old as the cd goes on. For one thing, if you are basing your
opinions only on the cd, then you practically being a hypocrite because you really don't know much about the band at all. Go to a concert and then see how you like them. I
just went to their concert in Chicago a couple weeks ago for the Projekt Revolution Tour. It was the best concert I have ever been to. Not only did I
hear all the songs that I really like and have been listening to for a long time, but I was able to really see how great these guys are live, musically and vocally. Chester really is a
good singer. He has the perfect "ROCK" voice and he is very versatile in his singing. He was able to hit notes during auditions for the band that no other auditioner could hit.
If u watch the dvd "Frat Party At The Pankake Festival"(Linkin Park's dvd) one of the guys even said that when one of the auditioners heard Chester try out, he got up and
left before even trying. Well, all I can say is that we all have our own taste in music, every band has people who hates them and loves them. Now this David Pascoe guy says
that Melvins, Mudhoney, and Seaweed are real bands because they are not being advertised by MTV. Now what if all of a sudden they got into the mainstream and were being
played on MTV. Would you be thinking differently about them then? And he also said music is "Supposed" to make you think. Now show me where the law is that says
that and I'll shut up. I just believe in listening to music that makes you feel good and you like to listen to. Music is not supposed to be bound by rules. If you think that
music should be the way you think it should be, then you're just screwed up. All I am saying is that before you judge a band, first make sure you really know more about them
than a cd or a music video.
HEY!
All of you peoples that don't like Linkin Park need to back up. I mean, your all complaining about their style of music, but what do you like? Jazz, Country, Gospel???
Linkin Park is a great band. You can relate to their lyrics. You can get a different message out of their lyrics every time you listen to the cd, it just depends on what kind of
mood your in. It's weird b/c I can listen to their cd over and over w/out getting tired of it. But even if you don't like it, you don't have to go complaining and having a fit about
it! I mean, who says you have to listen to it! There aren't that many bands that I think are all that great, but Linkin Park really is great. I can't wait until their new cd comes
out, but I think that hybrid theory will be the only greatest one. All you people that think linkin park sucks need to pull your head out of your ass!!! Linkin Park is the
greatest and you know it.
A social commentary on the state of our youth from an eyewitness.
re: "wbindere007"
You know, initially I hated these guys with a passion, but after having been
exposed to the 2 or 3 huge hits that they've had, they've grown a bit on me.
Those particular songs are fine examples in the continuing tradition of
angst filled teen hard rock anthems, started way back by Alice Cooper.
Nothing really wrong with that, is there? So what if their sound is
"trendy", as long as the music is decent. They still manage to do it better
than most of the other bands they get lumped in with by you cynics, and
before you crucify me, just remember that usually I'm the last guy who would
nomally defend a band of this ilk. Some of you claim they're a manufactured
band. I admit I don't know anything about them or their history, but I
somehow doubt that some corporation assembled them like a lego set and
writes their songs for them, unless someone can tell me otherwise. That
having been said, while I don't mind the couple of songs by them I keep
hearing, I have the distinct feeling that this is the type of band whose
album on a whole probably doesn't offer much strong material apart from the
singles.
Wow, some thirteen year old jocks really got pissed just because a few people had the balls to say the truth, being as follows:
It's funny, last night I spent an evening with an old friend I haven't seen
in months and months (and his college buddies), and the way we've changed is
clearly shown in our music choices. I usually spend the weekend with my
friends listening to The Pixies or Spiritualized or Boredoms (or countless
other indie rock bands) and he and his friends busy themselves listening to
safe kitsch like 80's hair metal and mainstream rock radio stuff like this
and Train and Nickleback, which I can't stand of course but oh well...
ok...in one of the above reviews it mentions...audtioners....if you have to audition in front of a panel to get into a band and the panel is not just the rest of the band playing with
you...than it's not a real band. My biggest fear is ten years from now when bands start coming out that look at these guys as an INFLUENCE. The only thing music like this
influences me to do is smash my guitar in frustration. Not because of how amazing it is, but because kids these days think this is rock and roll!!! How sick is that? Very sick.
RIGHT ANY ONE WHO DISSES LINKIN PARK IS IN DEEP SHIT COS I WILL HUNT YA DOWN!!!!!
the brilliance of A_Allday is there for all to see. That is a funnier post than anything that wanky post post modern critic bastard Mark Prindle will ever ever ever ever ever
write. Or as A might say, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN MARK PRINDLE AND STUFF AND THEN WHICKED COOL SHIT WILL HAPPEN AN I THINK
THAT CHESTER IS LIKE RAD AND I AM HUNGRY NOW etc. ad infinitum.
I don't own the record, but my friends and just about everyone I know think they're the coolest thing since
sliced bread, so you know I've heard this album more times than any person should have to sit through.
It's a shame that some of the good songs like "paper cuts" are never played on the radio and insted we're
stuck with annoying crap like "one step closer" and "crawing" (In case you didn't know, the grammy's are
one of the biggest jokes in the music business). Do you know how annoying it is to have to change the
radio station every time I hear crap like this? Just yesterday I had to change the station after suffering
through "my sacrifice" for 5 seconds while driving on the freeway. So this soccer mom cuts infront of me
and thats not something you want to do to a person who's been driving for only a month while he's
changing the station. I swerve out of the way and almost slam into a truck. Damn you Creed! Damn you.
My ex-girlfriend had this Cd and so I had the "pleasure" of hearing a bit of it-the music seemed like a
collection of cliches and non-existant riffs that were stolen from equally bad rap/nu metal travesties. She
saw them (there was no way I would've accompanied her and luckily for me she didn't ask me to) and said
that they were pretty boring. Don't get me wrong, I like heavy music-like the Melvins, Acid King, Slayer,
etc. This stuff isn't heavy. It might be loud, but it's just loud, bad dance music. Heaviness seems to me
to be more about the atmosphere of a song, and this band's material that I've heard has nothing even
coming close-the riffs are terrible, cliched stuff, and the lyrics are predictably juvenile and retarded. It's just
idiocy produced for young morons who know nothing about good music. I know my own band isn't a
godsend or anything, but at least we've progressed and try to play something worth listening to.
Interesing site ... Anyway, I have Linkin Park's
Hybrid Theory CD too, so I know what it's worth of.
And it's the record I got bored of for the shortest
time.
Duh, these people are retarded. They dont know good music anyways! Maybe becuz there life is so fuckin
peachy keen that they can listen to Britney Spears and shit, but hey...this is REALITY and this isnt candy
land. Cumon, Listen to the words of the songs....Its great music being that the words make alot of sence.
If you can like Pop and whatever else you people listen to that all the punkers and rockers HATE then we
can love our linkin park!! We dont trash Britney Spears on her nasty ass videos being a whore on the
stage, or N'sync having gay little girlie voices with there "Bye bye bye" words...so dont down our shit
becuz its better than yours!!!!!!!!!!
Just wondering...
linkin park rules.
This album is a testament to everything wrong with America. As it was said, "LINKIN PARK IS A TERRIBLE BAND."
"Can we please get a halfway intelligent Linkin fan here? Or is that an
oxymoron?"
Well, my good sir,
Hm... I don't know if we're allowed to respond to a particular commentator anymore, but I really must say... Mr. Coffey, while I admire your civility, it occurs to me that
perhaps, if most of the CDs you buy are filled with crap, the problem is your taste in picking CDs and not the general quality of the music available to the public? Because I
have upwards of 200 CDs, and nearly all of them are consistently good.
Holy shit! It's Kyle Coffey!! You must be from Austrailia! I'm a nice guy
and all, but I tend to have the strong feeling that anyone that likes Linkin
Park is gay. And you sir, like Linkin Park. You give me one (just ONE) good
example of how these guys have any sort of talent (or that they kick ass),
and I'll stop calling you a fag. Nah, I'm just kiddin' man, you'll always be
a fag in my book.
i must say, you're mentally fucken retarded, sorry but linkin park kicks ass
wbinder007, i salute you. every word of your post rings true. fuck linkin
park and all other mispelled talentless disgruntled compressed teenager bands
to endless hell. and fuck rush while you're at it.
This one is a lamb to the slaughter. I haven't actually bothered to listen to this CD, but for a time my brother played it constantly. I must say, "One Step Closer" is a halfway
decent song, too bad the singer can't sing and it's obnoxious and grating. But under the layers of trendy scratches and "SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU", it's a
decent little 3-minute rock 'n' roll song.
One time when I was four years old I threw up in my sleep. When I woke up
the next morning there was all dried puke in my hair. All of a sudden, my
mom wakes up yelling "Ryan, we've gotta go to the mall now, hurry up!" And I
was all "But there's dried puke in my hair, I gotta shower!", but she
wouldn't let me. I remember she had to drag me out of the house, kicking and
screaming. I have no idea why we were in such a hurry, but I'll never forget
that day. Do you know what it's like to have hundreds of people staring and
pointing at your puke-ridden hair? I don't even know why I didn't wear a
hat. This was probably the most embarrassed I've ever been and one of the
worst days of my life. Oh well, at least I've never heard THIS album.
Why Linkin Park are fucking gay.
Everyone on this page saying that Linkin Park is a great
band/underrated band/getting a bad rap from evil mean people who are
all old and listen to stuff that is old like The Beatles or some other
old band that is like old and they don't like: they are all
commissioned from the record companies to do damage control for these
negative reviews of their pre-manufactured, FAKE band. These aren't
even real people, they're just mouthpieces for a megalomaniacal record
company/propaganda machine.
Why waste your time on this crybaby stuff? Gay prison rape rap is the wave
of the future.
Hey guess what??
It's sad to see that a band's image is more important than their sound. It's also depressing to see what listening to this band and others like it has caused: poor grammar, bad spelling, excessive use of capital letters, and impotence. I'm 18 now, but I remember back in '96 being introduced to Rage Against The Machine, I thought they were great, and seem to be the only band mention on this page worthy of the title rap-metal. I also remember the Korn hype. I listened to them and hated their music and still do, but "atleast they were different," I thought to myself. Now everyone and their obese uncle tries to copy the sound. That's the thing about pop music, once a sound is accepted, it's exploited for all it's worth. This album pretty bland. I'm glad I don't own it. I was forced to listen as many were, and I just couldn't stand it. The slighy passable stuff is rendered worthless by the many inconsistencies on album. Just because they're big and make money doesn't mean they're good, Microsoft backs this theory up even further. To the person who likes Lincoln Park and says people who don't like them aren't open minded to music is one hell of a dumb ass. I've got a music collection that spans many genres: rap, reggae, punk, metal, surf, jazz, whatever. You're not open minded musically if you only listen to what's force fed to you through MTV and pop radio. Many of the people here who've said Lincoln Pork suck have diverse musical tastes. I can't say much for the people who love Lenkin Park, seeing how most of them go "LINK N PARK RULEZ ANY1 WHO HATEZ DEM CAN EET POUP FUKAHS!!" PS: England's only good rock is pop rock. American's have proven to much harder rockin', ass kickin', beer drinkin', shit eatin', rebels than our rather tame Limey cousins.
ok...where to satrt....hmmm.o yea...u notice the paople who like linkin park think theyre
hip rockers...with all those chill tunes with their phat beats...ok, its funny to see how
half of you linkin park fans say image isnt everything and the other half say chestnut
flemmington is sooooo hott. ok. queers*cough*. ok we dont like their imgae is the fuckin
stupidest thing ive ever heard...we dont care about image, thats a lame excuse cuz you know
were right. i mean look who we listen to...pink floyd...ac/dc...yea if we cared about
image we shoudl all be shot...great bands are meant to meet up and get a message across thru
music. not to be as mainstream as we can fucking get. i mean, bob dylan didnt write
catchy tunes or sing good, or paly the guitar...BUT GOD DAMN IT HES A FUCKING GOD TO MUSIC!!!!
people in my school think im "uncool" cuz i listen to "old people music " like led
zeppelin and thin lizzy and van halen. and u know what i say??? at least i dont listen to music
to be cool. im independent and i enjoy GOOD music... all linkin pak is is a bunch of
catchy choruses surrounded by 3 minutes of shitty music and chinese rap. yea thats the wave
of the future! john lennon would be rolling in his grave! what happened to ballads? and
more importantly....GUITAR SOLOS!!! it seems like these guyz picked up an instrument and
learned a chord...cuz thats all they can play...and then they try to make upo for it by
buying les pauls...they made the name les paul bad. i am asshamed to pick up a les paul and
play. and what do these songs mean? they have no point..."one thing and i dont know why
it doesnt even matter how hard you try" has got to be up there with "rollin rollin
rollin" as the shittiest songline ever! and what i hate is how they think theyre underground.
and these kids think theyre so cool and punk cuz they listen to linkin park and buy all
the shirts! all theyre doing is advertising.
well, Karn and Denise, you're wrong! I am MUCH more talented than Linkin Park and I very rarely brag, but they suck so much that I don't hestitate
saying it. I'm sick of all the same old that "if you don't like Linkin Park, don't listen to it" (I'll get to that point in a minute)...and how it is trendy to bash
pop bands to look arty and intelligent. Let's touch on the latter first. That statement is true. It has always been a sub-culture trend to bash popular
music because it is not underground, or too poppy.......BUT - - - there is a difference here. This music is CRAP!!!! There were some good elements in
disco (as well as some classic songs scattered among many artists) and there were some good elements in new wave and synth pop (as well as some
classic etc.) and the same for grunge. But anyone who thinks there is anywhere near the same amount of musical quality in rap-metal as any other form
of pop is BLIND TO CORPORATE CONTROL. This is PURE corporate marketing. Sure, some of these bands may have wanted to do the music on their
own at first, but if the industry had any judgment like it used to, most of them would not have made it past their local college radio stations. And sure,
it's natural for teens to identify with angry music (whether they're the ones who are really always angry, or the ones trying to fit in), but let me tell you
that is the ONLY thing this music has going for it! Would it be ok they just started listening to tapes of Hitler's speeches? I bet it would be if the radio
told us it was. And I'm not just some old fogey not understanding the new rock-n-roll. I'm only in my early 20's and I've been listening to the radio ever
since I was old enough to swing cows around by their tails and through them through brick walls (4). And I listened to everything! Which brings me to
my first point: If I don't want to listen to Linkin Park or other corporate crap don't listen to it, right? Ok.....already taken you're advice. BUT I MISS
LISTENING TO THE RADIO!!!! I used to listen to everything on the radio (barring country), and now I can't listen to nothing, 'cause corporate putrid
pulsating purple crap rap snot-bubblegum music that gives you an ass-migrane is THE ONLY THING ON!!!!! Clear Channel owns everything, so we
have the choice 1.) Listen to Linkin Park. 2.) Listen to our old CD's and dig endlessly and almost fruitlessly in the maze-like mine-fields of underground to
find 2 bands for every skinned knee we get tripping over trip-wire. This is why we're angry. I can assure you there would be less hostility if there were
more choices. But that's the way Randy Michaels want it. Less choices and more hostility. I miss the radio.
I am 18, and so are many I know. Those of us who dislike Linkin Park are a lot quiter and do not use capital letters with gleeful abandon. We do not wear
black shirts or paper clips, we do not listen to and make heroes of commercial-stamp music icons like this band, we only listen to what we like. I will tell
you that no one older than 16 really likes Linkin Park, but if a band is made ubiquitous by MTV, the kind of culture identification young teenagers are
literally(or televisionly) programmed to have will kick in and touting the band will be a knee-jerk reaction. Notice how young the fans of Linkin Park
are(they sound that way), and realize that Pat Boone was liked by a similar age group. There really is no difference in the market value of sugary pop of
today than yesterday. The only difference is it has new genres to enter into other than just the early blues and rock or motown of the 60s. We really
don't have anything revolutionary yet in music, but we're waiting for it. I'm a bit depressed for my generation still, because many music afficionados I
know define themselves into corners of obscure indie punk or difficult noise bands. We've just got nothing else to go to, it's those two genres or old
stuff. Even noise and indie punk are really repetitions of rebelliousness that is decades old. Sometimes nearly half a century old. So what to do? We'll
just wait. I'm also sorry to hear the Strokes mentioned, because I find it difficult to separate them from some very old music, and something new is
needed. Maybe one of us will make something new, worth listening to, or maybe we have to work harder to expose our younger siblings to better music
to force a change to the record industry. MTV(in its progressively worse incarnations) has killed almost any chance for a good band to survive.
vita_min_man@yahoo.com: England's only good rock is pop rock. American's have proven to much harder rockin', ass kickin', beer drinkin', shit eatin',
rebels than our rather tame Limey cousins.
I like Linkin Park a lot. I first bought there cd for With You which I heard on the radio. As I listened through the cd, I realized that this was my
favorite album I have ever gotten!
2. Trying to be part of the "in crowd" because it was about the 2nd week the cd came out and no one has really heard of them yet at that time.
3. I HATE N'Sync, Britney Spears and The Backstreet Boys! Although, at any award shows, I wish they would win instead of Hip-Hop, Rap and R&B
because those three genres are utterly repetitive!
I think Linkin Park is a really good band, but people who don't like them are entitled to their own opinions. It's REALLY annoying when people won't
shut up about how hot Chester and Mike are, it's just sad. And they aren't that old, Chester's the oldest and he's 26
*i'm a linkin park fan.
*i'm in no way a teeny-bopper.
*i do not try to be in the "in" crowd because they are all sheep, conformists, aber-crombie/american eagle wearing clones.
*i hate MTV, they have made a masacre of music (or lack thereof).
You are all entitled to your own opinion, and i to mine, all of you who don't like LP have your reasons and i respect that, but don't try to thrash LP and
get no retaliation. LP makes great music, and yes i do listen to music that doesn't get shoved down my throat. If you who don't like LP, don't listen to LP,
rock, pop, rap, hip-hop,country, and any others you trashed, what do you listen to? I'd really like to know. I suspect all of you have every sheep-album
ever created hidden in your rooms. Also, i might as well asume that most of you have perfect lives if you can't relate to anything that LP records.
Sometimes you have to go deeper than what the meaning might seem like on the surface. Like the song "runaway," no, obviously he isn't running away
from home, he's 26, he wants to run away from all the troubles life throws his way. If anyone hasn't felt this way before, i envy you. Also LP makes music
you can listen to without being bombarded with profanity. Some of you I can tell do not understand this concept. Any band that uses excessive
profanity obviously cannot convey their emotions in any other way. And to those of you who claim that Chester has a 12-year-olds voice, you're jealous,
admit it. You have clearly not heard any other music besides the 40+ year olds you listen to. And Mike is very talented, he is an apple, most others are
oranges, you can't compare the two. And no, a halfway intelligent LP fan isn't an oxymoron. And to the rich white jocks who think you are being
"rebellious" because you listen to LP, please, go back to your precious britney spears and every other sheep-person/band (if you can call a group of
sheep a band) you usually listen to, you're giving the rest of the real fans a bad rep. Stick with the herd, ok? Now that you are all a bit more intelligent, I
bid you farewell. And remember.........
Live,Love,Skate
So I'm in the car on a nice sunny day. I was too lazy to bring all the
doodads necessary to operate the plug-in CD player and the only tape I have
is a compilation that was recently played about 900 times during numerous
drives between here and San Francisco. So I try the radio...gaaaaah! Korn.
Jane's Addiction. Styx. That bloody fucking "Green Eyed Lady" song on the
oldies station. Creed. Van Hagar. Then Korn is over and I hear something
and think, "Huh? Is that DEPECHE MODE? On the Lock & Loll station!?". Then
the voice I assumed was an oogly limey starts SCREAMING and the neato little
synth turns into a crunchy guitar. "WTF?", I think as my doggie ears prick
up and my head tilts charmingly to the side (it was really, really
adorable - I looked in the mirror). I liked it. Of course, it had been so
very very long since I'd heard any new music on mainstream radio that didn't
sound like the singer was trying to take a dry, painful dump that I was
pretty open to things that I might otherwise have dismissed. But I liked it.
Even when someone, obviously a Caucasoid, started quasi-RAPPING. "Hey...this
is that there RAP METAL! And I don't cotton to that shit!". But I liked it.
And I still like some of their songs; they sound great at full blast in the
car. Don't axe me what any of the songs are called or who is in the band,
since I burned the CD from the one my 12 year old niece had bought. That's
how much I like them - enough to blast the copied CD in the car, but not
enough to look them up online or go see them play. Besides the square
peg/round hole combinations of musical styles they employ, the things I like
best about them are: My friend's 3 year old daughter likes them. My 12 year
old niece and 17 year old nephew like them. My 39 year old arse likes them.
My 46 year old brother likes them. When I go visit my 63 year old mom this
week, I fully expect her to be humming, "Shut up when I'm talkin' to you!
Shut up!". The other thing is, the fact that I like their CD, which is
entirely unlike any of the other music I listen to, proves that I do not
have a Closed Mind and that I am Open To New Things. And all the moderne
hipsters, by whose proclamations I live and die, claim that those are very
good things indeed.
To the absolute lunatic who said this dumb piece of
crap:
Whats with the language people? Why can't anybody be nice anymore? Maybe it's that rap crap destroying in your brains. I'm not dissing anyone, but what the hell is wrong with you lunatics? I personally think Linkin Park is great. Hey, I like the old bands to. If you guys hate LP so passionately why dont you all go on MTV, kick ass, and prove that they are so terrible. Yeah but that would mean getting off your lazy ass and doing something. I'm so tied of all the hip-hop bull on the TV, but if you people want to listen to it go ahead. whats it to you? Why do you care that LP is liked? How can you hate someone if you dont even know them? I dont got all of you. leave the LP fan alone and we'll leave you alone. Speak your mind LP lovers, I'm listening.
I was searching through google for a review on Meteora and found this.
Generic...awful...brainwashing noise for the virgin youth. How many more cookie cutter bands can we endure? Branch out! Discover the many fine bands waiting for your hungry ears. It's up to you to stop this industry machine that cranks out one dimensional bands. Rise above!!! Support good taste.
"Owning this record in 2001 is the equivalence of having a Winger or Ratt
album in your collection in '89."
i think its really damn funny that a bunch of you fucking retards who hate linkin park would actually spend time and write this shit about them..do you want a fucking medal for not liking them? Heres a fucking idea: go shove a fork up your fucking ass and go listen to what you think is real music..you dont have the fucking right to go & say that shit about the members of linkin park & theyre fans.
aye, linkin park r shit, most people only tend 2 like it coz its probebly the only popular type of "metal" around, and hearin these shit bands take influence from metallica and stuff, i can only assume its shitty post 1988 metallica rather than the heavy amazing music they made from 1983-1988....Rap metal aint really too bad when the band doing it, are infact metal, like Anthrax, who would show these shitty bands up without trying, oh aye, dont diss Anthrax
Now, I like Linkin Park a lot, but I understand everyone has differen't views on their type of music so your review really didn't bother me. Because for one: If you attempted to make a band you would never be as good as Linkin Park, nor would you ever sell the amount of records.
The fuck LP fans? u thing linkin park themselfs sware and talk shit!. ur a discrase and lp is 2. Im not serprised they arnt doing a song with hilary duff! cuase of them being so goodie goodie and dont sware in there gay ass music! there pussys. THEY ARE in a ALBUM deal With gay ass warrner(wb) for fuck sakes!
First of all, Let me start this out, Linkin Park was on eof the first bands of its kind, Limp Bizkit and likin Park are 2 totally diffrent Styles of Music, Second of all, Chester's Voice is one of the top rated voices in the business and people actually train to have their voices be like his, im sorry that they are not black sabith or Iron Maiden, those bands had their times, have you ever considered to listening to something new? and why do people listen to this 'shit'.. because they can fucking relate to it, and dont say they dont swear opn their fucking cds, go download high voltage, the version off of the remix album, and it seems that you people that are dissin them are just a bunch of fucking anarchy dumbass's that have no sense and will never understand life, listen to the lyrics for a little bit, they have meaning unlike slipknot and other bands that posed KoRn.. they put no thought into their lyrics, and thats bullshit.. Linkin Park came at a time when everone was listening to Nsync and Britney Spears, how the hell do you think they got big, nobody wants to listen to that shit, Linkin Parks Lyrics, if you have had some shit go wrong in your life, you will understand them, otherwise you have never hard a hard time doing anything, or you are jus to much of a faggot ass homo to realize the world around you. Yes, life is real beleive it or not...And WBinder007, you are the biggest dumbass to ever rate music, you put no thought into what you are fucking saying, you're the typer of person that would jump off a ledge before looking how far down it was, you compared Blink-182 to linkin Park, that is REALLY sad, thats sick, and you know what i hate most of all, critics, you know why? cuz they diss shit without being able to back it up.. can you play your instrument better than mike? can you sing better than chester, of course not, you can just shut the hell up then, when linkin Park first came out, i was depressed as fuck, my father basically left my family and my brother died in a car accedent, Linkin Parks lyrics help people get through shit, all Disturbed does is try to get people to kill themselves, now \what the fuck, have you people like dropepd outa school or some shit, read some history, music has always been created to help people, find their ways, learn shit, you people know absolutley nothing, linkin Park was the perfect music at the perfect time, KoRn was at its last edge, metallica disapeared (I disapear, what a quincidence)when someone can create music and not sing about killing themselves and still have the beats of a metal band..its good, linkin park has 2 new cds out now, both of them are very good, you should listen to them, and its not toneddown-metal, its called alternative, before you become a critic you gotta learn what to call the fucking music you are rating, talk about dumbasses!.. and on a leaving note, im not even the biggest fan of linkin park..i listend to it for about 4 days, have some respect for someone that can do better than you.. Respect is the key to this work, without it we would be nothing..
how did u come up with such a bullshit website! wut u said dosen't make any sense than if a fuckin' monkey was saying it. personally i think lp ROCKS!! all the ppl that don't like them can kiss my ass!! YEAH!! chesters voice is one of the few great voices of rock. EXCUSE ME MR I LISTEN TO "REAL ROCK" that's it i'm done fucking taking in ur let me repeat it ur BULLSHIT WEBSITE
yo, Linkn Park has to be one of the greatest bands out there! Not only are all the guys good looking, but their music is sky-rocketing up the charts! Numb and Faint are so cool, but all 3 cds are great! Chester's voice is not like a 12 year olds...listen to the songs again, and you'll notice, a 12 year old cant scream that high! besides, Chester is not the only one in the band, you guys are all ripping on him, like hes a singled out dork, like Michael Jackson. Also, the other guys in the band play their instruments, they make it look so easy, and you have to add in the killer lyrics and the sweet turn-table mixes! Linkin Park kicks, and all you losers who oppose...dont quit your day job!
Becca, LiL LP Chick
LINKIN PARK is # 1 so back oFF .
i'd just like to say that there are real Linkin Park fans out there -- not fans who think "ohh chesters so hot" and that crap, but fans that care about the music. Yeah, i'm 13 years old, and i like linkin park because of their music, not because of their looks or whatever, and i wanna say that just because a band may be photogenic doesn't mean thats the only reason that they have fans.
frankly i think linkin park is one of the greats bands of all time.they helled me when i feallike killing my sealf .so if you diss linkin park you diss me and i dont like to be fuking dissed asshole so i seuggest you shut the fuck up. cuz if it whert fore them i wholed be dead now and i bet people els whare feal the same way so eny one that disses LP shooled burn in hell SO SHUT YOUR NASTY FACE NOW BEFOR I BASH IT IN.BURN IN HELL BITCH
To any one who said linkin park sucks: FUCK YOU ALL! I don't like most rap-metal bands but this is the first one i've ever liked because they have talent and CAN play their instruments, probably way better than you ever could, because YOU suck. Maybe they are overplayed but their music helps people and does have a meaning to it, not that you'd listen to it long enough to actually figure it out. If I ever met you i'd kick your fucking ass! and i'd like to hear you try and sing. Chester's voice is awsome.
It doesn't matter what any of you say, cause regardless, LP will continue to sell millions of records, cause the people with GOOD TASTE in music will KEEP buying their albums, and the radio will KEEP playing their songs, and MTV will KEEP supporting them cause they know what people like. So, in knowing that, you guys might as well find something else to complain about.
All you brain-dead fucks need to go get a life. You've got nothing better than to bash a awsome band? And to all the people that say LP is a rock/boy band.....Listen to One Step Closer.........oh yeah thats a boy band ...........Dumb ass. And just because some little girls are starting to say that they love Chester you get all pissy. When have you saw Lp on TRL or some shit like that...NEVER. They are Loyal to their street fans, and the LP Underground. And you little dumb pricks that posted here, are probably jelous/garage bands that could get your dog to listen to your demo. because of all the screeching. And if you dont like Lp dont listen.
WOW!!! ive never heard nor read so much anger about the stupidist shit in my life. OK this is how i think of linkin park, i first heard of them back when they first came out, i loved thier album, i thought it was just plain good music. im not all for rap-metal. i wasnt at the time. but it was just good music. Hey i know they arnt the best musicians but linkin park knows how to make everything work together and it sounds fuckin amazing. Then Meteora was released, their second album. Dont get me started!!!! lol that album is fucking amazing. everything about that album is spetcaular. But heres the point. if u dont like it. quit wasting your time writing about how bad rap-metal is and how much u hate it. if u dont like it, thats alright. its not your style of music. But if u do, thats awesome. Behind the fact is Linkin park isnt a ground breaking band. they r just making music that they love and expressing it in their own way. I for one am i huge fan of theirs. remember if u dont like, quit bitching about it.
OKay first of all you people that are here saying all this ignorant shit about a band they don't even know...you need to get a fucking life, why waste your time saying shit about a band that you don't even like...but you did and the wosrt part is you didn't even bother doing a little research about the band before you start bashing on them.
I'm fucking thrilled that there is someone reviewing this shit that is actually up front, honest and has a good enough ear to sift out the horrid and the rapturous! When I first came across Hybrid Theory in my Nu-metal head/neo-goth phase, I was...horrified. I've never liked rap, and growing up in a society that celebrated pop to its extreme, hip-hop and rap included, I was going through hell. And when I wanted to hear some fucking metal...I get rap! Fate has a sense of irony. In any case, I despised the album and burned it...no, really, I did. And from what I've heard during my brief radio recessions I can say that they haven't improved much. Bands like Cradle of Filth, Nightwish, Jack off Jill, Scarling, Lacuna Coil, bands that play their instruments and apply an exceeding-the-expectations amount of talent are the ones that should be getting the mass media coverage. But thank you, Limp Bizkit and P.O.D. for turning an already fucked industry into something so....asinine.
I think Linkin Park is an awesome band mainly because I like rap rock in particular. But some people on this board were stereotyping. Severely.
2. I'm 16, but I am FAR from a rebel against society who wants to be punk. I simply like the music and the way they put it together. PLEASE don't stereotype all Linkin Park fans like being fake rebels or punks b/c of the industry. I am a member of Linkin Park's fan club, and the fact that their fan base is drastically changing is their labels fault, not Linkin Parks. There are also many people in the fan club, people who are in their 30's, that I never thought would be members of such a fan base, which is a good thing.
3. Some people on here even though they have a right to their opinion, are a bit closed minded and really haven't done their research. Some popular bands are obvious that they suck, but Linkin Park is not one of them..because they were underground at one point and have simply evolved their sound a bit over time. If certain things are the way they sound or the band's image look a certain way, PLEASE do not blame Linkin Park for it. Blame their record label, because Linkin Park to me is a very credible band, its mainly just their A&R, Don Gilmore, they have to get rid of.\
4. Believe it or not, yes, they do play their own instruments. Some people here think they don't, or were sarcastic about it. Either way its good bullshitting.
Don't do that. I will hunt YOU down because its people like you who are giving our fan base a bad reputation. Other people I have talked to in the fan club agree.
I only read the Hybrid Theory part, but you didn't have me comvinced...completely. Yes, I do agree, Hybrid Theory has some bad songs and some great ones, and now that I've gotten a little bit wiser, I've started noticing that yes, I may not know music very well (I can play a violin and a cello...whoop-dee-doo...) but their music, as in their guitar parts, aren't really...good.
I remember when this album came out. It kept selling and selling until
today. It's been like four years and Hybrid Theory has sold like 7 or 8
million copies. That 's pretty impressive. Is without a doubt an excellent
album for the masses BUT... since Nirvana, the masses have bad taste. To me,
this album is boring. First of all, I usually don't pay attention to lyrics
too much but here, I gotta say they are stupid. It is ridiculous the fact
that a big part of their success is because of the lyrics. Sorry but the
lyrics of this album is the reason why teenagers are considered stupid.
Also, there are almost no riffs. I like guitar solos (The guitar player here
can't handle that either), but I love good riffs even more. I'm a 17 year
old girl and I'm not a fat ugly looking girl that loves dressing in black.
Neither I'm a plastic bitch that needs expensive clothe and a ton of make up
to hide her true ugliness. So my taste is not common with the girls like me.
I like Slayer and Metallica's riffs (The old one, kind of like Ride the
Lighting). And there is nothing like that here. Besides, I don't like rap. I
think that the old rap like The Beastie Boys is entertaining and that it
sounds good. But modern Rap...no thanks. However, the rapping in this band
is even more pathetic and stupid than 50 Cent. Rap in Metal began with
Anthrax, not with Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, so calling this original is
wrong. About the DJ thing, well, in some songs he gives some cool electronic
sounds but I prefer instruments.
I actually thought by far the best song on the album was Forgotten. It has a terrific melody, especially in the chorus, and the lyrics paint an amazing lyrical picture 'A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats on down the street till the wind is gone and the memory now is like the picture was then ...' But it's really terrific imagery. Another melodic song is the album closer, Pushing me away. I like most of the songs, because Linkin Park play with energy without sounding like they're having a fit like 'Korn' or 'Limp Bizkit'. In fact, they have their own fusion style and their only drawbacks for me was the fact they try too hard to sound like Korn or Limp Bizkit at times. For example 'SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU' from the first single taken from the album, and then 'NOW I'VE GOT YOU CAUGHT IN THE ACT...' from A place for my head. Another cool song is In The End, I wouldn't equate it so much with boy bands but maybe an Elton John kind ! of song. I particularly like how they experiment with microphone effects and dub them in with they lead vocals, 'watch the time fly right out the window', one of a few lines where they try that. The album has an interetsing mystique, though all the negativity and misery gets a bit repetitious after a while. How about a Linkin park song called 'I'm happy today'?. I do think Linkin Park are miles ahead of Limb Bizkit, the only saving grace for Limp Bizkit being Sour, a song that sounds like something from the Beatles' Magical Mytery Tour.
thank you my lovely tatianagutierez2004 as far as I know I love metallica riffs but let me ask you does the riff in the song thorn within sound like stone temple pilots' sex type thing???????? it is just so damn famiiliar! thank you rob for that wonderful if crude comment on lp say how about a band you never heard? fu manchu they are stoner rock band they play the songs and instruments they are cool! yes I do spell cool not kewl! ugh! next up thank you neb for the comment on how stupid the industry is hey I just wrote a song it's called the music industry are a bunch of pussys! hahahahahahahahahahaha! next up sts good comment on how gay hip hop is and you do know why I am a yes freak! yes yes yes! someday everybody will be nice like a pretty girl with a sunflower and less bitchy like an asshole! thank you rebeljukebox and hey motorhead rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lemmy is an ageless rocker! I love you ritacambell on your comment on how you love dylan,floyd andsuch, hey, how about yes??? oh hell yeah I need a solo every now and then! god I hate the decade! kiss me babe! mystress belladonna thank you for a goth like you you need maralyn manson! is he sexy???! yes! okay! sorry for the gay comment but I do know why you are horrified anyway this concludes the broadcast
In response to WBinder007@aol.com
In response to akaako69@hotmail.com:
I have sat through and read the comments. I find it hilarious that these idiots have the time and paitence to sit and read other peoples comments and then write some themselves about a band that they don't even like. If you don't like them, why are you reading about them. You had to get on the site somehow?? You are a bunch of closet fans. I'm going to go and write some negative shit so no one knows. Who fucking cares. Personally, I like Linkin Park, if you don't, jam up. But if you don't, shut the fuck up, go listen to anthrax, or to a boy band since you all seem to be an expert on what they sound like and get a fucking life. Just my opinion and I don't give a fuck about yours.
Ok, where to begin..
Alright, definately the best Nu-Metal album ever released and i have the
Majority of the population to back me on this one. The view on Chester's
apparent "12 year old going through puberty voice" ... man if you can
sing/scream better than Chester then why are you commenting on his voice and
not putting yours too good use and not talking through your ass. Does that
mean there's someone with a "12 year old going through puberty voice" with a
more powerful voice than you have... that would leave you a 3 year old who
talks shit wouldnt it?.
Back on track,
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left",
Whats not catchy about that?...The way i see it.. this is a perfect choice
as the opener for Hyrbrid Theory with the intro to the song and then busts
into rap..
Now for the chorus
"It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin "
Yes.. there is alot of anger going through Chesters voice in this song along
with a ton of others LP have wrote.. you should do some background research
on Chester.
Incase you all forgot Hybrid Theory was rated a 5 star album, and reached 10
times Platinum.
Platinum = 1,000,000 albums sold and have sold 24,000,000 as of October 2006
and is considered the most successful album of the Nu-Metal genre.. that
speaks for itself.
This album features remixes of songs from Hybrid Theory by such timeless artists as Chali 2na, Chairman Hahn and some asshole from Korn. Essentially what these people have done is take all the anthemic power out of Linkin Park and released a horrifically dull hip-hop album. This rapper guy in Linkin Park has SUCh a BORING voice! I hope he's cute, because he sure is dull. It's okay to be dull if you're cute because girls are shallow, but can you imagine if he's ugly? Talk about a double-whammy in life - to be completely untalented AND ugly! Like Bryan Adams! The mood is dark and they've replaced the loud guitar action with electronic noises that impress nobody. I do not hate rap music. I hate BAD rap music. This is BEYOND bad rap music. This is absolute shit. Boring, worthless garbage, and I hope Linkin Park fans agree with me. If not, oh well they're all like 8 years old anyway.
ok, my friend and i made this bet. i let him listen to the reanimation cd, and he thinks that thats the only My December song that Linkin Park ever made. and i told him that there's an o.g one out there somewhere. we bet a dollar on it that i would find it, but i cant. ive tried everything. every website i could possibly think of. i need some help. and its not cuz of the money, its b/c i know that there's another one out there. plz help me!
I remixed a Linkin X-ray Ida tune for their album, but it didn't make the final pressing.
Butt in the end, it didn't even splatter!
Wow, I know this was probably written a while ago but you’re right, there is an original version of my december. Can’t help you on where to find it though, sorry, but you are right, I have it.
Craaaaaaaaawwling on my diiiiiiiiiick! These craaaaaaaaaaaaaaabs, they will not heeeeeeeeeal! No but come on - If I could love these guys, I would. Listen at this to me of what they do. I'm smarter now than I was when I reviewed Hybrid Moments by the Misfits. The Linnkin Park aesthetic merges four distinct types of music into one incredibly unlikable whole: (a) heavy Helmet-style grunge nu-metal chords, (b) dull "tough guy" rapping, (c) electronica and (d) boy-band r'n'b sissyass vocals. How come nobody in today's media ever mentions that Chester The Molester has a pussy boy-band 'N Sync singing voice? He totally does! And half the time, the backing music is light and tinkly enough to sound EXACTLY like a Backstreet Boys ballad until the loud guitars come in during the chorus. It's so clearly fucking boy-band music! I guess that's why girls like them. Then there's the rapper MC Mike Shinoda, who recites every single word in the exact same tone of voice on the same note at the same volume. Chester at least sounds good when he's screaming - Mike is boring morning noon and night. Let's discuss this particular album now, since we're all here and seated.
you know what's worse? linkin fart going for selloutica at the sanitarium tour! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! fred turd! linkin fart are FART SMELLING ASSLICKING FUCKS! (runs away before any teenybop fuckwad kills me)
I don't know anyone who likes Linkin' Park, so I don't know if the boy band stuff is something that really needs to be said, or if it's just something obvious.
I wasn't surpised how many bad things people had to say about the band. When I first started hearing them on the radio, I hated them. All I thought of them was that they were just another annoying band trying to make music, but not succeeding very well. However, I actually started to listen to the music, and I started to enjoy it. Listening to them, actually made me sit down and listen to other bands that have inspired them; such as Metallica... which I am pretty sure that not as many people would have as many bad things to say about them... as they do Linkin Park.
Lisa: It may be bleak, but this music's really getting to the crowd.
Bart: Aw, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.
I am so sorry for you guys.linkin park is one of the best bands ever and even if you don't like hybrid theory (i don't like it myself so much) then you should try and listen to meteora.it's far better
Despite what entheend37 says, I actually think that the fact that they put so much effort into their music is the saddest thing about linkin park. Listening to them is kind of like watching the L.A. Clippers play: you know they're trying their hardest, and yet they still suck.
Bennington’s voice is too thin for boy-band music. Also, most of those Backstreet dudes can actually carry a tune (even if you hate the stuff you’ve gotta grant that, but I digress…)
Meteora::
"listen to some Slayer or something?.. SLAYER!?!" somebody get this guy a
hearing aid. NOW!.Boyband ballads?... right..you clearly havent llistenned
to Faint anytime recently.. and on the "One No