Linkin Park singles poll

The exact moment that made this new Chinese immigrant sit up and realize that music is worth paying attention to: watching the Somewhere I Belong video for the first time on MuchMusic. So that.

They never topped One Step Closer (second choice would be Faint).

The first time me and my friends heard 'One Step Closer', we thought "oh, fucking hell, this sounds like Savage Garden are trying to hop onto the nu-metal bandwagon".

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I respect this tie

lol I completely forgot about "One Step Closer" which would probably have gotten my vote

Yikes. TMZ reporting something grim.

Jesus.

What the actual fuck!?

As I just said elsewhere, what's really grim is that "In the End" is such an amazing fusion of Depeche-into-NIN, nu-metal, boy band, it was perfect for its time and lasts. But good god the lyrics are just going to override everything about it from here on in.

When I saw the thread title, and before I clicked on it, I was thinking "Yeah, 'Breaking the Habit', that was a good one!"

I must confess, I wasn't massive keen on Linkin Park back in 2000-2001, but 16-17 years later I realise they were not only very good at what they did, but some of the music has aged very well.

*massively.

Jesus, how terrible. I used to hate this band with a passion but started to come around after reading a few interviews with Bennington - there was one where he mentioned banning alcohol at LP's shows because he felt bad for the cleaning crews afterwards, I was like, man...that's really a genuinely nice thing to do. so strange to think that Hybrid Theory is gonna go down as one of the last true blockbuster rock albums. RIP man.

This reminder knocked me for six

He gave Chris Cornell eulogy, was godfather to his kids, and it's Cornell's birthday today. https://t.co/qXqIqY7buK

— goldenfiddle (@goldenfiddle) July 20, 2017

awful. RIP.

Fuck. Yeah, what Turrican said. If you can get over yourself and just listen to an artist working in a genre, you'll hear an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, melodist and lyricist. From what little I know second hand, he was also a really decent guy with a good heart. I wish he'd given himself more time.

Wow, this is brutal

Ah fuck, that's really sad. I LOVED Linkin Park at their peak. Chester always seemed like he had it together - I don't remember him being a serious druggie like Weiland or Staley, but I know he went through a coke and pills phase. Suicide at 41, and he has kids right? So sad...

Billboard said SIX kids.

poor guy, awful

xxp yea I don't think he had much of a substance abuse problem but he definitely struggled with depression a lot. not saying this had anything to do with it but the reception of the last LP album seemed to really bother him a lot.

Fuck. Yeah, what Turrican said. If you can get over yourself and just listen to an artist working in a genre, you'll hear an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, melodist and lyricist. From what little I know second hand, he was also a really decent guy with a good heart. I wish he'd given himself more time.

this.
years ago i took the piss out of a friend who told me she loved this band.
then i got sent their catalogue and came to realise the errors of my narrow minded ways.
as ned said, their mix of DM/NiN/emo/metal vs big chorus heavy pop songs can be rather special when in the right mood.

and given all i have ever read about him, this is a weird one to come to terms with.

r.i.p.

Hybrid Theory and most of Meteora hold up really well. Definitely the most reliable singles band of the nu-metal era, and the only one that managed to survive well into the 00's...

'numb' a monument

there was once a piece on Grantland (??) where it was revealed that the band wrote 30+ different choruses to "Crawling" before they found the right one. regardless of how you feel about nu-metal it really is a perfect song. I'm kind of embarrassed to say it wasn't until last year that I finally was able to come out and say, y'know, I kinda dig those guys

Christ, you know who must be feeling it today? Stone Temple Pilots -- Chester replaced Weiland for a couple of years there not long ago.

I'm pretty sure Linkin Park helped a lot of kids deal with mental health issues, they were pretty key to many of my friends in that regard. These news are particularly devastating in that regard. RIP Chester, wish he knew he made the world a better place.

when you know you've really done something:

https://vine.co/v/OunjJIB6mnE

Fuck. Yeah, what Turrican said. If you can get over yourself and just listen to an artist working in a genre, you'll hear an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, melodist and lyricist. From what little I know second hand, he was also a really decent guy with a good heart. I wish he'd given himself more time.

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:41 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. his vocal work on a thousand suns is gorgeous (that record is almost perfect imo)

otm. his vocal work on a thousand suns is gorgeous (that record is almost perfect imo)

you were not alone in that thought :

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=83175

and it is indeed a bloody wonderful album.

bugger - expected the ilm link to have the name of the thread ..

i think i admit upthread that whiney's voice review got me to listen to that record

he even guested on...was it Young Buck's album? did a mean falsetto wail on the song he was on.

he was very gifted as a vocalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qF_qbaWt3Q

the chorus on this is so lovely

i think i admit upthread that whiney's voice review got me to listen to that record

me too.

Yeah, Turrican's post is spot on.

RIP. immensely important band to me as a teenager.

also as was endlessly reiterated upthread, "faint" fucking slaps

yeah faint rules

i really liked the remix album they put out in 2002

yeah that was the one that caused me to go from disliking the band to "well, maybe they have some good ideas"

I remember hearing singles from Minutes to Midnight and 1000 Suns later on and thinking they were really quite good, though I imagine many of their fans must've felt let down. always meant to get those albums eventually....

Part of the genius of Linkin Park is that, through their accessibility, they ended up speaking to people who may have been put off by relatively less accessible Korn and Slipknot, and may even have acted as a gateway to those bands.

The slickness of their productions were derided by some, particularly by the "keep it real" brigade... but it's kinda like Def Leppard's Hysteria... the slickness is part of the point!

They also, unusually for a metal band, had really great pop instincts and understood the craft of pop - look at their first two records, everything is short and snappy! One could say that Hybrid Theory was an incredibly calculated record... and of course it was! But those Michael Jackson blockbusters like Thriller were calculated in the same way, and the reason they work is because they knew what they were doing. If everyone could do it, everyone would be doing it.

I remember Bennington getting a lot of stick from metal purists back in the day, but looking back what was he meant to do? Pretend he couldn't sing?

I also remember people saying it was all fake anger/fake depression etc. etc. and, well...

Turrican otm

otm

I'm listening to Meteora now and you can pretty much hear the effort that went into its production - and I'd be willing to bet they threw out far more material than what features on the record, and the album is the absolute best of everything they could have come up with at the time.

I've always liked the big Linkin Park singles; I've also always liked Chester's voice. RIP

Wait, what? Wow. I saw them perform once or twice, were always solid.

I never had any time for LP either, but I saw Chester singing a version of Mountain Song (on Youtube) with the celeb covers band Camp Freddy and he sang it as perfectly as a shiny new penny, and it's not a very easy song, but he did it with pretty much every nuance laid out, and I realised that he probably had exceptional range and tonality. So I looked a couple of interviews and was heartened to see he was a genuinely nice man too. So sad.

Loving these posts. Thanks guys.
Like many I secretly dug Faint and Numb but was too caught up in hipsterism to explore further. I got heavily into their first records (including the remix album) a few months before Chester passed. Loved the crunchy drone of their processed guitars. Never managed to get into 1000 Suns though, despite all the high praise. I could see its merits but it wasn’t really what I looked for in the band.

got total chills relistening to "waiting for the end" just now, wow, that is their best song

easily imo

Sitting in an empty room
Trying to forget the past
This was never meant to last
I wish it wasn't so
I know what it takes to move on
I know how it feels to lie
All I wanna do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got

:(

pretty amused by this revive. Linkin Park was the one band I left a party over because I couldn't fucking stand them. I thought Chester's voice was like nails on a chalkboard. much like you folks I've started to appreciate them later in life as I've realized how pitch-perfect some of their stuff is. I actually had a phase (right before his death) where I really wanted to get into them but I don't really find their full albums too satisfying.

similar trajectory, but as someone who also made fun of them the first time around, shinoda's work on the raid: redemption is what made it click for me. his music + action setpieces like this one is such an absolutely perfect union -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmT5qUx1GZ8

huh, so i think i really have been judging one more light too harshly. it wasn't what i wanted them to do at all, but some of the songs are pretty good anyway? living things meanwhile seems like the real bottom of the discography, a few great songs but they mostly sound deflated and uninspired

lmao the hunting party is so fucking good!!!!

"until it's gone" is even a better version of what they were going for on most of living things. albeit the production is worse

The title The Hunting Party is a contextual metaphor: Linkin Park is the party that is hunting to bring back the energy and soul of rock.

lol

i had never heard reanimation before! it... rules?

the remix of "pushing me away" has a better chorus than the actual song!

such a great remix album.

welp, realizing meteora is one of my favorite albums of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMe_UP5R9I

great show, a few extended/rearranged intros for some of the classic songs, incredible energy. chester's voice is def tour-strained and he hits pretty much every note anyway

the nin cover is straightforward but it fuckin' goes