awful. RIP.
― goole, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
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, 20 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Wow, this is brutal
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
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...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Billboard said SIX kids.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
poor guy, awful
― Odysseus, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
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...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
'numb' a monument
― goole, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Christ, you know who must be feeling it today? Stone Temple Pilots -- Chester replaced Weiland for a couple of years there not long ago.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
when you know you've really done something:
https://vine.co/v/OunjJIB6mnE
― goole, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
― 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)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qF_qbaWt3Q
the chorus on this is so lovely
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
me too.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Turrican's post is spot on.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
RIP. immensely important band to me as a teenager.
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
also as was endlessly reiterated upthread, "faint" fucking slaps
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
yeah faint rules
i really liked the remix album they put out in 2002
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
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....
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
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!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
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...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
Turrican otm
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
otm
― down that brown path (Spottie), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
I've always liked the big Linkin Park singles; I've also always liked Chester's voice. RIP
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
Wait, what? Wow. I saw them perform once or twice, were always solid.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
boy Faint is a great song.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
Seeing way too many people couch their posts or thoughts with "not that I care about their music anymore" or "before I knew what 'good music' was..." Linkin Park were good. There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
Petty squabbles over sad news...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
I cared about them when I was 12 and yes, I moved on to other stuff only to remember right now that they had some pretty good songs here and there.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
but yeah anyone taking this opportunity to remind the world they are above nu-metal can go to hell.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
yeah I mean the "I wasn't into their music" or "although I hated their music" lead-ins today are gross and unnecessary. Nobody cares if you did or didn't like their music. Do you have to add that stupid caveat to offer condolences? Are people that fragile that they have to make sure, that people are also clear that they don't like "weak-assed music" and aren't a "poser"?
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
especially considering how the music resonated with some people who suffered of depression and abuse...
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
i have just listened to 1000 sunssuch a wonderful album.i cried a lot.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
man I decided to listen to his bit on Slow Ya Roll again and man, the lyrics "this can't be life we're livin/cos I don't wanna live no more", eerie af. powerful vocal on the track tho
https://youtu.be/Dgn3hUwFVHM?t=2m5s
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
huh never knew they covered this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl0bSmoZynk
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
it's quite good!
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
I just had a guy come into the store and my coworker and I were talking about it and this guy hadn't heard. Reaction:
"WHAAAAAAT???!!! ...not that I cared AT ALL about Linkin Park's music................. you know what's interesting though?..." and then he went on this monologue about how he watched a 1000 suns documentary and was really into it and everything. Fuck off dude
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
a friend of one of my besties posted a snarky "ehh they sucked but I guess it's sad" post and my friend exploded on him cos he apparently has done nothing but "woe is me" post every day and did a GoFundMe recently for people to give him money so he can live in Germany full-time....
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
I always liked "Papercut"
Yeah, pretty much everyone OTM regarding people trying to score cool points right now. It's disgusting.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
Papercut bangs. Great album opener.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
the nin cover is straightforward but it fuckin' goes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link