Linkin Park - Meteora

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What is the verdict on the new album?

― Jenny Ess Dog, Sunday, 30 March 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I think they're shit, so I'm guessing it's not much cop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

but you're guessing alex. you have to listen to something before you decide.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

True, Julio, I am guessing. But, based on the data I've assembled up until this point, I feel that it is a reasonably safe prediction that any new effort put forth by Linkin Park is going to conjure the same feelings of ire and disgust in me as did their previous work.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

It's possible to like music for reasons other than what it sounds like.

Replace 'like' with 'dislike'.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I kinda like "Somewhere I Belong". Is it on this album?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

To be fair, I think that pencil-necked Chester character has a reasonably decent voice, but I find their lyrics to be so completely cliched, and their rapping to be entirely embarassing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

''and their rapping to be entirely embarassing.''

and what would you say its good rapping alex?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Good rapping? Well,....I'm no expert (but I long shot), but I'd say someone like, say, Busta Rhymes gets the job done with considerable more skill, flair and imagination.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

jesus....that should've been BY A long shot. Forgive me, I am hungover.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yet another reason guitars should be licensed like guns...

― Alex in GRUMPY (Cozen), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

''I'm no expert''

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

They have a guitarist? You'd hardly know it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that pencil-necked Chester character has a reasonably decent voice

Actually, that's the worst thing about them I think...apparently he's older than 15 but he certainly tries to sound like it.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

is Chester the singer or the 'rapper'? i don't like the rap style on their tracks, except on 'Its Goin Down' where it seems to fit a lot better

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Their new single seems to be EXACTLY like all of their old stuff. Annoying moan-sing, then awful, awful "rapping," with a DJ who is totally unaudable unti lthe chorus, when he does a few random samples and a scratch.

― David Allen, Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The new album is really really boring stuff even by the low standards of rap-rock.At least the lead singer of Disturbed sounds like a monkey. There is nothing on Linkin Park's album that stands out good OR bad to give them some sort of personality. The guitars are produced for maximum digital blah. The dude screams and sings in exactly the same way in every song. The "rap" dude if you can call it rapping, more of a slow talking approximation of rhyming, is so mundane as to be invisible and their songs are so undistiguished and generic that you kinda wish given how popular they still are that they would have brought in some of those pro tunesmiths they got lying around in hollywood so that when you hear them on the radio you at least have something to listen to. 311+The Deftones=icky. Hell, I'd rather listen to Crazytown. At least they were catchy crack smoking doofuses with a sense of humor.That said, I have nothing against the members of Linkin Park. I wish them well.They are just boring and in my book that is worse than being derivative, stupid, or annoying.

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, they should really lose their Japanimation big scary robot aesthetic....unless, of course, they simply want to attract an army of 8 yr. old boys.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah really, that video threw me for a loop. It's like I was watching a Gundam figure commercial shot in that dark, late 90s SE7EN style.

― original bgm, Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

it must be good, it's number one in the albums chart!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

But Alex, the anime obsession is the coolest thing about Linkin Park!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 30 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

A little too short and not very many obvious singles. I like that they kept some of the experimentation from Reanimation (there's this weird ass Japanese flute song) but it's not a very memorable album. I'm not a fan of "Somewhere I Belong" either.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 30 March 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i heard the new album was great. but i'm sure it's really not.

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Anybody heard Meteora who thought "In The End" - if nothing else on the last album - was CLASSIC? That's the kind of opinion I'm most curious about right now. I haven't even heard the first single yet off the new one so I won't pretend to know how good it is.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked "In the End" and most of the first album. Meteora feels like a disappointment so far.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 31 March 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you heard Lostprophets.

They nicked their musical style _and_ their Japanimation fetish from LP.

Eeeurgh.

― mei (mei), Monday, 31 March 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

yeh but they're possibly better than Linkin Park

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 31 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Linkin Park nicked it from Rephlex Records anyway

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 31 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Best thing out of SPIN magazine in years = an article on Linkin Park referring to, um, I think his name's [something] Shinoda, as their "endearingly flow-challenged MC".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 31 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

At least the lead singer of Disturbed sounds like a monkey.

I will cherish this thread forever because of this one sentence.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

ya know what, there's nothing remotely good about linkin park.
nope. nothing. know why? because it's a carbon copy of limp bisquick.
except where there's freddy durst, there's some other peirced, tatooed, wanna-g "individual". personally, i see enough of them on the streets and in buses. thankfully, most of them have the common sense to keep quiet, sit, and look angsty.
i feel for em. i really do. they got nothing. less than most generations. culturally, that is. i used to fear that every generation would become more and more "neo-republican", now, i don't really fear it anymore, i almost welcome it. just for something different.
then, it would scare. after a while....

― eedd, Monday, 31 March 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck the Shinoda hate. His rap on "It's Going Down" with the X-ecutioners is easily one of my fave rhymes since Durst's Chocolate Starfish-era masterpieces. Shinoda is the only rapper alive who acknowledges the flat glorious enunciated rhythms of "Ice Ice Baby".

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony, I love you, but your fine words are like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind sculpting the Devil's Tower in mud, except the raw materials you're talking about/working with aren't mud.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

dude, don't forget that he was RIGHT!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

And then he was kidnapped and NEVER SEEN AGAIN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

by utopian angel aliens! Good deal!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

They never showed you the anal probes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

now THAT should have been the twist ending (ho ho!) of the film.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I always come in late on this shit, but I bought this album when it came out and I think it's a masterpiece of engineering. I love listening to it just to admire the precision with which it was produced.

Sure, there's ultimately nothing there, but why the fuck not thrash around for 40 minutes and have a good time?

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

eighteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY

20th anniversary release coming soon, new unreleased song from the sessions which sounds pretty great

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:48 (three years ago)

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