it's hilarious how the song before "Burn It Down" sounds exactly like "Burn It Down"
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
"castle of glass" is really awesome, if i'm remembering correctly (really tired first listen last night). kind of a better "breaking the habit"
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
I do remember really liking Faint and I've heard some pretty interesting things about their last few albums, what do they sound like?
btw I'm really not a fan of any of their early singles
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
"Waiting for the End" is my favorite now. Doesn't sound too much like their old stuff but is so goddamn catchy.
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Limbskin Parl
― carly rae (flopson), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
much as i think whiney's "linkin park made their kid a even though i hate kid a and i love this, p.s. bomb squad bomb squad bomb squad" angle is really unappealing, a thousand suns is a great, unusual record, sort of eschews guitars for more interesting rhythmic stuff while maintaining this almost-too-heavy-handed-but-real-fun apocalyptic feel
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
also i don't really mean to make too much fun of whiney's perspective there; i mean it was his review that got me to listen to the album in the first place
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
"faint" all the way
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
In The End
Honorable mentions: Faint, Breaking The Habit, Bleed It Out, New Divide
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
the art album did nothing for me aside from that one part where everything started stuttering, but I get why ol' funk-metal hands would dig it
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Meteora remains their pinnacle imo, though really these guys would be best served by some 8.99 "21st Century Masters" disc with 10 tracks on it
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
watching the video now, beat had me thinking their balls had dropped and maybe they were having a Violator moment, but chester seems like he's on a chris martin tip, and oh man mike shinoda
do appreciate how mr. hahn sells the pressing of a button
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
the new video, i mean
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
The one that I suspect will be the most underrated here is "Shadow of the Day", which I have always liked. (Actually voted for "In the End" though, over "Faint").
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
Love "Shadow." Quiet LP is almost better than loud LP.
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Shadow" is fun in a 'Linkin Park does a U2 ballad' way but I'd much rather listen to "Breaking The Habit" or "Waiting For The End" if I'm going for a milder cut
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Correct answer is "The Catalyst"
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
my top 10: Faint, Waiting For The End, Bleed It Out, Breaking The Habit, Burn It Down, Crawling, New Divide, Somewhere I Belong, In The End, Papercut
― some dude, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
this is pretty close to mine, voted for bleed it out but it could've been a number of other tracks depending on mood
ive always been mildly surprised that these guys didnt have a few more ardent defenders on here. when hybrid theory was hitting it big it felt like they were the nu-metal act it was 'ok' to like, but i guess deftones replaced them
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
i think one reason i never soured on these dudes is that chester's voice is one of the few on modern rock radio that doesnt drive me crazy, and that i in fact like
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
when hybrid theory was hitting it big it felt like they were the nu-metal act it was 'ok' to like, but i guess deftones replaced them
imo deftones were always that
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah they were never cool like Deftones oe SOAD, especially at first when they got a lot of 'nu metal boy band' cracks, but then they got so big that "In The End" was an acceptable populist pick
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
god the "one step closer" video is so hilarious
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Friday, 29 June 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
waiting for the end
― teledyldonix, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
"papercut" and "in the end" were both really catchy form memory. there's far too many songs on here that i don't recognise for me to cast a vote though.
― charlie h, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ascai, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
They never topped One Step Closer (second choice would be Faint).
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I respect this tie
― da croupier, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
lol I completely forgot about "One Step Closer" which would probably have gotten my vote
― qop (crüt), Thursday, 17 November 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
Yikes. TMZ reporting something grim.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Jesus.
― maura, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
What the actual fuck!?
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
When I saw the thread title, and before I clicked on it, I was thinking "Yeah, 'Breaking the Habit', that was a good one!"
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
*massively.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
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
Carpool Karaoke epitomises everything horrible about pop culture today but watching the episode with Linking Park shot just six days before Chester's death is a perfect reminder that depression is an unfathomable bitch.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 22 October 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
The Hunting Party = seriously underrated Linkin Park album. They did some of their best work post-Meteora.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
yeah that one is real good. the fans hate it. ‘twas ever thus
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
It's interesting that the fans hate it - I would have thought that out of all of their post-Meteora albums it would have been the one that was most to the liking of fans of the first couple of albums! Strange.
Their last album was probably the worst album they ever made, though. If they choose not to continue making music as Linkin Park, it'd be a shame to have that as their swan song.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
i mean hunting party is a "return-to-rock" record that doesn't really resemble how they rocked previously at all, i think it makes sense
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
I agree that it's not a Hybrid Theory or Meteora reboot, but even with that in mind I still find it bizarre. Maybe it was the lack of Shinoda rapping, or perhaps there were some Linkin Park fans that were rigidly stuck in the past so much that they wouldn't have accepted anything other the invention of the time machine to experience the first couple of albums over again. Y'know, like Weezer fans write off huge amounts of stuff released after 1997.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Crawling 1
damn
been blasting hybrid theory today, sick record that i was way too cool for in 9th grade
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
i think every band or artist after getting a few albums deep has the tendency to lose their way, and that's sort of what happened after a thousand suns, a record that never really found its audience; each record afterward seemed a different attempt at regaining the foothold they previous had. this led to some very good work that was experimental even as it tried to foreground sounds that were recognizably linkin park (the hunting party (even though no one thought of them as a guttery thrash band but whatever), some of the singles from living things), and also led to decisions that still don't really make sense to me and seem completely misaligned with the band's strengths and identity (one more light, though i of course feel terrible talking shit about it)
it makes for a discog that's fun and fascinating to listen to, though. they were a really great band :(
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
like, again, "crawling," what a song, i used to clown these guys in high school for using guitars more as a texture than anything else but of course that's why they sound so good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
I've been listening to them recently, Brad! Hybrid Theory especially.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
The funniest thing about me "discovering" that I liked LP this late in life (I'm 36) is that it all happened because a bunch of my partner's coworkers said he looked like Chester, and uh, the resemblance is there. But as a result, I listened to a few of their songs, and was like, oh, this is great! I used to clown on this shit all the time, too.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
i also thought they were very basic lyrically when i was a kid but when i remember the lyricists i admired at the time (billy corgan) i check myself
meteora is such a great sophomore album, reprises everything good about the debut but pushes it further all around. "numb" is kind of a rewrite of "pushing me away" but it's like 1000x better
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
My 15-year-old diaries are full of Meteora's basic lyrics alongside pictures of crying eyes.
Both those albums still sound really great and weird and er...metallic.
― tangenttangent, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
yes, they sound amazing!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Breaking The Habit 1
this is also very wrong
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
"breaking the habit" sounded really cool and different from them in 2003; in 2020 it sounds so intricate and beautiful i wish it had somehow opened up its own subgenre
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
lol this is a bad habit of mine but i checked out the shoutbox for meteora on rym and it's full of people claiming that it's a trans album, which is the kind of outrageous reading i can get behind
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Just some really stupid trivia about this video: QAnon people love Linkin Park because they believe the lead singer was John Podesta's secret son and was murdered when he tried to confirm Pizzagate.I truly wish I knew less about these people. https://t.co/cIipyLcyJa— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 12, 2020
― k3vin k., Monday, 14 December 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
that is the kind of outrageous reading i can't get behind
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
i think minutes to midnight is a really solid record but the production certainly took a hit when they decided to work with rubin
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
i think one of the other disappointing things about it is that they sound like a normal band, which is i'm sure what they were going for, but i miss the glitchiness (thankfully reinstated for a thousand suns)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
have we ever polled "worst rick rubin production job"
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
the answer is slipknot vol. 3 the subliminal verses
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
waiting for the end is an all time fun song to sing along to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qF_qbaWt3Q
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
^^^ my favorite chester vocal performance
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
got total chills relistening to "waiting for the end" just now, wow, that is their best song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
easily imo
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Sitting in an empty roomTrying to forget the pastThis was never meant to lastI wish it wasn't soI know what it takes to move onI know how it feels to lieAll I wanna doIs trade this life for something newHolding on to what I haven't got
:(
― Spottie, Monday, 14 December 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Monday, 14 December 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
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
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 14 December 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
lmao the hunting party is so fucking good!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
"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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
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.
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
i had never heard reanimation before! it... rules?
the remix of "pushing me away" has a better chorus than the actual song!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
such a great remix album.
― mark e, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
welp, realizing meteora is one of my favorite albums of all time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:32 (three 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