Linkin Park singles poll

"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

Correct answer is "The Catalyst"

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

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

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

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

god the "one step closer" video is so hilarious

waiting for the end

"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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

"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

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

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

that is the kind of outrageous reading i can't get behind

i think minutes to midnight is a really solid record but the production certainly took a hit when they decided to work with rubin

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)

have we ever polled "worst rick rubin production job"

the answer is slipknot vol. 3 the subliminal verses

waiting for the end is an all time fun song to sing along to:

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

^^^ my favorite chester vocal performance

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