Linkin Park singles poll

I wish this record didn't polarize fans so much, they could have had a really amazing second act occupying the same space in hard rock that Radiohead does in alt rock.

otm

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

nice!

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.

The Hunting Party = seriously underrated Linkin Park album. They did some of their best work post-Meteora.

yeah that one is real good. the fans hate it. ‘twas ever thus

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.

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

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.

Crawling 1

damn

been blasting hybrid theory today, sick record that i was way too cool for in 9th grade

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 :(

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

I've been listening to them recently, Brad! Hybrid Theory especially.

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.

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

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.

yes, they sound amazing!

Breaking The Habit 1

this is also very wrong

"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