Linkin Park Band • Page 141

You both done fucked up.

 

listen to A Thousand Suns right now

 

I'm sure my story is a similar one. I got Meteora as a holiday gift, I forget if it was my birthday or Christmas. Anyway, my music taste at the time was very limited, mostly alt rock radio stuff, so I know I liked Creed, Default, maybe Audioslave too? Linkin Park quickly became my favorite band. I had an older kid in my youth group at church burn me a copy of Hybrid Theory, I bought the Live In Texas CD/DVD, and got Reanimation. Totally obsessed with them, but as things do when you're a kid, my music taste was evolving quickly. By the time Minutes to Midnight came out in 2007, I was already knee deep in bands that would become all time favorites, like Coheed, Circa Survive, Opeth, Protest the Hero, etc., and was just not willing to "stoop down to listening to radio rock" again.

 

I stopped at Minutes To Midnight as a teenager but then felt really bad about tossing them aside after Chester passed. I did a deep dive on their discog and it's better than I was lead to believe

 

Lmao, perfect response

 

I think they will go for something accessible as the lead single.

 

Holy shit. New Blink this Friday. New LP TOMORROW.

It’s a great time to be a scene not-quite-kid.

 

Nervous but excited man. This band means a lot to me, I'm so glad they're back no matter the form.

 

That's the one I've been listening to today

 

Still remember how confused I was on my initial listen of A Thousand Suns. For those who stopped keeping up after their early records, I’m curious to read their thoughts on that one.

 

why not sneak in a little ranking before tomorrow.....

Hybrid Theory
Meteora
A Thousand Suns
Hunting Party
One More Light
Living Things
Minutes To Midnight

 

Meteora
Hybrid Theory
A Thousand Suns
Living Things
Minutes To Midnight
The Hunting Party
One More Light

 

Nice.

 

Unimpeachable:
Meteora
Hybrid Theory
A Thousand Suns

Terrific:
Minutes to Midnight
Living Things

Fine:
One More Light

Not For Me:
The Hunting Party

 

I sideye heavily anybody who doesn't rank Reanimation as well tbh

 

That would be top 3/4 if I were to include it

 

It's the other way around for me; their songs did not age well. The rap is mediocre by today's standards and, just, like, it's really anime-nerd 4 me.

 

Spot on for me too. Hunting Party’s production kind of ruins it for me.

 

I’ve only listened to it once and that was a long time ago oop. Will fix this

 

What about Recharged, don’t think I’ve even heard that one

 

Recharged is... not too good, just your typical 2010s remix album with a lot of really basic remix stuff. I remember a handful of decent mixes off it but that's it

Reanimation basically feels like the 2nd Linkin Park album to me. you can tell they were all really involved with it and put it together thoughtfully. actually flows better as an album than Hybrid Theory imo

 

Alright I’ll give Réanimation a listen later. Think I’m only familiar with the song that features Staind’s singer

 

the song with Black Thought on it going into the High Voltage remix blew my mind as a kid, that transition is filthy

 

It feels like such a grown up album coming back, loving the vocal harmonies throughout, and the hopeful lyrics, like even though life has worn us down we keep marching forward, it ends nicely with the messenger.

 

Meteora
Hybrid Theory
A Thousand Suns
The Hunting Party
Minutes To Midnight
Living Things
One More Light

Side-eye me if you dare!