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04-12-2022, 01:48 AM | #1 |
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Linkin Park
i won't be surprised if this post is met with some derision or snark, but i wanted to make a thread about linkin park.
i remember buying hybrid theory maybe a year after it came out, then meteora right when it came out and really liked both. when minutes to midnight came out, i listened to a few songs but didn't get the album and kind of forgot about the band. i wasn't really aware of any of their albums after that (a thousand suns, living things, the hunting party, one more light), and then of course chester died in 2017. i was at a point in my life where i knew it was a big deal but was so busy with other things i didn't really feel the impact. recently, for no real reason, i started listening to all of their albums and was really grabbed by it all. what a great, great band. their bar for quality is so high, everything is so tight. i find some of it very moving. for me it's this appealing mix of raw emotion and tight, professional delivery and production. and then as a band, they are really giving to their fans. they have a live album for just about every studio album, there are a couple albums where they have acapalla and instrumental versions of the songs in case you're interested in that. deluxe versions with more songs, etc. and a ton of cool content on youtube. a couple different "making of" docs for albums, some incredible live shows. plus a bunch of remix albums i haven't even listened to. the ep with Jay-z and the live shows with him on youtube are ridiculous. so good. the one-two punch of chester and mike shinoda is pretty insane. just incredibly talented. musically they kept things interesting and evolved pretty well from album to album, took some chances, etc. i feel like the integrity of this band never dipped. i concede it's easy for me to come away with this really positive impressions of these albums, having listened to them for the first time only recently, having complete perspective of how things ultimately turned out. i'm not sure i would have been as interested or as receptive if i was listening when they were released. it's easier to appreciate each of these knowing there will never be any more with chester. i don't really have a point here other than to say that i really think this band is incredible, it's obviously an emotionally heavy thing because of how it all turned out, but i'm really glad i rediscovered them. anyone here else like them? wanna post videos of live performance you think are the best, discuss any songs or albums, etc.? Last edited by wHATcOLOR : 04-12-2022 at 02:43 AM. |
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04-12-2022, 09:27 AM | #2 |
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link in bio
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04-12-2022, 10:10 AM | #3 |
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lost me album 2, but i'll forever love those first couple + reanimation and most of the stuff surrounding it - even if the guitar & drum production is pretty "no frills" as fuck, save for some of the clean-ish stuff (Forgotten, baby)
i love jay-z so that was a cool little novelty as well favorite thing they ever did is undoubtedly this, though |
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04-12-2022, 10:38 AM | #4 |
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Linkin Park is really good. I am a far bigger Pumpkins fan, but I've enjoyed LP shows far more than SP shows in person.
I'll always remember the feeling when the entire Jiffy Lube Live venue sang Burn It Down in 2012. Chester always struck me as a bit aloof, but Mike is just the nicest guy. I wish nothing but the best for him and the rest of the band moving forward. |
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04-12-2022, 12:04 PM | #5 |
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04-12-2022, 12:04 PM | #6 |
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too soon?
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04-12-2022, 12:05 PM | #7 |
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really though I was pretty shocked & saddened to hear about that when it happened - this unreleased track from the Hybrid days is so good though
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04-12-2022, 01:55 PM | #8 |
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I've never been into Linkin Park really, but I do think they're very talent and got unfairly shit on by lots of people. Surprisingly, when Chester died one of my old friends who is really into death metal and plays in a semi-popular band (also writes for some music magazines, is a studio musician as well) wrote a very touching thing about how talented they were and how people could front all they wanted but all the highschool death metal kids secretly loved them in the early 2000s and no one better talk shit about him.
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04-12-2022, 03:55 PM | #9 |
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Don't really know who Gordi is, but I enjoyed this cover, over-earnest backup singer guy and all
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04-12-2022, 07:25 PM | #10 |
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LP rules and were unfairly shit on. Minutes to Midnight wasn’t great and their last one was pretty bad but the first two, Living Things, Hunting Party, were really good.
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04-24-2022, 03:07 AM | #11 |
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here are a few of my favorite live videos. i'll post some more too:
holy fuck this is so good A Place For My Head - Germany 2004 skip to like 4:55 if you have ADHD skip to like 1:52 or so if you have a short attention span Faint, 2007 Japan |
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07-11-2022, 05:47 PM | #12 |
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Resurrecting this thread to share this. The remix of Points of Authority on Reanimation, for those who haven't already heard it.
https://youtu.be/kX_cVDFda00 It is incredible. My favourite thing LP ever put out by some margin. As others have said on this thread they got clowned on a lot back in the day but when they wrote a great song, they wrote a great friggin' song! |
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07-13-2022, 11:38 PM | #13 |
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Mike Shinoda's lyrics are so bad.
I'll always have a soft spot for them (and the first album) because of the time in my life it came out. And I like some songs here and there from Meteora and I think Minutes to Midnight had some jamz IIRC. But I really don't care enough about anything after that. It really is just nostalgia for me; I'll play a song every now and then from Hybrid Theory. It was kinda cool to hear the pre-Hybrid demos they released a few years ago. But yeah, the lyrics are tough to get past. |
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07-14-2022, 01:56 PM | #14 |
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Chaz + the electronics were always the main appeal of this band, at least for me. Mike is fine but even as a kid I thought the rapping in "In the End" was fucking cheesy and almost didn't even get anything more by them
guitar/bass/drums are about as functional as they come, though some of the clean gtr & harmonics shit on like Forgotten, Pushing Me Away & stuff is great |
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07-16-2022, 12:00 AM | #15 |
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07-16-2022, 12:03 AM | #16 |
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what a gift
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07-16-2022, 05:11 PM | #17 |
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I'll take "how would Patrick Bateman introduce popular early 2000s records" for 500 alex
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07-22-2022, 02:45 AM | #18 |
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I remember thinking they were lame when they came out. They played at a Best Buy right near my house, and we were like F- that.
Come to find out a few years after Hybrid Theory... I was like, shit. These guys are pretty good. I was the lame one. Go figure. |
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07-22-2022, 02:47 AM | #19 |
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Chester was a hell of a front man. RIP
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07-22-2022, 11:00 AM | #20 |
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played at a Best Buy??? was that long-running Facebook meme actually based in some kind of reality????
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07-22-2022, 11:01 AM | #21 |
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one thing
i DON'T know why i couldn't find a cable so I asked the guy |
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07-22-2022, 01:49 PM | #22 |
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I'm currently LOLing at the extraordinarily remote possibility that the shitty band I saw playing the parking lot of a Ben & Jerry's at the mall right around that time was in fact Linkin Park, and I just never put two and two together
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07-22-2022, 01:50 PM | #23 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Joey pls
Must spread rep, etc. |
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07-22-2022, 02:04 PM | #24 |
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i'm seriously curious about that too, though
like are people still allowed to shop for TV's & whatnot while that's happening? I'm amazed "yeah so uh... could we see the 62-inchers?" IN THE MEMORY YOU'LL FIIIIIND MEEEEEE "we just sold our last one to a fellow with flames on his wrists" EYES BURNING UUUUUP |
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07-22-2022, 11:46 PM | #25 | |
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Quote:
Their song was getting some radio play at the time. I remember thinking they sucked because there were a lot of these hip hop/ guitar rock bands in the area, and they were terrible. The Best Buy, near my house, was just built. It was like a grand opening thing. Last edited by Big Truck05 : 07-22-2022 at 11:53 PM. |
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07-23-2022, 11:53 AM | #26 |
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It turns out Weezer did something similar at the same mall I'm thinking of... in 2013
I had a talk with my hometown buddies and we decided the band we'd seen had more of a "Sublime, but exponentially shittier" vibe, I'm very sorry to say |
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01-04-2023, 04:53 PM | #27 |
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01-04-2023, 05:44 PM | #28 |
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sorry globes i still stand by that 1
RIP chaz |
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01-04-2023, 05:52 PM | #29 |
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now if you don't mind, i got a concert to catch at the local Super Target
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01-04-2023, 06:02 PM | #30 | |
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My friends were more into them than I was, but we were all a bit sad of Chester's death I guess. |
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