In the end, it doesn’t even matter
Meteora was also a decent album. I stopped listening after that. Hybrid Theory is something else though. Reanimation was also dope
I really liked minutes to midnight. A lot more introspective and mature.
But the fucking scream in Given Up still breaks me. Even more since his death.
Meteors was fantastic! But yes, after that, it kinda fell off.
I listened to the first three albums (inlcuding reanimation) obsessivley when i was a kid. I think those and the live in texas album are the only cds i still own, for nostalgias sake. Ive recently been going over the albums ive missed though and though they arent start to finish bangers like the old ones, theres some really good songs still.
They had some solid songs after this, but I kinda feel that this is where the downfall started to happen as they moved away from the angry, angry stuff and towards more of a rock sound.
I found the formula got a bit old after a while. The lyrics felt more profound in the beginning, but after a while it just felt like it was throwing synonyms for feeling bad in very similar tracks.
Song is 24 years old maybe the meme need to be updated. Me at 39
Works for me, I’m 30. I discovered LP by going to my local library and renting the two CDs they had. Good times.
That’s probably the most wholesome thing I’ve read today.
This is what I was thinking (but the younger age is younger)
The lead singer really was dealing with something.
There are 30 year old Linkin park fans? I figured they were all 40 at minimum
Hybrid theory came out in 2000. Assuming a kid is 11 when they enter middle school, that would make a lot of mid 30s fans
I played so much unreal tournament on my Pentium 4 while listening to them
Every og Xbox with the unlabeled Linkin Park, SOAD, Korn, etc to the brim. Memories.
30 year old LP listener reporting!
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30 here, wassup
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Just checked my last.fm page, Linkin Park is still my most listened artist since registering in 2020
Hello.
Almost 40, not quite. I’m a millennial grandma.
When ‘Lost’ dropped, it really spoke to where I was emotionally at the time. Chester out here like “Even in death, I still serve.”
Pray his soul still lives on as a machinespirit in the many CDs that are still around.
Never fails that about this time every year I give Hybrid Theory a listen. Had such an impact on me when it came out that it seems to have left a permanent mark on the change from summer to autumn for me.
Reanimation is also still awesome.
One thing that I always noted with Linkin Park is that most of their later albums seemed to divide opinions in the fanbase.
This always struck me as a good thing because they never really released the same sounding album twice (their first two, most popular albums being the exception). They always changed it up.
Their more electronic sounding albums are really underrated IMO. I haven’t really listened to them in years, but I used to love their music.
I still remember the shock and sadness when hearing of Chester’s death. He was a beast of a vocalist.
I ❤️ A Thousand Suns
I didn’t love them forever ago, but I rather like their new single “The Emptiness Machine”. I don’t follow music so I didn’t know they had lost their lead singer until yesterday. I heard the song and thought, “Linkin Park doesn’t have a woman for a lead singer….”
I still like the Jay-Z mashup album
I wasn’t really into the scream-singing, but Mike Shinoda’s raps are fire
Replace the album with Green Days dookie and you have me! (Never mind the additional years…)
The same with me. But I’m 37. And in-between there were like 15 years when I thought it was crap.
I never thought it was crap, I also don’t think Nickelback is crap
The most overrated band in the nu-metal era.
