Album Rating: 1.5

sorry.

Album Rating: 3.0

I second what musicallychallenged said, hit the nail on the head. This is a very well written piece of writing but it's a sub-standard review.

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Nostalgia

"Besides, in an era where a lot of the music world liked to obsess on cars, jewelry, drugs and knife stabbings, it was certainly a respite to hear music about something... I don't know... good?"

What the fuck?

Album Rating: 2.5

hey when is this review going to talk about the actual album

Album Rating: 3.5

review sounds like a really long intro paragraph tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

nice extended soundoff





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@SharkTooth I understand that preference, but a 3!!!??? And this a 5?!!! I've been pacing around my room, shaking my head, ever since I discovered this.

@Jacquibim you know they say the highest levels of testosterone found in the animal kingdom have been found in Bull Sharks? I disagree

Linkin Park is dead to me these days, with everything they've released since Meteora either sounding like shit or being unable to pique my curiosity. I still love to spin Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, and Meteora once in a while, though. Their earliest works are just way too much fun.

Album Rating: 4.5

then you're missing out on their newest lp tzar

Album Rating: 3.5

I feel that Linkin Park is such an misunderstood band. Altough it's nowhere stated directly (Chester even said that he writes in a way that lets people see their own experiences in the songs), the lyrics on Hybrid Theory and Meteora are HEAVILY inspired by Chester's experiences, like CSA. For example, listen to Crawling. It PERFECTLY describes dissociation. Easier to Run feels like it was ripped straight from the diary of rape/pedophilia victim, which in a way it was.

Look up (C-)PTSD symptoms and read the lyrics once more.

Linkin Park made amazing and empowering trauma narratives and it's such a shame that people thought it was just typical teenage angst. You could say that I'm seeing the lyrics through my experiences, however the comparison between psychological symptoms and lyrics make much more compelling case than assuming that Chester sings about parents not letting him borrow their car or whatever.

Linkin Park were and always will be important to me because altough they are men, they never were afraid of being vulnerable, exposing their psychological scars and showing the world through victim's eyes. It was so important to me to see that altough "when this began, I had nothing to say", at least "I'm not the only person with these things on mind".



Sorry for the rant, I just felt like posting it out somewhere. I love what you said about the feelings in Hybrid Theory. This album forever will be gold.

they are shit musically you know. It's hard to think of them as sincere when the songs are so polished, structured and compromised.

Album Rating: 5.0

define "shit musically". Because some bands out there are technical virtuosos, yet can't write a memorable song to save their lives

Album Rating: 4.0

I think that's an extremely valid point actually. It's the Nirvana/Cobain argument all over again - fantastic songwriter and could write some amazingly memorable riffs - on a technical side he was extremely sloppy and apaulling at solos, but it didn't matter because all it came down to was the fantastic songwriting.

"they are shit musically you know. It's hard to think of them as sincere when the songs are so polished, structured and compromised"

wow, this is incredibly dumb

thanks for explaining that to me

okay since i guess you're not trolling, here you go

1.) musically shit is such a loaded, nothing phrase. it also implies that virtuosity is a prerequisite for good music; it's not by any means. a concise and well written 3 minute song is better than an aimless 12 minute "technical display of virtuosity" mess any day.

2.) an artist's sincerity isn't measured by how polished or structured their songs are, that is utterly ridiculous. if anything, LP are more sincere because they're not pretending to be something they're not and sticking to a formula that works. going out of your way to appease self-important music fans by making less polished and less structured music to stroke their egos would be what's insincere.

Album Rating: 5.0

"an artist's sincerity isn't measured by how polished or structured their songs are, that is utterly ridiculous. if anything, LP are more sincere because they're not pretending to be something they're not and sticking to a formula that works. going out of your way to appease self-important music fans by making less polished and less structured music to stroke their egos would be what's insincere."



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a concise and well written 3 minute song is better than an aimless 12 minute "technical display of virtuosity" mess any day.
I don't understand why you're telling that to me. I agree completely.

about the sincerity bit: it's hard for me to believe that LP felt deeply that their songs will tell their emotions best only if they follow each and every rule of composing a pop song, but if you think otherwise, all right.

I mean, usually if you act very emotionally you don't care about polishing and structuring your song so that it best fits the formula but you just go with your feelings, some songs will be shorter, some longer, some will have no refrain etc. When everything is perfectly polished the music feels more like a result of careful craftmanship, not a spontaneous burst of feelings, but hey, maybe it's just me.