March of the Crabs
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Linkin Park is up there as one of my least favourite bands ever. So bad.
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In the end, did Linkin Park deserve all the hate they got? Does it even matter?
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I still love them today, the only band that "survived" for me after all these years. I don´t even know if other acts that became popular at that time still exist.
Despite that, "A Thousand Suns" is still my favorite album, followed by "Reanimation" (these Remixes still feel so fresh, would love if we could get something like that again) and "Hybrid Theory" :-D
Despite that, "A Thousand Suns" is still my favorite album, followed by "Reanimation" (these Remixes still feel so fresh, would love if we could get something like that again) and "Hybrid Theory" :-D
Right there with you on "A Thousand Suns". I can listen to it anytime.
(NSFW) They're redeemed solely by providing the music for this amazing Sopranos scene (NSFW):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRT0CT7aHdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRT0CT7aHdM
That just made my day
God Dayumm
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They never got any hate, only envy
Rihanna wishes
Rihanna wishes
MoonsaultSlayer
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I'd have to be as juvenile and angsty as their haters claim their music is to hate them as they do.
I actually think Chester has a great voice.
I actually think Chester has a great voice.
PlayALLtheGames
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Probably not. Anyway, who cares? It doesn't even maaatteeee-eeeuuooorrgh.
Vigilant Walrus
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Linkin Park are great. They have never been obnoxious, annoying, overstayed their welcome or said a ton of stupid shit. Linkin Park gets hate because Chesters vocals make it sound like pop. That's really all it is.
When it comes to music, I've never in my life met people who were so elitistic and stuck up their own assholes as metal heads, who can't listen to anything poppyer than their own variation of some obscure finnish viking power death post hardcore old-school punk metal sampled with the blood of king crimson and odin.
If you're not into the mainstream shit, then I suspect you are disingenuous and pretentious. Probably think too highly of yourself and your music taste. Nobody is going to like you more because you jerk of to mastodon. They just aren't.
My thing is- You can have it both ways. Music to me is about mood, and there is almost a mood for everything. Even easily digestible music like Linkin Park. And they are skilled musicians.
Mikes raps are and have always been my least favorite part of LP, but I like their sound. I really do. And everybody knows HT and Meteora. EVERYBODY!
When it comes to music, I've never in my life met people who were so elitistic and stuck up their own assholes as metal heads, who can't listen to anything poppyer than their own variation of some obscure finnish viking power death post hardcore old-school punk metal sampled with the blood of king crimson and odin.
If you're not into the mainstream shit, then I suspect you are disingenuous and pretentious. Probably think too highly of yourself and your music taste. Nobody is going to like you more because you jerk of to mastodon. They just aren't.
My thing is- You can have it both ways. Music to me is about mood, and there is almost a mood for everything. Even easily digestible music like Linkin Park. And they are skilled musicians.
Mikes raps are and have always been my least favorite part of LP, but I like their sound. I really do. And everybody knows HT and Meteora. EVERYBODY!
beato_angelico
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Why so emotional?
Making wild blanket statements is super cool man.
Warm Machine
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He is right.
Music is the most useless thing to argue about. Everyone thinks they listen to superior music. I've got a breaks and house DJ friend who takes every chance he gets to rip into mainstream EDM like the two are so different.
Add the cult of personality on top and popularity as a pivot and music criticism is a shit show.
Also stop expecting everything to last forever. Some things are made to be consumed, enjoyed, and then mostly forgotten about.
Crimsonclaw111
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Dead_Pixel
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I see what you did with your title, OP. Well played ;-)
ElectricBlanketFire
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That was a mod buddy.
A second Fort Minor album.
I still like Linkin Park. There was a time when I started listening to other, more technical stuff and felt kinda embarassed about LP so I stopped listening to them, then a couple of years later I realized they had a unique style and went back to them.
LP was great for that era where the whole teenager rebellion, depresison stuff was hot. a lot of teenagers identified themselves with the lyrics and their videos which i think were targeted at them.
Their new stuff is not that good, but its not bad either, they just adapted to changes in the industry. Their first two albums though were amazing musically speaking.
Their new stuff is not that good, but its not bad either, they just adapted to changes in the industry. Their first two albums though were amazing musically speaking.
Fuck, that reminds me when I sang one of their songs back in junior high. No wonder the teacher made me stop after the chorus.
I like this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFiNlLt8sJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFiNlLt8sJw
Doctor Ironic
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Mr. Hahn's a good DJ and if liking Collision Course is wrong then I don't want to be right.
The rest blows though.
The rest blows though.
MoonsaultSlayer
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I never cared much for MCR but I did appreciate their Black Parade album.
Matter of fact, I just purchased it a few weeks ago when reminded of it (while listening to Waits' Black Rider of all things).
WrenchNinja
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I associate Linkin Park with Vegeta so yes
beato_angelico
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This lazy dismissal of music discussions on the "it's too subjective" basis pops up every time and frankly it's very annoying, and certainly this kind of attitude doesn't help the dismal state of many music related threads here.
hey_it's_that_dog
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What could help music discussion threads? There's literally no amount of work you could put into a post that will make someone who likes something decide that they don't like it after all. At most you can hope to turn people on to new things, but that's not what this thread is about. This thread is about a specific band and as such there will be people who like Linkin Park and people who don't and nobody's going to change their mind. Why should they?
Vigilant Walrus
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Because I'm a contradictory human being of infinite complexities and emotional states that shifts endlessly like the currents of the ocean.
You're defending elitism music snobs?
User 100115
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This I totally agree with.
People like what they like.
I am a mostly rock fan myself, and my favorite bands fluctuate as I tend to like songs more than groups, but it's not uncommon for me to have a playlist with everything from Coheed and Cambria to Reba McEntire to Enya to Brand New to Florence and the Machine to Simon and Garfunkel.
And I've recently become addicted to Taylor Swifts song 'Shake it Off'. NO SHAME. No guilty pleasures. I like what I like.
ThisGuy
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Did they deserve it? Absolutely lmfao. Aside from a couple of songs I laughed at most I've heard. Did they deserve it? Absolutely
Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heallllll alle. Fear is how I fall, confusing what is reeelllll a Leelee.
They're alright though, it's okay to laugh. Nothing wrong with liking it.
Lol@the rapper
Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heallllll alle. Fear is how I fall, confusing what is reeelllll a Leelee.
They're alright though, it's okay to laugh. Nothing wrong with liking it.
Lol@the rapper
Sooo, what exactly is your reason that they deserved to be hated?
Because I can't get where you're going with that post
ThisGuy
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Didn't mean to imply I hated them, I laughed, but in a good way. They're a cheesy band. It's okay to like cheese, it's delicious.
Mike Shinoda did The Raid's soundtrack so he's alright by me. Linkin Park probably aren't as bad as I've been conditioned to believe they were, I remember the period in the mid-2000s where every other independent pro wrestler used Faint as their entrance music which was pretty funny.
Ah okay gotcha. Because I was seriously confused about your previous post xD
inked_illusion
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No, in retrospective, they somehow managed to stay somewhat relevant for a good decade now and that's a pretty rare feat for a rock band. Then again, Hybrid Theory and Meteora were staple albums that almost everyone had.
Listened to their albums quite a while ago, and they still hold up instrumentally (lyrically it's very basic which is what they're aiming for). Lots of good riffs and Mike Shinoda's rapping were pretty good at the time but are now somewhat outdated. The albums also suffer from over production (listen to the little things they keep adding on to the main beat that feel unnecessary). Overall, Linkin Park did well with what they have and even if they sold out, they made a good history of music.
Listened to their albums quite a while ago, and they still hold up instrumentally (lyrically it's very basic which is what they're aiming for). Lots of good riffs and Mike Shinoda's rapping were pretty good at the time but are now somewhat outdated. The albums also suffer from over production (listen to the little things they keep adding on to the main beat that feel unnecessary). Overall, Linkin Park did well with what they have and even if they sold out, they made a good history of music.
I see Linkin Park as one of those "The less you understand the lyrics, the better" bands.
Being a non-native english speaker and 12 years old helped me like the first two albums back then. Nowadays they're... Listenable, I guess, but man, the lyrics sometimes...
All of the memes are pretty much deserved
Being a non-native english speaker and 12 years old helped me like the first two albums back then. Nowadays they're... Listenable, I guess, but man, the lyrics sometimes...
All of the memes are pretty much deserved
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