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Sir Lemming posted:Legit their second best album. I actually don't even own Hybrid Theory due to some combination of me being "too cool" for it when it came out, and just never really feeling like I needed to get it because of all the radio play. But Reanimation blew me away. The best remix album of all time by a long shot. (Hell, it even had dubstep before dubstep was cool -- see "A Place For My Head".) It felt more like an "album" than almost anything else they've done. yoooooo A Thousand Suns is so phenomenal. It's easily the album of theirs that best uses what they're good at (two vocalists, Chester's voice, a rock sound with clear hip-hop influence, no bullshit attempts at trying for radio, goofy sci-fi vibe) and is almost painfully sincere, and works as both an anti-war message and a very personal look at suicidal depression (which reaches its climax with Waiting for the End, probably the best song LP ever did). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYiIBCN9ec This song (Iridescent) is especially hard to listen to today. It sounds like a message from someone who made it through the other side to those who are still fighting; I suppose the moral of the story is that you never really make it all the way through, you just learn to deal as best you can (until you can't). quote:You were standing in the wake of devastation
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Add me to the list hit hard by Chester's suicide. I've been listening to the new album and honestly I really like it. I know that's the unpopular sentiment. But goddamn listening to it today sure puts the lyrics in a whole different context. A lot of stuff in there that seems like a cry for help. Even with LP's usual style of lyrics. Maybe we'll see the return of Fort Minor? I didn't mind their first album, and I think Shinoda is a hugely talented producer. Hell, I think he should score more movies too. He did the score for the American release of The Raid, I think he could do some cool stuff. Get him on that Pacific Rim sequel or something, make it sound appropriately futuristic.
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Rageaholic posted:The 20th anniversary edition of Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory was released today. Hybrid Theory was one of the two first rock albums I bought for myself (No Doubt’s Rock Steady was the other) so yeah this definitely makes me feel old even though I got it a solid year after it’s release. Also yeah Reanimation slaps, I think I listened to it more than both HT and Meteora and it is almost certainly a key component to my love of hip-hop today
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I listened to Reanimation way more than HT proper, it felt like the only album that had the balance of hip-hop to rock that I really wanted out of LP and also had Hi Voltage and My December which my copy of Hybrid Theory didn’t have. It’s probably my second favorite album of theirs after A Thousand Suns
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A Thousand Suns is no joke one of my favorite albums and probably the pinnacle of what LP could do as a band. It’s ambitious and utilizes all their disparate interests equally and feels like a complete narrative that touches on their all common themes in a way that fits them all together. I think it showcases the dual vocalists so perfectly and Waiting for the End (which is the centerpiece of the album and basically about a suicide attempt in action) in particular is a heartbreaker, even more so since Chester passed. edit: it took me years to listen to ATS because Minutes to Midnight was really disappointing in the way it really sidelined a lot of the hip-hop sounds, between that album and Fort Minor becoming a thing I just assumed that they were evolving away from my tastes, and the singles that got big in the years following kind of reinforced that for me but the first time I listened to ATS I was blown away, it feels like the album they as a band were meant to make. They earned the right to make bad sell-out music just like U2 did, and if the world were less cruel they’d still be doing it today. that said Mike should still gently caress off with the NFT/crypto poo poo DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 22:46 on May 2, 2023 |
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