New Linkin Park Album

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Anyone give this a listen yet? I grew up as a Linkin Park fan, and turned into the biggest one I know (I own 32 various "albums" by these guys), and with that being said, I wasn't sure the first time I listened to this album but I've had it on repeat ever since and each time it goes through I love it a little more. I think bands these days try and define themselves by their sound, and LP used to do the same, but somewhere along the lines they realized that they are defined by themselves and not their music, so if they make music and they like it, then it's Linkin Park music. This new album is really something special to me, and I can go more into that if I get feedback from other people :P no sense in wasting my breath just yet.

 
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns

1. The Requiem 2:01

2. The Radiance 0:57

3. Burning In The Skies 4:1

4. Empty Spaces 0:18

5. When They Come For Me 4:55

6. Robot Boy 4:29

7. Jornada Del Muerto 1:34

8. Waiting For The End 3:51

9. B****** 4:39

10. Wrectches And Kings 4:15

11. Wisdom, Justice, And Love 1:38

12. Iridescent 4:56

13. Fallout 1:23

14. The Catalyst 5:39

15. The Messenger 3:01

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I became sort of a fan of theirs when One Step Closer was released. Heard it on MTV X onetime and loved it. It also happened to come out right at the same time my ex-wife and I had split up. It became a very fitting song at the time. That and Godsmack's "Whatever". :clap

 
I was a fan of Hybrid Theory, a few of the songs on Reanimation, a fan of Meteora, and I like a couple of songs off of Minutes to Midnight.

That said, after Meteora, I lost interest in Linkin Park's new stuff. Both of their songs for the two Transformers sounded eerily similar and I was a much larger fan of the style of music they played on HT and Meteora. I'm still a fan of HT and Meteora and if they came to town, I'd still probably go see the show.

I haven't listened to this new album, but I doubt I will buy it.

 
I'm with Enhance. I loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Since then I've been back and forth on them. Few songs I like, and a few songs I don't care for. Bleed it Out gets me pumped up for some reason.

The Catalyst is the only song I've heard from their new album, and I actually kinda like it.

 
I like a handful of their songs mainly because they're my 9 year old's favourite band (or at least 2nd behind Green Day) but hate when they start to get too "rappy".

 

I was a little sad to tell him what the DJs at the local hard rock radio station said when they played clips from the new album.

 

"...They got rid of their lead guitarist and sound like NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK or BACKSTREET BOYS..."

 

I still can't bring myself to play it for him from youtube..It'll break his heart.​


 
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I liked Linkin Park when they first became popular but now I can't stand their music and their two songs for the Transformers movies are god awful. I'm with drowning I like some of their songs but I hate some of their songs.

I'm more of a hard rock listener if that tells you anything.

 
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Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red said:
I'm with Enhance. I loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Since then I've been back and forth on them. Few songs I like, and a few songs I don't care for. Bleed it Out gets me pumped up for some reason.

The Catalyst is the only song I've heard from their new album, and I actually kinda like it.
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Catalyst is pretty good but I like Wretches and Kings.

 
Since nobody here has actually talked about the new album yet, here's a few songs :P

If anyone wants to check it out, which I highly suggest, try to listen to it without "comparing" it to earlier Linkin Park. These guys have defined their music as whatever they decide to make, and they have transcended genre classifications. You'd do yourself a favor to listen to the new album as it's own piece of art.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4er9gIn9hM

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Since nobody here has actually talked about the new album yet, here's a few songs :P

If anyone wants to check it out, which I highly suggest, try to listen to it without "comparing" it to earlier Linkin Park. These guys have defined their music as whatever they decide to make, and they have transcended genre classifications. You'd do yourself a favor to listen to the new album as it's own piece of art.
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Thanks for the vids, Landlord.

Just a heads up unless you have me on ignore ("Since nobody here has actually talked about the new album yet").

I don't know if your programming is similar to my Dish Network out here, but they're showing a VH1 sponsered concert with Linkin Park and one of my fav. bands (Alice in Chains) on channel 101 (DNFYI) right now and again in an hour.

So far, pretty good.

 
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Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Since nobody here has actually talked about the new album yet, here's a few songs :P

If anyone wants to check it out, which I highly suggest, try to listen to it without "comparing" it to earlier Linkin Park. These guys have defined their music as whatever they decide to make, and they have transcended genre classifications. You'd do yourself a favor to listen to the new album as it's own piece of art.
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Thanks for the vids, Landlord.

Just a heads up unless you have me on ignore ("Since nobody here has actually talked about the new album yet").

I don't know if your programming is similar to my Dish Network out here, but they're showing a VH1 sponsered concert with Linkin Park and one of my fav. bands (Alice in Chains) on channel 101 (DNFYI) right now and again in an hour.

So far, pretty good.
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Hey sorry, I just meant that most of the discussion had been about how people liked their old stuff and don't listen to them anymore, I saw your post. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check that out!

 
IMO, Linkin Park began to pawn their sound piecemeal the minute Hybrid Theory sold half a gagillion copies, and with what I've heard of this album, the garage sale has just about ended. For one album they were a band in an age of singles that you could actually feel justified dropping fifteen bucks on. They were always inconsistent songwriters, but over time I think the problem has gotten worse. I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at Minutes to Midnight. In their defense, they're not Simon and Garfunkel and probably never wanted to be, but the regression of the whole product has left me with them where I'm at with all modern rock and nu-metal––I just don't care, it's too boring.

Not to take a dump on what people like (the best band is the one you love, whatever anyone says), but Linkin Park simply isn't talented enough to reinvent their entire sound, especially when their most praiseworthy album worked mostly because they turned simplicity into a kind of originality with what I'd call sound effects (someone help me out if there's a technical term for the industrial bang of "By Myself" or even "Papercut"). Out of fairness I'll give the whole thing a listen one of these days, but my initial reaction is that they've completed their descent into mediocrity.

 
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