Hybrid Theory

Begynner jo bra med mye energi, men etterhvert blir alle låtene like og den aggressive og paranoide synginga blir bare slitsom.

I didn't really like this. I appreciate the 'radio friendly-ness' of the singles but overall this is just pretty everything I dislike about the numetal wave of the late 90s. Weird sucky emo lyrics, zero vocal range, weird turntablism, really NOT into the 'rapping' they've mixed in... just not my thing.

2000s were a weird time. Any time else and nu-metal never would have been popular.

Way too much screaming for me

Listened to before? Partially, because in the end, it's inescapable... Context? Linkin Park's debut, and the album that launched them into the mainstream. I do not like Linkin Park. They are overproduced as hell. I find them boring. The lyricism is raw, and I respect that, but it's also quite stale. They're Evanescence for people who think drinking Monster is an aesthetic and edgy personality trait. Not that Evanescence isn't sort of that already, I guess. I'm gonna go into this with a positive mindset, though. I have a lot of friends who like them, and those friends are all great artists, so I'm sure they have some taste... Aaaaaand my primary comment is: what is that sound at the end of Points of Authority? It sounds like a cartoon duck going da da da da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da as a parody of a Linkin Park song, rather than an actual part of a Linkin Park song. Anyway, yeah: I'll start with the positive. They use dual vocals very well. In the End is also a pretty great song, with that piano and all, and the sheer desperation in his voice. It's also very honest, which I have a lot of respect for. And now the negative. I played guitar in a music collective with this annoying guy once. He was a great guitarist when it came to playing these downtuned nu-metal riffs. He had one of those bluetooth guitars for some weird reason. And he owned, like, ten Korn shirts. We were planning on doing a bunch of covers of 2000s songs at a local bar. In rehearsal, we were trying to decide which songs to play. I'm a huge Rage Against the Machine fan, so I jokingly go, "Oh, they're a 2000s band, right? Because Battle of Los Angeles came out 1999 and then there was that covers album?" He proceeds to turn around, give me the nastiest look known to man, and recount RATM's entire timeline to me. Mind you, I was literally wearing an Evil Empire shirt. Not a good start. There was also a time when I was literally turning the gain up on my amp, and he comes over and goes "oh, the volume knob is here." This happened half a dozen times throughout those rehearsals, to a point where my friend and I say "volume knob" instead of "mansplaining." Which, mind you, there was another guitarist there, and he never did anything like that to him. Felt oddly misogynistic... Anyway, you can probably guess that this guy loved Linkin Park. He loved loved loved turning up his amp to the nth degree and showing off that he could play such-and-such riff in drop-z or something while creating a one-man wall-of-sound effect. He's the only stereotypical Linkin Park fan I've ever met, though. All the other ones I know are my friends, who are obnoxious, sure, but they're very sensitive people. They're artistic and self-aware. They like the band because they can place these really personal issues over the backdrop of a killer riff. I can see both people in this album: the obnoxious and the sensitive. I don't think you can write these lyrics without going through some genuine pain. But, at the same time, you're still assaulting peoples' eardrums with a storm of down-tuned guitars and the most compressed vocals known to man. I don't think an artist's fans should reflect too strongly on the artist themselves, but I think it does reflect on what the outward draw of their art is. Here, it seems to be drama. The big, loud riffs. The lyricism that's so on-the-nose it's got it's finger up its nostril and through its own brain. The rapping and screaming twisting together to reach peak banger-dom. That drama may make songs like In The End undeniable bangers, but it takes away much of its artistic merit. I really just don't feel like they have anything interesting or new to say about their subject matter. I'm glad that they're putting their struggles into art, but as art under scrutiny of critique, it doesn't hold up. Why would I listen to somebody just...saying things, when I could listen to somebody reframing their struggles through a unique lens that speaks to me as a person, rather than a one-size-fits-all narrative? I certainly do get the appeal. It's a compulsion to head-bang to this thing. The vocals really are desperate, and I can imagine having a long day and screaming along. Maybe sitting in the backseat of a car, blasting this through a pair of old headphones. Ultimately, this album sounds like a heroic way to die. I wish there was something more poetic in here. I wish that all the life hadn't been sucked out of the compressed vocals and canned riffs. These guys are obviously talented and have the cathartic edge to make something great, but instead they vacuum-sealed this thing in some plastic wrap and broad appeal.

Just not my kind of music so I have trouble rating it. I’ve just never like nü-metal

Kinda mid, in the end goated the rest a bit heavy for me. Come back to this album later

Every song sounds almost exactly the same as the one before it.

It’s a good album, but it’s not my genre of music, so I didn’t really like it as much as I might like other albums

i’m not gonna lie, this sounded like that one snl skit of pete davidson and timothee chalamet where they’re rappers

Massive dose of nostalgia here. I guess they were influential - but I'm pretty sure other bands were doing the same sort of stuff even earlier like korn limp biscuit, Incubus. Don't get me wrong. There are some absolute bangers on this album that still go hard to this day. But overall when I listen to this album I just can't get into it. It just doesn't seem to have the depth I'm looking for even though they have some killer riffs. I think it might be the rap rock element - just feels a little overplayed, but maybe if I hadn't done this album review at the time that would have been something completely different. Any case okay album but I won't be listening to at anytime soon although some of the tracks I definitely will have on my playlist

Sounds like a bad rip off of Rage Against The Machine. Trying to be punk/rock/pop and not really working in my opinion.

I don't like this stuff

5-star album by a top tier piece of shit person.

If i were 14 id have loved this

Even at 14 i knew this was shite Most of the songs sound the same Just not my vibe!

RATING: 5.5/10 Highlight: Papercut Lowlight: Runaway

Possibly the best of the rap metal era?

It's blah,it's trying to do a bit of everything and being successful at none.

It doesn't do much for me, but also doesn't annoy me. Kind of generic and uninteresting faux-metal.

Eh

my best friend in the world is a huge linkin park fan. and while these guys are great to headbang to. im sorry i just dont care. This is gonna sound wrong but its just too simple simple drum loop, basic chords, the vocals are the same in every song even if the words are different. "eh"

I wasn't sure if I was gonna kinda like this because of nostalgia or particularly hate it. The latter was definitely true, but I don't think it's that is is actually bad. Runaway good.

I just don't think I've ever been angsty enough for this to have been my jam. If you like a singer screaming at you, then this may be for you, but it's not for me.

Listened to this album twice. I know people love this band but I can't get into it. Cure for the Itch is interesting. I could hear pieces of Moby, DJ Shadow and The Avalanches. Favorite songs: Cure for the Itch, In the End

There is a reason why Linkin Park is associated with Michael Bay movies.

Muchísimo respeto para Linkin Park, pero nunca fue tanto de mi agrado jeje

So much yelling. Gets really repetitive but the Nostalgia Hits are still really good.

First time listening to this in full and I've got to say, I didn't dig it as much as I thought I might. On the scale of my enjoyment of Nu Metal bands on this list, Linkin Park would currently sit comfortably above Limp Bizkit but with some distance behind Slipknot's 'All Hope Is Gone'. 2* feels harsh but I can't justify the third I'm afraid, sorry LP! Favourites : With You Crawling In the End

Not my fave, I like a few songs sparingly or when in major pump up mode

The rap/nu metal genre was one that thankfully came and went quickly. This is a product of that era and checks all the boxes. I remembered the song "In the End" because my tween son had this album and played it a lot, probably when he was playing "Call of Duty.". It's an OK song but the rest is the same angsty overwrought,, overproduced dreck that was, I guess, all the rage in 2000-2001.

Think I had this on cd as a kid, but I can't say I have an ounce of nostalgia for it. Linkin Park and their myriad even shittier rap-rock disciples were really trying to keep rock relevant in the early 2000s by forcing this overwrought kind of nü metally garbage. Overproduced within an inch of its life. A couple ok songs but a lot was genuinely difficult to sit through. By Myself, for example, is nails on a chalkboard to me. Perfect for a Halo session at a tween sleepover in the early naughts, but best left there - has truly aged like milk.

Obviously know a couple of songs because they are popular, so it was interesting to see if the rest was maybe better than those because they never caught my fancy...but alas no. I can see why people like this, but I do not. I Tried to listen to it objectively but just felt like every song sounded like the next. About 12 songs too long. 2 stars

Soulless studio rock. The hits keep it from being a 1. I liked them in middle school

As soon as I heard the opening notes, I knew I would not like this album. I don't know what gear is involved, but I hate that guitar sound. Kind of exciting and energizing, if you want this, but I don't.

This seems like the perfect album for a subset of 14-year-old boys who will ever after try to argue how meaningful and awesome it is. I'm glad I don't know any of those people.

It's unclear how much of this is millennial nostalgia, but I liked this a lot more than expected. It's still very embarrassing, but not a bad hang. 2.5 stars, rounding down.

My ‘theory' is that I have a, sort of, ‘hybrid’ opinion about this... I don’t like this right now, but I can appreciate it, from a distance. Huge apologies to all fans of screaming. I hope the lead singer had some throat soother or something. I like ‘cure for the itch’, though - sounds like Aphex Twin.

I’m sure it’s awesome to listen to while building Gundam models but it’s not for me.

No me gusta el grupo

This sucked to listen to. I really don’t understand their new found popularity. Not worth getting to into it to dump on these guys, but I think the main issue is the rapper guy absolutely sucks at rapping. Production is dated, lyrics are cringe, you name it. But hey, there was an attempt to be heavy, so the floor for that is 2 stars.

Está bueno tal vez no es mucho de mi estilo.

Not my thing

Sorry I listened to like three song and I don’t want anymore but giving them a 2 instead of 1 bc In The End is the most iconic music video

r/iam14andthisisdeep anthems. Some nostalgia in here but not great overall, even the mix/master sounds muddy and bad.

I think I liked it a lot more when I was a teen. Not really my thing at this point in life.

Loved Linkin Park as a kid. As an adult, I’ll be real, nostalgia bias can only take this so far. Eww I feel like I’m betraying 10 year old me :(

Mall metal. Blech!

Ehh.. right away I feel like it isn’t my style. A little too emo and heavy for me honestly. Skipped like every song lowkey. Not for me but I do see the artistry in it..

I know they've got a huge following but Linkin Park has never clicked for me. Even as a kid, I found them to be kinda mopey and boring. Totally swagless!

This should be on here, no question, but I just don't like the style that much. This is one of the most palatable versions of the nu metal variation of quiet-loud-quiet but its just not my bag.

My college boyfriend loved Linkin Park and I could never get into it. It's like Punk that's been scrubbed clean. It's always been cheesy and I've never connected with it. It's made for angsty pre-teen boys and I am not nor ever was one so it's not for me! 2 for the catchiness of like... one of the songs. Otherwise it's just bleh. Give me metal over this anyday.

This was the rare album where I liked the later tracks more than the earlier ones, but only relatively. Yesterday wasn't a great day for me, so maybe I wasn't as open as I could have been, but I don't see returning to this.

Music to drive fast to, or to crank up and scream along with when you're pissed off.

Jeg prøver at holde mig openminded men jeg synes simpelthen det her er for corny. Samme sang 12 gange og den er ikke ret god

Pretty heavy

It's ok.

If you don't listen to the lyrics it's fine. If you do, it's mind numbing. It's like a 6th grader wrote it.

It’s funny, this would have been junior year in high school for me but this was not even close to my radar back then. But of course I heard most of them anyways. Cheesy AF lyrics man … I don’t know about this one.

pretty much just born at the wrong time for this

I was 21 when this album came out, and for the most part I completely missed it. I'm familiar with the 2 singles, and I did enjoy them, but as for the rest of the album? It felt a little like the same song over and over again. Reminded me a lot of Korn too.

I absolutely understand why this was huge. It's not for me though.

Did not finish lol. Just sounds like the worst room you could possibly be in at a club

It's rap music for people who hate funk and black people

Not my cup of tea

I know I'm supposed to like the dead guy's music, but I'm on a streak of dishonoring suicide victims this year

Annoying and frankly unsexy

I am not going to listen Linkin Park. I've never liked.

The problem with nu metal isn't that it combines metal with rap - it's that it combines average metal with bad rap. This album is no exception.

Obviously an iconic band, but I don't think their sound can really carry an entire album, not even a short 37 minute one. There's one trip hop-sounding song that stands out here, the rest all sounds like In The End rehashes with varying degrees of rap quality. I do respect Linkin Park a ton, so I'm truly devastated that I had more fun with the Limp Bizkit album. Standouts: In The End • Cure for the Itch

Argh. This is the first time I ever listened to this album front to back because I was always shutting it off after a few songs. I could probably make my own album of about 12 songs by Linkin Park that I adore, pulled fairly evenly from across their albums. But their schtick is so grating over the course of 40 or so minutes.

One and two are bangers in a way. But not my thing really not. Once again, a problematic listen. The verses on track 3 are so cringe, choruses fine, I guess. 4 fine, 5 less. I prefer the louder moment on here. 7 is too much, man... not in a good way. 8 in a way the best track here. Goes all the way with that sound. 10 the most interesting musically. 11 is an experiment, at least. But not a very successful one unfortunately. 12 is not for me, like this entire thing. I kind of knew what I'm getting into. it was not something I was looking for at all. Sorry, it's really really not for me. I have a serious problem with aggressive music that has clean and sterile production. It kills the vibe for me many times. It's not a bad project, it has some highlights that even I can clearly identify. But it will probably never be something I'll be going back to. I think a 2.4 is generous from someone like me.

Dumb guy’s idea of good music imo

Ron Wilwert says 5 stars. I'm going with 2

Meh

didnt really enjoy

This album reminds me of being 10 years old, staying up with my friends, eating takeaway pizza and playing WWE Smackdown all night. Which is fitting because this is the only acceptable way to listen to this album. Put simply this is music for children - over stimulating, no subtlety, and nothing to challenge the listener. In recent years, Linkin Park has been positioned as the more critically acclaimed Nu-Metal band compared to their peers, Limp Bizkit and Korn. Unfortunately, they're just not that good. The lyrics are like something scribbled furiously in a child's diary after getting grounded by his parents, and every song follows the same formula of quiet guitar riff and rapping vocals followed by downtuned guitar riff and belted/screaming vocals. The mixing on this album is also terrible, the loudness wars have rendered this album virtually unlistenable. Muddy and crowded, with an awful scooped guitar tone that is identical from track to track. The one song that sounds different, 'Cure for the Itch' is a bamboozingly out of place turntablist instrumental piece with looped drums, string samples and record scratches. I don't know what purpose this track could possibly serve, other than introducing fans of the Transformers movies to TripHop. Chester is a legitimately talented vocalist though, which raises this to two stars. He just needs a better band, producer, and songs.

all a bit shouty angry

All sounded the same, ok but notgoing on rotation

Not a fan. Was overplayed in my childhood so find it boring now

Nu-Metal was a truly terrible genre, some bands were just lumped in and were actually much much better (Deftones, Slipknot) others however I had always lumped in with the bog standard expectations and tropes that were happily plumbed (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach... the list is huge). After listening to this album, that has many great reviews, it fits in to the latter for me. The strongest tracks were the singles, but it still feels about as angst ridden as a middle class teenager shouting in their room as their parents won't buy them that thing they want. Best Tracks: One Step Closer; Crawling; In The End

When this first came out I was in high school, and I thought at the time they were a bit mainstream for my liking. Giving this a listen now, I feel like the music feels very dated, the whole nu metal wave had its time

Too tired for this shit today. Extra star for "In the End", which I still like.

It’s not awful but nu metal is just not my thing. Just feeling like aggressively whiney or something.

Oof they were a big fan of that record scratching sound / 'technique', huh? If I could equate it to what set of men I found attractive in my high school days - the ones that liked Linkin Park - I was not a fan, I am taken back to dirty, old smelly hoodies & unwashed hair. I think I preferred the bad boy appeal of the dudes that listened to Limp Bizkit and slipknot ha.

Too much noise for my taste

Standard linkin park.

I know this album is huge for a (sub-)generation of folks that came after me; I was aware of it when it came out, and know the singles fairly well. Someone who resonates or resonated with the emotions of it probably rates it higher, but I certainly enjoyed a fair amount of it. It does leave me somewhat dreading what else from that era may be on this list though...

I struggled to get through this album. The rage in the album is tedious and comes across as very ineffective. To me it really began to compete with the music which while interesting is unremarkable. I can’t figure out why these guys are relevant. Sorry 1001.

I get it. It’s just so loud. Not for me.

i like a place for my head, sounds like the rock i listened to in high school

I'm giving this a 2, just in case Limp Bizkit also turn up on the list and I need room to express how they're even worse. Seems unlikely, but then this shit ended up on here so who knows?

corny ass lyrics annoying vocals and felt like it lasted forever even though it was only around 40 min

I never liked Linkin Park and today’s listen did little to change my mind. It’s one of those oddities about musical taste; I was into Limp Bizkit around the same time, and Incubus were probably one of my favourite bands of the early noughties. Listening to this today showed how much similarity there is and yet it’s just not for me. I still like Incubus, at least their first few albums, but I’ve long since grown out of Limp Bizkit, who just seem a bit crass now, I don’t think that’s the case for Linkin Park so it’s hard to put my finger on - maybe it’s the vocalists I don’t really get on with.

Geen fan, moet dit nooit meer opnieuw horen.

Unmissable album for a list such as this one. 'Meteora' does resonate more with me but I agree this is a more important record. 7/10 [KEEP]

A mixed bag.

I don’t think Linkin Park is bad at what they do I just happen to think why they do is bad. I remember when this came out I felt like the only person in the world who didn’t like it, but I was right, it stinks. I will say, the riff on One Step Closer is a solid riff, an I’m not opposed to turntablism in rock music. It’s just the songs are cheesily melodramatic, the rapping is bland and mediocre and I can’t stand the whiny guys voice.

Not my thing, really.

I'm glad I didn't have the same nostalgia as my peers for this one because my god these dudes knew how to write one song. Granted, they did it really well and made enough changes to make it radio friendly. But nothing changes through the entire album save one mini-DJ break that accomplishes almost nothing. It's not atrocious like some records of its time; Linkin Park were actual musicians. But this is simply not worth listening to now.

Es como algo que escucharía el profe richi jaja esteee no se creo que es como el estereotipo de lo que escuchan los rockeros emo y no está tan mal pero si da un poco de cringe la letra

a really interesting choice for this list. I don't think this record really does much more than other records in a similar genre from around the same time. I was also a bigger fan of Meteora personally

There’s some interesting sounds and arrangements here but it just doesn’t come across as a convincing record at all, and just makes you think of actually great albums you could be listening to instead.

Today I learned that I am not a fourteen year old boy. It's like bad. So bad. Funny thing is that some of the tones (guitar and some basic synth sequencing) is Skinny Puppy-esque from the Greater Wrong of the Right, and I kept expecting something interesting to happen. Honestly, I blame this album for MAGA. Having said all that, I am ashamed to admit that a.) I liked the instrumental that honestly sounded more like a DJ Shadow track, and b.) as I was making dinner I found myself occasionally bopping my head to this. OMG what have I become?

2/5

Had Linkin Park broken through when I was 13, not 24, their angst-laden rap-rock may have hooked me, because Hybrid Theory sounds relentlessly adolescent. (See " Runaway.") I don't mean any disrespect to the late Chester Bennington, who clearly had real struggles, and Linkin Park achieved the respectability that evaded nü metal peers like Limp Bizkit. But it all falls under the same painful umbrella for me. I couldn't wait for this to be over. (The trip-hop vibes of the instrumental "Cure for the Itch" were a nice reprieve though.)

I like Korn, I like SOAD, I even like a little Limp, but I just don't fuck with Linkin Park. Collision Course is cool though.

Removed

Acknowledging that I probably listened to this in the wrong setting (at work)

I'm very happy for the people that this is for! I'm not one of those people.

Favorite track: Crawling

I like one Linkin Park song and it is not on this album.

Too much shouting

Iconic songs but not my vibe

not really my genre :/

fine nothing special

this should’ve never been made

I hated Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory when it was released 25 years ago. I’d aged out of this whole sound like 5 years before this released, so as a guy who is creeping up on 50, time really hasn’t helped this record at all for me. Cripes, it’s like listening to the soundtrack for teen angst and aggression. The lyrics all sound like bad high school poetry, and while the music features a ton and a half of slick production, it's all very one-note. This whole record feels very paint-by-numbers (the "paint", in this case, is sadboy impotent rage, and the "numbers" is just the ability to suck). 2/5

In 5th grade my best friend showed me this cool new hip album. Hated everything about it then.

Erster Eindruck: lowkey besser als gedacht, Rap? Lieblingssong: „Crawling“ / „the end“ (Lieblingszeile:) Overall Rating: 4/10 Anmerkungen: Wenn man in der mood ist kann‘s besser kommen, aber nicht so meins durch so manche Elemente, gibt mir bisschen 2018

The first major paring of rock artists and rap artists, the Judgement Night soundtrack, was fantastic. Unfortunately, soon after the rap/rock, or Nu Metal, genre was born. A genre with the shortest shelf-life I've ever witnessed. Hybrid Theory is a poster child for that already worn-out genre.

I tried so hard and got so far in this album, but in the end, it really doesn't matter. I was 25 or 26 when this album came out, and I was into it for some reason. Listening again after 20 plus years, I am not sure why, but like everything, things change. First off this album is very dated, it does not age well. I seem to remember enjoying some of the later more progressive releases they did, I have to wonder if they still sound good, but I don't think I have the patience to go back and listen. I will give it two stars for Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn as they were always the true stars of this band, Chester just sucks!

Punchy recording, detailed mix with some brilliant highest and lows. Strong singing, fun rapping and simple song structures mean these are ear worms. Metal for idiots

I was never into the NuMetal thing, so I was surprised that I didn’t hate this, but it’s not really for me.

The theoretical hybrid of Ed Hardy and Hot Topic

These guys were really working through some stuff with this album. Very emotional. Not for me at all though, even with the nostalgia.

Too over-produced to take seriously. A few catch tunes, though.

This album takes me back to my angsty youth. So many of these songs were played non-stop on the radio. Personally, I am not a fan of the oscillation between screaming and talk/rapping. I used to love this music- now it is too depressing.

Too much angry teenage angst for my taste

Zu laut für mich.

Yeah, never my thing. Too angry. 2.

Bought the CD when this came out. Was massive back then. Telling that I haven't bothered to listen to it in decades. And revisiting it now, I can see why. It was a musical cul-de-sac....best left forgotten. 2

I enjoyed a few of the songs although it's not my main kind of music, but I felt a lot of the songs were too similar.

Music for angsty teenagers.

I didn't get into linkin park when I was 15 I'm not about to start now

While I’m 100% here for all the fun 90s/2000s nostalgia - this album reminded me how insufferably angsty my generation was.

Does not belong on the list. Like, look… It’s not horrible but not for me. And I can’t imagine there’s not something else that deserves this spot.

I was struck with how sterile and filled with impotent, adolescent rage this is. I’m not saying that a band needs to use profanity to be good, but this gives this the sense of this being watered down “metal” for babies. It’s otherwise fine, but never threatens to become actually good. I don’t think it deserves a 3. Doesn’t deserve a 1.

This was pretty meh for me, I was never a fan of Linkin Park when they came out, an overall 2 for me.

Not my thing!

I’d heard the singles before, but never the whole album. In the End is unsurprisingly the best thing on this album. So much of this sounds like a petulant teenage tantrum, with rapping that wouldn’t be out of place on a Lonely Island parody.

46/1001 I loved One step closer back in the day of Napster and LimeWire. I skimmed the rest and nothing was near as good as that one song. Listening now, I should have given it more of a chance. It sounds good but just not my jam these days. 4/10

Started listening. I clocked out of rock during the 90’s. Too angry for me. Very significant sound though. If I could give it 2.5 stars I would because of the impact it had.

It’s too bad that Chester had such cringe lyrics when he was a captivating singer, but if I could only rhyme “heal” with “real” I’d probably pull a Chester too

da ragazzino l'avrò sentito duecento volte.. adesso lo ascolto diversamente, ma non posso ascoltarlo da zero

God nu metal is just so meh. All I got out of this album is shitty rapping over metal guitars saying how sad and insane they are. Why would u go out your way to listen to this trash. In the End is the only good song off of this tbh. The only thing worst I could imagine is limp bizkit. Only a 4.4/10 2.2/10

I honestly thought I would like this more. It was pretty bad, especially the second track where he screams “shut up when I’m talking to you” - had to skip that one.

Two albums I owned as a kid in a row! One a revered classic, and then there’s this pile of shit. In my defense, it was hard to avoid some clunkers as a teenage boy who liked music in the early 00s. I had forgotten about the instrumental track, though, and I think that’s okay.

I respect the love for Hybdrid Theory. I just can’t fuckin get into it man. I couldn’t even when I was hormonally primed to love this shit. Couldn’t even make it through a full listen. The emotionality is so cheesy it’s like musical theater for emo kids. I’m sorry guys.

Not a fan

lol

i’m not a 13-year-old boy in the early aughts with no access to music or media except for his older brother’s CD collection, so obviously i don’t like this nor can i even consider taking it seriously. it’s not good but it’s also not unlistenable. catchy enough and not abjectly disgusting the way so much nu metal tends to be…

Slick production big sound...not for me

Pari hyvää biisiä, mutta muuten särkee huutaminen ja muu äänimaailma korvia.

Jos IT-kupla ois musiikkia niin se ois kyl tätä. Tässon kovasti Internet-aikaa saatu yhistettyä pomppuheviin radiopuhelinsaundiräpin ja hiphoppielementtien myötä. Ei siin mittään, ymmärrän kyl, että tää on iskenyt siihen kansanosaan aikanaan, joka on elänyt kukkeinta angstikauttaan. Rajuu meininkii, mutta sopivilla poppikoukuilla. Hitithän tästä on kuullut miljourdeja kertoja, mutta albumiraidat on vieraampia. Niissäkin kyl vähän kaikuu samoja yrityksiä kun hiteissä eli vähän tää alkaa toistaan itteensäkin pidemmän päälle. MUTTA JOO, muovi haisee. Periaatteessa tää nyt vois olla kolmosenkin levy, mutta toisaalta tää nuumetalliskenessäkin tul vähän sillain, että haki aikasempien rungon ja teki siitä tarpeeks poppista päästäkseen meinstriimiin, niin ei oikein pioneerityöpalkintoakaan voi jakaa. Joten kivasta popista käärittynä pääkallolahjapaperiin pisteitä kertyy nyt sen mitä kertyy. Plussaa toki siitä, että kävivät JÄMSÄSSÄ keikalla vielä kun alkuperäsessä huutajassa henki pihis.

Definitely cooler when you’re a high school freshman

*Slavoj Zizek voice* The problem with being an innovator…in anything trendy…is that your sound can often be so defining that revisiting it decades later can often make it feel like parody.

I love the single “In the End” so I had high hopes for this one. Sadly, in the end I will only be giving it two stars. Too industrial for my ears.

Not for 34 year old me but 13 year old me loved the Dragon Ball Z fan cut he found of “In the End” to Vegeta training.

Chyba jedyny album LP, którego jestem w stanie wysłuchać w całości bez ziewania. Potem poszli w stronę nudną i skrajnie bezpieczną.

Too much noise for me. In the end is a great song, and that’s it.

i actually don't mind linkin park. i did listen to a few tracks from them when i was younger but none from this album. not terrible but not for me

cool but a little too emo/edgy for me- someone who likes evanescence

First time listening to Linkin Park album. Several songs received a lot of airplay in the early 2000s. My first impression was “Limp Bizkit-adjacent". Then perhaps worse than LB (like that’s even possible). 2/5

Heavy handed, sloppy bland lyrics and awful generic rap interludes....BUT IN THE END, IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER

Alas, it seems I have outgrown the angst of my teen years. This hasn't aged well. RIP Chester.

Really hated this album, although their transformers songs are goated

Never listened to a whole Linkin Park album. Probably won't again. It's not the worst, just not my thing. I did get some nostalgia feels though. Top tracks: "One Step Closer," "Crawling"

Is an album that you can get thru in a half hour a bad thing? No! Is this album good? No! There's a time and a place for everything, and I have never heard something more Y2K coded in my entire life. 2? 3? who cares. "In the end it doesn't even matter" What a prescient statement about this album, very self-aware.

--One Step Closer...ridiculous but it slaps --In the End...I don't like Chester's voice but he's good here --A Place for My Head...I like the rap flow here but it's still cheesy overall. I think Chester's scream singing would be more impactful if he dialed it back a little more --Cure for the Itch...not sure why this sound collage is on here, but it's pleasant. --Pushing Me Away...has a decent hook

Nothing makes it jump out as special

Interesting concept to blend hard rock and rap, but this was just too abrasive for me.

Ok. I feel a little better about my Ray of Light rating. This album was from the same period and was also played on repeat by a certain roommate. . . And I do not like it. It's just so contrived. I'll never understand how this band got so popular, or at least why people don't make fun of them the same way they do Nickelback. "In the End" is okay. Like they sort of stumbled across something approximating authenticity. And it's a fun sing-along song. I'll dole out an extra star for that. So <checks math> . . .

Fuuuuuck, this is horrible. But at least it's not some chap in a Nehru collar weeping to the "lush" sound ofa clarinet, tinkling glasses, and a synthesizer. I'm adding a star for that.

I hate this type of music. I'll bump it up to a2 cause he's a powerful singer

4/10 This should be an album that clicks with me far more than it does. It came out just before my 16th birthday, had heavy guitars and angsty lyrics and followed in the footsteps of bands like Korn, Slipknot and Machine Head that I was already listening to. But Linkin Park were never a band that I’ve ever bothered with. I’ve heard all the big hits, which were impossible to miss in the early 00s, but nothing engaged me enough to dig deeper. Perhaps because I was already indulging in heavier music, this band that were a gateway for many people didn’t have much to offer someone who had already gone in the deep end. Listening to it now, a few things really jump out at me. First, it sounds so of its time that it’s almost laughable. The scratching, the rhythmically uninteresting rapping, the loudness wars mastering, it’s the dictionary definition of 2000’s production. Secondly, this is very much an anthemic pop record. It’s like someone gathered the most palatable aspects of bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit and wrapped them up in an emo NSYNC bow. Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that, and again, it makes them a perfect ‘first heavy band’ for those just diving in, but it just isn’t my bag. The production to my ear is terrible. Despite the ‘quiet verse, loud chorus’ that they try, the over-compressed nature of it all just makes it lack the oomph that that dynamic change ought to have. The guitars in particular are so compressed that they feel like a wall of tone, rather than organic pieces of musicianship. There’s so little space for the instruments to breathe and it ends up feeling like an assault on the ears that you have to work hard to pick the parts from. From a song-writing point of view, they can obviously write heavy anthems, but frankly, the bits that I liked the most just reminded me of similar bits from songs by other artists that I like much more than this. It’s also all very, very samey and something about it just doesn’t quite feel genuine to me. Essentially, the ingredients are all great, but something about the meal doesn’t taste right. Extra points for being the gateway drug for so many. Papercut - Oof, the scratching does not kick this off well. The riffs are ok, I guess, but there’s no dynamic range at all. This type of rapping does not gel with me, particularly the strong emphasis that doesn’t really highlight the lyrics, but just adds a sort of soft aggression to the delivery. The singing is very pop too. One Step Closer - A big single. This verse reminds me a lot of Korn, but if Jonathan Davis was replaced by Nick Carter. It’s a great chorus, but the production just gives it this plasticy edge that makes it not sit quite right with me. I had this song in my head after the first spin through the album and my head canon version is better than the reality of it. Over-compressed and lacking dynamics, it’s a shame really. And the shut up bit near the end makes him sound like a budget Zack de la Rocha. With You - I think there’s too much going on in some of these songs. Even the quieter bits here are just stuffed full of too much and again, the loudness war mastering of this just makes it relentlessly lacking in range. There’s no subtlety to it. This one doesn’t have much in the way of hook either, it’s just a bit of a wall of bar long guitar chords for a chorus. Points Of Authority - Again, this feels quite Korny in the verse. It feels a bit corny in the chorus, as it happens. The scratching might as well be a bloke in the background just shouting “Year 2000” over and over again. The riffs here are pretty good actually and the rapping is better. But the balance of all of the parts is just bad. There’s not space for everything to have its place, everything just sounds like its competing with everything else to be heard. Crawling - Another big, big single. And there’s some actual dynamic range. Hurrah! This verse could have been clipped from an NSync song, but builds into the chorus. Perhaps a bit too much going on as it builds for my tastes, but when it hits, it’s a proper nu-metal anthem. Well written for what it is. Not really my bag, but I can see why it grabbed people. Runaway - Again, there’s a bit more dynamic range here. And again, it sounds like Backstreet Boys playing Korn in the verse. The chorus is ok, but it’s all a bit music by numbers and just isn’t grabbing me. By Myself - They really can’t have any sections where they don’t overdo the instrumentation can they? It’s like an assault on the ears. It’s more of that anthemic pop-metal that feels like it’s had its charm produced out of it to make it as radio friendly as possible. They really love those ringing, compressed chord structures, don’t they? In The End - Ah, the biggest hit single? Too much going on in a ‘quiet’ verse? Check. Unashamedly basic rapping? Check. Full bar compressed chords that follow a super basic structure? Check. It sounds like I hate it, but I actually don’t. It’s a well written, really decent pop song produced to sound heavy. But it’s also so boyband and so, so 2000. Fair play. A Place For My Head - More pointless scratching. There are some actually interesting rhythmic choices here so it stands out a bit from the other tracks. While I like some of the choices here, there’s nothing that really grabs me either. There’s a bit of a radio-friendly Machine Head about this. Forgotten - Some of these songs I can hardly tell when one ends and another begins. But there’s a bit of dynamic range again here, and some more rhythmically varied riffs, so that’s to be applauded. It’s very pop-rap in the verses. Again, nothing that’s really grabbing me though. Cure For The Itch - Ah, someone’s listened to Endtroducing. This is just not very well done though, is it? No subtlety to it at all. Pushing Me Away - At this point, this could have just been a repeat of any one of the album tracks from this album, it’s all just blending into one for me. It’s over-compressed, dynamically squashed and nothing in there grabs me. And my ears are tired.

Prior to this I would have said Linkin Park was one of the all time worst bands. Nickleback before Nickleback. After this listen I realize I was wrong. Definitely a legit band with some good ideas. That being said - everything beyond the bones of these songs is dated or ill advised. The music video for In The End summarized this well - the aesthetics are BAD. The hair, the clothes, the green screen EVERYTHING. When i was a kid I was repulsed by this and I still am. Then there is the production. For Gorillaz I called out the DJ record scratch - LP loves this sound. I do not understand it. I weak attempt to glob onto rap culture maybe, although the rappers of the day seemed to embrace these guys. There are also the obvious things about this I do not enjoy - which is the genre and the uber seriousness. Not for me, BUT definitely earned my respect. Linkin Park NOT the worst band of all time - maybe elevated nu-metal? Lets get AI to go back and erase all the record scratch sounds off nu-metal records.

Just not my thing…hard for me to listen to. I don’t know what else to say. I’m tired.

What was going on with us in this era of rap metal? Dark days. A couple songs that are kinda cool. Most of the album sounds the same. It’s better than Limp Bizkit?

Ugh, I've always disliked Linkin Park. ... After giving it a try, I still feel the same. I understand that this is an important album for many people as it serves as a sort of "intro" to a lot of genres, but outside of its impact, I just don't think it's good music. It's like how training wheels are useful on a bike, but no "good" bike has training wheels on them.

Worth a listen but that's all. 2/5

Bad genre for me

Whiny shouty screamy American nu metal. Not for me.

Another album where I was just confused why it's on the list. In the past week there have been three records from the 2000's and I've felt that way about all of them. There is some very good music from this decade, so I"m not just being a Boomer (I think). The pros-the songs and album are all fairly short, which made for at least a tolerable listen. There are also a couple of songs-the hits Crawling and In the End-that aren't just the same as everything else. The cons-I didn't like nu-metal then and I still don't like it. It was maybe "cool" back in the early 2000's, but it just sounds super dated now. My other issue is that I typically like songs of depression and sadness, but this was just too much (yes, I know in hindsight it was clearly an issue for Chester Bennington). There is no relief in sight, and that helps to ease some of the bluntness of the presentation. Overall I didn't hate the listen as much as I thought I would, but I won't listen to it again.

Somehow I feel very dirty listening to this as a 38 years old man. Don’t really know why that is.

Not gonna lie, my vocal cords hurt listening to the screaming lyrics. Not my scene, as this tries to be metal / rap. Listened before: No Saved to library: No Favorite tracks: In the End

I've been playing the new Twenty One Pilots album, Breach, on repeat since it came out. I wish I were listening to that instead of this. Hybrid Theory was released when I was in high school. It's been a while since I've listened to Linkin Park. For good reason. So repetitive. Meh. Listened before? Y Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐⭐: Didn't like it, didn't hate it. Saved no tracks.

I mean, it’s actually pretty solid. But, I’m a person of taste. 2*

Sounded like the same song 12 times in a row, even the ones I know I’ve heard before. Not a fan

I tried to put myself in the mind of an angsty teenage boy listening to this and found that helped a lot. In The End remains an obvious banger. But overall not for me.

Radio friendly unit shifter. No creativity or imagination beneath the hooks.

This has some elements I like, yet the whole package is so cliché and pubertal I so can't enjoy this. Nu metal tends to be like that (please give me the real thing) but this is particularly boring. No. One star up from 1 because I can get the appeal and some songs can be fun and radio-worthy (not on my favourite stations, but still).

For a few hours I actually thought this album was good.. though in hindsight, that was only because I accidentally ate moldy rye bread..

I feel like this was a mid listening experience for me. This album does have a ton of their hits on here but overall this was a miss for me personally. These songs just sound angry and whiny to me so I probably won’t be listening to this again anytime soon.

Yep, still don't like nu metal. Add the whiney voice and it's goodbye.

Es curioso ver a todos los milenials derrochar nostalgia por este disco. También resulta ser un claro ejemplo de cómo distintas generaciones tienen esos discos fundacionales con los que las generaciones anteriores y posteriores no logran comulgar completamente. En mi caso, al menos, el disco me parece más pop-rock que nu-metal, más superficial que profundo, las letras son repetitivas y monotematicas.

Not my cup of tea! in the end is a certified banger tho

Eh, other than the two well known songs I was just kinda waiting for the album to be over.

2.4 // I don't use this word often or lightly, but this is cringe. I see how people like it, but that does not mean I like it. It isn't nice, but I do think a little lesser of the person who loves this album. Objectively, it isn't terrible, but I do not like it. It should, sadly, be on this list, however. I do (and I'm not sure if it is ironic or not) like how the "crawling in my skin" line sounds. Maybe it's the COD nostalgia.

Minus the vocals, very energetic, dark, moody music, could be good for weigh lifting music. But OMG the guy singing is insufferable! In every song he is the victim and super angry. What a cry baby. If only the songs were about something else. Will not listen to it again.

every single song immediately transported me to the end credits of every superhero movie in the early 2000s. i genuinely don't enjoy the wall of guitar vibes of this album, but there were a few moments worry of bobbing my head.

Better than incubus

not my thing

Linkin Park took literally everything I disliked about music in the year 2000 and combined into one awful, inauthentic amalgam. And it caught on so well that it appears on this list. God dammit.

nostalgia can't save this one

I blame Aerosmith and Run DMC for this shit. 2/5 #156

To continue the cricket analogy, after posting my 50 yesterday, I took a wild swing at this, it clipped an edge and was dropped at slip… or something like that. That’s a roundabout way of saying that this wasn’t for me although I was surprised how many of these songs I’d heard before given that I’ve never listened to the album, possibly in clubs or music TV channels. Quite often this sounds somewhere between Korn (a band I used to like) and Incubus (a band I still like) but it lacks the looseness that either of those bands had, Korn with their hip hop groove or Incubus with their SoCal surfer vibes. It all felt a bit stiff and ‘techy’ and I’m not a fan of either vocalist. I can see the appeal but not for me.

high school

I was a huge fan of Linkin Park when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure I played this album on repeat on my Sony Walkman for weeks when I was like 10 or 11. Listening to this now, I have no idea why I liked it. I wasn’t particularly angsty or angry or anything. I think it was mostly my attempting to figure out my music preferences. It doesn’t quite hold up for me now, but I think the nostalgia alone is saving this from a 1/5.

Lotta yelling and every song sounded the same. Limp Bizkit like

Einfach nix für mich 2/5

In The End is a great song. Everything else, I don't enjoy listening to.

this is familiar to me but quite boring

Like a better Limp Bizkit, but "In the End" is a banger. 2.5

It's all pretty samey and depressing but it was OK. I'd prefer not to have to hear it all the way through again.

Very Limp Bizkit-esque and so self-serious. The nu-metal/rap hybrid makes me wince at times.

Just not my kinda rock, to be honest.

I have never like Linkin Park. I don’t understand why I needed to listen to this. I only knew In the End.

Leider doch zu Rockig und selte imene Mood für sone Ladig Geschreie

I'm not sure that this one has aged particularly well. Hybrid Theory was huge in the turn-of-the-millenium music world, particularly among kids between their early teens and early twenties. The rapping feels a little simplistic, the music has a dark harmonic bent and the vocals sound like they're lifted from a melodic hardcore band but cleaned up a bit. Lyrically, Linkin Park hint at an angst beneath the surface ("I'm about to break") but they're just broad enough about it that there's everything to latch onto for a teenager, but nothing to dig into. There are a lot of bands that wouldn't have been big in the early Oughts if it weren't for Hybrid Theory, so this is a bit of a landmark album in that sense. It's very of its time -- rather than a genuine example of underground music breaking through to the mainstream, this feels like music inspired by a number of alternative rock and hip-hop subgenres that was just sent global by clever A&R work by Warner. Some interesting things that happen with Linkin Park that are worth looking at elsewhere: the guitar rhythms and chord structures are pretty typical for nu-metal of the time. You'll hear that kind of chugging and chromatic descent through a riff and periodic discordant harmonics/feedback squeals throughout Korn (sadder and weirder) and Incubus (much sunnier and still weirder). Even the "glassy" tones like the hook that runs through 'Papercut' are typical of the high-gain, rectified amps (and probably a phaser and an MXR Distortion+) that were everywhere at the time. The electronic bits added in by their tuntablist were everywhere; I have a preference for the way Chris Kilmore injected dupes of Brandon Boyd's voice into Incubus's work, but you may also enjoy the scratch-heavy stuff that DJ Lethal was doing in Limp Bizkit. I don't hate Mr. Hahn's work in LP, though (he's not the problem). The thing that makes Linkin Park distinct is the dual vocalists. Mike Shinoda handles most of the rapping but does some backing vocals (I think he also plays a little guitar). Chester Bennington became the face of the band and he deservedly earned praise for his vocal work. Both his clean and distorted vocals are impressive. A really decent scream, especially for 25 years ago -- and that broke some rules in 2000's pop music. He has a good range and a strong delivery and is complimented nicely by Shinoda's call-and-response chiming in in a deeper, more speaking-like register. LP are let down by the repetitive song structures, same-y melodies and the bland way that they express their angst. Most songs follow the theme of 'I am experiencing a darkness and there is no light of hope' which is a feeling worth expressing but would benefit from some more poetry than is offered. Add a little quiet/loud dynamic play (never a slow build with these guys!) and then mix in the other stuff and you've got a Linkin Park stew going. This album is kind of like The Strokes: it's probably someone's whole introduction to other kinds of music. On its own, this really isn't an exemplar of what was best about the music of Y2K; it's just what sold a lot of records. It's like the exact average of nu-metal but with the studio polish you get from early major label recruitment. Try White Pony by Deftones or one of Incubus's circa-2000 albums instead (Make Yourself for polished semi-metal and Morning View for the post-nu-metal drift toward mainstream rock). Or Faith No More or Dillinger Escape Plan for something more heavy. It's fine, and should you wonder what the hell was happening with the alt that broke mainstream around Y2K, this is a good place to start and stop your investigation. Just suppress your cringe reflex or it's going to come on hard. Or get a full crash course on nu-metal cliches by listening to 'Crawling In The Dark' by Hoobastank and save yourself some time. 2/5 Most enjoyable tracks: 'Papercut', 'Points of Authority', 'Cure for the Itch'.

Too heavy for me. Makes me stressed and angry. One or two better tracks

Zu sggro

I understand this album ultimately went 12x platinum. I understand it has 4 singles (Papercut, Crawling, One Step Close and In the End) that were in very regular rotation on the radio. But there are very real times throughout the record that I couldn’t tell if this was Linkin Park or any other Rap/Rock band from the era (P.O.D.. Limp Bizket or even Kid Rock).

Not as great as I remember ngl

Probably has cultural/nostalgic impact, but would resonate with my angsty 13 year old self. Tracks to Track: Crawling, In

This album is turning 25 in a few months. Wow. The fact that I didn't like this when it came out (I was 20) says a lot. In retrospect, it seems like something 20-year-old me might have liked, alas, no. The only part of this that has aged well is "In the End", thematically speaking. They were right!

A couple of superb songs, but generally speaking, the sound of the record is just too much. Specially the guitars. It doesn't sound very natural. But a good album indeed.

lol, still kinda like it tho

Nostalgic, good for a work out, not my favorite anymore. Not the best production.

Whoa, what a great idea! Let's blend together the most annoying aspects of rock/metal with rap and call it Linkin Park. What a wet dream it must have been for the promoters and record labels with dollar signs in their eyes. Obviously, millions of people agreed, bought the record, saw them live and drew the band's logo on their textbooks at school. Personally, this music makes me both angry and sad. Angry, that this sucks so bad, yet so many people spent their well earned money back in the day on this band and sad those same people are now leaving the CD's on the boulevard for free giveaway day. Yeah, it was a good idea while it lasted.

What eventually became nu-metal, when I was a teenager, was called rap-rock. We (my freaks and geeks friends group) were obsessed with it. The Judgement Night s/t, 311, Orange 9mm, and of course the perfectors of the genre, Rage Against The Machine. The Beasties dipped in, especially with Check Your Head, but were generally sample-based in our era. Most of these bands retained the anti-authoritarian and street culture of punk and hip-hop, even when grooving on some reggae or ska. So when Limp Bizkit emerged, we didn’t take them seriously. And I mean musically. And Linkin Park seemed to duck in the door after them, riding the wave of boom bap and Marshall stacks that all the kids (and by this time our gang were kids no more) loved. To us it was a politically neutered, dumbed down, radio-shiny version of rap-rock, and we were glad at the advent of the term ‘nu-metal’ because it separated this pablum from the raw ferocity and the real real of Zack DLR and Chaka Malik. But at some point all that gatekeeping became unimportant, and I was able to hear what was special about this band. It IS the massive, stadium-in-your-ears production. It IS the “slick” layers of guitar roar and synth wail that perfectly set the stage for the late great Chester Bennington’s metal god vocals. Whatever you think of the band, nobody can deny this kid’s voice was a phenomenon. And of course he is gone way too goddamn soon, another victim of depression, the forever curse of those who can’t help but see through the facade. Overall, it’s still a little too clean at the edges for my taste. I’ll always be drawn back to RATM or even early 311, neither of which are particularly punk in their production, but which have a more stripped down, focused approach to the music all around. Some bands try hard to make hits, and that’s fine, but those bands, no matter how innovative, will never be a part of the discussion about music as something more.

The more "nu" metal I listen to the more I appreciate the fact that I spent the last half of the 90's and most of the noughties listening to pretty much nothing but The Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic. I was actually surprised by how much I disliked this. "IS THERE NO STANDARD ANYMOOOORE?!!?" 2

Kinda corny Not for me

Well I bought it back in the day. Not been spun since then. Listening back, it sounds ok. But I’m struggling to see what all the hype was about now.

My teen angst soundtrack was more Deftones than Linkin Park. By the time this album came out I still had teen angst but listened to DnB. I do get the significance of this and remember hearing some early stuff in the free CV that came with Rock Sound magazine… This album is kinda peak nu metal sound and has been an inspiration to many. Based on the rapping in a place for my head it may have been the inspiration for an angst ridden AI bot to write a rap song about feelings. I can understand why it’s a top album for many millennials. Just not this one

I'll be honest, I'm not too excited for this one. Just not at all in the mood. And I might be slightly judgemental of the genre. Whatever, let's see. First song starts aggressive, as I expected, but what I was not expecting is the rap-influence delivery on the lyrics. This is very heterossexual. I like the end of the chorus, when he does his signature scream in the line "beneath my skinnnnn". This brigde (if you can call it that) is cool too. This is weird to say, but I'd like this way more if I heard it live. There's something about the lack of subtlety in the lyrics and even in the instrumentals that keeps me from liking this. I feel like I might like some things here, but the sound of the album itself is not that much for me. Like ok I get it you're mad and sad. It's not even the fact that this is just noise. Actually it is that, Because I like other kinds of heavy music. But I don't have sense of musical logic to this. The chorus of Points of Authority sounds like something that would play in the radio station on GTA 5. Which is not even an insult, that game had some gems, but yeah just reminded me of that. Oh Crawling right! Yeah I'm sorry I can't take this song seriously after years of seeing it be used in memes. It's the go-to song to that kind of thing. In mean, it is the best song so far, so I should look beyond my prejudices and compliment it as such! I was saying that Crawling was the most memed song of all time....... and then In The End starts playing.... Man I don't know, this is the closest the album has gotten to being good I guess. The chorus is cool! 3 tracks left, I'm just gonna write the conclusion. Cure For the Itch being the most interesting thing here and also being the second to last track... man what. And even then it's not necessarily good, but at least it's a change in sound. Pushing Me Away is potentially my favorite song in the whole record. And it's thanks to the fact that they take a step back for a lot of it, and the build-up feels more earned. This is what I meant at the beginning, I can like this genre, it's just rare. Yeah, this was not for me at all. This feels very teenagery. The focus on like two emotion. Being angry all the time. I don't know Linkin Park's story except the one big thing. So yeah, maybe this constant mood is warranted. But I guess I just express these emotions, when I feel them, in a different way. Nothing about this album was interesting. No moment left me surprised or excited. Again, maybe if I was drunk and I was hearing it live I'd join in the mosh pit. But listening to this at home? Yeah, probably never again. But if you like this, more power to you! So, it's a 2. Bye

Who hurt you, Chester? I was familiar with the singles; but then, how could you have been alive at the turn of the century and NOT been familiar with them? They were blasted everywhere. And I suppose, for that, they do carry a bit of nostalgia for those especially angsty times. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on your pain tolerance, I guess. The unfamiliar non-singles were sorta meh for me, which makes me wonder if the singles are of an equally meh caliber but get a pass because of their familiarity? I don't think there's enough here for me to spend too much time pondering it, though; so I'm just going to move on to better things. Which seems apropos considering the parallel this album's anger and historical time period share with my own life's timeline.

Meh

Did nada pour moi. I feel nothing..

At the time of writing this there seems to be a wave of reappraisal for the nu-metal genre. It's gotten to a point where many previously ridiculed artists seem to get geniune praise and acclaim for their music. This seems strange to me as someone who's grown up clowning on this stuff with Linkin Park being one of the frequent targets. It occurs to me that the previous attitude towards this band is wholy unjustified as to this day I've never heard a full album from them. Of course I know the hits off of this album, as they are at least memorable if anything. With all of this in mind I'm willing to attempt to see past my prejudices and give it a fair shot. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. Papercut The angsty lyrics are a bit much, feels a bit hamfisted. It sure is a staple for this style of music, but I don't love the rapping. Comes of as kinda corny. Impressive vocals. The final minute of the track has some really poweful atmosphere with the layering and the heavy drums. Average. 2.5/5 One Step Closer Great guitar riff. I really struggle with the lyrics. Really don't like that breakdown. Decent chorus. Average. 2.5/5 With You Kinda like Chester Bennington's parts on this song. Great performance. Really like the structure of his verses. Decent chorus. Decent. 3.5/5 Points of Authority The blown out speaker vocal effect instantly dates the song. There is some nice contrast between the quieter and the louder parts in the vocals. They do a great job at balancing withinhis vocal range, fitting the instrumental perfectly to whatever Chester is doing vocally. The rap verse feels a bit tacked on. Don't love the chorus. Fine. 3/5 Crawling Yeah it's this song... Can't take that chorus seriously. Honestly the lyrics aren't that bad considering this particular writing style. Really like the way the verses build up to the chorus. Great post chorus. Iconic in it's own particular way, don't love it though. 3/5 Runaway Interesting electronic intro. Love the contrast to the blaring distorted guitars. The chorus is a bit clunky. Decent breakdown. Kinda forgetable. Average. 2.5/5 By Myself I like the different structure here, feels refreshing. The background synth provides some cool ambience to the track. Impressive screams. Really like the distortion on the guitar. Decent. 3.5/5 In The End There's only one correct way to listen to this song: with the iconic music video attached to it playing in 360p. And by God that music video is probably the most year 2000 thing ever made. Those visuals could not be made today. A piece of art worthy of the Louvre. A masterpiece. 5/5. The song is alright too I suppose. A Place For My Head That opening riff is really great. Really like the instrumental to this. The rap parts really go well against it. Amazing breakdown/bridge. Love the energy of this track. Good. 4/5 Forgotten Great transition. Amazing energy leading up on the chorus. The verses are a bit bland. Impressive vocals. Melodic chorus. Decent. 3.5/5 Cure for the Itch Abrasive intro. Doesn't sound all too great. The experimental sampling added up to nothing. The instrumental part has some interesting moments, but kinda falls flat in the end. Average. 2.5/5 Pushing Me Away Kinda forgetable. Doesn't really distinguish itself much from previous tracks. The guitar on the chrous is pretty cool I suppose. Average. 2.5/5 In my quest to not be too harsh on this I might've ended up rating a few of these tracks a little too favourably. Truth be told, once you get over the angsty lyrics and the dated rapping you end up with something pretty bland. If it wasn't for Chester Bennington's outstanding vocal performances you'd be stuck with something extremely average. He does a lot of the heavy lifting to elevate some of these mediocre tracks into something that is at least listenable. The lyrics are too direct to be interesting, the guitars all sound vaguely the same, you only feel the impact of the drums on a few of these tracks, and most of the songs are structured really similarly. You do get some belters when it comes to choruses, but the lyrical content becomes so goofy the only thing left to appreciate is Chester's voice. For the most part this is just fine, and while the hits do carry an air of memorablility they aren't much more interesting than the other songs when examined through a vacuum. It all ends up being a pretty samey experience where most of the songs kinda just blend together in your head. Sure no one is denying their talent here, but it does suffer a bit from age as well as being a bit unrefined songwriting wise. The production also does not help with the sameiness as its style causes the songs to sound like they lack some sonic depth. Where everything is just mixed to be loud and aggressive, which kinda kills all humanity and soul from the instruments. And while my individual track ratings might suggest a higher rating it doesn't really reflect the frustrating listening experience of the full album. While they may possess some decent individual qualities, the flaws become too apparent over an extended listen to be anything short of annoying. Won't bash you for loving this thing, and I would gladly sing along to a few of the choruses with you. However I'd rather keep it to just a couple of songs if that's okay. 2.5/5 rounded down to a 2/5

The sounds of my life as a pre-teen

I gave 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 an honest shot and even listened to 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘢 and 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 for context. Still, it just doesn’t click with me. 1. Chester Bennington’s screams on 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 feel more forced than fierce — his clean vocals are solid, but the shouting isn’t quite there yet. 2. Mike Shinoda’s rapping also lacks the confidence and flow he shows later, especially on 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘢. 3. Without the electronic polish and DJ elements, 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 often sounds like just another angsty metal album from the early 2000s. 4. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 as the best entry point to Linkin Park — 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘢 refines the formula and delivers it with far more impact. That said, 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥 is a clear standout, and I understand why 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 earned its place on the 1001 Albums list. It’s a defining moment for its genre — just not one that resonates with me personally.

Another album I’ve heard a lot and grew up with. Very neutral on Linkin Park in general. They are objectively good but really overplayed to the point where I listened to this album and felt nothing. Which makes it really difficult to review because the songs are good, but just illicit no response from me. I like the song Cure for the Itch, really cool song, but otherwise I would never put this album on.

I can appreciate what they were going for 20 years ago, and there’s time when it works, but this album just ain’t very good. Linkin Park is better than their meme reputation, but in other ways they’re like if Simple Plan was a little bit heavier. 2.5 Stars

Tended to like the singing more than the rapping more than the screaming but not a huge fan no matter what, don't think I'm angsty enough for it. Some songs I quite liked but most of them I just wanted to be over. Favourite: In the End Least: With You

I'm really not a linkin Parker.

I know all the songs so I must have listened to it in the past. But I’m not a fan of American indie music

They felt like a label-assembled, cheap knock off when this album came out, and having listened to this for the first time in many years, my opinion hasn’t changed. My god, this is all so angsty, yet all the lyrics are incredibly vague—almost like what you’d get after focus group testing to catch the widest possible swath of disaffected, sweaty youth. The “raps” are completely devoid of flow or flavor to make sure every suburban, cargo-shorted, upside down visor wearing male between the ages of 8 and 24 can safely digest “urban” culture. It might be a great album when you have more hormones than sense, but I’m middle aged and my ears work so fuck this shit.

Angsty music for teenagers.

I really don't like nu-metal, and this is no exception. I admit I dozed a bit during this on a plane journey. Low two; I didn't hate it quite as much as I expected.

Save yourself some time and just listen to the first song. Every other song on the album is identical.

Aaaah, enfin! Un album de marde! Ouf, je commençais à m’inquiéter...

Fav: In The End Least Fav: Points Of Authority Contender for the most dated album on this list?

So this is the kind of rubbish that I associate with nu-metal. Vastly overproduced, artificial and as far from the ethos of rock and roll as you can get. A couple of tracks saved it, but overall not great.

It was alright, not my favorite

I love Rap and I really like Rock, but Rap Rock has always been a genre I don't really like. With this in mind, I had mostly avoided Linkin Park, as I had already heard a couple of songs by them and never really liked them. This is my first time listening to a Linkin Park record front to back. I gotta say that I expected worse, but I wasn't converted. The instrumentals aren't bad, they manage to get pretty heavy guitar lines going and the drums aren't bad either. The little electronic touches and the scratching didn't really add much for me. In terms of the singing, I found Shinoda to be really lacking. His delivery is very flat, and he's repetitive and very simple in his lyricism. I don't think he's good as a singer, a rapper, or a writter (at least in this record). Bennington, on the other hand, while not my favourite vocalist, has a much higher level, more varied delivery, and really brings the songs alive. I liked how open about their struggles the band is throughout the lyrics and topics of the songs, although the lyrics are a bit simple. I think my favourite song was "Points of Authority", I felt like Shinoda's contribution didn't break up the flow of the songs that much, the chorus is pretty good and the metallic snare during the chorus was a pretty cool detail. Dislike the scratches but they're all over the album so not much to do about that. While I understand that part of the appeal at the moment was the whole rapping over a metal-ish track, I think that this record would've been much better if they just went full nu-metal with only Bennington as a vocalist. For what it is, I think there are better records I'd rather revisit than this one.

In the End, please Runaway and take your anger and your instruments. Sounds like a very disturbing and difficult childhood with lots of yelling and violence. Hopefully, now that the members of LP are no longer trapped in situations beyond their control (and are filthy rich) they can make their own decisions and are One Step Closer to finding inner peace. High Voltage and Pushing Me Away (which they are doing) are listenable, the rest of the album is the same heavy drumbeats and screaming into the mic. (2.2*s) want to like them more, but can’t.

eminem if he was somehow even edgier

Not my vibe currently, so rating 2.5

The production on Cure for the Itch is the only thing saving this from a 1

point2.

Pants

det får ett pluspoäng för nostalgi men jag anser att det här inte har åldrats med någon vidare värdighet. scratchandet går varmt.

There is no way that I am going to like this. I lived through hearing the singles on the radio. There is no way a re-evaluation of this band will change much for me. We used to laugh at the "Shut up when I'm talking to you" line when I was a teenager and it's just as dumb now. Every song sounds the same. It sounds like 311. I think the only song that aged well is In the End. For some reason, it doesn't bother me as much.

The part of me this spoke to so hard back in the day .. is not in charge anymore.

2emo4me, never got the appeal

I’ve never been a linkin park fan

I know it's sacrilege to a certain age group but I have never been able to engage with LP's earnest angst rap-rock. I've also never listened to a whole album. I can't say that I enjoyed it. It was a sort of chore today. It all was also sort of a pastiche of repeated themes both lyrically and musically. Lost my attention in a sea of same.

Not my type of music anymore, although the sound feels so nostalgic. I liked the fun instrumentation with using a cool piano, a fun synth or a good guitar riff. What I couldn't get behind was the lyrcisim and the loudness of it all. It is not my style so it was hard to enjoy. Looking at this objectively, I think it is a solid 3/5. I can admire the production and the relvance of this album when it came out, but I don't think it stands strong.

I can't believe I voluntarily listened to an entire Linkin Park album

Reminds me of very specific kids in high school, mostly friends of mine whose music I vastly disagreed with lol

All due respect th Chester Bennington, who lost his life while fighting against child trafficking, this music is still lowest common denominator. Back to his crusade, along with Soundgardens Chris Cornell, against child trafficking, the lyrics of "In the End" really hit hard

This wasn't for me but was proud of myself for listening to the whole thing as a hater

I've heard worse music. Nu metal isn't for me.

Any initial novelty that comes with the edgy nu-metal vibe started to dissipate within the first few songs. Perhaps any chance at me enjoying this kind of music was whipped out of me by the Triple M propaganda wing but I just found most of this annoying. In the end gets a pass though

Sometimes when in the mood

fUcK PaReNtS

These guys feel like they're trying so hard to be cool, but are so not cool.

If I’ve learned one thing from the internet it’s that a lot of people DEEPLY love/d Linkin Park. It didn’t make me a fan or anything, but I did listen to this with a different frame of mind than I would have a few years ago.

but in the end it doesn't even matter 2/5

Edgy enough to split hairs with, but the emotion's clearly 100% authentic so it gets a pass. It's a surprisingly solid metal record (props to Chester's vocals, the real highlight here) and an unsurprisingly shoddy rap record. Of all the angsty music 14-year old you could have been listening to, there's far worse out there, but also far better.

Not the worst nu-metal, but not the best either. A bit too polished and quantized for me. I know the guy was legitimately very troubled, but also, the lyrics are remarkably teenagery. Hard to not feel cynical that they knew what they were doing, and it wasn’t necessarily fully earnest. Here’s what I did like though: literally every song sounded like plausible entrance music for a wrestler, and that’s pretty funny.

This was much cooler when I was 11

Sounds like what I’d hear on the bus on the way to school in 4th grade Takes itself too seriously, also why is there so much rap is that Linkin’s park thing that I didn’t realize? I thought it was just rappy in their radio hit songs. The remix-y part at the end of Points of Authority is particularly goofy In the end is still a banger ngl Lyrics pretty mid Chester Bennington was a talented vocalist so gotta give him credit Someone should make one of those yelling goat remixes for the song By Myself Medium 2

One of the most overrated bands of all time. A band that highly benefited from the Kurt Cobain effect. The most meme-y band in the most meme-y genre of music. In all fairness, this isn’t the worst album so far, but it’s still bad and unlistenable. Vocals are like nails on a chalkboard, and the lyrics are terrible. Unfortunately this album only deserves to be on the 1001 list just by how inflated they got. Only pro is the production on the guitar is good at some points and there are some half decent breakdowns. Won’t ever intentionally listen to this band. Weak 2/5.

This album was everywhere - but it really hasn’t aged well. Corndog lyrics and fat sausage compression everywhere. This album must’ve been great when you’re 13 Good songs are the singles: Papercut, Crawling, In the End, and One Step Closer. Didn’t mind a Place for my head and Forgotten either. The other tracks are weak and don’t do anything for me. It’s not a great record, but I like this Linkin Park more than the U2-rips of their later stuff that I’ve heard. Solid 2/5

Kakav blast from the past 😂 sjećam se sebe kao baš baš klinke i kako mi je ovo bilo tad dobro 😁 današnjim ušima teško mogu ovo appreciateati van nostalgije (iako mi realno nije loš album za to vrijeme), tako da će biti 2/5, 4/10.

I can’t get past his voice. It feels like a theatrical performance in a play at times. Almost like I’m listening to an angsty high school play.

I just don't get it. I know, I know - they mix melody and heavy guitars and electronics and rapping/turntables and supposedly emotionally meaningful lyrics. I dare you to grab 5 random ingredients, stick them in a blender and pound the contents - ie- BBQ sauce, broccoli, yogurt, hot dogs, blue cheese. Nauseating. Still better the Steely Dan. I do kind of like Cure for the Itch (less ingredients maybe). But overall - so much noises just swirling in a whiny agro mess.

A few good songs here…

só não rapaziada só não

nu metal e rap rock juntos: meu maior pesadelo se tornando realidade. música de amv de naruto do caralho. duas estrelas apenas pelo meu amigo douglas mas pqp viu. super produzido (muito mais do que precisaria). e é besta pra caramba, hein? tipo, mesmo não gostando de nu metal, isso aqui soa como nu metal radio-friendly. tipo, é adolescente e gritado, mas, ao mesmo tempo, seus pais suportariam ouvir contigo numa rádio qualquer. meia boca pra caramba. dito isso, eles voltaram sem o rapaz careca e não trocaram o nome da banda = desrespeito com o falecido.

In the end is a decent song. The rest I wasn’t wild about. Most of the songs sound the same.

One of the more successful Nu Metal albums. Feels a little overproduced and the lyrical themes don’t really resonate with me. 2/5 Probably won’t listen again

2 out of 5. Mostly nostalgia drove this score. A bit too edgy for me now that I'm older.

Not my vibe

Lot of people like Linkin Park; I am just not one of them.

Annoyed me in then, annoys me now.

Stinkin’ Fart lol. In The End is a tune. The rest is absolute garbage.

Couldn't finish, really not into it