Hybrid Theory

Couldn't be assed to go back to the well on this one—whatever

Не моё, но кто то любит

Chester, I hope you have the peace now that you never had in life. That said... listening to an entire album of "mental health crisis" is painful in multiple ways. Hybrid Theory wouldn't exist in a world with accessible, decent, affordable psychiatric care.

Kompromisslos, laut, Stilmix. Ich mag keinen Rap, aber Rock. Manchmal muss es genauso klingen.

Very forgettable

Not my thing. Like rap love rock but this just seems pointless stop start rap rock

Not for me.

Iu

I HATE how overproduced the vocals are. I DONT CARE if this part has a bitcrusher and this one has a glitch effect , and this one has weird panning (which by the way happens SO MUCH). The vocals/lyrics overall are terrible in my opinion and damn near ruin the whole thing. I feel like on old person writing this but there are so many ways to do the rap-metal thing and the screaming thing and the repetitive hook thing which are all infinitely better than this. The real only redeeming quality is the amazing guitars and raw instrumentals, and I quite like the vinyl scratching in some parts. The vocals are just so annoying that it totally ruins anything. Favourite songs: Just to prove my point, the instrumental song second till the end is by far my favourite. - I think the effects are really cool. Overall around 4/10

So there's some ear candy here. Mostly rhythmic dj stuff which i can be a sucker for. The album feels overproduced and spliced together. At times it made me think of a dumb local band. I've always struggled with thecheart on the sleeve lyrics but in light of Chester's suicide maybe I should revisit. It's just too on the nose for me. I prefer a lil mystery. There are some things I like here when I pulled my snobby head out of my ass and gave it a listen. To he honest though I can't imagine it has any real staying power. It will always be a product of its time. And that's OK.

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This reminds me of introspective emos at school wearing hyper-baggy jeans with chains, who listened to bands like Coheed and Cambria and wallowed in their faux pain. Their only real pain at that time being they'd forgotten to do their homework for Further Maths and Mrs Cole was in a particularly foul mood so they were worried they'd get detention. It's bland, it's less ground-breaking than a plastic hammer, and the rapping/scratching is bad. It has 2 songs which I consider passable, one of which, In the End, is decent.

Not a fan

This took me right back to secondary school, where it's year 8 and half the year think they could be the next Mike Shinoda, and the other half think they could be the next Chester Bennington. None of them were right. My main issue with this album is just how safe it all feels - it's dealing with mental health and substance abuse, but in a way that still feels made for radio and surprisingly inoffensive. It's angsty pop masquerading as rock/metal. It wasn't the record for me back in year 8, and it's not the record for me now.

I love a couple of the songs on this album, but never listened to the entire thing before. It really isn't good.

RIP Chester, men er fortsatt ikke fan av linkin park. Liker ikke gitartonen, generiske emotekster eller dramatisk hvisking, men det verste er kanskje rap-flowen som er så typisk for sjangeren. Jeg er kanskje litt i overkant streng, men det er det at musikken virker så selvhøtydelig og uironisk samtidig som det er ekstremt cheesy som ender opp med noe jeg virkelig ikke setter pris på. Har forresten vært i Lincoln Park i Chicago, veldig koselig ganske rikt nabolag, med fine mursteinshus og grøntområder. Litt artig å se for seg noen som går rundt der og depper. Favorittlåt: In The End

Es sind drei Lieder, die mir sehr gut gefallen. Ansonsten geht das Album an mir vorüber.

Loud

Nah not really a fan

Mid, don’t really like Linkin Park, way too simple

Crawling and In The End were tolerable, but the rest was kinda the worst of nu metal white trying to sound harder than they were.

It's not that I don't like angry music. I could listen to Rage any day of the week. Trying to put my finger on why I enjoy RATM, but kind of feel like just shaking my head at Linkin Park, I think it's that Rage's anger is turned outward. It's protest music explicitly about injustice. Linkin Park is yelling 'shut up,' too - but it sounds like it's directed at their parents, or girlfriends, or maybe their inner demons - but either way, it's just a lot harder to take seriously when you're not a teenage boy.

Honestly, not as bad as I thought it would be. I appreciated Chester's singing, and an angsty teenage me would have been all over it at the time. The lyrics were more vulnerable that I expected. But, it's fairly bland and formulaic. The rapping is terrible and banal. 2/5.

Dette er ikke min type band. Så gadd ikke å høre på hele albumet

Pretty cringe but I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. At least it was short

Nah. This ain't for me.

How dare they even suggest this?

Cannot say I am over-impressed; yes it does go cross-genre sometimes but it comes over more as decorative rather than intrinsic to the music. Otherwise the tracks mostly go back to the same old style of rocking guitars and shouted vocals (although I will say they are clear). Nothing here that makes them stand out to me.

Meh, if you're not angry.

wau nuo toistokerrat huhhuh. ja joo ei ole kovin hyvä bändi heh.. omg so aaangry... like us in generation... angry... chesterillä yksi ärsyttävimmistä äänistä koskaan omg its so perfect so much angst.... arvaa mikä on oikeaa vihaa... sanoo ''prkl''... PRKL PRRRRKL... ja kuiskutellen: hii hoi hoi ja rommia pullo... PRKL.. PRKL.. the real angry mans quiet.. sitting silent like shadows in the shadow.. prkl prkl you hear... prkl.. not this AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh like woman... not womanly hollering hooting.. typical american rhetoric. joo vielä paskempaa mitä muistin annetaan nyt se kaksi niin ei tarvi runkkailla.. in the end

not for me

Not my thing at all but this album is nostalgic for me

Now this album is tricky for me, it came out when I was 13. I loved 70s rock and prog, my 9 year old cousin had \"found\" linkin park and was obsessed. Need I say more the walls just went up. I have tried since but it's just not my Jazz I find it all a bit too \"meh\". I know hard-core fans are really in to them but, leave me out, thanks.

Didn't really like it back then, nothing has really changed. I respect what they do, and they were way more palatable than a lot of the contemporaries.

I liked a few of these but overall the effect of listening to this was not a pleasant one

Honestly, most of it is shite. You probably shouldn't trust anyone who is over 14 and still love this album. Yet, it is quite remarkable that they made a record that spoke to so many teenagers for so many years, and only for that it deserve 2 stars.

This is album is overhyped by people who listened to it as angry and troubled edgy teens. It wasn't good and still isn't. 2/5

Was hoping for more of the guilty pleasure appeal here, but most of it is very samey and rather whiny. Best Song: In The End Worst Song: Crawling

I understand why people might love this album but I don't like anyone yelling at me. Sorry, Chester.

Was expecting better.

Must be the nostalgia. 2.4.

What do you get when you combine Rock, Rap, and Pop? Shit.

not for me

Never liked them. Too aggressive and frankly dated in 2024. Only listened to a few tracks.

Juvenile. Not good.

Yeah, this Linkin Park album is closer to Limp Bizkit than *Meteora*. It's only saving grace is "Crawling" and the closer "Pushing Me Away" which are the closest thing to being three star songs. However, they're not. Most of this album is plain old fucking horrible. By all means, *Hybrid Theory* is worse than *Meteora* (3.8) ★½

Like a teeny tots version of Rage Against The Machine with baby’s first DJ turntables and aw diddums screamo vocals flying around. After just a few tracks I felt like I was melting back into being an angsty teenager and almost tripped over a skateboard that had magically grown over the process of listening to this. Some legit awful tracks with the most cluttered, churned, plastic production and the best songs like Crawling and In The End aren’t even songs anymore if they ever were, just memes. Kind of almost look back on it fondly because it was such a big part of the music fabric at the time however cringy. Singles off of Meteora are better though.

Producto muy de su época Me ha costado mucho terminar el álbum. Prefiero el aire más enfermizo de unos Korn. Me ha resultado un tanto repetitivo aunque seguramente esa sea su seña de identidad: riffs cortantes y machacones mezclados con toques electrónicos, hip hop de andar por casa combinado con estribillo melódico. Radiable, algún single resultón pero poco más. No es para mí.

Not my cup of tea

I mean it’s okay, I guess… All the songs sound similar, heavy guitar riff, some screaming and a white boy rap/breakdown part. I don’t necessarily hate it, but I’m certainly not going to go searching for it again.

I really didn't like this band back in the day. Still don't think they are all that great but better than Limp Bizkit and some of the other Nu Metal bands...

It's got some good and familiar songs, but a lot of stinkers on it too. And I always start my day with this list, and I really don't like being yelled at in the morning! Thank you.

Hmm not for me. Simpsons: No

Stop yelling at me.

I am a psychiatric and substance use disorder registered nurse and I've had a lot of patients describe this band as an enormous influence on their recovery, so I come to this with an open mind and an open heart. This is schlocky, overproduced mediocrity. But don't worry, I'll never tell my patients that I feel this way.

Better than Limp Bizkit/10

Makes you realise how good Nirvana were.

I listened to 3/4 of this ages ago, then just relistened to most of the second half just now. I think it makes me laugh people thinking this is really emotional, but I do think it's good for what it is and I'm just a snob, critic and a hater. So I think it is a 2 but could easily understand why certain people would put this a 5. And good for them. Let people like what they chuffin' like!

My wife liked it better than I did. Brings back memories of my time before moving to VA

Yeesh. All that energy, and for this?

Very listenable. Not my usual thing - that kind of post-2000 teen angst rock thing. But some good songs on this and it's enjoyable. The rage does always sound a bit adolescent and inauthentic, though. It's not Nirvana! The guitar power chords are a bit obvious, too. The rap is a bit naff. Yet... it's decent overall. I like "By Myself". That's a high point.

One can not deny that this music is for the lethargic ones amongst us, as you are pumped with energy, or rage, the moment the album starts doing its thing. And that is where the problem lies: its thing. Angsty suburban rapper with almost the same cadence throughout the album, followed by our screamer screaming stuff... in the end, it doesn't really matter... A solid 1 1/2* as I don't want to piss off the fanboys, and girls, out there.

Too edgy. Music was alright I guess but not very enjoyable

I liked some songs of this as a teenager but this whole thing didn‘t age well imo.

Shouty shouty drums drums shouty shouty guitar guitar shouty shouty drums guitar

# Playlist track - Crawling # Notes - There are some solid tracks in there. Both "Crawling" and "In the end" definitely left a dent in the early 2000s. - Other than that, I wasn't a huge fan when I was a teenager, and listening to it now, it seems like a very teenager-ish album. - The instrumentals are not great, the raping verses tend to be bland. The calm to angry transitions get a bit old before the album is over. - But in the end, it doesn't even matter.

Overplayed, overproduced manufactured anger.

This is middle schooler music to me. The overdramatic tone and corny high-emotion lyrics come off as so goofy. There's a catchy hit or two in here, and I even think Cure for the Itch is some decent turntablism, but this is just too juvenile for me. At least too juvenile in a way I don't like.

This genre of music is not good

RIP and all that but not for me

Let me start by saying I'm not a fan. I like parts, not the whole. It moves so fast it makes me uncomfortable as the listener. I remember when it was released and it was like nothing anyone else was doing at the time, two vocalists, part rock, part rap, all angry. I do love "One Step Closer", and remember being blown away when I first heard the urgency and the angst they delivered it with. Any entire album in the same vein is overwhelming, he's yelling at the listener for 40 minutes (prime example "By Myself"). The other huge hit on the album , "In The End", is whiny and a bit annoying. "Crawling" got a bunch of airplay and he actually sings parts before the yelling commences again. Truth is the album, beats and music, don't hold up all that well 24 yrs later, I was bored 7 songs in. Groundbreaking maybe, but that sound hasn't stood the test of time, the album is not 1001 worthy.

Not as bad as I feared it might be. Not my vibe but I suppose I can see how it's popular. Rock/hip-hop crossovers can and should be more exciting than this though.

I don’t think ‘Hybrid Theory’ is an egregiously bad album. I actually think the band have some good ideas here, and I think they knew the kind of nu metal/hip hop sound they were going for from the beginning. It’s just poorly executed overall. Lyrically, the songs are amateur and feel like there's no conviction behind them. As if they were looking around the scene at the time to see what sells and went all in with it. While the hip hop elements feel like the kind of stuff you would come up with when you naively thought you were an aspiring rapper in your pre-teen years. And from a musical standpoint there really isn’t much that stands out. The riffs feel extremely basic, horribly distorted (a cliche of many nu metal bands back then), and uninventive; and a lot of tracks have a grandiose feel to them, but lack any real memorable punch to help them along. If you do even a basic scan of the nu metal scene in the early 2000’s you would find a plethora of bands who were more interesting, and far less concerned with being radio friendly, at the time. In my opinion I think ‘Hybrid Theory’ hasn’t aged well. It was overrated then, and it is probably more overrated now.

A little of this goes a long way. I surprised myself by enjoying the opening track, Papercut, but the rest is just a bunch of screaming.

Not for me.

Zuviel Geschrei My December ist ja ganz gut

Loved this when ot came out, but I don't think it has aged well. 2.5

Some promise but I think the vocals are an acquired taste. I do like the softer and more hip-hop influenced moments, but the anguished singing has aged considerably.

Not something that I want to listen to in the car or in the background while at dinner or anytime really -other than maybe during a workout. I don’t hate it - but I don’t like it.

cheesy

Juvenile and samey. Harsh sound. 2 stars instead of 1 because I at least knew what to expect.

Yeah quite entertaining to begin with but soon wore thin and I didn't care anymore. Samey

OK, so I can understand including this album as an illustration of how pissed off and directionless the world was in 2000. The republicans were poised to actually steal the presidency (for the first time) and the middle east was boiling over, the rich had become far too powerful and the poor had lost their voices. That said, its not a good album and its not really worth listening to unless you want to feel that same kind of "why am I even here" that adolescents in 2000 were going through. 2/5

This sub genre never was my thing.

I am not a fan of heavy metal

Surprising to me was that this album was mostly a hard rock/metal album with only a bit of hiphop . I like a certain amount of metal but its not my favorite. And this was listenable for me but mostly unremarkable and straight ahead. The vocals seem to be working hard to sound hard core which just ends up being grating. 2.4

I never got into this when it came out and I was a year into high school. I was still absorbed in Tool, RATM, etc., maybe SOAD. Linkin Park always sounded too polished and poppy for me, and Bennington's screaming never appealed to me. Years later, and in the wake of his death by suicide, I can at least appreciate the album more, as a kind of confessional of his (which, despite the plain-as-day, simple lyrics, I never really grasped at 14). Even still, not for me.

The multiple voices and cuts between them are interesting. But the lyrics are not of interest. Part of the issue with the album as a whole is that every song does the same kind of thing in terms of voice/sound movement. They seem unwilling to actually play with noise/sound disintegration so there is a certain neatness to the parts that are in the screaming/yelling end of the spectrum that undermines them by containing them as a style rather than an edge.

Rock, Rap, 2000 -> 2

Oj, vad överproducerat detta var. Jämför med RATM eller andra. Hade varit kul att höra demos eller mer liveinspelning

I guess I thought Linkin Park was metal? This is like a Rage cover band or something.

Just very "shouty" not my cup of tea at all.

Slightly better version of Limp Bizkit, and mercifully brief in comparison, coming in at only 37 mins. Listening to this I can’t quite fathom how it shifted 12+million units in the U.S…actually, maybe I can.

Haven’t heard this in decades. Owned the cd at some point. I know it’s well regarded Yeah, I remember this. Overproduced. Angst-driven cringe lyrics. I’m aBoUt To BrEAk ok relax bro Don’t forget to add turntable scratching. Some spoken word verses. Then the other guy scream-cries the chorus. Knockoff 311, get therapy I’m actually having a really hard time taking this album seriously. Is every song just angry white dude music? This album has a very narrow niche. Unless you’re a somehow still-angry white dude feel free to pass

Not my cup of tea.

This seems to be the best version of the limp bizkit era of lates 90s white-boy turntable rap. It’s angsty and angry, which I’m sure inspires some people. Every song ends up sounding the same to me and I don’t really like it.

Why did I like this music back in 2000? Oh, I know - because I was hanging out with rich white frat boys that thought their lives were SO hard. Listening to it now, I can’t believe how formulaic and repetitive it is. Plus the screaming… Another reviewer referred to it as “Cookie Monster vocals” and now I can’t unhear it.

I didn't like this when it came out, and I still don't like it :(

Ist mir zu hart und zu rappig

Getting 2 stars just for nostalgia

Bit annoying

By sheer coincidence yesterday I was listening to the Steven Wilson/Tim Bowness The Album Years podcast which featured this album. Steven Wilson gave a one sentence review of the album - A bit of Nine Inch Nails, bit of hip hop, bit of new metal, packaged like a boy band. As I have no knowledge of this album or Linkin Park I thought that this was an interesting observation and one which struck a chord with me. Then, Lo and behold up pops this album the very next day. I see what Wilson means and can understand why this album was such a big seller. I do actually own this album having bought it cheap at a charity store but have never got round to listening to it seriously. In all honesty now that I have listened it won’t be one on repeated plays. It was alright I suppose with some interesting phases but not a style of music I like. 2/5 1/6/24

Music like this makes me feel young again, for better or worse. Especially Linkin Park, who I remember sound-tracking a lot of AMVs on YouTube and Newgrounds back in the day. They were very sure of their sound on this debut. Even if this kind of music isn't for me, Linkin Park does this shit a lot better than, say, Limp Bizkit. But the mix is a little flat; the guitars glaze over the rest of the instruments on this record, including some actually interesting synth sounds. Their songwriting formula announces itself before the halfway point. I wasn't bothered by my listen--it became background noise a few times before I reminded myself to be mindful. Linkin Park is dear to many people (especially in my generation); I can (kind of) understand why. If this genre of music works for you, 'Hybrid Theory' is a must-listen. If not, I don't think you'd miss anything by moving past it.

Slick production but it's just so cheesy and angsty. I know Nirvana was basically the same concept but this just feels so much more...manufactured. Some interesting metal/hip-hop mashups but I just can't connect with the energy behind the songs. I was five years too old for this to have hit me at the right time.

Angsty album for an angsty evening

2.5/5. A bit much for me. But the music is not bad. Although it's definitely a weird blend of genres. Also, a lot of this sounds the same...

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory is a hard pass for me. The hard rock influence is not enjoyable, and I don’t like the excessive yelling. Papercut and With You are clear stand-outs, being the most coherent of all the tracks, though that is not saying much. I could understand the praise someone would give this album if they love this particular genre. I simply find it to exist in a niche that I have yet to understand and enjoy. All in all, Hybrid Theory is a terrible album. Best Song: With You Worst Song: A Place for My Head

Papercut - very edgy. Enjoy instrumentals, not rly the vocals (don't enjoy the rap vocals much) One step closer - Better than papercut. Enjoy the verse "I find the answers... I need a little room to breathe." Lyrics quite simple. Skip a few to Crawling - haha funny meme song. Rest of its pretty good, nice tension building in vocals. By Myself - a bit better than the rest In the End - another meme song. Unironically pretty good chorus. Cure for the Itch - I respect going more instrumental. Interesting build to the final track. Pushing me Away - Probably the best track. Instrumentals are somewhat enjoyable, and the vocals definitely are on the better side. Overall: not a huge fan of production and musical choices, though it has a few good moments.

Not my thing. Songs are one noted excepted for the dj one.

FFS Blinking Krap

I remember thinking this stuff was so lame in high school. I still do, but maybe a little less?

Linkin Park doesn't really add anything here that nearly two decades of industrial, hard rock, and new wave hadn't already added to the genre. There have even been countless other bands that had mixed these styles together, by this point and this one is a boring as your typical Korn, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, and Deftones records. The only notable thing about this release is that had come to the party late, just as it was winding down. Your average suburban teenager in every community had already submitted to a genre that had been growing since the late 80s, and everybody was getting ready to move on. Having said all that, in the end, (see what I did there?), I enjoyed the singles "Crawling", "In the End", and further into the album the songs "Runaway", and the instrumental "Cure for the Itch". Hybrid Theory is a competent but ultimately forgettable album. Probably won't make my rotation, so it gets a 2.

over produced. specifically the levels are bent so much to allow the lyrics to be whispered. this puts a huge expectation on the lyrics but they just don't deliver.

Everything about the early 2000s culture. Highest-selling debut since Apetite for Destruction. Creaters of two eras that exploded and disappeared. The nu metal rap rock did NOT have a good shelf life. It will always be 7th grade in my Etnies

2024-04-12...

this shit SUCKS

I couldn’t name or recognize a Linkin Park song, even if I was told “this is a Linkin Park, song.” It all sounds the same…But I appreciate the effort. They’re another band with a departed soul. And that’s very sad.

This really hasn't aged well. I had this album when it came out, and I'm fairly sure I listened to it non-stop for months. Listening to it now, I have no idea why. It has all of the distortion and volume of metal, but absolutely none of the edge. And what in the world is the flow on those rap parts?

I knew that Linkin Park wasn't my kind of music and this confirmed that. It's a bunch of noise to me.

no me gustan

Meh. Lousy rap, middling vocals, and music that can't decide if it wants to be heavy or maybe a little poppy. The lyrics are so fucking tormented but they feel naive. Maybe if I was in high school this might mean something. This just goes nowhere.

some surprisingly decent tracks but boy a lot of bad cringe stiff

I was 12 years old when this came out and it was the perfect music for that age. I loved it and would have given it 5 stars if you asked. Revisiting it is a different story. I was looking forward to it when I saw it on the list and was wondering if it would hold up. It doesn't. What it does is perfectly encapsulate the sound of the hard rock / nu metal / rap rock radio sound of 2000. At my current age, it just sounds like a teenager throwing a temper tantrum in their room, punching pillows and screaming, after their mom took away their N64. I can't help but picture a young AJ Soprano in the early seasons of the show doing this while listening to this album. The lyrics to the three song run of Runaway, By Myself and In The End serve as a trilogy of sorts to this scene and made me laugh out loud to myself as I was listening to it. Definitely not my scene or sound anymore at my age, but if you want some pure distilled teenage angst, this is it. I gave it an extra star just for the nostalgia of revisiting it but all in all, In The End, it wasn't good and maybe doesn't really matter after all.

One Step Closer // In the End //

I'm happy that it makes people happy but I'm 24 years late for this train.

Clear to see why they were so famous for a hot second. It was a fresh sound, but really doesn't age well. It's angst without purpose, unlike a Rage Against the Machine or System of a Down.

Mmm no.

I wasn't looking forward to this one. I thought it would be the kind of thing American soldiers listen to when driving tanks around and killing people. I was slightly pleasantly surprised by th hip.hop influence that made it listenable. Its far too whiny for my taste and talks about experiences that I find it hard to relate to - dark thoughts, insecurities etc.

skipped through most of it. in the end and crawling still bangers but reminds me of cringe classmates in 9th grade.

Soooo Linkin Park... Full confession, I bought this album in 2000 and loved it... then hated it. I actually thought this might be fun to listen to in a heavily nostalgic kinda way. It's... fine. I mean, it's not great but musically it exists in such a definitive moment in time that ii is VERY hard to judge by today's musical taste. I still highly enjoyed In The End. And I found Be Myself to be surprisingly fun. 2.25 stars.

this seemed to be a well made record from an era and in a style that i can't enjoy. good momentum but toward the end of the album i kept checking to see how much was left and being disappointed. this is a 2.5 for me but i'm rounding down to 2.

This album dropped and then run-out music for boys' junior high and high school sports teams was never the same again. Listening to this made me have to confront some warring feelings in myself, because on one hand I think this album gave a lot of boys an outlet for big feelings in a world that doesn't give them many besides anger. On the other hand, even before I read the summary of "the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting and divorce of his parents".... yeah. A big part of me wants to be like "can you please shut up and stop making white boy rap and nu metal about the world not being fair because your parents had a fight?? did you punch holes in all the drywall so this is all that's left??"

A niece peaceful album of relaxing and light meditative tunes. Peaceful And the lyrics - -Wow! SO deep and insightful!

Mixture of Metall and Rap - not my favorite taste

While they are clearly talented and highly influential, I have never particularly enjoyed Linkin Park's music. Listening to this album in its entirety did nothing to change my opinion on the them.

In a more critical assessment, William Ruhlmann of AllMusic found that on Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park sound "like a Johnny-come-lately to an already overdone musical style."[70] NME critic Noel Gardner said that it was a "decent" album in need of editing, writing that "otherwise damn fine soaring emo-crunchers like 'With You' and 'A Place for My Head' are pointlessly jazzed up with tokenistic scratching".[63] Rolling Stone's Matt Diehl felt that the album "works in spots" and the band "knows its way around a hook", but panned Bennington and Shinoda's "corny, boilerplate-aggro lyrics".[66] Reviewing Hybrid Theory in 2006, Tyler Fisher of Sputnikmusic perceived a lack of musical variety on the record, but concluded that it "stands as a defining mainstream album at the turn of the century, and for good reason."[71] Writing for Stylus Magazine the following year, Ian Cohen found that while the album is "almost completely forgettable" outside of its singles, it "was strangely fresh for mainstream rock radio, particularly placed in relief of its ugly post-grunge peers and the staunch revivalism of the Strokes/White Stripes front."

Just not my style at all. Too many of the songs sounded the same.

Better towards the end but not my type of music.

Repetitive album with a few standouts. I like the use of scratching, and I always welcome piano in rock music. A little too white-guy edgy for my taste but respectable overall. Feels like stencil overspray.

Not my style but I appreciate the contributions made by Linkin Park to heavy music as a whole. Very uninterested in this album.

After the first two songs, I thought to myself this might not be as bad as I feared. Wrong! This shit is whack. One step closer, I am loathe to admit, is actually a decent song.

SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!!!!!

polished and consistent. like it was made for mainstream radio. not for me but it’s better than i expected.

bro idk what the hell this is maybe some people like screaming? the only one i liked was in the end but i think that’s a less controversial and more catchy song so it makes sense not my cup of tea

never been my thing, i'm too old to like wank metal, or wigga hip hop

I didn't particularly like Nu-Metal when it was new but it was at least interesting - mashing pop-punk with turntablism and rap. Now it feels dated and there's really nothing here I'm that interested in returning to.

Definitely hits that nostalgia feeling, but I've just never been that into their music.

interesting debut for California rock outfit, there rock album with a rap influence is a creative idea but not executed well. the electric guitar heavy production is interesting at first but hets old quickly, the vocal performances on some songs are good but the rap-talking ruined many songs. songs like crawling and with you have good vocal performances but the rapping ruins the song for me

Album is very plain nothing really stands out due to its lack in diversity in each song making every track sounds some what similar. The guitar also throws of every instrument in the track making it feel like you where just listening to a loud guitar rather then a band of instruments

Linkin Park sucked then and they suck now. “In the End” earns this album an extra star.

Listening is like having to work on an assembly line.

Nostalgic, repetitive, and dated.

super zeitgeistiger NuMetal

Guitar tone is a lot heavier than I remember, making for riffs that stick out a lot more. Chester Bennington's voice is incredible, but Mike Shinoda's lyrics aren't very good. Maybe I don't like the performance of the lyrics. Songs get samey after a couple. Obviously a breakout in the nu-metal scene, but not my style.

Trying to be objective and ignore the nostalgia.

Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background I vacillate between a 2 or a 3 for this one. Sometimes the beat is catchy . Sometimes the vocals are doing something interesting. But overall the lack of movement in the guitar creates a sameness to this genre that I just can't get past.

not for me

Not for me.

Tehard. Weinig gevoel

Solid album. I think I would've liked this a lot when I was younger. Now, I appreciate it for what it is, but I wouldn't put this on for everyday listening.

A bit better but I wouldn't buy any of these songs.

I’m of the right age that this album came out as I was entering university. I understand that this is important to so many people. But I never liked it. I don’t like good metal music let alone substandard versions of it. 2/5

6/10 i think. i liked the second half better than the first one and enjoyed the rapping parts better. it could very well potentially grow on me though.

oh damn, papercut: this is commical. the face inside is right beneath the skin. eminem meets pop-punk. lmao. One Step Closer: he's about to break guys, better watch out. omg a way to dissapear. this is teenage bullshit alright. emo damn. this is definetley the right music to be listening to while reading disaster capitalism with you: what the hell is that screaching noise. this is giving stalker. its giving bella in that one scene in twilight where she stares out the window, but for boys. lmao this is genderswapped twilight. see guys this is what happens when we don't let men express their emotions. points of authority: the record scratches are a bit much. this is the catchiest one ill give it that. Crawling: again this is what happens when we don't let men express their emotions in a normal way. although I guess my criticism is itself hypocritical because I shouldn't judge when they do actually express emotion. feel bad for this guy. but this is def not my music. I cannot take this seriously, it's just too overwrought. Runaway: why is this album on the list honestly? I guess this is their seminal work and it was a big trend at the time but still; it kind of sucks. "I want to shut the door and open up my mind?" By Myself: this is so tortured but not in a good way. I imagine this record is only being played in a truck. not a sedan or a suv, only a truck. it's that kind of insecurity. You can hear the kurt influence really strong. it's like eminem meets nirvana but then bad and super not self aware at all. it's also really self-centered. maybe that's your problem dude, you're really worried about your own problems. I don't think there is a single other person but the suposedly female love interest who doesn't have a single expression or opinion of her own. In the End: this is the most listened-to song on the album, this has a billion plays. this is the best song on the album. A Place for My Head: this is a very year 2000 album. bruh does this man have single positive emotion ever? Forgotten: wait the song changed I didn't even notice that. Straight up it literally sounded like the same song. defintely should be forgotten. Cure for the Itch: Bruh I hate this intro already. How does this thing not over yet. I'm really annoyed. I was laughing before but now I'm tired. of course an interlude track right at the end, just what I wanted.... :( Pushing Me Away: bruh the overwhelming self-pity is just too much, I don't want to listen to this anymore. I really hope this is the last one. the sacrifice is me listening to this goddamm album for a second time. I confused this with the systems of a down album that I listened to the same day the last time I listened to this. But this really fucking sucks too. Lik yeah the toxicity whatever bullshit was worse but this is really bad.

So many people bum off this album and band, it’s just rap metal where the singer says he wants to kill himself every song, overrated

Like with Harry Potter, I always felt like I was slightly too old for Linkin Park - if I was born a few years later I'd have probably ate this stuff up. Can appreciate the craft but it doesn't do anything for me

I won’t give this a 1 because the sound didn’t offend me, but I’m sorry I cannot take this seriously. Sounds like something 13 year olds discover and think is the best thing ever

I can’t.

I liked this when I was young (around middle school age), but even then I recognized that it wasn’t “good.” There’s still a kernel of nostalgia here, but now the cheesiness and hollow commercial sound drown out the enjoyment, and the whole thing just feels kind of embarrassing.

Sad and angry. And bad.

Oh geeze. Listened with my GF, who grew up on Linkin Park. They are talented for what they do, but this is NOT my music. So angry, rageful... It's impossible to appreciate the underlying music, chord structures, melodies, or even the other emotions of the lyrics.

Dat rappen verknalt het altijd net een beetje...

Ik weet dat het niet zo is, maar Linkin Park blijft voor mij toch de Boyband onder de Rockbands. Dat uber gelikte gedoe. Stoer willen zijn maar er uitzien als een onzekere puber die in een skateshop een cool t-shirt gaat passen. Die vibe. Maar als laagdrempelig instapmodel voor mensen die net hun rijbewijs hebben is de 'Linkin Park' denk ik wel een geschikt model.

Can respect the talent but not for me. Not a style of music I enjoy listening to

Midkin park

Nu metal junk

it’s a linkin park record cut in 2000. what tf else could you think this was gonna be.

Angry big time rush

I tried so hard to like this album but- yeah you get it. It's not for me. I know people who like this, and they're wonderful people, but this just isn't my kind of music. I like parts of it. I like the instrumental tracks, I think it's well produced, but I can't get into the lyrics and I find the singing to be... well suffice to say it's not what I like.

Fuha, asi som v zivote pocul iba mozno dve pesnicky z tohto albumu, no ked to teraz pocuvam cele, akoby som pocul cely album :D Akoze dost sablona, navyse celkom nudna. Po vcerajsom hodnoteni mam celkom deja vu: ostatni to robili lepsie. V jednom review som k tomu cital relatable komentar: radio rock for parents trying to sound metal, alebo nieco v takom suchu.

oh no *cracks open Monster Energy* Some of the music and melodies aren't bad. Even the singer dude that killed himself isn't a bad vocalist. But dear god, the writing... these lyrics. TERRIBLE HAHA I like track 11. 2/5

Who hurt you?

I mostly like the beats although over the course of the album, for the most part, they don’t really vary a whole lot from song to song. The lyrics are interesting but I don’t fully understand why there is so much anger along with what seems to be a bleak world outlook. Also, the screaming mixed in with what I guess is singing I don’t really like.

boring

I want this album to pump me up and Linkin Park wants me to get pumped up but I'm not pumped up. It falls flat even though they put all their energy. Not into it

The album doesn't sound the same like it did when I was in middle school. Loud and angry, with all the hallmarks of edgy pop from the 2000's.

i aint listening to all dat

Not really my taste, although Paperclip was kind of ok I guess.

I remember I was somewhat impressed by the big hit song when this first came out. It didn't last.

Liked it in my teen years. Not as much now.

Nu-metal is really not my thing and I never really listened to this album a lot as a kid. The highs of the album are really good, namely "Papercut" and "In The End". But the lows are really low and I am reminded why I don't really like this style of music in the first place, I just find it whiny and pretentious. Still I owned "Meteora" as a kid so if that comes on I will probably have a different opinion to my opinion of this which I understand is generally regarded as the better album. For now a strong 2.

One thing that struck me as I was listening to this for the second time is that it’s metal that’s not based on the riff. Instead, it’s hook based, like a pop album. I’ve not listened to enough Nu-Metal to know if that’s a trademark of the genre, but I could pick out riffs from the limited Korn or Limp Bitzkit songs I have listened to to suggest that it’s relatively unique to Linkin Park. I’m torn on this, because I don’t hate it as music. The two songs after In The End are pretty bad an overall it’s pretty entry level industrial lite. It’d be a good warm up if someone wanted to get into, like, Nine Inch Nails, or something. I’d have taken out the record scratches but hindsight is 20/20. On the other hand, the cringe. Oh. My. God. The cringe. I listened to my fair share of angsty music as a teenager, but nothing this blatant. And now that I’m in my mid 20’s, my sad boi music is more heartbreaking gentle stuff, and my angry white boy music is… political, it’s all political. So I don’t have any fond memories of listening to this as a teenager, it’s not the sort of thing I can have a sad drink over, and the lyrics aren’t something I can get angry over. I get that they come from a place of personal pain, but that’s what I have my sad music for. I’m not angry about my personal life. I’m angry about the lives that are being lived by people around me that they have no escape from. But I can still appreciate this. It’s music for angry teenagers, as I’ve said multiple times across this review. And while my angry teenager music was, dare I say, more cerebral, there is a place for this sort of music. Does everyone need to hear this? Probably not. But despite everything, I’m glad I took the time to find out for myself. Also, I really like Chester Bennington’s voice. R.I.P.

Skrikigt och för rockigt. Någon bra låt dock

Inte riktigt min grej - ganska stökigt och lite för mycket tidigt 2000-tal.

The dumbest thing to happen to music was the late 90s / 2000s 'improvement' to punk and metal and the subsequent bands calling themselves such. Linking Park, Green Day, and Limp Bizkit topping the list. I love metal. I love punk. I love rap-rock. This is neither and it's days like this that I hate my stupid commitment to listening to every album generated for this list. 2/5.

Only good song is in the end

You got some dece hits on here but ultimately is quite cringy and funny

Bonus point for the relief I felt when I realised it wasn’t Limp Bizkit

Not a fan of rap/rock or whatever but can see why people enjoy this. Even though allot of the songs all have a similar structure and sound the same there is something here that's alright. I also remember when this was new back in high school so while overplayed there's some nostalgia factor. I think I round down to a 2 though as this led to or at least was part of way too much rap-metal nonsense

nostalgic idrfw linkin park

14 year old me would have given this 5 stars, but revisiting this as an adult sees it for a lot of loud angst with pretty base lyrics. Would fit perfectly into an early 2000's edgy videogame.

Borderline unlistenable. However I appreciate what LP did for their fans and the fact that their music saved people from very dark places in their life. Maybe if I had listened to this in 2000 as a high schooler it might have resonated with me more. But as an adult this does nothing for me. 2 stars because the singles are decent enough

DNF Some songs I enjoyed, but a little too teenage angst for me to be interested right now

This now appears a bit better as its meat and potatoes combo of rap and metal was the album before the legendarily awful Kid Rock album. So no it's nowhere as bad as that, but it is very monotone. At a place I worked the boss had on her desk a rap album she'd confiscated from her son. This is the kind of music that twelve-year olds put on loudly to annoy their mums.

Goeie dag, na de slappe piemel rock van Coldplay is dit wel weer even wakker worden. Merk dat het wel een beetje heeeel erg veel is. Het constante geschreeuw, de schreeuwende gitaren... En dan staat hier ook nog eens In The End op, een nummer waar ik dus echt een schijthekel aan heb gekregen omdat een niet nader te noemen persoon deze altijd op repeat had, met af en toe What I've done als afwisseling... Ik heb dit nooit begrepen eerlijk gezegd, de hele Linkin Park hype is volledig aan mij voorbij gegaan. Denk dat ik gewoon niet zo'n boze puber was ofzo. Eigenlijk vond ik Mike Shinoda nog een soort van het beste deel van Linkin Park. De zang heeft mij nooit echt kunnen pakken. Maar als ik Mike Shinoda wil horen luister ik wel For Minor ofzo. A place for my head is echt een dieptepunt van dit album, de tering... Ik ga hierna Linde Schone luisteren ofzo om niet meer de hele tijd tegen geschreeuwd te worden. FAVO: Cure for the itch

Listened to this 1 million times as a teenager, but never bothered since. Instantly taken back to the early 00s. Nostalgia overload. Nothing screams early 2000s like this record. I get why it was added to the list in terms of it being significant. I think this has aged a lot better than its peers (looking at you, Limp Bizkit and Korn). Didnt cringe as much as I expected. It’s genuinely rammed with belters. Admittedly I would never listen to this now, but each song is maaaasssive. 14 year old me would give this a 5, but I’m not sure how I would rate this now. I appreciate its great for its genre and for a time and place, but how could I rate this on a par with other genuinely incredible albums? You would never put Linkin Park in the same bracket as Leonard Cohen or The National. Think it’ll have to be a 2, but that feels harsh.

This was never really my thing, but I have a ton of nostalgia for this album. This was the sound of rock radio during my college years. It's better than I remember thinking at the time when I dismissed it as bland corporate radio rock. The hits are all very catchy and definitely better than most of Linkin Park's contemporaries, but the rest of the album is a little bland. Their sound is closer to 311 than other rap rock groups of the time which is a good thing.

Too much screaming down the microphone for my liking, but I can see why these guys are popular. They can actually sing and play, but that wouldn't satisfy the fanbase... So lets just make a racket!

i never really got into the whole “nu metal” phenomenon. record scratching and heavy guitar riffs just don’t really go together in my opinion. this album’s riffs are pretty good. however, the “rapping” is cringey and the singing comes across as whiny. and redundant. we get it. the whole album is the songwriter trying to self diagnose all of his neuroses, and after a while it was just tiresome. at least the album was under 40 minutes, so there’s that.

I have such a primal dislike for Linkin Park because the absolute douchiest bully type people I knew growing up loved it. Which sucks because the music was intended to be an anthem against this very people. Musically, he screams too much for me.

Never got into this genre but I like that it’s on this list. It’s at least noticeable unlike some of these albums.

It was too heavy for me.

Jullie vinden dit waarschijnlijk leukere muziek dan ik. In z'n soort vast goed gemaakt, maar ik kan niet zoveel met dit soort grunge/metal, waarin de zanger met zware stem bombastisch van zich af staat te schreeuwen hoe onzeker hij wel is, dat hij het allemaal ook niet weet en graag een aai over z'n bol wil.

2.5

Not really a nu-metal aficionado, but Linkin Park dominated my angsty teen soundtrack! While I personally prefer 'Meteora', there's no denying the catchiness of tracks like 'Crawling' and 'In the End' from this album. It's a nostalgic 2/5—less for a full-on marathon listen, and more for those once-in-a-while head-banging moments. 🤘🎸

Epitome of white boy music... Tbf some of the guitars and drums are good, I just don't love the vocals. Just not my thing

Harsh

This album was iconic and everywhere in 2000-2001. However, I was not a fan then and like it less now. All the whining, not my thing.

2.5

This is one of those US nu metal bands that completely passed me by as we were just never quite into this genre in Blighty. I know of them, and they vaguely make sense but it's the kind of stuff I always equate with turning on the wrong MTV channel and getting some thunderous overblown American roccckkkk. I can pass on this.

Tellingly, the Crystal Method Remix is the best song on the album. 2 stars.

Not having much nostalgia for this band makes them very cringe 😬

bleah

Before I detail my review I'm writing this with a papercut so sorry if I cut this short. Linkin Park is that band that every privileged young boy that hated their parents listened to bringing them one step closer to their nihilistic phase. If I listened to this album with you as an adult I'd definitely get second hand embarrassment, though I have absolutely 0 nostalgia for Linkin Park I kinda thought they were lame in secondary school and whilst given the real life circumstances surrounding the lead singer i'd never call them that now, the whole album has this corporate feel to it. When I first listened to Linkin Park it was in 2007 when the Transformers Movie came put my parents expressed their Points of Authority and said that, that music was no good and maybe their words were left crawling in my skin because I never really listened to them after that. I could see why someone who wants to be a Runaway would enjoy this music, it's filled with angst and disdain for the people surrounding them which I guess is relatable to the average teen, I'm just happy I could listen to those album my myself dully for the first time and In the End definitively acknowledge that Linkin Park were just not very good. I feel this album was a good place for my head because it's loud and kind of obnoxious and after like a day or two most of this will be forgotten. The meme song is undeniably catchy and I can't in good faith call is a bad song which makes it a cure for the itch in wanting to find something decent on this album. But the more the album went on the more it was pushing me away, from the bad vocals to the obnoxious lyrics, I won't be revisiting this one any time soon. High Voltage.

This is a tricky one, on the one hand knowing in hindsight what lead singer Chester Bennington went through in their personal life definitely does change the perspectives around some of the tracks on this album. It really was sad what he went through and as someone who tries their hardest to promote good mental health it is unfortunate when it affects someone more than they can handle. That being said judging it on its own merits I unfortunately do not think that it really deserves to be in the top 1,001 albums of all time. It feels, dare I say, very designed by committee. A lot of the songs feel like they are there to tick a box and there doesn't seem to be any real cohesion to the album at all. There's just a bit too much going on. But it's not even like I dislike nu-metal either, freaking, Rage Against the Machine, Corporate Avenger, freaking, Big Blue Monkey are you kidding me? It's not terrible, I ain't going to rag on it too hard, but it's not really a classic for me. It kind of feels a bit like if you have nostalgia for it you'll like it, otherwise it's kind of a difficult listen. I am aware that this isn't considered their best album so maybe I'll check out their other stuff at some point, maybe we just got off on the wrong foot

Noise. But listening on a road trip with Jen made it worth the effort and her enthusiasm and love for the album made it jump a star for me. I did not hate In the End

Oh man, I know it was massive and influential, but I just can’t… I won’t give it just one star, ok? That’s the best I can do.

I thought this album was rather underwhelming, at least when compared with Linkin Park's second album, Meteora. Won't be returning to this in the future.

There were some songs on this album that sounded familiar, but I never properly checked out Linkin Park, assuming it would be one of the many bad examples of nu-metal. I quite like the heavy, groovy, and bouncy riffs and screamy vocals on this album, and the songs are catchy. What ruins the album for me, however, is the bad rapping. There are bands in this and related genres that do this much better in my opinion. So, where I thought beforehand that with some luck I could give this four stars, I ended up with only two.

I don't care about this shouting, although In the end is a top class song.

This was one of the bands that made stop listening to new music in the early 2000s. With time my opinion is relatively unchanged.

Ahh this reminds me so much of the early 2000s. At the time I hated this music. Two decades later, I don't hate it as much, but it's still as lame and poor as it was back then. The production and the whole genre of nu metal is one I hate. At least it was short and some songs I did enjoy, mostly the famous ones. Otherwise the others sounded similar.

i tried so hard but im still sad looking for the record i never had but theres no point its all just bad its all your fault i hate you dad for being born and feeling torn and feeling scorn its like a thorn - inside - that hides - denied - like the tide - it just keeps coming in - but like in a really bad way because im SAAADDDDD (steady guitar riff break) YUEEUUUUUUGGHHHHHH (very low pitched) UUUUUUUGHHHHHH RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH (very high pitched) etc

Big ol meh from me.

5번 들어도 귀가 안 트인다. 크롤링 듣다 껐다. 아이돌 음악 같다. 랩도 락도 애매하게

This is basically Nirvana with a bit more rap and more electronic sounds. There are a few good metal sequences here and there, though, like in "Runaway" or "By Myself".

Not my cup of Corp octovod

Genuinely gave it 4 good listens over the last day and today, and can now - again - say that Linkin Park is not for me. I was 20 when this came out, and back then this music didn't resonate with me either. In my early 20's this album, and Linkin Park in general, felt so fake and plastic. The methodical songwriting with which all songs end up with the same song structure combined with the wall of sound production and the overly processed guitars irked me and felt soulless. Not to mention the lyrics filled with platitudes and generalities. I understand how people can feel attracted to it, but it wasn't my kind of teenage angst. It's not music I turn off when it's on the radio, but certainly not something I enjoy putting on myself.

AJ: angry and sad 15 year old me loved this album for awhile. Chester is a beast. An angry and sad little beast. Love the cover art. Could do without the rapping. Like all of it. 2.5 cuz it can’t be Madonna, but it can’t be the Pumpkins. Lol round it up, right? Shut up when I’m talking to you. Cat: wasn’t for me. There were a couple of songs I liked, they sound good and they bring a lot of energy. Very angry. Stop yelling at me. Agree with the rapping. I get it’s 2000 and everyone raps. But could do without it. They had something to say and this is how they did that, so credit to them

I'm a grumpy old lady and I don't like it.

doesn't hold up

Very angsty & rebellious. Negative view on things

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Eh, LP was never my fav.

Somehow this was both not as bad as I expected and exactly as bad as I expected. Every now and then I’d hear some guitar progressions that made me think there’s a cool song in here, but it’s all so very overproduced. Keyboards and DJs and two singers and one of those singers using two very distinct vocal styles himself. It’s just all a bit much which is strange then to think of how quickly you pick up the formula as a listener. Two songs in you know you’re in for an album of soft verse-hard chorus and it goes to that well over and over. At the end of the day, I think I could forgive all of that (I like plenty of bands that do similar things) if I just liked Chester Bennington’s vocals more. What a sad ending to his life. I know he’s the reason a whole lot of people liked this band in the first place. But those boy band style clean vocals and boy band style screaming vocals never, ever worked for me. RIP.

Inte min grej

Not as bad as I thought, but still Crossover trash.

Sounds dated

Not my type of music anymore

I mean, yeah. It's Linkin park. 99 problems pts of authority is amazing though

What are they so cross about?

Occasionally there's an album that I'm afraid to stream lest it warp the algorithms shoving recommendations into my ears. This was one of those, but in the end it doesn't even matter.

2.75/5

Meh

After a decade plus of not hearing the singles from this album played out multiple times a day on the radio, I went into this record hoping to enjoy it. But everything just kind of fell flat. It's a nu metal record that doesn't really feel like it's adding anything to the genre. When it tries to go hard, it doesn't have the blistering ferocity of Slipknot. When Chester Bennington sings during quieter melodic parts, it doesn't have the ethereal beaty of the Deftones. And when Mike Shinoda raps over guitar and synth tracks, it doesn't have the Fred Dursity of Limp Bizkit. So it kind of just doesn't really push the envelope in any direction, good or bad.

I mentioned before that I did not have a nu metal phase, but Linkin Park is at least a little bit easier to digest than Korn. They were a little more honest about their necessity for melody, and I think the rap and electronic influences they add do make them stand out. This still is not my thing and probably will never be, though. A lot of it goes in through one ear and out the other. A D for me.

A disappointment. I used to like Linkin Park a lot and was hoping this would be a rush of nostalgia but it was all so overwrought it was hard to enjoy.

Het is niet de drie-akkoorden rock die ik dacht, maar ook nog steeds niet best. Ik zat me af te vragen waar dat nou aan ligt, en denk dat het vooral de vocals zijn die me niet aanstaan. Het is of rap, of heel staccato zang, steeds elke noot 2 seconde doortrekken en niet of nauwelijks melodie er in. En als er melodie is, is dat ongeinspireerde bagger, om Hans Teeuwen maar eens te quoten. Verder probeert de muziek hard te zijn, maar slaagt het daar maar zelden in. Veel vaker is het het gewoon net niet. Een beetje Rage Against the Machine, maar dan net niet. Een beetje Bullet For My Valentine, maar dan net niet. En dus blijft er weinig over. 2 sterren.

idk why this was on there, some of the least memorable linkin park songs except for in the end.

Ymmärrettävää. Menevät tosin usein siitä, mistä aita on matalin. Sekin on ymmärrettävää.

Mitäänsanomatonta, kaikki kappaleet kuulostaa keskenään samalta.

In the End is a classic, Cure for the Itch had some nice triphop vibes and no screaming. There's good parts and interesting components, otherwise, not really the album for me even though I remember a good amount of these songs. Divorced parents soundtrack

This just sounds like shit that I listened to when I was a grumpy teenager. Not the good stuff, but the shit that sounds cheesy and dated now. I got out of that breif phase in the late 90s and I see that this came out near the end of 2000 so it makes sense that I never got into it, and hadn't heard anything from it aside from the song that was all over the radio. I don't care for his voice or the heavy guitar + hip hop Limp Bizkit overtones. Some bands pull that off really well, like Rage for example.... but not this. If I had to say something nice about it, I guess I'd say that they do find a catchy groove in some songs, just not one that I can get into. I don't love it. I don't even like it. I don't want to hear this again.

Listen, I was once an angry teenager, demanding love/respect from others while simultaneously demanding they shut up (truly the rudest thing a kid can think to say, even when armed with all the swears), rolling all my perceived enemies and aggressors into a vague, convenient-to-critique "YOU." I am very glad I had Hybrid Theory in my Discman to remind me it was normal to be confused, angry, and above all utterly inarticulate about it. Twenty years of reading, reflection, and cognitive behavioral therapy later, this stuff sounds like "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe."

I just don’t enjoy overly aggressive music.

♪ iN THe eND iT DoesN'T eVeN maTTeR ♫

Såg en av de sista konserter de gjorde med sångaren i livet. Det var inte bra då, det är inte bra nu. Det är ju mest gap och skrik. Fanns väl några låtar som får godkänt.

I really tried to have an open mind with this album. I can appreciate the variety within it for this genre of music but just can't get past how cringey it made me feel with its overly dramatic-teen angsty-2000s sound that I feel didn't age well.

i feel like a 2.5 would have been most accurate…but it’s really just wasn’t hitting for me.

1/6- Early in the morning

I'm sorry, but I find Linkin Park very overrated and especially this album.

I don't wanna listen to this at all. I'll update when I have. Update: Was what I thought it would be. Heavy metal but it was like rap? Some of the verses were catchy just not my jam.

I guess it is ok for what it is. Just can’t really make it work for me. 2/5

Ain't no angst like an early aughts white boy angst

So 90s it hurts. Good energy, but overly polished sound and extreme sameness of the singers voice (or overall composition??) on every track makes it pretty uninteresting track to track. Catchy tho. Couldn't help but whine along at times... "A Place for My Head" stands out a bit - the rapping is more focal and screaming is a bit different than all the other tracks Did they have a different producer for last tracks of album?? "Forgotten" also pleasantly different, sort of a Alice in Chains vibe to the chorus.

Not a fan

Two nu metal bands in a row! You wait 400 albums and then two come along at once. Where Limp Bizkit lacked any sort of maturity, this is only lacking in emotional variety. Every single song is 'my life is hard' which makes this album a bot one note, with the exception of their DJs tribute to DJ Shadow, which was a bit of a high point. Not awful, but very static.

Kyllä tätä kuuntelee. Vähän kopionu suomen blind tsänneliä..siitä lähtee herroilta tähdet pois..

irremediably tainted

Another album of anthems for folks that loved rap rock. Not my style but I can see why they would have really enjoyed this particular album.

Linkin Park arent really my bag: Fav: in the end

first time i’ve ever intentionally listened to LINKIN PARK without Jay-Z involved. they really sound like The Lonely Island (or i guess that’s the other way around but i was born in 1999) and i kept waiting for the dick jokes to fly. sadly, they did not. not really my vibe, it felt like angry but not really directed at anything; maybe Rage Against the Machine without expressly my preferred politics. my favorite song was Cure for the Itch it was a little gem at the end for me.

Sounds like Limp Bizkit.

Not my thing at all. Rap metal doesn’t necessarily have to be bad, but it seems like every artist who tries it is accomplished at neither. I will say that some of these songs have decent hooks but overall, everything tends to run together, in the end it doesn’t even matter.

There's a lot of radio/MTV hits on this album that I forgot about. And that's the extent of the "good" things I can say about it. The album is very monotonous, production is meh, I disliked every single rap into by Mike Shinoda (I think he's best used for backup instead of main vocals). Nostalgia is a hell of a drug but revisiting this album after many years made me realise it's actually pretty mid.

To be fair to the band, I started off thinking it was utter juvenile trash. however, by the end I was battered into (almost) submission. Quite like the nod to rap, but unfortunately, overall it is not for me.

2/5.

Linkin Park is a band that I have chosen not to listen to. I think I have known people who listen to Linkin Park, but we didn't talk about it. I couldn't have told you much about Linkin Parks music prior to this, but within the first couple of tracks I know why I chose not to listen to LP. This music is not for me. The combination of grinding guitars, record scratches, and shouted, growling vocals is not what I would choose to listen to.

Nice bit of nostalgia, but not really my thing!

Linkin Park was super cool when I was 20. 20 years later, not so much. Lyrically interesting but the music just doesn't do anything for me almost to the point of being annoying.

I adored this album as a teenager, but it has not aged with me. They are incredibly skilled, but it's sooo angsty and whiney. I see why I loved it, but for me this album's moment has passed.

I’ve never really liked this genre.

Okay not my style of music

In the End is a great single and some other songs has that crossover potential that other bands like Evanescence exploited to great effect, but all in all I think the album is really weak and hasn't aged well at all. I guess you can see value in it if you were into them when you were a teen, but listening to it out of its time context is just awkward.

Never understood how it was so popular. few hits, but not my style at all

Meh

Shite.

Never actively listened to this before, though I'm sure I heard it incidentally back in its day. I was surprised this album wasn't longer, as it is peak CD era, but man it sure feels longer than it is. I gave it a fair shake but can't get into it... at all. This is cringe for me.

I saved this one for when I needed to stay up, which I guess helped but I was still able to chuckle. I was into Linkin Park in middle school and early high school tangentially through friends. This was (is?) pretty popular. Emo nu-metal-rap. I can't listen to it at all, it's pretty cringe these days. It's successful for what it does... but mehhhhhh.

This was definitely a breakthrough album that gave voice to the feelings of teenage gamers surfing waves of Mountain Dew and Red Bull and eating fireballs in basements across America. The middle of the album By Myself and the obvious In the End are both great anthems to hopelessness. not for me, but I fully understand that this was the kickoff of a needed genre.