Hybrid Theory

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.

Having two “lead” vocalists, one singer and one rapper, who play off each other is interesting. And there are quite a few of the heavy guitar riffs that I can get into. But those are not enough. I cannot get past the screaming choruses, chorii (?). Whatever the plural of chorus is, I wish there weren’t any on this album. Every time the the screaming starts, I want to run to turn this album off. The verses earn Stinkin’ Park an additional star for Hybrid Theory.

Well, 1001 has told me that I don't like metal and I'm not crazy about rap, so I guess the writing's on the wall when it comes to a fusion of rap and metal. It's astonishing how many albums this sold!!! I guess if I was 14 when listening to their first album and my parents were listening to Fleetwood Mac, I could be drawn in. Some of the intros are catchy especially when the drums kick in.

could barely get thru it…

🥱

bye bye chester

Geprobeerd. Maar vind er geen reet aan.

Such an annoying listen. I had low expectations and it failed to even clear that bar. The first few tracks could have been worse, but the rest really couldn’t have been. A repetitive and uninspiring sound, the whiniest pop punk vocals and lyrics you could imagine, and pointless rap segments- this album had them all.

Nothing I’d ever heard from Linkin Park before had encouraged me to listen to a full album. Having now done so, I can reconfirm that nu metal is one of my absolute least-favourite rock subgenres. Within the first ten seconds of the first track I strongly suspected that I’d find this album very hard work, and so it proved. With its combination of glitchy hip-hop style production, terrible rapping, annoying electronic noises, the worst sort of corny American angsty rock lyrics and whining/growling/screaming vocals, and massively compressed guitar sound, it’s almost like it was designed to irritate me.

Dit is dus helemaal niks voor mij. Die “wall of sound” vreselijk. En dan die wisseling van zang, rap en schreeuwen, bah.

Soundgarden en Nirvana heb ik nog twee sterren gegeven, want ik kan er ergens nog wel inkomen dat het je smaak kan zijn. Maar de 1 ster bewaar ik toch wel echt voor deze teringherrie. Linkin park is een marteling. Ik weet nog dat ik op de basisschool Bodhi kende die dit wel leuk vond. Toen al begreep ik daar niks van. Ouder en wijzer geworden begrijp ik het nog steeds niet

Not even nostalgia can rescue this. Dreadful

i mean it just felt like a big meme listening to this album

Bought this when it was released, only played the end over and over after a girlfriend fucked me off. Then I grew up So playing it now I’m looking for a word to describe not only this album but this genre of music and all that springs to mind is; immature. It’s like kids playing at being in a band, not kids being a band,if that makes sense. Anyway, a completely forgettable album.

This album is absolutely bullshit as a grown ass man. If you're a teenager full of angst go for it. I just think it's as fake as a piece of processed cheese. The production is excellent the only redeeming quality here

Oh so angsty and oh so not for my ears. One trick ponies

Just absolute dogshit

Why do the kids these days make fun of us millennials for stomp-clap-hey when nu metal is right there? I can’t believe I actually kept a space in my big CD binder for this album.

2000 album - late 90’s angst energy

Boooo. I know some people love Linkin Park. That person is not me.

Did the critic(s) that chose to add this album really expect adult music fans, that didn't grow up listening to this, to enjoy this record? It sucks. The musicianship is subpar, not even particularly good guitar playing, the singing sucks, the rapping is worse. It sounds very juvenile.

A classic example of how weak popular music became in this era. This is definitely a third rate copy of where all the great alternative rock music was heading in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Maybe the smart thing they did was to take all that great music they were influenced by and dumbed it down by simplifying the riffs and arrangements therefore making it more palatable to the general, conservative, unadventurous music listeners which unfortunately make up most of the world. It does make me bob my head though and I can feel the angst in the riffs and lyrics but in a very basic and cheesy way. It really is too bad that this crap became so popular because it in turn has influenced millions of young kids to make even more shitty music, ugh!

This album makes me so frustrated. Like up until this album EVERY metal album has gotten nearly perfect scores, and rightfully so. But then we have this absolute hot topic garbage. Everything about this is so cringey and uninspired. Everything about this band and album is just recycled. They don’t even have an original sound, lots of other bands were doing the “rap metal” shtick way better. I can admit that this album is wildly popular with men my age cause I was the perfect age when this album came out. It was everywhere in highschool. But nothing about this album ages well. I don’t just hate this album for feeling manufactured angst, I hate that this album is on here taking up a spot from a good metal band. I mean for god sakes this is taking up a space that could’ve been used for an actually important Nu metal album like Toxicity, Aenima, Sailing the seas of cheese, frizzle fry, literally ANY faith no more album, AROUND THE FUR!!!, like the list of albums that deserved this spot more is endless… so far this is by THE cringiest album on here and quite possibly the least deserving record to be on here…..

Ingenting her i har lyst å høre igjen.

One hit wonder bandwagon jumpers. I guess the mix is perfectly replicated from better bands so they’ve pulled that off

This was really not for me

21. 린킨 파크 - 하이브리드 테오리 총 13곡 수록 기대가 너무 컸다 그냥 요즘 새벽이 멘헤라일수도 있음 그러나 노잼임 한줄평: 이거말고 뭐 유명한거 하나 있는데 얘네거 취향: ★★☆☆☆ 재방문: ★☆☆☆☆

Not my cup of tea

Not my kind of music

Not my style

Sounds like same song over and over

I hate nu metal with all my heart, but this is even worse. Usually, you can ignore the rapping but not with Linkin Park.

Not even. Nope! Linkin Park put worn-out grooves together with ripoff raps, added a large helping of mediocre metal, spritzed some truly forgettable singing on top, and raked in the money. I'd venture a guess and say they were innovators in regarding the suburban tween set as a valuable demographic. Truly, WTF is this doing on 1001 Albums?

I had a boss whose favorite band was Linkin Park. He was also a 30 year old libertarian and his favorite director was Christopher Nolan

The corporate machine at its finest, ladies and gentlemen. It's like they took the worst parts of everything - rap, rock, lyrics, production, artwork, music videos, etc. - and mashed them together in an attempt to cash in on the void that angsty teens were feeling in the aftermath of grunge and and gangsta rap. The musical world of pop radio, Billboard and MTV was all in a lurch...it was a new millenium, and where were the voices of this new generation? Where was the Nirvana, the N.W.A., the Rage Against the Machine??? Enter...Linkin Park. We hope you have a good tolerance for pain, because this crap is going to dominate the airwaves for the next couple of years.

iconic, but wouldn't seek out again.

This probably goes hard if you’re 14

I'm not going to even pretend to have understood what they were trying to achieve with this. The singer sounded like a child having a tantrum because they weren't allowed ice cream. It gave me a headache

не люблю их(

No need to ever listen to this tripe again.

This is a tough one. It was played ad nauseum on modern rock radio stations in the 2000s, and I don’t need to hear this anymore. The band kinda rocks, but the conceit is so dumb. Soft then scream then soft then scream. I appreciate normalizing mental health but a) it’s not entertaining and b) Nu Metal tended to validate the narcissism of bro culture. Blech. Not for me.

Overkill heavy metal slathered over promising Melodies - crap!!

It’s better than incubus and there are a couple of songs I don’t hate listening to. That’s as good as it’s going to get from me.

Music for people who wear dragon pendant necklaces and have tribal tattoos.

ew

Not sure why this was so popular as the music is a bit samey and the vocalist comes across as not really enjoying himself. Maybe it's me as I've noted I mark metal bands lowly

The most painful listen, got onto the 5th song and gave up

1.5 if I could. Slightly less offensive to my sensibilities than the other shouty bands. But I just can’t do shouting…

goddammit i fucking hate linkin park. i’ve heard this album before. i put this off pretty much all day. it’s 10:47 pm and im getting into the album now. it’s not even linkin park’s fault. their music just isn’t for me. i don’t really like chester’s voice, never have. evil backstreet boys. never realized how cringy runaway is. never paid that close attention to it. christ 😭 thankfully this album is short. god i hate the rapping on this. i understand why this is on here, it’s important for the cultural history of music. at least i got to reaffirm my hatred for this band to know that im not crazy.

No more please

There is a great line in "The Girl All The Bad Guys Want" by Bowling For Soup - "Her CD changer's full of singers that are mad at their Dad". This turgid, ultra-processed album is a splendid example of that. Nu-metal was pretty grim but this is even worse - nu-metal shaped for the mass market. The raps are lame, too.

Nope.

Den her rating er temmelig sikkert for harsh, jeg kan bare ikke ryste den der "ydrk"-følelse når jeg hører musik jeg synes var mega cool da jeg var 10. Det er Eminem-effekten.

White male rage/rap rock is my least favorite genre

Eeehhhhh

I know this is a monumentally important record in terms of the next half decade of music. But I hate it.

Album Review 080 Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park (2000) Rating 1/5 “I GET ANGRY AND I SHOUT BECAUSE I MANAGE MY EMOTIONS LIKE A SIX YEAR OLD GIRL”. Shite.

Yuuuuuiiuiuck

This one sounds like they're trying too hard. It reminds me of someone you meet in line waiting for the bathroom and quickly realize you can't get away fast enough.

I hate nu metal so much, but I am committed to this project and this list. Guess what: I hated this album.

In many ways I was in the perfect mood to listen this and it was STILL a pain. "In the End" was good and "Cure for the Itch" was a solid reprieve. Would totally listen to a record of instrumentals like that.

aparent nu-mi place muzica linkin park

Crap

Standard dull Yank shite. Avoid at all costs

Demonstrably awful

I'm not sure what's more embarrassing - linkin park now or linkin park when this came out.

Niet voor ons

Horseshit - 1

Not my thing

A wasted spot on the 1001 albums list that could have gone to a woman - or anyone, really. The barrier to entry for men is so low it should make you angry.

This is the worst album, packed with elements I dislike: metal, growls, and DJ scratches.

Miserably fails the pleasant test.

Saus

Will not listen to again

Didnt like this album as a kid, dont like it now. Overrated.

nnnope

Overblown angst. Badly recorded. The more he screams, the less I care.

It seemed everyone at school loved this. I didn’t.

do not enjoy this genre

R u fkn kidding me? The integrity of this entire project has now been called into question. In no way, shape, or form should *ANY* “nu-metal” be considered must-listen under any circumstances. Maybe in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Possibly another special circumstance like that. Otherwise, just no. And I say this as someone who was onboard for the birth & infancy of this virus. I do not hide my guilt, I stand up as a cautionary tale. Adolescent hormones can lead to irrational decisions and some of those decisions come with lifetime consequences.

Awful. Does not age well. Whiny, teenage angst. Not for me.

Downright awful. I hate nu metal in general but like the vocals here are so grating like why are we screaming and straining an already below average voice. Oh it’s bad. The only halfway decent song is “In The End” and even the barely scratches a 7/10

One of the worst albums of all time! Why tf is this on here!!

Ok

4 albums in and it’s my least favorite. Aside from the iconic In The End. This album did nothing for me. Just lots of angst that brother listened to when he was in middle school

One Step Clossr In the End

Only really liked “In the End” mainly due to nostalgia. Spent most of the time waiting for the album to end

I'm not sure what's worse - the overt hypermasculine, misogynist nu-metal posturing of Limp Bizkit and Korn, or the same thing compressed to within an inch of its life in a multimillion dollar studio, sanitised and watered down for radio and a younger fan base. I remember the moment this hit - millennials seemed to love it, it was everywhere. ln some ways its fine - some decent riffs hidden in the production for example - but I cant help but smell the Lynx Africa and hair gel, and hear the jingle of wallet key chains with every note. And the whining. As Ben Folds sang at about the same time - "y'all don't know what it's like, to be male, middle class and white".

not for me.

just not for me

I object to this unholy alliance of emo and nu metal..

Même pas écouté

The combination rap style and screaming banshee doesn't work for me.

I wish I could give this 0/5. Horrible, an emblem of one of the worst eras of music era. I'm so mad at this publication for even considering this as essential, much less actually claiming that it is. 1/5.

What a slog. Bringing up middle school memories…who needs that? Nobody. In the end, it doesn’t even matter…

Yup. It was as bad as I remembered it to be. Maybe ALMOST as bad as KISS’s 1998 album “Psycho Circus”.

I don't like anything about this record. Even the band name makes me cringe.

? Most obsolete thing I listened to in my life

From the lyrics I can kinda understand how this group/album spoke to angsty teens in the year 2000 (not you two, of course…). But the music is awful across the board. Can’t quite do a 2.

Nu Metal was just the music industry trying to replicate the prosperity of 80's Hair Metal. As I see a resurgence of the scene lately, I noticed a lack of the same need to offset the pop scene that was also extremely prevalent in the late 90's/early 00's, and it seems to be inundated with middle aged parents who are afraid to be considered "Old and out of touch" and their children who were raised listening to this "edgy" music. Now, I understand that a lot of teenagers have identified with the lyrics Chester sang in Linkin Park, and I will say outright that if Chester was the ONLY voice in Linkin Park I'd have a bit more respect for them, but I can actually identify the beginning of my distaste for the whole Nu Metal scene based off of the first time watching the music video for LinkedIn Park's "One Step Closer", which is an amazing feat as I was a prime example of the target demographic for this music genre. I still love Deftones though.

In the Endiin asti aivan ruokotonta paskaa. Siis oikeasti ihan hirveää. Kamalaa huutoa ja suorastaan naurettavaa ränttäystä. Melodiatkin on omaan korvaan semmosta vähän parempaa Limp Bizkitiä, mikä kertoo ihan kaiken tarvittavan. Mutta In the endhän olikin oikeastaan ihan hyvä biisi, en ole sitäkään kuullut varmaan kertaakaan sitten lukioaikojen. Loppupuolella levyä oli myös ihan hauska se instrumentaalibiisi, sekä sitten viimeinen biisi oli myös semmoinen että ei tehnyt mieli heittää kaiutinta takkaan, vaan suhtautuminen siihen oli peräti neutraali. Vähän arvoin yhden ja kahden tähden välillä, mutta koska tuo levyn alku oli oikeasti ihan sietämätöntä kuraa, niin mennään ykkösellä.

Laughed out loud 5 seconds into the first song. What a time capsule. Definitely listened to this on my discman when I was in 8th grade. 1.5 stars.

Nu Metal is about as entertaining as an abortion.

No just no

Listen… I get they were pioneers of radio rock nu metal, but this is neither good by standards of rap or metal. There are iconic songs on this culturally but they are SO on the nose it's painful. Lyrics are esp painful. Overproduced, too smooth, overblown. Really lacks taste. This does not have to be bad if it was done with more feeling. Sounds like what 11y/o boy thinks is heavy and cool music

I would rather hear limp bizkit

Only listened to the hits before. Turns out: the rest of the album sounds the same, only worse. It gets annyoing pretty quick.

Den härligt nyskapande genren NU-metal. Angst-Hårdrock med pseudo-DJ och melodifestivalrefränger och styltig rap. Vad finns att inte gilla? Läs igen...

Rap metal, men varken metallen eller rapen är bra. Då kan det bara bli lägsta poäng.

Det här förtjänar inte en recension. Inte ens en sågning kan göra dess uselhet rättvisa.

Jag har lyssnat en gång. Det går räcka.

Pure turd from talentless twats

No

This band has 52 million Spotify listeners, so I’m obviously missing something. I couldn’t wait for this to end.

0/5 - You don't need to hear this before you die. You need to hear it after you die, so that your brain is already dead. This is calculated garbage. I regret that this rating system forces me to give it a star.

Meh.

This nu metal stuff has aged atrociously, and it was mediocre to begin with.

Nope. Just sampling the songs was painful.

The one thing I like about linkin park is they had one designated singer who was really good at signing and then also a designated rapper spitting the absolute LAMEST bars you’ve heard in your life with the utmost sincerity. He’s like, yo check it guys this is is gonna be dope - then just talks really honestly about his feelings in every song. I dunno if it’s the masshole in me but this kind of earnestness makes me feel like I’M CRAAAAAAWLIIING IN MY SKIIIIIN. It’s like Korn but instead of being so stupid it’s fun it’s so serious it’s depressing. I couldn’t hate this anymore. RIP CHESTER.

Awful album

Cannot understand why this album would be on this list

I was in the crosshairs of this shit as something of a loser teen in the year 2000 but, while I appreciated the heavy sound as a radio hit, it never clicked for me the way it seems to have clicked for many. I do have a soft spot for In The End, though. On revisit, it's not as heavy as I remember, which is the only thing I thought I liked about it. There's just too much going on and not enough substance to carry all that going on. Chester's a good vocalist but the lyrics are juvenile angst and the introduction of 'alternative' sounds at best don't add anything, which is why I guess Mike Shinoda got more or less relegated to the margins on later albums. A good debut effort from kids who came out of a garage, but as a supposed world-beating album, what a letdown. I think they grew into this sound, which is shockingly limited, but again, I can't square this album's obvious impact with what I'm hearing. This album kind of sucks. Surprised that I dislike it as much as I do, because even the stuff that I might remember fondly just isn't there for me, or it isn't enough to overcome the possibility of managing everything at once. Really trying. Might be harsh, but I think I'd rather listen to Suicide or Butterfly over this.

I've never listened to an entire Linkin Park album before, and this just confirmed my dislike for the band.