Reviews (page 13 of 14)
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.
I never thought of them as great, but didn’t mind a lot of their music growing up. Listening back, I couldn’t finish the album. It really sucks.
No. No. No. No. No. NONONONONONONO.
Great, another album to suicide by. Proof once again that music in the 21st century is devoid of anything but nihilism and depression.
nah
Not my taste
not for me atttt allllll. cure for the itch is ironically probably the best in here
That was hard to get through
It’s funny how quickly after something happens by that I mean, grunge or alternative music does the second generation run out and everyone that loved the first generation hates it but two kids that are five years younger than us. They probably think this is amazing. I just think it’s complete horse Pucky.
1/2
Youngest used to listen to this, so I know I don't like it
LINKIN Park is on this list???? Like, was I supposed to be taking them seriously this whole time? No, I wasn't this was corny and lame. Unlike Slipknot's self titled album it didnt force me to shut my brain off, so I was aware of how terrible it was the whole time. 1.5/5
This is an album that I’ve unfortunately had to hear a lot at childhood friends’ houses (I assume due to a heavy effort by Warner Records to market towards angsty young boys). My opinion of the album did not improve upon this critical listen.
They should follow their own advice and shut up. God, this is insufferable.
One loses all hope of avoiding a migraine after Bennington begins repeatedly screaming, ‘Shut Up!’ on ‘One Step Closer.’ There were quite a few genre blending or bending; however one phrases it, albums released in the early 2000s. Some of these albums masterfully fused elements of hard rock and hip-hop. Sadly, this album is not one of them.
That was the longest 38 minutes of my fucking life. Linkin Park are loudly milquetoast. Bravely saying “fuck you! I won’t do what you tell me!”… once The Man is safely out of earshot and before doing exactly what you told me to do. They should have cut their losses because the longer this went on the less I liked it. 1/5 I hope I never hear this again. If I ever catch my kids with this in their room they’ll be thrown out of the fucking house.
Well it didn't take long, after i started listening to this, before I put Linkin Park on the TSA do fly list.
I was the prime age for Linkin Park. I did not like them when I was 13 and I do not like them now as someone much older than 13. No no no. Nothing about this is appealing to me so I will pass.
bischen wie cranberries aber für "harte" Jungs. nu-metall? so lala.c
Awful
Ducking awful
I was a very angsty teenager when Linkin Park was at their height, and even still they were too angsty for me. The combination of incredibly underwhelming rap-rock coupled with WAY to angsty lyrics and vocals just creates a sound that is nails on a chalkboard to me.
*no music, screaming vocals and banging instruments.
Musically, probably not my jam, but I can recognize the musically dynamic performances, and Chester Bennington was a pretty amazing vocalist. Not sure it's that different from a bunch of other nu-metal rap-rock bands of the era, but I'm definitely not studied up on them. If it weren't for the lyrics (insecurity, victimization, self-loathing, doubt, rage) and the extremely narrow emotional range (anger, rage, and... anger and rage) maybe I could deal with this. And it's so abstract, nothing concrete, just abstract feelings in a soup of abstraction. Undirected, confused frustration and rage, that in the end is just embarrassing. Ok, you're one step closer to the edge and you're about to break? Maybe talk about why you feel that way and think about what you can do about that with someone? Yep, another one of those albums that I wanted to give a fair, fresh, open-minded listen, but I liked it less and less as I got through each track, and finished pretty much hating it. Apart from the "so this happened" historical nature of this album and its popular style, it doesn't belong on a list of things to listen to. Is nickelback and creed on this list?
could barely get thru it…
🥱
klinkt als Fred Durst op een slechte dag...
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?
Yuck. One song was bearable - the single - but otherwise really crap.
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.
Probably the most polished commercially designed smoothed over and predigested album of nu metal. All the parts are there: down tuned riffs, bad raps, dj scratching, big shouty hooks, vaguely directed anger at liars and 'you' - but the aggression is dialed back and reigned in, made safe for the teenage suburban bedrooms where this ire is most strongly felt. One of the strangest parts of aging is seeing the shitty radio bands of your youth become beloved legacy acts. I thought this was just disposable fake metal for tasteless morons and that once or went away once we were done for good. But as LP themselves say 'nothing seems to go away' and we're stuck with this juvenile - but not in a fun way - bullshit for ever. I do love using the phrase 'everything you say to me takes me one step to the edge and I'm about to break' in casual conversation though, so thanks for that.
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.
Very very much not my thing
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.
Musical equivalent of "nothing ever happens."
There was a thing on the old Twitter, a tournament kind of knock-out game where through many rounds, people voted in polls for the best song of the 00s, out of 256. I watched in disbelief as "In The End" rose to the top and eventually won. This is my retribution.
Music for Angsty 12 year olds Best Songs: In the end, Crawling Worst Songs: Papercut, One Step Closer, Points of Authority, Runaway, By Myself 3/10
Ei jatkoon.
Maybe if I'd grown up with it, I might have been a fan. But ... nope.
Nu metal stinks
I don't think I really liked it when it was new, defo don't like it now its old.
Cry singing wrestling intro music.
Too hardcore metal
"Maybe i should disqualify myself from reviewing records like this one... i've never gotten the need to express rage through my music... and, i have heard "rage" done so tastefully in the past... whether it be Neil Young on "Ohio"... or Dylan sneering "It's All Over Now... Baby Blue"... that's the sort of "rage" that seems appropriate, to me, for what i consider MUSIC... this record remind me of rap music, in the sense that i could hear it being a SONG... or at most... two... but an entire ALBUM??? an entire GENRE!!!!??? lol... no freakin' thanks... when you just rage... there is nothing to compare it to... for example... if all you ever knew was screaming and yelling, you would not be put off by it, as much as someone who grew up hearing whispering and soothing tones... so, as an old fuddy duddy, this "record" sounds like one big raging, noise fest... to an older generation this "rage" sounds a LOT like "poor me baby"... lolol... and it's EVERY song... NO LET UP... even when a song starts off with a rap... or begins in a slow way, it INEVITABLY ERUPTS into raging, OBNOXIOUS vocals... and, the only way i can describe it, is... BOMBASTIC guitars, and drums etc... the band is BEREFT of subtlety... if this sort of album hit you in some way... and you really GET it... and FEEL it... then... hey... you... and I... would probably not like dinner together... zero stars... and i'm being generous."
Boooooo
Appalling
Well that was a long hiatus. While it may have seemed that I had succumbed to the perils of this list or some other real world disaster, I was just on vacation. If you thought that I would drown out the joys of a red eye flight to Fredericton, New Brunswick with bad music, you are sorely mistaken. The screaming children and threat of immediate airplane death was enough entertainment for me. In my extended absence, I like to think that I was just doing an impression of the target audience for this album. No way mom, I’m not going to do my homework. Mrs. Randall is a-a-a B WORD. I can’t wait to be fully edged by this album. Wait uhhh. Papercut - Oh my god. It’s so lame. This was immature to me when I was a small child. If Limp Bizkit is for people who are doofus frat boys, this is for high school incels who glorify doofus frat boys. Thumbs all the way down. One Step Closer - AND NOW ON HIS WAY TO THE RING, IWA MIDSOUTH CHAMPION PJ BLADEZ. I do pine for this ridiculous time in some ways. In the warm glow of nostalgia, it feels simpler, but I also know that it’s stupid. I feel a little stupid, because I kind of enjoy this one as a nu-metal novelty from a time of aggressive video game soundtracks and skinny indie wrestlers. Takes me back. With You - We’re back to the goofy fake emotional stuff. This was a let down after I surprisingly enjoyed that last song. Wild. Points of Authority - Oh man, this heavy breathing and shitty rapping. White boys were (are) entirely too comfortable “spitting” over a beat. “Hey fellas, I LOVE Eminem but I also like guitars. How can we make life in Kansas more exciting?” The birth of a genre. This is too much. Too much of what you may ask? Garbage. This is the equivalent of a rusted dump truck filled with scratched Korn CDs in a midwestern US landfill. Crawling - Oh we’re really getting into the emotion. I can feel the angst. I’m so glad this is used as a meme in comically not sad scenarios. I would be wholly embarrassed if I had released something like this. The perils of artistic creation. Runaway - Broken trust and the lessons you taught me (I POINT THE FINGER). Whatever. This is right out of the diary of an 11 year old. These thoughts aren’t even clouded by pubescence. This is pure juvenility. GONNA RUN AWAY GONNA RUN AWAY. The poor parents that heard the tinny remnants of this garbage escaping their teenager’s headphones. Hope you’re all doing better now. By Myself - Riff = cool. Rapping over 2000s spiritual Madonna beat? Disgustingly awful. The riff remains a fun reprieve from the general stickiness of everything else, but the stench kind of distracts the palate. In the End - NOOOOOOOOOO. This is the worst. I am cringing and wishing for the actual end. Have you checked the forecasts? We’re not far off. The singing portions. This sounds like they let the emo kid choose the school play. A Place for my Head - Let me guess. It’s going to be about suicide or something dumb. Not trying to dunk on the guy as he did end up committing suicide, but it’s just so ham-fisted and lame. Not all depressed people are artistic. Not sure why that’s controversial, but I’m sure if people could reach out to me, it would spark an army of emotionally stunted adults to fight over this factually correct statement. With all that imaginary fighting I forgot to say that this is another bad song. Forgotten - Is Fred Durst on this one? This is a harbinger of mid 2000s butt rock. True pioneers of the style that was to be rocked by von Dutch clad ALPHAS for years to come. Also a horrible insult to Alice in Chains. Cure for the Itch - Scratchin’ probably. Oh it’s a dumb DJ joke. I just wanted to be stupid and refer to a physical itch. Pushing Me Away - You sure are! Have you ever heard Corey Feldman’s music? This is his singing voice. I would like to levy a formal complaint against the evil fuckers at 1001 albums, and at the actually evil Spotify people. There is no possible way this was only 37 minutes. That cannot be. I shaved twice during this album. I believe I had a birthday that I couldn’t really celebrate due to my bad music induced catatonia. A blur of baggy jeans, trite sentimentality and jump da fuck up riffs that made me do no such thing. Sit down quietly riffs might be the new term coined by this bargain bin nu-metal project from a quarter century ago. If we’re all still here in another quarter century, let’s not take this garbage any further. Leave it as a relic. One never to be unearthed. 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Mom made me go to my room qq
lol
No desire to hear it
Hated this album when it came out when I was in high school and still can’t stand it after 25 years. I just find it so corny and the production is lacking authenticity. Record scratching while trauma dumping is so silly and pulls me out of it. The vocals are grating and the song writing is so repetitive, if you like one song you will probably enjoy the rest but I don’t. Even nostalgia can’t help save this for me
Not a good album. Nine Inch Nails does this better in every way.
Hard pass.
I cannot with this.
No
not for me xoxo
Banal.... Couldn't even make it past the 1st cut Will try again tomorrow Horrible. Simply horrible. Is it just one track with different words....
Nee, dit gaan we dus niet doen.
Abysmal crap for teens.
I had feared this would show up on this list. And in fairness to Linkin Park it probably should be on here. Even if it should be, it still sucks. I remember in high school when this album came out, our friend Trevor brought this into my brothers car. It was so insulting to us that my brother threw it out the window. I got out of the car to direct my brother where to guide the tires over the album. He must of backed over that disc 20 to 30 times. Fuck you Trevor.
Sigh. I’m not a 15 year old boy.
DNF Boring, could not understand the story/lyrics. No dynamics. Felt like a wall of sound.
Did not listen
I could happily ever listen to Linkin Park ever again.
Linkin park are one of the most baffling bands ever for me. They are so huge and loads of people who's musical opinions I highly respect say they are amazing. But this is just awful. It's like listening to to pj and Duncan trying to do metal. I can't take any of it seriously, but it's not funny, or fun, so I can't see what the point is. Awful vocals, awful whiny instruments. Nonstop fake record scratching. It might be real scratching. God knows. Who cares. You know that bit in teenage dirtbag where they needed to sensor the fact that kids in America take guns to school and they used a silly record scratching sound, I assume as a bit of a joke. Well this album has an entire track based around that same effect. Always on in metal clubs, always filling up pages of guitar magazines. Just everywhere. Just shit. Hate it.
"In the end" is a meme, but kinda listenable But man, the rest of this is just wack.
Not my cup of tea..
krindž rep i edži metal u jednom. skoro svaka pjesma ista. najbolja je predzadnja stvar jer je instrumental i jer naznačava da je albumu uskoro kraj
I'm not listening to this shit.
2/10 My dislike for this band is not rational, nor does it need to be. Some bands rub you the wrong way. I have no personal opinion of the members, but the music annoys me to no end. In the end it doesn't really matter. BLAH! 5-9-2025
I've put off Linkin Park for ages so wasn't sure what to expect. My jaw was genuinely dropped at how bad this was. And then to see how many streams each song has is mindboggling. Might be the lamest album I've ever heard Rating: 1.0
All I can really say is that this was better than the Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock albums on the list so far, so I didn’t totally hate it…a few interesting riffs but overall very meh. Thought the singles I already knew were among the worse songs on the album.
This is one of the first bands that came along where I felt my age (all of 23). I was a huge Helmet/RATM/Beasties guy in high school, with some regrettable rap-rock/“crossover” acts in my CD books, which were especially popular in the early 90s German alt-rock scene. This sounded soooo played out. And yet, LP was a big deal for a lot of nascent millennial music fans, much as the aforementioned was for me just a few years earlier. Or music by The Cure and the Pumpkins; this is just with the angst dial way in the red and delivered in a format more tangible to a generation that grew up with hip hop as a normal part of the music landscape. It scanned as overly simplistic to my late Gen X ears, way too reliant on the loud-quiet dynamics we had internalized, but with kinda goofy digital effects and hip-hop tropes shoehorned in. Clearly, I was and am not the target audience. More curiously, these dudes were also all roughly my age and from similar middle class backgrounds, especially Shinoda, but I’d moved away from the palm mute crunch by 1995, whereas this became a multimillionaire venture for these dudes (still going!). It’s the soundtrack to a fully carpeted stairs down to a basement rec room long taken over by the teenage sons, soda spills and unidentified smears abound, maybe a cigarette burn, a broken throwback lava lamp sits unplugged next to an ESPN The Magazine, no one else has been down in here in months because it’s better to leave the boys alone. “Papercut” is a handy template for the LP sound, but also instructive for where rap-metal landed in the late 90s: there’s a clear guitar solo set-up their heroes STP would’ve nailed, but instead it’s an extended bridge/coda (with turntables contra the guitar heroics). It’s as self-serious and melodramatic as the rest of their whole deal, but it is very much their own thing. Keepers: not ever hearing any of this again
Sucks
Hey bro, is that Butt Rock? Crank it up !!!
NFW
I do think the guy has a nice voice when he's straight up singing instead of yelling...but other than that, nope. I always try to read up on why someone thinks these bands are influential...and for this one it said because they combined rock, metal, hiphop and electronica. To that I say...Pick a Lane.
When we got Slipknot, everyone said at least it isn't Linkin Park. Now I'm thinking at least it isn't Slipknot.
The lyrics are terrible, the rapping is terrible, the metalling is terrible. Pretty good screaming. I would’ve hated this even as a troubled teen. It sucks.
I think of all of the people who have cheated listening to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. I think of all the people who smoked pot for the first time to Dark Side of the Moon. I think even of all the DUI charges that Lynyrd Skynyrd are responsible for. And now I think of all the teenage boys who put holes in their parents' walls due to this album. A Place for My Head was the hardest song to get through, both because the song is shit and it comes right after In the End which is only listenable due to the unspoken social contract between the people of the English-speaking world that this dogshit song is entertaining because it's so endearingly corny. Since 9/11 culture has stagnated and the Global North's culture (as dictated by the culture division of CIA) has just been recycling shit endlessly, nu metal is apparently cool again in a post-post-post-ironic fashion. I am putting my foot down. I hated this shit as a kid, I hate it now.
So the theory is that you can mix metal and hip hop without it sounding crap. Turns out the theory’s wrong. If I could have given this no stars I would have.
I fucking hate Lincoln park. I’ll try to get through this. God, it’s terrible
I absolutely have never heard if this bsnd and nor do I want to. Epic fail.
Maybe if I was an angsty teen I would be into this. But then again, I *was* an angsty teen when this came out and I thought it sucked then too. Maybe it just sucks.
I listened, just in case it would be better than I thought. It wasn't.
Linkin Park fans don't wash their dicks
25 seconds in and I want to punch someone. This is absolute dog shit. Heard enough.
No.
I made an effort. I listened to the entire 37 minutes and 52 seconds of this album on twice. Unfortunately, I do not find it engaging in the least. Kudos to those who appreciate it and are fans. However, I do not count myself among them.
Hated this when it came out and I was the right age demographic for it. Hate it now. That this shit has a lasting influence is an indictment of my generation’s more pedestrian tastes.
hell nah
Do you know how disappointing it is to be excited every day to get a new, cool album to listen to and it's fucking HYBRID THEORY? I'm just copy-pasting my previous review, fucking whatever: Holy shit there is not one millisecond of this album I do not genuinely and deeply hate with all my soul. Cure for the Itch is the best song on this album and it laps the rest so hard and fast that im amazed they wasted their time with other songs.
missed this one - which is good bc I have never liked Linkin Park - not sorry Lol
hard pass
2/10
This was my girlfriend at college’s favourite album. Maybe if I had of listened to it, it might have helped improve our relationship.
i am unable to appreciate any of this. I do not like it. Sorry <3
This shit is lame. Bailed after 3 songs. Nu Metal is pretty awful. Seems like a boring knockoff of Rage Against The Machine, but instead of killer music and gripping, thought provoking lyrics, you get a bunch of whiny suburban pussies who are mad at their parents. I hated this shit when it was new. I still dislike it now.
Hated it then, hated it now.
Too much screaming too much angst too much talk rapping
These guys give me a rash. Not my bag.
Ugh. Take all the annoying parts of the new metal movement of the '90s. Put it all in one album and this is what you got.