Hybrid Theory

Not my vibe

Not my kind of genre. Maybe if I was more of an edgy teenager in the 2000s

Not my jam

Well, I wasn't even born yet when this album came out so no nostalgia. Feels really dated, rap-metal is painfully cringey, especially with these emo lyrics.

When I was 12 Linkin Park was my favorite band. I thought it was the coolest shit ever and that they expressed all of my so very deep and meaningful feelings. I was a very stupid kid. Fortunately, I grew up and realized what a load of bullshit all that was. First came the realization that their lyrics are a whole lot of nothing. Once you stop being an angsty teen, you can easily see that all of them are just cliche after cliche strung together to sound vaguely angsty, and so generic that anyone could project anything onto it. And once you strip the appeal of manufactured teen angst away, they have nothing left. The music is mind-numbingly boring, overproduced slick slop designed to get maximum radio play. Which brings me to my next point. Linkin Park were always blatantly chasing trends, trying to cash in on whatever was popular at the moment. They never cared about music, only making money. They started out as the worst of nu metal, even more commercialized than it already was, fake "heavy" music for little kids who still needed something safe. Moved on to alt rock, to electronic whatever, and never did any of it well. Just made lowest common denominator music in whatever genre they were trying to profit off, and their lowest common denominator fans followed them around, because they're dumb. Because really, you have to be supremely dumb to still like Linkin Park past the age of 16. Anyway, I'm not at all surprised that a band whose entire career is a cash grab would attempt a cash grab comeback, and I don't know why anyone is. The worst part is that now you have people who pretend only the old stuff is good, and people who pretend all of it is good. And they're both wrong. It's actually amazing how this band went from rightfully being the butt of every joke to people acting like they had/have some sort of artistic merit. Remember kids, the best thing you can do for your career as a musician is to kill yourself. Anyway, this album sucks. I can't even get through 30 seconds of it without wishing it was over.

Noisy shouty and just not very good. Did not spark Joy.

The late 90s/early aughts were a hell of a time to be alive. Music for the disaffected youth who voted for Ralph Nader and then 20 years later Trump.

Urgghh!

This gives me flashbacks to the worst music of the early 00s. 1 star

Rap metal… two words that define a terrible genre. This album is a star in that genre and it’s awful.

Dan - awful

agony everyday i’m so grateful i'm not a millennial who grew up listening to this kind of music

Nope! I refuse 😂

Would give zero stars if I could.

Edgelord anthems

Really not a genre that i like

+: Cure for the Itch +-: Papercut, With You, Crawling, Runaway, Pushing Me Away -: One Step Closer, Points of Authority, By Myself, In the End, A Place for My Head, Forgotten 4,9/10

Too much screaming. Godawful.

No thanks.

This was the worst collective week of this project, capped it off with this shit burger.

Loud sulking broody bullshit music

Putain, je viens de passer une heure de ma vie, une heure que je ne récupérerai jamais, à me farcir ce truc. Linkin Park, le porte-étendard du mouvement "nu metal" et son album "Hybrid Theory". Et le mot "difficile" est un putain d'euphémisme. J'ai eu l'impression de retomber en adolescence, mais pas la mienne, celle d'un gamin de 15 ans en 2000, boutonneux, mal dans sa peau, qui pense que brailler sur des guitares saturées en portant un baggy trop grand est le summum de la rébellion. Je sais ce que les fans vont dire. "T'es un vieux con, t'y connais rien ! C'est un chef-d'oeuvre, 27 millions d'albums vendus, mec ! C'est générationnel !". Et ils ont raison sur un point : je suis un vieux con. Cinquante-quatre balais au compteur en cette belle année 2024. J'ai vendu des disques à une époque où le "nu metal" aurait été le nom d'un rayon chez Castorama. J'ai passé des nuits à la radio à diffuser du rock qui avait des tripes, du blues qui avait une âme, du punk qui avait une rage sincère. Alors, forcément, quand on me balance cette soupe surproduite en pleine face, j'ai un peu de mal à crier au génie. Parce que c'est ça, "Hybrid Theory". C'est un produit. Un produit parfaitement calibré pour l'époque. On prend un peu de metal, mais pas trop heavy pour pas faire peur. On y ajoute une bonne louche de hip-hop, mais avec un flow bien sage pour ne pas effaroucher les parents. On saupoudre le tout de quelques scratchs et d'une touche d'electro pour faire "moderne". On mélange bien, on passe le tout dans la moulinette marketing de MTV et on obtient un disque lisse, aguicheur, et finalement, terriblement vide. Le concept de "fusion" n'est pas le problème. J'aime le metal. J'aime le hip-hop. Mais ce mariage-là, c'est un mariage forcé, arrangé par des directeurs artistiques en costard. On a l'impression d'entendre deux groupes qui jouent en même temps sans vraiment s'écouter. Le chant hurlé de Chester Bennington semble posé là pour cocher la case "colère adolescente", tandis que le rap de Mike Shinoda arrive juste derrière pour cocher la case "culture urbaine". C'est un cahier des charges, pas un album. Et puis, parlons de l'originalité. Nulle. Zéro. Nada. Linkin Park n'a fait que récupérer une recette qui commençait déjà à sentir le réchauffé. Korn avait déjà labouré ce champ avec beaucoup plus de folie et de lourdeur. Deftones y avait mis une poésie et une complexité autrement plus fascinantes. Même Limp Bizkit, et Dieu sait que ça me coûte de l'admettre, avait au moins le mérite d'assumer sa connerie jusqu'au bout. Linkin Park, eux, se prennent terriblement au sérieux. Ils sont propres sur eux, même dans leur colère. C'est du metal passé au Kärcher, de la rébellion sponsorisée par une marque de fringues pour skaters. Je n'ai pas pu m'empêcher de penser à toutes ces années passées au magasin de disques. J'en ai vu défiler, des modes. Des trucs qui devaient "tout révolutionner" et qui ont fini dans les bacs à soldes six mois plus tard. Le nu metal a duré un peu plus longtemps, je le concède. Il a été la bande-son de toute une génération de jeunes qui avaient besoin de hurler leur mal-être. Je ne leur jette pas la pierre. À 16 ans, on a besoin de ça. Mais avec le recul, cet album sonne terriblement daté. C'est une capsule temporelle d'une époque où le rock grand public cherchait un nouveau souffle et l'a trouvé dans une formule pré-mâchée. Alors oui, "Hybrid Theory" est dans le livre. Il fallait que je l'écoute. C'est fait. Je peux maintenant passer à autre chose sans le moindre regret. C'est un album important, paraît-il. Un succès commercial monstrueux, c'est un fait. Mais pour moi, ce n'est rien de plus qu'un bruit de fond parfaitement orchestré pour les centres commerciaux du début du millénaire. Pour résumer mon ressenti, je dirais que cet album est à la musique ce que le MacDo est à la gastronomie : ça se consomme vite, ça plaît à beaucoup de monde, mais ça n'a aucune saveur et ça te laisse un arrière-goût de merde dans la bouche. Note : 1 sur 5

Erm… no thanks.

I hate the fucking Eagles. And fucking Linkin Park.

Putrid.

Tortura pura. Tudo de ruim que existe no Nu Metal está nesse album. Gritaria xororô emo, misturada com aqueles DJs chatos no meio da música com uma passagem RAP completamente incompatível. Inaudível. Zero criatividade, fórmulas batidas no liquidificador e misturadas igual um frankestein, só poderia dar nesse lixo.

Nem tetszik🤷🏼

Sounds like modern day pro wrestling entrance music

Perhaps the worst band of the nu metal era. Korn, Deftones did emotional dark angry music much better than LP. Slipknot did the angry part better too. If you wanted someone who could actually rap, you could listen to RATM. Although I'm not surprised this album is here considering some of the other terrible stuff that's on this list.

Monotonous.

Nu metal shit. Refused to listen.

I turned this album on only to confirm I hate this band. Drivel. No clue why on this list.

What an experience! And to think, I somehow avoided sitting down and listening to this for 24 years. I shall now endeavor to avoid it for the next 24 years. In his work, "Politics", Aristotle wrote about the wisdom of crowds: "it is possible that the many, though not individually good men, yet when they come together may be better, not individually but collectively, than those who are so, just as public dinners to which many contribute are better than those supplied at one man's cost." Well, this album sold 32m copies worldwide. The crowd may have been confused here.

Just the hardest no

Linkin Park - just no. I listened to it in highschool, I don't need to hear them again!

I didn't listen to this genre of music in high school for a reason, and I will never willingly listen to this album again.

Mainstream screamo still not for me…

NO ME GUSTA PARA NADA EL RAP EL ROCK PESADO CON DEMASIADO RUIDO, MUY POCO GUSTO MUSICAL, TAMPOCO ME AGRADA. Hay 2 o 3 temas muy rítmicos y con un nivel aceptable de sonoridad

I can’t believe this is on the list. Didn’t like it when I was 9, don’t like it now. 1/5

Christ no

yeah sorry, this one just ain't for me. i think it's a case of "you had to be there" - or maybe "you had to be a depressed and angry kid in middle school when this came out." in general, i think the production is pretty solid on this one. the musicianship is definitely there. i'm just not very into the vocals here, either the screaming or the rapping. the scream-singing is technically better and i think evokes a lot more emotion, but the rapping is baffling, since it is not particularly well rapped, written, or, quite frankly, good. then we get to the lyrics which are really, REALLY not my bag. i understand a lot of people are attached to this stuff and it resonates with them, but for me it's the opposite. maybe i am too privileged to have never had my angst manifest in this direction, but to be honest, i find it quite alienating. even at my worst, i don't think i've ever felt quite like the vibe that this album gives off, maybe i'm just lucky, but man it just does not resonate with me.

This one was tough to get through and I may have got the skip a few times. Never listened to this album and now I wish I hadn’t, kind of surprised it’s on this list.

Horrific. As bad as it gets.

00’er rock når det er værst, overgjort guitar, råb, og dårlig rap

Didn’t listen

I really don't care for this at all. Their rise-to-fame timeline is kind of amazing though: Form a band in 1996. Record a demo and play your first show (at a legendary venue) in 1997. Sign to a major label in 1999. Release your first album, as a fully formed band, in 2000 and then immediately sell millions and millions of records. Wild.

I hate when I look forward to my album of the day and I get a total shitburger like this.

Forgot to listen

This is just not good and I can’t remember it being important when it was released. No idea why this makes the list

There's a lot of really good albums not on this list and to think they lost out to this white trash garbage. I hated this when it was popular and it's only gotten worse. This is music for morons that are still upset about their high school girlfriend talking to someone else thirty years later.

I hate this sort of music, been dreading having to listen to this. Having just finished it I mostly feel relieved it’s over. Wasn’t good 24 years ago and time has not been kind. Honestly, if there wasn’t silence between each track, this could’ve been one long track of despair. The only track that was remotely tolerable was the 2nd from last one because at least we didn’t have to put up with the nauseating vocal affectations

Worse than I thought

they have some good lyrics

Too much screaming for my taste

I almost gave it a two because of Chester bennington’s voice but then the other started rhyming terribly again. Very angsty without enough substance. I also didn’t think the do work did it much favors

Bland, over-polished rock-rap with generic angsty lyrics that I can only assume were written by a 14 year-old in the back of his English notebook after missing the point of Fight Club. At one point he actually screams “shut up!” over and over like a child in a fight with their big brother.

Not my music.

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Nopenopenope this one’s a little too angsty for me. More heavy metal than punk music, and idk if rap and punk/metal work well together. Maybe there’s a reason that numb is the only linkin park song I’ve ever heard of (it’s the only good one). In the end was kinda good tho.

Je n aime pas du tout le hard rock

Just miserable. It made me angry

Ugh. Every track sounded just like every other track. This is the archetypal 2010s hard metal generic album, unremarkable in every way.

Not an album I'm going to listen to all the way through. I get the gist after 3 songs and I'm not a fan on Linkin Park. I was going to give this a 2 as I know some people love it even though it isn't for me but F it, it's a 2/10 (1/5)

Pre listening: Oh no, fucking Linkin Park. I'm already biased as I don't really like 2000s rock (And by that I mean Pop Punk and most Nu Metal, because there are a few 2000s rock albums that I know are on this list and basically are guaranteed 5 and some of my favourites), but I'm going to get into this with an open mind and do my best to enjoy it. Post listening: I absolutely tried to enjoy it, but I couldn't. It feels like I'm watching an early 2000s video for 30+ minutes without watching the video. Way too overproduced for a genre like this, in my opinion it would highly benefit from sounding dirtier. The lyrics feed the edgy minds of 14 year olds and I mean it in the worst of ways. Most songs sound the same with a few variations, and I wouldn't mind it if that same sound was of my liking. In the End is iconic I'll give them that. Something I absolutely hated was that a lot of the songs baited me into believing the song could be something interesting, but it'd end up being something lame or sounding like the rest of the record by the minute and a half mark. DISCLAIMER: I get the appeal it might have to some people, but I hated most of the 38 minutes this lasted, I assume it has to do with this being a product of its time, aging poorly and etc etc. Best song (As in would play ironically from time to time) was In The End. If I had to pick one song to be the worst it'd have to be Crawling. Thank god the saviours of rock arrived the year after this abomination.

Summary: angry white lad screams about absolutely nothing. There's simply too much angst and not enough talent. Incredibly overproduced and shallow- nothing raw or profound about it, it's like each song is copy and pasted- it's tiring to listen to. "Sad thoughts" and "bad memories"??? like okay?? I genuinely hated listening to this and would consider all the tracks "skips", yet in some ways I can understand why some like it- it was genre-defining but one I really can't get behind nonetheless. Surprisingly, what I believed to be their best track "cure for the itch" had the lowest amount of streams on spotify, but I wasn’t sure if I liked it more because the sweet sweet release of the end of the album was near. Still, if I wanted to hear trip-hop I'd listen to the real stuff, not this completely middle of the road tacky-sounding production. Because that's what this album sounds like to me- a production rather than actual music with soul.

When it first came out, I bought this album on a whim based on the cover alone. I grew up in a small town, our radio options were limited to classic rock and pop, and we didn’t have cable - nobody I knew had heard of this band before. I was already filled with a vague angst and was on my way to college, and so this hit at just the right time. I put a poster on my dorm wall, I listened to this on repeat, I memorized the lyrics for the majority of the songs. On a drive home to see my parents I could play this album twice through. Even that amount of nostalgia can’t save this album for me. Just awful.

Combo of rap and techno, hated it

Rated 1 because you can't give 0 stars.

Omg what an awful shit am I forced to listen to, this is torture

Not for me

No thanks.

I just have never understood the appeal of Linkin Park. They have little to no dynamics, no real original sound, and nothing that appeals to me other than maybe that "Cure for the Itch" is budget DJ Shadow... To me, Linkin Park embodies what was very wrong about modern rock music or "nu-metal" at that time.

Too much yelling

This is awful and have no idea why people like this band. It made me want to break shit. Maybe that's the point.

I have a much higher tolerance for dumb stuff I didn't live through. Dumb stuff you lived through gets automatically linked with a kind of dumb guy you can perfectly visualize. And it's instantaneous. As soon as I saw this album popped up my face pruned up into an octogenarian frown and my voice, now Joe Biden's, said "Aw come on, man." I half tried, but honestly no matter how well they land their intended effects it is all so wholly wrapped up in a package of bad taste. I kept searching for what part of my lizard brain I share with a fan of this material, but all I hear is Christian rock.

Noise.

no thank you Mr Park

Not my cuppa tea. The voice, the guitars, the lack of variety in the sound. They should've stayed making music in their bedrooms.

The notion of being "born in the wrong generation" is usually one I roll my eyes at, then I remember that most members of the one I belong to not only tolerate but adore this drivel.

I was not a fan when this came out and I’m still not a fan. I do not like this.

2000 is about when we got the internet at home and i was finally able to begin discovering and choosing my own music and drifting away from what the alternative rock radio station was playing. violently rejecting linkin park is like one of my first conscious musical choices and i'm committing to the bit. i do not like this.

12 fois la même chanson, et elle n’est même pas bonne. Ce métal foireux avec du rap relou, toujours la même structure de chanson, toutes parfaitement interchangeables. Cette rébellion de chambre d'adolescent boutonneux. Non c’est vraiment difficilement supportable.

hell fucking no

Can't do nu-metal. barf.

some songs have decent melodies & rhymths, but the scratchy vocals & dad rock distortion is just such an unenjoyable experience & made me cringe quite a bit

sad love child of paramore and... something else. the boring and unsuccessful distant cousin of deftones who has so little in common with this album one would question if they share the same genes. LIKE: A Place For My Head RECOGNISE: In The End

Screaming young men. Insert eye roll here. No thanks. I actually did skim the album, it has some redeeming qualities but I didn't enjoy it.

Even if I was a 12 year old American boy in a backwards cap and baggy jeans in 2000, I still don't think I would have liked this. Really really not for me.

I like a handful of Linkin Park songs, but overall, this music has too much yelling.

Demasiado pesado para mí gusto.

Couldn’t finish

Don’t like hardrock

Just a noise to my sensitive ears

Even when I was into Nu/Alt-Metal I couldn’t get into Linkin Park. Some sounds just don’t gel for me and now approaching with the hindsight of seeing their influence take hold I just can’t enjoy any component of this album.

Really bad, so dated. I think I get why you’d put it here, but it’s rough dog. It should have stayed in the year 2000

I’m so over this band. Trying to give a listen, but just tired of this sound. It was cool at the time. “Im about to break” that’s how I feel. 😂 This album is just overplayed and sounds cliche. I’m so glad that is over

I know Chester Bennington had a lot of issues throughout his time on this planet to the point that he took his own life and it is a sad story. But, as for the music, this isn't good. In fact, I didn't care for any of it. The rapping is second rate and the DJ scratching is grating. Would much rather have a second Rage Against The Machine album or a second System of a Down album or a Tool album to represent the alt metal movement of the early 2000s over this.

I am not the audience for whatever genre this is.

Skipped. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Rubbish

How can music be this loud and this whiny at the same time? I really tried to be as objective as I could and judge this music on its own merits, but I couldn’t find any. The singing is annoying as hell, the instrumentation is very dull and does not seem original in any way. The lyrics are asinine. Just dreck from start to finish. I could understand this resonating with a tween, but it just bothers me.

Didn’t like them back then and don’t like them now.

Not a fan of that style of music.

Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up.

Ya know how beck did a pretty good job at meshing genres? Linkin Park kinda just mashes the playdough together until it looks like something. Was this album a staple of the early 2010s for gaming and edgy teens alike? Yes. Is it something to be held to high musical prowess? Not really.

I haven’t heard this in twenty years since I was in high school. My last memory of it was a school anti drug seminar video that displayed anti drug slogans intermingled with snowboarding clips soundtracked by Crawling. This is dangerous music because it has the power to make you never want to listen to again. Music is a beautiful thing that holds an unlimited amount of power. You can feel the power of this music-and the power to make one never listen to music again is a very dangerous power indeed. Putrid, execrable, grotty, vile, repugnant, displeasing music. If I ever hear someone listening to this near me again I’m gonna run away gonna run away.

A tsunami of awfulness. A ghastly melange of bin-water and toenail scrapings masquerading as music. Avoid.

Oh I know I hate this. I don't need to listen to it.

On me doit des étoiles

Non.

Un album insupportable. Toutes les chansons se ressemblent. Agressivité inutile, aucune subtilité. Au moins ça dure juste 30 minutes ce calvaire.

Very formulaic nu-metal. I never understood why they were so big

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.

Sad to say but this being not one of my favourite song genre is going to hurt the scoring of this album. I couldn't go paat the 3rd song cuz most of it felt just drums,guitar and shouts with most of the beeps-boops sounding similar. Couldn't ever hear the lyrics over the instrumentals which is funny cuz this is not a shoegaze album.

Was reading a review of this album and the reviewer put into words how this album sounded to me: overproduced. A wall of guitar sounds. The fake rapping and the screaming - it’s the cheap waxy chocolate version of angsty teenage rebellion.

Not a fan

Horrible. This subgenre popularized in the 90s has never sounded remotely good.

Noisy rock… too noisy.. getting on my nerves

Meh.

Not a huge fan

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I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS.

Why do I keep getting shit albums?

Oh god no

I really hate this record.

This gives me a headache

I like almost nothing about this album. I hate the inorganic guitar sound, the faux outrage, and the shitty vocals. It just sound bland, contrived, and inauthentic. I don't care that I'm in the minority here, it's just not very good. 1 star.

Whiny, inauthentic, overproduced frat-boy crap.

The lyrics and music very nicely align.

No

Not as bad as I expected

huaah, brrr...

Oh no. Oh fuck no, please. No. This can't be here. Not this, no. Please. Jesus, sweet jesus no, please. I can't - no, jesus. Pre-checking this shit, deleting bonus content. Fuck you, 1001 albums generator. It's a fucking Monday. Fuck you. If I actually like this album it's going to be the start of my midlife crisis. The thing is, if I had been 13 in 2000 when this came out, I might have been a Linkin Park fan. This has that undefined trauma melodramatic feel that I might have gone for at that age. But here's the thing - the first My Chemical Romance album came out two years after this and buried it. Same basic emotional palette, but one of them has good songs.

What the bisquit!

Come on boys, time to grow up. You can't be an angry teenager for ever

For many people, this was their entry into the music world, so I thought it had to be an interesting listen of some sorts all these years later. But I would have never thought that I would dislike their debut album to the level I do now. Time has done Hybrid Theory no favors. If there's one positive takeaway, I truly respect Chester Bennington's (RIP) effort on vocals giving it his all, even if comes out as forced and rough on the ears. However, I have no respect for Mike Shinoda's amateurish rap verses and the really gnarly metal guitarwork is consistently gross. Rap rock should stay in the past. Like 99% of its brethren, it's bad. But it's not totally unlistenable even if almost all of the songs are indistinguishable from the others.

Not for me!

Not even remotely interesting to me. Sorry. This is awful music and trying to hard

Listens: 1 Enjoyed: I just can't This type of American rock does nothing for me. They need to repeal either the first or second amendment - no wonder little goth kids are so sad

Overall did not enjoy. I felt like the combination between "metal" vocals and rapping ruined the songs for me. The one song I knew beforehand, "Crawling", was unbearable to listen to, I had to skip it.

Sorry, not for me.

Bruh this fucking sucks, even the songs I thought I liked were only okay

Not my type of lyrics or music :/

Fucking terrible!

I never were especially interested in Linkin Park when I was young, so I don't really have much nostalgic feelings for the act. I will admit that the hook/chorus to In the End is pretty good, but the song is, like everything else on the album, destroyed by the rapping and the atrociously aged production choices.

NONONONONO. no. no understanding as to why people like this. no.

Naaaaah

Get stuffed. RIP Chester.

Slightly better than Limp Bizkit, much worse than everything else. Inessential.

Didn't like this at all.

Not in my edition of the book! 2000. 1.5 star. Shouty white boy rap metal noise. Gets tedious VERY quickly. Shame, as they seem to be adequate musicians. Not essential listening.

It had its time and place... high school

je n’aime pas linkin park

I realized I was old when Linkin Park became a band that everyone loved. Spare me another venture of white suburban rap over heavy bass-y guitar metal riffs. I realize that Chester Copperpot was a big influence over a generation that followed mine and it seems he had a terrible childhood and wrote some amazing poetry. Sure there are some neat effects, and unique sounds in the production of this album. But I witnessed, and even enjoyed RUN DMC / Aerosmith, Public Enemy / Anthrax and the Beasties, but when the popularity of 311 hit, I knew I wasn't the intended audience of the garbage that would follow. Chalk that up to age I suppose, but aside from reggae, this has to be my least favorite genre.

Not my cup of tea. Don't like the vocals...actually, REALLY don't like the vocals. Don't like the crunchy guitar sound and overall production. Don't like the rap / rock hybrid style. Also find it curious that the "hit" In the End really sounds nothing like the rest of the album, vocals toned down, production toned down, find it kind of disingenuous. 1 star

I thought I might like this as accessible pop-metal, but it's so boring and generic that I actually hated it. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: In the End Date listened: 20/06/22