Hybrid Theory

Easy listening rap-rock for angry teens. Old-school metalheads tend to shit on nu metal and rap-rock in general, but I think it's unfair ; it was probably a gateway drug into metal for a new generation of kids, and I think it's a good thing. Yes, it's edgy and whiny. It's overproduced and noisy. Musically, it's not very good, relying on too many rehashed gimmicks (although I did really enjoy a few of the breaks and scratches). But it gets the job done - it's the musical equivalent of vodka-redbull : cheap, goes down easy, and fuck the headache you'll certainly get tomorrow. The teenager in me had a lot of fun listening to this album. 6/10

Dam these white boys can rock and dare I even say... rap. A couple of things I found out about myself after listening to this album 1. I don't trust my government (local, state, federal etc.) 2. These no way that an attack on September 11, 2001 will ever happen 3. I hate my parents 4. Shut up when I'm talking to you The best part about this album is that it is also stuck in my CD player in 1998 Jeep wrangler and now I have no choice but to listen to this album whenever I drive my car.

Really quite enjoyable, better than most of the rap/metal I have endured so far. It helps that the musicians seem to know their strengths and hang together pretty well. Surprisingly, my 9yo Eminem fan thinks this is lame; I enjoy yelling the chorus of "In The End" sarcastically at the teenagers when they start whining anyway..

I get why they were popular but they sound very dated already.

Reasonably well mixed album. That said the lyrical content leans more on the side of edgy cringe than genuine angst. The sound is hard and heavy, but the punch pulling softens the overall appeal.

A classic nümetal album. However, even if it's very well known today, perhaps the most well known, it was not really genre defining at the time and does have its weak points.

An amazing album to hear as a pre-teen. All that pent up child/teenage angst released with a nice bit of rap/rock/nu-metal. Then a few years later I turned 16 and never played it again. Listening back as an adult I'm torn between hearing the songs as I heard them then and loving it and hearing it afresh now and realising it's pretty naff. 4* and 2* respectively for those two versions of me.

Pardon my hate speech but this is so gay. I hate the spoken lyrics (both the sound and content). I will admit that the singing voice is powerful. I remember when Chester died and people came out of the woodwork to say what a genius he was— and I couldn’t understand it. I have never liked Linkin Park, though I suppose it’s a tragedy he never got to score the Bionicle movie like I’m sure he always wanted

I don;'t hate it, but this strikes me as something made by committee. The only reason they had people do it is because AI wasn't there yet in the year 2000

Never listened to the band, didn't hate it but also, meh?

Histrionic guitars and shouty vocals do not equal emotional communication. A bit dull and cliched. Not a band or album I will likely play much in the future.

62/1001. Based on my idea and empirical in-the-field test I let chatgpt write this review: We listened to Hybrid Theory while frantically searching for a toilet for our son, who was in the throes of a full-blown poop crisis. As the album raged on, so did the urgency. The tension built track by track – One Step Closer indeed – but when we finally reached the bathroom, the anticipated catharsis refused to come. Much like our son’s bowels, the album struggled to deliver. Loud, angsty, and emotionally overwrought, Hybrid Theory blends rap, metal, and teen turmoil into a sonic hybrid that often feels more engineered than sincere. As a musical experiment, it fuses emotional intensity with the slick, compressed production of early-2000s nu-metal – not always successfully. In the end, this odd combination of parental panic, gastrointestinal suspense, and sonic angst is the only hybrid theory I truly found in the album.

It's ok LP is not my cup of tea!

Well... This really is not for me! I didn't enjoy it.. But I find the lyrics very basic... And the texture of the music itself gives me a headache! Album rating: ⭐⭐

There are many worse ways to deal with anger than to yell to Linkin Park, and I’ve partaken in too many to bear counting. I now admire the earnestness rather than scoff at it. This is godawful, but likeable from this distance.

Not my favourite new album experience in this project.

It's Like A Whirlwind Inside Of My Head 1001 Albums Generator 13 (04/21/2025) Recently, I have seen discourse among music discussion boards that the introduction and overuse of the word "mid" has effectively destroyed music criticism. It is a word that can be employed endlessly and requires no justification. However, I would argue that the "mid epidemic" is the latest of a string of meaningless criticism - an evolution from a criticism that Linkin Park was all too familiar with: "edgy". In the 2000's-2010's, there was nothing worse that you could be than cringe (which edgy was a subset of), and Linkin Park was a total edgy cringefest. However, Gen Z is embracing the formerly cringey. As a wise man once said: "Kill not the part of you that is cringe; kill the part of you that cringes". As such, this band, especially this album and Meteora, have seen quite a critical reevaluation by the youth as of late. Is this an instance of Gen Z rebellion against their uncool Millennial counterparts, or is it a well-deserved reframing of an unfairly disrespected band? The hits off of Linkin Park's debut, Hybrid Theory, are really quite good. The opening track, Papercut, is probably my favorite song by the group. It features a really interesting electronic sounding guitar part and a great, catchy chorus. One thing that Linkin Park does not get nearly enough credit for is their pop sensibilities. It really is no surprise to me that they got as popular as they did. This song also has this really cool drum thing where halfway through the verses, the drums switch from a closed hi hat to open, which to my ears gives the impression of going into a halftime grove, even though the timing hasn't actually changed; it's just pure genius on display. In addition to this song, the two biggest hits on this album are the oft memed In The End and Crawling. The two biggest sins of Linkin Park in the eyes of the cringe police are on this album, and both of them are honestly pretty good in retrospect. The verses of Crawling are very forgettable, but that chorus is electric. In The End is the finest example of LP's songwriting trope of Mike Shinoda rapping on the verse and Chester Bennington belting the chorus. This song is iconic, and no amount of calling it cringe will change that. Outside the hits, there are a couple of other bright moments. A Place For My Head has a great Phrygian groove and is probably the most memorable guitar part on this album. It also has one of the heaviest moments on the album in its bridge. Pushing Me Away is good but ultimately comes off as a slightly worse version of In The End. By Myself has a really heavy riff, but a terrible verse part that feels so whiny. The vocals on this album in general just do not sit well with me. I feel so bad saying that about a hometown hero like Chester Bennington (the house he lived in when he tragically took his own life was really close to where I grew up), but I've just never really bought his whole thing. There are moments on this album, such as the chorus of Forgotten, where his voice sounds more nasal than oral. In general, the mixing on this album is very much a product of its time. Anyone familiar with the contemporary history of music production will know what I mean: Hybrid Theory is a victim of the Loudness War. This thing is compressed to fucking shit. In spite of this, there are production moments that I like. The electronic elements can be really cool, especially seen on Papercut and the interlude Cure For The Itch. The guitar tone on this is also one of the best that I have heard in nu-metal. So, is the critical re-evaluation Gen Z rebellion and counterculturalism or well-deserved and long overdue? Well, Hybrid Theory has high highs and features iconic pop-oriented choruses with great guitar tones. However, it has lots of filler, rough mixing/mastering, and a dated sound. I would say the good and bad elements just about outweigh one another, so unfortunately, the jury is still out. 2.5/5, rounded down to 2/5. Favs: Papercut In The End A Place For My Head Least Fav: Runaway

"The best-selling rock album of the 21st century". What if that said more about the state of rock than it being an endorsement of this?

I was prepared to give this a go, but I just do not like it. Nu-Metal crossed with bad rap. I can appreciate some of the creativity, but I won't be spinning this one again.

linkin park has not aged well. still fun despite its corniness but the hits on this thing still hit. you're better off just listening to the top songs of this n skipping the rest

Like bits of this, but similar to a lot of nu-metal it can feel a bit plastic to me. Not sure what itis, maybe over production, too much compression...not sure, but everything feels like it has a sheen, like it's somehow restrained and lacking depth. Lyrically, the overuse of first person moaning about relationships can get tiring, there is a lot of 'tell' and not much 'show' going one, with lyrics telling us how the singer feels, but not giving much story / context.

Linkin Park is to rock music what the Fast & Furious franchise is to cinema. They’re right up there with Sum 41 and Blink-182 as watered-down bubblegum punk. Nickelback is ten times the band. And this is rated higher than a Jimi Hendrix record? Keep this shit on video game soundtracks, where it belongs. STRONG 1!

This album is awful. The death of the 90’s.

Who the fuck was this even for? Nearly a billion streams per song on Spotify 25 years later is who

I was 18 when this came out. I'm sure this hits hard if you first heard it when you were 14. I'm a Tool fan, so I am qualified to opine on this stuff. Anyway, I can laugh at the Tool when Maynard is going over the top (see like, almost all of the lyrics on Undertow). Whatever, the music is interesting and the vocals at least SOUND good. Here, Linkin Park, no. I am second-hand embarrassed listening to this in private. Absolutely juvenile. And then the production, way too shiny of a sound, and generally boring. It sounds SO dated, processed, and corporate.. ugh. Like someone dumped a keg of Sugar Twin on a Limp Bizkit record.

too much screaming. I couldn't finish this album, the only song I recommend listening to is "in the end". DUDE ARE YOU POSSESSED? 1/5 (2/5 only for in the end)

Not looking forward to this.. this album and period in music represents my "growing up". This slop was the exit door from "rock"/metal for me and on to other, greener pastures. Lets see if I was right to take the door out. The "wall of sound" sameness is sooo tired. The ubiquity of this crap in the early 00's got so played out. Makes me wonder how I'll react when we get to Korn, an early progenitor of this sound and a band I followed for a while. The self-important lyrics and messaging weighs it down even further. I was hoping "In the End" would carry some weight, but I'm just so sick of it. (1/5) I have actively avoided this music for decades, and yet putting it on makes me feel like I just heard it yesterday. Maybe there's some artistic merit in here, but I'm no longer giving it a chance. It had a million tries and that's what killed it in my mind. Blame Clear Channel, not me.

Dislike this band with a passion. Hard pass.

Come on. This is meme, not music. I'm not listening this.

I remember when rap metal was the shit. These guys missed that with a decade. They also missed everything else, like making good relevant music worth listening to. Oh, and the singer sucks too.

One of the worst albums of all time.

This is awful….this have four tracks left. Will it get better? Doubtful. Will find out? Doubtful.

I already know this is going to be fucking horrible. It was horrible.

Overcompressed muzak.

As if the deliberately misspelled name wasn’t enough warning. This has all the tropes of the era and milieu: screamy-anthemic choruses, James Hetfield tough-guy vocals, unfocused white male rage, hip-hop/funk breakbeats and a ridiculous sense of drama that veers into parody. It sounds like emo for incel internet chat-room trolls. Awful.

What was this genre called? Rap-metal? Nu Metal? Whatever it was it was a blip of something that seemed interesting at first that quickly proved to not be not at all interesting. It some how made both rap and metal worse. I lump these guys in with Limp Bizkit and early Kid Rock. Is that fair? Maybe not. They maybe found a sound, but never found substance. Maybe a fun listen while drunk at a party down by the river in 2000 but beyond that...nope. No need to hear this again.

I was surprised this album was included on this list, but then again, there's probably not a record that epitomizes the execrable early '00s hard-rock era like this one. After hearing many of these song a bazillion times on the radio during that era, it's hard to separate it from one of the most mookish spans of music. I hadn't listened to this end to end since I reviewed it on original release. I remember then thinking that it was a successor to PWEI, and, man I sure was optimistic (stupid?) in that regard. These days, it comes off just like a slightly less idiotic Limp Bizkit, and most of non-stupidity comes from the fact that Bennington seems unable to sing about anything other than his feelings - no context for them, no situations, nothing but emo, emo emo. Yeah, someone else has probably already pulled on that rather uninteresting thread since his suicide. There are dozens of other albums from his epoch that are probably worse if you're going to go back and listen, but why would you? Millennial tough-guy-with-feelings hard rock is something we just need to let go. Forever.

doing several genres badly at once

Pop music has its artistic peaks and valleys … but this shit is so bad, it’s subterranean. It should be buried deep underground in a time capsule, back in 2000, never to be unsealed.

music to make Millennials cringe at their own youth culture. not a fan of these worst-of-the-decade inclusions in the list. in the end, it's not even 1 star

The lyrics are bad, vocals are unlistenable. I guess there's a little bit to the crunchy staccato guitar punches, but it doesn't do much other than stay the same and eventually grate. There's one mostly listenable song with no real lyrics, but not much really going for it otherwise.

I deserve restitution for that. Abomination.

Boring. Sounds like an advertising executive’s wet dream.

I truly hate Linkin Park. I don’t understand why they’re popular, I don’t understand people who actually like them, and I don’t understand someone ever considering this being in the running for one of the best albums of all time.

How? How is this band so beloved? Limp Bizkit is so hated that even me, someone who was in diapers at the time of their musical relevance thinks that Limp Bizkit jokes are overused. (rightfully so I may add) And yet Linkin Park is beloved? I mean I've heard a few of their bigger songs before and they really weren't my style but I expected better than whatever this is. You have to be max age of 14 to find this cool. Is nostalgia really that powerful for people? 1/10

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I remember borrowing my brother's Linkin Park CD as a kid and skipping through the songs. I thought the CD or player was broken because every song sounded exactly the same. It's nice to revisit them as an adult so I can confirm I wasn't just being a closed minded kid Cure for the Itch is interesting and different For the most part the lyrics felt like something I would write which is not a complement

In middle school I had a best friend, I'll call her Veronica. We were two parallel yet distinct flavors of edgy, and we were for a time inseparable (and I am pretty confident no one I met from school ever understood me more than she did) but we were also still middle school girls at our emotional nadir. And eventually this would cause a rift between us until we stopped speaking to each other in 8th grade and never spoke again since. What actually happened is that she stopped talking to me, just as the rest of our friend group started to wane from me around the same time (I'm sure because of something I did, I was a real asshole to be around at that age.) And not wanting to accept the reality of being rejected again, because around that tender time the only family that was regularly around was my single mom who was always at work and wasn't really able to be around outside of that, I wrote Veronica a long letter of why I didn't want to be friends with her anymore even though she clearly made the decision first. Anyway. Her favorite bands were Green Day and Linkin Park. I was obsessed with Björk and Radiohead. We both thought we were tortured souls that no one understood and wanted for someone else to notice how tortured we were. She wore fingerless gloves and wore her hair over her eyes and I dressed normal but I would cut my hair short, or would face my iPod conspicuously when a younger and more hip-looking substitute teacher would be in proximity in the hopes I could talk to them about Elliott Smith and they could tell me I had very good music taste for my age. The reason why I tell this story is so you can understand why I gave this record a 1. It's not because it's bad or too edgy or juvenile, it's because when I was 12, it was very important to me that the world understood that I wasn't *this* kind of edgy, I was a *very specific and different* kind of edgy, so god please, somebody notice. Just like it was for Veronica.

Is this the oldest album to get the hook from the book? I didn't realise they'd gone back as far as 2000 to make room. Happy with that though, there's nothing particularly special about this band, they should go back further to pick out the duds or stuff that time hasn't been kind to, instead of removing one of the 3 records they pick for later years as if no important music happend after 2015. Fact I'm talking about the book rather than the album tells it's own story. One Step Closer was fun at the time ( and isn't now), I have almost no time for anything else here. Every song is almost exactly the same - one listen to the second and third singles was enough to realise Oh, right, they're just going to do this exact thing again and again - hence I never felt compelled to listen to the album before and was instead listening to the few good nu metal bands, and ska punk instead. I should have been target audience still, being 21, but this was obviously shit to my ears, so oh well, onto the next thing. One million clones of this irritating, uninteresting, overproduced music sprang up following this album, and soundtracked the entire WWE Attitude Era. Which is definitely the only acceptable context for them. Background wallpaper for fighty acting and athletic exploits. For which it worked pretty well. I was waiting for this to end from the very first track. Thank the lord Jesus Christ and all the other fictional sky lobsters that this CD-era album is a reasonable length. At least Wikipedia hasn't labelled this as metal, metal showing up as one of my worst genres is quite funny as a metal fan, but almost all the metal choices in this book are an abomination.

This has really dated. Very samey.Emo White Rap Rock. Best consigned to the waste bin of history and never spoken about again.

Please note, Nu-Metal was never the correct answer. It continues to be a blight on us all.

Yay! More NuMetal! To quote the voice of his time, Fred Durst, "If it were not for Bennington's voice and his words, nu metal would never have reached the masses and affected so many lives." To that I can only say, I wish Chester Bennington had chosen to be an accountant or oceanographer or literally anything other than the singer in Linkin Park because, according to Durst, he was directly responsible for one of the worst genres of music ever created. Linkin Park is a stupid band name. I wonder if some marketing exec told them that misspelling a word with extra 'i"s was cool like in Limp Bizkit. Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park are two sides of the fake hard ass/whiny bitch nu metal coin. Nu Metal sucks so much even Linkin Park didn't want to be associated with the label. There are a number of songs that I absolutely hate and that you could not avoid in the early aughts. This could be the soundtrack to a Transformers movie. At least Korn isn't so whiny. In the End suuuuucks. No song longer than 3 minutes 36 seconds, that's a plus. The whole album is only 38 minutes too. Mike Shinoda's rapping is awful. What was wrong with America in the late 90s/early 2000s? This is what spawned from Rage Against the Machine? Linkin Park is the 31st most listened to band in the world according to Spotify?!? In 2024?!?

Over-over produced garbage. The worst of the genre. Absolutely no business being on this list.

Well this was just bad. I can’t stand Nu Metal, it seems to have very little musicality, and this album has almost none. All Nu Metal sounds like satire of itself to me. If I made music this bad I’d kill myself.

Just bad. This is why they don’t let 13 year olds vote.

Dear god the lyrics. The awful, execrable lyrics.

Not even Jay z at the peak of his powers could get me listen to these losers and I’ve been proud of that fact for all this time up until today. As bad as I assumed.

I feel my IQ lowering with every rock cliché on show here.

I've never understood the attraction to Linkin Park, but apparently people love them for some reason. I'll never understand why. It's just super generic and way overproduced. It's predictable and trite. It's unimaginative and boring. I feel like they tried so hard to make a popular radio record that any creativity they had as musicians was right out the window. And I've always hated Chester Bennington's vocals - it always sounds like he's trying so hard but just can't get it right. Top it off with sophomoric lyrics and forced rhymes and it results in...this. Linkin Park is pretty much the stereotypical sound of early 2000s nu-metal. They kind of took the lowest common denominator of all those other bands and somehow packaged it up and sold millions of records. The reason I know this album is bad is that I didn't even get irritated by it. Like it was just kind of sound washing over me, it played and I didn't even really notice. Absolutely nothing draws you in. And to me that's worse than a record that you just don't like. 1/5

An album of angry anthemic fight songs. Was never a fan of the punk, pop era. Chester's thrash metal vocals sound forced (to me) and the constant rapping over the top just doesn't appeal, but each to their own, probably a generational thing and I'm too old for it. It's like nine inch nails origins, but hungry for commercial success has made it niche, conceited and inauthentic. Glad it's only short. Sad about Chester though, rest in peace.

I’ve always had a problem with Linkin Park The singer sounds too much like James Hetfield and their songs just all run together

I still know every word to every track on this album. This, and Meteora, were part of the soundtrack to my teens. Being entirely objective, the music here isn't really anything more than OK. The lyrics have their moments but overall they're quite repetitive and although they have their moments, I don't think I could claim they're particularly deep with a straight face. Chester's vocals are mostly great, but even as a teen I was never super keen on Mike's rapping. Thankfully, music is a subjective experience, and although I know deep down this album doesn't deserve 5 stars, it will always be a classic for me, and I'll happily listen to any track from it. I think this is also Linkin Park's only entry on this list, and frankly, even their detractors can surely accept that the blend of Nu Metal, Rock, Rap, and whatever the hell Joe Hahn does is definitely something special (even if only in parts). Screw it. 5.

already very familiar with this band and album so it was just a good jam session

This album shaped my taste in music and I still listen to it regularly 20+ years later. 211 albums in and this is the uncontested number 1 for me so far.

A millennium banger, end-to-end; truly revolutionary in the genre it helped to popularize the carving-out of.

i'm 14 and this is deep

10 из 10

Don’t even need to listen to this because it is one of my favorite albums of ALL TIME and is a 10000000/10 with absolutely no notes. But okay, fine, I’ll listen to it again for the 10000th time and revert back to being a teenager and slamming the door with this blasting from my CD player.

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought i would. Also, seemed to know a lot more of the songs than I assumed I would. A very good summary of the early 2000s sound. Only a couple tracks that seemed to not have the same effort put into them as others. A good debut. Impressive that the tune In the End is on this. I has assumed it came from a later album as the production, arrangement and song writing on that track are of a high level.

I miss Chester... Sick album.

Lots of bangers

Tremendo album

Que buen disco!!! Solo conocía Crawling y In the End, ha hecho que me guste mas Linkin Park.

Total high school nostalgia.

Another nostalgia driven, era defining album for me here. No skips, just pure bangers again. Really stood the test of time too. So glad to have this come up today, just what I needed.

I love this album. One of my favorites.

Bangs

What a Friday pull! I can't be the only millenial that had their lives forever changed from hearing this album. This album opened me up to a new musical world I didn't know existed when I was a kid. My friend gave me this album before I left on a trip and it did not leave my walkman at any point. It was the first album I memorized front to back and still hits now the same as it did all those years ago when I first heard it. One of the best debut albums of all time, nothing but bangers front to back. One of the easiest 5/5s I've given.

Linkin Park have the ability to have a distinctive iconic sound without sounding repetitive. No notes.

I really love this album

I cannot be unbiased with this one. An absolute GOAT. So many teenage evenings sitting in my room, listening to this on full blast.

This album holds up really well and still rocks.

peak music

heheheehheehehhehrhrhr yeeeeeeees! 10 stars! 🤩

I ADORE Linkin Park. Chester Bennington is my absolute king, I cried when he died. Such real, relatable lyrics and his vocals are so raw. Fav song is ‘One Step Closer’.

да, все и так понятно согласен про детство, хотя мое детство больше связано с метеорой, но тот их звук начался здесь и при прослушивании все время возникает чувство типа "здесь начали творить историю"

Ну что я могу сказать Спасибо за детство

тут я знаю оценку еще до того как прослушаю, это будет 5, но все равно не упущу эту возможность и прослушаю еще раз... при этом я не назову себя фанатом группы

Listened on: Spotify Listening experience: Morning and evening commute I haven’t listened to this album in full since high school - it took me right back to Grade 11 in high school. I had this CD (maybe I still do but haven’t been home to check) but it was definitely passed around. I remember burned copies being in cars. Every song I knew and remembered. The teenage rage is still there. Will not wait so long to listen to this again. RIP Chester.

Grew up listening to a lot of this on the radio so I may be biased but I still fuck with it heavy

They are such a good band. Blend of everything I like

GOAT, one of the best albuns ever made

hugely influential for the time it came out, some of the style feels a bit over the top today, but I think the CD holds up very well

10/10 Infancia y un album que no solo marco una generacion, sino una década.

This record single-handedly created a new generation of rockers. This is the record that made a lot of kids go deep into metal. This album made nu metal mainstream and it perfected rap rock. I don't care whether you listen or don't listen to this genre, this album rocks hard and it's extremely important for music in general. I love the shit out of it man! I agree, not every song on it is perfect, but it's a perfect record as a whole.

Screw all the pretentious snobs on this site, this album is one of the easiest fives I've ever given not only cause it holds up extremely well, but cause it is one of the few examples I can think of where one of the first bands in a certain genre still outdoes the countless newer bands in the genre. The production is punchy, the chemistry of the band is second to none, especially between Mike and Chester, and it's lyrics, while definitely angsty teen sounding in certain places, are still amazing and it's no wonder it still resonates with millions of people 26 years later. This is not only one of the best debut albums of all time, but one of the best albums period. 5/5

Nice

Pedazo de joya!!!

I truely believe this is one of the best albums ever made. If you had to pin point a time where metal and alternative rock got together, birthed a baby- whom identified completely different from all their other siblings- it would be the year 2000 and the baby is new metal and appropriately named, Hybrid Theory. Linkin park are the biggest player in development of Nu Metal. This album is the reason a genre of music had the chance to continually evolve rather than die out with the boomer and GenX demographics. Hybrid theory is emotional, vocal, hard yet melodic. It offers a more than acceptable glance into the pool of alternative music but through a commercially acceptable lense. It’s not a fuck the world album created because a woman forgot to smile at Fred Durst. Not is it the subtle aggression and extended breathiness of the Deftones. It sounds like a perfect collision of deep feelings from clever nerds that liked rap and were well trained- but didn’t quite fit in socially at a prestigious music school. RIP Chester. Kudos to the rest of the crew for picking themselves up and continuing to produce music after such a heavy blow.

One of the best albums ever 😁🗣️🔥. My favorites are In the End, Crawling, Pushing me Away, and Papercut. Overall, I would give it a 5/5! 🫡👌🍃

One of the most important albums of nu metal, and of my life, absolutely wonderful! Papercut - 5/5 One step closer - 5/5 With you - 5/5 Points of authority - 4/5 Crawling - 5/5 Runaway - 5/5 By myself - 5/5 In the end - 5/5 A place for my head - 4/5 Forgotten - 5/5 Cure for the itch - 3/5 Pushing me away - 4/5

A legend of a generation: almost no one my age hasn't heard this album, and those who have are unlikely to ever forget it. This record made rappers embrace riffs and metalheads embrace hip-hop. A colossus of nu-metal, which is surprising, as it lacks the genre's usual swearing, downtuned guitars, and any showing off — it's a completely honest album. Three people create the magic here; the rest are craftsmen. The band's brains, Mike Shinoda, with his raps and Chester Bennington's unique voice, are understandable, but it wasn't until one of my recent listens that I realized Linkin Park would have remained a bland alternative act if not for DJ Joe Hahn's turntables and effects, which create half the atmosphere. If you remove one pillar from this trinity, the whole thing wouldn't crumble, of course, but it would lose its edge. Which, unfortunately, is what the current state of the group proves.

Still holds up

Complete nostalgia bias. One of my favourite albums on the bus to school in my teens. Not even their best album and full of screamers. Iconic

10/10 gold star

IMHO this was one of the best albums ever. Basically every song is great from start to end.

Fantastic album. Rap/rock … NuMetal … whatever you want to call it. It’s fantastic. RIP Chester.

Iconic, love the dynamics

I first heard one step closer on a top hits radio station where they would play a song and let people call in to vote if it would ever get played on the station again. It was a radio show bit. I don’t remember how people felt about it but I remember thinking that it was so cool. Like who screams in songs, and not only screams but screams “shut up when I’m talking to you”. My preteen brain was in awe at such raw emotion on a radio song. This is a certainly a nostalgia album for me but even today I feel like it’s pretty original. Then again, I have very little reference of the genre.

Difficult for me to be objective on this one since I've been listening to and enjoying this album for 26 years, but I'll try. To me, this is the best of the nu metal/rap-rock genre; to some, that isn't saying much, but there's some good music hidden under all those cans of Monster energy. The beats are inventive, there's genuine emotion coming through in the songs, and the flow between Bennington and Shinoda is undeniable. Linkin Park's impact and hit songs have to count for something. I'm torn between a 4 and a 5; I feel like this is a strong 4/5 and their follow up, Meteora, is the 5, but somehow that album didn't make the list. Due to that oversight, I'm going to give this the bump to my 17th 5/5. I love this album too much to lie and give it a 4.

This album hit me hard when it came out. I got to see them on this tour & they blew me away. Definitely a must listen.

Five stars no notes

mi yo del pasado le hubiese puesto 5 estrellas, y a mí me corresponde hacer lo mismo. linkin park sin chester no es linkin park. las canciones no son muy distintas entre sí, pero justamente lo que sabía hacer la banda (y en especial su frontman) era generar emociones que resisten a una formula monótona, a través de grandes estribillos, puentes deslumbrantes y una voz que nunca va a ser olvidada.

Hey, great great album. Wasn't expecting to like it this much. A BIG fan of whatever that guitar pedal was, got me flashbacks of GH.

If you are a millennial and you don't love every song on this, you're a stinky chav. I have a theory: the Linkin Park Window. They're a gateway to the world of rock. You listen to LP aged 13 to 17, you're into rock and metal for life. I'm almost 40. I'm too old to love it. I love it.

Have listened to it 1000 times and more will follow. This will always have a special place in my heart.

This album is so strong - it can blow out candles in the other room just by then sheer energy given to the people who can't stop clapping, shouting, and moving to their songs. I'm one of them. Joe Hahn, the DJ, is a genius. I can't think of any other artist that blends samples into metal as skillfully as he did. It's an absolute powerhouse and landmark album of Nu-Metal.

I saw this on the list and immediately looked forward to it. Childhood memories. And then it started playing and — yes. Still there. There's a type of nostalgia that makes you wince a little. The Pokemon kind. Where you look back and think: okay, I was a child, that explains it. And then there's nostalgia that holds up when you actually test it. Hybrid Theory is the second kind. The songwriting is genuinely good. The dynamics genuinely work. And Chester Bennington — raw screaming into clean melodic singing, sometimes in the same breath — had a voice that objectively should not work as well as it does. Rating this was hard. On a personal rotation scale — albums I actually reach for — this is a 3, maybe 4. I don't put on Linkin Park on a quiet Tuesday evening. But I don't think that's the right question for an album like this. There's a "human music" scale, a "does this define something" scale, and on that one it's a 5 without question. Hybrid Theory crossed over to people who've never heard of nu-metal. It defined a generation so completely that arguing about personal taste feels beside the point. 5/5.

This was their first album? Jesus. It's emotional, varied, and such a late-90s-early-2000s moment in time. Where did this style of white boy depressed scream-rap go?

There's no way I can be objective about this. Linkin Park was the band that got me interested in music enough to buy their CD and follow the band. Every time I listen to this, I am 13 again, crushing cans of Bawls energy drinks, skateboarding with my friends outside the local gas station. I remember the seemingly endless Final Fantasy (often 7 and 9) AMV's on YouTube that featured songs from this album. I remember bonding with my older cousin over this, and he became my musical guru for a time. It's absolutely angsty as hell, but they manage to bring enough pop sensibility to nümetal to make it accessable without losing the edge that made this album exciting. The rapping and turntables are right at home here and feel natural. The digital textures they add to the songs give even more depth. While I can’t claim to be a fan of anything Linkin Park did after Meteora, those two records (and ReAnimation) stand as the early building blocks of my taste, and are a perfect representation of the sound of the “new millennium” for rock and metal. Unabashed 5/5

*2000. *Total nostalgia - this was a listen-all-the-way-through album when it came out while I was in 9th grade. *Still holds up - melodic but goes pretty hard. An emotional journey that sucks you right in. *Initially would have given it 4 stars, but we'll bump it up in honor of Chester. RATING - 8.5/10

I listened to this album at a formative time. I could listen to Linkin Park every day.

So good.

Amazing music, I am biased since I am familiar to and listen to this album semi-regularly, still prefer the lyrical music compared to the more digital tracks. Amazing through and through.

'Reanimation', het remix album van Hybrid Theory, was één van de eerste serieuze albums die ik kocht (met serieuze bedoel ik dat het geen Smurfenhouse, Telekids of House Hits for Kids is), want man man man wat vond ik Linkin Park vet als pak 'm beet brugpieper. Op dezelfde dag kocht ik overigens ook 'Issues' van Korn. Reanimation vond ik toen vetter. Een gekopieerde versie van Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (Limp Bizkit) en dan dus een legaal zelf aangeschafte versie van Reanimation is waar voor mij de honger naar lompe muziek begon. Met die videoclip van 'Pts.OF.Athrty' die in die tijd, lieve kijkbuiskinderen, ongelofelijk vet was. Ongetwijfeld luister ik dit album nu dus ook met een gekleurde koptelefoon, maar het is nog steeds vet. Als 'Cure for the Itch' en 'High Voltage' de dieptepunten van je album zijn heb je een prima debuut op de planken gelegd. Hybrid Theory, Reanimation en Meteora zouden van mij allemaal de volle 5 sterren krijgen.

Fantastic

21/04/26 - REESCUTA o que falar de um clássico do nu-metal? sem brincadeira, até as músicas minimamente boas aqui são pioneiras de um gênero/movimento. as músicas aqui definiram (e/ou popularizaram) um marco na música. tem músicas medianas (não tem ruins) e tem músicas meio à toa, mas todas tem sua motivação, principalmente na reta final do álbum. música mais melosa, música total instrumental, música de trajetória. e isso resume a magnitude de linkin park, que começa aqui e continua de forma consolidada em meteora. tbm levo em conta que metade desse álbum eu sei de cor, clássico absoluto principalmente para um adolescente como eu daria 9/10 / 4.5/5, por fins de arredondamento merece seu 5/5

For me it's a 5 iconic

Obra de arte, para vinilo

Class. Liked it in Marvell still like it to this day. Might not be everyone’s cuppa tea but this and Meteora are S tier albums Excites my inner long haired Delballs

One of the best 21st century hard rock/metal albums. In this debut album, the band shows how the nu metal is transforming the metal genre with heavy sharp guitar sounds, fast pacing and pop/hard rock vocals. The album doesn't feel repetitive, every track is fresh, and has something new to offer. Definitely a great album to pay a listen.

aguante el nu metal papa, me chupa un huevo si me tratan de wachin

This is vulnerability seething with an anger that's almost palpable. My charred Earth. Crying against the darkness, raging against the light that once swallowed those shadows whole. It's brutal, honest, and beautifully composed. A symphony of scar tissue. Goddamn, it's cathartic. I know every note on this album. I've spun it thousands of times. It was my subway soundtrack during college commutes in Chicago, right after breaking up with my high-school sweetheart. Fun Fact! At one point in my early internet life, my main password for EVERYTHING was a play on "Points of Authority". I think it was p01n70F@u7h0r17y. Look 'ma! I'm 1337. Wait Bob, we have another Fun Fact for our unwilling contestants!!! Fun Fact! During said college tenure, I used "Cure for the Itch" as background music in an animation I made for the too cool art school. Spins: Still Going Playlist Additions - Papercut - One Step Closer - Crawling - In The End - A Place For My Head - Pushing Me Away

Instant classic. I never listened to it all the way through, just knew about the singles, but holy shit I wish I was there to hear this when it first came out. Or, better yet, had the chance to hear Chester at concert. Immediatly would've ascended. Favourite tracks: With You, Points of Authority, Place For My Head, Cure For The Itch 5/5

Mmmm disloke

Excellent

Nostalgie, its just so good. Chester eas a great artist, great voice

Posiblemente uno de los mejores discos de LP, y por lejos de lo mejor que escuche hasta hoy. Album no Skips, destacaría absolutamente todos los tracks. Crawling poniéndote la piel de gallina, papercut y one step closer con la potencia que caracteriza a lp. A NISMAN LO MATARON. Realmente no tiene skips este album es buenisimo. Forgotten con ese ritmo numetal precioso que me cautiva y me lleva a los 90-00 es increíble.No tengo mucho mas para comentar. Le doy 5 estrellas fijo sin dudas.

One of my most listened to albums from that era. I still enjoy this from time to time - I have to give it 5/5.

always thought i was too cool for linkin park... come to find out i was missing out fr. it gets a little repetitive with the structures of the songs but nothing too bad honestly. would add to my rock/alt playlist tbh.

Didn't do it first but they did (and still do but to lesser extent) do it best.

Might start spiking my hair up with wet look gel

One of the albums that influenced me to start listening to music. All killer, no filler.

Escuchar éste álbum es como chocarse contra una pared, es súper pesado, con pasajes hermosos y sobre todo unas letras desgarradoras que toman mucho más peso sabiendo que son los sentimientos de Chester plasmados al papel, es banger tras banger y además siendo debut logró explotar y llevar al mainstream el sonido del rap metal.

Linkin Park really hooked into the youth for their kind of music for the early 2000s emo/punk rap rock. Shinoda's lyricism and Bennington's vocal prowess are a powerful mix and made for a fantastic debut album for the group. "One Step Closer", "Crawling" are two of many great songs but "In the End" has become an eternal anthem for the generation that grew up with Linkin Park's music.

Yes!!!

One of my favourite albums of all time (although I have quite a few), I love these songs - they actually speak to my soul, especially when I'm dead inside.

Rating 5 for nostalgia. This rocketed me through my teenage years and I still listen to it today during workouts or demo work!

This albumn still rips. I remember listening to this CD on the bus. Still rocking out to all of it. RIP Chester.

6/5, absolute classic, zero skips, 🤌🏻 Legitimately archive this in the library of congress archives if it’s not already. I don’t know if there’s another single album I’d pick that encompasses the 2000’s better. R.I.P. Chester

ALREADY LISTENED 2 THIS< I LOVE ITTTTT HAVE IT ON CD TOO

Really good love the high energy made me clean my room

Good

Not sure if this is really a five-star album or it's nostalgia on my side. But since I'm rating for enjoyment, it's five stars for me! This album was great to rage to as a teenager and it's still great now.

колись ото шось однокласниця слухала лінкін парк і виставляла з їхніми піснями сторіз в інсті під свої світлини, і я вирішила шо вони хуйня тому що її смак музики досить примітивний, зважаючи на її мізерний рівень англійської мови тоді. і я навіть й не думала їх якось пробувати слухати через оте вже створене хибне (як виявилося) враження... але ось послухала цей альбом і деееемн! мабуть, я навіть додам щось звідси у свій грайлист з вайбом teenagedirtbag ахзпхазпхз.

BANGER!!!!! The drums are tight and punchy, the electronics and DJ rig are captivating, the guitar is satisfying, the rapping is brilliant, and Chester Bennington's performance is iconic!! RIP Chester Bennington 🕊

If you were a teenager when that came out and we’re at all interested in alternative non-pop music, this might as well be tattooed on your brain. I listened to this so much there’s no way I can be unbiased. It encapsulates something musically, intersectionality of hip-hop/rock/electronic/samples and pulls it off with gusto. The lyrics speak directly to any emo teenagers who want to scream shut up when I’m talking to you and feel like they’re close to the edge when the have several more decades to work out they’re not even beginning to approach the hard edge of life. It’s great.

Great album.

Childhood classic this one. I thought I was tough as hell. Fave track: In The End, for pure nostalgia

No offense to people who don't personally vibe with Linkin Park, but I can't believe people are saying that this isn't a must-listen album! I mean, it's Hybrid Theory! This is one of the best-selling debut albums in history, one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century, a landmark release for nu-metal, and most importantly of all, it defined a generation! This is one of the most important albums of the 2000s and it's not even close! Linkin Park hit things right out of the park on their first go, but I also can't pretend that Hybrid Theory is a perfect album or anything. I have to be impartial and talk about the actual quality of this album... or do I? Kinda? Ultimately, my scores are mostly formed out of personal enjoyment, but there are things that I can talk about that are more objective than others. Let's start with the things that make Linkin Park unique. I'd say the vocals are among the most iconic parts of this band. Mike Shinoda's rapping isn't phenomenal or anything, but I really don't see any problems with his style. He gets the job done, and that's all that really matters. But of course, the real star of the show here is Chester. Chester fucking Bennington. There's a reason as to why I was skeptical of Linkin Park coming back with a new vocalist. It's just not the same without him! Chester's vocals are raw and emotive and I fucking love it. Whether he's singing or screaming, there's a sense of haunting beauty in it all that really demonstrates the tortured nature of him as a person and as an artist. The production and music is pretty great too. The riffs are just heavy enough to give power to the songs and their messages, but the production is just accessible enough to allow the energy to appeal to just about anybody. Great stuff. The writing is admittedly not the most complex, but does it need to be? You have to remember that this album was made by and for struggling youths. Sometimes you just want to tell the whole world to shut up. These songs get their messages across to the people who need them the most, and I think that's wonderful. But in the end, it doesn't even matter if the songs are bad. Hybrid Theory's songs are good. "Papercut" is such a good opener. It's practically the perfect introduction of Linkin Park's style. The chorus especially is just the best. That's one of the most consistent parts of this album now that I think about. Practically all of these songs have killer choruses. "One Step Closer" is no exception to this. This is probably one of the best showcase songs for Chester. The riff here is also awesome. I really love the production on "Points of Authority." It's SO 2000s and it's great. The messaging behind this one is also some of the best on the album. "Crawling" is iconic for a reason. It's one of those songs that you can't help but sing along to if you know it by heart like I do. Speaking of iconic, what is there to say about "In the End" that hasn't been said already. It's the band's defining song and I can absolutely see why. It has the pop appeal to make it iconic, but it's not so shallow that it can't be meaningful for anyone. It's the best. I will say that I wish the deep cuts on this thing were a little better. None of them are bad, but I do think that it's the one thing that holds this album back a bit. I will say that, on a semi-objective level, Hybrid Theory is not a perfect album. It has a style that's divisive, it's not the most innovative or exciting album, and not every song is a masterpiece. However, Hybrid Theory is a perfect album for a very specific audience; troubled youths. This album, as well as Linkin Park in general, was perfect for helping the struggling teens of the 2000s cope with their frustrations with music that wasn't void of passion or honesty. It's important, both to culture at large, and many of the people who listened to it. Hybrid Theory may not be for everyone, but it's perfect for mentally ill teenagers, so it's a good thing that I'm a 19-year-old with mental health issues. Low 5/5.

It has to be

never really listened to Linkin Park prior but instantly recognized In the End. and found more gems. no skip album.

It's unbelievable that this is a debut album, what an absolute masterpiece, LP's undisputable magnum opus, I loved the first time I've heard as much as I loved the last one. It's lyrics are hitting pretty hard after Chester passing. 10/10.

paper cut, one step, crawling and in the end IN ONE ALBUM? hell yeah

Back to 12 years old, I engaged lyrically with a lot of what this album had to say. Tapped into our era and took us for a ride. Impressive that they built on it with great further albums too. Important and not a bad track.

This was the first album I ever bought with my own money. It has aged so well, especially with the recent cultural reevaluation of nu metal. Mike is so on point, Chester’s choruses are still so soaring and vulnerable at the same time. RIP Chester, you created beautiful things.

The voice of a generation, in Chester, and the Stairway of the 2000s, in “In The End.” Not only that, but this entire album fucks. Not a single miss. A fusion of genres that didn’t work before this album. Blink-182 is more popular and Korn is heavier and angstier, but this is more betterer.

Formative album for me. Though it's not technically complex, it is full of hooks that kept this one on repeat in my college days. I'll gladly listen to this one, in its entirety, over and over again.

Love this thing. It goes super hard and has some really strong songs. RIP Chester.

232/1001 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ It was one of the first albums I bought with my own money and it's one I occasionally go back to and still absolutely love.

This is a 5 for me. I'm surprised to see how many people are trashing this album on this site.

There are many albums which don't hold up as well upon repeated listens. This one is not one of them. Absolute 5/5 no notes

YUHHHHSSSS

legendary

The OG rock album for me, easily part of my early formative ears in music. Still up there.

I sometimes think that heavy music grew on me as I grew up and then I remember this was the first album I ever bought. I love this album. It is so crazy and heavy and unique and creative and bold. What a debut.

Sooooo good. Listened to it a few times. One of my favorite bands. Chester RIP

It's a bit of its time. It's a bit teenage angst. And yet...

A genre-defining classic. I’d give it 4.5 because I think Meteora is better. But even if you consider the lyrics corny, or the overall theme of the album, it’s still instrumentally sound. And Chester’s vocals are top of the line.

baby cassi big loved

I haven't listened to this album in a very long time. In hindsight, it is a little corny. This album spoke to a lot of young people though, in many ways. It helped open my ears to genres outside the world of rock. Whether you want to sing, scream, rap, air guitar, air turntable, etc, this album is there for you.

boskieieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

First album on here that I actually owned! The nostalgia hits way too hard with this one. "In the End" and "Crawling" were both on the original Nick's Mix, so I've probably listened to them 100s of times. "Papercut" and "One Step Closer" are also classics. The rest fills out the album nicely. It's not a perfect set, but angsty teenage me can't give this anything less than a 5.

What a debut.

Linkin Park has finally entered it's era of re-appraisal and appreciation, two and a half decades later. I wonder if, in 10 years' time, people will speak of Imagine Dragons as some much-maligned popular radio-rock band too. Hope not. Linkin Park's always received this negative reception for being nu metal with the sharper edges filed off to make it more palatable for general audiences, which puts it curiously in-between your typical nu-metalhater (who finds the noise too harsh for radio) and your hardcore nu-metalhead (who dislikes LP's commerciality). I think it's the strength of the album; sure, it's still music for drywall-punching Dew-slugging Kyle-types, but it's much more danceable. The more pop-friendly elements - supported by some impressively balanced and clever production - makes for an outstanding listen. For one thing, the lyrics are actually somewhat coherent, which places it a step above its contemporaries. I don't personally have much nostalgia for the album as it's always been known as the cheesy radio-friendly one amongst its ilk, and it's been interesting giving it a listen now. As I said before the band's been going through somewhat of an online renaissance at the moment, now that we're a generation away and are able to listen to it with much fresher ears, and it benefits enormously from it. Is it 'great' music? Obviously not. The riffs are simple, the lyrics are generic angst, and there's a couple forgettable tracks. It's no Rhapsody In Blue. But it's clearly not trying to be anything more than it is. Like, it never reaches the legitimate emotional depths of a Morrissey or Thom Yorke or whatever. It's just good music to get a little angst on, and it's perfect for that. Picture Transformers fighting each other in low-Earth orbit in your head while listening for the intended experience. Don't overthink it. Enjoy it for exactly what it is and you're in for a very, very excellent time. Plus I'm a sucker for record scratching. Whatever happened to the turntablist? alt title: Mike Shinoda? Ain't that that shit by The Knack? Fav tracks: One Step Closer, Papercut, Runaway, Crawling, In The End, Pushing Me Away

Nostalgia heavy for sure. Drags and samsey in spots but I can't hate it.

Another one of those debut albums where the artist absolutely nailed it from the get-go. Linkin Park took the world by storm at the turn of the millenium, joining Limp Bizkit, Korn, Slipknot, Deftones and System of a Down as a major player in the burgeoning nü metal movement. 'Hybrid Theory' is a ferocious, pristinely produced record that seemlessly combines hip hop and heavy metal, with Mike Shinoda's motivational raps forming a tight union with Chester Bennington's incredibly versatile vocals to head a tight-as-nails band featuring Brad Delson on guitar/bass, Rob Bourdon on drums and Joe Hahn on turntables/samples. Initially, I only really enjoyed this album for the hits ('One Step Closer', 'Crawling', 'In the End'), but I've come to realise just how important this album is to the development of 21st century rock/metal. Bennington is in that rare echelon vocalists who can both soothe you to sleep and scream you into a state of chaos (Corey Taylor, Chino Moreno, Serj Tankian, Mike Patton and Maynard James Keenan are the others who come to mind here), and while I've always found Shinoda to be a bit overrated as a rapper, as a producer, I can't help but admire his genius, and I feel like he's completely content on 'Hybrid Theory' playing second-fiddle to Bennington's brilliance. With lyrical content dealing with substance abuse, paranoia, family breakdown, disappointment and failed relationships, Bennington bears his heart and soul into the songs, and the emotions in his voice come across as profoundly honest and real, with Shinoda kinda motivating Bennington in a 'you got this, bro' way with his raps. I don't have a great deal to say about the rest of the band, as it's really driven by Bennington and Shinoda's infectious synergy, but Delson, Bourdon and Hahn all play their part admirably and provide the adrenaline-filled soundscapes for Bennington and Shinoda to let loose. I also have very fond memories of being amped up by 'One Step Closer' and 'In the End' as a little kid watching Rage at stupid 'o-clock in the morning. The first time hearing 'One Step Closer' was, in hindsight, as lifechanging as seeing Green Day's 'Minority' or Silverchair's 'Anthem for the Year 2000'; it would just be a good decade until I truly embraced heavier music. 'Hybrid Theory' is probably one of, if not the most influential record of the 21st century, and for very good reason. Best songs: Papercut, One Step Closer, Points of Authority, Crawling, Runaway, In the End, Forgotten, Pushing Me Away

Call of Duty unofficial OST

Such a great album!

Wish I could give this a 100 stars. Truly one of my top3 albums of all time. Changed my music DNA and still know every word

I haven’t listened to this album in years. It brought me back to a very different time in my life.

🥺

Top album. Zeker een must listen

This is second album I ever purchased so this review is drenched in nostalgic bias. Might not even be fully nostalgic because I still listen to this album like once a year. I'm not too surprised that I still know 90%+ of the lyrics to this entire album. I wasn't even an angsty kid but this album is an 'Angst in Audio' frontrunner. Love the dual singer/rapper format. Even though it appears to be the least popular song on the album, Cure for the Itch is a top 100 song. Was a 5 going into this one, is a 5 coming out of it.

Going to be impossible to not have bias on this album because I have listened to it probably 1066 times. Just such an awesome album especially for a debut. One thing that I have always loved about Linkin Park is how well Mike and Chester work together as singers. The back and forth that they are abel to do is so great. I could write an entire essay on this album but don't really feel like it. Just such an important part of my music listening history. Was so whack when Jackson told me that kids in his grade who didn't have older siblings clowned this album. Those kids are all a bunch of dweebs

First album I ever bought on CD. So much teenage angst between Chester's screams and Mike Shinoda's raps. TBH this might be one of the most influential albums for me as a child. In The End was my favorite song for years after its release. At 37 minutes this album is all killer no filler to me. Probably not perfect by any means but to me it is. Even the instrumental is such a vibe. Production and vibe are just top tier. Brings back so many memories of splattering people in Halo to this. Hard to give this anything but a 5.

Great grunge/rock from start to finish.

195/1089 A very nostalgic album for me and it holds up. the combination of metal, rap and pop really works here. faves: crawling, in the end, papercut, cure for the itch, by myself 84/100

woah. I didn't expect to like this album so much, but I really did. ive only really heard Crawling and In the End from Linkin Park, but the rest of the album is very solid, from the range of vocals, the punchy guitars and whatevers happening with the drums. Papercut, Points of Authority, By Myself, and A Place for My Head were songs I really enjoyed, plus Cure for the Itch which was unexpected but still matched the rest of the album. Maybe I'll listen to more nu-metal now. Definitely deserves its popularity. 9/10

a real classic

Easy 5! "In the End" is my favorite song ever! But this album isn't my favorite from them, but it is still most excellent!

I appreciated the history of this album for a while, but had never sat down to listen. It still holds it's power for sure!

it's so weird, the past couple of weeks i've been hearing this album mentioned a couple of times, despite never having heard it mentioned before, and then yesterday i was like "i should listen to hybrid theory soon" and then it was literally the album of the day,, anyway it was banging. i've only listened to a couple of LP songs, but i've liked all of them and known about LP for years so it was only a matter of time. will def listen again

One of my favorite artists and albums. ❤️

Bajka

Genre defining and the first album I ever got, still know all the words

Really loved this will be listening again

Heerlijk!

Heerlijk

Great album

4,7

My favorite album as a child

Perfection

Enjoyed thoroughly. Very iconic album it deserves any and all hype it receives. 😎

I can't believe I put off listening to Linkin Park for so long for some shitty reasons. This album is incredible!

I grew up with this album. This was paramount to my understanding of music today. Always a gem

Without having looked, I already know that the rock purists in this forum will be tearing this to shreds. I don’t care. Coming back to this in my mid 20s with the angst I felt at 15 (when I first heard this) having left me, I still love it. It’s a cathartic listen and an emotionally mature, introspective tale of pain.

dat classic

4.5

10/10 a statement has been made

High energy buzz. The music really kicks. LED me to listen to other Linkin Park albums!!!

Oh goodie!! I get to do the meme. “It’s Linkin Park. 5 stars.” Do I really have to explain why I love this so much?? Ok fine, I’ll age myself. This was the music of my childhood and no amount of growing up is going to make me dislike it at all, and it makes me very nostalgic listening to it. Going to make me go down a rabbit hole and listen to all the old stuff in general. This was my weekend album, and I did in fact end up binging the first 3 Linkin Park albums for the entirety of the weekend. It was very worth it. A great blend of early 2000's Rock and a unique blend of Rap make this a phenomenal first album for Linkin Park. Is it my favorite album they have? Close, but that goes to Meteora. This is a close second though. I could name you several deep cut tracks this one has that I love, but I don't even need to, because "One Step Closer", "Crawling" and "In The End" exist. Those are the best 3 on the album for sure. They all got immensely popular for good reason. Not only was Hybrid Theory a killer first album, but it was also Linkin Park's best selling album as well, and it's easy to see why. It's really good, and every song has been somewhere roaming around the recesses of my head this entire time. Listening to this again awakened my inner kid. It was a blast checking this one out again, even if it made me feel a bit old being able to reminisce like this. Favorite song on this one? Any given day and I'll give you a different answer. This one is the easiest 5 I've given so far. I only wish we had more Linkin Park representation on here, even though I'm not only happy that we got this one at all, but kind of surprised that it was included at all. Goated stuff, RIP Chester Bennington. You were the man.

It is a great album this Easy listen to it - forgotten is a tune I like it

I really enjoyed this album, but in the end it doesn’t even matter.

I have no idea how many times I listened to this album. It is one of the albums that defined my child hood and helped mold my taste in music. stand out tracks: All of them, there isn't a bad song on this album

An old favorite

phenomenal first listen. i can't believe this is a debut album

I already listened to this so much 😔

Amazing

If you don't like cheesy badassery then I don't like you.

Live Laugh Love Linkin Park

Love this album. Lots of good hits, for its time it was cool hearing rapping and screaming/singing with heavy rock vibes and cool riffs with dj cut noises and some cool synth too. Like in "crawling". Fantastic.

Bah c'est juste incroyable en fait, rien à redire

All time top 20 album for me.

BUT IN THE EEEEND

Great

really really good

Linkin park is great. Dan is wrong.

linkin park rocks

The perfect example of a 10/10 album; an album where every song can be a hit. The flow of Hybrid Theory is true art in music, from start to end the album consistently delivers that unique rock sound that Linkin Park owns. My personal favorites off the album include (not in order): In The End, Points of Authority, One Step Closer, and Crawling. These songs capture the overwhelming feelings of betrayal, loneliness, not feeling understood, and losing control.

Gritty, summation of the sound of the time.

Oh man…

Definitely biased on this one! Nice to give the full album a listen since I don't think I've ever listened straight through

Oh yeah. This is my edgy childhood album for sure.

Love that album

On se vaan kovimpia edelleen!

5* epic

Chester was the voice of a generation.

This album got me through high school and will never not be a favorite of mine. Between Chester’s vocals, Mike’s rhythm, and Mr. Hahn’s DJ skills, this album is truly unique, even in the nu metal/screamo genre. It is certainly not for everyone, and the anger and angst don’t resonate as much as they used to, but this album will never not take me back to a time of growth, frustration, and a desire to be better and stronger. I will note that the album linked here doesn’t include the extra track My December which I highly recommend giving a listen to. It really shows Chester’s vocal range and talent.

4.25/5

Angry teenaged me blasted the first 2 Linkin Park albums religiously. No bad songs on this album, every song a hit, every hit a smack

What a banger, this album spoke greatly to a teenaged Ryan. From the high energy songs, to the great vocal range from Chester Bennington (RIP). This album came out of the gates strong and didn't let up for a second. Big points for the scratching/turntable work, it adds a great flair to most songs.

Absolute banger. High energy the whole way through. I was gonna deduct a star because Cure for the itch had a weird opening, but recovered by being a cool Aphex twin like song. Cool call and response parts in some songs as well. I will return to this one again soon for sure.

The nostalgia factor pumps this up to a 5-star album. It always felt like Linkin Park took the torch from 90’s grunge to create the sound that began to define the era of millennial rock, the way Nirvana did for GenX, or Zeppelin did for the boomers. RIP Chester; glad to re-listen to this one

Dude therapy. Screaming about feeling betrayed and angry over sick beats. (also... hey there James Bond)

- Ik vond het wel leuk, maar lijkt veel op elkaar, maar toch helemaal afgeluisterd - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 1 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM

Stone cold classic that taught angst and introduced heavy music to a whole generation. All you need to know is that even LP captured the magic only once more, and no others have ever come close.

An absolute classic. I’m reminded of my teenage angst and also singing in the truck with my dad on the way to seminary in the early morning. The lyrics have so much emotion and they actually made rock rap work.

Excellent!

What a fantastic album! It has classics like "In the End." I rediscovered "With You," "Points of Authority," and "Crawling." Definitely one of the best albums in the genre.

I don't need to listen to it again to rate it. One of the top albums from my teens. It's a straight 5/5.

I'm more familiar with Meteora, but Linkin Park is probably my favorite "I hate my dad" band.

Honestly, this album still seems so fresh to me. The hip-hop-first approach to nu metal really stood apart from the genre at the time, and I still think it doesn't really sound like anything else, even after there have been a lot of imitators. My feelings about Linkin Park were mostly that they were fun but trashy, and I just liked them despite that. Listening again, I think I underrated them.

My son introduced me to Linkin Park, and now I see what the hype was all about. I loved this!

I’ll be honest, this one was a personal five from me before I started to listen this time. I can see the arguments against it. It is a little overplayed and overproduced. It’s not even their best. Still, I find it infinitely listenable, and I still know all the words.

GREAT album. Used to listen to it all the time.

One of the best albums of the 21st century. Ground breaking, quality from start to finish. Love every thing about it.

One of the best bands ever… amazing album…….. faith restored in this list

Amazing as always. So hyping to hear the whole album.

9.5/10

like that

Hybrid Theory is one of my favorite albums. Chester's voice is so raw and beautiful and it really shines in this album. He will forever be missed.

One of my favorite albums, easy 5-star

*I have tons of nostalgia for this record- but it is one of the best examples of the nu-metal/rap rock genre. *Has so many great hits and it brought validity to the genre by crossing over into popular radio at the time.

One of the easiest five stars for me. I love Chester’s voice and power. First time a musician I loved passed away and I remember where I was when I found out. This album still gets me pumped up.

10 / 10 album. The album that put LP on the charts

loved it brought me back to middle school.

Damn, back to my childhood we go Yeah, this is still gas

First album I bought myself, grew up on nu-metal and this started it all. Love it, not a bad song on the album and Chester was an amazing frontman. RIP

This might be one of my most biased reviews. I took this CD from my Dad's collection and burned it to my first iPod along with Meteora. This and Eminem's Curtain Call (Greatest Hits) exposed me to rap. I've seen LP in Paris 2014 and again in Detroit this year with Emily. This band means a lot to me despite it really not existing in any of my lasting music spheres. This is as far as I went into emo/nu metal. I know these songs so well its hard to evaluate them at all. I think that Crawling has aged the worst out of this selection but that's likely due to memes and over exposure. My favorite verse from Mike is on A Place for My Head. My favorite sound is the synth-thing layered on the chorus of Points of Authority. Papercut is a fantastic way to open up this album and set the tone and expectations. Favorite Songs: A Place for My Head, In the End,

Thank you! Still at the gym. Didn’t realise he’s got such amazing voice. 100% 5 stars. Plus 1 more star for crawling.

Great album. It brings a ton of energy and passion with some pretty solid rock support. I’m also squarely the target demographic, as are all of you, so I’m not surprised if this is very positively reviewed. I also grew up with this, I listen to it probably a few times every year and just leave it on loop. I’m already on the third playthrough and only stopping so I can get through another album and not because I’m sick of it.

Is there a better album to experience as you enter into adolescence? Probably not. Its 100% bias based on my age/generation, but this album hits so hard and still slaps today. I really hope Meteora or Collision Course are also on the list. RIP to Chester Bennington.

It's really cool to know that Linkin Park are a gateway band for people who get into rap as well as those who get into metal. They have a really unique sound that just hits every time. There are four all time songs on here with "Papercut", "One Step Closer", "Crawling", and "In the End". The rest of the songs are all pretty similar, so my only real complaint for the album is lack of variation. I feel very similar when it comes to rating this album a 4 or 5 as I did with RHCP - Californication. I gave Californication a 4 due to it's length, and I think I'm going to give Hybrid Theory a 5 due to it's brevity.

I've been a big fan of Linkin Park for a majority of my life so getting this album was certainly very exciting. I understand that their music is not for everyone, but I don't think there is a band out there that does this fusion of rock and rap better than them. It's incredibly unique, the chemistry between Mike and Chester is great, and I love the diversity in the music. I will say that I am in the minority that prefers Meteora over Hybrid Theory, but that's not to say this album isn't also fantastic. Chester Bennington was such a talented man, and getting a chance to appreciate his voice for a little bit today was incredibly refreshing.

esse é um album

This is, in my opinion, Linkin Park’s second-best album behind Meteora. Has a lot of my favourites of their songs. It is a little short, only running 37 minutes, but I enjoyed every second of it. Chester Bennington had one of the greatest voices in nu metal history. Standout Songs: Papercut One Step Closer With You Crawling Runaway In the End A Place for My Head Pushing Me Away

Great no skip album !

Linkin park staat het afgelopen jaar sowieso wel bijna dagelijks aan dus heel blij met deze. NA het luisteren: zo goed. Echt zo goed. Hier staan een paar van de beste nummers op en in combinatie met elkaar heel mooi. Crawling op mijn favoriete lijst gezet na

i don’t know just seeing this album cover makes my brain happy. i can definitely see the hype for sure, it works like a hole, it just all goes together.

Yeah, holy shit. This album is loaded and the emotion feels genuine in every track. Probably the peak of rock/rap. Personally, I forgot how fantastic Crawling and Papercut were. Forgotten was new to me and is a super cool

Oh shit. This was one of the first few albums I owned as a kid! It's an album that I hadn't listened to in a long time. I ayed it to death as a teen, and felt I had outgrown it. And yeah, the album still uses a lot of pretty juvenile themes. But I don't think there's an album that better encapsulates that teenage anxiety we all felt at one stage in our lives. And there's not a weak track here, either. The whole album is high quality, hit after hit. Was really cool to get this huge nostalgia bomb and find that actually, yeah, Hybrid Theory does hold up. I was worried relistening might taint my nostalgia for this work, but it has reinforced it if anything.

Love this album

Uno de los álbumes de mi juventud. Ha envejecido muy bien.

Breath taking.

A true treat from my childhood!

Wunderbar

I would give this 6 stars if I could

Wow, second selection in a row that shares a clear divide between love and hate. "Marmite" I used in my review of yesterday's album, and this is much the same it would seem. I'm in the love camp. Always enjoyed this album, and probably always will. So many bangers. So much angst and energy. Top album!

One of the greatest of my lifetime