Hybrid Theory

No-frills alt-rock/nu metal album that captured an era. Chester’s vocals are timeless and the lyrics apply for everyone frustrated with [you].

5/5

Has some fantastic singles but also more range than you immediately think of by linkin park

yesh

One of my favorite albums of all times, perhaps the best debut album of all time. The exploration, the genre pushing, the content. It never gets old and I’ve listened dozens of times.

For me this is a classic but I could see how if this album didn't come out while you were in elementary school/middle school/high school, it might not be as good. This is maybe the most accessible Nu-Metal? And some of the only good Nu-Metal out there. The hardcore Nu-metal people might say this is too soft and overproduced. Then the people that don't really consume harder rock probably think it's too hard. I love this album.

I love this record and I love this band. Its so well produced. Everything is so tight, which is pretty crazy for a first record 2000. Its heavy, its angry, its sad. It does make me wonder what the hell was wrong with teenagers in the 90s? I remember the first time I listened to this, I must have been 9 years old, and I was blown away. Ultimately, its my least favorite of 3 albums that make up apex mountain for Linkin Park. And my other hot take is that Reanimation is better. But I can't deny that none of what came next would be possible without this record. Its super unique. It hits metal and hip hop in a very non-gimicky way. Its truly respectful and engaging of both genres and it totally works. I'm not surprised that no one else was ever able to pull it off and that the genre kind of peaked and died with this band, but it some ways that's kind of cool.

A really important album to me, released a month or so after I turned 18, and the soundtrack to my uni days. Will always remind me of my flatmate Dan, who could sing the whole album virtually note perfect (but needed me for the rapping!)

More bangers than a fundraiser outside Bunnings. Oooooosh

One of the best albums to come out of their generation, Linkin Park set a tone for what was to come, and inspired so many other bands that came after. It might have been Chester's softly spoken lyrics or his incredible growling screams, or maybe it was the infallible rapping of Mike Shinoda, and don't forget about Mr HAAAAAHN's incredibly scratching. Not to leave the rest of the band out at all. The group is wonderful and this album just pulled you in and made you feel that something special that they had found and were bringing to the world.

It is very nice! Hard and Heavy!

This album carried me through training for my first marathon. I'd pump this shit into my headphones on a long run after 2 hours of podcasts. Always gave me such a huge second wind for the last 45 minutes. RIP Chester

4.5 - This slaps. So much better than I thought it was going to be

I thoroughly enjoyed it, the secret is to like it ironically and pretend to be stuck in a 2007 YouTube video

Love Linkin Park

Classic album

Love this album

Love this album and Linkin Park’s energy rocking out. Rest in power Chester!!

A fucking classic of the nu-metal genre, and the best album Linkin Park ever released.

love

One of linkin parks greatest albums and a era defining album

Holy shit this album goes fucking HARD. Maybe I was too harsh on the rap metal genre fusion, it's hard to pull off, but boy when it works, it really works. Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock can piss off, THIS is the rap metal I want to be hearing.

A fucking classic

This bangs. Feels nostalgic even though I've only known it for two years, I'm looking back to that one time I was scraping moss off the roof. Maybe I'm not mature enough to hate this album or something? Doesnt matter, really

Lot of nostalgia with this album.

Fantastic. Remember when this album came out and people were all talking about Linkin Park. Unfortunately since the death of Chester they faded away though I did hear a rumour of a return with a female vocalist. Lots of great tunes mixed amongst the better known tracks. Fantastic.

Pure nostalgia

It's sad how many people can't see the greatness of this record. As 2000s kid, this was a pivotal album that introduced me to a whole world of 90s rock and beyond. RIP Chester.

Literally every song gets me fired up. Makes me want to run up to my room and slam the door after dinner.

Another generational piece

Angry and cathartic. I don’t recall liking it when it came out. I was 4 so, that’s natural. However, over time, the more I listened to it, the more I enjoyed it. In the End became a staple song on my playlists growing up and that, along with One Step Closer, make this an album I won’t skip!

Peak 2000s music here, at least on the alternative side of things. High school me was so proud buying this with my first paycheck, but now present day me hurts knowing these songs are just a couple years away from the classic rock stations. More hits on this album than not, and my most consistent criteria for rating is one star per song I want on my playlist. This has over 5. Favorite track "Papercut" 6/5

I grew up on this album. Early internet days of over the top music videos and amvs to the sound of Chester's iconic voice. I miss Linkin Park. Favorite track is crawling.

Based on vibes and vibes alone, this album is a ten. Hit after hit. Technically, however, I believe it’s also a ten. Lyrically, instrumentally, production, writing, etc. It experiments without becoming a cliche of the genre or alienating itself. It has range succeeds in every area. Chester’s incredibly powerful vocal performance on every track gives the album an energy that no other band can replicate. And just when you realize the album is perfect; it ends. Not overstaying its welcome, but leaving everyone wanting more. A true gem. 5/5

I'm yelling along with literally all of these songs.

Oh wow. I've never listened to Linkin Park - I kinda always assumed they were too heavy for me. And they are close, but I loved the musicality of this album. I didn't realize they were a metal/hip-hop/rap fusion band. I was also shocked to learn this was a debut album when I went to the wiki after my first listen. It's such a polished album! Very cool stuff! Unsurprisingly, my favorite track was the one with the piano: In the End.

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5 Stars easily. This one is a classic and my favourite Linkin Park album.

one of my favourites all time! beautiful!

5 stars!!!! LOVE Linkin Park!!! One of the best bands ever!!!

This probably comes as no surprise, but I’m a fan. I appreciate the blend of the harder rock, more pop-rock, and sometimes hip-hop. It’s a little more overtly angsty than the stuff I listened to in my angsty teen phase, but it still has a special place in my heart.

🥲

Album is amazing

What should be considered one of the nest albums in hostorynof recorded music. Linkin took the world by surprise acheiving what only the Beatles could do over and over again, to have 90% of the album become successful singles each each song being more powerfull and better than the song before. Nu-metal with rap and strong lyrics and riffs. Simply a perfect album from start to finish, that captured the feeling of hopelessness of a whole generation. The combination of an insanely great voice on Chester (RIP) and power chords with desperation and anger is a helping hand to all people feeling the same way. Its not only the great music is about how this album saved lives by talking their truth. The successful formula that was Limp Bizkit was perfected by Linkin Park making this the best LP of the 2000 by a mile. They repeated the dose in their next album and as great as Meteora is and should be considered top 20 of the 2000. There is absolutely no way to top perfection but they tried and second chance they were almost perfect as well.

Disregard the obscenely long top review at this time. {19-3-24} Go in for a listen with an open mind and enjoy

So I grew up on Hybrid Theory and Meteora. 5 Stars.

Bangers all around

After all these years I still love this album.

SOOO GOOD i love u chester bennington 5/5

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN

Hell yeah

confusion. rage. anxiety. every lyric i hear in this classic album is just so goddamn resonating with a guy like myself. jesus i can feel it down to my bones. this album is great. first-time listeners will be quick to call it angsty "emo" music but when you're going through plenty... this is an album that really expresses all that anguish and turmoil.

10 out of 10

still an awesome album!

Best in headphones.

Instant 5 for me. All-time great album. RIP Chester

Not a bad track on the album. These guys are some of the best in the rap/rock genre.

Excellent album start to finish. Have never gone out of my way to listen to Linkin Park, but definitely a few tracks to add to some Playlists. Love the energy.

loved it very emotional but hits

Great tunes

Biased, but it’s a great record. Very influential I’d say, even if a bit repetitive

The first album ever gifted to me (minus the baha men but I'm not sure if that counts). Super moody and one of the pinnacles of the rap rock/numetal genres. RIP chester as so many great formative songs came on this one. It is a little intense and not the easiest listening but for one step closer and in the end alone it gets a nostalgia 4 stars.

Love linkin park and this album. Happy to see it on the list.

4.5

awesome album

I mean at this point you know what this album is. You were either with it during the time or you weren’t.

Absolute straight classic. Bought this on import when it came out and saw their first ever UK show in a college bar in London. Still slaps

Reminds me to my wilder and younger days, although I wasn‘t young anymore at the date of release of this album. It‘s rough but I like it.

Certified hood classic. Straight from my childhood. 10/10.

This whole album rocks and is timeless. It does bring back my teenage angist years and I love it.

ENERGETIC BOMB! I love to do garden work with it

I remember the moment when I heard them for the first time. The album was on sale, but it was far from popular, so I bought it in a Minsk disk store because I liked the cover. Despite the fact that I've listened to almost nothing but Nirvana and Dream Theatre, I liked these guys. Very cool combination of long rough overdriven drive, overdriven vocals and subtle melody with voluminous reverb. When I listened to them, I didn't know English and didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics. But the lyrics turned out to be quite strong too. They remind me something of J Mors, which came out strongly because of the timbre of Pugach's voice and the lyrics. Here plus more interesting guitars, melancholy and almost metal tendencies. This is a very cool album that you should definitely listen to.

Forfeit the game before somebody else Takes you out of the frame And puts your name to shame Cover up your face, you can't run the race The pace is too fast, you just won't last

Album dell'adolescenza, non c'è molto da dire, lo conoscevo già e lo apprezzo ancora.

Fantastic.

love it

Rap rock? Rock rap? Either way, it's a great album. I like crossover albums like crossover cuisine...mexican and sushi, asian and anything. Nothing wrong with blending. Often times you get a better version of both.

I love this album! Such a classic. So much nostalgia with this album. I remember when I heard this album for the first time. I was blown away. The two vocalists back-and-forth. Singing, rapping, screaming. It was amazing at 16. RIP Chester. A Place for My Head best song on the album

Love you chester

MY FAVORITE

I loved it. The scratching and guitars we're very well executed. 5/5

Awesome

Epic burst of energy

i‘ve listened to this album hundreds of times over the last couple of years

I'd honestly forgotten how good this album is.

I know this album frontwards and backwards. It was one of my favorites as an early teen. It made me sad listening to it thinking of Chester.

Know it, love it.

linkin park was one of my favorite bands growing up, so i was thrilled to see this on here. i think this album holds up pretty well and the production is slick, but at the same time it's definitely a product of its time. it flows well and has a bunch of amazing tracks, but there's definitely some filler here too. one of my biggest gripes with linkin park now that I'm in my 30s is that their lyrics are just incredibly vague. maybe that helps them be relatable to more people like i thought in middle school, but they just don't really say anything. they're far from the only band at this time that had this problem, but they're one of the most prominent examples i can think of. with that said, the music here is great. you can really get a sense for the variety of styles and backgrounds from the people who collaborated on these tracks. reanimation was my first linkin park album (which i bought as a young teen from barnes and noble back in probably 2004) and those are the versions of these tracks i knew the best for the longest time. while i enjoy the hybrid theory versions of most of them more, the creativity and new spins put on these songs for reanimation is exciting and fresh. it was really cool and inspiring to see a band constantly reinventing their sound and individual tracks at this time in my life. favorites: papercut, one step closer, crawling, runaway, in the end, forgotten, pushing me away

One of the most influential albums of the early '00s. If you listen to any top modern rock list today in 2024, you'll be able to see the massive influence Linkin Park still has on music.

I am 100% biased but I still want to comment: The album is build to be listened as a whole, the mixture between hip-hop and rock as well as Chester's wide vocal range, make this album an unskipable jewel.

This is one of my favorite all time albums. I think alot of people can relate to the lyrics in most of the songs. Such a shame Chester Bennington is gone. But then I guess his pain is reflected in his songs.

Best ever

Absolutely love it. My alltime LP favorite :)

9/10

I haven't listened to this in 12+ years yet I still know every word.

🤘🤘🤘

Classic

A classic of nu metal

Probably my favourite album we have had so far. Every song on this is great. Had to listen to Meteora and Minutes to Midnight after. So nostalgic

Absolute gold Still great after all these years, good combination of rock/rap In the end Papercut Are my favourites, there’s only 1 that I don’t like, and only the start

Love this one! RIP Chester :(

Banger

this is so fresh, i love them so much. they commited all the way to their emo shit and slayed

5*

In the End this was a Cure for the Itch. Felt One Step Closer to A Place for My Head with this album.

Never been a Linkin Park fan but I do like some of their songs. I am well aware of this album but never listened to it cover to cover. It is smooth. And for me, even observing from afar, that's what always set them apart from other nu-metal bands. There's a lot of melody to their anger and frantic musical stylings. Papercut is a great example of this and opener to the album. One Step Closer is a bit more abrasive, and I don't love every segment of it, but I always get amped by "shut up when I'm talking to you!" I should've listened to this album a long time ago. It is excellent. I especially like how the rapping (by Mike Shinoda) and singing (by Chester Bennington) mix together. They also do a good job mixing standard instruments and synth and turntables. On top of the other big singles (Crawling, In the End), there are so many other great songs (With You, By Myself, A Place For My Head - maybe my favorite). No holes, except maybe Cure for the Itch. No wonder it is diamond-certified.

Bloody hell this album was excellent. I feel like Linkin Park's sound is so unique; the way they go from these beautiful, gentle, stripped back moments into big, full, intense crescendos. I've heard quite a few of the individual tracks, but I feel like the album works so well as a whole. I know I have a 5 star on my hands when it finishes and I'm disappointed!

Love it, incredible music. RIP Chester :,(

Жалко, что у нас всего один альбом Линкинов. Но я чувствую, это будет если не самый долгий выпуск, то точно самый эмоциональный. Потому что вот это - база. Хотя мне Метеора больше нравится, за свой более электронно-минималистичный вайб.

crazy rock

extremely good

I admit I’m a bit biased as I did have this album growing up, but it still holds up amazingly well! I kept listening expecting to find at least one dud somewhere but nope, enjoyed the entire album all over again. There is something about Chester’s energy.

When this came out I couldn't stop listening to it.

A top album of all time. Pure genius from LP

Still fuckin' bangs

bro REALLY needs some therapy

Chester definitely needed therapy and we didn't see it. Banger after banger, with only one song that doesn't seem to live up to it

Tienjarig Filipje kreeg deze cd van zijn coole neef en verstond net genoeg Engels om mee te zijn met waar het over ging. Op TMF keek hij naar de paar bijhorende clips op Rock Zone, aaneengepraat door de schone ogen van Roos Van Acker. Hij was bezeten door de opzwepende mix van stijlen en dacht natuurlijk dat al die teksten over hem gingen. 2 zangers hielden het geheel fantastisch in balans. De oerschreeuw van Chester Bennington (RIP!) kwam binnen bij zowat elk puberend manneke toen. Zelfs mijn zus had er wel een Joepie-poster van hangen, naast Koen Wauters waarschijnlijk. Filipje geeft de plaat een 5, en zet die in zijn top 10 beste platen aller tijden. Niet moeilijk natuurlijk als je nog maar een tiental albums kent. Filip, datzelfde Filipje maar dan een dikke 20 jaar later, geeft dit nog altijd een 5. Er zijn gewoon niet veel betere nu-metal albums gemaakt dan deze snijdende Hybrid Theory. Die muziek heeft nog altijd een enorm effect op onze generatie. Ik merk dat op Radio Willy bijvoorbeeld vaak grijpen naar 1 van de andere zware schijven op dit meesterwerk, niet per se naar In The End. De plaat staat er nog steeds in zijn geheel. Is ze onbeperkt houdbaar? Nu-metal is momenteel helemaal terug hip, en een album als dit dat over universele gevoelens gaat, gaat dan voorbij de paar licht gedateerde techniekjes in de muziek her en der. Deze plaat gaat mee naar het rusthuis. Het zou mooi zijn als Roos Van Acker daar nog bij mag zijn... ach ja... in the end, it doesn't even matter.

Mogelijk het enige album waarvan ik elk nummer mee kan brullen... Wauw, waar is de tijd. Ik zou willen zeggen dat dit de eerste plaat is dat ik ooit kocht met mijn zuur verdiende centjes, toen ik 12 was, maar er was nog eentje voor. Veel minder cool, maar bon, cool wordt je niet vanzelf: Curb van Nickelback. Doordat ik ze al zo lang heb en toen niet veel keuze had welke ik zou opleggen, heeft deze heeel veel opgestaan. Dat hielp waarschijnlijk om de teksten te onthouden. Iets waar ik trouwens heeel slecht in ben. Toen ik op de bus eens een "coole achttienjarige" zag met een pet en patch van LP, wist ik dat ik goed bezig was. Ik luisterde naar coole muziek. Meteora vond ik ook nog nice, daarna ben ik de interesse wat verloren. Hier en daar eens geprobeerd, maar het latere werk van Linkin Park kon me niet bekoren. Doorheen de tijd is het een plaat gebleven dat ik ben kunnen blijven opzetten, met momenten. Ook nu geniet ik er nog steeds van. De nummers blijven blijkbaar ook heel vaak van toepassing zijn op mijn leven. Ik ben ondertussen geëvolueerd naar een moderne, rustige, luisterende, met emoties rekening houdende ouder. Jeej... Vanbuiten dus vaak een man die zo zen lijkt (of toch bijna) als boeddha zelf, maar vanbinnen eigenlijk gevoelens heeft die gelijk lopen met het nummer one step closer. Aaah ouderschap. Heerlijk, toch? (Mijn ouders maakten het zich wel gemakkelijk zenneee). Verder ga ik het niet over elk nummer apart hebben, ik vind ze gewoon allemaal goed. Punt. Deze kwam voor QotSA, Metallica, Nirvana en al die coole bands dat ik nog ging ontdekken. Er zijn ondertussen ook zoveel ontdekkingen geweest die ik uiteraard veel beter vind. Maar deze plaat... (<3) dit is de plaat dat de weg naar die ontdekkingen opende en zal daarom altijd een speciaal plaatsje in mijn muzikaal hart behouden.

true classic

Helt klart det album jeg kendte bedst i forvejen , og det har en helt særligt plads i mig hjerte.

In my country, In the End is one of the most popular songs from foreign music. Many people of my generation also started to fall in love with rock music in general through Linkin Park, especially with their early days. And most of them, if asked, will choose Hybrid Theory as their favorite (or even further, most favorite) among other albums in 2000s, probably 2000s music overall, and me is not exception (though It doesn't mean their music is superior to all music came from the same era). (I rank it 5 not 4, just for personal preference) Fav Track: Forgotten

Very good

Awesome.

a true rock classic

Oh yes the teenage years

Let me make this clear: there is absolutely no chance in hell I am rating this below a 5 going into it. This is such a seminal album of my childhood, it's already locked in. Alright, let's listen. Yep, of course this held up for me. Pretty much every song is a hot, and they're all pretty much in regular rotation for me, especially for working out. I know the lyrics play into the psyche of typically angsty teens, but they really do a better job than most artists at describing those feelings artistically. Chester's singing is iconic, Shinoda's rapping is a perfect change of pace, and the instrumentation kicks ass. Favorite track: Papercut

i fucking have this album and i love it to death 5/5

One of my all time favorite albums. Classic. RIP Chester

Album shaped my music taste as a kid. Perfect

It was really hard to rate this album. This album and 'Meteora' were albums that became insanely popular when I was young, so there are quite strong nostalgia connected to this for me. Which raises the question of how good it really is. Somehow it doesn't feel super modern anymore, but I can't put my finger on whether it's because I haven't been listening to this type of music for long or whether it's something else. Having mostly heard the big hits before like 'Papercut', 'In the End', 'One Step Closer', 'Crawling', 'A Place for My Head', I have to say that I can't find that many songs that are actually bad. I think I will have to give this a weak 5 star, just because I can't really find any reason not to. It's just overall filled with good songs. I don't necessarily enjoy it as much as I would've back in the day, but I still think it's objectively really good. And when it came out it was quite groundbreaking.

Amazing album that uniquely expresses the dark, confusing and often negative feelings of adolescence and growing up. Chester’s way of clearly conveying the emotions that ultimately led to his suicide is beautiful and poetic.

An absolute banger infused with nostalgia, even though the only connection I had with LP was 1 song on Tap Tap Revenge + my classmates hyping about them

This was one of my first favorite albums. It's crazy how it still so prevelant today and the words seem to have adjusted to the world around them.

Classic

For a debut album, this set the bar high. For me, this has to be one of the best albums of the 20th century. Linkin Park is one of my all-time favourite bands, every track on this is an absolute banger and as a whole this album only serves to make one miss the presence of Chester Bennington all the more. There will never be anyone quite like him. 5/5

Bangers all round

Top 3 #2 One Step Closer #5 Crawling #8 In The End (#12 Pushing me Away is an honourable mention)

This was one of the first albums I remember listening to when I was younger. The first half of the album is definitely stronger than the second half, despite "In The End" being on the second half. Even with how overplayed "In the End" was back in the day, I do still feel like it is the best song on the album. It was incredibly easy to dive right back in to this album and listen all the way through.

- instant 5/5

Nice rough rock vibes. Thoroughly enjoyed the listen.

that was fun!

I'm biased, because I bought this when it came out and listened to it on repeat until I knew just about every single track by heart. 10/5 amazing album from a voice we'll sadly never hear again.

Great album! Been a fan since they started.

Childhood Album!

ahh I feel like an edgy teen again

Love this one. Lots of memories. RIP Chester.

Nostalgic.

*Great* album. Tremendous mix of hard edged guitars, gritty vocals, heavy lyrics and perfectly designed rhymes. This album is so good, it’s hard to believe that it is the band’s first album. Every song is produced to perfectly blend heavy metal and rap/hip-hop. It’s hard to pick out a favorite, but "Cure for the Itch" feels like filler. The magic occurs when the lyrics, raps, scratching, samples and guitars all play off one another.

Het eerste album dat ik al helemaal ken, hype!! Nostalgie ten top, dit heeft me mijn tienertijd doorgesleept, iets waar ik al mijn negatieve emoties in kwijt kon. Schreeuwen, janken, het kan allemaal met dit op de speakers. Maar in een iets serieuzere noot, ik vind nu-metal een leuk genre en dit album is wat dat betreft toch wel toonaangevend. De combinatie van metal, rap en futuristisch klinkende productie is helemaal in balans. Het totale plaatje klopt op dit album. Fantastisch met wat echte meeschreeuwers (CRAAAAAWLING INNN MY SKINNN) en tijdloze hits, zoals In The End. Favorieten: Papercut, With You, Crawling, By Myself, In the End, Forgotten, Pushing Me Away

100 the whole way through 🔥

Masterpiece

Brings me right back to highschool. This is hands down LP's best album.

One of the first albums I ever bought, peak 15 year old nu metal angst. The lyrics are undeniably general cringe but I think it's musically better than a lot of similar bands and the singing/rapping combo was a revelation to a teenager who didnt listen to much outside of pop punk. I was never a Linkin Park megafan in the way I was obsessed with SOAD around the same time but I loved them all the same. Saw them headline Leeds the first year we went straight after getting GCSE results, half a lifetime ago. Can't really objectively review this, but it's a massive 5 from me.

I vividly remember playing Championship Manager on my PC and having all my ripped CDs playing in the background on RealPlayer. This was one of those albums that looped around with Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American, Green Day's Warning, Eminem's Marshal Mathers LP, Blink 182's Enema of the State and Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavorured Water. Like "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavorured Water" teenage me would have given this 5 stars without question. Now I find myself questioning that, its a good album and I throughly enjoyed all the tracks (except "Cure for the Itch" which I always hated) but is it 5 star great? Chester's voice is incredible and got better as their albums went on, it's a damn shame we won't hear anything more from him. As I've grown up and changed so has Linkin Park's sound, and I do prefer some of their later albums. But reading some of the public 1 star reviews shows me this is not getting anything lower than a 5. Fuck all the haters, this is a great album. P.S. In Champ Man I did get Aston Villa to the Champions League final and I definitely didn't save scum ;-)

My sister was the LP fan in the family, but I heard this album indirectly so many times that I know all the songs. Must be the nostalgia, but this album is really really good.

A favorite

god damn i forgot about this one!!! i love linkin park, thankfully during last tattoo session sasha reminded me of it! <3

petica ko kuca, no brainer

my childhood length

Classics. They will always sound modern. Best sound for a young, teenage heart.

This brings back some memories and it's better than I remember. Such a good debut album. 5/5

memoriezzzz

This album was my biggest surprise so far. I didn't think I could love a metal album. I especially didn't think I could love songs containing that growling vocal style. In fact, just the other day I was talking to someone about not liking metal because of the vocals (she was agreeing). It's more than mere dislike for me. I find metal growling unlistenable. Usually, anyway. Because for some reason, I could take it with this album. This list has had a lot of these really intense rock/metal albums, and I've usually tended to rate them quite lowly. Not only because I'm not a fan of the sound, but also because they tended to have extremely sexually explicit lyrics that aren't well written. Not Linkin Park. The lyrics on this album are intelligent, powerful and meaningful. Not only that but they were... relatable? In fact, I was not ready for how much I related to the lyrics. Every song hit me in the gut in a way I'm not sure I've ever experienced. It was more than just "I relate to these songs." The lyrics were my exact feelings, my exact experience and my exact struggles. Honestly, I could've written some of them myself. It was so intensely cathartic. I actually cried twice, and came very close several other times. And no, I'm not even going to complain about the musical side of things, despite it getting a bit too intense for my usual palate. How could I complain when the music supports the lyrics so well? It just drives them home even more, making the whole experience even more intense, even more cathartic and even more powerful. Seriously, there is not a bad track on here (except maybe that goofy interlude, but it was so short that it's basically insignificant). My favourites were obviously the ones that hit me the hardest, and that I related to the most. However, even the songs I related to less were so well done that I ended up loving them anyway. Favourite tracks: Crawling, One Step Closer, With You, In the End, By Myself, Runaway

This is somewhat of a holy grail to me in my childhood. I breathed this album, can dream it from front to back. This album had such a huge influence on other music I would discover in the following years. The melting pot of rock, metal, hiphop and electronics is perfectly displayed here By far my favorite of their works, and I feel so lucky to have seen them once and several of these songs in concert! I miss this band and Chester dearly. 9 out of 10

Album #10 In 2000, I saw a commercial for this album on MTV. It featured a brief clip of the One Step Closer music video. I saw these two nu-metal guys with dyed hair yelling in what I recall being an alley. I immediately wrote them off. The first time someone played Papercut for me, I realized that I had made a serious mistake. By the end of 2001, I knew this album backwards and forwards. I even began scouring the Internet for demos, bootlegs and other rarities. Linkin Park was the soundtrack of my college experience. I felt like all of my awkward teenage feelings had been validated through their songs. And the music itself stood out because it truly was a hybrid of so many styles. 5* from me for just so many reasons.

A timeless classic. 5/5 crazy this the first album it feeds me

This was one of my favourite albums for a while when it first came out. Still remember it well and haven't listened to it in years.

so iconic 10/10

Love this shit. Chester has such a cool voice. This music was so exciting when I first heard it. It felt like it was made for an angsty teen and that was me. The layering of the different instruments and tracks is absolutely over-produced. They are among the nu metal bands that has a DJ to add in synthetic sounds like drums and other flourishes. It all sounds very artificial. But awesome. I have unfortunately never seen them live before and not sure what quality of show they can produce in-person. Sad about what happened to Chester, but I still like Mike Shinoda quite a lot as a producer and artist.

This album defined my grade 7 year. At the time this music was super unique and groundbreaking - so many genres mixed together. Excellent album from start to finish. There isn't a bad track even if CRAWWLLLLING INNNNN MYYY SKINNN is meme-worthy. Forgotten and Runaway are bangers. I wish this band kept doing this kind of sound - Meteora was great but everything after that got worse and worse imo. RIP Chester.

When listening to this album, there’s only one thing you have to do…….SHUT UUPPPPPP

I will happily listen to this

Brilliant!!!!

Absolute banger, a classic

Their sound was different than anything else when this album came out. I loved it then and still do.

Back then at 10 years old this was the coolest, most perfect album. Now, it's about a 4/10. I don't expect grown ass men who never listened to this growing up to give a crap. Hearing it now in full it is mostly just cringy with angsty lyrics. There are some cool 'hard' beats to get you through it. Chester was always incredible, though. A pure nostalgia rating from me, as I still like it. Favorite song is Papercut.

10/10

A classic nu metal album I love dearly

Importante escutar neste momento para perceber a visão imbecil que tinha quando o disco foi lançando. Nem escutei direito por achar que era som da molecada pretensamente revoltava deprê de shopping. Atualmente sou capaz de compreender o impacto significativo da criação da banda com a sonoridade única para abordar temas como angústia, alienação e conflitos internos.

Great album, initially found the rapping bits quite weird but, fuck yeah. Great energy

Amazing. Chester has a great voice, and it had many catchy songs. Easy 5/5

How many solid songs can we fit on one album? Well most of them is the answer as we fly through this angst filled black balloon filled with the unimaginable pain of life and suffering. Even twenty three years later I can still remember nearly all the songs which shows the impact it had on me as a teenager and the small recess in my brain it shall forever live.

I'm not sure I enjoyed it as much as when I was a teen, but a definite 5 for the nostalgia factor. I was obsessed with this album for about a year.

I like it

Oh man I can smell my used 4banger Mustang with the sweet ass aftermarket CD Player blasting the hell out of this cd. RIP Chester.

One of the albums that stayed with me during my teenage years. Listening to this brought back so many heartfelt memories: old friendships, watching MTV, my very first job… There are so many things that come to mind, but think that most of them were probably mentioned by others, so I’m keeping it short. It is one of the finest nu metal works. With a extremely accessible sound and reduced cringe levels, this work introduced that trend to lots of people. An almost flawless list of songs and great artwork. It’s one of this albums you like more the deep cuts than the singles.

Love this album

Wonderful!

Rating: 10/10

Childhood and adulthood all rolled up into one shouty rappy ball of brilliance.

Childhood favourite, still love it.

An album I know, love and still listen to. Hell, I'm playing it for my kids for them to get to love it also.

This will get a 5 regardless, however I want to give it an updated chance to be absorbed into my developed musical tastes. I grew up thinking this album was one of the coolest things ever. It was rap rock, but never did I feel it was corny. Chester had exceptional talent and the rapping always fit nicely. Dj + rock instrumentals were fresh and eye-opening for a genre defining sound. I relistened intently to see if I could get some sense of that rush, like chasing a drug high. Chester was unbelievable, so melodic but damn the scream can just convey so much angst and pain at one time, while still being enjoyable. With you is a passionate and powerful song, love to hear it through s refreshed lens. Crawling is a great mashup of electronic overlays on a rock track, beautifully melded. The chorus is electric and the emotion is visceral. So many great tracks in this album, so much expansion of rock into new spaces. Other tired to copy but paled in comparison. Linkin Park were supreme.

Primera impresión:un inició muy bueno con buenas letra y un ritmo pegajoso

Childhood/teenage memories unlocked! It's a all killer no filler record after all this years.

Well well well. I think we had meteora on here and I had mentioned that was my first Linkin Park album. This one came shortly after and solidified this band as one of the greats. A new sound at the dawn of the millennium that was a beautiful mashup of rap, metal, punk, and rock. Beyond the regular instruments you had Mr Hahn on the synths and dj-ing on top of Mike Shinoda’s hip hop dance and the late Chester B’s howls. Side note, it was foolish of anyone to assume that man wasn’t hurting as almost every single song on all the albums references pain and sadness to one degree or another. But what truly makes me love this album (beyond its sister album Reanimation) are the lyrics. I’d argue this album against almost any other of any genre for its biting and timely lyrics. Every single word and rap is perfectly placed and not only tells a story, but flows like water. Whether it’s through screams or raps. This was an album I often sang while running or just in general so all the lyrics are second nature. So since I love every song on here I’ll call out some choice lyrics from each. Papercut: it’s like I’m paranoid, looking over my back. Like a whirlwind inside of my head, I can’t stop what I’m hearing within. It’s like the face inside is right beneath my skin. One Step Closer: All these words they make no sense, I find bliss in ignorance. Less I hear the less you’ll say. With You: when things go wrong I pretend the past isn’t real. Now I’m trapped in this memory and I’m left in the wake of the mistake. (Also excellent Hahn track at the end) Points of Authority: forfeit the game before somebody else takes you out of the frame, puts your name to shame. Cover up your face, you can’t run the race the pace is too fast you just won’t last. Crawling: my walls are closing in. Without a sense of confidence and I’m convinced that’s there’s just too much pressure to take Runaway: graffiti decorations under a sky of dust, a constant wave of tension on top of broken trust. By Myself: do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness, or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness. In The End: I kept everything inside and even thought I tried it all fell apart. What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn’t even matter. (This song really hits hard losing Chester) A Place For My Head: The sun doesn’t give life to the moon assuming the moons gonna owe it one. Makes me think of how you act to me you do favors then rapidly turn around and start asking me about things that you want back from me (what a metaphor) Forgotten: the memory is now like the picture was then, when the papers crumpled up it can’t be perfect again (I like the Reanimation version better) Cure for the Itch: ladies and gentleman, Mr Hahn Pushing Me Away: even the people who never frown eventually breakdown (so true, also prefer the Reanimation version) So yeah this is a five star. Needed this one today…RIP Chester.

Big time nostalgia album here. Alex put us all on to Linkin Park, including Dad. I do think this was my favorite of their albums, it's got a constant flow of banger tracks. Undeniably heavy-hitting riffs and power chords, great melodies throughout. They're dipping their toes into nu-metal I'd say, but they're a more accessible rock band for a lot of people. I think that's due to the clarity of the vocals, even at the points where Chester is screaming or Mike Shinoda is rapping. And the lyrics are simple, but strong and contemplative. The messages are all pretty good, helping emo kids come to grips with negative emotions and the unfairness of the world around them. "I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter." How do you make that sentiment into a catchy, heavy rock chorus? I would love to know how many fathers connected with their kids through this music. Wikipedia says it's the best selling rock album of the 21st century, and I'm not surprised. I was going to give this a 4.5, knowing that nostalgia is elevating it perhaps undeservedly, but then "Place for My Head" came on. "I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night, shining with the light from the sun. But the sun doesn't give the light to the moon assuming the moon's gonna owe it one." KILLER track. That's enough to tip the scales. This is a fiver. Favorite tracks: Place for My Head, Crawling, Papercut, By Myself, Runaway, One Step Closer, almost all of it. Album art: Time has made this one iconic, even though it's maybe not that strong on its own. A graffiti figure on a concret wall with dragonfly wings. Has never meant much to me, but it has aged gracefully. 5/5

my adolescence

Love this album.So many good songs.Best nu-metal band.Chester’s voice is so good and yeah the rapping might seem a bit dated now but it’s still amazing.

What a proper album. The production is absolutely perfect. Not too polished, but tight and the songs carry the same sound giving the songs a cohesive belonging. Chester’s voice carries the album while the unique blend of hip hop and hardcore create something so tough but vulnerable. In the end, pun intended, you have a masterpiece in a genre that very few achieve such recognition and success in.

Major sentimental throwback to my youth here and very happy that even 20 years later I still rate the album as high as back then

Love this album, have it on vinly

Love Linkin Park!

Awesome album from a awesome band.

Love love love

Love it

Holds up. Still goes H A R D.

Yet another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex That said, it's still a favourite of mine. I'd listen to this all the time back then... and still often do now!

RIP to the goat. In the end, it does matter!!!

This album changed my life

The first thing I brought with my first pay-cheque in 2001. An incredible album that I loved then, and love now - with the lyrics hitting even harder. Superb

Since this is one of the first CDs I bought with "my" own money, and it also contained some of the first songs I downloaded as illegal .mp3 files. My emotional memory already ensures a 5-star rating. However, besides my good memories, this album also represents the synthesis of the 2000 rock songs. It represents the feeling of these lost years, with all the remaining angry and revolutionary mindset from the 90s, while also being a preview of all the following musical tendencies of that time: the rap-rock ascension, the emocore feeling that would dominate all the charts of the decade and even a kind of prediction of what would become trap/hip-hop for the next decade, incorporating all the angry (and sadness) of the 90s and 2000s accumulated. Meteora is a better Linkin Park album, but this one absolutely is a hors concours for me.

This album is like a teleportation device that instantly brought me back to middle school. I don't think I can separate my nostalgia from an honest music review on this one. Linkin Park were one of the bands that I would consider the soundtrack to my youth. I can clearly remember the first time I heard Linkin Park. I was sitting in the basement listening to Much Music, as a kid in Canada would do in those days. This song came on that was heavy, with screamed vocals, and hip hop mixing going on in the background. I was just starting to dip my toe into the "hard rock/metal" scene at the time, and was also hard into listening to hip hop, so this was a blend of the two music genres I was fond of, so it immediately grabbed my interest. The music video had a super industrial feel to it. Then came Chester's hook in the middle of One Step Closer, where he yells "Shut Up" several times with increasing intensity, and I was hooked. These lyrics immediately spoke to me as I was in my "rebellious youth" phase of life. From the song One Step Closer: "Everything you say to me, Takes me one step closer to the edge, And I'm about to break! I need a little room to breathe, Cause in one step closer to the edge, And I'm about to break!" Chester was saying what I wished I could, so I immediately went to the store "Records on Wheels", bought this album, and proceeded to fan boy everything they put out until into my high school years. I must have listened to this album hundreds of times in those years. Nu metal has always held this stigma that it is an "introduction to metal" which I would agree with. For Someone just trying to get into the metal scene, I was finding that bands like Slayer or Sepultura scared the shit out of me. Bands like Linkin Park or Korn were firmly rooted in the same metal style, but wasn't so abrasive, so it was almost like a stepping stone to the heavier and darker bands of true metal. Chester Bennington's voice was absolutely stellar! I simply love the live video that accompanied the song Given Up, where he held a scream for 17 seconds. Amazing. That powerful voice, coupled with Mike Shinoda's turntable work created this softer, more welcoming metal/hop hop hybrid that just immediately hit with me. Overall, an amazing trip down memory lane to some great times in my life, when things were simpler, and time ran slower. I have a soft spot for this music, this band, and specifically this album that will always be there. RIP Chester, you were a hell of a frontman, and were gone too soon! Favourite songs: In The End, One Step Closer, Papercut, Crawling, Points of Authority, Runaway, A Place For My Head, Forgotten Least favourite song: if forced to pick: Cure for the Itch 5/5

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Absolute fucking banger. If this is the genre of music you like, there's not a bad track on the whole album. 8 of the 12 are in my "liked songs" list in Spotify, and even the other 4 are still totally listenable. RIP, Chester. You are definitely missed.

A revelation of an album that still endures today. "In the end, it doesn't even matter." I beg to differ. RIP, Chester. RIP.

What can I say other than this album is everything I want from emo-type rock. It’s not perfect, but it’s one of the best

I was 17 when these guys exploded onto the scene, and I couldn't have been MORE the target audience. Those were some formative years and these guys were part of my identity almost. I played this CD so much it's permanently engraved on my brain, to the extent I could probably not listen to it for another 50 years but still somehow remember all the lyrics. I'm aware that the nostalgia factor has woven its way firmly into my rating, but I think if I heard it for the first time today... I think I'd still be on-board. I'd definitely have some heavy eyerolls at some of the overly-dramatic lyrics. I can't go on! The face inside! Paranoia! Pain! However, I think I'd still massively appreciate how many brilliant hooks and singalong choruses are in here. You can't deny how great some of these songs are. To me these guys hitting when they did, it was lightning in a bottle. Everything came together, riding the nu-metal wave, Chester's raw vocals, Mike Shinoda's rapping, the heavy riffs, the soaring choruses. I love it. What a debut.

I remember when I first saw them on MTV. It was crazy to see Rap and Metal together. Even if they didn't invent it, they helped popularize a new genre. Also, the album is great from A to Z.

5 stars for my favorite so far. Biased maybe but it's still a solid 5 star

Mind

Not a bad song on this album. When I was a freshman in college, "One Step Closer" was a big MTV hit. I bought the cd because back in 2000, I bought the CD of any album that had a song I loved. Upon the first listen, I realized that was a band that was much more than they appeared on the surface. Nu metal is often criticized as mimicking other genres but comes off like it's trying to hard. This album has elements of metal/screaming, hip hop, and melodic rock and it does all of it exceptionally well. This might be one of my favorite albums we've had yet.

There arent many albums I can point to that really set off my love for music but this is one of them. There probably isn't an album I've listened to more in my life than this. RIP Chester and thanks for everything you did for me and music as a whole.

On nostalgia alone I would give this 5 stars. However I can’t do that so I give it 5 stars for Chester’s haunting vocals and defining a generation of alternative rockers.

I've listened to this album so many times and I love it! Probably in my top 10 of my favorite albums of all time.

All time favorite.

Mega, immer noch....weckt Emotionen u Erinnerungen

CRAWLING IN MY SKINNNNNNN THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAAAAAALLLLLLLLL So many classics 5 stars

Modern classic

One of the big listens of nu-metal and a replacement for the punk of our parents.

I remember when the follow-up album Meteora came out and I was a 12-year old kid trying to figure out his tastes in music and I heard Numb on MTV and it was the best thing ever. Some years later, I derided Linkin Park as way too mainstream and "Not real metal". A few years after that, my musical horizons expanded again. "Real metal" was not the defining criteria for good music anymore and I rediscovered Linkin Park for what they were: a very good band that produced an accomplished mix of styles and put them together into an angry and angsty, yet shining and mass-appealing package. Now, it's been quite a while since I last listened to them. And I don't think this will ever be a record that I spin on repeat - too shallowly angry for that. But I enjoyed this one spin a lot and still think they were a great band. Now let me revisit Meteora as well.

Super duper

Good for trainning

This is the album that got me into music. Still one of my favorites of all time.

Первый альбом Linkin Park. Это классика! Это легенда. Он выпущен в 2000 году, но его все еще очень приятно слушать.

Linkin Park is such a weird band. Accused of making the same record over and over, they release something completely different but it sucks. Accused of being to squeaky clean, they try to dirty up their image with a remix album that was explicit lyrics. It looked desperate and they still seemed like a bunch of nice boys, which I am sure they hated. Meanwhile, this record is a legit banger. The perfect album for the end of FM radio rock.

Van sortir en el moment precís, enmig del sorgiment del nu metal, per portar el génere a unes cotes de creativitat que els seus col.legues de génere no havien assolit ni assolirien posteriorment. Un disc fora de sèrie, marcant un hite en els àlbums que tractaven la barreja de géneres, i compilant gran part de les millors cançons del rock d'aquells anys en un sol disc

God

classic

Blinded by nostalgia here. More proof as to why Linkin Park is my favorite band of all-time. These songs carry such emotional significance for me, as they introduced me to music, and are probably the foundation of my taste in punk rock today. To be totally fair, the lyrics here are very surface-level. I never felt like Chester was a brilliant lyricist, but he always wrote with raw unfiltered emotion. Which ultimately led to plain and derivative lines that Chester sold incredibly well with some of the best vocal control I've ever heard. The hooks are catchy, the screams are cathartic and it feels like every song could have been a single. Hybrid Theory is one of the most iconic albums of the 2000s. It's not LP's best record (forever a Thousand Suns superfan), but it is their most important. RIP Chester. Favorite songs: With You, Papercut, By Myself, Points of Authority, One Step Closer, Crawling, A Place For My Head, Forgotten Least favorite songs: N/A (In The End, I guess?) P.S. when I hear any song on this album, I think of Club Penguin, because I discovered LP in 2006 when I was five years old and spending every day playing the Club Penguin pizza game and watching LP/Club Penguin music videos on YouTube, like this: https://youtu.be/vCbY-9hZxwE

Amazing album, amazing band

Genre defining—(how do I still know 90% of these words

Phenomenal debut album. Easily one of their strongest offerings and one of the best nu-metal offerings of the time.

Just such a great album. A forever classic.

Personally a 5 because this just launched my love of music. But know this album is more of a 3.5

There are 2 memories I associate with this album. I remember buying this album with Christmas money my grandma gave me in 4th grade. And the second is being at my friends on his trampoline. He had outdoor speakers on his house, it was this album and limp bizkit all day on the trampoline. RIP Chester :(

Directo en la nostalgia adolescente. Jovencitos gritones que muy a la moda combinan la música pesada con la lírica rapeada y sin saberlo se convierten en algunos de los precursores de todo un movimiento. Poquito repetitivo pero ayuda mucho aún recordar muchas de las letras. 4.5 estrellas que voy a subir a 5 porque sí, directito en la nostalgia y me hizo agitar la cabeza con singular alegría.

Masterpiece!

Quite possibly my favorite album of all time.

This is unironically really good. Makes me feel like I'm 14 again. THIS OS WHERE YHR CRAWLING IN MY SKIN AONG IS GROM

Had listened before. Very nostalgic, but very bitter sweet considering Chester's decision to take his life in 2017. Will listen again, 5/5

This is the zenith of teenage angst, and the best representation of nu-metal on the list IMO. They balance the metal and hip-hop/electronic elements perfectly. And I know they get a good deal of hate and are seen as posers/sellouts for not cursing, but feeling like the emotional impact is less because someone isn't using naughty words just sounds like edgy middle schooler criticism (though, this is definitely an album aimed at that demographic, so perhaps there is some point there). Shits rad yo. Tight, fun, genre-blending angst.

I mean, LP is one of my favorite bands of all time. Something I will call out beyond the vocal chemistry between Chester and Mike is Joe Hahn, most notably on Cure for the Itch. His presence is the thing that ties the sounds all together in my opinion, with the Nu-Metal presence of electronic and rap sometimes coming across as jarring for other acts.

The best!

just an alround great album with all time greatest "crawling" and obviously "in the end" still consider it one of the best choices i made by going to their concert a month before chester took his own life

This is a good album… The album opens with papercut a song that isn’t necessarily one of my favourites but it’s definitely the sum of all the sounds that you will get on this record. One step closer is a brilliant early album single for this band I love the lyrics to this song from the well crafted verses to the screamy yet catchy chorus! The chorus in with you is so climactic absolutely amazing tune. Points of authority is slightly more tame than the first three songs but it’s still an impressive song. The verses of crawling are very poppy i’am not too sure of they work too well for this band ( or at least at this point).Runaway also feels exactly the same. By myself has this real scream to it’s guitars that make it a really quality song. Most popular single in the end acts as the album’s climax it’s a grand song very different to the rest of the album being piano based what a song! The guitars on a place for my head are amazing just enough to make this one of the albums best. Forgotten is my favourite song on the album literally every aspect of the song impresses me pre chorus, verses, chorus, bridge all perfection! Other than the MR HANNNNNN bit cure for the itch is a cool instrumental but nothing that I would seek out. The album closes with pushing me away it’s really good it’s similar to those more “ mid” songs( crawling, runaway) with the audio dynamics but this is just so much better feels like a grand heavy finale to a near perfect album. Anyway, while this album does have lows it’s still a 5/5 as it’s very hard to deny it’s power.

Another one for the memories! I was always more of a Meteora fan, but Hybrid Theory has a really big place in my heart. Song 'In The End' is extremely catchy, and I know the lyrics still after twenty-ish years. Album starts on a high note with 'Papercut' and it actually just gets better. All around, it's a very even record. With this debut album, Linkin Park position themselves on the Mount Olymp of the Nu Metal wave, and for some (like me), on the very top of it.

Bold and unpredictable. This album doesn't fall into any one category. Lyrically powerful and musically frenetic and energetic. Definitely listenable to again and again.

Interesante, pero repetitivo

shout out to the random furry on twitter that told me to give this album another chance a few years ago. thanks dog. this became a guilty pleasure album for me back then and i was happy to listen to it again for this. i don't think there's any song i particularly dislike, just maybe some weaker ones. certainly nothing skippable. classic unless ur old

An influential album for my teenage self. This album helped to define the nu metal sound - a genre I rarely go back to, but when I do, this one must be included. Linkin Park, at the beginning, was innovative and exciting with their combination of rap-rock, dj, and singing - which gave the sound variety (not common of most others in this genre).

Good generational album. 4/5

A great debut showcasing many more great musical creations from this metal/hip hop sensation.

I was previously familiar with Linkin Park and some of the tracks on this album, but this was the first time listening through all the way. This is a really strong album. I already knew the tracks In The End and Crawling, and several others were familiar as well. This album is probably one of the best nu metal albums of all time. It is cohesive in sound and has strong leading tracks. There's some harshness which comes with the genre that I don't love, but overall I enjoyed this and would listen again.

It's so edgy and angsty but if it wasnt it wouldnt be cool. The songs are a little samey so gotta be in a particular mood to listen to the full album, but I appreciate that it knows what it wants to be.

CRAAAAWWWWLIN IN MY SKINNNNNN is a 5 alone

Early 2000s edgy emo rock still goes hard. This album is great and hyped me up on the treadmill while I listened to it, which I appreciate.

This is my first exposure to Linkin Park whatsoever and as soon as I hit play I knew I would enjoy this. There are certainly parallels between this and the rap and rock fusion that Rage Against The Machine offers on their self-titled record which I was over the moon about. I was into the lyrics of that record slightly more and I preferred the brashness of that sound without the synths used here. This album also feels less consistent to me as a handful of tracks are more hit-or-miss but I’m definitely nitpicking. I still enjoy the synths and the themes here, along with everything else, this is a style that seems to have instant appeal to me, even if I’m not going to want to listen to it all the time. 1 listen Favorite Tracks: In The End, Papercut, Crawling, One Step Closer, Pushing Me Away

This was a pivotal album for me when I was a young teenager. Nu-metal was extremely popular at that time. I’m surprised how well this album still holds up for me today.

I'm familiar with and like Linkin Park and already have 19 songs liked by them, with 5 songs from this album going in to today, 6 when counting "My December". Liked songs I am starting with are: "Papercut", "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "In The End", and "Cure for the Itch". Looks like these were the released singles I would have heard on the radio. "Cure for the Itch" is a cool (mostly) instrumental. I remember having the CD back in the day too. So I'm sure I'll recognize most of this as I listen today. I also have "My December" liked which is on the Bonus Edition and I believe it was played on the radio around that time. This song sounded very different than the rest of this album which is probably why they released it separately. One thing about this album (and Linkin Park in general) is when you pay attention to the words it's almost like you are witnessing a person discussing their problems with their therapist, using therapy words. Painful/traumatic childhood - check. Dysfunctional relationships - check. Self-hatred, insecurity and fear - check. Drug/alcohol use to mask their issues - check. I am positive their songs have helped people - by feeling not alone with these challenges - and I'm sure this has encouraged people to feel more open discussing these things. It's definitely heartbreaking that Chester Bennington could never overcome these problems and ended up killing himself - even after all of his success. In some way I think you can read his lyrics throughout their career as his suicide note, similar to his friend Chris Cornell and even Nick Drake. It's interesting to compare to another group like Rage Against the Machine - who preceded Linkin Park in melding hard rock/metal with rap. Lyrically, RATM was much more focused on the outside world (society, government, class), whereas LP is much more inwardly focused. Chester has a very powerful voice - he goes from very loud and angry near shouting to much more subtle vocals. I think the combination with Mike Shinoda's rapping is pretty cool. I know this was a trend at the time - but these guys did it better than many of the others. The music has a great energy and intensity. I ended up liking 4 more songs: "With You", "Points of Authority", "Runaway", "Pushing Me Away" Liked songs on Spotify: 10/13 (counting "My December" in this) Rating: 4/5

I think it’s really effective at turning the emo rap rock hard soft hard style popular. Was not expecting this. I did have a 4 wheeler PlayStation or Xbox game with a couple of the these tracks as well as other assorted incel butt rock.

Nunca podes decir que es malo, me podes decir q no es lo tuyo y eso te lo acepto, pero no que un álbum que marcó un género completo y a una generación es malo. Sobrevalorado tal vez, pero nunca malo.

like a 3 outta 5 but I added an extra star due to us watching AMV's for the entire album

This album was super impressive musically. I did not feel bored or like the album was repeating itself at all. Really liked the flows with the voice as an instrument, and of course the band was crushing. Only thing that fell short for me was lyrical content, I thought I was a little plain at time. Favs: Papercut Points of Authority Cure for the itch Pushing me away

Listening to this while traveling at night increased my enjoyment of the album. The lyricism in this album leaves something to be desired but I choose not to care because the 4 song run beginning with Crawling and ending with In The End left me feeling devastated. This is uncommon for me at my current age, but it was like I was transported back to mid-teens me as the songs were playing. For that it gets a half star bump. Favorites: - Papercut - Crawling - Runaway - By Myself - In The End - Cure For the Itch - Pushing Me Away Rating high 7/10

I thought this album was the shit when I was like 14. I wouldn't count this as a favourite now, but I still think this is really great. Maybe it is just nostalgia talking but I really do enjoy most of these songs a lot. It is maybe a little too self serious an angsty at points but in a way that's part of the charm. Favs: Papercut, In The End, One Step Closer, Points Of Authority

Альбом моего детства. Сейчас в высоты свое опыта и смены приоритетов я бы уже не назвал его лучшим альбомом, но когда то он был для меня одним из лучших. Тем не менее он все еще наполнен классными треками, это отрицать сложно

All the hits are 5/5, the rest of the album is OK.

Crawling Runaway In The End

Great album. Every song is strong. Would have liked more than one break from.the rage and more variety in song structure- almost all.the songs are verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus.

Poor guy

8.5/10 favs - cure for the itch, with you

I recognize it is not perfect but I love it. Angry adolescent. Second half arguably better than the first

Album of a generation, not my favorite from LP, I hope to see more from them as they were a seminal band of the 00s

Great songs but also surprised at how many bad songs there were. Huge gap between the hits and non hits. Bad songs are on par with Limp Bizkit

A very goo d debut album from this group. Nice mix of musical genres that at the time was a creative original idea. They took off around the world with several popular numbers.

All hits, I love sad people music. Through line for the album was a little one note.

Nu-Metal doesn’t get much better than this. Everything about this record is great: the hits, the deep cuts, the fantastic instrumentation, and of course the incredible chemistry between lead singer Chester Bennington and rapper Mike Shinoda. One of the best debut albums of the 2000’s. RIP Chester Bennington

I am apparently a total poser and kinda just like the popular Linkin Park songs.

Having settled on a less intensive highlight selection process, listening to this album felt like a more freeing experience. This is some classic nu metal rap rock; I can hear traces of Eminem's flow and influence in the delivery. Hybrid Theory even has pretty much same ingredients as a rap-rock album like the Eminem Showz but with the proportions flipped in the other direction to skew a bit more towards rock than rap. There is sometime a tryhard energy to some of the songs here, which is not at all uncommon in nu metal, though some songs do also wind up feeling pretty same-y. I tend to like the songs more which lean into slower melodies and focus less on the somewhat corny approach to flow and rhymes, but if you're in the mood for this level of intense emotion, then you'll be eating good. Highlights: Papercut, With You, Crawling, Runaway, By Myself, In the End, A Place for my Head

very solid, i love it, but not their best imo

I remember this coming out, liking it, then eventually thinking it was over hyped. Like a pendulum I think I'm back to it a pretty good album. I wouldn't say they made their sound first, but they did it very well

so fire its insane idk if it deserves the 5 tho

fire i already had loads

<3

Good

This is a great album that I admit to being late to appreciate. At the time, the nu metal vibe was just not appealing to me even though I was heavily into both hard rap and punk. It finally grew on me. My only criticism now is about Shinoda's "rapping". Its just so laughably bad! But I appreciate everything else about him and how much he is responsible for building the band. And, of course, Chester's vocals are incomparable.

Stuffed to the brim with classics

Linkin Park is a band I can only compare to a roller coaster: while it may look daunting and dangerous from an outside perspective, actually getting on the ride proves it's one of the safest adrenaline rush providers accessible to the general public. Hybrid Theory is such an album: it's Linkin Park emerging as a band fully formed, and though they would change up their sound with each subsequent release, nothing they did ever truly deviated from the formula established on this auspicious debut. The late great Chester Bennington is the standout performance on here, with his shockingly versatile voice moving from huge aggressive screams to delicate tenor crooning across the album's tracks. The rest of the band kind of blends in together, all thanks to the excellent production of co-frontman and 2000s rapper Mike Shinoda (I mention the decade here because his style really hasn't changed since the year 2003.) The singles here are a step above the rest of the deep cuts here, but there are some very strong contenders on here, "Points of Authority" being among the best of the non-hits. The most distinct thing about the actual instrumentation is how seamlessly everything is mixed, from the nu-metal posturing to the industrial sampling courtesy of the in-band DJ (just another thing to set them apart) and the very earnest hip-hop rhyming. Linkin Park, in this manner, remind me of Motorhead. Where the former attracted hip hop fans, nu-metal fans, and broad radio listeners, Motorhead did the same a generation earlier with punk, blues, and metal fans. That's probably where similarities between the bands end. Reaching across the aisle is important in music, after all. This isn't to say everything on here is great: the more aggressive passages are products of their time in every sense of that term, and the overly earnest and vulnerable lyricism and performances invite a some mockery (I can't hear "Crawling" without thinking of that one meme that goes CRAWLING IN MY CRAWL, THESE CRAWLS THEY WILL NOT CRAWL...) Maybe that's just me. Linkin Park are from the Korn school of vulnerable nu-metal, with their confessional lyrics that made them a darling of kids going through their first trials as they matured. You can't ask much more of an album than that. Despite all those flaws, this is a landmark album and signalled the emergence of a new type of rock as the format entered the 21st century. It's an album as culturally, historically and aesthetically significant as anything else in the Library of Congress' current registry. Key Tracks: One Step Closer, Points of Authority, Runaway, In the End