In the end, it doesn’t even matter
Meteora was also a decent album. I stopped listening after that. Hybrid Theory is something else though. Reanimation was also dope
I really liked minutes to midnight. A lot more introspective and mature.
But the fucking scream in Given Up still breaks me. Even more since his death.
Meteors was fantastic! But yes, after that, it kinda fell off.
They had some solid songs after this, but I kinda feel that this is where the downfall started to happen as they moved away from the angry, angry stuff and towards more of a rock sound.
I found the formula got a bit old after a while. The lyrics felt more profound in the beginning, but after a while it just felt like it was throwing synonyms for feeling bad in very similar tracks.
I listened to the first three albums (inlcuding reanimation) obsessivley when i was a kid. I think those and the live in texas album are the only cds i still own, for nostalgias sake. Ive recently been going over the albums ive missed though and though they arent start to finish bangers like the old ones, theres some really good songs still.
Song is 24 years old maybe the meme need to be updated. Me at 39
Works for me, I'm 30. I discovered LP by going to my local library and renting the two CDs they had. Good times.
That's probably the most wholesome thing I've read today.
This is what I was thinking (but the younger age is younger)
There are 30 year old Linkin park fans? I figured they were all 40 at minimum
Hybrid theory came out in 2000. Assuming a kid is 11 when they enter middle school, that would make a lot of mid 30s fans
I played so much unreal tournament on my Pentium 4 while listening to them
30 year old LP listener reporting!
34 checking in.
Another one checking in.
30 here, wassup
Almost 40, not quite. I'm a millennial grandma.
Hello.
35 checking in.
Just checked my last.fm page, Linkin Park is still my most listened artist since registering in 2020
Me at 30+ listening to new Linkin Park with the scientologist and sexual assault enabler:
"this shit sucks"
I liked her until I found out she was batshit. Bummer! Easy enough to listen to other bands I guess .
Yep and M Shinoda is completely tone deaf to the controversy / doesn't give a shit
Luckily, we'll always have Psy.
I have mixed emotions of love and hate.
When 'Lost' dropped, it really spoke to where I was emotionally at the time. Chester out here like "Even in death, I still serve."
Pray his soul still lives on as a machinespirit in the many CDs that are still around.
Never fails that about this time every year I give Hybrid Theory a listen. Had such an impact on me when it came out that it seems to have left a permanent mark on the change from summer to autumn for me.
Reanimation is also still awesome.
One thing that I always noted with Linkin Park is that most of their later albums seemed to divide opinions in the fanbase.
This always struck me as a good thing because they never really released the same sounding album twice (their first two, most popular albums being the exception). They always changed it up.
Their more electronic sounding albums are really underrated IMO. I haven't really listened to them in years, but I used to love their music.
I still remember the shock and sadness when hearing of Chester's death. He was a beast of a vocalist.
I ❤️ A Thousand Suns
I didn’t love them forever ago, but I rather like their new single “The Emptiness Machine”. I don’t follow music so I didn’t know they had lost their lead singer until yesterday. I heard the song and thought, “Linkin Park doesn’t have a woman for a lead singer….”
I still like the Jay-Z mashup album
I wasn’t really into the scream-singing, but Mike Shinoda’s raps are fire
Replace the album with Green Days dookie and you have me! (Never mind the additional years...)
The same with me. But I'm 37. And in-between there were like 15 years when I thought it was crap.
I never thought it was crap, I also don't think Nickelback is crap
Did you really need to repost this after less than a month?
https://lemmy.world/post/18346926
Is this astro-turfing?
They think it's Reddit where they can eventually use their account to make money with it
This shit bangs.
100%
The most overrated band in the nu-metal era.
shut up when I'm talking to you
I heard "Breaking The Habit" at the grocery store yesterday.
I heard "Jizz in my pants" at a buffet when I went out to eat with my parents.
Nothing to do with your story or Linkin Park. Just thought it was a funny awkward time.
When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of sixth sense I...
PURRRRRRRRRRRGING WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITH MY KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN
I never liked this band...
You're not allowed to dislike le epic band. You're only allowed to dislike nickleback or the hivemind will lynch you.
I mean I don't like the taste of Burger Kings burgers, but I don't pull off the road when I see one and walk up to the counter to tell them. I think negativity always invites negativity, which on here starts around downvotes
They sucked 30 years ago, and they still do.
I've learned that some people are just wrong, and that's okay. ❤️
You like to think you're never wrong.
Cool story bro.
Bad taste then, bad taste now. No development or change in perspective. If this is you, you should be disappointed in yourself. Grow as you age.
Edit: hahaha people did NOT like this comment. They're BAD, guys. Whiny, cringey, melodramatic. It's music for a 12 year old.
^ Millennial who got bullied when they were 13 for liking Linkin Park and made it their whole personality and their life's mission to make sure no one thinks they like it again. 🙄🥱
Unironically grow up. Those people were dicks. They're well produced songs that are noteworthy for how well they portray teenage angst (a valid part of the human experience like any other) and connect with teenagers worldwide.
I was 18 when the song came out and couldn’t stand it then, can’t stand it now. Was more into Nine Inch Nails, Manson, and Nirvana to deal with teenage angst.
Linken Park isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Didn’t like Fred Durst, Blink 182, or even Korn. That kind of music made me do the emojis you put in your comment
Edit: My mistake. Didn’t realize this was a Linkin Park circle jerk
If this is you, you should be disappointed in yourself. Grow as you age.
You should be more subtle if you want to troll people. With a bait that obvious, you should be disappointed in yourself.
You'll get it once you grow out of your teens and a decade or two has passed.
It's just a meme bro
Look, I really do dislike Linkin Park and always have, but you obviously have no clue about how people or their musical tastes work. You are the one that needs to grow up, both in perspective and empathy.
It says a lot about people who like Linkin Park that they can't tolerate any criticism of the band. Criticizing someone aesthetic preferences is not some great evil
Now I see you're testing me, pushes me away
bruh
