You can chuckle if you want. But it's hard to disagree that Linkin Park is one of the most diverse and entertaining music stylists to ever hit the records. From their hard hitting rock and rap clashes from the start, to there now ambient blasts of refreshness. I relate to these guys because their music grew and expanded just as I did. When I was younger, Hybrid Theory and Meteora's rock slams about loneliness and struggle got close to my heart. Over time their music transitioned from the worries of self-pity and personal frustration of feeling worthless, to the harsh realities and worldwide situations that we all eventually grow into and become a part of. This is extremely similar, if not exactly, to the way I and the majority of other people have viewed things as we've aged. We used to worry about feeling like we can count, and now we focus our attention on the bigger problems at hand. That's the genius that has playn out in LP's discography.

On top of that their music is second to none fantastic, and is more or less some of the most respectable renditions of sounds you will ever here. The reason why I created this thread is mainly because Linkin Park is first off the sole creators of their own songs. No producer or music guru came in and gave them beats and rhythms to create words and syllables to. Nor were words written for them. The music, the beats, the lyrics, the raps, the speeches, were all put in place by them and them alone.

And unlike the majority of any music stars now, these guys have the capability of revisiting their songs and creating multiple different versions and remixes of practically each and every single one, each having a different position on where the heart can stand on the subject the song surrounds itself around. A good majority of these edited versions are featured with rappers who blast out what I feel to be some of the most genuinely entertaining rap verses I've ever heard. Feel free to listen to the whole album of Reanimation by these guys, an album completely made of remixed versions of their own original songs, and you'll see exactly what I mean:

I don't care for Linkin Park, but it's nice that you spent so much time articulating why you enjoyed them.

I can't agree with you more Sacred. I loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora as a teenager, the songs just appealed to the angst kid I was. As I grew up and realized my life wasn't as shit as I was pretending it to be, their other albums where there still with the same sound I loved but just a little deeper.
One of the most annoying things I encounter is the faggots that always want to complain about how 'they've gone mainstream' and how 'they've sold out'. Why is it such a terrible thing that they experimented and tried to make their music grow? Who wants to buy a new album when it sounds exactly the same as the last? And in Living Things it felt they they finally hit the mark between their rock and their deeper message perfectly, and it just felt like 'them'.

I think Linkin Park had one of the main songs for the Transformers movie. That is where I first heard of them.

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I think Linkin Park had one of the main songs for the Transformers movie. That is where I first heard of them.

yES THEY HAD.Im surprised someone maked a thread about this but not like "What u think about them" but spend time.I wouldnt do it :( and i agree.Anyways LP is my fave


so much memories );

I luv "What I've Done"
Truly an Epic Song.

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I luv "What I've Done"
Truly an Epic Song.

Numb, In the end, Faint u know the most popular - now Lost in the echo XD

Ah, Linkin Park...
I've listened to their stuff since I was like ten, first time I heard them was when I bought a pretty worn Hybrid Theory CD from a friend of mine for like five bucks. Loved it then, love it now. I even like their newer stuff, it's not as heavy but it's really cool and interesting to hear what they can still come up with after all these years.

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My parents said this band basically sucks and a bad. But I liked their movies (Iridescent and New Divide - One of the songs that Transformers used)

ur parents lived in other ages and dont know the truth );

Honestly, Linking Park almost annoys me.

Maybe I would have liked them if I had found them on my own, and if they would have been the first band that used that type of scream vocals that I heard, but I only found out about them at the time when linking park was getting popular. During that time, I was listening to undergound metal, rock and punk, and Linkin Park with their melodies that I had already heard done a thousand times seemed really shallow. Same 2 or 3 songs were being blasted from every radio station and every kid on youtube used their songs in their shitty AMV videos. I don't really like the singer vocalist's voice at all, and the way it's mastered when he screams makes it even more unappealing to me. I just think they just sound really fucking overproduced and cliched. The rapping in most Linking Park songs is alright, but I don't appreciate chopping vocals in the middle of a bar, or a lot of added vocal effects. It fucks with the flow. Might as well record every word separately and glue them together in to a rap in the studio.

Anyways, I haven't listened to them a lot, so my criticism is only based on the most well known songs by them that were played to death everywhere.

That and the fact that you don't even know how to say the band's name correctly.