were there actually any good Linkin Park songs?
They hit it big when I was in jr high or high school, and they went straight from unknown to main stream radio hits, and it was just pure kids bop tier cringe bait. It was so cool to hate on them and I never gave them a chance and I can't see them any other way.
But am I missing out on something?
Did they have good songs beyond the singles? Early albums maybe?
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>But am I missing out on something?
They were what they appeared to be, a very poppy product that happened to feature every then current trend in a more radio friendly package than their peers.
>Did they have good songs beyond the singles? Early albums maybe?
If you don't like "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "Papercut", and "In The End" I doubt you'll like anything else off the Hybrid Theory or Meteora records because it's all pretty much more of the same. I think the albums are good for what they are, at the very least they're produced well and have a consistent catchy hook after hook on each song.
If you're more into hip hop and electronic music than rock, you may want to check out "Reanimated" which is a bunch of remixes and reimaginings of their first album songs much more in that realm, similar to Limp Bizkit's "New Old Songs"
Reanimation*
>pretty much more of the same
sometimes exactly the same.
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This whole album is incredible.
Waiting For The End has a really nice build to a (imo) great finale that always pumps me up. Blackout has a similar ending but the beginning of the song has Chester's aggressive screamed vocals contrasted with a pretty chill piano melody and I dig that too.
>went straight from unknown
I'll grant that they got weebier / more emo but then everyone did. Remember when Papa Roach turned into something for the mopey kids and footballers lost interest? I always date it to when My Immortal came out or thereabouts
>Remember when Papa Roach turned into something for the mopey kids and footballers lost interest?
>turned into
Their first album had Last Resort and Broken Home, literally featuring the lyrics "CAN'T GO ON LIVING THIS LIIIIIFE" and "I KNOW MY MOTHER LOVES ME, BUT DOES MY DADDY EVEN CARE????"
They suck. I read somebody on here call them "the voice of a generation" a couple of days ago.
Yeah the lyrics are the essence of edgy cringe fuel.
Still I find the music of that album amazingly good for a numetal band.
Everything after lovehatetragedy is pure shit tho