• Vinny_93@lemmy.world
    62·
    2 months ago

    Meteora was also a decent album. I stopped listening after that. Hybrid Theory is something else though. Reanimation was also dope

    • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I really liked minutes to midnight. A lot more introspective and mature.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Anamnesis@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      59·
      2 months ago

      ^ 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.

      • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
        15·
        2 months ago

        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

        • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          10·
          2 months ago

          Yeah I was also an elite™️ 14-year old, all the normal girls were into LMFAO and LOL and their Flo-Ridas and BBM (what is that? Big boob messenger? Stupid thots. I was so much smarter than them. Humph! Looks are for the shallow!) and I was into far more intellectual things, like karaokeing to ‘Somewhat Damaged’, crying at least once to every single song on Still and speeding up the virgin power walk when the guitars come in on ‘Beside You In Time’.

          But then I turned 16, and I was into cloud rap, and a tad later, doom metal. I came to realize that people had varied, changing tastes that didn’t necessarily give you the right to assume so much about them if they liked something I did not, it’s not as if one cannot be objective about media at all, but moreso that using tastes to attack a person, or to assume personal traits about them, especially a group of people, seldom yields to accurate outcomes.

          …

          It is a lesson I had to learn again when my CompSci colleagues at university didn’t cruise through classes like I did, it wasn’t because they weren’t ‘real’ ‘geeks’ like I was, and it wasn’t because they didn’t use Linux, and once more, and again and again with many different things, undoing the brainwashing of a consumption society to see the wonderful complexity of people.

          I make music now, and I’ve learned to see the wonderous complexity in it too, even in stuff that’s ‘not my cup of tea’.

          I can critique it, but I no longer assume so much about people, and perhaps I am taking all this far too seriously, and that’s fine, but if that applies to you, I hope you can grow up too.

        • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
          7·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, and they’re even worse now. A scientologist for a lead singer… are you shitting me?

          Fuck Linkin Park for that.

      • Anamnesis@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’ll give you this point, they portay teenage angst pretty well. I don’t get why a grown person would welter in teenage angst, though

        • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          2 months ago

          I don’t think anyone welters in it when they re-listen to angsty music of their youth. For me it’s just a matter of nostalgia and reminiscing.

    • cheddar@programming.dev
      33·
      2 months ago

      You should be more subtle if you want to troll people. With a bait that obvious, you should be disappointed in yourself.

      • Anamnesis@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Music being subjective doesn’t imply all music is equally good or that everyone’s opinion is equally correct. There are still bad opinions. Saying Linkin Park is worth listening to is a bad opinion

        • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          Lol I agree with some of your points. The beauty of subjectivity is that you expressed an opinion, and that I can say with equal authority: Linkin Park is a great band and your opinion is incorrect

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
      8·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Anamnesis@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        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

  • blackluster117@possumpat.io
    22·
    2 months ago

    When ‘Lost’ dropped, it really spoke to where I was emotionally at the time. Chester out here like “Even in death, I still serve.”

  • Sidewalker@lemm.ee
    18·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    10·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • panicnow@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    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….”