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stephenjames said:
Yup, the same Rick Rubin you call when you want to sell-out but retain just a bit of street cred.
Linkin Park "What I've Done" (new single omgz)
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Yup, the same Rick Rubin you call when you want to sell-out but retain just a bit of street cred.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kFFOlUDQw
Iffy radio rip.
Sounds really good. They said it's the bridge between their old sound and their new sound, kind of a "goodbye" to the way they used to sound. It's definitely a typical LP sound, but the drums and guitar are definitely a little more raw and the numetal sound isn't really there anymore.
Obviously a radio friendly first single. Very excited to hear the CD though, especially this song Chester talked about: "There's a great guitar riff that comes in acoustically" he enthused. "And there's a breakdown that's my favorite moment on the record. It's beautiful and timeless-sounding, with this great synth sound ... and Brad [Delson] breaks into this beautiful solo and it just builds and builds and builds until it breaks down into this a cappella section. It's a huge explosion of sound, over six minutes long, and it's truly, completely amazing. And I can't wait for people to hear it."
I definitely like it more than Somewhere I Belong as a first single though. That song never really sat well with me.
Iffy radio rip.
Sounds really good. They said it's the bridge between their old sound and their new sound, kind of a "goodbye" to the way they used to sound. It's definitely a typical LP sound, but the drums and guitar are definitely a little more raw and the numetal sound isn't really there anymore.
Obviously a radio friendly first single. Very excited to hear the CD though, especially this song Chester talked about: "There's a great guitar riff that comes in acoustically" he enthused. "And there's a breakdown that's my favorite moment on the record. It's beautiful and timeless-sounding, with this great synth sound ... and Brad [Delson] breaks into this beautiful solo and it just builds and builds and builds until it breaks down into this a cappella section. It's a huge explosion of sound, over six minutes long, and it's truly, completely amazing. And I can't wait for people to hear it."
I definitely like it more than Somewhere I Belong as a first single though. That song never really sat well with me.
jamesinclair
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effzee said:
Finally some logic to put the haters in place.
Is there anyone who cant recognise System of a Down by listening to the first 5 seconds? No. Does that mean they're not awesome?
I dont like rap, so to me "every rap song sounds the same, no progression in the genre". That doesnt mean I run into every rap thread and start hating.
Linkin Park has gotten more mileage out of there, what, 22 song portfolio, then any band in recent memory. I was actually growing convinced that the creative force (whoever he is) in there had just O.D.'d or something.
I'm relatively shocked to hear they've got something new coming.
I'm relatively shocked to hear they've got something new coming.
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Juice said:
It's pretty incredible, really. I was a senior in High School the last time they released new material. Now I'm a senior in college.
I saw them several years ago (end of 2001?) and they were actually really good live, I was surprised. If they tour near me again, I'd probably go. Say what you will about their music, it's catchy and fun to listen to if you've got a nice system.
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The opening to this song sounds like they copied NIN - Something I Can Never Have
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I don't want to listen to your French hip hop.White Man said:
aparisi2274
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White Man said:
Ahhh shut your pie hole...
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You're calling him a Norwegian? He didn't deserve that.aparisi2274 said:Ahhh shut your pie hole...
Linkin Park isn't the worst out there if simply for their production.
But yeah, people trying to hush haters with the fact that every band 'sounds the same' after each album is completely missing the point. The real problem with Linkin Park's music (besides Chester Outoftuneington's voice, their rampant confusion in mistaking bloated music for complexity, and the absolutely terrible lyrics) is that they follow the same song structure almost exclusively. Great bands don't and if they occasionally do, the textures are strong and diverse.
I suggest all Linkin Park fans go listen to The Dismemberment Plan for a good bridge into better music. They rock and seem like the perfect crossover.
But yeah, people trying to hush haters with the fact that every band 'sounds the same' after each album is completely missing the point. The real problem with Linkin Park's music (besides Chester Outoftuneington's voice, their rampant confusion in mistaking bloated music for complexity, and the absolutely terrible lyrics) is that they follow the same song structure almost exclusively. Great bands don't and if they occasionally do, the textures are strong and diverse.
I suggest all Linkin Park fans go listen to The Dismemberment Plan for a good bridge into better music. They rock and seem like the perfect crossover.
PhoenixDark
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Striker said:
Hm. The song is extremely average and sounds like their previous first single a bit. The chorus was pretty weak imo, and I definitely didn't hear any of the "hardness" they've been talking about; I mean, the some doesn't have any edge at all.
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Striker said:
Excellent Song!!!! Cant wait for the whole CD
White Man said:
I've had a crush on the brother of the lead singer for almost 10 years
I have to be all nice about how much I dislike this kind of music when I'm around him. ugh, I actually distrubuted tapes for their 'street team' when they were still called hybrid theory (I still have a t-shirt that they sent me for being a 'member'. How was I to know that my friends brother's crappy band would come around and embarrass me.
Mute said:
Yeah, I wasn't aware that they've had a "new sound" and an "old sound". They've only had 2 studio albums, right?
I'm listening to Hybrid theory for the first time in like 6 or 7 years and I really don't like it nearly as much as I did in middle school, and now I'm listening to Meteora for the first time and it sounds pretty much the same.
I won't go out and say that they suck because their music isn't entirely my type of thing or anything but they didn't really change too much from the first to the second album.
PhoenixDark said:
Sounds like an evolution of Breaking the Habit imo. This album is supposed to have more of a stripped down, classic-rock, hip-hop sound with some odd instruments in the mix. The nu-metal sound is gone apparently.... hopefully that doesn't mean they're going to pussy out. I want some heavy stuff.
As for Mike Shinoda he's playing piano on this song.
jamesinclair
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Juice said:
Its really impressed me.
They started to get airplay with "In the End" and after releasing, what 4 or 5 singles (and having the first 3 being replayed), they released reanimation (amazing cd), and the "In the End" is back on radio.
Then once reanimation was dying down, new album
That had SIX singles, and once that was ending...
Bam, Numb/encore and the other one.
Still today, turn on any rock station, and of the 10 singles, 3 or 4 are on the playlist.
TheQueen'sOwn
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I'm kind of ashamed to say that they were pretty much exclusively my soundtrack to GTA3 on the pc :lol.
While I don't enjoy them anywhere near as much as when I was in middle school.... I enjoy this new single muchly
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While I don't enjoy them anywhere near as much as when I was in middle school.... I enjoy this new single muchly
.Honestly, considering I should hate this band, there is much worse out there.
I liked Hybrid Theory, but thought Meteora was a flaming pile of goat shit.
However, listening to the snippets makes me curious again. I will probably be disappointed (my music taste left Linkin Park in the dirt a long time ago) but it might be worth a download.
I liked Hybrid Theory, but thought Meteora was a flaming pile of goat shit.
However, listening to the snippets makes me curious again. I will probably be disappointed (my music taste left Linkin Park in the dirt a long time ago) but it might be worth a download.
omg rite said:
Please don't try and defend this band as anything but a guilty pleasure. While you chose four fairly different songs, they all expose considerable weaknesses of the band. Repetition, teenage angst lyrics, and most of all, predictability. The band has had no surprises.
If anything, its very easy to recognize that Hybrid Theory (while not GOOD IMO), is certifiably better then Meteora. The production is a lot less cluttered, it has a geniunely solid DJ Shadow immitation (A Cure For the Itch), and 'With You' has a nice industrial pre-chorus tension/release feel despite sounding like the rest of the stuff.
However, songs that have the opportunity to be interesting 'By Myself' fall victim to the 'intro-quiet-loud-quiet-loud-climax scream' we're all expecting. The rest blend together into inspired-sounding, yet ultimately dull and unrewarding music. Its a 1.5/10 record and don't even get me started on the utterly depressing recording that Meteora is (the intro called 'Foreword' is EXACTLY THE SAME to the intro of NIN's 'Downward Spiral' wtf???)
What is depressing is how shitty nu-metal is that Linkin Park rests in the upper-echelon of the genre. If I was rating on that scale, in comparison to its shitty peers, it would be a 7.5/10 record
You can take this as 'hate' but its really an urging of LP fans to seek out the truly wonderful music that is readily available out there.
psycho_snake
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Everyone Ive talked to enjoys listening to likin park. I dont understand why gaf hates them so much. I dont get how people say their music sounds the same. Most of their songs have a similar structure, but who cares. It sounds good and a lot of people enjoy it.
PhoenixDark
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omg rite said:
To be fair all those songs sound different. But at the same time, they all represent LP's cannon: the "hard" angst song, the piana/slow song, and the rap/rock songs.
PhoenixDark said:
But there's nothing wrong with that. That's just what they do.
Pearl Jam has been doing the same exact thing for how many years now? And that's fine, it's what they do. But somehow it's different when it comes to what they do.
By the way, you said "hard angst song, slow song, and rap/rock." Isn't that like.. kind of diverse? What else more should they do? It's quite obvious many people enjoy what they're doing, so why is that bad?
I really was expecting this to sound different; reinvented after it took them so long to complete it. It sounds like pretty much the same thing. That's fine for some people obviously, but I think not only are their two existing albums very similar, but all the songs on those two exisiting albums are very similar. That's when you gots problems, at least in my opinion. If that works for you, cool. I think they're talented and I was hoping they could do something else, especially when it's been years since they released anything besides remixes. Maybe the rest of the album will be different, but in my opinion the first single is not a good sign.
Lobster said:
Er? He's still in the band. (He does the na na's at the end.)
I'm hearing this from a lot of people. I don't quite get that though. He didn't rap in one of their singles until their third one (In the End). One Step Closer and Crawling were rap-free. Not to mention Numb, From the Inside, and Breaking the Habit off Meteora. He doesn't rap in all the songs.
Plus, he still plays keyboard/piano/guitar/other instruments in the band.
Bizarro Sun Yat-sen
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My former supervisor at work was a big LP fan and often forced their music upon me and my co-workers. I have to admit I sort of like "breaking the habit"...
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