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Track Listings
| 1. Foreword |
| 2. Don't Stay |
| 3. Somewhere I Belong |
| 4. Lying From You |
| 5. Hit The Floor |
| 6. Easier To Run |
| 7. Faint |
| 8. Figure.09 |
| 9. Breaking The Habit |
| 10. From The Inside |
| 11. Nobody's Listening |
| 12. Session |
| 13. Numb |
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That's where Linkin Park come in. The shout "Stay away from me!" on the first track on their new album. You know exactly how they feel. They are angry and insecure and clever and great.
Hybrid Theory was the best rock album of the past three years. It was also the best selling album in the world in 2001. A tightly controlled montage of hooks, riffs, dodgy rapping, roaring, sweet singing, noises and scratching, ruthlessly edited into classic songs. Sixteen year olds going through hormone hell loved it. So did their dads.
It's therefore no surprise that Meteora doesn't live up to its predecessor. The riffs, hooks and shouting are all present and correct. But the first four songs all sound the same and the guitars don't cut through as they should.
But then "Easier To Run" comes along. It's gorgeous: a wonderful sad power ballad, and will surely becomea huge hit single. After that every track gets better. "Faint", built around a driving string sample, is the first song to really break sweat and get your head shaking. "Breaking The Habit" is a paranoid version of Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer": a very good thing. "Nobody's Listening" is strong, confident rap metal. "Numb" is bitter-sweet and beautiful and ends the album on a high. The best of these songs are powerful, emotional, disciplined and impressive.
I'm not supposed to like this album. I'm 43 not 16. But although it's patchy, there are still moments which move me to tears.
There are two possible explanations. Either I'm emotionally retarded. Or Linkin Park make great music. --Nick Reynolds
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The album begins with the punchy 'Don't Stay', a truly awesome opener. 'Somewhere I belong' and 'Lying from you' keep up the pace and deliver very well. 'Hit the floor' is a hard hitting track that shows off Chester Bennington's screaming very well. 'Faint' is possibly the best song on the album that puts all of Linkin park into one song: Brilliant songwriting, rapping and screaming set to a pounding backing of instuments and DJing. The album does take a little dive towards rap with 'Figure. 09' and 'Nobody's Listening' but then comes to a worthy end with a dislay of DJ skills in 'Session' and the now famous Linkin Park song 'Numb'
A totally brilliant album being shunned by idiots. Well worthy of five stars
This is the proper "classic" Linkin Park, the good stuff. Not that awful thing that is A thousand Suns.
For the record, this album stands side by side with Hybrid Theory as towering pieces of rock work. Linkin Park spearheaded a totally new genre of rock .... few bands in history can genuinely say that about themselves. Every band member plays his part but without the rasping, shell-shock power of Chester Bennington on vocals and the creative wizardry of Mike Shinoda who is the glue that pulls this bunch of guys together, LP could I confess be just an ordinary bunch of American guys having some fun in their parents garage. Truth is, Bennington and Shinoda drive this band and their blend of rap and metal works in a way that you wouldn't expect. Somewhere I Belong, Lying From You, Numb, Don't Stay, Breaking The Habit and Easier To Run are six towering tracks and the rest are strong in their own right ... how many albums these days give you such a host of truly awesome tracks in one album.
My 15yr old daughter got me into this band and I love them. I still regret missing them on the UK leg of their Minutes To Midnight tour - a mistake I won't repeat when they visit these shores again.
is even worst thaN the others
so a couple of warnings
DANGER KEEP AWAY.
I have ever heard.
It makes your ears bleed
not very good singer
to rappy and not rocky
but now I like metal, rock, heavy rock and heavy metal.
DO not buy this unless you like rappy
stuff.
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