LogFAQs > #965055071

CasanovaZelos posted...

Linkin Park is a band I have always struggled to take seriously. Their music feels like someone trying way too hard to be cool, and the rapping sections really do not help. I feel like this might upset some, but they exist in the same mental sphere as Spice Girls for me, very much a product of their time.

Yet, there's something that occasionally brings me back to their sound, and I think it is for the same reason Spice occasionally draws me back - there are few albums that capture their own time like this one, an unintended relic that paints a vibrant picture of a certain era. For better or worse, Hybrid Theory is compellingly itself. My point of comparison is usually Donnie Darko - drowning in young angst, but if you can only remember what it was like to be an angsty teenager, you can feel how effortlessly this works as a reflection.

My rank:
In the End
One Step Closer
Crawling
Points of Authority
Papercut
A Place for My Head
Runaway
Pushing Me Away
Forgotten
Cure for the Itch
With You
Be Myself

Except Linkin Park never tried to be "cool". Chester Bennington was always talking about his mental illness before he eventually committed suicide. They started off as a "nu metal" band because that's what was popular at the time. They evolved into so much more. And if you have a rapper as good as Mike Shinoda, why not utilize him? This is a really poor evaluation of Linkin Park from someone who obviously does not know their history or discography.