Linkin Park - Why the Hate?

[II2]

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I don't mean to imply they sound the same, but rhythm/beat and use of electronic mixing along with conventional rock implements is what I find appealing.

This was what I thought was the best of Linkin Park

Now I see what you're getting at. I was just familiar with their popular broadcast material and didn't dig any further into them, based off that.

That's an alright track. Shame they didn't keep at that sorta thing... but, I don't imagine they would have seen the commercial success they were after by doing so. Oh well... there's no shortage of coldwave and industrial rock out there.

I think you'd like the band Cyanotic. They're fun.

 

[duktapeman90]

What i truly hate is the term "nu metal"

Very much in agreement here.

OT: To this day I still hold their first two albums as masterpieces. There's only a handful of their new stuff I like, but not much. It's kinda sad really.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

It's one of those bands I can only stand listening too via Bluegrass.

The Pickin' On Series was invented for this shit.

 

[Choppaduel]

They changed their style so much. Thats why.

 

[Juan Regular]

To me, they´re just the prime example of an overproduced and overhyped band. Something you can listen to when you´re 13 and drop once you realize there´s much better stuff out there (Not including myself by the way. I was always more of an angsty grunge kid).

And do they really, always have to be so unbelievably overdramatic?

 

[MajWound]

I loved Linkin Park back in the day, but I dare not make it known in public very much anymore. There's a sort of aversion to anything "emo" that's been exacerbated lately, probably because you don't want to be known as the "crybaby"/"oh my life is so hard woe is me" type of person. Not that any of this is justified, but I understand the mindset. When you write down the lyrics of songs like "Crawling" and give them on loose-leaf to someone who has never heard the song, that's the kind of stuff that gets people sent to the psychiatrist and doped on little blue pills.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I like Linkin Park. lol But I have noticed the BROKLYN RAGE, people show for them.

 

[NeoShinGundam]

I don't visit D.C. much, but I would assume that the Lincoln National Park is a nice place to visit.

Wait, that's not what were talking about?

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[spartan773]

their new album is much better

 

[Mr Somewhere]

I don't, hate them. But I can't stand them. Why can't I stand them?
Because they have horribly cheesy lyrics with next to no depth, I mean, I can't imagine how somebody can sit down, honestly listen to those lyrics and not laugh. That and I find their little rapping segments terribly lame...
Lame, yep I just find them lame.

 

[brumley53]

Personally I think they sound very whingy, not just sad but a very annoying whiny sad and that really annoys me, probably the reason I dislike anything that has roots in emotional hardcore as well.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Eh I like them, I even saw them in concert but crawling is so overplayed and is used in so many video game montages is kinda silly. Also minutes midnight was a terrible album

 

[GotMalkAvian]

I actually don't mind Linkin Park for the most part, and even actively enjoy some of their stuff. However, I dislike them on the principle that they were assembled like a boy band. I'm sorry, but you can't even pretend to be badass or metal when an industry rep slapped you together after open auditions.

 

[Aurgelmir]

I must say I have wondered this myself. I do like hte band quite a lot, although their last two albums was a bit of a let down...

But yeah I never ever considered myself emo, and do not believe their music is just for emo kids.

 

[Aphex Demon]

I dont hate them, I just miss them when they created awesome music, such as the Hybrid Theory and Meteora album.

 

[retterkl]

Hybrid Theory was one of the first albums I bought, it was awesome.

They're still good, Bleed it Out is a great song, I just think that by association people think less of them.