Linkin Park - Meteora
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Free Music Review: By far the best album
Hit: 5 Stars
The best production of an album that I have ever heard in a long time. Great album to rock to in a car. Free Music Review: Faking the Hobbit
Hit: 3 Stars
I really like how its Linkin Park instead of Lincoln Park. That "k" trick is so gangsta, cleva, ya knows. Just kidding, these guys are so greeeaaaaattt!!!! I'm "Breaking the Habit" TONIGHT!!!!!! TONIGHT!!!!!! Awe shucks, do ya got too much money and ya'lls don't know what to do with it, so you got hooked on the HABIT, TONIGHT!!!!!! And now Linkin Park is gonna Break the Habit, TONIGHT!!!!! No, not tommorrow, not today, not next week, but TONIGHT!!!!!!
I always liked the first lord of the rings the best, cause they had the Hobbit voices down perfect! And when Linkin Park sings "TONIGHT" it reminds me of Bilbo Baggins saying to Froto, "You must go Froto, TONIGHT" !!! Oh yeah, that urgency in Bilbo Bagginses voice, "Go now Froto, and break the hobbit, TONIGHT!!!!! I think that LInkin Park may have stolen that song from West Side Story. It's creepily similar to the song "TONIGHT" where the nice white boy gang sings "Tonight, tonight,
Won't be just any night". Maybe West Side Story is breaking the habit, TONIGHT!!!! Also I think they stole that song from David Letterman, when he says TONIGHT!!!! we have the band NIRVANA in the house!!!! And everyone cheers because NIRVANA was great. They had balls. Linkin Park has a bad habbit of playing boring repetetive music, and they need to break that habbit, TONIGHT!!!!!!!TONIGHT!!!!!!!TONIGHT!!!!!!!TONIGHT!!!!!!!
Free Music Review: A continuation of the debut
Hit: 4 Stars
Four stars for this album that continues the Linkin Park story in much the same vein as the debut. An interesting mixture of traditional post grunge hard rock married to the use of two vocalists of very different styles - one more traditional and the other more an abrasive screamer. The hard rock aspect isn't anything too special truth to be told, most of the late 90's and 00's hard rock contains this style of chugga chugga riffing to create the soft dynamic of the verse as opposed to the fuller wall of sound for the chorus. The melody is mainly supplied by the vocals and the musical variation of this band, two vocalists aside, are the scratches as per what rap DJ's started doing back in the 80's. Believe me, I was there and it wasn't pretty! But with Linkin Park this side to their sound is actually interesting because they are doing it within the hard rock/heavy metal universe where such touches are rare. And it has to be said that the scratching does give the band an industrial edge particularly when Mr Screaming Vocalist cuts loose with his sandpaper screech.
As to specific tunes that I feel are indicative of this album that would have to include Lying From You and Breaking The Habit - the latter very much having the longing introspective feel of some of the highlights of the debut such as With You and In The End. And it's this introspection that gives the album the legs to get into four star territory. Sure, it's very much a product of 90's era misery guts music but it does give Linkin Park a greater pallete with which to work.
What also gives this a healthy four stars is the enhanced CD section of which the main aspect is a feature called The Art of Meteora. Which is interesting even for someone such as myself who finds the acceptance of spraypaint designs as art a bit dubious. At least it shows the band at play, so to speak, rather than trying to convince us all what serious artistic genius types they are. The other special features are just web toolkit kind of stuff which probably you'll only use once - I mean how often are we all gonna visit the Linkin Park website...
A good album, not excellent but it certainly proved that their somewhat different formuala could work for more than just one album and the healty sales figures proved that there was a market for it too.
Free Music Review: Great
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great album. I wish Linkin Park's most recent album would be more this style of music. Plus, the entire album is good. It's not like one of those you get for just 1 or 2 songs. Every single song is awesome.Free Music Review: A powerful, loud, unique, passion inciting mix of styles, tempos, emotions and meaning
Hit: 5 Stars
LP is incomparable. They're in a zone of their own. Unsurpassed in terms of inspiration, force, energy and raw emotion - yet remaining real and accessible.
I know nothing about the technicalities of great music making and can't offer clever comments about the different styles on this album, what they are, where they come from, or how they all work perfectly together ... or why. They just do. Perfectly.
Some of the other reviews offer great insight into - and description of - each track, its style and the techniques used to get certain results. I just know that I can listen to this album again and again and feel the power of it each time. The sound moves me; the lyrics are amazing and allow the listener to decide for him/herself what they mean.
Listen to the samples, read some of the better reviews, listen to the samples again.
Then buy the album. Listen.
It's intense.