Linkin Park - Meteora
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Free Music Review: Meteora Blazes
Hit: 4 Stars
Linkin Park took all the best elements of numerous rap-rockers (Rage Against The Machine, Korn, Limp Biscuit) and stripped out the stuff they didn't like. The result was the slick and powerful Hybrid Theory, massive, fast fame and gigs with Ozzfest. It also meant that they had to make an attempt at recreating in a year what they'd spent a life making on the debut. The resulting "Meteora" shows the band following the same roadmap, but with more confidence.
The band delivers songs just as the debut would make you hungry for, specifically, "Numb." They also take those conventions and experiment, like the backwards guitar that opens "Somewhere I Belong," or the jazzy flute that underscores "Nobody's Listening." "Hit The Floor" is danceable hair metal with a screaming hook. It's easy to see that Linkin Park was already hungry to move past the limitations of the genre.
What is really astonishing is, when reading the liner notes, was how much of this album was recorded on the road/tour bus between Ozzfest stops. "Faint" was a happy accident that could only happen in that environment, a track that got its speed double and then Lp deciding that it was better that way. Chester still screams like the anger is real, and Mike Shinoda was feeling his oats in the sampling department (like the flute in "Nobody's Listening"). It made "Meteora" a better album than "Hybrid Theory" and just a touch behind the subdued Minutes to Midnight.
Free Music Review: awsome
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was hot again from linkin park, they did a great job on this album i liked all their albums exept minutes to midnight but this was hot this was a real hard rock album with great emotional effort to it to great album.Free Music Review: Linkin's best album!
Hit: 5 Stars
Hybrid Theory was not a bad album by any means, but this album is somehow even better! These guys put rap, rock, and metal togther to make some awesome music! This one is a little better than Hybrid Theory, but way better than Minutes to Midnight.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: 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.