Favorite Album Art Direction (Cover + Liner Notes Art)

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Favorite Linkin park Album Art Direction?

  1. Hybrid Theory

    8.6%
  2. Meteora

    28.6%
  3. Minutes to Midnight

    2.9%
  4. A Thousand Suns

    51.4%
  5. Living Things

    8.6%
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    Gibs

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    Which Linkin Park album has your favorite art (cover + liner notes art), and why?

    For me, This was a really close tie between A Thousand Suns and Living Things, but I'm going to have to put A Thousand Suns on top. The art is just so damn unique, and you can tell a lot of effort was put into it. Plus, the revaluing of the cover singlaned a massive change for Linkin Park, and I love it. I much prefer the deluxe black cover for A Thousand Suns.

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    Funny thing is that I lost my Minutes to Midnight jewel case ages ago, so I have no clue what the art direction was like, other than what I can see from the cover.

    EDIT: I forgot to capitalize the P in "Park" in the poll name, DAMMIT!
     
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    minuteforce

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    For me, it's a toss-up between "Meteora" and "A Thousand Suns". "Meteora" definitely has the better front cover art out of the two ...
     
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    Zachary

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    Minutes To Midnight, hands down.
     
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    Erica

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    Meteora:

    pp0751-lp-meteora-25cm.jpg linkin_park_graffiti_by_alex198617.jpg linkinparkmeteoratraserdo3.jpg Linkin_Park_-_Somewhere_I_Belong_CD_cover.jpg

    I thought respirators were the coolest thing ever back in the day lmao anyways the album still looks cool. Love the graffiti theme.
     
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    lime treacle

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    I don't have Meteora, but I have all the other albums and the artwork of A Thousand Suns is hands down the best.
     
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    ATS was just odd to me. And I like avante garde stuff, but it was just weird.
     
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    I'm stuck between Meteora Blue cover and A Thousand Suns Black cover. I think both of them are AWESOME!

    I think Recharged cover is really good. If it was in the pole, I definitely vote it.
     
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    I'm stuck between Meteora Blue cover and A Thousand Suns Black cover. I think both of them are AWESOME!

    I think Recharged cover is really good. If it was in the pole, I definitely vote it.
     
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    Qwerty19

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    Meteora, easily.

    ATS art was cool for the most part, but I can't stand the cover.

    On the other side, I've never cared much for LT art direction.
     
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    Did you know that the graffiti artist in Meteora's cover is painting the original cover to Hybrid Theory?









    Oh you didn't? That's because i made that up.
     
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    Imma go with Meteora. It was... unique.

    ATS's wild animal based art pieces were cool but a little weird.
     
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    minuteforce

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    I voted "Meteora". It definitely came down to the cover art for me
     
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    The artwork that came in the Deluxe Edition of ATS (vinyl, hardcover book, special edition CD, et cetera. tops the list.
     
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    If I could, Reanimation. Studio album wise I'd go with A Thousand Suns
     
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    The sheer scope of A Thousand Suns artwork was really impressive. Every release had different variations on the same themes.

    I don't understand the love for the Meteora cover. Maybe I just don't think the spray-can/graffiti motif is that great, but there's nothing to get out of it for me. The ATS cover, plain as it was, could at least have a few different interpretations based on the themes of the music. I also liked the deluxe MTM art because it was just in-studio pictures. Some were pretty funny. It just felt like a good documentation through pictures.
     
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    minuteforce

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    It shows Delta at work, which helps to express the "work in progress" visual theme that "Meteora" had going on.
     
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    ATS kicks every other LP's album in every aspect, so this one too.
     
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    Meteora had best artwork
     

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