Do you want to heal? To feel? To slip on a banana peel? Is your favorite color teal? Do the lyrics feel like the kind that a third grader wouldn't steal? How many songs about lies, trust, or being ignored are too many? This album was great when it came out. When I was 14. Im 36 now. That kind of high school angst with middle school lyrics did not age well.
1) A Thousand Suns 2) Reanimation 3) Minutes To Midnight 4) Hybrid Theory 5) From Zero 6) One More Light 7) Living Things / Meteora (couldn't decide) 8) The Hunting Party
Hmmm...about that... Versus (including Lost, Fighting Myself, More the Victim): Looks like you really actually like the lie lyrics more and are in denial, Minus. Or you should update your list to swap the two albums.
The problem is you're 1) not counting repetitions and 2) not actually doing a lie to ALBUM ratio as I mentioned. You are stopping at frequency. Bleed It Out - 1 lie What I've Done - 1 lie No More Sorrow - 1 lie In Pieces - 3 lie Across The Line, for some reason - 2 lies MTM: 8 (though really only 6) lies Divide the running time of MTM by 6 lies and you get 1 lie every 7 minutes and 14 seconds rounded up. Lying From You - 2 lies Hit The Floor: 1 lie From The Inside: 1 lie Meteora: 5 lies Divide the running time of Meteora by 5 lies and you get 1 lie every 7 minutes and 12 seconds rounded up. Again, I said ratio, not frequency. Ratio: The number of times I make fun of Blake for flipping his car per minute. Frequency: The number of times Blake flipped his car.
A Thousand Suns Hybrid Theory Minutes to Midnight Meteora From Zero One More Light Living Things The Hunting Party
People engage with music in different ways for different reasons. Some listen for the performance and not the lyrical content. Case in point, the number of "fans" that are suddenly calling infamous punk bands "woke" without ever listening to the lyrics. In that regard, I can see why Meteora is so appreciated. I'm a firm believer that the reason why the band's nu-metal sound is still so revered by millions is because, for the majority of the fanbase, English isn't their first language. So the Dr. Seuss cringe we hear in Somewhere I Belong is just a really sick rhyming scheme in their heads, backed by a powerful vocal performance and an incredible instrumental.
I don't mind the cheesier lyrics because I can still appreciate the simpler, more straight-forward emotional release. It's great for screaming in the middle of the night in the garage with the lights off when you're going through stuff.
After re listening to every album, rating every song, and averaging it, my totally arbitrary maths have spoken! A Thousand Suns - 8.7/10 Hybrid Theory - 8.6/10 From Zero - 8.4/10 Minutes To Midnight - 7.7/10 Meteora - 7.7/10 The Hunting Party - 7.1/10 One More Light - 7.0/10 Living Things - 6.9/10 Couple notes There is probably still a recency bias with From Zero, but I just enjoy it this much for the moment. The band sounds as revitalized and inspired as ever, and it's awesome. I think it's the first time I ever put ATS over HT, although my attachment to HT is stronger ATS was the only record where I granted 10's (WFTE, The Catalyst) OML had the song with the lowest rating (3.5 to TTM, don't kill me), but a few highs made it beat LT. Didn't see that one coming! Meteora and MTM ended up more close than I expected, but MTM being a more mature, diverse record (with a better mix) works in its advantage What I got out of this exercise is that I really dig FZ right now, and that OML deserves more credit than I gave it previously.
Averaging the songs is how I score albums to. I'll provide my rankings eventually What's your rule for interludes? I don't count them toward the average because they always score low but it's not really fair to hurt the album because of them
I rate every song and make an average too. My rating average for ATS is 9.70 which make it my second favorite album ever.