This is how I'm choosing to look at it for now. Not to minimize the tragedy, but to recognize that he was able to fight longer with his band, with...
The video for "What I've Done" was a preposterous, glib attempt to fuse its message to a political context, taking a shotgun approach by including...
It seems that most viewers would prefer the shapely and insufferably cheeseball music videos stylings of early Linkin Park and Joe Hahn, perhaps...
Album sales? Who gives a whit about the quantity of records sold? Except those who rightly view it as a bellwether of Linkin Park continuing to...
What Meteora did was cripple the band on a technical level by ensuring that people recognized them first and foremost for their nu-metal power...
He's coming at Linkin Park from the angle of "New Sincerity," a burgeoning critical movement that values conveyance of honest emotion above all...
1. The Little Things Give You Away (MtM) 2. The Catalyst (ATS) 3. Pushing Me Away (RE) 4. No Roads Left (MtM) 5. Papercut (HT) 6. When They Come...
I can express only admiration for Linkin Park's courageous effort to return to their halcyon days of mind-deadening guitar crunches, uninspired...
Oh, sure. I could've spent a lot more words on how Living Things tries too hard in songs like "Burn It Down" and "I'll Be Gone" to recapture the...
The weirder it is, the better it is, and it ain't weird enough. Especially after A Thousand Suns was so doggedly unusual.
I was having trouble kicking in the Facebook connect, so I just watched it on Youtube. Yeah, not that good a video, and I seriously doubt my...
You don't have to be a skilled filmmaker to be able to criticize a movie. You don't have to be a skilled novelist to be able to criticize a book....
Recipe for a Meteora song: 1 tablespoon metal screaming 1 teaspoon awkward slow rap (optional) 1 cup of context-free pronouns, chopped 2...
It's dull, plodding nu-metal power chords swallowing up meaningless you-vs-me aggro-angst lyrics purified by band management into easily...
This. Minutes to Midnight is sketchy on a song by song basis, but then they manage to actually pull off the socially-aware stadium rock they'd...
Perhaps. Perhaps not. We'll see who's right in the end.
Am I, or are you merely five years on?
01. "The Little Things Give You Away (Minutes to Midnight, 2007) 02. "When They Come For Me" (A Thousand Suns, 2010) 03. "Breaking the Habit"...
There's a lot of correct opinioning in this post, and I support this post.
A Thousand Suns is the only album that attempts to match their sonic prowess to a memorable subject. The rest is a sometimes-engaging,...
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