If you had to put Linkin Park's album art into categories what would be your choices? EDIT: Results will be counted on Monday. The following categories are: Most Original Most Artistic Freaking Awesome Most Unoriginal Most likely to inspire you Most forgettable Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) Best Album Cover and over all album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) Albums that can take part are: Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight, and A Thousand Suns. You can vote more then one album per category. Here is my vote as an example. Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome - Reanimation Most Unoriginal - Minutes To Midnight Most likely to inspire you - A Thousand Suns Most Forgetable - Meteora Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all*album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) - A Thousand Suns.
Most Original: Hybrid Theory Most Artistic: A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome: Reanimation Most Unoriginal: Minutes to Midnight (even though it's my 2nd favorite album behind A Thousand Suns) Most likely to inspire you: A Thousand Suns Most forgettable: Meteora Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.): A Thousand Suns Best Album Cover and over all album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.): A Thousand Suns
Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome - Hybrid Theory Most Unoriginal - Minutes to Midnight Most likely to inspire you - Hybrid Theory Most Forgetable - Minutes to Midnight Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all*album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) Cover - Hybrid Theory Overall Packaging - A Thousand Suns The Hybrid Theory cover is the reason I got a B.A. in Graphic Design.
Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - Hybrid Theory Freaking Awesome - Reanimation Most Unoriginal - A Thousand Suns Most likely to inspire you - Hybrid Theory Most Forgetable - A Thousand Suns Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all*album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) - Hybrid Theory
Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - Hybrid Theory Freaking Awesome - Reanimation Most Unoriginal - Minutes to Midnight Most likely to inspire you - Hybrid Theory Most Forgetable - Minuetes to Midnight. Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all*album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) - Hybrid Theory
Most Original: Hybrid Theory Most Artistic: A Thousand Suns (You can interpret many different things from looking at it) Freaking Awesome: Reanimation Most Unoriginal: Meteora (It's very boring to me, just a guy spraypainting is all I get from it) Most likely to inspire you: Minutes To Midnight (Has a very raw feel, I like that) Most forgettable: Meteora Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.): Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.): Minutes To Midnight (Love the art in the booklet)
The following categories are: Most Original: ATS Most Artistic: Meteora Freaking Awesome: Reanimation Most Unoriginal: MTM Most likely to inspire you: Hybrid Theory Most forgettable: MTM Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.): Reanimation, because that's exactly what it did. Almost bought it before HT. Best Album Cover and over all album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.): Meteora
Most Original : Hybrid Theory Most Artistic : A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome : Reanimation Most Unoriginal : Meteora Most likely to inspire you : Hybrid Theory Most forgettable : Meteora Most likely to catch your attention : Reanimation Best Album Cover and over all album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) : Minutes To Midnight I wonder why Live In Texas and Road to Revolution are not part of this.
Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - Hybrid Theory Freaking Awesome - Reanimation Most Unoriginal - A Thousand Suns Most likely to inspire you - Hybrid Theory Most forgettable - A Thousand Suns Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Reanimation Best Album Cover and over all album art - Hybrid Theory The inlays of ATS are pretty sweet, but the main cover kills it. And MTM/Meteora artworks are just too middle of the road.
Most Original: Hybrid Theory Most Artistic: A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome: Hybrid Theory Most Unoriginal: Meteora Most likely to inspire you: A Thousand Suns Most forgettable: Meteora (even though I fear that it will be ATS for many "fans") Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.): Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.): cover: Hybrid Theory; booklet: MTM
Most Original - Meteora Most Artistic - A thousand suns Freaking Awesome - Hybrid Theory Most Unoriginal - Minutes to Midnight Most likely to inspire you - Meteora Most forgettable - Minutes to midnight Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Reanimation Best Album Cover and over all album art - Meteora
Most Original: Hybrid Theory Most Artistic: A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome: A Thousand Suns Most Unoriginal: Meteora Most Likely to inspire you: A Thousand Suns Most Forgettable: Minutes To Midnight Most Likely To Catch Your Attention: Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and Over-all Album Art: Minutes To Midnight
Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - Reanimation Freaking Awesome - Hybrid Theory Most Unoriginal - Minutes To Midnight Most likely to inspire you - A Thousand Suns Most Forgetable - Minutes To Midnight Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - A Thousand Suns Best Album Cover and over all*album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) - A Thousand Suns
And the awards go to... Most Original - Hybrid Theory Most Artistic - A Thousand Suns Freaking Awesome - Reanimation Most Unoriginal - Minutes To Midnight Most likely to inspire you - Hybrid Theory Most Forgetable - Minutes To Midnight Most likely to catch your attention (If you never heard or seen a Linkin Park Album.) - Hybrid Theory Best Album Cover and over all*album art. (Front, back, booklet, Etc.) - Hybrid Theory