Living Things is one of my favorite LP albums. Why do you say that everything on it s weak. It has some awesome songs like Lost in the Echo, Burn It Down, I'll Be Gone, Castle of Glass, Roads Untravelled and Powerless. Not a weak record for sure. If I had to pick their weakest album to date, that would be ATS, some songs like Wisdom JUstice and Love and Wretches and Kings just don't work for me.
I'm guessing you like In Between? If so, that's fine, it's just not a song I particularly like and haven't liked since Minutes To Midnight was released. I just expected more from the song as soon as it was confirmed it was to be Mike's first solo song where he sings the entirety of it. He sings the song fine, I just find the track rather bland though. Just my opinion. As for the 'okay' songs I mentioned, I can still listen to them but they're just not high up my list anymore when some of them used to be, especially Easier To Run, which I used to love. I still adore the ending, where Chester changes things up and goes "JUST WASHING IT ASIDE..." and I can still dig Mike's rap but I just prefer other songs off Meteora and other songs from other albums have grown on me more.