New Linkin Park

[Zargabaath]

Right, Linkin Park has released their latest album 'A Thousand Suns', and it has become a huge debate among Linkin Park fans. Many think they "sold-out" when they released 'Minutes to Midnight'.

Which to me has created some real stupidity. The fans of their first 2 albums say that Minutes to Midnight and most likely A Thousand Suns aren't "Linkin Park". Um, people, Linkin Park made those two albums therefore it is Linkin Park. The fans of the older material need to learn that when making their third album, Linkin Park thought "we could continue making the same sound or try something different". They went with something different because, to them, making the same sound as Hybrid Theory and Meteora was easy and repetitive and perhaps not as fun. This created the divide amongst fans with two schools of thoughts clashing.

1.) Group A wants Linkin Park to make the same stuff as they first did and don't want them to change much, if at all.

2.) Group B doesn't mind change and is open to new stuff. They may not like the new material, but won't consider the new material "not Linkin Park".


My friend is one of the people in Group 1; he wants the rap metal, the hybrid of genres and considers only that to be Linkin Park. Me? I like Linkin Park. I like Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Do I like Minutes to Midnight? I like around half of it, maybe a bit more than that.

So the big question is, what does everyone think of the 'new' Linkin Park?

I'm listening to it as I type this response. The first two tracks really should've been one; track 2 was a waste of "track 2" space being 57 seconds. Empty Spaces, was empty in substance. I noticed on the track listing on wiki there are a lot of tracks that are under 2 minutes long; more so than any other album of theirs. I liked Jornada del Muerto. I'm a bit unsettled with them having so many short tracks; it feels as if the album is more like 10 tracks, 9 if I include "The Requiem" which was 2:01 and the intro track which I oft overlook.

I like: Burning in the Skies, When They Come For Me, Robot Boy, Blackout, Wretches & Kings, Iridescent, The Catalyst, & The Messenger.

Wisdom, Justice, and Love was aight; it was neat but as it is mainly an instrumental and a buck 38 sample of a speech so I can't give it much.

[ZantetsukeN]

Which to me has created some real stupidity. The fans of their first 2 albums say that Minutes to Midnight and most likely A Thousand Suns aren't "Linkin Park". Um, people, Linkin Park made those two albums therefore it is Linkin Park. The fans of the older material need to learn that when making their third album, Linkin Park thought "we could continue making the same sound or try something different". They went with something different because, to them, making the same sound as Hybrid Theory and Meteora was easy and repetitive and perhaps not as fun. This created the divide amongst fans with two schools of thoughts clashing.

1.) Group A wants Linkin Park to make the same stuff as they first did and don't want them to change much, if at all.

2.) Group B doesn't mind change and is open to new stuff. They may not like the new material, but won't consider the new material "not Linkin Park".


My friend is one of the people in Group 1; he wants the rap metal, the hybrid of genres and considers only that to be Linkin Park. Me? I like Linkin Park. I like Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Do I like Minutes to Midnight? I like around half of it, maybe a bit more than that.

I couldn't agree more to be honest. First off, a band should be able to release whatever the hell they want. Whether it turns out good or not is another matter, but should be able to release anything that makes them happy.
I would also bet that the same fans who rip LP (and other bands for that matter) for trying new things and changing, would be the first ones to moan that they are churning out the same old stuff every other year.
I'm thinking Disturbed here. I don't want to rip Disturbed because I love them, but they bring out very, very similar music with every album (especially the last 3) and people rip them because it all "sounds the same".

Hybrid Theory was the first album I ever bought, and I have had people ask me, knowing I am a huge LP fan and have been since the beginning, "New LP is shit isn't it? It's not LP." My response? "Yes, it is." Like, as you said, LP released it, so it is LP. I think some people need to realise that bands change, music changes, whether they like it or not.

[Xanatos]

Linkin Park hasn't changed that much, really, their signature sound is still there, although the way some people moan you would asume they changed genre in general.

While it's true that I'm not thrilled with "Minutes to Midnight" it's still a good album, some of the songs on it could easily pass along the ones from Hybrid Theory and Meteora, while others seem to be somewhat different, though still good, which overall makes a great combination if you ask me. Bands need to serve something new, something different every now and then, otherwise it would be pretty dull to always listen to the same music.