I used Linkin Park and Nu Metal in general to introduce two types of friend groups I had to genres they wouldn't give a chance. Either they were in the group where they only listened to rock and thought "rap was crap" or they only listened to rap and thought rock was just "noise". Both groups bonded over their love for LP though and led them to giving the genre that they ****ted on for so long a chance.

I'm not a huge Linkin Park fan but they aren't that terrible. Christ, compared to some of the **** stain try too hard to be different or edgy **** yall push. "Look, I listen to repetitive dissonant noise, I'm so deep and complicated". Boy, that's not music, you just forgot to pay your cable bill and your neighbor's yelling at his wife!

Their music probably reached, and helped and meant a lot more to people than anybody on this forum's music combined. Regardless if they were 14 or not, I've seen a ton of people who essentially grew out of the music morn this death because of what it meant to them at that age. Hatin ass bitches.

As FaSho says above, In The End was one of the first rock songs that I heard that I can really remember bonding with friends over.

I was raised on a cocktail of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Al Green and Ella Fitzgerald so I was always open, and still am, to listening to anything at least once. Music is there to be enjoyed regardless of genre, someone is going to like it and that might be me.

Linkin Park to me came at a time where I was finding my own feet in terms of music taste. Granted it eventually turned out to be as ****ed as my dad's taste in music but it worked for me and a lot of Linkin Park songs were part of that time.

I think quite a few people try to distance themselves from bands when bands try to experiment with different styles and it maybe doesn't connect as well as other albums did with those people. I respect bands like that. They are artists after all and should be remembered as such.

'Hybrid Theory' was the first album I ever bought. 2 for £10 with Soulfly's 'Back to The Primitive' from Virgin Megastore.

I must have been about 15. I absolutely loved it, listened to it non-stop. Loved the videos, their cool hair, and all the crazy voice effects they had :)

In hindsight, the vocals are very negative, and it's no surprise that Chester had issues... He had to perpetually sing about how his life is awful or about how damaged he is psychologically, or scream emotionally abusive lyrics such as "shut up when I'm talking to you" as part of his 9-5 job.

Perversely, he didn't change his tune, 15 years after becoming famous and presumably rich after the release of Hybrid Theory and he was still talking about being psychologically damaged.

If you haven't found a solution to your problems after 15 years, then you haven't been trying hard enough or worse, you really ARE damaged.

I remember reading that he was addicted to heroin at one point, i think it was in Kerrang! or Metal Hammer. Another glamorisation of victim mentality.
If Chester believed that you cannot be helped, you won't find help. If Chester's core identity was "I am a damaged person who will never be fixed", reinforced by the fact that he is financially rewarded for the lyrics he sings, the ego is likely to defend it.


The video to Papercut is the most late 90's "Let's make a Tool video" video ever!!!

You had friends who thought Chuck Berry was just noise?

i listened to minutes to midnight album and hybrid theory in the car yesterday.

i like all their albums besides the newest one. the hunting party album was awesome.

a thousand suns album is really good too, reminds me of north carolina.


these albums remind me of times when i lived in states when they were released.


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You no longer live in a state?

i do, the newest album is the one thats been released since ive lived here. :shycouch::drummer: :soccer:

When and where did you live in NC?

They didn't know about Chuck. They equated metal to all rock music basically.

Did you know about Chuck Berry as a teenager?