Not ashamed to admit I like Linkin Park

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I'm 34, senior exec at a small company, young son. Like to garden and enjoy photography.

If I decide to crank the Linkin Park in my 98 Mercury Mystique, that's my business. I like it, and your laughter at my lameness does not faze me.

― Rojek, Sunday, 25 July 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

you are still angry at your father

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 25 July 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, how are the senior execs getting in here? Did the bouncer fall asleep again?

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 25 July 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

at least you admit to having lame tastes in music ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 July 2004 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I work with a girl who's 33, has two kids, and likes to get all Martha Stewart-y on the weekends. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY she listens to Linkin Park (or Evanessence when she gets burned out on LP) in her cubicle. At least you've got the decency to do so in your car.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 25 July 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a place you can go:
http://forums.linkinpark.com/

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 25 July 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

linkin park is way better than the postal service and "in the end" is one of the best singles of the decade and they are an ilx fave so hatas can fuck off and die now please

― artiste, Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

well, they are better than the postal service. also much better looking. oh, chester, you're so cute! ♥

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm embarassed that I was hating on "Fire Woman" by the Cult on that old thread. That song is godly (though "In The End" and "Faint" are too).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

in the end has terrible rapping in it. early limp bizkit has better rapping for that matter. chester's lyrics and vocals are basic typical nu-metal stuff nothing to praise or shame really.

an awesome single of the 2000's? Do you Listen to music?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

In The End = Alice Cooper + Depeche Mode + "Ice Ice Baby" = awesome single of the 00's.

plus the lyrics imply that this is the LAST whiny song they'll ever do. The first single off the next album was about how they'd like to stop whining but can't. I appreciate details like that.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

More than any other band in history of all music (Ramones included) they have a strict formula for song structure that they NEVER deter from, ever.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

if it ain't broke

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

More than any other band in history of all music (Ramones included) they have a strict formula for song structure that they NEVER deter from, ever.

Wesley Willis. OK, he wasn't a band.

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 25 July 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Linkin Park have lots of really good BITS of songs, but "In The End" is the only one that's good all the way through, and even then it's genius is better appreciated having not heart if for a while.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 25 July 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't really like the Postal Service but Linkin Park I like about the same. "Faint" was a great single though. Cool video too.

― djdee2005, Sunday, 25 July 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Regardless of what you think of Linkin Park (and I have a fairly high opinion of 'em), all must admit that they know how to write a good intro.

Yeah, they're damn formulaic, but Evanescense is even more so.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 25 July 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

rojek, don't listen to these jackals. you sound like you'd be a guy to throw a sweet barbecue or loan yr friends money. that is, if you exist. anyway, the numb video is great.

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

key to me getting into Linkin Park: Amateur!st (I think it was him, anyway) pointing out that the lyrics to "Somewhere I Belong" sound like they were written by a guidance counselor. It's totally true, and it sums up their lyrical appeal so nicely!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I N JOY WES LEE WILL ISS MOR THAN LINUKYN PARC OMG THEY SO WANT TO BE ALL EMO AND SHOT BUT THEY ARE DOOFUSY INSTED

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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Suck a mountain goat's dick
Suck a caribou's asshole out
Eat that antelope shit and die, jerk!

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Suck a baboon's ass
Suck a male camel's dick
Suck a Doberman pincer's cock
Suck a reindeer's smelly ass, mothafucka!

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― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mornin', Nickalicious :)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

H A HA "MORNUING"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ER YA WOTEV

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You wonderful wastrel, Nickalicious, you grand rascal.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Their songs are catchy. They have good shouty bits. I like how they ponce about in their videos acting all hard with their rubbish tattoos.

― Wooden, Sunday, 25 July 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"in the end has terrible rapping in it."

interesting sidenote: almost every really serious hip-hop fan i know likes this song.

the only people i personally know who refuse to listen to lp on the grounds of "bad rapping" (which means what exactly?) are corny indie fuxx who don't even like that much hip-hop in the first place.

weird huh?!?!

― artiste, Sunday, 25 July 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nickalicious's post implies that one can be emo and not be doofusy. I find fault in that logic.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Nonsense, it's easy. You don't tell anyone you're emo, you don't dress the part, and you keep your diary private.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i love hippity hop.

and for the record, he's just an ackward rapper to listen to with no word play and doesn't add anything to the group and i find him just plain and simple unremarkable. And would you not deny that even limp bizkit had better rapping in their early career?

interesting sidenote: almost every really serious hip-hop fan i know likes this song.

I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

interesting sidenote: almost every really serious hip-hop fan i know likes this song.

Maybe this is more to do with the production than the rhymes, tho?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

But Ned, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, how do we know it makes a sound?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm actually guessing for production myself.

And to be fair, In the End is probably their best single, but there are way more interesting rock groups in the mainstream in my opinion right now.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe this is more to do with the production than the rhymes, tho?

oh certainly daniel -- the point is people who aren't c.i.fx. don't find the "bad rhyming" a barrier to enjoying a great synthpop song! "i cant like this it has bad rhymes" is only raised as a piece of pseudocriticism by people who hate fun on general principles.

― artiste, Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

His rhyming has the exact cadence of "Ice Ice Baby."

It starts with ooooooone...alright STOP! collaborate and listen!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

If I had mash-up skills I would prove this.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

um, cadence may not be the word I'm looking for.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny because there are people who might have assumed Anthony means the Ice Ice Baby comparison as a bad thing.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

If Mike Shinoda's rhyme was a drug I'd sell it by the gram.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

And anything less than the Chest is a felony.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

But Ned, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, how do we know it makes a sound?

EZ. The tree then talks about Wes Anderson films.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Allright, sure but i've still heard better rock songs with rapping in them.

Several really. And really compared to other rock groups with rappers, i wouldn't put Mr.Shinoda very high at all.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

linkin park are the worst kind of 'nu-metal backwash'.
why the worst, you ask? because they still sell. and the kids eat it up like candy, and not good candy but bad maggot filled candy that eats you instead of you eating it.

LP and all bands that are like them are total trash. i await the 3 yr turn around when they're fans get a little older and start dissing them madly once they discover that there's stuff that doesn't suck quite as badly. LP ARE THE NEXT 311!

(without the cure cover to make them money...)

and BTW- what self-respecting hip-hop type would dare admit (unless completely wasted) that LP have even a shred of worth??!
it's funny, cause, i talked to some DJ's who think that it's lamer than indie/drone rawk.

yr hip-hop experts must be what, 13?

― eedd, Sunday, 25 July 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

so what's the best nu-metal eedd? heh

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

slipknot!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

slipknot at least know what they are doing is silly and don't try to make videos of themselves sitting in churches playing pianos, and aren't trying to look cool doing it.

they are stupid and look stupid in a kiss sort of way. and that's an awesome sort of stupid. i guess.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the best nu-metal?

that's an oxymoron, pally.

no such thing has, nor will it, ever really exist.

pardon my shit spelling, the coffee is taking hold...

― eedd, Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG THEY'RE TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!!!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

RUN BRAINWASHED CHILDREN OF AMERICA! RUN!!!!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the first two to four seconds of every Linkin Park song are great; they tend to start with very pleasant-sounding, crackly minor-key loops. Then the actual music kicks in, and joseph switches the channel.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe this is more to do with the production than the rhymes, tho?
oh certainly daniel -- the point is people who aren't c.i.fx. don't find the "bad rhyming" a barrier to enjoying a great synthpop song! "i cant like this it has bad rhymes" is only raised as a piece of pseudocriticism by people who hate fun on general principles.

-- artiste (artist...), July 25th, 2004.

I disagree completely. Not only the rapping, but both of their pre-pubescent whinning. Shit, if they actually did drop the "I'm so angry" schtick and made a song that was just fun and synth pop, I'd love it.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

And the rapping reminds me of the raps they used to have done by anonymous guys on big dance hits in the early 90s

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

well, there IS a bit of a double standard at work, since LP's skills per se (to me, at least) is not perceptibly worse than the Beastie Boys'. It's the rapper basically trading fours with a sub-Gahan whiner that tends to get to us.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

ARE worse. pardon.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Faint" is a great single. The rest of their stuff is just Savage Garden dressed up with loops, raps, and crunchy guitars.

I have a feeling that in two years' time it will be painfully uncool - verboten, even - to write the kind of faux-angsty lyrics that groups like Linkin Park and Evanesence (sp?) specialize in.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 25 July 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The rest of their stuff is just Savage Garden dressed up with loops, raps, and crunchy guitars.

this is a bad thing?

And the rapping reminds me of the raps they used to have done by anonymous guys on big dance hits in the early 90s

this is a bad thing?

Girls are all over the world
they hope and pray and die for men
Like me cause I'm the one
begotten son that breaks the mold
Get a look at male epitome
Style has never seen
That makes you want to grab and hold
and squeeze real tight
Who's gonna be the one to save
you from yourself
When you wanna take a bite
please oh baby please
You beg you want to stay
You got to get some caught
Up in the charm that I laid on thick
And now there's nowhere
to run
just another fish to fit the
worm on the hook of my line
Yeah I keep many females
longing for a chance to win my heart
with S-E-X and plenty

― artiste, Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

more ppl need to hear "Enth E ND" from the remix album!

― etc, Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And the rapping reminds me of the raps they used to have done by anonymous guys on big dance hits in the early 90s
-- David Allen (Davidalle...), July 25th, 2004.

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I wish Linkin Park would add that chick who did the background vocals for "Everybody Dance Now" to their lineup and they would be thegreatest band on earth.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, all nu-metal is whiney and silly, but it's possible to get around. Linkin Park however, they are just not lyricly very good either from Chester as every song is the same. They need to switch it up.

Also, i like how in their album sleeve on the inside it says "Linkin Park Wears..." followed by a list of several clothing brands. heh.

Now I wish Linkin Park would add that chick who did the background vocals for "Everybody Dance Now" to their lineup and they would be thegreatest band on earth.

AGREED.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Linkin Park is for sissies and commies.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Also a good reason to set aside prejudice and rediscover. I’ve been listening to plenty of linkin park in the last 6 months and kicking myself for not having done so earlier
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx),

i loved this post as it hit home for me.
hope LO has checked out 'a thousand suns' as its really really good.

― mark e, Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:36 (eight years ago)

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