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post #16 of 22
10/9/10 at 8:40pm

I'll look into it, I might even like it.

 

EDIT: I listened to some of those songs, it is a pretty good album. Not really my style, it is a lot different from the Linkin park I know tho. Like when i think linkin park I think loud, energetic music. I think the album would appeal to only die hard fans tho, but idk like I said we'll see.


Edited by Rich77 - 10/9/10 at 8:50pm
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post #17 of 22
10/9/10 at 10:27pm

The few songs I have heard makes it sound like Linkin Park is just watering down their music and moving completely away from their nu-metal roots..... in the past they were a guilty pleasure band that I have defended from time to time, but now they just sound sleep inducing. A much better comparision would be with Metallica's St Anger: an album where the band has completely forgotten about what made them special in the first place.

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post #18 of 22
10/10/10 at 12:26am

 

Nothing of the sort, it's Linkin Park trying vainly to stay relevant by buying into the pitchfork/indie clique with an electropop album.
 
Proceed to anyone doped up on mainstream pop/rock/hip-hop to call it revolutionary because its full of simple, repetitive and blusterously emotional choruses that they can follow from the first time they hear it on the radio.
 
And this is coming from someone who thinks Kid A and Amnesiac are merely good, certainly influential (Kid A), but nowhere as groundbreaking as dozens of other albums from bands that never saw any mainstream limelight.
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post #19 of 22
10/10/10 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by scytheavatar View Post

The few songs I have heard makes it sound like Linkin Park is just watering down their music and moving completely away from their nu-metal roots..... in the past they were a guilty pleasure band that I have defended from time to time, but now they just sound sleep inducing. A much better comparision would be with Metallica's St Anger: an album where the band has completely forgotten about what made them special in the first place.



I don't think they were especially proud of their nu-metal roots in the first place. In that sense, it's like Alice in Chains moving on from their hair metal roots to adapt their grunge style that we've known and loved since Dirt.

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post #20 of 22
10/10/10 at 2:55pm

The worst album by LINKIN PARK, IMHO.....

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post #21 of 22
10/10/10 at 3:40pm

If only Linkin Park would have taken a radical departure by not sucking anymore, but that certainly is not the case. Its a pop band desperately trying to do something to trick people into continuing to still listen to them. A Thousand Suns is not an album of artistic merit at all, and should not be compared to Radiohead.

 

A better comparison might be to Creed or Winger or the Village People. Some bands become famous for accidentally being at the right place and having a large advertising budget behind them.

 

An accurate review:

 

"Imagine Limp Bizkit suddenly deciding to go all Pink Floyd on us. Or Nickelback making their idea of an early Brian Eno album. That's the woeful ambition-to-talent scale in evidence here."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2010/09/07/2010-09-07_linkin_parks_a_thousand_suns_tries_to_go_surreal_but_simply_steals_others_cliche.html?r=entertainment/#ixzz11zxtJ4Wo
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post #22 of 22
10/10/10 at 4:11pm


 

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Originally Posted by RedSky0 View Post

 

Nothing of the sort, it's Linkin Park trying vainly to stay relevant by buying into the pitchfork/indie clique with an electropop album.
 
Proceed to anyone doped up on mainstream pop/rock/hip-hop to call it revolutionary because its full of simple, repetitive and blusterously emotional choruses that they can follow from the first time they hear it on the radio.
 
And this is coming from someone who thinks Kid A and Amnesiac are merely good, certainly influential (Kid A), but nowhere as groundbreaking as dozens of other albums from bands that never saw any mainstream limelight.
 
Perfect answer to the OP question.
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