Btw I hate that Linkin Park song so fucking much. I remember when I was in 7th grade when they first got popular and they didn't suck. They were this kickass band that basically introduced the mainstream alternative world to screaming with One Step Closer.
Remember when no one knew who they were, and just knew this song from the radio?
wait, linkin park introduced screaming to alt rock?
I knew I was gonna catch heat for this, but if you listen to anything in the "00's" or w/e the fuck this decade is referred to as, there are a lott of popular screaming bands like Hawthorne Heights, Senses Fail, Underoath, the list goes on and on and on, and I feel like if Linkin Park hadn't come along, people would've heard those previously mentioned bands and thought "wtf is this screaming-shit? who likes this?" and thus those bands wouldn't have been wildly popular. I think if you had to pick a posterchild for this decade of rock, Linkin Park would be it.
i can't take away the fact that they've sold a buh zillion cd's and influenced an entire genre, but so has britney and fergie.
professional music critics have never thought much of the band, like this review of their 1st cd from allmusic.com
Linkin Park originally called itself Hybrid Theory and has retained that phrase for the title of its debut album. The "hybrid" in question is the overly familiar one of rap and metal, to which the group has little new to add. The guitars and drums lock into standard thrash patterns, over which singer Chester Bennington and rapper Mike Shinoda alternate in furious expressions of rage and frustration. "One Step Closer," the track released to radio in advance of the album's release, is a typical effort, with lyrics like "Everything you say to me/Takes me one step closer to the edge/And I'm about to break." It might be easier to believe in all this angst if the group members didn't take such pains to thank their families in the lengthy acknowledgments in the CD booklet, followed by an extensive list of product endorsements. But even without the fine print to undermine its sincerity, Linkin Park sounds like a Johnny-come-lately to an already overdone musical style.
basically, they write music intended for kids age 10 to 17.
laith is the only person i've "met" that i consider of high intelligence to endorse the band.
I FEEL EXACTLY THE WAY ABOUT EVERY SENTENCE IN THE BOOK OF MORMON.
I was gonna argue with you there and claim that there must be at least one sentence in there that's believable... but then I skimmed through the thing and actually couldn't find a single one (not that that means that one doesn't exist, but it certainly seems telling).
Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 8:02 PM Edited Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 8:03 PM
the "00's" or w/e the fuck this decade is referred to as
—anfernee
I believe the "00" decade is called the "aughts". So yes, when we're old we can tell our grand kids "back in my day, waaay back in aught-seven..." and so forth.
EDIT: laith is the only person i've "met" that i consider of high intelligence to endorse the band.
—plurry
And even then I admittedly don't exactly consider them musical geniuses or anything.
Was that any good? I didn't want to see it, cause the previews made it look like ass, but the first 15 seconds of that video made me think, I might maybe be okay with seeing it.
I was gonna argue with you there and claim that there must be at least one sentence in there that's believable... but then I skimmed through the thing and actually couldn't find a single one (not that that means that one doesn't exist, but it certainly seems telling).
—anobody
I don't think a reasonable person can read a true account of Mormon history and come away without shaking their head at how that religion was founded or the character of the man who came up with it all so I'm not surprised the that book is a bit of a laugher. PBS did a nice multi part series on it last year relying mostly on Mormon historians or the Jon Krakhauer book Under the Banner of Heaven did a really fair account of things.
I look at them like I look at most religious people. The only difference being how much historians actually know about their foundation due to its relative shiny newness.
I feel the same way as bguirk. When I first read about them believing that the real Indian gods came out of the forest and showed their guy the true Bible (or whatever, that's how I remember it and I don't feel like looking up what it actually is), I was like "haha, he's crazy." But it's not any weirder than what Christians believe.
