Linkin Park - Meteora

Strikes Like a Meteor

This album has a jillion reviews already, and the main spotlight one has the breakdown of all of the tracks, so I won't go into this in as great detail as I usually do.

Basically, this is the best album Linkin Park has put out to date. Their hybrid style of metal, techno, rap, hip-hop, and chill works best in all of these songs. Some of them are excellent, intense, hard-rocking tracks, such as "Lying From You," "Faint," "Figure 0.9" (still my favorite), and of course, "Numb." Also has a number of good, powerful ballad-type songs, like "Somwhere I Belong," "Breaking the Habit," "Easier to Run," and "From the Inside." "Session" is also an excellent techno instrumental interlude.

It's all great, and would be essential listening for any fan of heavy metal. The disc also has some nifty bonus stuff on it when you pop it into the computer (I forget what exactly, though; pictures and stuff). July 18, 2008

Love Linkin Park!

Linkin Park has never put out anything I'm not happy with. This CD is just as great as their others. Love it! July 14, 2008

songs even more interesting than the meteora title

This is a very strong cd by a group that is one of a kind. I first heard of this cd when I was stationed in California and have been listening to it ever since. In my opinion this cd expressed deep emotions and creativity that are in each of the members of the group in a very artistic and exciting way. Some of the songs that I really feel are fun and grow each listen are "somewhere I belong", "breaking the habit", "easier to run", and "lying from you". One of my coworkers who happens to be an exciting and interesting person gave me a copy of this cd that they downloaded and I am sure grateful they did. This is definitely an album that is worth your time and will grow on you each listen. July 2, 2008

AWSOME

Foreword - 13 sec. total crap.
Don't Stay - 9/10 This is like, and awsome song.
Somewhere I Belong - 9/10 Confuser. The "keyboard" you hear is sampling. A Great song.
Lying from You - 10/10 Really heavy song but the second best
Hit the Floor - 10/10 Heavy, too. Third favorite.
Easier to Run - 7/10 Gets a little boring after a while.
Faint - 10/10 The best song on Meteora. Firts LP song I ever heard, too.
Figure.09 - 7/10 Boring after a while, too.
Breaking the Habit - 8/10 A softer song.
From the Inside - 8/10 Boring after a while.
Nobody's Listening - 4/10 I just don't like this song.
Session - Instrumental
Numb - 10/10 REALLY GOOD!! June 25, 2008

Meteora Blazes

Linkin Park took all the best elements of numerous rap-rockers (Rage Against The Machine, Korn, Limp Biscuit) and stripped out the stuff they didn't like. The result was the slick and powerful Hybrid Theory, massive, fast fame and gigs with Ozzfest. It also meant that they had to make an attempt at recreating in a year what they'd spent a life making on the debut. The resulting "Meteora" shows the band following the same roadmap, but with more confidence.

The band delivers songs just as the debut would make you hungry for, specifically, "Numb." They also take those conventions and experiment, like the backwards guitar that opens "Somewhere I Belong," or the jazzy flute that underscores "Nobody's Listening." "Hit The Floor" is danceable hair metal with a screaming hook. It's easy to see that Linkin Park was already hungry to move past the limitations of the genre.

What is really astonishing is, when reading the liner notes, was how much of this album was recorded on the road/tour bus between Ozzfest stops. "Faint" was a happy accident that could only happen in that environment, a track that got its speed double and then Lp deciding that it was better that way. Chester still screams like the anger is real, and Mike Shinoda was feeling his oats in the sampling department (like the flute in "Nobody's Listening"). It made "Meteora" a better album than "Hybrid Theory" and just a touch behind the subdued Minutes to Midnight. June 24, 2008

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