I heard "What I've Done" on the radio earlier this morning. Sounds like them -- minus the idiotic rapping. It's all Bennington. So basically, exactly how I would've hoped they'd evolve.

Maximo Park, Linkin Park...Sickpup only likes bands that have "park" somewhere in the title.

Maybe BMRC should rename themselves "Black Rebel Motorcycle Park."

Is that rapper guy going to awkwardly hop around the stage while they play the new songs, waiting for The Hits to appear?

chin up, darkbloom. i promise to stop making fun of you for liking that shitty BRMC album.

he'll probably be doing a backup "Uh" or "Yeah!" somewhere.

I remember back when I used to see 311 shows, and their backup rap dude, SA Martinez, always pogo'd up and down when he wasn't spitting rhymes. I thought it was sort of assenine back then and still do.

When will Limp Bizkit make a return? That will truly be nu-metals last gasp.

Definitely looking forward to this.


They put out an album last year. They're still as prolific, relatively speaking, as they've ever been.

Really? I haven't heard anything from them in years. Psh, they'll never top THREE DOLLAR BILLZ YALL anyways. Just for the title alone.

Is there a Linkin Park greatest hits, because I'm not gonna lie, I would buy it. Back in their heyday it would always take about six months of me hating their singles before I started to kinda dig them and now that I'm removed from all that I could go for a good greatest hits comp. I thought burning a copy of my little brother's LP/Jay-Z album would serve that purpose but boy it ain't quite the same. Looking forward to hearing the new single. Also don't cry for Mike Shinoda, Fort Minor has only just begun its assault on the American musical landscape!!

btw Fred Durst is currently directing a movie

Folks should go liten to the new Machine Head instead...that one could be the last great nu-metal album.

Really? Even now you think of Machine Head as nu-metal? They seem so much more substantial somehow...

They're definitely more creative than the usual one-dimensional bands, but like it or not, I think they'll always be inextricably liked to nu-metal.

The only other genre I could think of for Machine Head would be dropping "nu." For better or worse, the nu-metal shoe fits.

this thread

To me, Machine Head are metal. Not always great, bang your head and raise your Devil Horns metal, but metal nonetheless. I don't hear the Nu in there, but then, I still haven't heard the new album.

Now I'm scared of it...

Anybody catch these guys on SNL? Their second number was pretty infectious stuff. And I think I mean that in a good way.

See, you get it--it was an odd feeling.

And is this or is this not the world's shortest band? Little Superstar could front this band.

This is like JNCO Jeans coming back.
It shouldnt happen.
And that second number was also wack.

Just another reminder of the darkest period of music in the last 20 years.

I thought the second song was better than the first, but that's because I'm slowly coming around on the rapper guy being the more interesting vocalist. I still didn't think it was that great, but this is the first time I've ever seen anyway in the band seeming to be excited (did they forget they were in Linkin Park?).

You're all gay.

indeed

Were we watching the same thing? It was AWFUL. I was hoping that the one guitarist who sings and looked like he was laughing was actually laughing at the simplicity they had to stoop to to do something catchy. Wow, a straight forward driving rhythm with some hip-hop esque vocals and, surprise, more raspy screaming from the other guy.

I can't see why these guys are considered relevant for a second these days. Oh, wait, yes I can: TEENAGERS.

I think teenagers have moved on from Linkin Park. The only demographic left might be aging hipsters on the internet.

guys, linkin park rules

I think the new disc was produced by Rick Rubin. They recorded something like 100 songs, and whittled it down to whatever how many are on there.

Nü-metal is about as relevant to the kids these days as grunge was to nü-metal when it was popular. I can see this thing going platinum, but chances are, it won't be as memorable to their fans as the first few discs.

I remember reading in Rolling Stone that they were planning to get really diverse with this album and completely shed their nu-metal roots or whatever. I'm assuming that happened 0%.

i was worried about the first single, i know they're ashamed of being numetal but i missed mike shinoda

Why does everyone keep confusing them with Limp Bizkit/Korn/Slipknot/Godsmack?

Holy shit.

undo they're not good

Did they ever do a greatest hits because I would be there fast. Collision Course just ain't the same

Someone should poo on their chests and and then also in their hats that they wear.

And probably a shark somehow too.

Yeah. The only thing that ever separated these guys from the nu-metal pack (apologies to undo and dr bill, maybe this is one for the uncomfortable truth thread) was a decent melodic/hook/pop sensibility, and even that is gone now. Studio spit-shine probably improves these two songs, but live? Ugh.

I liked their design sensibility.

Other than that , blecch.

Unbridled exuberance, dopey lyrics, repetitive verses and manic energy. You assclowns would've eaten this up from Andrew W.K. or Reatard or Gil Mantera or any other hipster-endorsed pleasure du jour. Reflexive poseurs.

Pfft! Lincolne Parke is the weak.

The first song sounded like a straight-up rip-off of the Silent Hill theme song.

I'd read about them working with Rubin and shedding their old sound and was interested - okay, curious - to hear their new stuff. But, yikes. To me, they looked and sounded like they were controlled by a major label committee.

"Okay, guys. The nu-metal thing's over. We need that kind of emo-ish, anthemic radio rock that's all the rage. And don't be afraid to smile, you guys! People like some fun and some dance in their rock now. The angst thing seems kind of silly."

The disappointing thing is that they didn't sound that different. That formula of boy-band vocal verses and OH-MAN-I-HAVE-ANGST screamy choruses is just really contrived and it does nothing for me.

And Linkin Park have little in common with AWK or Gil Mantera. It's like saying someone is being a hipster for liking Kanye West but not enjoying what Will Smith does.

the guitarist was spotted at a recent Arcade Fire show. also, there was something in an interview about being influenced by AF.

your posts read like the US Weekly of indie rock.

You forgot horrible vocals, forced angst, near lack of melody, and a terminal case of taking oneself too seriously. Linkin Park's SNL performance had exactly nothing in common with the bands you mentioned, outside of the presence of a guitar. For your sake, I hope that post was sarcasm.

I always thought that their best songs musically always sounded like the greatest songs that the Crystal Method never wrote. Than that ass-clown would start rapping and I'd change the channel.

It sounds (from what I've read) that this record is less DJ-centric, which would remove the only thing from this band that made them different from a steaming lump of dogshit.

Only the rancor was forced. Mostly I resented feeling cornered into the defending-Linkin-Park position, like a bad draw in debate class. And I was highly uncaffeinated.

This band makes hipsters feel so good about themselves.

Man. My parents like argue all the time.
I think theyre gonna get divorced, and my dad is a jerk to me.
This is like.....like MY Vietnam.

(I know its a different shitty artist, but its the same sense of entitled, whitebread wannabe-victim bullshit)
Fuck Linkin Park. Fuck Papa Roach. Fuck that entire execreble era of crappy fucking music.

would've?

I Get Wet and Blood Visions = the greatest pop albums ever made.