Man Linkin Park is so nostalgic to me. Grew up listening to them. Hybrid Theory & Meteora are honestly some of my most favorite albums

Geebz: "Sorry for my lack of knowledge" Also Geebz: *points out a synth pad I never knew was there despite having known the song for years*

"The sun goes down I feel the light betray me" is beautiful.

Every song is a 10 on hybrid theory. There is just no debating that. “With You” is a ridiculously amazing tune.

I feel like Linkin Park were the gateway to the harder music for so many people, it's so cool to see you react to them!

The quintessential band for every edgy teenager in the early 2000s. Was my gateway drug into metal as a whole. Sick! :D

This track takes me back to Middle School. Hybrid Theory was a great album. R.I.P. Chester.

Hybrid Theory is an incredible album.

Holy shit...I've been listening to this track for 20 years now, and I've not once ever noticed that glassy pad. I even heard this yesterday and didn't notice it. Thank you Geebz. This is one of the many reasons we absolutely love you ❤️

Oh yes perfect song to choose. I remember when this album came out. I bought it at the Sam goody store in the mall when I was in grade school. I love this album. Still due to this very day. Probably in my top 10 favorite albums I ever bought. The original Linkin Park sound is so powerful. An amazing time for alternative music

My ears were expecting the song to carry right into “One Step Closer” and was very disappointed when the chunky guitar riff didn’t start. 😂

7:14 I'm so happy he reacted to that little bass lick that I've always loved about Papercut. Happy side note, In The End just recently reached A BILLION plays on spotify.

Beginning to end, Hybrid Theory is one of the best albums of all time

Hybrid Theory is one of those rare albums where every single track is great.

It seems a lot of people in the comments share the sentiment and nostalgic feel as I do. This band was my musical life during high school. Even the people who I didn't think would usually like the heavier type of music liked Linkin Park. Keep up the good works, Uncle G. We love you! ❤️

Oh God. I was waiting on you to do something like this. What a band. What a loss

You should genuinely listen to the entirety of hybrid theory, it's a nonstop dopamine rush.

Yeah, the quality of the production on this record was insane. Especially for a band nobody had ever heard of: this was their debut. I think that's one of many reasons why it took off the way it did, and why the band was so eager to experiment moving forward: I think they were heavily involved in all of that side of things.

I finally got back into Linkin Park this year after not listening to them for almost a decade. So glad to see you talk about them! Somewhere I Belong is probably my favorite Linkin Park song. The chord progression in the chorus is one of my favorites of all time, in any song

This is definitely the right song to start with too. A lot of songs from this album blew up, but this song is THE Linkin Park song, for sure. As for Linkin Park being "First", they were not really even close to first, but they were polished, and radio friendly in a way that other bands who started earlier in the genre never were. Also they were embraced by the rap scene in ways that the other bands of their type never were, giving them a broader appeal and credibility.

I think With You and Pushing me Away are the heavy hitters of this album

The one thing about LP is they were always actively searching for a new sound, they were always experimenting. No 2 albums are the same from them. It drew heat from many fans but it gained them even more.

Cannot believe this record is 20 years old. 😳

Linkin Park's "Blackout" is a really weird Piece of Composition, and I love it.

‘Papercut’ is right up there behind ‘Place for my Head’ for me

Mike Shinoda is an especially unique rapper, he has this wonderful fusion of regular singing with very clean rap lines. It works so well when Chester would sing and scream along side him. You should listen to something off of A Thousand Suns, it's not a fan favorite album but it's by far their most experimental

First! LP is definitely one of the most iconic bands of all time. Soooo nostalgic to listen to this song in 2021. Great reaction as always! Love your content man.

Linkin Park suggestions: faint, in the end, numb, lying from you

Duuuude the nostalgia from high-school years is intense with this one ❤️

Got into foster care at 11 years old and this album is the only thing I had to feel happy when I moved into a group home. 29 now and Papercut is a must have on my playlist

I've always considered Rage Against the Machine as the originators of "rap metal", for want of a better term. I think they were 4-5 years ahead of their contemporaries.

RIP Chester on July 20th, #MakeChesterProud. Heavenly Birthday to Chris Cornell, "no one sings like you anymore..." (July 20th) You should definitely react to their Live videos from 2008, Hunger Strike & Crawling. Thanks for the reaction. Much respect.

The first album I ever purchased! Still one of my favourite albums to this day!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Linkin Park broke new ground with their sound... Maybe check out Don't Stay on the Meteora album... Love the channel man!!!

Favourite track from the first album: Points Of Authority.

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan decomposing would be cool! :)

Saw them in Long Beach CA, with POD, Hoobastank, POD, Story of the year and some others. Bad ass show!!! RIP Chester!

I miss listening to Linkin Park. I grew up with them and I loved their early albums. It's harder to listen to them since Chester died.

OH man. This was the start of everthing for me. I had this cd on Endless repeat. I'm glad you started with the first song of their first album. You should do Every Linkin Park song of this album but actually Every Linkin Park song there is. Even the later work, for which they lost a lot of the more rock/metal minded fans, is great. They always evolved and reinvented themselves without losing their essence. Continue doing more of their songs. You're gonna make a lot of People happy. Thank you!

Chester’s back story makes the lyrics and performances that much more amazing. RIP Chester. 💔. You are so missed.

One of my all time favorite groups!! More Linkin Park please!!

Hybrid theory absolutely blew my mind as a kid. Putting it in the cd player and hearing papercut right out of the gate... Man it was awesome

I’d say it was Rage Against the Machine, Korn, Deftones and Limp Bizkit that kind of opened things up for bands like Linkin Park to come out with this kind of sound. Glad you did Linkin Park though as they remain my favourite band of all time and the band that got me into rock/metal/rap.

Linkin Park was my favorite band in middle school. I happened to be watching MTV one Saturday morning and the music video for 'Somewhere I Belong' came on and I was transfixed. My 12 year old self had never heard something so awesome. 2003's Hybrid Theory, its excellent and underappreciated Reanimation sequel, and 2003's Meteora for a core trio of albums that hold a special place in my young musical heart. The hybridized rock/rap, really alternative metal/rap sound had never and has never been captured so uniquely.

They were the band that really got me into music I'm general. 'Faint' was the first song I learned all the lyrics to and could sing along with. They were the band my dad would challenge me to try and isolate every individual instrument and hear the beat of the drums. Chester was the only celebrity that's passed that I had an emotional response too. I'm super grateful for Linkin Park.

It's so weird being 30 and watching a decomposer react to my favourite band when I was 9. But I had damn good taste. A lot of early 2000s nu metal is holding up surprisingly well.

That first album was definitely the best. Meteora was good too but that first album was amazing. The psycho part about that whole thing is most of the arrangement and recording was done by Mike Shinoda, the rap singer. He's a producer in his own right and did the drums, guitar, keyboard, sampling/turntables as well as obviously singing when they recorded it and then they had other people come in to play the parts when they go on tour. He's another one of those people that can play pretty much anything he picks up. He's also the one that did all the artwork for all their albums. (He actually had his stuff in a gallery in LA, as well as the Japanese American National Museum because he's Ukrainian and Japanese)

What I love about Linkin Park is they know how to be heavy without being simple and boring. There's so many different sounds and instruments in each track, especially this one in "Papercut". The bridge and final chorus is like 20 layers deep with harmonies, background synths and so much other stuff. It will take a lot of listens to catch everything, giving this song so much replayability and makes it unbelievably catchy.

This is one of their "deep cuts" which has had more staying power than others, and it's great that you were introduced to it. So powerful! As far as Linkin Park being a pioneering and "gateway" band back in the early 00s, I totally agree with that. And I feel like I hear echoes of their sound in modern bands like _Spiritbox_ , especially SB's newest release *"Circle With Me."* That blend of heavy, melodic, visceral, and cathartic is so powerful. 🤙🏼

Goddammit, this song REALLY makes me miss the amazing car stereo I had back in high school. I had a really badass system with Pioneer speakers and 2 10” subs (I can’t remember what brand at the moment)-but that song used to sound amazing in that car, and it’s making want to upgrade the fairly decent stereo that came stock in my Dodge Charger. I fucking hate dealing with subs in the trunk when I need to haul shit, but man this song and several by Disturbed just needs a bit more thump to sound right.

Linkin park came out at the right time in my life. This band literally saved my life twice!! When Chester passed away, it's like I lost part of myself. You NEED to do this breakdown on there song called ONE MORE LIGHT

OMFG it happened again!! I've been watching every video this guy uploads. However, I haven't listened to Linkin Park in like two years, till yesterday!!! I played this particular, same goddamn song, PAPERCUT!!! And now he uploads this. I'm speechless.

"the sun goes down" part always gives me chills

I'm honestly not sure why your year old videos have popped up in my feed. But I'm damn sure glad they did. Linkin Park's first 3 albums hit a part of my soul that has never been hit by anyone else. Your videos are highlighting things in songs that I have heard hundreds of times and have never noticed, and makes it feel like I am hearing them for the first time.

I was balls-deep in a terrible 13 year long marriage when this was pop. I was listening to a lot of 60's rocksteady & ska at the time, but LP lyrics about mental health sh*t gave me hope for the future.... and I made it!

When people ask the question, "Hey if you could pick a song to hear first which one would it be?" and my answer would always be this one! it completely changed my outlook music and broadened my horizons! and thank you for giving me as close to that feeling as possible!! thanks mate!

Wow, what a nostalgia bomb. My LP days feel like a lifetime ago; I saw them on the Hybrid Theory tour when I was 11 (lots to unpack there). It wasn't too long after that that I got into punk and hardcore and left LP behind, but they were what got me dipping my toes into other genres. I couldn't help but sing along when you started the song; incredible what the human brain will choose to remember 20 years later.

its so great seeing you react to this, thank you man!

So glad you did a video on Linkin Park. One of my long time favorite bands! Great decomposition!

This was Chester's favorite song to perform on stage out of all their songs that they released before he died. Crawling was the hardest for Chester to perform since it was hard on his vocal cords so he asked to have it removed from the setlist. Chester wrote some of the songs for Linkin Park on his own but most of the time he wrote with Mike. Mike wrote some of the songs with Chester's life experiences for Chester.

Thank you for this! LP is a one of kind, their genre, uniqueness, arts and many more. Their songs help me get through so many hard times. Chester's voice is beautiful. One of my childhood heroes.

listened to LP though a lot of rough times in my life. Saw them in concert also and it was one of the best I have seen in my life.

Thank you for doing this, this was one of the first albums I ever bought and remains one of my a time favorites, but I've struggled listening to them since Chester passed away. It's great to go back to the beginning and re experience this greatness

This is the music of my youth. The entire Meteora album saved my life. Meteora and hybrid theory are two albums that you could put in the CD player and never hit skip. Every song was great.

Love this one so glad you did this reaction

I'm actually very glad I found your channel so long ago. You've changed the way I listen to music. My ears already enjoyed picking apart the music before, but you've helped me enhance that. Major thank you. Much love. 🖤

Loved this. You always make me hear something I've never noticed ,even though heard and loved the song so much. Hugs from Sweden.

Man this song gives me goosebumps, grew up listening to these guys. Glad you are giving them a listen

This song was absolutely everything to me when i was 13-14. Burned to a cd delivering papers round the burbs west aus. So many emotions. Rest easy Chester. Reach out if you're in a dark place, we all need you even if you don't know it.

Finally a linkin park song lol, the bass is the backbone of the band

I love the chemistry between Mike and Chester and they definitely delivered on this album.

I love how as soon as the guitar hits, his eyes just widen. I fucking love that feeling when listening to LP

Please check out literally anything from their first 2 albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora Best choices for your type of breakdowns would be: With You, A Place For My Head, Somewhere I Belong, Lying from You, Numb

As Always, thanks for keeping it Real GeebZ 🤙

There once was a seed planted, called Rage Against The Machine. This seed was Grooving, Heavy, Aggressive, and Rapping. From the seed grew a plant called Nu'Metal. - The plant sprouted a first shoot, which took the appearance of KoRn. Many leaves grew from this shoot, all equally as Aggressive and Heavy. Then from the seed sprouted a second shoot, which took the appearance of Linkin Park. Many leaves grew from this shoot as well, all equally as Grooving and laced with Rapping vocals. - Sometimes the leaves grew larger than others, leaning so close to the other shoot that it became hard to tell if it branched off the more Aggressive/Heavy side, or the more Grooving/Rapping side; but one thing was for sure, it was still Nu'Metal.

It would be dope if you did a comparison/review video on some of Steven Wilson's remixes of some of Jethro Tull's classic songs/albums. For example, doing a reaction video of Steven Wilson remix of "Aqualung" and comparing it to the original mix and highlighting some of the differences and nuances that Wilson was able to bring out in his mixing of it that was lost in the original mix. In my opinion, the Steven Wilson remix was able to bring out some really interesting dynamics that add more to the nihilistic feeling of some of the tracks. It would be super interesting to hear your thoughts on Wilson's mix versus the original and see what you like or do not like about the Wilson remix of "Aqualung" to the original mix. Thanks as always for the amazing content!

Yes! Love this whole album so much ❤

It's like going back to highschool. "It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within. It's like the face inside is right beneath the skin" This came out in 2000. There's two singers. One who does rap and more spoken word and a singer that belts it out and screams. Joe Hahn is the guy on the pads. He has a ton of electrical stuff like pads. If it isn't a guitar, bass or drums... then it's him. Yeah They were one of the 1st popular Nu-meta band. Korn, limp bizkit and linkin park were the 1st ones i remember. They were the ones who were the most hip hop. They even did a album with Jay-z. I suggest "linkin park - giving up" Take as much time to heal that shoulder.

I think that based on how you decompose these songs Linkin Park is a perfect artist for you to explore further. They are surprisingly complex and you hearing some of these interesting things in Papercut had me loving this song all over again. Keep up the good reacts!

6:30 so glad you noticed this, I love the bass sound in this section. And the way the bass drum is synced with the string hits makes it sound soo much fatter

My brother bought this album in spring/summer of 2001 (he was 14, and I was 20 ). We had just got in the car with our mom, and he pulled out the album and passed it to me in the front seat. I put it in my CD player, and after the first 10 seconds of hearing papercut I told my mom she had to take me to the record store now. I swear that album marked the spot of a new chapter. The moment I played that album the sun became brighter. THEN...not too long after I was introduced to Mudvaynes L.D. 50. Jeez, talk about E-PIC-NESS. 😍 I always get so emotional thinking about the early 2000's.

Yes, Linkin Park has such a diverse collection of amazing songs. Hope you do more.

I instantly clicked on LIKE! Hybrid Theory is one of my favorite albums of all time! I played this album in loop, back in the days! Thanks for your decomposition!

Just ran across you tonight and I love watching your face while you listen. It's like you hear every note, every instrument and your concentration as you listen is so complete. I can even see when you are surprised by something. The first video I found of yours tonight was your Slow Burn with Lincon Park and that was fantastic. I would love to see more of those with the LP guys. Unfortunately, I really only started discovering LP just before Chester left us. Since then, I've been throwing myself into getting to know every album. I'm older, so I had their whole discography to get to listen to and learn without being stuck in that predicament that a lot of early fans got hung up on when LP's sound started to change. I love every one of their albums. Each one has so much to give. I think there was a lot of push back with the last album "One More Light" because it was much more mellow and so different than anything else they'd done. The way they explained it was, basically, the guys were older, they were husbands and fathers and the things that interested them 20 years ago had changed. So, they did the music that they wanted to. Despite the backlash, the album was so good, less metal and more pop, I suppose, but the guts of Linkin Park were still all there in the music and lyrics. A year after Chester's death, Mike put out a solo album called "Post Traumatic". It's an incredible journey of living in the grief and finally coming out of it that he dealt with during that first year. It's extremely raw and honest - a beautiful story of going from the depths of darkness, back to the light. Hope you get a chance to check it out sometime or do a slow burn on it.

Between the Buried and Me - Selkies: The Endless Obsession Please and thanks you.🙏🤞🦥😀

Blackout from Linkin Park is a perfect song for decomposition! The Catalyst is also a very interesting song to analyze in my opinion. You would definitely enjoy A Place For My head as well! It's my favorite song from them. Also their live performance of QWERTY is a testament to your opinion that the vocalist is an instrument himself! Thanks for your excellent decompositions!

everyone was a linkin park fan this album is a 10/10 from start to finish

Listening back to this on a proper high quality headset and amp 20 years after I first listened to it (a lot), I realize how sonicly complex and intricate this song realy is and how well it is produced with all things clearly and individually discernable in the sound picture.

Hybrid Theory had the record of most copies sold for a first album. I remember back in school I heard “one step closer” on the radio and I was instantly hooked. I went to the record store (yes kids, we used to do that) and bought the album just for that song… and I remember being impressed by all songs! It was something I had never listened before, even that there where lots of bands mixing rap and singing… they sounded special. Papercut is the first song in that album and when it connected with OSC it blew my mind

Man I'm so glad for the Linkin Park song, They were my 1st favorite band for a while, always remembered hearing em on the radio as a little kid then finally looking into them more when I was older and just absolutely loving them, really wish I could've seen them live at least once. Favorite song has gotta be waiting for the end from a thousand suns, would love if you could take a listen to it Geebs, love what you do man

This is by far one of my favorite Linkin Park songs

Linkin Park is so nostalgic. It brought back lots of memory.

nothing like blasting “In The End” at the gym side note: unless i missed it im surprised you didnt do Three Days Grace yet. gotta do one of their older songs

The glassy pad is one of the sounds I always picked up, but never had a name for. Thanks for that!

I would love to see your reaction to "Given up".... Chester holds a legendary scream for what seems to be 20 seconds in that song. RIP Chester

Linkin Park wasnt the first band that did the rap/rock combination thing, but they did it in a very unique organic way, that put the "genre" on a completly different level. you could check out their song "In the end" , "Numb", "Breaking the habit" or "What ive done aswel". just to mention a few, theyre having such a diversity of songs :)

Such a great and truly original song.

Hi, This takes me back; brilliant song & band. I was also listening to Papa Roach "Last Resort" Limp Bizkit "Rollin" Crazytown "Butterfly" Blink 182 "I Miss You" I hope your shoulder gets better; get them to do an ultrasound on your shoulder just to make sure you haven't torn any ligaments. Take care & stay safe.

Never knew about the synth pad you pointed out, this is exactly the kind of stuff I come here for!

YAY! My favorite track of theirs of all time. Mahalos kanaka! Nice breakdown as always.