@@jayandgem Nah I don't think he is much regarded in that department in a critical sense

@@jayandgem how? his lyrics is great and his flow is great as well

@@jayandgem *underrated

Mike Shinoda is by no way underrated. He is amazingly good and everybody knew that. Before recent music regress started

FACTS 🙌🏼 🤝

Yess!

You know that'd be good. Mike seems like such a kind and genuine guy. Not to mention he was often the guy coming up with the most musically impressive aspects of LP's music... he's probably their strongest songwriter and arranger. That guy can tell you more about records like Hybrid Theory and Meteora than arguably anyone else in the band. I think he'd be happy to indulge in that and would have plenty to say about the creative choices behind the music.

WE NEED THAT

That would be so sick

Sick Idea ❤

As one of those metal-heads may I concede: I was wrong

You aren’t kidding. Crazy how time flys

I'm 42 as well & I totally agree 😢

Same. I was 18. To this day, it never stops landing right on my heart.

The intro alone gives me chills. I also love the reanimation version.

Same here.

Meteora was definitely better but Hybrid Theory was still a masterpiece.

Runaway was their best song on that album imo, meteora a better album

​@@Vivi_9 haha no

i freaking love Reanimation - i love electronic music and creativity... If you listen this album from start to finish it is a journey on its own.

@@francisladouceur3819 no u

I know the feeling. I’ve been listening to bands like Nirvana, Pantera, Tool, Alice In Chains, etc since I was 13 or 14-years-old, and now I’m turning 45-years-old and all of those albums I love are older than you are currently. 🤢

I was 12 when I first started listening to them. A buddy and I would play through the first Halo campaign while listening to Hybrid Theory.

You ain't seen nothing yet Eduina. Wait until you hit 40. The years then start to click by like a runaway train.

​@@bountojman just dated himself hahaha

Been listening to them since they were known as hybrid theory. Now 41. I feel fucking old haha.

I second that. That’s possibly the most prog oriented LP song. Such a great build up at the end

The Little Things Give You Away it has everything in it Piano Guitar Drums Live Strings Violin 🎻 it’s beautifully written arranged composed and recorded. Hope he reviews it

Absolutely incredible song! Again, love it as much now as I did when they released it! 😍❤️😊

One of their best, I would say. The buildup at the end reminds me a lot of Comforting Sounds by Mew, one of my favorite instrumental climax.

The whole album tbh. Leave out all the Rest and The Little Things Give You Away we're always big stand outs though!

To this day Reanimation is my favourite LP album. And I'm glad you're still around!

A Thousand Suns so underrated. So good

KRWLNG put the original song into another level. I love it. Not to say the original was worse or anything, it's just the remix is so great too.

ReAnimation is the best work they ever did !

Yeah, I remember clearly watching the videoclip for the first time, it left a big impression at the time (one step closer).

I lost interest after the Meteora album when they decided to change their sound.

Breaking the habit is their best song.

@@lordmatthewlukeobrien their best nah one of their best sure

Yeah I like the structure of the song and the way it has been crafted with all the edm elements, synths, pads technical drumming by rob.

A Thousand Suns has so many bangers. My favourite LP song is Waiting For The End from the same album.

I would say, A Thousand Suns is Linkin Park's best album, it may not define Linkin Park (Meteora I guess would be the definitive album) but A Thousand Suns was well made, especially with its setting being in a post apocalyptic world, and each song has different settings to fit into the post apocalyptic world

@@yuki.35xxxv agreed

Yo , like i belive that The Catalyst is a good song , but The Messenger just hits so hard and it's super underrated so if you ask me what their best song is i will say The Messenger (cuz for me it just is)

a place for my head*

That guitar riff really highlights Brad's guitar skills. I stumbled on the Live in Texas version which I haven't watched in years and now that I'm actually making my own music I really take notice of what they're doing rather than just how it sounds.

That is their best song

Same. Missed concert in 2014. Was at Mike Shinoda concert at 2018 in Moskow.

What's nuts is Mike wrote that whole song in one night

I was lucky enough to see them 4 times in the early 2000’s

Damn that Song really loves everybody my friends Do not even liked metal haha

I always preferred the demos version of mikes verse it just flows much better.

agreed! Rick's open-mindedness is amazing

absolutely, this CD was on loop in my car... it was meant to be heard as an album, each song flowed into the next

Hybrid Theory was the first album I bought with my own money. It’s crazy how tight it sounds, and EVERY track is a banger.

I agree Kelli, I specifically remember him doing Spoonman by Soundgarden and he was doing the best parts of Chris Cornell singing and he was really like that but more. It's so funny that it makes you laugh with him,lol.

❤yes

Like a kid in a candy store!

For real. Such an amazing song

One of my favorite songs too! Totally underrated

exactly ❤

Whole Meteora album is great

Have always loved this track ❤

HT is definitely an amazing album I would rate it 10/10 as well I like Meteora album more but thats just a matter of preference not a knock on HT quality.

Yes with you was mind-blowing to hear as an 8 year old lol. The chorus was catchy too.

This, Rick!

That album has no fillers at all. Pure gold.

​@@victorsuarez3 facts

A Place for my Head is probably my favorite track.

@@ExNihiloComesNothing It’s definitely one of the best.

Even if i prefer Linkin Park i think the first RATM record is the best debut album of all time for rock/heavy music, contains so much hits

Check out "Not Alone" :)

​@@CASEMSTR How in the world have I never heard it before. I thought I'd literally listened to everything they ever released. Thank you, it was an absolutely surreal experience to hear Chester's voice with something new again.

@@the_bottomfragger it's sooo good. Obv all the LPU stuff is great too. But that song is super unique

@@CASEMSTR it's an amazing somg

She Couldn’t would be also be a contender for hidden gem…emphasis on ‘hidden.’

Exactly! Yes!

Linkin Park has always been outstanding with their lyrics pick any song.

"Leave out all the Rest" from Minutes to Midnight, will be played at my memorial service when I die. (I am not leaving my loved ones to plan my funeral) "Waiting for the End" was released after my husband died..."Waiting for the end to come Wishing I had strength to stand This is not what I had planned It's out of my control" was very real when I was drowning in grief. "And I don't even know what kind of things I've said My mouth kept moving, and my mind went dead So, I'm picking up the pieces now where to begin The hardest part of ending is starting again" was also very true for me. I promised my husband I would live, but there were months of people worrying I was going to die from my broken heart. I had to move... Everywhere I went, people asked me where the "big guy" was? It was so hard to say he died. My husband was 7" 4.5" tall when he died (brain tumor) I am just under 5 feet tall . I couch surfed for a little over a year before I decided to leave TX. My boss moved me to VA to be closer to family. I kept our house in Texas until my husband's best friend offered me way over market value for it. I was so blessed to have wonderful people, who loved my husband, looking out for me. It is completely surreal when I still get called to plan funerals for his MC Brothers. I am a linguist, not a funeral director. But I am also so blessed because I grateful for the time we had.

"From the inside" what still gets me..

I think i feel the same, "Breaking The Habit" is one if not my favorite from them, because the Video Clip hit me so hard when i first watched when i was a child, the animation is just beautiful and in combination with the music, they are just a audio/visual masterpiece

It won a Grammy, didn't it? How the hell is it underappreciated in any way? The first two albums are like their best ever (in a general consensus) and the singles are probably the well known out of their later singles.

A Thousand Suns is still their best album. Meteora, unfortunately, felt a bit too much like HT for me. Even if MtM didn't quite hit as hard as I would've liked, it was such an important transitional abum.

@@NickRaven I agree. I feel like if Meteora came out before Hybrid Theory, fans would love that record more! Both are just such solid records that I don't fault anyone picking one over the other but the highs on Meteora just put it over HT for me. A Thousand Suns is the GOAT though.

But HT was sow fresh and raw... I really missed that on later albums, too me it felt more... Genuine? Also the impact it made then on my generation (round '85ish) was so huge. Like someone finally wrote an album about what people felt. Not that one is bad, but HT was most 'metal'

I say the same thing so I know exactly what he means, lol. But it's not really funny, it sucks.

Chi sarebbe?

@@castrucciocastracani0 Maccio Round head

@@_left_eye maronnee

Forfeit the game stop the talk show

You want someone to hurt like you

good song but i think it doesn’t have a mature lp sound. sounds more like Korn instead. to my ear at least

the chopped up ending never gets old

Pushing Me Away is a beautiful song! I love their Live In Texas version. It's an incredible performance!

Pushing me away has always been a underrated song

White Pony is killer. Love both albums

Yeah they really were consistent in their albums, at least to me before the release of Shadow of the Day (not that its bad, just not my type of sound?), they were one of those bands that hitting skip on a song was really rare. I miss Chester so much man.

Their first 3 albums are the best

@@jw19352 I would put Chester closer to Chris Cornell.

Ummm..... Linkin Park suck , singer couldn't sing....

nah their first album in incomparably stronger by FAR then any other of their albums. Their following albums were actually pretty weak besides some good songs here and there

My favorite album!

@@nsjohn130 it's incredible 🙂

@@ghost_mall your take was never true tbh, awful take on an incredible band

According to Mike it was also one of if not the hardest LP songs for Chester to sing. My understanding is that Chester could do the full on distortion or clean with his voice easily, but the in-between was harder for him to project.

@@SlimeyGuitarStrings I remember hearing something like that. It was the song he hated singing the most.

The first song I heard by them and the ones that catches my attention. I was waiting everyday for the song to play on MTV or on the radio just so I could hear it again.

@@floatingdisembodiedhead8975 Living in a time when you had to wait for the chance to hear something play, if not on your CD player. A completely different way of living and expectations.

@@MjolnirMarks true it's easier to listen to it now but back then, it just felt more special especially when you don't even know the name of the song or the band yet. It was truly a magnificent time to be alive despite all that.

2003? That was on Chester’s BDay 🎉

Damn. Bronco Bowl. Wish that place was still here instead of Home Depot. Best place for a concert IMO. Miss it.

@@musician069 it was such a great venue!

@@baxoutthebox5682 yes it sure was. Huge mistake Dallas. Lol

@@jw19352 it’s also my favourite too from that album and it’s just personal preference.

@@jw19352 personal preference....just like what Adam said!

Same, although the rap doesn't fit in it as well as others imo

@@jw19352 Idk, i always thought it would be better as a "one more light" type of song. The rap lyrics interrupt it a little bit, but still an amazing song!

I couldn’t stand that song(in the end) back in the day, when I was both a metal head and a hip hop fan. Today tho, in the end is still a rather generic commercial pop rock song imo

To me, Hybrid Theory and Meteora are untouchable. Nothing they did after that can even come close. I did like The Hunting Party though. They got angry again for that album.