Below are excerpts from numerous contemporary newspaper and magazine articles and reviews. When there’s a little bit of rage behind, you get motivated.”Īs we mourn Bennington’s death at 41, we’re looking back on what critics and reporters had to say about Linkin Park around the time of their debut LP’s release. Anger feeds change – more so than happiness, because I think when people become happy and comfortable they become lazy and melancholy. “There’s some pretty pissed-off kids all over the world,” Bennington told The Guardian back in 2001. Talk to someone.Chester Bennington's Biggest Billboard Hits You should never be afraid to be who you want to be and you should never feel uncomfortable in your own skin. Yet this man wasn’t comfortable with himself and this drove him to the end. It’s sad that this icon that changed so many lives, made so many people scream at the top of their lungs in their bedrooms and helped those people find themselves and who they were and who they wanted to be. My final thought is that the circumstances I write this in are so sad. It’s artwork looks great at this size (and way better than the inkjet printed version I had on cd). Side AMy copy of the record is a 2013 re-issue on black vinyl. The big hitters still hit but songs like ‘With You’, ‘A Place For My Head’ and ‘By Myself’ are on the verge of making me cringe at the thought of early 00s fashion and hairstyles. When I listen to the album now I feel some of the songs are dated. It’s no secret that 90% of the record was written before Chester joined and is a testament to Shinoda’s talent. I can relate to what’s being sung (or screamed) about and I like to ‘connect’ to what I’m hearing.Īlthough Chester was ‘the star’ it’s really Mike Shinoda’s song writing that makes this album. Honest music where I can really feel the words coming from the singers mouth. To this day I still favour music that bares all. The reason being that his screaming and the sound of his heart and soul in this music was the push I needed to fall into the world of metal. We’ve spoken a lot about Chester, I know. Chester deserves to go down in the anuls of music history for that vocal performance alone. It’s the biggest single Linkin Park have ever released and seriously.
Personally it’s my favourite on the record. Inside Gatefold ‘In The End’ has always divided opinions. ‘Crawling’ has a beautiful blend of Bennington’s fragile singing mixed with a cave-your-head-in chorus that makes you want to scream at the top of your lungs. “SHUT UP WHEN IM TALKING TO YOOOOU!!” I don’t even have to tell you about this stone wall classic. The second half of the song “the suuuuuuuuuuun goooooes doooooooowwwwn” is perfectly timed and add the scratching and mike shinodas vocals you can not go wrong. I can still recite every lyric now and I haven’t listened to it in a good ten years. Opening track ‘Papercut’ really is one of the best openers ever written. If I hadn’t obsessed over heavy music, hadn’t chosen to be different and hadn’t just been myself then none of that would have been possible. I’ve spent so many nights standing at the front of concerts with bands playing their music on stage, I’ve spent countless days at festivals, met (and reconnected with) so many amazing friends and shared some unforgettable experiences. This record opened the doors to SO MANY bands and so many records I would never have paid attention to otherwise. Dudes that just wanted to do their own thing.
And it was made by dudes who didn’t fit in. Hybrid Theory was the first record I’d heard with screaming, with choruses that had real heart and emotion and music with heavy guitars. Hybrid Theory was a landmark in my life, much like for most of the people reading this but, since that record, my taste has evolved and changed and I never really got to grips with anything else they’ve released.īut let me assure you, this album really did change my life. Now I won’t sit here and gush about how much of a Linkin Park fan I am. While writing this the news of Chester Bennington’s passing has broken. The same dude (who’s name still goes unremembered) gave me a copy of this on the same day and these two records would shape everything I love about music today. So if Blink-182’s ‘Take Off Your Pants and Jacket’ gave me my love for the pop punk then it was certainly Linkin Park’s ‘Hybrid Theory’ that made me want to listen to heavier, more aggressive music.
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