Minutes to Midnight, Well actually it's minutes afetr midnight right now... Options

[Ethereal Citizen]

Ok, I will admit, or more like say again that this is very different from their past songs, and I can see how a fan true to Linkin Park’s older albums would be disappointed to see such a drastic change, but it also opens up new doors to people who may have not like Linkin Park before. And as far as being unoriginal or unimaginative, what singer/group/rapper isn’t? Half of what you hear today on the radio or TV are revised versions or much older songs. *HALF, not ALL* As long as the music or and overall flow of the song are good, I’ll listen to it, I don’t take to heart the lyrics of any song much much, especially LP, I can understand what they represent, but I cant relate to it…

[Dr Strum]

Half of what you hear today on the radio or TV are revised versions or much older songs.

Half of what you hear on the radio or TV today is about 2% of what is out there and recent today.

[Ethereal Citizen]

What radio stations do you listen to?

[Dr Strum]

I only listen to one - 93X, but what does that matter?

[Ethereal Citizen]

For someone who only listens to one radio station you sure know what half is, I suppose you have the answers to all questions.

[Dr Strum]

Half of what is played is played on 93X: KDWB only plays top ten songs, literally, B96 only plays rap and hip hop but they refuse to censor, and the FCC refuses to allow them to have those words broadcast so their play list is very limited, KQ92, KS95, and a few other stations only play soft rock hits, and I think KS95 is about to go under. 93X plays all forms of rock and many of metal, will take nearly any request (for rock, at least) you send in, has four hours a week dedicated to purely [active] local bands and every Sunday they play an entire recent album from start to finish (last Sunday they played Ozzy's Black Rain - that's right, two days before it was even released), a good portion of the bands they play never get played again once they actually put album out.

So, anyways, yes, I know what half is.

[Ethereal Citizen]

I hardly call that "half" Although we obviously live in different states, maybe you know half of what you have, and in that case, my post referring to half of the radio only applies to where I live and I should have not brought it up assuming everyone lives where I do or has some form of satellite radio, however, in that case, you were unable to properly respond to my statement in the first place. We're both wrong.

[Irysa]

And as far as being unoriginal or unimaginative, what singer/group/rapper isn’t?

Avant Garde Metal maybe?

[Irysa]

The intro to What I've Done sounds pretty damn similar to Metallica's Fade to Black.

Just something I noticed.

[Lloyd Seegymont the Rasier]

just went out to buy it. I like it, but It's not my favorite C.D. by them.

[San]

I bought it last week. I liked it, but my favourite is Hybrid Theory. What I liked best of this CD is Given Up, What I´ve Done and No More Sorrow

[Raijinili]

Those song titles sound emo.

[Irysa]

Its pretty much the basic angsty coming of age garbage that every emo/pop-punk/post-grunge/numetal band has been putting out for the past 15 years ever since grunge made it "cool" to talk about your feelings.

[Raijinili]

But does the music sound good, notwithstanding the lyrics?

[Irysa]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yKApAgB0M6w

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ

There's probably every song off the album on jewtube somewhere.

Judge for yourself.


I've actually downloaded the album so I could give better criticism on it, and I have to say, it blows. Its incredibly boring all the way through. Chester's typical rasps are crap, his cleans sound forced, zero amount of development in any of the songs ( omg, 3 note guitar solo!!!111 ), so its just all powerchords basically. This would be forgivable, if I were able to believe for a second that the music they made came from their heart, and that they were playing because they loved it, but I can't. Bassline is nonexistant in most of the songs.

Hann's mixing/synth and Mike's rapping are above average at least though. I've always liked Mike's voice.

This post has been edited by Chaos Seraph: Aug 19 2007, 05:31 PM