Comments on: Review | Linkin Park’s Minutes To Midnight

By: Marvin

Marvin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:29:26 +0000

i love linkin park, the music beats,the lyrics, the are great!!!! but…what happend to the old linkin park? why did they change their style that made them different? i remember an mtv interview awhile back where they said they would never change there style. i just have to say that i’m a bit disappointed in this album. the lyrics are still great but the style that was known as linkin park doesnt really feel there, except for on “what ive done”, on this album. i hope that they go back to the style that made them different and made to you really listen to the lyrics and feel the music. i think that is the linkin park that we really fell in love with. but they still rock!!!!!

By: dolarich

dolarich — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:35:36 +0000

It looks to me like a lot of people like the album and a lot of people didn’t, being one of the second, I think that Linkin Park went soft and it doesn’t work. true, they still sold a load of records, but now they appeal to fans of groups like my chemical romance, it’s pop-rock and it’s cheap, nothing like the band that used to tour with metallica limp bizkit slayer or deftones, and I’m not the biggest metal fan, I also like soft-rock like bloc party or billy talent, but they are original and good at doing it and linkin park aren’t.
I never thought I would have to say anything like this about LP one of my favourite bands, but they’ve turned weak, and they need to fix it. Bring back the originality and the intensity that once burnt my cd player!!!!

By: LP_FM

LP_FM — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:06:32 +0000

I really like the album, its different from the old songs but i think they cud hav dun much better. I am a great fan of them and i like da way chester moves his voice from a low pitch 2 a high pitch in “given up” an how he shouts.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:16:05 +0000

heres a quote by chester himeself- “We kind of want to be a band that’s kind of ambiguous,” Bennington said. “That’s our goal. We want it to be difficult for people to try to pinhole us into something. I think that as our career develops and keeps growing we’ll hopefully be a band that’s known for writing good music

By: JD

JD — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:46:48 +0000

The first few albums from Linkin Park were groundbreaking, they were genres in and of themselves. I have no objection to them changing their sound (it’s natural for a band’s sound to evolve over time), but this album has a common sound.

This reminds me of when Jewel put out her first non-folk album and everyone cheered for her song “Intuition”, and then the world seemed to have forgotten her. What these artists had before was a unique voice but by creating albums that conformed so well to what people wanted to hear, they became forgettable.

Don’t take this to mean that I am blatantly insulting these artists because I am not. I am simply saying that while they had unique voices of their own, they stood out as themselves, they sold many records and had a very large fan base. That’s not to say that they don’t still have many fans, but if they continue in this direction, I wouldn’t be surprised if they blended so well into the woodwork that they disappeared. Just like Jewel, who has become “Jewel who?”

By: GRIMREAPER

GRIMREAPER — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:39:39 +0000

COOL NEW ALBUM ESPECIALLY given up, bleed it out and no more sorrow
but there were not enough rap and fun and they kinda look old

By: Madcoder

Madcoder — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:17:51 +0000

It’s incredible how many reviews I’ve read saying stuff like ‘Bring the old LP back’, ‘Oh I wish this was heavier’ and alikes.

Listeners do not have to stick to a style of music. In fact, people who do stick to this or that limit themselves in their ability to understand and appreciate music. I’m not saying that everyone should love all kind of music, I’m just telling that self-imposed limitation is totally wrong and not just regarding music, but all aspects of life. Common sense says clearly that we should experiment a bit of all to complete ourselves.

I listen to LP since the first days and I would be quite disturbed to realize that LP members don’t change overtime. Doesn’t everybody change? Isn’t it a personal success factor, to be able to change ourselves in order to adapt to new circunstances?

If people like LP’s first albuns, well, listen to them everyday till death.
If you enjoy seeing 6 kids with great musical abilities to progress, to grow, listen to the new songs. If you see it as sound bad music, well, wait for the next album or realize they are not that good after all. If you like it, then you’ll probably enjoy growing up with songs that resemble your life and your aging.

Never stop growing up LP! Get stronger!

By: joe

joe — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:23:42 +0000

NEEKo you cant make the same music 3 times in a row thats alil over repeative. If Lp made the trilogy that would show that its the only music that they can make. people wouldnt be that surprised it would just be same old repeative music but diffrent lyrics. So Lp wanted to show that over the span of the 4 years and since meteora that they have grown up and mutured along with there music. If they were to make the trilogy No one would ever know that mike had another talent not to just rap but to sing also. So i look forward to there future albums

By: NeKoo

NeKoo — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:27:04 +0000

Very… very… disappointing.. I tried listening to it for awhile to see if it would stick to me but it didn’t.. This is not LP… This is EP.. = Emo Park… If i had of known that it was going to be like this, i would of saved my money…

I am truly blown away.. The only good songs are #1 What ive Done #2 Bleed it Out #3 Giving Up #4 No More Sorrow and Hands Held high is alright… but my god… I could listen to Hybrid theory without getting tired of it, AND I STILL am not tired of it! its PURE awesomeness!! But you listen to this album and you feel like you want to puke… Sorry this is just how i feel…

Linkin Park… what happened to you?… I know its sometime good to change.. but.. this much?

Its like when people say to you “Don’t change to make people like you more.. People like you for who you are” and you guys were all about Nu Metal!..

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:54:17 +0000

I withdrawl my last statement. After listening to the cd a few more times, i realized that i didnt give the cd a fair chance. You cant judge a cd listening to it only one time. I found the lyrics to be powerful, and the rhythems to be strong. Even tho the sound is different than the previous two cds i find this cd to be as good as the rest.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:44:12 +0000

I am very disappointed in their new cd. I was excepting a heavier more rock cd, instead i got this soft rock Britney Spears cd. A large majority of the track’s blend in with each other and its hard to distinguish when one ends and another begins. I respect theyâ€™re decision for a new sound, but its not a sound the sound i was hoping they were going to change to.

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:26:27 +0000

Just Great album! By the way, here is some useful
website devoted to the
Minutes to Midnight album: http://linkin-park-minutes-to-midnight.info/

By: Shreekant

Shreekant — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:49:10 +0000

well…Lp did do sumthin’ different…but was it worth it?…yes…it is…but the darkness in Lp is gone…

By: realmusic

realmusic — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:25:33 +0000

Are you people serious? Do you people only listen & watch MTV??? Christ, this band is horrible~!!! Linkin Park sucks~!!! How the hell can you give them credit or even consider them authentic or real musicians? Look how long they took to write this album, they were contemplating whether the singer should grow “emo” bangs and they end up sounding like all these emo bands that are coming up(they are also awful by the way) Fans? Fans of the music? I’m sorry you people all must of grown up listening to real shitty music and I feel for you people~ There is so much better music out there than this band~ Honestly I don’t care if your hardcore fans, it’s the principle of writing good music and if any of you people really know music theory or composition you’d be really pissed. And everyone who is trying to defend them…don’t. This new album sounds just like their last two which were the same album~ All 3 of their albums sound exactly alike~ It’s so ridiculous when you actually play them all together at the same time~ It’s a joke. This band is a joke. Look at their new tour with My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, and Mindless Self Indulgence~! It makes no sense~! Everyone do yourselves a favor and actually go find better music and don’t even bother asking what I listen to or consider good music~ It’s not this crap~ Actually while I’m on the subject. All nu-metal bands or bands that fell in that genre or times sucked and always will suck~ Their bunch of talentless guitar players D tuning their guitars and trying to be “metal”

By: Kazuyashockrocks

Kazuyashockrocks — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:32:48 +0000

Since when did growing up involve completely removing ones own testicles and crying like an emo bitch? God damnit! Dont you tools ever get tired of bands choosing mediocrity over the very thing that brought them to the dance? How the hell could another heavy album be boring? Heavy music in its very nature is heavy to avoid being boring (de de de!!!!), it contains the very thing this album lacks (aesthetic…glorious aesthetic!!!!)
I know its hard to admit the album sucks, I mean I went through that period too, but really, if you take a moment to free yourself and just think about what your saying a bit you might find somewhere inside of your compliant soul lives someone who is really pissed of about this travesty of a an emo drenched shallow, been there done that album.
Then again maybee not, it sounds like you dont really know what linkin park was about let alone what it is about.
They barely (and I mean barely) ever sang out of hate. If you examine the lyrics a little closer you might just see that almost every song dealt with everyday life issues, frustrations, relationships, states of confusion, addiction,art, the state of the industry etc. but never once do I remember linkin park ever saying they hated anything.
The “shut up when Im talking to you” was the closest theyve ever come to that, and maybee just maybee a place for my head came close as well, but both songs were about frustrations within and desires to vent that frustration (NOT the execution) and despite how angry the songs sounded never was violence or hatred mentioned.
On top of that I have to say that in between was terrible because rick rubin (the sudden ruiner of all things good) told mike to keep the track unaltered. If chester were to have unaltered tracks then every song from HT to M2M would sound like live in texas (about as bad as inbetween). In the song “no roads left” Mike is given the same enhancement chester has had since day one and Im telling you its one of the best LP tracks of all time! Sadly it didnt make the cut which is exactly what Im talking about. To make a song that good a B side just proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this album was a joke. Try again LP and save your sound before we witch aride with a band with the fire you used to have.

By: mc11

mc11 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:47:46 +0000

the album is WAY diffrent to what they have ever done…People just can’t addapt to this new and improved LP
LP has grown up…
They are not angry little boys screaming into a microphone about how much they hate someone anymore, they have moved on!

I think it is good that they have made an album with a diffrent sound because to have ANOTHER heavy album would be very boring

anyway I liked pretty much all of the songs on the album apart from ‘In Between’ (I don’t really enjoy Mikes voice as much as chesters)
I love given up and No more sorrow!

By: Amadeus (Linkin Park Still Rules)

Amadeus (Linkin Park Still Rules) — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:36:20 +0000

To All of you who have listened to Linkin Parks new stuff and where expecting the same sound, and then finally listened to it and said: “Ah Fuck man, this shit SUCKS ASS!!” Y’all can kiss my white ass!! For anyone who knows music very well, they would know that a talented band would make new sounds for their music. Linkin Park made a reputation for themselves in their Nu-metal wave of music; Which was indeed pretty fucking awesome music. But you can’t always expect the same sound out of a Band. Want proof? Listen to Japanese Rock or even Rammstein. that is proof that bands experience with different sounds. Bands who Experience with new sounds, are the more talented of them all. Linkin Park will all ways and forever be LINKIN PARK, no matter what sound they have in this album or their upcoming albums. Best give them props for trying new stuff, eh?

Anyways, I’m out. Comment me if you will, just don’t hate on Linkin Park.

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:48:23 +0000

Sub par. The album is sonically boring, every song flat and empty feeling when compared to the precursor albums, esspecially their collaborative projects like Reanimation.

I am bored by this album. And the political songs are just too clumsily handled to be as potent as they would have liked. A little subtlety goes a long way. I cringe at just how crass and childlike their pokes at the political situation are. Very few bands in my opinion pull off that kind of protest, anti establishment vibe, and LP are definitly no Rage Against the Machine

In Between and Bleed it Out are the most interesting songs on the album, the rest just blend together in a bog of mediocrity. Sure they were always a bit teenage angsty in their lyrics, but their music was always interesting, multi-layered and emotive in itself. They have lost their sound, take away the vocals and this could have been produced by anyone.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:22:16 +0000

Minutes Till Midnight “WOW WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT” i guess im just gonna have to accept the fact that nothing will ever messure up to meteora and esspecially not hybrid theory. I cant cant believe im actually saying this cause im one of the biggest LP fans around but Linkin Park needs to get their act together and bring back their old sound before they lose their entire fan base

By: Kell.Bell

Kell.Bell — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:20:46 +0000

An incredible album that almost moved me to tears. Yes, they are not the same sounding band as they were in the beginning but that is the beauty of a truly talented group. They have grown up and so has their music. They are no longer the young person’s angst band. But instead adults who see the world around them and express how they feel about it. They have hurt and heartache that is genuine. They pushed themselves to grow and explore who they are. If you do not see the full vision of this album and have a tremendous respect for what they’ve done here, you have my sympathies.

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:16:19 +0000

I have to disagree with basically everything you have written, Hands held high is just hilarious and dressing up and trying to sound like U2 is downright embarrasing. This album is the dissapointmnet of the year while ‘change is good’ and ‘growing up’ quotes get thrown about, the real Linkin Park fans will go back to listening to the limited amount of previous releases. I am writing this while listening to ‘Wth>You’from the remix album Reanimation’
Maybe you should try listening to it as well and then amend your review.

By: Jusds

Jusds — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:17:43 +0000

Oh yeah, they’re totally honest folk, them Linkin Park. When they’re not ripping off better people, they’re singing about American waste, while wearing leather suits and surrounded by thousands of dollars of equipment.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:09:11 +0000

You’re all joking, right?

You can’t seriously find any political insight in this? You can’t deem this band’s likely cynical political edge to hold any water? You can’t qualify this music as good? It’s the same thing they’ve been doing since ever. It sounds the same. Exactly. It’s the same beats, same rhythms, same adolescent angst. It’s puerile stuff. It’s a joke, at best. Chester Bennington in a Bono get-up? Playing exploitative news footage during a music video to make them look like they care beyond anything other than your money? Get real. They never had anything of substance to say when they were teenagers playing at deep-rooted depression, what makes you think they know the first thing about politics?

By: Kirstylp

Kirstylp — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:44:58 +0000

My brother and I huge Linkin Park fans - we worship their stuff…. however, for us to admit that we are mildly aghast at their new sound is a severe understatement….. the new album is a dramatic departure from their original roots and one must question where this morphing came from? Whatever it is the raw sound is missing, the grit in Chester’s voice has lapsed, this is “new” Linkin Park and whilst they will make many new fans with this re-viewed sound, they will loose many loyal ones along the way….

We are mixed with emotions as we love the group so much, but getting through this new sound requires one to have a mindshift from their old stuff…. if you can do that you will discover a great band who is able to diversify…. just how much this diversification is going to assist them, time will tell.

By: brad2328

brad2328 — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:03:38 +0000

i have the greatest respect for LP and what they’ve achieved but i have to say i dont like their new albulm anywhere near as much as their previous two theres just no fire in their musice which was what they were about

By: if u dont like linkin park

if u dont like linkin park — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:53:28 +0000

i cant dislike the new album, and if you all could actually dislike LP or their music, because u expected too much, i pity you.

LP are the only band that can put rock and rap together perfectly..

minutes to midnight isnt the worst album at all.. ur all just dumb..

By: rayla

rayla — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:55:34 +0000

hey i love the songs leave out all the rest, given up, what i’e done. no more sorrow, and valentines day
great job guys. i cant wait till u come out with a new cd.

c ya rayla

By: rayla

rayla — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:53:31 +0000

linkin park is the best band in the world i’ve rembered 5 songs out of 12. i just love the whole group. i really love the lead singer. he sings sooooooooooo good. this group rox c ya

rayla

By: SweetNess_666

SweetNess_666 — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:19:04 +0000

i fcuking love this album the first time i heard it i was like its good but its really grown on me i fcuking love it, dare i say it….its better than hybrid theory and that album rules to but this is a breath of fresh air somehting different awesome truely awesome

By: muse rocks

muse rocks — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:25:31 +0000

I take my hat to linkin park i thought their new album would be shit and full of rapping but i was wrong and this album kicks ass