I almost feel as though it's a visual manifestation of their audible style.Īgain, I know these guys aren't pioneers. Who else recorded a live music video of themselves performing, shipped it to Japanese artists and released a music video in anime style? Linkin Park that's who.)īeing an aesthetically oriented person (I'm a photographer for those of you that don't know) I find that the video editing and processing does a fantastic job at complementing their music. (By the way watch that music video if you haven't. Kind of like " Breaking the Habit" but not so sad. It has a great mixture of both synth and instrumentals that I love. It's definitely my favorite song on the album. "Waiting for the End" starts off with what sounds like a guitar riff, and as the song progresses it feels as though there is more and more progressively layered on to it. (okay maybe a little more than Lil' Wayne) Today they're just as much a rock band as Lil' Wayne is a rock musician. Much more synth heavy, with undertones of rock and hip-hop.
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Similarly with their newest album, Linkin Park does a great job of mixing a more contemporary style of music. The influence they had on changing the way people thought of music. They made it big because they were able to make it work well and have it be consumed by the masses. They didn't make it big because they were the first ones to have this style of music. Then came along Linkin Park, mixing rock, rap, hip-hop DJing, into one, oddly coherent sound. At least as far as mainstream music on the radio goes. In the context of music back then, music sounded super boring and overly pop-y. Hybrid Theory was an amazing, top-selling album because of it's new sound. The reason? Because much like in Hybrid Theory (by far their best album) they're making cool music that is (conceptually speaking) new. Yet, after a few listens, I found this album awesome. Linkin Park's most recent album A Thousand Suns was for me, a particularly unexpected sound. I know it's super uncool for me to say this but here goes. I know Minutes to Midnight was a terrible departure from what made Linkin Park cool. And also my previous post about "Dreamember". Even stripped down to acoustics they sound good (not fantastic though IMHO).īut if you too miss the day when FOB, MCR, and Paramore were culturally significant check these dudes out. The Scottish origin/accent is, musically speaking, a turn on.
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Twin Atlantic has a similar rock-out, rhythm guitar type style.
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But it sucks (not to mention some of the lead singers got fat).īut, I think that Twin Atlantic to some degree fills this void in a similar way that they did, while still appealing to our more "mature", or "educated" or "hipster" sides. Sure some of them are still making music. This post is for people who miss the heyday of bands like Paramore, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard, Fall out Boy, Panic at the Disco, The Used, My Chemical Romance, and the like.Įven though I've moved on to bigger and better musical interests, there's really a void left in me by the absence of bands like these in today's contemporary music landscape.