Linkin Park: Minutes to Midnight Review

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:26 am

Ok well I finally listend to the much anticipated Minutes to Midnight Album that Linkin Park Just debuted. Here are my impressions

Actually here is the track list first:
1.Wake

2.Given Up

3.Leave Out All The Rest

4.Bleed It Out

5.Shadow Of The Day

6.What I've Done

7.Hands Held High

8.No More Sorrow

9.Valentine's Day

10.In Between

11.In Pieces

12.Little Things Give You Away, The

Ok well First track is just an Intro but a well thought out one at that.
Track 2 sounds more like a Punky sound than traditional LP still not too bad.
Track 3 is a little wierd, taking on almost a ho-down clapping feel to it
Track 4 is not too shabby but still not traditional LP
Track 5 more Emoish than anything but still LP does a great job with the Harmonys and the main chorus
Track 6 was their debut single and speaks for itself. IMO not their best work.
Track 7 was a HUGE suprise. A mix between Christian Rock and Anti Political Sentiment. An obvious statement against the war, the Elitists, and the incompetence of George Bush. Definitely Anti-War and Anti-Bush. Still very powerful and reminds me of Ozzy Osbournes "Killer of Giants" track that he released.
Track 8 is confusing to me because after track 7 it almost seems like this also could be directed at GWB. Maybe it is or maybe its a directed attack on anyone who has misled someone, but it seems to carry on a similar message that was presented in track 7
Track 9 is pretty strait forward, but the title of the song has little correlation to the meaning of the track
Track 10 is mostly about the struggle of someone trying to please several people at once and falling "in between" those people. Good song and meaningful but again not Traditional LP
Track 11 and 12 both let me down with little traditional LP and little thought in the way the chorus's were designed. Both had semi meaningful lyrics just not presented or played in the way that you would expect from Linkin Park

Conclusion.... The cd plays out like this .... ok ok ok better better Yes... Yess... WOW WOW... oh hmmm ok... yea get on with it...

The 2nd track and the middle of the CD is the best from track 5 to track 8 or 9 but falls short in the end and really doesnt deliver what you would expect from Linkin Park. Chester belts out some crazy vocals and an unexpected amount of screaming. Some tracks there is little if any screaming or aggressive singing, and on others none at all, but some meaningful lyrics..

Base line assesment... I give it about a 5 out of 10 with a possible 6 out of 10 for ingenuity and creativity factor... One thing is for certain... if you want to hear traditional LP... You will get little of that on this album

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:03 am

i didnt realize it was a much anticipated album

jonnyb · Post by **jonnyb** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:12 am

its probably been the most hyped up album this year yet.

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:14 am

Well given that Linkin Park had been on break for a while, and few people believed that Chester and Mike Shinoda could come to terms over artistic differences. Also there is definitely a rift in the band seeing that a good deal of this album was produced in different locations and seldomly including the entire band at the same location.

Its really questionable though if LP will stay together. IMO Meteora was a great Album and Minutes to Midnight is just not as well thought out and will not be as popular as Hybrid Theory or even Re-Animation for that much.

brisgreat1 · Post by **brisgreat1** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:22 am

i didnt even know lp had an album coming out, i couldnt tell you one album being released this summer, wait i remember one album from the news... i think it was matt kearney

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:59 am

i heard it was garbage. so i'm not listening to it

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:40 am

you should always give things a try, but ill admit its not an album that i would buy... steal it the good ole american way

OneLastSystem · Post by **OneLastSystem** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:27 pm

Last cd I liked from them was re-animation.. the reason, they said if they could go back and do it.. all those tracks would be the originals and the originals would be the remixes lol.. I just like that fact.

swimmerdude · Post by **swimmerdude** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:27 pm

I heard their last few songs on the radio a the other weekdend when the radio played the whole cd. The last few are definitely not tradional Linkin Park. They are like.... slow songs compared to what they usually play. It was kind of weird. I have heard Given up and What I've Done and those seem like pretty good songs. I need to get this album soon.

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:58 am

I said it once before and I will say it again. Linkin park took one crappy song and remixed it 12 times or whatever and made a crappy album. They then took that crappy album and remixed it and made an even crappier album. They then saw that it doesnt take musical talent to sell cd's now'a days and made 4-5 more cd's that are just as bad as their first, which was also their second...

But hey, ever since blink 182 came out music hasnt been the same, I'll just continue listening to past generations music and let the emo-rock do its thing, hopefully good music will return soon, but its doubtful.