Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Linkin Park - Meteora

This linkin park album is a lot less fluid and rap influenced than "Hybrid Theory."so this album "Meteora" is dancer, with more real singing and there sure is a lot more yelling.They may not have the most complex guitar out there and their songs are very structurally similar, but really, Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" was one of the catchiest, most energetic, and innovative album.
Track Listings
1. Foreword
2. Don't Stay
3. Somewhere I Belong
4. Lying From You
5. Hit The Floor
6. Easier To Run
7. Faint
8. Figure.09
9. Breaking The Habit
10. From The Inside
11. Nobody's Listening
12. Session
13. Numb

"Somewhere I Belong" has a good intro which leads into the guitars. The first single of Meteora pretty good rapping with good DJ scratches, but I must have heard this song too much or something, because now I hardly listen to anything past two minutes into the song sounds like it was constructed from the ground up to be a radio hit in the vein of In The End. That said, the interesting sampling and really beautiful piano part make this track a very memorable in its own right.
"Lying from You" has another good intro sample laced guitar riffs and thunderous vocals make this one of the most mammoth tracks on the album, then explodes into the guitars. There are some good, swirling riffs and a couple of good DJ scratches on this song.
"Hit the Floor" grind well Hit The Floor features some spectacular samples, skull crushing riffs and screaming, and some real tricky rapping from Mike Shinoda.the bridge, and the chorus has the same sort of weirdly catchy syncopation as By Myself while "Easier to Run" boasts an irresistible,Everything about this track smacks of an ill fated attempt to recapture the awesome grandeur off their old single, "Crawling". Though the rapping part is alright sing along chorus with soaring vocals. All of which would've made this song a good single. Most of the songs on this C.D. are centered around a similar, big and catchy chorus.
"Faint" begins with what sounds like almost an orchestra, then turns to a typical rap/rock song. The rap on this one is smoothe and the yelling parts are towering, but what I enjoy most on this song is the catchy drum beat and the way the guitars start and stop.
However, there are some "Hybrid Theory"-Esquire moments:
"Breaking the Habit" is a personal favorite. It's a techno cut,A really weird sample, featuring Spanish guitar, live orchestra making it a lot less noisy than all the other songs. The vocals are calmly sung over the soft strings, a repeating drum beat and DJ scratching.Even though it's techno, because it's very nearly danceable.
"Nobody's Listening" is more of a straight forward rap song,A cool hip-hop track with some unique flute samples, clips of High Voltage with another good chorus, while "Session" is An awesome instrumental which echoes "Cure for the Itch".the layering of sounds and seriously wicked dj solo make this far better than any of Linkin Park's past instrumentals. This song again shows us how talented the DJ (Joseph Hahn) is.with "Meteora", it's also safe to say that the guitars are very much involved.

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