Customer Reviews
awsome 
2008-05-01
This album was hot again from linkin park, they did a great job on this album i liked all their albums exept minutes to midnight but this was hot this was a real hard rock album with great emotional effort to it to great album.
Linkin's best album! 2008-04-24
Hybrid Theory was not a bad album by any means, but this album is somehow even better! These guys put rap, rock, and metal togther to make some awesome music! This one is a little better than Hybrid Theory, but way better than Minutes to Midnight.
By far the best album 2008-03-09
The best production of an album that I have ever heard in a long time. Great album to rock to in a car.
A continuation of the debut 
2008-02-01
Four stars for this album that continues the Linkin Park story in much the same vein as the debut. An interesting mixture of traditional post grunge hard rock married to the use of two vocalists of very different styles - one more traditional and the other more an abrasive screamer. The hard rock aspect isn't anything too special truth to be told, most of the late 90's and 00's hard rock contains this style of chugga chugga riffing to create the soft dynamic of the verse as opposed to the fuller wall of sound for the chorus. The melody is mainly supplied by the vocals and the musical variation of this band, two vocalists aside, are the scratches as per what rap DJ's started doing back in the 80's. Believe me, I was there and it wasn't pretty! But with Linkin Park this side to their sound is actually interesting because they are doing it within the hard rock/heavy metal universe where such touches are rare. And it has to be said that the scratching does give the band an industrial edge particularly when Mr Screaming Vocalist cuts loose with his sandpaper screech.
As to specific tunes that I feel are indicative of this album that would have to include Lying From You and Breaking The Habit - the latter very much having the longing introspective feel of some of the highlights of the debut such as With You and In The End. And it's this introspection that gives the album the legs to get into four star territory. Sure, it's very much a product of 90's era misery guts music but it does give Linkin Park a greater pallete with which to work.
What also gives this a healthy four stars is the enhanced CD section of which the main aspect is a feature called The Art of Meteora. Which is interesting even for someone such as myself who finds the acceptance of spraypaint designs as art a bit dubious. At least it shows the band at play, so to speak, rather than trying to convince us all what serious artistic genius types they are. The other special features are just web toolkit kind of stuff which probably you'll only use once - I mean how often are we all gonna visit the Linkin Park website...
A good album, not excellent but it certainly proved that their somewhat different formuala could work for more than just one album and the healty sales figures proved that there was a market for it too.
Great 2007-12-11
This is a great album. I wish Linkin Park's most recent album would be more this style of music. Plus, the entire album is good. It's not like one of those you get for just 1 or 2 songs. Every single song is awesome.
Strikes Like a Meteor 2008-07-18
This album has a jillion reviews already, and the main spotlight one has the breakdown of all of the tracks, so I won't go into this in as great detail as I usually do.
Basically, this is the best album Linkin Park has put out to date. Their hybrid style of metal, techno, rap, hip-hop, and chill works best in all of these songs. Some of them are excellent, intense, hard-rocking tracks, such as "Lying From You," "Faint," "Figure 0.9" (still my favorite), and of course, "Numb." Also has a number of good, powerful ballad-type songs, like "Somwhere I Belong," "Breaking the Habit," "Easier to Run," and "From the Inside." "Session" is also an excellent techno instrumental interlude.
It's all great, and would be essential listening for any fan of heavy metal. The disc also has some nifty bonus stuff on it when you pop it into the computer (I forget what exactly, though; pictures and stuff).
Love Linkin Park! 2008-07-14
Linkin Park has never put out anything I'm not happy with. This CD is just as great as their others. Love it!
songs even more interesting than the meteora title 2008-07-02
This is a very strong cd by a group that is one of a kind. I first heard of this cd when I was stationed in California and have been listening to it ever since. In my opinion this cd expressed deep emotions and creativity that are in each of the members of the group in a very artistic and exciting way. Some of the songs that I really feel are fun and grow each listen are "somewhere I belong", "breaking the habit", "easier to run", and "lying from you". One of my coworkers who happens to be an exciting and interesting person gave me a copy of this cd that they downloaded and I am sure grateful they did. This is definitely an album that is worth your time and will grow on you each listen.
AWSOME 2008-06-25
Foreword - 13 sec. total crap.
Don't Stay - 9/10 This is like, and awsome song.
Somewhere I Belong - 9/10 Confuser. The "keyboard" you hear is sampling. A Great song.
Lying from You - 10/10 Really heavy song but the second best
Hit the Floor - 10/10 Heavy, too. Third favorite.
Easier to Run - 7/10 Gets a little boring after a while.
Faint - 10/10 The best song on Meteora. Firts LP song I ever heard, too.
Figure.09 - 7/10 Boring after a while, too.
Breaking the Habit - 8/10 A softer song.
From the Inside - 8/10 Boring after a while.
Nobody's Listening - 4/10 I just don't like this song.
Session - Instrumental
Numb - 10/10 REALLY GOOD!!
Meteora Blazes 2008-06-24
Linkin Park took all the best elements of numerous rap-rockers (Rage Against The Machine, Korn, Limp Biscuit) and stripped out the stuff they didn't like. The result was the slick and powerful Hybrid Theory, massive, fast fame and gigs with Ozzfest. It also meant that they had to make an attempt at recreating in a year what they'd spent a life making on the debut. The resulting "Meteora" shows the band following the same roadmap, but with more confidence.
The band delivers songs just as the debut would make you hungry for, specifically, "Numb." They also take those conventions and experiment, like the backwards guitar that opens "Somewhere I Belong," or the jazzy flute that underscores "Nobody's Listening." "Hit The Floor" is danceable hair metal with a screaming hook. It's easy to see that Linkin Park was already hungry to move past the limitations of the genre.
What is really astonishing is, when reading the liner notes, was how much of this album was recorded on the road/tour bus between Ozzfest stops. "Faint" was a happy accident that could only happen in that environment, a track that got its speed double and then Lp deciding that it was better that way. Chester still screams like the anger is real, and Mike Shinoda was feeling his oats in the sampling department (like the flute in "Nobody's Listening"). It made "Meteora" a better album than "Hybrid Theory" and just a touch behind the subdued Minutes to Midnight.
