![]() Going around the room, each of the six of us answered the question in a similar way: we wanted to create something that maintained the integrity of the band’s personality, but pushed our boundaries. When we first met with our producer Rick Rubin, he asked us what we wanted this album to sound like. Numbers aside, this album is different for us on a deeper level. The numbers already show it: our other albums took three to six months to finish, this one took over 14 lyrics are usually written in about a month, this time we spent over six we usually write an average of 40 song ideas to finish an album, this one generated well over 100. It is safe to say, however, that this will prove to be a different kind of album for us. We aren’t through mixing and mastering the songs. That being said, the album is multi platinum, with several of its singles reaching platinum status and are still regularly played on radio today.īy all accounts, the album was a major success.The digital booklet gives a few informations from the band about the making of the work:Īs this is written, the album is not yet finished. If they would have prefaced the album by describing the experimentation showcased in the mini doc of making of minutes to midnight, perhaps it wouldn't have been as hated by the admittedly closed minded metal community. That being said, it was not the sound that had been hyped for 4 years. I was taken aback at first, but I was into a lot of alt rock as well and I thought the song did a great job showcasing Chesters vocal ability beyond screaming. They reveal QWERTY and tease that the album has some of their heaviest material yet. Then they didn't release anything for 4 years. LP was insanely popular at the time, coming off the success of their studio albums + Collision Course. ![]() I dug it when it came out, but the context of the album didn't help. They just didn't have the inspiration, and this in my mind makes MTM the worst of their serious studio albums. The album as a whole is disorganized and few of the ideas had the time to fully develop. No More Sorrow tried to combine political lyrics with the vague style of lyric writing they used for their personal lyrics and ended up giving the song no teeth. Valentine's Day has the narmiest lyrics ever written in the band's career. Given Up I felt like I had heard a thousand times before my first listen. They tried to discover something new way combining hip hop and rock in different ways but the two genres were already mashed up for decades and they really only succeeded at sounding like other bands. MTM listens like a collection of different bands put together like a NOW CD. MTM was not born out of inspiration, but out of indicision and it showed. They didn't have a replacement identity or a goal. They were a band that knew they wanted to change but they spent all their time searching for a new identity. ![]() That aside, they spent a very long time on this album. They made a 180 in sound direction after that. To be fair, the band said their third album was coming out to be the heaviest they ever made and showed off Qwerty when they toured in Japan. ![]() But there were a lot of people that got into Linkin Park because of their style in HT and Meteora (the "nu metal" advocated and a lot of ordinary people that liked the rap-rock/metal wave), and you have to realize that, in maybe their biggest moment, they pulled out something that was really risky and a lot of people didn't like it.įor a long time I supported the album because the backlash from nu metal heads was so entitled sounding that I didn't want to associate with the crowd. Now it may seem like a "normal LP album" to us who have followed the band through the years and know their idiosyncrasy, and also to relatively new fans that got to listen to all old and recent music equally and are more familiar with all the styles that LP brought to their music with time. It isn't a bad album, at all, it was just released in the wrong time, with the wrong expectations and maybe to the wrong public. If you think about what people were expecting after getting HT and Meteora, and compare that to MTM, you may get it. So, in that point, there were a lot of people who stopped to follow the band, and with that the general mentality of "HT good, Meteora good, MTM bad" got stuck in the popular opinion. Hybrid Theory was the 1, Meteora was the 2, people expected the 3 but LP gave them the. The main reason is that, in his moment, MTM were THE change in Linkin Park. ![]()
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