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Neil Peart's actually gone on record, saying he likes Linkin Park. 

Man Overboard wrote: Neil Peart's actually gone on record, saying he likes Linkin Park.

 

I see no tragedy in this. I don't have any of their records and am not a fan per se, but every time I hear any of their songs on a radio I rather like what I hear!

They write some catchy stuff, take it or leave it.

In a live setting, they swear so much that you start to wonder if they know any other words. 

Around the turn of the century, most of my friends were into 'em, and tried to subject them to me on a regular basis...  "they've got keyboards, m8, why don't ya like 'em like ya do them other bands of yours!?" 

The songs often consists of about 2-4 single-finger, drop-tuned power chords on guitar (with the bass following the root note), a single, simple loop for the "keyboards", drumming patterns that make Ringo Starr look like a master, and whiny, bullsh*t lyrics that could've been written by any attention-whoring, "suicidal" high school kid.  Considering this simple pattern, I wasn't surprised when I heard two songs bearing the same tempo, key, chord progression, and 'changes' into verse/chorus/etc. 

In addition, their guitarist has gone on record bashing guitarists who play solos, saying they're "soulless" and "not a true show of ability" (apparently his whole-note powerchords are), but he assured the interviewer that he was a "damn good soloist, it just doesn't fit the music".  On a recent tour, Linkin Park attempted to cover Guns 'n' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine".  The solo?  He didn't even make it that far, he fell apart on the rather simple intro.  He literally played it so bad that he threw the rest of the band off, and they had to stop the song long before the solo, usually long before even the lyrics (they attempted this over the course of a whole tour, I've learned).



And that's why I hate Linkin Park.

What is Linki Park? A recretional area of somekind?

There's way too many "fake out" threads, first Fripp's dead and now this...

Linkin Park isn't prog....but I can see where someone might get that. They were all I listened to before I first heard Pink Floyd (around age 14), and some of their stuff, in retrospect, does show some tendencies. Most of it, no. But there is the electronic sampling instrumental tracks by "Mr. Hahn" on all the albums that departs from the normal nu metal stuff they have. Also, the 'reanimated' album has some orchestral parts and electronic experimentation stuff, as well as extended songs. But on the other side, they regularly resort to boring, formulaic power chords, cheat with electronics, shamelessly do straight-rap parts (the bane of the "reanimated" album), and recently did some retarded "collision course" with rapper Jay Z that pretty much any hope I had for them. I think they're pretty much through.

Any *true* progger would know that Fripp, being a deity, cannot die of heart complications, but only when the ancient artifacts described in Lizard are brought back from the four corners of the earth and given the ritual of legend.

Wow, when i read the title of the thread i was close to a pannic attack. 

Why does this thought ever came to your mind?

God, when I saw the tittle of this topic, I almost freaked out

I mean, it came out of nowhere! Linkin Park is not Prog...

You're just making a big noise about nothing, believe me.

Listening: Radiohead