RIP Chester Bennington

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Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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On this subject. I'm a massive fan of Hybrid Theory, but own none of their other albums, which there are an awful lot of.

Without buying them all to work out which are the must haves, can anyone advise to the same effect which I should add to my collection? I'll just leave a few weeks to purchase, for some strange reason album prices on eBay have suddenly gone through the roof!

S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Been catching up on them all today after having stopped after minutes to midnight. Gonna put this out there, but I'm impressed with them all.

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
On this subject. I'm a massive fan of Hybrid Theory, but own none of their other albums, which there are an awful lot of.

Without buying them all to work out which are the must haves, can anyone advise to the same effect which I should add to my collection? I'll just leave a few weeks to purchase, for some strange reason album prices on eBay have suddenly gone through the roof!
You really need to listen to Meteora, it's a great album with some belting songs - Faint and Numb are the two that seem to be most popular but I love the whole lot - brilliant

Minutes to Midnight is a great album too, although something of a departure from their first two

Do you have Spotify? It's all on there and a free version (with adverts) is available me thinks

Edited by FN2TypeR on Friday 21st July 21:23

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Spotify? I'm officially old since hitting 40 a few weeks ago! Joking aside, where music is concerned I haven't moved away from physical media, IE it's all CD based. I know, very backwards... I'll look up those albums, and any further recommendations welcome.

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Friday 21st July 2017
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Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
Spotify? I'm officially old since hitting 40 a few weeks ago! Joking aside, where music is concerned I haven't moved away from physical media, IE it's all CD based. I know, very backwards... I'll look up those albums, and any further recommendations welcome.
If you like a bit o' live music and can handle youtube (sorry hehe ) this is well worth a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0B18KMe94U

The whole album played live at Download in 2014

Great gig

Pebbles167

3,418 posts

151 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
Without buying them all to work out which are the must haves, can anyone advise to the same effect which I should add to my collection?
I'd buy Hybrid theory, Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, A Thousand Suns. Listen to them in that order. The first two feel like part of the same album almost. Brilliant. Minutes has a nice departure with more vocal work from Mike (the rapper) and Thousand suns marks what I think is the bands musical maturity. Some great songs to be heard.

There is also a Hybrid theory remix album called "Reanimation", the Jay Z collaboration album and various live albums which are all worth a listen if you get hooked on the band.

If you get through A thousand suns, you might want to buy 'Living things' and 'The hunting party' but personally I found it hard to remember all but the few catchiest singles on these two albums.

Their latest release 'One more light' is essentially a pop album with some interesting ideas and a few good tracks. It's growing on me, even if a few songs are pretty anonymous. The title song ' One more light' is a tear jerker, when thinking of Chester.

TL;DR

1. Hybrid Theory
2. Meteora
3. Minutes to Midnight
4. A Thousand Suns

confucuis

1,303 posts

123 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Jesus, the more I listen to the songs tonight the more upset I get. The lyrics are so very sad.

S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Pebbles167 said:
I'd buy Hybrid theory, Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, A Thousand Suns. Listen to them in that order. The first two feel like part of the same album almost. Brilliant. Minutes has a nice departure with more vocal work from Mike (the rapper) and Thousand suns marks what I think is the bands musical maturity. Some great songs to be heard.

There is also a Hybrid theory remix album called "Reanimation", the Jay Z collaboration album and various live albums which are all worth a listen if you get hooked on the band.

If you get through A thousand suns, you might want to buy 'Living things' and 'The hunting party' but personally I found it hard to remember all but the few catchiest singles on these two albums.

Their latest release 'One more light' is essentially a pop album with some interesting ideas and a few good tracks. It's growing on me, even if a few songs are pretty anonymous. The title song ' One more light' is a tear jerker, when thinking of Chester.

TL;DR

1. Hybrid Theory
2. Meteora
3. Minutes to Midnight
4. A Thousand Suns
I'd probably put hunting party above a thousand suns.

For me it's 1,2,3,6,4,5,7.

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Thank you all, I'll look them up.