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"It's like fans love and give 5 stars to the album and at the same time hate it, to the point of throwing it at us if they could, and I think that's great!" - Chester Bennington, (after smoking two joints), about A Thousand Suns
"I want something that has substance, content" (…) - Mike Shinoda on A Thousand Suns
"It's a sort of musical drug" - Chester Bennington (after smoking two more joints and, evidently, after listening to another album) on A Thousand Suns
"With this album, Linkin Park has gotten rid of many fans with low musical culture and unable to appreciate masterpieces like A Thousand Suns, good that way" - Ignorance roaming on the web (I can't be more explicit)
"The Zooropa of Linkin Park" - MrSelfDestruct on A Thousand Suns
"Sounds like it was mixed by the former Eiffel 65" - Gallagher 87 on A Thousand Suns
"Another review on these incompetents???? (to avoid being vulgar), What a drag!!!!!" - 95% of Debaserians on A Thousand Suns
A few months ago, the fourth studio album by the American band Linkin Park was released, which everyone now knows, for better or worse.
Musically there's not much to say, leaving aside the 6 interludes, the 9 tracks that remain don't offer us much: a predominantly pop-commercial sound where the only tracks I would save are "Waiting For The End", a kind of Pop-Rock/Reggae; "The Messenger" the acoustic ballad at the end of the CD, and "Wretches And Kings", which I think is one of the very few true Nu Metal tracks that Linkin Park has ever written. That said, the other tracks are fairly decent "Burning in The Sky" and "iridescent", fairly original "When They Come For Me" and really terrible "Robot Boy", "Blackout" and "The Catalyst". The lyrics of all the songs, however, are very good.
In conclusion: even if the album seems rather "empty" except for some episodes, I don't feel like failing it because Linkin Park seems really more credible with this Pop / Pop-Rock "attire" (already started from "Minutes To Midnight") than the fake Nu Metal of previous albums (except for the first EP) moreover the songs start to differentiate from each other both in terms of duration and length.
An album that would be rated 1.5, but for these reasons, I decided to rate it 2 out of 5.
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By MrSelfDestruct
This "A Thousand Suns" locks [nu-metal] away in a drawer and throws away the key.
"Waiting For The End" acts as an interlude to Blackout where Chester first raps and then screams in the chorus.
By Gallagher87
"The mistake the company made is that this time the product won't work! You can't sell trinkets pretending they are gold and silver if you don't even polish and take care of them."
"An LP poor in ideas indeed, an album composed of 15 tracks, of which 9 are actually such and everything else is an unseasoned side... 'A Thousand Suns' is simply not an album."
By Sleepin' boy
"The Catalyst, I was literally stunned because I would have never expected such a song."
"Wretches and Kings... finally they show some balls damn it!!"
By Kerplunk
"This album is in every way a pop album, which only in a few songs still presents the screams that vocalist Chester Bennington consistently misses at every concert."
"'A Thousand Suns' is a decent album for a neutral listener, but absolutely inadequate for a fan."
