Linkin Park scored big hits just after the turn of the century with songs like In The End and Crawling. The boys seemed to be angry with everything and everyone on their first albums, a style that created a large fan base. But as the albums followed, the lyrics of singers Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda became milder and more politically charged, causing the band to lose some of its charm. No
… political posturing on the fifth studio album Living Things, just old-fashioned angry boys. Not as furious as before, but no less good. Bennington shows to be a great singer on the single Burn It Down and songs like I'll Be Gone and Skin To Bone. On the song Victimized, however, during the chorus it sounds like he is being ripped open from throat to navel. It's one of the few misses on a great album. Linkin Park seems to have learned from the last two disappointing albums Songs From The Underground and A Thousand Suns. (BvdV)more
