Why THIS is Linkin Park's Greatest Song
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Hybrid Theory and Meteora are two albums that don't have a single bad song and that was after they had to cut out somes songs that they couldn't fit in the albums. Linkin Park forever!
So much of Linkin Park’s excellence comes down to Mike Shinoda being an absolute genius
No seria nada sin chester..
@@marcosdgonzalez5270 Ni Chester sin Mike, fueron un equipo fantástico.
It's like their theory is hybrid of some sort
A huge chunk of what made LP great back in the day was Don Gilmore. The quality has been in constant decline since Mike is producing on his own.
Chester was one of a kind too. His vocals are insane.
I've been listening to LP since I was 13 years old... Now I'm 30 and it scares me how times flies at the speed of light... 🤯
I know the feeling. I’ve been listening to bands like Nirvana, Pantera, Tool, Alice In Chains, etc since I was 13 or 14-years-old, and now I’m turning 45-years-old and all of those albums I love are older than you are currently. 🤢
I was 12 when I first started listening to them. A buddy and I would play through the first Halo campaign while listening to Hybrid Theory.
You ain't seen nothing yet Eduina. Wait until you hit 40. The years then start to click by like a runaway train.
@@bountojman just dated himself hahaha
Been listening to them since they were known as hybrid theory. Now 41. I feel fucking old haha.
the remix KRWLNG with Aaron Lewis on vocals is one of my favorite tracks of all time.
Chester passing is one of the saddest things of all time, for me.
the album A Thousand Suns saved my life.
To this day Reanimation is my favourite LP album. And I'm glad you're still around!
A Thousand Suns so underrated. So good
KRWLNG put the original song into another level. I love it. Not to say the original was worse or anything, it's just the remix is so great too.
ReAnimation is the best work they ever did !
A Thousand Suns also got me through a very tough time in my life. It's a wonderful album that came just at the right time.
I hope Rick would do an Interview with Mike Shinoda :)
Yess!
You know that'd be good. Mike seems like such a kind and genuine guy. Not to mention he was often the guy coming up with the most musically impressive aspects of LP's music... he's probably their strongest songwriter and arranger. That guy can tell you more about records like Hybrid Theory and Meteora than arguably anyone else in the band. I think he'd be happy to indulge in that and would have plenty to say about the creative choices behind the music.
WE NEED THAT
That would be so sick
Sick Idea ❤
Breaking the habit is a fantastic track. I am so happy the video got updated resolutions. It's simply beautiful
Breaking the habit is their best song.
@@lordmatthewlukeobrien their best nah one of their best sure
Waiting for the End is the best track for me. That song got me through some tough times, man.
That was a rough spring for me that year. Chester and Chris Cornell you are still missed
Their greatest song is “waiting for the end.” It’s not one of their basic fan overplayed classics (which are all phenomenal) but it has so much development and honesty that it is truly incomparable.
Great comment. I connected with that song on a very personal and emotional level. ‘The hardest part of ending is starting again’.
Agreed!! Thank you
I feel validated
It’s been my favorite ever since I heard it
Great song but I think their greatest song is The Little Things Give You Away it has everything in it
Piano Guitar Drums Live Strings Violin 🎻 it’s beautifully written arranged composed and recorded
Nowhere close to their best song at all.
Music and lyrics wise it has to be Breaking The Habit.
And simple vibes wise it's Faint.
There is no other argument.
One Step Closer is the first song I heard from LP but Papercut is what sold me. That nu metal/hip hop/electronic fusion was genius.
Yeah, I remember clearly watching the videoclip for the first time, it left a big impression at the time (one step closer).
I lost interest after the Meteora album when they decided to change their sound.
One of the most unique an distinctive sounds I've ever heard. No one has ever done it the same way.
I think the Reanimation version Krawling is my favorite version with the harmonies with Aaron and Chester. It's so haunting and beautiful at the same time. The song is a complete masterpiece and is still one of my favorite somgs from this era.
I still remember the moment when I heard "In the End" first time. It was in early 2002. Honestly I can say that this band changed my life. I've never seen them live, only Mike Shinoda in Prague in 2019. I miss Chester so much 😪
Same. Missed concert in 2014. Was at Mike Shinoda concert at 2018 in Moskow.
What's nuts is Mike wrote that whole song in one night
I was lucky enough to see them 4 times in the early 2000’s
Damn that Song really loves everybody my friends Do not even liked metal haha
I always preferred the demos version of mikes verse it just flows much better.
Linkin Park's days as "Xero" made some sick, *sick* stuff. The Xero Demo and Hybrid Theory EP are just fantastic.
Impossible to choose a song, there are simply too many that are spectacular.
But after many years of listening to LP I can say that "Breaking The Habit" always comes to my mind.
Thank you Linkin Park for having existed.
"Leave out all the Rest" from Minutes to Midnight, will be played at my memorial service when I die. (I am not leaving my loved ones to plan my funeral) "Waiting for the End" was released after my husband died..."Waiting for the end to come
Wishing I had strength to stand
This is not what I had planned
It's out of my control" was very real when I was drowning in grief. "And I don't even know what kind of things I've said
My mouth kept moving, and my mind went dead
So, I'm picking up the pieces now where to begin
The hardest part of ending is starting again" was also very true for me. I promised my husband I would live, but there were months of people worrying I was going to die from my broken heart. I had to move... Everywhere I went, people asked me where the "big guy" was? It was so hard to say he died. My husband was 7" 4.5" tall when he died (brain tumor) I am just under 5 feet tall . I couch surfed for a little over a year before I decided to leave TX. My boss moved me to VA to be closer to family. I kept our house in Texas until my husband's best friend offered me way over market value for it. I was so blessed to have wonderful people, who loved my husband, looking out for me. It is completely surreal when I still get called to plan funerals for his MC Brothers. I am a linguist, not a funeral director. But I am also so blessed because I grateful for the time we had.
"From the inside" what still gets me..
I think i feel the same, "Breaking The Habit" is one if not my favorite from them, because the Video Clip hit me so hard when i first watched when i was a child, the animation is just beautiful and in combination with the music, they are just a audio/visual masterpiece
With You is my favorite song on Hybrid Theory by a wide margin, but when we're talking about one of the greatest albums ever made, and quite possibly the greatest debut album of all time, there's little sense in ranking each song.
HT is definitely an amazing album I would rate it 10/10 as well I like Meteora album more but thats just a matter of preference not a knock on HT quality.
Yes with you was mind-blowing to hear as an 8 year old lol. The chorus was catchy too.
And since music is subjective, we each have our own favorite. Mine is Runaway, with By myself being a close second, especially the way they flow together on the album
3:17 It's Crawling ^
I cannot pick a favorite, I usually listen both Hybrid Theory and Meteora from start to finish each time I come back to LP
Amazing video! You should totally interview Mike Shinoda on your channel - all around great guy and his interviews are always fantastic. But no one asks him the theory questions, and would love for you to do a deep dive on the more technical side of things as you always do!
This, Rick!
So glad you picked this track. Crawling was the one song that got me into their music and heavy music in general. What’s surprising is that it still holds up. Production was really incredible on that record… very few songs from that record have actually aged
The lyrics and vocals on "Numb" are outstanding. The feeling that it captured is familiar to so many people. Chester's vocals pushed that song to another level.
Exactly! Yes!
Linkin Park has always been outstanding with their lyrics pick any song.
I don't think I can pick one favourite but I love that you picked Crawling. It's stunning and underappreciated in my opinion
It won a Grammy, didn't it? How the hell is it underappreciated in any way? The first two albums are like their best ever (in a general consensus) and the singles are probably the well known out of their later singles.
They did something similar in Pushing me Away. The song starts with a borrowed major chord and steps to its minor third. Some notes sustained at the bridge and chorus are tension notes, mostly major seventh becomes major sixth then major third becomes next chord a nineth, it's beautifully written and it sounds so melodic, for me it's their most underrated song and their best work.
Pushing Me Away is a beautiful song! I love their Live In Texas version. It's an incredible performance!
Pushing me away has always been a underrated song
I was 8 when I first got into LP. They basically got me into music altogether. Before them I was just a kid, after first hearing them, I became a kid that loved rock music. They were my first concert when I was 10, Life-changing. Still one of my favorite bands, now 26 years old.
Hybrid Theory is the best debut album of all time in rock/metal.
Is ridiculous how they put out Crawling, One Step Closer, In the End, Points of Authority and Papercut in their first album. So much quality. And even has great songs like A Place For My Head, With You or Pushing Me Away, which would be best songs for most albums of the time.
That album has no fillers at all. Pure gold.
@@victorsuarez3 facts
A Place for my Head is probably my favorite track.
@@ExNihiloComesNothing It’s definitely one of the best.
Even if i prefer Linkin Park i think the first RATM record is the best debut album of all time for rock/heavy music, contains so much hits
I appreciate the praise and recognition Linkin Park has been getting these last couple of years. Nice we have progressed beyond hating Nu-Metal just for being Nu-Metal
Crawling was my favourite, then I heard the Reanimation version, Krwlng, and that is now the song I've listened to more than any other in my entire life. Definitely my favourite. Really cool to see it broken down like this because I only know music by feel and very basic music theory, nothing complex.
“I just did the old man thing again” is pure poetry!!❤
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I say the same thing so I know exactly what he means, lol. But it's not really funny, it sucks.
Chi sarebbe?
@@castrucciocastracani0 Maccio Round head
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RIP Chester. Your melodic wales released my inner demons like no other. Unfortunately yours refused to leave and took you from us way too soon.
Few songs ever hit me so hard the way this song hit me hearing it on MTV for the first time.
I like "crawling " the most. Listening to it now you can really hear Chester's pain. It's a very relatable song for many I suppose.
According to Mike it was also one of if not the hardest LP songs for Chester to sing. My understanding is that Chester could do the full on distortion or clean with his voice easily, but the in-between was harder for him to project.
@@SlimeyGuitarStrings I remember hearing something like that. It was the song he hated singing the most.
The first song I heard by them and the ones that catches my attention. I was waiting everyday for the song to play on MTV or on the radio just so I could hear it again.
@@floatingdisembodiedhead8975 Living in a time when you had to wait for the chance to hear something play, if not on your CD player. A completely different way of living and expectations.
@@MjolnirMarks true it's easier to listen to it now but back then, it just felt more special especially when you don't even know the name of the song or the band yet. It was truly a magnificent time to be alive despite all that.
Meteora just feels like a cleaner sharper and more sonically complete version of Hybrid Theory. Until I heard A Thousand Suns Meteora was my favorite. Perfect album from start to finish
A Thousand Suns is still their best album. Meteora, unfortunately, felt a bit too much like HT for me. Even if MtM didn't quite hit as hard as I would've liked, it was such an important transitional abum.
@@NickRaven I agree. I feel like if Meteora came out before Hybrid Theory, fans would love that record more! Both are just such solid records that I don't fault anyone picking one over the other but the highs on Meteora just put it over HT for me.
A Thousand Suns is the GOAT though.
But HT was sow fresh and raw... I really missed that on later albums, too me it felt more... Genuine? Also the impact it made then on my generation (round '85ish) was so huge. Like someone finally wrote an album about what people felt. Not that one is bad, but HT was most 'metal'
My all time favorite LP song is Points of Authority
Forfeit the game stop the talk show
You want someone to hurt like you
good song but i think it doesn’t have a mature lp sound. sounds more like Korn instead. to my ear at least
the chopped up ending never gets old
Hybrid Theory and Meteora were mammoth albums. Especially with the non-single or lesser known songs on Hybrid Theory like Papercut, Runaway, Place for my Head, Crawling. Just fantastic.
I fully respect if people stuck with LP for the journey thereafter, but for me they just lost too much of what they were in the music thereafter, and they put out a lot of stuff that was very wishy washy. I don't expect a band to put out the same music again and again, but the end result still needs to be there. Deftones for example over the years have managed to stay true to their roots, but extend their style and range without losing authenticity. Tool changed a lot from how they sounded on Undertow but never lost who they were as another example.
I always dreamed that one day Linkin Park would put out another record that returned to their roots but with some new found energy, and unfortunately with Chester passing we'll never get something like that, and probably wouldn't have anyway, but I'll always have such fond memories of those first records. Hybrid Theory was the sound of a generation.
I also think it's really sad how history talks down to the 'nu-metal' era of music, as if all the bands were terrible, etc, and yet you have these classic Linkin Park records in there, you have Deftones, you have Sevendust, you have those early Korn records, System of a Down. These are massive, historical records. The rap and rock synergy concept that kicked off with the likes of Public Enemy/Anthrax and Rage Against the Machine were huge cultural deals. 2 music styles that were to that point seen as yin and yan, finding a way to co-exist. Extremely culturally significant.
My fav LP song. I’ve listened to this so many times and could forever
The reanimation album version was also absolutely amazing with some fantastic strings added
My favorite album!
@@nsjohn130 it's incredible 🙂
I was in my freshman 2001. And my lecturer gave us our first assignment, develop a simple website. This song was my front page intro. I put it on full blast during my presentation 😂 The class had a shock.
I still love this song.
I’ve always loved this LP tune and now I know why! Thank you Rick - your musical knowledge is unbelievably good 👌🏼
I feel like There were so many bands in the 90’s and early 2000’s that people could relate to and find comfort in when they hit a rough patch. I could be wrong, but I don’t feel like bands like that exist anymore. LP was definitely one of those bands.
Respectable pick
My personal favourite, and in my opinion the best representation of their old sound (and one of many of the whole Nu Metal genre), is Faint
It encapsulates all the good qualities that make LP special. You get everything on it. There's Mike's rapping on the verses, Chester's power vocals on the chorus aaand a big bridge with him fully screaming (and a catchy intro riff, too). All perfectly balanced in there
I also agree with what you said on the last Spotify video about Meteora being their best era
Crawling was what did it for me too. Amazing to see Rick have the same opinion. To me, Crawling is what Linkin Park were all about.
Thank you for bringing aesthetics and cognitive/neurological aspects of music and musicology to a wider audience. For several months I have watched your videos, learning more and recovering delights spanning the cosmos of music in time and space. Primarily a writer, with a longtime background in journalism, I have played a few tidbits of guitar professionally and, unfortunately, had early piano and ear training truncated when I was very young. Your teaching and pedagogy have reenergized in love of and interest in music. Much of the novel writing I am completing is informed by poetic elements but also musical ideas going back to my interest in composing and arranging, which started my hearing arrangements by old jazz cats like Buster Harding, Jimmy Bond, and others. (In fact, in Chicago on WBEZ, the famous jazz station with Dick Buckley, I was interviewed when I was an adolescent.) On the Italian side of my family, my Aunt Corrine was a piano prodigy, and my father and uncle both played the jazz circuit in Shy Town in the late fifties, both students of Joe Siegel when he was teaching at, I believe, the Blackstone Hotel downtown. Imbibing jazz as a baby certainly gave me an "ear" early on, though I never developed it to the redoubtable levels of your son, Dylan. Appreciate your continuing civilized discourse, so needed in times when civilized discourse is in shorter supply.
This is great and you should do a series with this Rick. Just the best song from every artist and why.
Don't Stay will forever be my favorite.
One of the beautiful things about LP is the simplicity of the melodies. That makes for great anthems sing-a-longs. It took me ages to work out why so many of their songs have that anthem grandeur, then I saw them live. It's the kindergarten simplicity of the melodies and the slow pacing, leaving so much room for the massive tones and Chester's drawn out vocals, with Mike's rapping a perfect counterpoint.
I love your content so much! As a beginner guitar player these videos helps to understand theories of music more. Thank you very much and greetings from Finland
I was 14 when I heard this song. I had no idea about music but I knew a good song when I heard one. Glad that its still my favourite LP song.
Chester was such a great vocalist. Excellent live too.
My favorite thing about Linkin Park is the emotion that they convey. Each song has such a clear emotion that you can feel so clearly
Crawling is one of my most favourite songs of all time, and it's even more special that there're live performances of this song in which Chester and Chris sung it extremely beautifully. Love them so much.
They do this in Limp Bizkit's My Way too, that major 3rd tonality in the chorus.
19:52. The face Rick makes is the face I made when I heard this progression. That is beautiful!
Hybrid Theory is their best album. Everything about it is otherworldly. Meteora is my second favorite
To me, Hybrid Theory and Meteora are untouchable. Nothing they did after that can even come close. I did like The Hunting Party though. They got angry again for that album.
In my opinion, their greatest song or at least my favorite song of theirs is Shadow of the Day. I just love that song!
totally agree with you crawling was always my favorite track from lp.
its just so powerful but also beautiful melodycally, chester's voice was insane, you can feel how deep his pain was.
This will always be the song that sold me on this band
My Linkin Park song is Points of Authority.
Sat down to get some ideas from this and then realized that I've got a song from my first album that uses the mixolydian b6 scale and it's in the same key, the only difference is there's a b2 in there too. Song is called Never Leaving Home Again and it's got that same melancholic feeling / ache you're talking about. Thank you for helping me figure out why and making the idea reproducible in the future for me.
The Maj7Sus2 Chord is what makes Breaking Benjamin sound so incredible, its in numerous songs of them
In the 90's the band Helmet did a lot of those types of colors and tones as in the chorus - they're the first band I thought of when I heard this song.
Rick is a deep guru of music theory.
lp was my first concert. 2001 I think in Amsterdam. My students still get into LP over all modern metal. Always found them to be the sound of a generation, but it might be more then that.
Absolutely love the way your explanations go from awe of the artist and the engineering of a song, into deeply technical theory, right through to those arpeggios of the chord progressions that you just throw on for fun. Excellent videos and presentations, Rick!
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When They Come For Me has a wicked polyrhythm in the beginning, and an Arabian style Phrygian scale.
Masterpiece song
If you haven't heard it already, the remix of this song on LP's 'Reanimation' album features Aaron Lewis (Staind) and is quite possibly one of the most beautiful renditions every recorded/produced.
Rick you need to do a Mike Shinoda interview.
Two people who just loves music..they would talk for hours
The little things give you away. the best song of them for me
"Don't Stay" was such a great start to the album of Meteora. It's what got me hooked. Idk if it's my favorite song but it'll always have a special place in my heart
Somewhere I Belong is my favorite.
Great feedback. Numb is their best song. RIP Chester
I love your content whenever I get the chance, Rick!
I've always thought their best songs were their longest ones - The Little Things Give You Away, Iridescent, and A Line In The Sand. The first two are just beautiful songs and the third is one of the more complicated songs they've done and it has such an intense outro to one of their heavier albums.
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I started with Crawling when I first listened to LP.
'It's official now, objectively Crawling is their best song! I'm a drummer with minimal guitar and piano skills, when I tried playing this song, obviously with simple chords, I always wondered "Why is this song so great?", and I knew, for sure Rick would have a detailed answer to that question. :D
That whole album was excellent. I bought the cd with my first part time job pay cheque out of curiosity before they really blew up and I fell in love with it instantly. By far their best work.
This is making it way more complicated than it needs to be. This song is in a fairly simple minor key progression. They just played what felt and sounded good to them.
Exactly
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"One Step Closer" also starts off with a mixolydian-sounding vocal line, very nifty!
I think a song like Crawling would’ve been a fantastic song for like a Grunge/Stoner type band.
I think a cover of Crawling In an Alice In Chains style way would sound fantastic
Or Queens of the Stone Age
Yep, I get Eastern vibes from the Myxolydian for sure Rick.
I remember hearing Kashmir when I was 15 and have been captivated with the Eastern vibes in metal ever since
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Hybrid theory is a top five best debut album in the history of music. Forgotten is their best track of all time
Crawling is one of my favorite songs of all time and holds a lot of depth. I too think this is linkin park most rawest realest greatest song. So simple but amazing. I wrote a piece about it for anyone who cares to read that goes into extreme depth about the song:
Linkin park - crawling - a song that depicts a man's internal struggle like no other. It is quite amazing how none of the songs I mentioned before touched on this topic actually. In this a song there is a clear bad guy and evil. However it not any other human, it is part of himself. "There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface, consuming, confusing". Chester dosent speak of this as if it is a part of him. His depiction of this charecter are the type of metaphors you would give to a demon or the devil himself. "This lack of self control I feel is Neverending" is such an honest line that cuts to the core. " I can't seem to find myself again, my walls are closing in" walls closing in is a perfect description to anixety and panic. He is describing his internal feelings as accurately as he can using the English language. The rap part after this has soured like old milk and does nothing to help the song, in a way it feels like an awkward tactless blurt out in the middle of an honest chilling moment. Luckily it is very brief and is quite easy to not pay much attention to it. "Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal, fear is how I fall, confusing what is real" every sentence here cuts to the core. I personally belive this song was written chorus first and then the verses. The chorus hits home and to me if feels like it came to the singer as a one piece download from the rawest place inside inside his soul.
I will slightly veare off the song itself for a moment to share an interesting insight into my relationship with this song. At first when I heard this song I didn't even appreciate it. The 4 chord progression in this song was too common and I felt it was cheap cop out using it and unoriginal, especially when the same chord progression is used in the verses as well. I'm guessing the small rap part also through me off a bit. Only after Chester's passing did I come back to listen to this song again and finally understand its true significance. Another reason I believe I glossed over this song was because of the songs second verse. "Discomfort endlessly has pulled itself upon me, distracting reacting" is not a deep line. It's a decent vague picture of him being uncomfortable. It's an ok line but does not cut to the core like the first verse. "Against my will I stand beside my own reflection", again is a vague line that may seem nice on the outside but actually is devoid of the same depth found in the first verse. In truth it seems to me Chester was afraid to go deeper. In the first verse he told us of this demonic creature, but in the second verse he steers clear of him entirely. I am guessing it was too painful for him to go deeper in the matter. It feels to me like Chester was as if in a hostage situation with this demonic force. He is afraid if revels too much there will be consequences, so it is best he doesnt rebel too much. Going over all of Linkin Parks discography, I surprisingly found no other song Chester even mentiones this demonic force again, always dancing around the topic instead of pointing the finger right at the demon himself. Maybe because he is afraid of him, maybe because it is his reflection at times and therefore he isn't sure what thoughts are his or of this evil creature inside him that wants to destroy him. The first verse was clear and cut deep. The second verse was shallow and maybe even chester didn't realize as he was confused about what is. Both verses may have also been written in different days. Maybe there was a second verse that we never heard that was too hard hitting and instead was replaced by the current second verse.
Realizing the layers of this story has been quite an interesting journey. But I didn't get back to the song because of Chester's story. I got there by simply listening to the song again. It blew me away with its musical arrangment and one of the most melodicaly beautiful gut wrenching choruses of all time. That melody and words of the chorus come straight from Chester's soul. With an amazing musical arrangment that still sounds amazing to this day, an epic giant. Unlike all the songs before it on this list, this song isn't fully honest to the core. Chester runs away a bit in the second verse from depth. There is no middle part either, no more lyrics, chester could hardly even conjure a second, let alone expand on such a horrible topic, all the while this demon is still living very strongly inside him as he was recording this song.
The crazy truth is even though chester didn't deliver a second verse of absolute substance, what he gave us was more then any other artist ever did. No other song was as clear admission of pointing the finger at one's self and saying "I am the problem and my own worst enemy, the issue lives within me". While compiling this list I actually thought I would find many more songs like this one with the same subject matter to compare it to. "This topic must be quite common" or so I thought. Nope, such a visirul song on the topic of having an evil part that lives within us that intentionally wants to hurt us was never really touched upon anywhere close to this level of depth anywhere else in all my musical recollection. And we dont even have a full song with it, just one verse and a chorus that really touched that core. I am truly puzzeled how so few have ventured thia deep on this topic.
This song with time has become one Linkin Parks greatest hits even though it didn't start that way. I think many of the band listeners can identify with song ij some way. I believe even more people will be coming back to this song in time. This core issue is way more common then humanity may like to admit.
I use "Easier to run" as an example a lot. Its major 1st degree in a totally minor context is such a powerful surprise.
I know next to nothing about music but this song captured me and since hearing it I have loved linkin park.
So good to have the music explained. (Even though I dont understand half of it) 😅
To me, Hybrid Theory and Meteora are untouchable. Nothing they did after that came come close to that sound and quality of music. I did like The Hunting Party though. They got angry again for that album.
Thank you for another great episode
Home run, literally their song I listened the most to. It does sound incredible.
Rick, you make me want to pick my electric guitar again, I’ve been a bit lazy and grabbed my folk guitar once in a while for years now.
It indeed is one of the best songs ever
I'm a fool though for always forgetting it exists while it's one of my favourite songs ever from one of my favourite albums ever of one of my favourite bands ever
Wow this breakdown puts everything I know into question lol in my early guitar years the Em C G D chord progression, I always dubbed it the "Crawling chords" and come to find out the first chord is actually a major! That blew my mind
Wait wait wait, isn't crawling from Hybrid Theory? It was the first linkin park song i ever listened too, made me discover them, been in love ever since, msut've been 15-17 years ago. Great stuff as always Rick!!!
Easier to run is the very track that sums up the essence of Lp. Its very dramatic in sound which im a big fan of, realistic lyrics
Crawling is a great song, but I think they really hit their musical stride with Minutes to Midnight. So many great songs and showed how melodic and really beautiful Linkin Park can be.
Little things give you away is my favourite.. It has a sense of calm amidst all the chaos in and around you..that's my interpretation, at least..
Was literally jammin to this song on the way home earlier
I have no idea what you said but i still enjoyed it. Maybe i can figure it as i listen to more of this stuff.
it's my fav song from them too! what a coincidence!
Easier to Run was always Crawling Pt 2 for me
Thank you for the video Rick. Great as always.