Minutes to Midnight

Linkin park's new album has been confirmed i for one cant wait , out may 14th

 

i count 1 hour 17 minutes

 

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait, hopefully it'll be good

 

like you wouldnt have done it if someone else had posted it

 

yeah i probly would of

 

great minds think alike

 

They are a modern american band its unlikely that they will be any good.

 

I'd hardly call them modern and they are different to the current wave of sh*t that is being churned out over there.

Not saying i'm a Linkin Park fan but i don't dislike them as much as the latest crop of American stuff.

 

what american stuff ya refferin to just wondering?

 

Where shall i start !

Dashboard Confessional
Yellowcard
Panic at the yr 5 disco
Taking Back Sunday

That sort of stuff that all sounds the same.

Thankfully it hasn't forced decent american bands like The Strokes and Foo Fighters off the scene over here. Long may that continue.

 

ah see i can agree with those except taking back sunday i reallly do like them got there album its decent and theres one dashboard confessinal song which is really good

 

i cant really name the bad american bands because i tend not to listen to them, but fall out boy and panic at the disco are examples.

 

sonic boom six released an albumn not so long ago. reject rubbish american bands and listen to britains finest.

 

Amen to that.

 

failing that, try boston. by virtue of 'more than a feeling' they are the best american band ever!

 

I'll see your Boston and raise you a Ramones

 

ramones? i'd rather have a teenage lobotomy. that said ramones are a tad overrated. the misfits on the otherhand...

 

We'd be lost without them...don't even pretend it isn't the case.
Don't forget:


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Yup...This is crap that British record companies think you want to buy...don't blame America for that.

 

PS thank you for Arctic Monkeys

 

you should be thanking us for a civic nation if anything.

 

on another note, how popular is MC Lars in America. He came to my attention last year and i know quite a few people here who are fans, so my logic is that if he's big in manchester, he mus be big in the US?

 

Depends on who you ask...
Compared with Britain, the US is so fractured geographically, linguistically, socially, culturally, educationally...you can't get 10 people to agree on one thing. This informs much of what is known, to say nothing of what is popular. To become known, you pretty much have to be assumed to be something a record company can make money on, otherwise...you are just an art project given minimal exposure.

MC Lars is in the art project range here. Virtually unknown, save by certain pioneering hunters, though interesting.

Mind you I distinguish between known/unknown, & good/bad.

Anyway, nothing I like ever seems to be popular. Know these guys?

Nobody else does either... I'm shocked when I hear something I like on the airwaves, and then usually dislike it promptly as a result.

Trying to find something original is tough. It seems I can trace 20 different genres of rock to Abbey Road. Now THAT is making an impression. Most of what I hear as "new" is totally recycled from something that was "new" twenty or thirty years ago, which was actually ripped off from American Blacks of the 30's, 40's, and 50's. The world owes us a debt of gratitude for that...the recipe is tough though: kidnapping, forced labor, destitution and poverty, denial of basic human rights cook for 200 hundred years and PRESTO:

 

:rant: :rant: :rant:

Just a one hit wonder if you ask me , i feel they have only done one half decent song,

 

I agree with that, they are also quite big headed...

I personally can't wait for the new LP album, it's been a long enough bleedin' wait! :rant: I heard one of the album tracks the other night, I might have to camp outside HMV on the 13th...

 

I don't mind Linkin Park but I have always had a suspician that they are a manufactured band and isn't their singer called something like Chester Bennigton or something not very rock and roll! When they came out, they were classd in the same bracket as Kid Rock, they are certainly better than that!

On the issue of influences, I heard a bit of classical music the other day, Gustav Holst, The Planets, and you can clearly see how that has influenced modern comtempory music

 

US bands?? - bring back the Smashing Pumpkins - there's a quality band for you.

 

They are reforming apparently. Ones of the first bands I listened to when I first got into music and always made brilliant videos as well

 

Well I never. I will await in anticipation - more Siamese Dream please.

 

As i read this, Siamese Dream has just been on MTV2. Fantastic, the wonders of laying in bed all day with the flu

 

Was that qwerty (Demo name) you herd ? if so thats not on the album.

Chester Bennington indeed is his name one of the lead singers

 

i take it back. the best band ever is motley crue based entirely on kickstart my heart!

 

G'N'R
Paradise City

However, mankind should be obliterated off the face of the earth for Styx.
What an abomination.

The only good thing that came out of that was the unintentionally HILARIOUS "domo arigato Mr. Roboto".

 

Give up?
The Minutemen
Burnt brightly, untimely end.

RIP D Boon