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Minutes To Midnight
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Rick Rubin co-produced the band's third album, which is the result of over a year spent in the studio and represents a move away from their established rap-rock sound.
| LABEL: | Warner Bros |
| RELEASE DATE: | 15 May 2007 |
| DISCS: | 1 disc |
| GENRE(S): | Alternative, Rock |
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The average user rating for this album is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 372 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Simon B gave it a4:
No. Just no. I was looking for some hard-edge music the other day. So I got myself Minutes to Midnight. What I got was a serenade to ... well, Chester in general. How come in the last few years, pop culture has been able to make bands rise to fame, only to have said bands fuck everything over in a swift attempt to do a complete make-over? I'd like this album if it didn't have a few things I despise: Songs often including the word "Dark" for the sake of being dark. I'm giving it a four because of the main single, Bleed It Out and Given Up. Two points go to Given Up's salivating 17 seconds shriek which somehow makes my teeth grit in positive rage. I really feel his anger there. Bleed It Out was what I like Linkin Park to be, with its slightly more garage sound and rough lyrics. While What I've Done is a very good example of transition. Even though it sounds very pop, I admit that I love it thoroughly. If more songs had been like those I mentioned, I think I would have liked this album more. Instead, it's just Linkin Park flirting with Emo.
Steve M. gave it a0:
Terrible. A mature new sound? Only if their last albums were 3 months old. This political sophistry mixed with dull "boy band" music doesn't work. They've lost whatever "edginess" they had, and to make up for it they drop the f-bomb like they just learned the word. I'm not joking, they sound like those straight-edge kids you knew in high-school who, the first time they cursed, stuttered over the word. LP fans do yourself a favor and hold on to Hybrid Theory and Meteora, but forget M2M.
Joseph P. gave it a1:
I used to love linkin park, hybrid theory and meteora were epic as was Collision Course...but this just sucked, the only song i liked was Bleed It Out because it was catchy, they need to go back to their roots.
[Anonymous] gave it a0:
"Hybrid Theory" is one of the best albums ever, still like it today 8 years after I heard it first. "Meteora" was not as great but still good! "Minutes to Midnight" is something else for sure, it's gay boy band crap.
Mehrazi W. gave it a10:
It's the most fabulous album in the 21 century (with meteora of course!!), the perfect hard rock songs within all somethings that give to you the pleasure to song with him.
Chris D. gave it a3:
Very, very disappointing...who is this? There's nothing wrong with bands changing styles to fit with changing tastes in music, but you have to be careful not to suck when you do that. As a huge fan of both Hybrid Theory and Meteora, this album is a failure. I don't even recognize this band's sound anymore, they totally turned away from what made them what they are. Whether you ever liked nu-metal or not, you have to admit that this album is an enormous departure from their roots, and the sound suffers because the album is horribly disjointed with no unifying sound (I found the transition from Leave Out All The Rest to Bleed It Out to be most jarring).
[Anonymous] gave it a1:
This album is a shame for my former favourite band. The hard, metallic crashing sound mixed with great raplyrics is completely gone, M. to M. offers you a embarrassing mix of stolen riffs and melodies from bands like u2 and coldplay. They lost their style in every sense it's just disappointing, don't buy it and wait for the next maybe lp realizes that this album sucks.
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