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Generally favorable reviews- based on 450 Ratings
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Positive: 357 out of 450
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Mixed: 64 out of 450
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Negative: 29 out of 450
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Jun 26, 2012
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Mar 13, 2014
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Dec 28, 2019A very good Linkin Park album. Only Hybrid Theory and Meteora are better. It has a lot of emotional and powerful songs. My favourites are Lost in the Echo which has a sad and depressing music video that catches the theme, Skin to Bone (For me a song that reminds me that all things end) and Castle of Glass. It is a typical Linkin Park album that deals with sad themes in an acustical enjoyable way.
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Sep 18, 2014
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Apr 15, 2016I know that they focused on the rhythm because it's an album more like electronic but some lyrics are not so good. My favorites: "Powerless", "I'll Be Gone" and "Castle Of Glass".
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Mar 10, 2018A good album. Not Linkin Park's best but is enjoyable throughout and has some of their best songs including Roads Untravelled, Lost in the Echo and Skin to Bone
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Jul 25, 2018If this is alternative rock then Nirvana is progressive brutal death metal. This album is a crime against humanity. The only track that doesn't make me want to kill myself is Victimized. And I was victimized by listening to this record. Things should just stay dead. Pickens condemns!
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Jul 3, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012The album is absolutely amazing. Much better than Minutes to Midnight and a Thousands suns. Linkin Park have merged what everybody first loved them for (ear splitting choruses and heavy beats) with some of the best parts of their new experimental albums (the electronica) to create a best of both world album that easily sits with Hybrid Theory at the top of Linkin Park's albums.
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012CASTLE OF GLASS. Enough said. As a massive LP fan, this is a solid listen. The critics are simply incorrect. This is a modern LP matured Hybrid Theory/Meoteora.
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Jun 26, 2012Amazing combination of heavy guitars and electronic sounds, mind-blowing production, more than a few breathtaking lyrics and some of the best songs Linkin Park has done for sure.
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012Its a brilliant compilation of everything that defines linkin park and combines the new ideas with the emotion and power of their early works. its a instant classic of rock
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Oct 9, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012I am a true Linkin Park fan. I love all of their stuff from Minutes to Midnight to Reanimation. This album, topped them all. All of the songs are so beautiful in their own way. Whether it is Roads Untravelled, a depressing, yet somewhat hopeful song, to Powerless, a heartbreak ballad. They are all masterpieces and the group still has it.
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Jun 26, 2012
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Aug 12, 2013
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jun 27, 2012Ok. So I'm not sure what the critics are thinking. Its by no means a average album. It is a very good album. There are no songs that are generic or bad. Each one has its own pros. The album itself is like LPs other albums combined into one. There are pieces of each albums sound in it. I would say overall its a 8 or 9 but I gave it a 10 because the critics are taking the score to low.
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Jun 27, 2012Simply i can say is that the album is better than Hybrid Theory And Meteora....I liked A Thousand Suns more than Living Things......but still this record holds its ground..........a must buy album.................
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Jul 2, 2012another great album from the greatest band....the new album is better than ats and mim...though not good as hbt and meteora...there are a couple of good songs...
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Oct 15, 2012Linkin Park made it! This album is really a pleasant surprise and a proof that Linkin Park deserve their good stature as a rock band. I love all song of this one, it's an album I can listen to over and over again. A perfect job from Linkin Park; this is gonna be one of my top contenders for the best album of 2012.
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Jun 26, 2012This is an incredible album, they decided to make something different despite what people said and came with this masterpiece.
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jun 26, 2012This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jun 26, 2012LIVING THINGS, is an AWESOME album, and has to be one of the best rockmainstream album out there.It's so enjoyable,this is Linkin Park in pure form, energy, big choruses, melodies, rap,scream,big beats, wall of sounds, and little of that experimentation that was introduced in A Thousand Suns. This is Awesomeness... This is Linkin Park.
Awards & Rankings
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Q MagazineJul 27, 2012Bold stuff and proof Shinoda remains a richly talented creative force. [Aug 2012, p.103]
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Jul 18, 2012Living Things is a very good entry that's simply not as special as its precursor. All in all, Linkin Park has always been a bit unique and the best at what they do, and they continue to excel on this album. Just don't expect too much from it.
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Kerrang!Jul 17, 2012Too often, Living Things is the sound of a band with vast talent, but also one that hasn't figured out where to go next. [23 Jun 2012, p.52]