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  • Summary: This long-awaited follow-up to 2000's 'Hybrid Theory' contains 12 new tracks co-produced by Don Gilmore.

Top Track

Numb
I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface Don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. E! Online
    91
    Through it all, the guys stay just as tight (translation: radio-ready) as ever, offering up tracks in near-perfect three-minute doses.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    A thunderously hooky album that seamlessly blends the group's disparate sonic elements into radio-friendly perfection.
  3. Billboard
    80
    Isn't so much a revelation as it is a ready-made crowd pleaser that delivers on the familiar.
  4. Q Magazine
    60
    Meteora is less an artistic endeavour than an exercise in target marketing. [May 2003, p.104]
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  5. AllMusic
    60
    The similarity of Meteroa to Hybrid Theory does not only raise the question of where do they go from here, but whether there is a place for them to go at all.
  6. Blender
    60
    Harder, denser, uglier. [#15, p.128]
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  7. The A.V. Club
    40
    Mercifully brief but mercilessly repetitive, Meteora is little more than a tolerable rehash of a formula that's been on the wrong side of its sell-by date for some time now.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 178 out of 210
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 210
  3. Negative: 21 out of 210
  1. JanaF
    May 24, 2009
    10
    Really good album! As the others LP's albuns, meteora was perfect! Hello from Brazil.
  2. Easyman
    Jul 31, 2018
    10
    Best CD I have ever bought and best Album I have ever listened to!! Chester’s vocals along with Shinoda’s rapping makes it triumph to be oneBest CD I have ever bought and best Album I have ever listened to!! Chester’s vocals along with Shinoda’s rapping makes it triumph to be one of their best works!!!!… Expand
  4. chelsea
    Nov 8, 2003
    10
    its awesum!!!!!!!!!!! i luv them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  5. Lamar
    Oct 7, 2007
    10
    Quit complaining about LP sounding the same. AC/DC sounds the same on most records but nobody says anything about it..
  6. Jerry
    Oct 6, 2007
    9
    This is an amazing album. I don't get why some people hate it for being "fake-metal". Linkin Park never said they were metal. Meteora This is an amazing album. I don't get why some people hate it for being "fake-metal". Linkin Park never said they were metal. Meteora fits better under rapcore or alternative.… Expand
  7. FakeLies
    Dec 31, 2011
    8
    Hybrid theory was just perfect, it was the first piece of music i ever got to own ( a casette recorded by my sister :D) and today after yearsHybrid theory was just perfect, it was the first piece of music i ever got to own ( a casette recorded by my sister :D) and today after years its still impressive to listen to...meteora is a good album, sad that mtm and ats got to be garbage...the rap and the electro fits perfect, some of their sounds are really tight and just make your body move...but still the texts are far from "pickly teenage crap", like the little haters with 0-rates say, there is a lot of heart in chesters texts, and his way of shouting his feelings out into the world is great and fun to listen to...a must have album in my opinion, even if it doesnt get to the strength of Hybrid Theory… Expand
  8. OliverIgnatius
    Mar 27, 2003
    0
    We've been dooped again. What a SHITE band.

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#2 Most Discussed Album of 2003
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#3 Most Shared Album of 2003

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