Linkin Park- The Messenger
Okay, so I've finished listening to A Thousand Suns, time for my opinion on it.
Around half the songs on the album are just short sequences of something that aren't even really songs. "The Radiance" and "Wisdom, Justice, and Love" are speeches with background music and heavy distortion, "Empty Spaces" is a bunch of battle sounds, "Journada Del Muerto" is a couple of sentences spoken in Japanese repeated around 6 times, and "Fallout" is pretty much the same, just in English, a bit longer, and the sentences are different. It also sounds like it's being sung by a robot. "The Requiem" is just an intro track, containing some of the lines from The Catalyst, sounding like they've been spoken really softly. And by a girl.
Anyway, onto the actual songs. I don't have much to say about them, I'll just say whether or not I found them good. A lot of them suffer from the problem of "Heavy Synthesizer use sounds like crap":
"Burning in the Skies" -Okay
"When They Come for Me" -Crap
"Robot Boy" -Crap
"Waiting for the End" -Meh
"Blackout" -Suffers from the worst synthesizer hell imaginable in the first couple of minutes. Do not listen to this, ever, if you value your ears.
"Wretches and Kings" -Crap
"Iridescent" -Okay
"The Catalyst" -Good, but still too synthesizery
"The Messenger" -Good... This one was probably my favorite. It doesn't come close to anything on Meteora or Hybrid Theory, it's about par with the good stuff on Minutes to Midnight at best, but it's still the best one on the album, IMO.
Okay, so I've finished listening to A Thousand Suns, time for my opinion on it.
Around half the songs on the album are just short sequences of something that aren't even really songs. "The Radiance" and "Wisdom, Justice, and Love" are speeches with background music and heavy distortion, "Empty Spaces" is a bunch of battle sounds, "Journada Del Muerto" is a couple of sentences spoken in Japanese repeated around 6 times, and "Fallout" is pretty much the same, just in English, a bit longer, and the sentences are different. It also sounds like it's being sung by a robot. "The Requiem" is just an intro track, containing some of the lines from The Catalyst, sounding like they've been spoken really softly. And by a girl.
Anyway, onto the actual songs. I don't have much to say about them, I'll just say whether or not I found them good. A lot of them suffer from the problem of "Heavy Synthesizer use sounds like crap":
"Burning in the Skies" -Okay
"When They Come for Me" -Crap
"Robot Boy" -Crap
"Waiting for the End" -Meh
"Blackout" -Suffers from the worst synthesizer hell imaginable in the first couple of minutes. Do not listen to this, ever, if you value your ears.
"Wretches and Kings" -Crap
"Iridescent" -Okay
"The Catalyst" -Good, but still too synthesizery
"The Messenger" -Good... This one was probably my favorite. It doesn't come close to anything on Meteora or Hybrid Theory, it's about par with the good stuff on Minutes to Midnight at best, but it's still the best one on the album, IMO.
(on the music and sentiment)
