What are your thoughts on Linkin Park Giantbomb?

On many of my other forums Linkin Park is a hated band that no listens to. I listen to it, and I get a lot of **** from a lot of people for it, but I was wondering what you guys here on GB think of Linkin Park? 
 
I personally think they are a great band. I own both their Meteora and Hybrid Theory Albums and I think they have some good songs on them. My favorite songs include Runaway, Crawling, Faint and Hit The Floor.

I have always liked Linkin Park, but I think they have taken a rough turn toward Pop music with their newest stuff. It's like they realized "Whoa, Numb is being played on all sorts of radio stations, and that makes more people buy our stuff." So they made there next CD have 2/3 of the songs sound like Numb. Minutes to Midnight isn't really a bad CD. It is just that I would much rather have a CD like Hybrid Theory. 
 
I think that you slightly hinted at this, in that you didn't mention anything after Meteora. I approve. 
 
So, I give a thumbs up to Linkin Park, but I could care less about the pop style direction they are taking themselves in. I want to hear more of the heavier stuff, which I'm sure you would agree with me on, especially since Hit the Floor is on your list there. 

Their my fav band since Hybrid Theory. Love them.
 
Gonna walk away now before the LP haters come.

i like linkin park, hybrid theory was the first cd i ever bought , i listened to that thing like crazy.  I didn't much care for their latest cd though.

liked their old stuff their because it was unique don't like there new stuff make them sound so non unique and they gone emo samo

I like them.
 
People on the internet hate everything. 

There not so bad, I'm quite a fan of their reanimation album.

Listened to Hybrid Theory the other night out of a longing for some nostalgia. Man? What a great fuckin' album. XD

Juvenile. Maybe not as childish as Disturbed, but still pretty terrible.

I listened to them when I was 13.

Less of a fan than I used to be, but they're alright.

haha, linkin park. They were badass when I was a child, but I grew up. Some things are meant to be left in your ignorant childhood years.

 I only really listened to hybrid theory and that was it. Their current music is just...ugh. Let it all rot for all I care.

The mix album with Jay-Z was their best work. Like the others said they're a bit childish.

I used to listen to them quite a bit a while back, but not so much anymore. I think Hybrid Theory was one of the first western CD's I've bought (I'm into j-rock a bit... actually I'm into rock in general). 

I like all their albums so far, true the last one was a bit less rock, but I like the fact that they arent afraid to experiment. 

By myself, What I've Done and My December are probably some tracks that I remember the best. 
 

" The mix album with Jay-Z was their best work. . "

i saw them live in like 2001, they were ok

They have a few good songs, but other then those, I really don't care for them.

Never liked them.

I loved that band, their old stuff was terrific. Sure you couldn't really understand what Chester was saying half the time, and Mike's rapping may have been dodgy at times as well. But overall, they had a truly unique style that you could readily identify. Especially since every other music group just wanted to copy someone else's style. Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, and Meteora are all wonderful albums. Too bad they made Minutes to Midnight and then became something that was barely what they were. Sounded like everything else you hear on the radio with the exception of one or two songs. 
 
Will Linkin Park return to their original style? Not likely, they've all grown up and have families. They no longer have the edge and grit they once had. It's only natural, I suppose.

They have the same appeal as Limp Bizkit. Good when a young teen but when matured it clicks that they're not good.....at all

Their Live in Texas double disk was great, Brilliant live act, everything else is shit.

THIS IS THE PART WHEN I SCREAM TO LET OUT HOW I FEEL INSIDE AND THEN I CRY ABOUT THE WOES OF LIFE MUCH LIKE TRAVIS TOUCHDOWN DOES WITH HIS BEAM KATANA! 

I liked Hybrid Theory and Meteora.. Minutes to Midnight was shi*

i still like them , don't listen to them as much as i used to but the cd's still get there amount of time in my car and on iTunes :D  got all the full cd's ( yes even collision course :D some even twice for the special editions :) ) and some merchandise stuff,
 
i can remember playing  Spyro the Dragon  with Hybrid Theory on the background :D ( 2 years between the releases of the cd and game but didn't play Spyro when it was released :) bought it later on when expending my PS collection ) when i listen to Hybrid Theory now i still feel the urge to play Spyro :D prolly going to buy it on PSN soon :D
 
grtz Allen :p

They're my favourite band, pretty much got me hooked into music. I was and still sorta am a big fanboy over Linkin Park. To be perfectly honest my username says for itself that I'm into LP. I thought 'Meteora' sounded cool and I listened to their first song on that album, though its pretty much fact that Hybrid Theory was their best work. Their latest work is alright, but pretty generic and mediocre (though people might say that with their original stuff). I kinda wish they went back to their nu metal roots; or go in a general direction of "New Divide" which was in Transformers 2.

Hybrid Theory was cool, The Jay Z album was pretty good.
 
Fort Minor is the best thing about Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda is pretty awesome.

Hybrid theory was great , Meteora was meh ... everything else after pretty much sucks.

hate all i have is pure hate towards them. sorry. just hate them hope they all get their throats ripped out :D

Like any band, they have a couple catchy songs. Don't like them overall though.

nu metal sucks
 
(imo of course)

I like some and are indifferent to many.  I think it is amusing bands liked as teens get so much hate when those people "grow up".   You have to give them credit for sticking together for so long.
 
This one I like a lot - awesome clip: 
  

Two or three years ago I would go ape shit over this, I loved them. Now I kind of hate them.

I like their older stuff. Their new stuff, not so much, apart from "New Divide" and "What I've Done".

For me, they are (along with Limp Bizkit) a band that was good "back then".

used to be well into linkin park.... kinda grew outta it but
 
i seen them once in dublin when they where backing metallica....they got fucking bottled to hell felt really sorry for them lol

This takes me back to my "know it all" days in elementary school where I watched their songs off Yahoo! Music. Minutes to Midnight is for a new generation, so I can still appreciate them in everything prior.

Ahhh it's time for the what do you think about Linkin Park thread again is it? Getting it out of the way early this year is a good idea, see you in the what do you think of Linkin Park 2011 thread!

They used to be my favorite band, but i moved onto better Harder metal :) they're still ok, but their latest album was terrible

Their first 3 albums were good, the last one they made was horrible.  The problem they have is matching the quality of the first albums, it took them a long time to get to Hybrid Theory, and that same effort can't be replicated, not in the same way anyway.  Mike S is a talented guy though in both music and art and that also goes for a few of the others aswell.

I like Fort Minor a lot more, however I think there a good band.

I've actually liked all their albums, which is rare for me since just about every band I listen to usually has something I completely cannot stand.

I really enjoy their older stuff.

Never.