Meryl- I just don't get how by saying "ATS rules" in all of your posts, will make me agree with whatever you are trying to say. It's like if I was like "mtm was amazing and ats rules", try to keep ATS out of it, it didn't exsist back in 2007 so therefore it shouldn't be compared with Minutes in terms of maturity, lyirxs, and overall sound.
It's true the re-writing made the song less appealing. But I always liked Meteora, I think it was a good follow up. And lyrically anyway, there's good and bad in every era... I agree that Krwlng is hard to surpass but TLGYW is a good song but I don't agree that it's epic. But it may be because it's too soft in my taste =) But I don't want you to agree with me! That's not the purpose, the purpose is to explain why some people like me didn't like MTM. I respect your opinion, and debating with you doesn't mean I want to change your opinion. That would be a lost cause, like it's a lost cause to try to convince me that MTM is great album. We can talk and see what we do not agree about, but let's not say that people's arguments are invalid. The purpose is not that one of us says at the end: oh you are right. Ok so I will leave ATS out of it, but let's leave HT and Meteora then too. Just looking at MTM alone. And with doing that, we'll I agree with Louis. If MTM would have been first LP album, I wouldn't have paid attention to them at all and be the fan I am today. Anyway, this is just music, nobody holds the truth.
Everyone has their own opinion on the album and we should respect that. I am willing to accept the people don't like MTM if they give out good reasons like Meryl_ did, and not if they say it sucks because it's "NOT HYBRID THEORY PART THREE ZOMG!" like a vast majority of MTM haters do. With that said: [video=youtube;XRGd0gD0QNE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRGd0gD0QNE[/video]
I love these comparisons, they never seem to leave the conversation. And if MTM was the bands first album and I heard Bleed It Out on the radio, you don't know how fast I would look the band up.
Gilmore's Law "As a discussion of Linkin Park on the LPA grows longer, the probability of a comparison that cites Meteora unfavourably approaches one."