Minutes Past Midnight

Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight released yesterday.

As far as mainstream commercial rock goes, this news is fairly insignificant. The early 2000's largest selling rock band comes back after a long hiatus with a new album.

:shrug:

But I think listening to it will be a fairly interesting exercise for me.

I was weaned on classic rock, and it's still my first love. But LP was one of the first moderns bands that I started to really follow with a passion - I'm actually a bit of a late bloomer in terms of the progression of my musical tastes. My dad not allowing me to fiddle with the radio stations until i was like 15 may also have some effect.

But I think my tastes, and the tastes of the general music consumer, have changed a lot since LP released Hybrid Theory a few years ago.

Rap-rock is dead. Nu metal is the butt of music industry jokes. Linkin Park represented the biggest of both.

So I wonder, can I listen to the new album with an unbiased ear? Will I like them just because I used to like them? Or will I write them off because I know that I'm supposed to write them off, what with me being on my musical high horse and all?

Like I said, an interesting exercise.

The first single:

Linkin Park - "What I've Done"

For what it's worth, I enjoyed it more than when I first heard Somewhere I Belong for the first time.