My tale seems totally different and not nearly as inspiring… but…
I remember hearing LOATR and Shadow of the Day a lot back in '07-‘08 on the radio. At first I was indifferent, but quickly grew to like them. Then I heard Bleed It Out. Now, back then, I admit I had horrible taste in music and Bleed It Out was a bit heavier than the stuff I usually listened to. At first, I didn’t really like the song. Then just one day, I loved it. I don’t know what happened, but I just started rockin’ out to it in my head. All I heard of rap before then was my brother’s much more ‘gangsta’ rap and I had despised it. But LP’s rap lyrics were brilliant and not about your average cash, chicks, and fame.
Then whilst I was at a friend’s house, there was a LP music video marathon on TV and I watched the videos for In the End, Numb, and Crawling. I loved their videos, the non-sense in In the End (c’mon, what is going on in that video?!) and the real pain seen in Numb and Crawling. So I looked up Linkin Park and discovered they were the same band performing LOATR, Shadow of the Day, and Bleed It Out.
I realized they were a damn good band so I looked up and listened to all of their songs. Seriously, all of their records straight through. I didn’t hear a single song I didn’t like. I loved their musical style, but especially their lyrics. It was a lot better than the crap I had been listening to.
And then of course I saw some funny videos of the band and instantly fell in love with them. They just seemed like the greatest group of guys and I never saw them as rock stars or celebrities. Just a simple group of guys that were hilarious, easy going, and loved to play music.
LP opened my ears to music. I thank them for making me really listen.
For me it was after a long night out with friends I hadnt seen for years,theye put on hybrid theory. This was july 2001 I discovered a sound like no other. Th eye combine all the music I love with rap n rock. Chesters vocal range from haunting melody to screeming anger,mikes rap or soft tones. You dont see to many bands that always produce a quality album,no matter how much theye change it always sounds like linkin park.
[quote=Lauren]Ok so I know it’s a little long but every detail (in my opinion) is necessary and falling in love with LP was a slower process for me. It’s also longer because no one that I know likes LP (well besides my dad but he wouldn’t understand why I love them so much) and I figured that if anyone would understand it would be the LPU members. Also if anyone actually reads this whole thing just know that they forever have my respect.
My best friend died four years ago of brain cancer and I acted like it didn’t effect me at all, but it did. About that time I also began to realize how different I was from everybody else. I was born with no left ear, so I’m completely deaf on my left side and have limited hearing on my right. It had never really sunk in that everyone else could hear more than I could until my friend had died so it really just made me more depressed. About a year and a half later towards the end of my sixth grade year I came really close to ending everything but I heard a song by Taylor Swift called “Tied Together With a Smile” (I know I’m talking about Taylor Swift but it will all come back to LP, trust me) and something about it told me to hold on. So I did. A few months later I heard another song and it also convinced me to keep holding on for a little while longer (that little while turned into a year). Then in August of 2010 I saw the video for “The Catalyst” on VH1 Top 20 Countdown. At first I really didn’t like it, the song that is, but I loved the video. Long story short the song eventually grew on me but people in my life had pegged LP as a heavy metal screamo band so I really didn’t want to get into them, plus I wasn’t a big fan of rap. Then in October came the video for “Waiting for the End.” I loved that song from the very beginning and for some reason I didn’t consider Mike’s rapping rap, probably because I actually liked it. But I still didn’t dig any deeper into LP. Then about a year ago I noticed that a band that I got into shortly after Taylor Swift began changing and it wasn’t the good type of change. The last semester of eighth grade was really hard on me. I remember coming home and crying a lot and no music that I was currently into was doing any good for me like it did before. By the time eighth grade graduation came around I had two people that were my friends, but they didn’t understand what it felt like to have someone one day and then have them ripped away from you the next. They also didn’t get how stupid you could feel because you had to ask someone to repeat what they just said three or four times just to somewhat understand what they were trying to say. I remember sitting up on that stage, looking around at the forty some faces that I couldn’t stand, and feeling so alone. One of the things that I did when I was younger was horseback riding. I started at about age three but then quit when I was eight because I wanted a horse and my parents wouldn’t get me one (I promise this will tie into LP). So about a week before graduation I decided to pick it back up again because I thought that it would get my mind off of the negative, which it did. So shortly after graduation the music video for “Iridescent” came on MTV. I remember feeling shocked that a “screamo” band could come out with something thing like that. As soon as it was done I went up to my room and watched it on YouTube. By the time Chester was done singing the chorus for the first time, I was in tears, and by the time the song was done I was crying so hard because I realized that the only way I could get past everything was by letting it go. After watching the video a few times I began to realize that maybe they weren’t just a screamo band. A few days later it was time for my second riding lesson. This time I was riding a pretty big horse named Adagio. I remember looking into his eyes while grooming him and seeing that something about him was missing. He just had this blank, lost, almost depressed look in his eyes. I felt like I was looking at a horse version of me. Anyway fast forward a bit, all during that hour of riding Adagio I couldn’t stop thinking of “Iridescent” and how I felt like it described him also. When I got home later that day I was on a mission to listen to LP. I went on iTunes and saw that those three songs were all off of ATS, so I decided to start there. The ones that I remember listening to the most were “Robot Boy” and “The Messenger” and those two convinced me buy ATS. I remember finding the CD at Target a few days later and my mom looking at me like I was insane for wanting to buy something by LP. I remember listening to it for the first time at two in the morning on June 6 and crying through pretty much the whole thing. After I listened to ATS I looked up other songs on YouTube. I don’t think that I’ve ever cried so much in my life because it’s like they were singing and rapping about the things that were going on in my head. But what I realized most was that I wasn’t the only one who was feeling the way I was. For the first time in three years I didn’t feel alone. I kept getting more and more into LP and my mom and dad didn’t understand it at all. My mom wasn’t very open minded about them but my dad eventually was. One day he asked if we could listen to ATS in the car on the way to school. So we did and he really liked it, which really surprised me. I kept up horseback riding and I kept digging myself even deeper into LP. Towards the end of September my parents bought me Adagio (I promise this is LP related) and I discovered something about him. He came to my trainer’s barn as a rescue, almost 500 pounds underweight, and nobody liked to ride him because he was a retired racehorse and liked to go faster than usual. I remember looking at him a little while after we had gotten him and not seeing this lost depressed look in his eye like I had four months earlier, but instead a small spark that was growing and wouldn’t stop. Again, I couldn’t help thinking of how in a way he was me in horse form. Then I started thinking of how he needed a show name (Adagio is his barn name and horses need something more unique when they are shown). LP song titles instantly started popping into my mind and eventually I narrowed it down to two, When They Come for Me and Iridescent. But my problem was that WTCFM described him really well because of certain lyrics but Iridescent described us together. Finally I just listened to both hoping that I could just pick. When I listened to WTCFM that time I didn’t feel anything, but before Mike even started singing the first verse of Iridescent I was crying because I knew that that was the only name that would ever work. But since discovering LP, I’ve not only learned so much about myself but I’ve gained a deeper appreciation for music and that just because a band appears to be “heavy metal screamo” it doesn’t mean that they are :)[/quote]
Too long a story for my tastes lol. Most likely could have shortened it xD.
I love these stories! tell me more 
I have already told u mine :)) But i agree the stories are nice :DD
I have already told u mine :)) But i agree the stories are nice :DD
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yes I remember your story
Oh yeah 
i have to admit that when i saw in the end for the first time it was not only the music that payed my attention… when i saw chester (with my 14 years then) i felt in love^^ at the beginning i was more fixed at the guy in the video than on the music… (i know it sounds stupid) so i think that chester made me fall in love with lp
Awww [biggrin]
[quote=Lauren]Ok so I know it’s a little long but every detail (in my opinion) is necessary and falling in love with LP was a slower process for me. It’s also longer because no one that I know likes LP (well besides my dad but he wouldn’t understand why I love them so much) and I figured that if anyone would understand it would be the LPU members. Also if anyone actually reads this whole thing just know that they forever have my respect.
My best friend died four years ago of brain cancer and I acted like it didn’t effect me at all, but it did. About that time I also began to realize how different I was from everybody else. I was born with no left ear, so I’m completely deaf on my left side and have limited hearing on my right. It had never really sunk in that everyone else could hear more than I could until my friend had died so it really just made me more depressed. About a year and a half later towards the end of my sixth grade year I came really close to ending everything but I heard a song by Taylor Swift called “Tied Together With a Smile” (I know I’m talking about Taylor Swift but it will all come back to LP, trust me) and something about it told me to hold on. So I did. A few months later I heard another song and it also convinced me to keep holding on for a little while longer (that little while turned into a year). Then in August of 2010 I saw the video for “The Catalyst” on VH1 Top 20 Countdown. At first I really didn’t like it, the song that is, but I loved the video. Long story short the song eventually grew on me but people in my life had pegged LP as a heavy metal screamo band so I really didn’t want to get into them, plus I wasn’t a big fan of rap. Then in October came the video for “Waiting for the End.” I loved that song from the very beginning and for some reason I didn’t consider Mike’s rapping rap, probably because I actually liked it. But I still didn’t dig any deeper into LP. Then about a year ago I noticed that a band that I got into shortly after Taylor Swift began changing and it wasn’t the good type of change. The last semester of eighth grade was really hard on me. I remember coming home and crying a lot and no music that I was currently into was doing any good for me like it did before. By the time eighth grade graduation came around I had two people that were my friends, but they didn’t understand what it felt like to have someone one day and then have them ripped away from you the next. They also didn’t get how stupid you could feel because you had to ask someone to repeat what they just said three or four times just to somewhat understand what they were trying to say. I remember sitting up on that stage, looking around at the forty some faces that I couldn’t stand, and feeling so alone. One of the things that I did when I was younger was horseback riding. I started at about age three but then quit when I was eight because I wanted a horse and my parents wouldn’t get me one (I promise this will tie into LP). So about a week before graduation I decided to pick it back up again because I thought that it would get my mind off of the negative, which it did. So shortly after graduation the music video for “Iridescent” came on MTV. I remember feeling shocked that a “screamo” band could come out with something thing like that. As soon as it was done I went up to my room and watched it on YouTube. By the time Chester was done singing the chorus for the first time, I was in tears, and by the time the song was done I was crying so hard because I realized that the only way I could get past everything was by letting it go. After watching the video a few times I began to realize that maybe they weren’t just a screamo band. A few days later it was time for my second riding lesson. This time I was riding a pretty big horse named Adagio. I remember looking into his eyes while grooming him and seeing that something about him was missing. He just had this blank, lost, almost depressed look in his eyes. I felt like I was looking at a horse version of me. Anyway fast forward a bit, all during that hour of riding Adagio I couldn’t stop thinking of “Iridescent” and how I felt like it described him also. When I got home later that day I was on a mission to listen to LP. I went on iTunes and saw that those three songs were all off of ATS, so I decided to start there. The ones that I remember listening to the most were “Robot Boy” and “The Messenger” and those two convinced me buy ATS. I remember finding the CD at Target a few days later and my mom looking at me like I was insane for wanting to buy something by LP. I remember listening to it for the first time at two in the morning on June 6 and crying through pretty much the whole thing. After I listened to ATS I looked up other songs on YouTube. I don’t think that I’ve ever cried so much in my life because it’s like they were singing and rapping about the things that were going on in my head. But what I realized most was that I wasn’t the only one who was feeling the way I was. For the first time in three years I didn’t feel alone. I kept getting more and more into LP and my mom and dad didn’t understand it at all. My mom wasn’t very open minded about them but my dad eventually was. One day he asked if we could listen to ATS in the car on the way to school. So we did and he really liked it, which really surprised me. I kept up horseback riding and I kept digging myself even deeper into LP. Towards the end of September my parents bought me Adagio (I promise this is LP related) and I discovered something about him. He came to my trainer’s barn as a rescue, almost 500 pounds underweight, and nobody liked to ride him because he was a retired racehorse and liked to go faster than usual. I remember looking at him a little while after we had gotten him and not seeing this lost depressed look in his eye like I had four months earlier, but instead a small spark that was growing and wouldn’t stop. Again, I couldn’t help thinking of how in a way he was me in horse form. Then I started thinking of how he needed a show name (Adagio is his barn name and horses need something more unique when they are shown). LP song titles instantly started popping into my mind and eventually I narrowed it down to two, When They Come for Me and Iridescent. But my problem was that WTCFM described him really well because of certain lyrics but Iridescent described us together. Finally I just listened to both hoping that I could just pick. When I listened to WTCFM that time I didn’t feel anything, but before Mike even started singing the first verse of Iridescent I was crying because I knew that that was the only name that would ever work. But since discovering LP, I’ve not only learned so much about myself but I’ve gained a deeper appreciation for music and that just because a band appears to be “heavy metal screamo” it doesn’t mean that they are :)[/quote]
Almost cried myself while reading some parts. Welcome to the LPU family [heart]
Well, I was maybe 12 years-old when a friend lend me his Hybrid Theory album. I’ve listened it one shot, all of the songs. I fell totally in love with their unique kind of music. The combination lyrics/vocals/instrumentals is just so perfect, so amazing ! The way they create from A to Z their music…I love that so much !
I still enjoy the way their music evolves.
Well since that day, I’m a crazy FAN of LP [mrgreen]
think it was in 2000, I was 14 years-old. I was on my computer in the basement, and TV was open on MuchMusic channel. Then, I hear One step Closer play ont TV…since that, I buy all their CDs and never got bored of them!!!
I have been a LP fan for a long time but I only had Hybrid Theory and Meteora on my computer because my ex copied them for me and I only would really listen to a few songs off each album and not really pay attention to the rest and the only songs I knew from Minutes To Midnight were Bleed it Out and What I’ve Done. But one day I was listening to my iPod and put on Hybrid Theory and I actually just sat and listened to the whole album from start to finish, then the same with Meteora and I thought “wow, this is amazing, I have missed out on so much” I just fell in love with their music straight away because all the songs said everything I was thinking, everything I wanted to say and how I felt and I wish I had of discovered LP sooner. so from there I went out and got physical copies of all four albums and well now I’m an LPU member . So I pretty much became a big fan overnight after knowing about LP for years!
[quote=Lauren]Ok so I know it’s a little long but every detail (in my opinion) is necessary and falling in love with LP was a slower process for me. It’s also longer because no one that I know likes LP (well besides my dad but he wouldn’t understand why I love them so much) and I figured that if anyone would understand it would be the LPU members. Also if anyone actually reads this whole thing just know that they forever have my respect.
My best friend died four years ago of brain cancer and I acted like it didn’t effect me at all, but it did. About that time I also began to realize how different I was from everybody else. I was born with no left ear, so I’m completely deaf on my left side and have limited hearing on my right. It had never really sunk in that everyone else could hear more than I could until my friend had died so it really just made me more depressed. About a year and a half later towards the end of my sixth grade year I came really close to ending everything but I heard a song by Taylor Swift called “Tied Together With a Smile” (I know I’m talking about Taylor Swift but it will all come back to LP, trust me) and something about it told me to hold on. So I did. A few months later I heard another song and it also convinced me to keep holding on for a little while longer (that little while turned into a year). Then in August of 2010 I saw the video for “The Catalyst” on VH1 Top 20 Countdown. At first I really didn’t like it, the song that is, but I loved the video. Long story short the song eventually grew on me but people in my life had pegged LP as a heavy metal screamo band so I really didn’t want to get into them, plus I wasn’t a big fan of rap. Then in October came the video for “Waiting for the End.” I loved that song from the very beginning and for some reason I didn’t consider Mike’s rapping rap, probably because I actually liked it. But I still didn’t dig any deeper into LP. Then about a year ago I noticed that a band that I got into shortly after Taylor Swift began changing and it wasn’t the good type of change. The last semester of eighth grade was really hard on me. I remember coming home and crying a lot and no music that I was currently into was doing any good for me like it did before. By the time eighth grade graduation came around I had two people that were my friends, but they didn’t understand what it felt like to have someone one day and then have them ripped away from you the next. They also didn’t get how stupid you could feel because you had to ask someone to repeat what they just said three or four times just to somewhat understand what they were trying to say. I remember sitting up on that stage, looking around at the forty some faces that I couldn’t stand, and feeling so alone. One of the things that I did when I was younger was horseback riding. I started at about age three but then quit when I was eight because I wanted a horse and my parents wouldn’t get me one (I promise this will tie into LP). So about a week before graduation I decided to pick it back up again because I thought that it would get my mind off of the negative, which it did. So shortly after graduation the music video for “Iridescent” came on MTV. I remember feeling shocked that a “screamo” band could come out with something thing like that. As soon as it was done I went up to my room and watched it on YouTube. By the time Chester was done singing the chorus for the first time, I was in tears, and by the time the song was done I was crying so hard because I realized that the only way I could get past everything was by letting it go. After watching the video a few times I began to realize that maybe they weren’t just a screamo band. A few days later it was time for my second riding lesson. This time I was riding a pretty big horse named Adagio. I remember looking into his eyes while grooming him and seeing that something about him was missing. He just had this blank, lost, almost depressed look in his eyes. I felt like I was looking at a horse version of me. Anyway fast forward a bit, all during that hour of riding Adagio I couldn’t stop thinking of “Iridescent” and how I felt like it described him also. When I got home later that day I was on a mission to listen to LP. I went on iTunes and saw that those three songs were all off of ATS, so I decided to start there. The ones that I remember listening to the most were “Robot Boy” and “The Messenger” and those two convinced me buy ATS. I remember finding the CD at Target a few days later and my mom looking at me like I was insane for wanting to buy something by LP. I remember listening to it for the first time at two in the morning on June 6 and crying through pretty much the whole thing. After I listened to ATS I looked up other songs on YouTube. I don’t think that I’ve ever cried so much in my life because it’s like they were singing and rapping about the things that were going on in my head. But what I realized most was that I wasn’t the only one who was feeling the way I was. For the first time in three years I didn’t feel alone. I kept getting more and more into LP and my mom and dad didn’t understand it at all. My mom wasn’t very open minded about them but my dad eventually was. One day he asked if we could listen to ATS in the car on the way to school. So we did and he really liked it, which really surprised me. I kept up horseback riding and I kept digging myself even deeper into LP. Towards the end of September my parents bought me Adagio (I promise this is LP related) and I discovered something about him. He came to my trainer’s barn as a rescue, almost 500 pounds underweight, and nobody liked to ride him because he was a retired racehorse and liked to go faster than usual. I remember looking at him a little while after we had gotten him and not seeing this lost depressed look in his eye like I had four months earlier, but instead a small spark that was growing and wouldn’t stop. Again, I couldn’t help thinking of how in a way he was me in horse form. Then I started thinking of how he needed a show name (Adagio is his barn name and horses need something more unique when they are shown). LP song titles instantly started popping into my mind and eventually I narrowed it down to two, When They Come for Me and Iridescent. But my problem was that WTCFM described him really well because of certain lyrics but Iridescent described us together. Finally I just listened to both hoping that I could just pick. When I listened to WTCFM that time I didn’t feel anything, but before Mike even started singing the first verse of Iridescent I was crying because I knew that that was the only name that would ever work. But since discovering LP, I’ve not only learned so much about myself but I’ve gained a deeper appreciation for music and that just because a band appears to be “heavy metal screamo” it doesn’t mean that they are :)[/quote]
Ok Lauren, so i’ve read it all. Your story really moved me. Hope you feel welcome in the LPU family
I also fell in love withe song In The End me and my brother heard it on MTV when it came out and we both loved it so much.
But as time passed my brother got addictet of HipHop and i was more in the Metalscene.
Then a few years ago i realized, that most Metal is crap and i started to listen to other music again.
My brother and me once burned a CD with some LP songs and when i started listening to other stuff again, i searched for it and found it again
But u know, there were so many other bands i had to hear (and think it’s still not what I was searching for) until i finally re-discovered LP about half a year ago. I heard all their stuff and i loved it like so much, because the lyrics are just like the stuff i write.
funny story about that:
I wanted to write sth and i was listening to random songs of LP i haven’t heard yet and while writing Across The Line came and i was just writing the line “she’s pulling her weapon to her side” when Chester sang “he’s pulling his weapon to his side”, without knowing the song before. it was absolutely unbeliveable, weird, magic and superawesome. all at once.
These stories are so great! It’s so fun to think how from that moment she/he started to listen LP!
I love the combination of different musik styles like rock, rap, nu metal elektro and so on. I think LP is unique each character of the band members is likeable and the sound of the songs are awesome. Lp is for me the perfect band. The reason why i hear lp is probably that my big brother was a lp fan since the first days and then i listen together with him.
I heard the song Numb, I am very pleased that song. After I saw the video, I was struck by execution of Chester. From that moment on, I love Linkin Park. short and clear
I fell in love when I heard Numb/Encore,especially Chester´s part.His voice was the main reason,the second reason was that rap/rock mix that they were doing,because at the time I listened to rap mostly.And then lyrics were so strong,I found myself in them…
i dont remember how it happend i fell in love with them…
stupid memory… sad because it hasnt been that long ago… anyway
i guess once i realized their music is about the hard truth and they make me feel like at somebody understands me , i got addicted