Five Minutes To Live - Barnshakers

Advantages: Great CD, lots of great songs on it
Disadvantages: not exactly what linkin park fans are used to

...Minutes 2 Midnight was released on the 14th May 2007. Minutes to Midnight is named after the doomsday clock that measures how close society is to wiping itself out through war and other selfish acts. This album was different than the others because the music became more mellowed out, still alternative rock but just in a different way. Hybrid Theory and Meteora the two most popular previous albums were full of screaming lyrics and rapping however this album has Chester (the lead singer) is singing more and there is slower music in most of the album. So heres the song list: 1. Wake This is just a short instrumental at the start of the album as kind of an introduction to the CD. It is slow paced and nice to listen to. It sounds like at the start a needle being put onto a record track and then there is piano playing slowing, getting... Read review

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Advantages: It makes you appreciate the old Linkin Park
Disadvantages: The old Linkin Park is gone

...continue to appreciate a catalogue of past releases. Six little known Linkin Park Underground albums, available from the band's official fan club, are much more deserving of the promotion platform given to Minutes to Midnight. In conclusion I will not let this album tarnish my memory of Linkin Park and neither should you. I still have four LP albums playing regularly on my iPod. In fact, as I wrote this review, I've listened to, and greatly enjoyed, Live in Texas. Anybody who is a fan of the Hybrid Theory era will not make it to the end of this album without wanting to shoot themselves or their CD player. I'm so disappointed in Linkin Park. I expected more, much more, from a band who wrote the soundtrack to my teenage years. I'm afraid I can't justify recommending this album to anyone, let alone Linkin Park fans, and for such I'm giving... Read review

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Advantages: The title of the album rocks, This terrible sellout lasts 'only' 43 minutes.
Disadvantages: It lasts !!43!! Minutes, every song is horrible, theire new logo sucks too.

...I can honestly not understand why they went THIS mainstream, and became so popular by selling out theire old style with this commercial bogus! I was full of hope, new Linkin Park album, this should rock ( I had Somewhere I Belong in the back of my mind ). Soft kiddy rock, or should I just call it what it is, mainstream POP. I laughed my butt off, it is sad that Linkin Park has become like this, and they lost a lot of fans with this sell out. 'What I've Done' Is being used in commercials, The other songs that are even worse, and the ?Ballad? They made is truely to get sick of. He has the voice of a screamer, so he should not sing something deep on a slow pace, it is disgusting to hear. - 'Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight' is officially the biggest sell out and dissapointment of 2007.... Read review

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