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Linkin Park – In the End
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“In the End” is mainly based on one person’s failure.
Its most possible meaning is that it’s about time wasted on trying to build a relationship with a girl who doesn’t want to be
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Linkin Park – Fighting Myself
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“Fighting Myself” is a song from the Meteora recording sessions that was officially released as the second pre-release song from the 20th Anniversary Edition of Meteora. Originally
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Linkin Park – Battle Symphony
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“Battle Symphony” is about personal conflict, focusing on the sensation of hearing voices inside your head as if they were a symphony.
Produced by Brad Delson & Mike Shinoda, the
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Linkin Park – Numb
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“Numb” is the third single and the final track of Linkin Park’s second studio album, Meteora.
One of Linkin Park’s most well known and critically acclaimed songs, “Numb” topped
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Linkin Park – Breaking the Habit
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“Breaking the Habit” is the fifth and final single on Linkin Park’s 2003 album, Meteora.
Mike Shinoda wrote the track, inspired by his friend’s drug addiction.
Chester
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Linkin Park – Papercut
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“Papercut” is the first song off Linkin Park’s first album, Hybrid Theory.
It is one of their most well known songs. However, it wasn’t officially released as a single in the U.S.
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Linkin Park – Bleed It Out
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“Bleed It Out” is the 4th track off of Linkin Park’s 3rd studio album, “Minutes to Midnight”. It is also the second single released on June 30, 2007.
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Linkin Park – Shadow of the Day
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“Shadow of the Day” is the fifth track of Linkin Park’s third studio album Minutes to Midnight.
The song is about someone who is about to die. It’s hard to let that person go…but
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Linkin Park – One More Light
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“One More Light” is the eponymous song on this album. Mike Shinoda sat down to describe the song in an interview with Zach Sang:
The song, “One More Light”, was actually, it’s
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Linkin Park – Valentine's Day
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The song is about separation from a loved one – and thus having to spend Valentine’s day in solitude.
Other themes of the song include burial and death, and therefore there is some
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Linkin Park (Ft. Pusha T & Stormzy) – Good Goodbye
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Linkin Park’s collaboration with Pusha T and Stormzy is partially inspired by Mike Shinoda’s love of basketball. The song uses fouling out of a game as metaphor for the end of a
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Linkin Park – Lost
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“Lost” is a song from the Meteora recording sessions that was officially released on February 10th, 2023 as the first pre-release song from the 20th Anniversary Edition of Meteora.
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Linkin Park – Forgotten
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“Forgotten” is one of the very first songs the band ever wrote. Formerly known as “Rhinestone”, it was featured along with three other tracks on the Xero demo tape (recorded in
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Linkin Park – Pictureboard
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Considered a “holy grail” for Linkin Park fans, “Pictureboard” is a song by Linkin Park that created a myth surrounding it due to mentions of it from Mike Shinoda during fan
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Linkin Park – BURN IT DOWN
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“Burn It Down” is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was released to radio stations as well as a digital download on April 16, 2012, as the lead single from their
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Linkin Park – From the Inside
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“From the Inside” is Linkin Park’s fourth single and tenth track on their Meteora record.
Dave “Phoenix” Farrell came up with the original guitar idea for this song while
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Linkin Park – Pushing Me Away
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“Pushing Me Away” is the twelfth and closing track on Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory and deals with strong themes of unbreakable relationships, and coming back to that
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Linkin Park – Leave Out All the Rest
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Leave Out All the Rest is the third track on “Minutes to Midnight”, Linkin Park’s fifth studio release. The demo of the song, Fear, was released on LP Underground 9.0. The single
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Linkin Park – Fallout
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The lyrics on “Fallout” are the same as “Burning In The Skies”, the third track on “A Thousand Suns”. The lyrics are sung by Mike Shinoda into a vocoder, producing a robotic tone
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Linkin Park (Ft. Kiiara) – Heavy
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“Heavy” centers around the emotional weight of fixating on oneself. It is the first single from Linkin Park’s seventh studio album.
Chester Bennington said in an interview with
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Linkin Park – Easier to Run
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“Easier to Run” is the sixth track off of Linkin Park’s second album, Meteora.
Rob’s playing on this track is extraordinary. He found a way to make this complex drum pattern sound
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Linkin Park – Don't Stay
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This track is a subliminal diss aimed at their old label management who tried to destroy them.
Some songs where Mike talks about this are: “Get Me Gone”, “High Road” and “Hit The
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Linkin Park – Sorry for Now
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A song from the other side of Fort Minor’s “Where’d You Go,” “Sorry For Now” is about the sacrifices that Mike’s kids can’t quite understand yet. He doesn’t want to constantly be
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Linkin Park – Waiting for the End
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This is the second single of A Thousand Suns (2010). “Waiting for the End” was unlike anything they’d ever released, achieving this through Mike Shinoda’s reggae-esque delivery of
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Linkin Park – Runaway
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Runaway is the 6th track on Linkin Park’s debut album Hybrid Theory.
Basically, it describes what someone can feel when he or she feels that is tortured by society and simply
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Linkin Park – Iridescent
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The band’s fourth and final single off A Thousand Suns. It’s a “rock ballad about HOPE amongst chaos and sadness” according to the band.
Joe Hahn, the band’s turntablist, who
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Linkin Park – One Step Closer
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“One Step Closer” was the first single release off Hybrid Theory, as well as Linkin Park’s very first single overall. It has become one of Linkin Park’s biggest hits, being played
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Linkin Park – A Place for My Head
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This song is from the perspective of someone who is related to people they can’t relate to, and wants to be in a place where people won’t try to manipulate them, and can understand
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Linkin Park – The Little Things Give You Away
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This is the closing track from Linkin Park’s third studio album Minutes to Midnight. This song is allegedly about the devastation wreaked on New Orleans by the hurricane Katrina
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Linkin Park – With You
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“With You” is the third song off of Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory, and is one of their beginning rap-rock mixes that helped them to push the mix of rap and rock in the
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Linkin Park – Points of Authority
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“Points of Authority” is the fourth song off of Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory, and talks about a toxic, abusive relationship.
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Linkin Park – The Messenger
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“The Messenger” is the fifteenth and final track off the album, A Thousand Suns. It serves as a distinct closer to the album, removing the electronic influence prevalent in the
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JAY-Z & Linkin Park – Big Pimpin' / Papercut
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This track is from the Collision Course album, containing 6 mashups between Jay-Z and Linkin Park songs.
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Linkin Park – Talking to Myself
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First premiered at the Maximus Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 6th of May 2017, Talking To Myself is the third track off One More Light.
This song is primarily aimed at
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Linkin Park – Blue (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo)
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[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda] / In the dark days, I'll part ways with the blame / Trying to maintain, but it's still all the same / It's all a game, hear my name in the rain / And the
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Linkin Park – New Divide
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This song is the music of Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen
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Linkin Park – Sharp Edges
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Despite the uplifting, poppy melody and the folk-inspired instrumentation that accompanies this song, Sharp Edges is lyrically a wistful reminiscence where Chester recounts the
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Linkin Park – Crawling
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The 5th track on Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory. It won a Grammy in 2002 for Best Hard Rock Performance.
The song alternates between rap-sung lyrics by Mike Shinoda and
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Linkin Park (Ft. Rakim) – Guilty All the Same
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The third track on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, “Guilty All the Same” is about how people like to play the blame game and point out mistakes in others and
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Linkin Park – War
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The most punk rock influenced song on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album – The Hunting Party, “War” hammers home a message of all the cruelties, atrocities and barbarities of war.
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