Listen a little more closely to Meteora, and you'll notice the striking similarities to Hybrid Theory. Each track on Meteora has the exact same chord progression, structure, meter, and even harmony of one of the tracks on Hybrid Theory (the exception to this is Nobody's Listening, which I will give them credit as being original ). This similarity is most blatant in the final two tracks on each album, which are not only essentially the same song, but the same track number as well. "Session" and "Cure for the Itch" are so similar that you could probably juxtapose the two and nobody would even notice. "Numb" feels like they just took "Pushing Me Away" and rewrote some of the lyrics. It follows the same beat pattern to a T, the approaches to the chorus are identical (even in the notes. Couldn't they at least pick a different key?), and the musical bridges are basically cut and pasted.

Perhaps I exaggerated when I said 4. In truth it's only 3 of the same album.

Now please, don't take offense to what I am saying. The beautiful thing about music is that we are all entitled to an opinion, and mine is not any more valid than yours or anyone else's. Having known me personally, you should know better than anyone Rudy that I am not to be taken seriously, and that my jabs at your band are more for sport than anything else. I actually liked Linkin Park's first album, I liked Collision Course, and I think their newer stuff is alright (not great, but at least it deviated a bit from their previous sounds).

Thank you, at least, for giving me an intelligent rebuttal. Usually when I disagree with people they are like "AMAGA U SUX LP RULZ". We need to have another conversation about football soon. It's refreshing .