Linkin Park - Reanimation(WEA, 2002)
The industry has sunk to a new confounded low. Technically, I shouldn't even review this, since it really isn't rock anymore (read: electronica), but I feel I have a duty to warn the prospective buyer of the corporate lie that is Linkin Park. What better way to dupe your fans into thinking you as a group are still vital, while completely ingnoring the fact that you've suffered writer's coma, then to release a whole "new" album of sub-par remixes of the first collection of garbage.
This empty release comes two whole years after the undeserved smash hit of a debut (got nothing left to say?). The verdict is in, the sentence has been passed: any fleeting notion of life in this band has been crushed under a heeping pile of synthesizers and drum machines. These remixes actually manage to be worse than the first material, which was awful to begin with. This motley crew of brats have completely trashed their credibility as a rock band, as if they had it to begin with, and instead have taken back seat to the technology. And the fans bit the bait too, since this album seems to be selling like mad. Linkin Park is now out of mediocre ideas. What's next, a Linkin Park tribute album? Too late, it already happened. Wow, somebody shut these guys up with a nice hundred foot drop from their record label.
Rating: 0/5