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| Minutes to Midnight | 
 enlarge | Artist: Linkin Park
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 1986
Format: Clean
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 123004
UPC: 093624998334
EAN: 0093624998334
ASIN: B000OCXMAO
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new sealed. In stock in our warehouse, and ships right now. 20% chance the case has a crack or two.
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| Tracks:
| • | Wake | | • | Given Up | | • | Leave Out All The Rest | | • | Bleed It Out | | • | Shadow Of The Day | | • | What I've Done | | • | Hands Held High | | • | No More Sorrow | | • | Valentine's Day | | • | In Between | | • | In Pieces | | • | The Little Things Give You Away |
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Album Description
"Minutes to Midnight" is rock's most anticipated album of the year. This album redefines one of today's most adventurous, accomplished and acclaimed bands.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Um you haven't heard the real album April 4, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
In response to the other reviews who have crapped all over the new LP album, you haven't heard the real album. There are numerous fakes being thrown across the internet. Mike Shinoda is still the rapper, and chester doesn't sound grungy, he still sounds like chester. If you listen to the first single off the album, what i've done, you can hear the electronic overtones. And they don't use the acoustic guitar either. So please, before you trash the album, make sure you aren't fooled by the fakes. Give me a break.
"Runaway and open up your mind....." May 18, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
On May 4, 2007, "Minutes to Midnight", Linkin Park's fifth official album was leaked. Minutes To Midnight, revolving around the concept of the notorious doomsday clock, molds a new image to be branded onto the name 'Linkin Park'. Before this release, Linkin Park was known for their catchy drop d guitar chords, undeniably muscular choruses, and articulate raps dealing with the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Linkin Park's very first demo was released in 1997, before the band was even known as Linkin Park. Ten years have passed, and a new formula has been invented and finely executed.
Minutes To Midnight is the definition of what one may call an audible odyssey, taking the listener on a roller coaster of a ride, but somehow managing to stay on track and not lose focus of what the concept of the album is all about. Ten years has passed and through these years, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda's lyrical landscape has expanded to concepts listeners have never been exposed to. Several songs (No More Sorrow, The Little Things Give You Away, Hands Held High, and the first single 'What I've Done') encompass a political message. Unlike many rock bands today, Linkin Park decides to leave out their own agenda, and leaves one with a myriad of issues to think about and to make their own judgments.
Most noticeably different on this record is the fine addition of ballads and power ballads, a musical corridor Linkin Park has been hesitant to explore in the past. Luckily, Linkin Park does it quite well. Chester Bennington's transitional legacy as one of metal's most admired screamers and one of rock's finest singers is not omitted on this album. Rob Bourdon, already exposed as an extraordinary drummer, took his skills to the next level on this album. Also, with the assistance of Rick Ruben as producer, Dave Farrell aka Phoenix's bass lines are skillfully complex, loud, and clear, adding yet another new dimension to their tunes. The drop d guitar chords have all been put to rest, as beautiful guitar notes make their way onto virtually every track off of this album. And yes, they have in fact implemented guitar solos that transition beautifully into every song.
This will be Linkin Park's first album that has a Parental Advisory slapped on it. Although unnecessary, the Parental Advisory sticker is no indicator whatsoever of a curse-filled album. The F bomb gets dropped a few times on one track and a few other curses made their way onto two other tracks, but other than that, every track is clean as a whistle. Rumor had it that Mike Shinoda would no longer be providing a hip-hop insight on this album. While this is partially true, he sings, yes sings, on one track ("In Between") all by himself, he has a rap track all to himself delving into political issues using vocabulary and issues that many listeners will be left opening history books to. There is one song that instills the old Linkin Park formula ("Bleed It Out"), just as a reminder that they have not eradicated their roots.
All-in-all, this record will by far be Linkin Park's biggest adult audience-targeted album. The band has noticeably matured through their instrumentation, lyrical masterpieces, and thought-provoking sounds and images. A few months ago, asked about what he could say about the new sound on the new album, Linkin Park co-frontman Chester Bennington boldly stated, "The way we've been classified, and how people think they know us, that's all going to die." No lies were told when that statement was made. Without a doubt, when Minutes To Midnight is released on May 15, 2007, they will once again conquer the rock arena, raking in a new slew of fans, the more mature thinkers of today.
Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight - 5 out of 5 stars.
 Hmm.....what happened? April 3, 2007
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
I had the great fortune(or rather mis-fortune) of hearing Linkin Park's new album, "Minutes to Midnight", before it is going to be released...and lets say that I was not impressed, and very suprised.
While it is natural for true artists to evolve their musical sound in conjunction with the personal life evolutions that we all encounter, the evolutions that Linkin Park embody on "Minutes to Midnight" are not for the better, but in actuality for the worse.
Many, many fans will be utterly suprised, and some will even be turned off at the "new" sound of Linkin Park.
Let me break it down like this:
As soon as you hear the first track, you will notice that something is different. Gone are the electronic overtones that pervaded all of Linkin Parks other releases. And the guitars, they are calmer, more radio friendly(as if Linkin Park was not radio friendly enough!). Then, when you hear Chester's voice, if you are like me, you will cringe with pain.
For some reason, Chester seems to have ditched the singing lessons for a more rugged grunge style sound. It sounds HORRIBLE. Memories of Silverchair and Pearl Jam spring to mind, though Chester is NOT on those levels of talent. His voice is both cheesy sounding and way too under-developed for this type of singing, not to mention it reeks of emulation.
He even took over the rapping duties, and their original rapper is no where to be found. Sadly, Chester's rapping sounds like a mix between Fred Durst and Vanilla Ice, and is rathe drab and not creative at all, and sounds like much filler.
The music is rather simplified as well, almost as if the band has de-evolved instead of evolved. Guitar riffs are simple and generic at best, as are the drums and the bass. Acoustic guitar is used much more frequently on this album, but it neither sounds good nor creative. The electric guitar work and the riffs emulate 90's grunge rock and other such styles that have already been done to death.
Seriously, this album is bad beyond bad. They did it right by trying something different, but what they are trying has already been done before, and all of their efforts to sound different have only made them sound the same.
I admit, that when I first heard Linkin Park way back in the day, I didn't like them at all. They sounded like spoiled, angry suburbanites who mixed rap/rock and electronic elements to form another brand of NU-Metal. Gradually, over a period of 5-6 years, I grew more of an appreciation for them, enjoying their blend of hip hop/rock and electronic. They actually had something somewhat original with their first style. This new style is completely unoriginal and weak sounding.
All in all though, one does have to keep in mind that from the start, Linkin Park has always sounded like a band that was "put-together" by money grubbing producers in the same vein of NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, so after making truck loads of money in the Rap/Metal industry, why not try their hand in the grunge area? Makes sense I guess...
 Who is this again? March 30, 2007
3 out of 23 found this review helpful
All I can say from is after every track, I would say to myself "This CAN'T be Linkin Park". Slow melodies were all over the track with a sound that showed no signs of speeding up. The vocals have changed alot too. This CD is like they took a whole new direction and I don't know if it's a good direction yet. I have to listen to it a little more and hope it grows on me. I fyou plan on buying this CD because you love Linkin Park's music, then I suggest you listen to a few samples before a blind purchase.
Awesome April 3, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Pre- order this cd b/c you already know it's going to be a great one. It's been four long years since the last Lp cd dropped and the release of the single what i've done gives you a small peak at how amazing the rest of the cd is going to be!!!
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