Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory [2000]

June 30th, 2008

This album’s “hybrid” is that of hard rock, hip-hop vocals/rhythms and electronic and industrial beats. Some bands couldn’t make it work–they couldn’t blend all of these elements. And some bands’ song writing strucure (soft verse, hard chorus) would stick out like a sore thumb. But Linkin Park do it correctly. The verses (often with hip-hop vocals) flow so smoothly into the hard rock parts. The key ingredient here is a great DJ, who does more than the random scratch. He is what makes it so fluid, so you can barely tell when the verse ends and the chorus begins.