...news...


ok i dont think this is exactly the image LP is going for...they are far from teenybopper material but COSMOgirl! is having a "Survival of the Sexiest" contest to pick who will be on their next cover...chester bennington of course is a nominee...so go to COSMOgirl!.com to vote


...links...


the official linkin park site
another site called a place for my head
Linkin Park Street Soldier: an awesome LP site...check it out!

...comments...


every once in a while there is a song that hits you right at the core...they seem to be telling the story of your life...like they are right inside your head...this is what almost everything by linkin park is to mee...the whole cd is like one of those rare songs that evokes some kind of kindred emotion in you when you listen to it...

i dont write all too well and anyone who knows mee knows i cant sing for shit, but i think that sometimes it is as theraputic to write a song about how you feel as it is to listen to one that seems to put into words what you just wish you had the ability to express...hybrid theory is one of if not THE best cd ive ever heard...its gotten mee through some rough times...its just amazing from any angle you look at it...the lyrics, the sound, the vibe, the emotion, the live performace...they seem like such nice guys too (i got autographs at DFP and got to talk to them for a minute...they were so nice to all the fans)and it doesnt hurt that they are all beautiful...=)

so go out to your favorite record store and BUY IT!

...bio...


Linkin Park is:
 Chester Bennington – vocals

Rob Bourdon – drums

Brad Delson – guitar

Joseph Hahn – DJ/samples

Mike Shinoda - vocals


Linkin Park is a band that brings a whole new genre of music to the already enormous metal scene. With little sparks of Korn, Taproot, Staind and Filter mixed into their style, no band does it better. With definite similarities of the infectious grooves of Korn, smooth vocals of Taproot, the raw passion of Staind and the brutality of Filter, Linkin Park is our future. Blending hardcore, rock, hip-hop, and industrial, Linkin Park has established a sound that is difficult to classify, and even more difficult to top.

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, formerly known as Hybrid Theory, these five men describe their music as "a constantly evolving experiment." "Our goal is to bring seemingly distant elements together," says Mike Shinoda, describing Linkin Park’s sound.

Since its creation 1996, the band has attracted a diverse and dedicated following due to the efforts of hundreds of street teamers across the country. Friends since school, Linkin Park is Rob Bourdon (drums), Brad Delson (guitar), Joe Hahn (turntables), Mike Shinoda (vocals), and Chester Bennington (vocals).
i stole this bio from musiceffect.com but it doesnt say a word about phoenix....what the hell?!
...lyrics...


Linkin Park:
Hybrid Theory: Lyrics

 01: PAPERCUT:
02: ONE STEP CLOSER:
03: WITH YOU:
04: POINTS OF AUTHORITY:
05: CRAWLING:
06: RUNAWAY:
07: BY MYSELF:
08: IN THE END:
09: A PLACE FOR MY HEAD:
10: FORGOTTEN:
11: CURE FOR THE ITCH:
12: PUSHING ME AWAY:
01: PAPERCUT:


Why does it feel like night today? 
Something in here's not right today. 
Why am I so uptight today? 
Paranoia's all I got left 
I don't know what stressed me first 
Or how the pressure was fed 
But I know just what it feels like 
To have a voice in the back of my head 
It's like a face that I hold inside 
A face that awakes when I close my eyes 
A face watches every time I lie 
A face that laughs every time I fall 
(And watches everything) 
So I know that when it's time to sink or swim 
That the face inside is hearing me 
Right underneath my skin 


It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back 
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head 
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within 
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin 


I know I've got a face in me 
Points out all my mistakes to me 
You've got a face on the inside too and 
Your paranoia's probably worse 
I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand 
Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is 
I can't add up to what you can but 
Everybody has a face that they hold inside 
A face that awakes when I close my eyes 
A face watches every time they lie 
A face that laughs every time they fall 
(And watches everything) 
So you know that when it's time to sink or swim 
That the face inside is watching you too 
Right inside your skin 


Chorus 


The face inside is right beneath your skin (3x) 


The sun goes down 
I feel the light betray me (Repeat until end) 


Chorus (Repeat until end)


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02: ONE STEP CLOSER:


I cannot take this anymore 
I'm saying everything I've said before 
All these words they make no sense 
I find bliss in ignorance 
Less I hear the less you'll say 
But you'll find that out anyway 
Just like before... 

Everything you say to me 
Takes me one step closer to the edge 
And I'm about to break 
I need a little room to breathe 
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge 
And I'm about to break 

I find the answers aren't so clear 
Wish I could find a way to disappear 
All these thoughts they make no sense 
I find bliss in ignorance 
Nothing seems to go away 
Over and over again 

shut up when I'm talking to you 


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03: WITH YOU:


I woke up in a dream today 
To the cold of the static / and put my cold feet on the floor 
Forgot all about yesterday 
Remembering I’m pretending to be where I’m not anymore 
A little taste of hypocrisy 
And I’m left in the wake of the mistake / slow to react 
Even though you’re so close to me 
You’re still so distant / And I can’t bring you back 
It’s true / the way I feel 
Was promised by your face 
The sound of your voice 
Painted on my memories 
Even if you’re not with me 
I’m with you 
You / Now I see/ keeping everything inside 
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes 
I hit you and you hit me back 
We fall to the floor / the rest of the day stands still 
Fine line between this and that 
When things go wrong I pretend the past isn’t real 
Now I'm trapped in this memory 
And I’m left in the wake of the mistake / slow to react 
Even though you’re close to me 
You’re still so distant / And I can’t bring you back 
no 
No matter how far we've come 
I can't wait to see tomorrow 
With you 



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04: POINTS OF AUTHORITY:


Forfeit the game / Before somebody else 
Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame 
Cover up your face / You can’t run the race 
The pace is too fast / You just can’t last 

You love the way I look at you 
While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through 
You take away if I give in 
My life 
My pride is broken 

You love the things I say I’ll do- 
The way I’ll hurt myself again just to get back at you 
You take away when I give in / my life 
My pride is broken 

You like to think you’re never wrong 
You want to act like you’re someone 
You want someone to hurt like you 
You want to share what you’ve been through 
(You live what you learn) 



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05: CRAWLING:


Crawling in my skin 
These wounds / they will not heal 
Fear is how I fall 
Confusing what is real 

There’s something inside me that pulls beneath the surface 
Consuming / confusing 
This lack of self control I fear is never ending 
Controlling / I can’t seem 
To find myself again 
My walls are closing in 
[Without a sense of confidence / I’m convinced 
there's just too much pressure to take] 
I’ve felt this way before 
So insecure 

Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me 
Distracting / reacting 
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection 
It’s haunting how I can’t seem 
To find myself again 
My walls are closing in 
[Without a sense of confidence / I’m convinced 
there's just too much pressure to take] 
I’ve felt this way before 
So insecure... 



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06: RUNAWAY:


Graffiti decorations 
Underneath a sky of dust 
A constant wave of tension 
On top of broken trust 
The lessons that you taught me 
I learn were never true 
Now I find myself in question 
They point the finger at me again 
Guilty by association 
You point the finger at me again 

Paper bags and angry voices 
Under a sky of dust 
Another wave of tension 
Has more than filled me up 
All my talk of taking action 
These words were never true 
Now I find myself in question 
They point the finger at me again 
Guilty by association 
You point the finger at me again 

I wanna run away 
Never say goodbye 
I wanna know the truth 
Instead of wondering why 
I wanna know the answers 
No more lies 
I wanna shut the door 
And open up my mind 

Gonna run away... 



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07: BY MYSELF:


What do I do to ignore them behind me? 
Do I follow my instincts blindly? 
Do I hide my pride / from these bad dreams 
And give in to sad thoughts that are maddening? 
Do I / sit here and try to stand it? 
Or do I / try to catch them red – handed? 
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness, 
Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness? 
Because I can’t hold on / when I’m stretched so thin 
I make the right moves but I’m lost within 
I put on my daily faηade but then 
I just end up getting hurt again 
By myself [myself] 
I ask why, but in my mind 
I find I can’t rely on myself 

I can’t hold on 
To what I want when I’m stretched so thin 
It’s all too much to take in 
I can’t hold on 
To anything watching everything spin 
With thoughts of failure sinking in 

If I 
Turn my back I’m defenseless 
And to go blindly seems senseless 
If I hide my pride and let it all go on / then they’ll 
Take from me ‘till everything is gone 
If I let them go I’ll be outdone 
But if I try to catch them I’ll be outrun 
If I’m killed by the questions like a cancer 
Then I’ll be buried in the silence of the answer 
[by myself] 

How do you think / I’ve lost so much 
I’m so afraid / I’m out of touch 
How do you expect / I will know what to do 
When all I know / Is what you tell me to 
Don’t you know 
I can’t tell you how to make it go 
No matter what I do, how hard I try 
I can’t seem to convince myself why 
I’m stuck on the outside 



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08: IN THE END:


It starts with one thing 
I don't know why 
It doesn't even matter how hard you try 
keep that in mind 
I designed this rhyme 
To explain in due time 
All I know 
Time is a valuable thing 
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings 
Watch it count down to the end of the day 
The clock ticks life away 
It's so unreal 
Didn't look out below 
Watch the time go right out the window 
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know 
Wasted it all just to watch you go 
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart 
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when 


I tried so hard 
And got so far 
But in the end 
It doesn't even matter 
I had to fall 
To lose it all 
But in the end 
It doesn't even matter 


One thing, I don't know why 
It doesn't even matter how hard you try 
keep that in mind 
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time 
I tried so hard 
In spite of the way you were mocking me 
Acting like I was part of your property 
Remembering all the times you fought with me 
I'm surprised it got so (far) 
Things aren't the way they were before 
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore 
Not that you knew me back then 
But it all comes back to me (in the end) 
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart 
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I 


Chorus 


I've put my trust in you 
Pushed as far as I can go 
And for all this 
There's only one thing you should know (2x) Chorus



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09: A PLACE FOR MY HEAD:


I watch how the moon sits in the sky 
On a dark night shining with the light from the sun 
The sun doesn't give light to the moon 
Assuming the moon's going to owe it one 
It makes me think of how you act to me 
You do favors and then rapidly 
You just turn around and start asking me about 
Things you want back from me 


Pre chorus: 
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger 
Sick of you acting like I owe you this 
Find another place to feed your greed 
While I find a place to rest 


I want to be in another place 
I hate when you say you don't understand 
(You'll see it's not meant to be) 
I want to be in the energy, not with the enemy 
A place for my head 
Maybe someday I'll be just like you, and 
Step on people like you do and 
Run away the people I thought I knew 
I remember back then who you were 
You used to be calm, used to be strong 
Used to be generous, but you should've known 
That you'd wear out your welcome 
Now you see how quiet it is, all alone 


Pre chorus (2x) 
Chorus 


You try to take the best of me 
Go away (8x) 


Chorus 


Pre chorus (2x) 



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10: FORGOTTEN:


From the top to the bottom 
Bottom to top I stop 
At the core I've forgotten 
In the middle of my thoughts 
Taken far from my safety 
The picture is there 
The memory won't escape me 
But why should I care (2x) 


There's a place so dark you can't see the end 
(Skies cock back) and shock that which can't defend 
The rain then sends dripping acidic questions 
Forcefully, the power of suggestion 
Then with the eyes tightly shut looking thought the rust and rotten dust 
A spot of light floods the floor 
And pours over the rusted world of pretend 
The eyes ease open and its dark again 


Chorus 


Bridge: 
In the memory you'll find me 
Eyes burning up 
The darkness holding me tightly 
Until the sun rises up 


Moving all around 
Screaming of the ups and downs 
Pollution manifested in perpetual sound 
The wheels go round and the sunset creeps past the 
Street lamps, chain-link, and concrete 
A little piece of paper with a picture drawn 
Floats on down the street till the wind is gone 
The memory now is like the picture was then 
When the paper's crumpled up it can't be perfect again 


Chorus 
Bridge 


Now you got me caught in the act 
You bring the thought back 
I'm telling you that 
I see it right through you (7x) 


Bridge (2x)


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11: CURE FOR THE ITCH:

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12: PUSHING ME AWAY:


I've lied to you 
The same way that I always do 
This is the last smile 
That I'll fake for the sake of being with you 


Pre chorus: 
(Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down) 
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie 
(Everything has to end, you'll soon find we're out of time left to watch it all unwind) 
The sacrifice is never knowing 


Why I never walked away 
Why I played myself this way 
Now I see your testing me pushes me away 


I've tried like you 
To do everything you wanted too 
This is the last time 
I'll take the blame for the sake of being with you 


Pre chorus 
Chorus (2x) 


We're all out of time, this is how we find how it all unwinds 
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie 
We're all out of time, this is how we find how it all unwinds 
The sacrifice is never knowing 


Chorus (2x) 


Pushes me away…(2x)


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...interviews...


INTERVIEW FROM mtv.com
the links are audio/video clips from the interview


MTV: Let's talk about your success. You've sold over a million records...
Mike Shinoda: We've sold a million records?
Chester Bennington: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Shinoda: Whoa!
Bennington: Yeah, we actually did go platinum.
MTV: How does it feel to blow up like this?
Bennington: It's tiring.
Shinoda: Yeah, it's tiring. If the record flopped we'd be really bummed, so we just think about that and it keeps us grounded — like what it would be like if we put it out there and nobody bought it.
Bennington: Not only that, but also we don't even think about how many we're selling. We just focus on our shows and our fans. That's pretty much what we're about, just playing shows for our fans and getting out there and talking to as many of them as we can and hanging out with them. I think that's also a key to the reasons we're getting the success that we're getting so fast. The fact that we kind of have a real connection with our fans, and our fans are the best fans in the world. Don't mess with them.
MTV: You've watched your audience grow and grow ... how is that?
Shinoda: What's cool is that right now we've got a nice variety — we're playing some bigger shows, we're playing some smaller venues. There's an advantage to both. We like playing big shows because you get to see all those kids and it's really energetic, and we like playing the smaller ones, too, because you can be intimate with the crowd and see your fans face to face.
Bennington: We're also playing with a lot of really cool bands. We've played with some really cool bands that we admire. Now we get a chance to go out with Deftones and tromp around Europe with them, and that's just ... I mean, that's where we're seeing the benefits of the success.
MTV: Let's talk about the success of "One Step Closer." When you play that song in front of a crowd, I'm sure they go nuts.
Shinoda: Yeah. "One Step Closer" is really cool because it's short.
Bennington: Yeah, it's short and fun.
Shinoda: It's a great way to end the set and a great chance for kids to —
Bennington: Beat each other up.
Shinoda: Yeah. Get rid of all the energy they got left.
Bennington: Kids really go off on that song, 'cause obviously that's the one everyone has heard. But a lot of kids seem to be paying attention to every song on the record, so what's really cool is the more familiar the crowds are with who we are, they're singing along to every song. There have been points where they've actually overpowered the band, and we've actually stopped playing and let them sing the song and hold the microphones out ... [Shinoda mimes holding out mic] like that — thanks, Mike — and just let them do their thing. It's a lot of fun to actually have to stop playing.
Shinoda: That's actually why we have two singers, so that we can just do that type of thing. Like, when I'm talking, Chester can hold the mic out like so: [Bennington mimes holding out mic] See? We're good at that. That's how it works.
Bennington: We're a team. Wow. Sometimes I'm amazed that we're not just, like, one person.
MTV: Tell us about the video for "One Step Closer."
Shinoda: Please don't ask us what the video is about.
Bennington: There's no plot.
Shinoda: We don't know what this video is about. Joe [Hahn], our DJ, is the only one who knows what it's about, and he won't tell us.
Bennington: He's an alien anyway.
Shinoda: I think that's why he won't tell us, 'cause we wouldn't understand. But our DJ, Mr. Hahn, wrote the original treatment, sent it out to a bunch of directors and lucky for us, they were feeling that. They came back to us with similar treatments.
Bennington: They came back to us with the cost-efficient [version].
Shinoda: It was really similar, and so Joe got a chance to really get in there with our director, Gregory Dark, and make it happen. I think they worked really well together. They went kickboxing together, so I know they hit it off.
Bennington: I think they like each other.
Shinoda: Yeah, they're kind of sweet on each other.
Bennington: We kind of just like ninjas and dark tunnels and fire.
Shinoda: And guys with big hair that look like werewolves.
Bennington: Grr! Arr!
MTV: How did you find the video-making process?
Bennington: Fun, but really tiring. That is one of the most physically challenging things to do, because you're not just going in for your little part. You go in and you pretty much put in a 20-hour day. You're working for the entire time the shoot is going on, 'cause they have to do it very fast.
Shinoda: One of the special things that was going on in our video was it was underground, very far underground. It was really dirty and dusty under there...
Bennington: So there was no oxygen. Just lots of mold and dust.
Shinoda: Yeah. Lots of dust. Meanwhile, while we're playing our song a hundred times over and over, we're also breathing in dirt and not breathing in oxygen.
Bennington: There's nothing like screaming "Shut up" for seven hours straight, upside down. That was another thing — when they hung me upside down, all the blood in my body rested in this small space in my head, 'cause I don't have that big of a melon. It was the most excruciating thing. I felt like my head was going to explode like a pimple. It was kind of gross.
MTV: Do you know what your next single's going to be?
Shinoda: No, what is it going to be? Oh, I thought you were going to tell us.
Bennington: Yeah, what do you think it should be?
MTV: "Points of Authority."
Shinoda: That's weird. Why would he say something like that?
Bennington: I have no idea.
Shinoda: Do you like that song? Is that a good song?
MTV: Yeah.
Shinoda: OK. Thanks!
MTV: You guys really don't know what your next single's going to be?
Bennington: We have no idea.
Shinoda: Good job, Chester. Good boy.
MTV: Any songs you'd like to see released as the second single?
Shinoda: We can't go into it, really.
Bennington: I have to plead the Fifth.
MTV: No problem. I guess that means no video plans for the second single?
Shinoda: Oh, the video's all planned out. We just don't know what song it's going to be for.
Bennington: Yeah. We totally have the concept and we've scouted out the location and —
Shinoda: We've basically begun shooting already.
Bennington: The treatment's been written and we've already begun filming, we just don't know what song it's going to be for.
Shinoda: We'll shoot a video for all the songs, and then just pick according to whatever single we release. It will be really inexpensive.
Bennington: It'll be like "Version 1," "Version 2."
MTV: With Joe's relationship with Gregory Dark, does it look like he might be directing the second video?
Shinoda: I think Joe gets along with a lot of people in film, especially since that's where he was working before the band took off. He was working in special effects, and it seems like everyone we met with on the first [video] got along with Joe, so it kind of leaves it up in the air.
Bennington: Joe seems to get along with a lot of people. It's kind of annoying.
Shinoda: From my point of view, it could go anywhere. You'd really have to ask him, I think.
MTV: Let's talk a bit about how you guys started up the band. How did having the two of you as singers come about?
Bennington: I'm actually a lab experiment. I was raised in a petri dish at the UCLA biomedical center.
Shinoda: And we just grew to like him, so we kept him around.
Bennington: And I just grew.
Shinoda: You're really not going to go on to another question and let us go on that one.
Bennington: He wants a real answer, I think.
MTV: Yes. Two frontmen, it's not something that's common.
Bennington: I think one of the ideas behind it is, in my opinion, bands up to this point that have tried to mix different styles, especially in hip-hop and rock and stuff, there's either a guy who can rap but isn't a very good singer, or it's the opposite: He's a good singer but not necessary that talented as a rapper. Our idea was basically not to even worry about that. We have a really good rapper.
Shinoda: And we have a very good singer. From my point of view, the thing we saw in Chester right away was he's someone that's been singing his whole life, and I'm somebody that's been rapping my entire life, so it just seemed natural. We've spent a lot of time working on what we do.
Bennington: And for some reason we like each other.
Shinoda: He likes me a lot, and I can't stand him.
Bennington: Oh. I guess not, then.
MTV: How many fan sites do you have out there?
Bennington: We had a contest with our fans who like to make fan sites, and 'cause so many of them are just making them on their own, we were like, "Let's do something for these guys," 'cause they're putting a lot of time and effort into that stuff. It's not something you just throw together. We put this contest together where it was, originally, five fan sites that were the best out of all of them would win tickets to all of our shows to the city nearest to where they live, so whenever we rolled through they'd be able to come to a show for free and hang out with us and all that kind of stuff. But there was so many of them that were so good, we had to pick more than five. We picked eight winners. And it's cool, 'cause it showed us the fans are really involved, and it really keeps us involved with our fans. We hold our fans very close to us and they're very special to us, and to see that kind of interaction and that involvement —
Shinoda: And talent. Some of the sites were just phenomenal.
Bennington: Yeah. It kind of keeps us level, in a way, and it also makes us happy to see there's that much interest in it. People are spending that much time on us. It's nice to see that, 'cause we've spent so much time on us ourselves. We pretty much put the rest of our lives on hold to do this. It's kind of fun to see that other people are doing that too, taking that much time out.
MTV: What's next for you?
Shinoda: In March, we're going to be playing with the Deftones all over Europe.
Bennington: We are stoked. On our bio on our Web site, it says that Deftones is one of our favorite bands. We put that up there a long time ago, and obviously at that point, it wasn't even like we expected to get a tour with them. We were just laying it out there because that is just truly one of the bands that we admire a lot. For them to invite us on a tour like this is a real honor.
MTV: Is it going to be hard to go from your headlining tour to that tour?
Bennington: Nah, that's going to be easy, because Taproot is going to be coming with us. They've also toured with Deftones previously, so it's going to be like this fun little family going out. It'll be like "National Lampoon's European Vacation." That's what I'm thinking.

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