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Music style

Compared to the previous 2000 Hybrid Theory, Meteora is characterized by more relevant influences from rapcore ("Lying From You", "Hit The Floor", "Figure.09"), hip hop ("Nobody's Listening") and electronic music ("Breaking the Habit"). Their instrumental song Session was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2003. Special Edition Cover Special Edition cover Singles from Hybrid Theory Released: February 13, 2001 Released: May 1, 2001 Released: June 18, 2001 Released: November 20, 2001 Hybrid Theory is the debut album by the American nu metal band Linkin Park. ... Rapcore is a musical genre that fuses the techniques of hip hop, hardcore punk (hence the core in the name), heavy metal, alternative rock and sometimes funk. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... It has been suggested that Electronica be merged into this article or section. ... The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance has been awarded since 1980. ...

Background info and production

The album was named after The Meteora. After seeing these monasteries on a trip to Europe, the band was inspired by the way they were built, almost defying gravity. It was this feeling of greatness and awesome accomplishment that Linkin Park wished to convey with their music, thus the name. Meteora is also an album by the band Linkin Park. ...

Don Gilmore co-produced the album. Linkin Park comprehensively rehearsed the album recording more than 40 choruses for the first single "Somewhere I Belong". Like the band's first full-length Hybrid Theory, Meteora was recorded using Pro Tools software. In its 1st week it sold an estimated 810,000 units. To date, it has sold nearly 11 million copies worldwide, with more than 5.5 million sold in the U.S. alone. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Special Edition Cover Special Edition cover Singles from Hybrid Theory Released: February 13, 2001 Released: May 1, 2001 Released: June 18, 2001 Released: November 20, 2001 Hybrid Theory is the debut album by the American nu metal band Linkin Park. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Also interesting to note is the almost complete synchronization of every song throughout the album. The precedent is immediately set with "Foreword," an intro to the album which finishes with a crashing sound (thought by many to be glass breaking, but it is in fact an external CD burner on a wooden table being smashed with an aluminum baseball bat). The sound effect smoothly transitions this cue into the album's first song "Don't Stay." Almost all the songs are likewise linked together, with some instrumental motif carrying over one song into the next. The album performs this trick between "Foreword", "Don't Stay" and "Somewhere I Belong", "Easier to Run" and "Faint", and "Figure.09", "Breaking the Habit", "From The Inside", and "Nobody's Listening". Synchronization (or Sync) is a problem in timekeeping which requires the coordination of events to operate a system in unison. ... In law, a precedent or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court may need to adopt when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. ... Cue may refer to one of the following. ... In music, a motif is a perceivable or salient reoccurring fragment or succession of notes that may used to construct the entirety or parts of complete melodies, themes. ...

There is also a special edition of Meteora, which includes the "Making of Meteora" DVD documentary. They are packaged together in a blue tinted case with the standard Meteora cover.The Tour Edition of Meteora is a 2 disc set. The second disc, which is a Video CD, has the music videos for Somewhere I Belong, Faint, Numb, and Breaking the Habit. This edition also comes in a standard plastic case, rather than their trademark Meteora case.

Track listing

1. "Foreword" – 0:13
2. "Don't Stay" – 3:07
3. "Somewhere I Belong" – 3:33
4. "Lying From You" – 2:55
5. "Hit The Floor" – 2:44
6. "Easier To Run" – 3:24
7. "Faint" – 2:42
8. "Figure.09" – 3:17
9. "Breaking The Habit" – 3:16
10. "From The Inside" – 2:55
11. "Nobody's Listening" – 2:58
12. "Session" – 2:24
13. "Numb" – 3:09

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iTunes Bonus Tracks

1. "Lying From You" (Live LPU Tour 2003) - 3:04
2. "From The Inside" (Live LPU Tour 2003) - 2:55
3. "Easier To Run" (Live LPU Tour 2003) - 3:22

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Bonus Tour Edition VCD

1. "Somewhere I Belong" (music video)
2. "Faint" (music video)
3. "Numb" (music video)
4. "Breaking The Habit" (music video)

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The Making of Meteora

Some special editions have a DVD called "The Making of Meteora," where Linkin Park explains the events that occurred while they were making Meteora.

Chapter listing

1. "Intro
2. "Summer 2001"
3. "Early 2002"
4. "June 2002"
5. "July 2002"
6. "August 2002"
7. "Early October 2002"
8. "Late October 2002"
9. "October 29, 2002"
10. "Early November 2002"
11. "Late November 2002"
12. "December 6, 2002"
13. "December 12, 2002"
14. "2003: Meteora"

Chart performance

Album

Meteora has topped the album charts in both the UK and the U.S. since its release and has reached #2 in Canada and Australia. It was the best selling rock album of 2003. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ... The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ... The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Singles

Meteora has a number of songs that have topped the Modern and Mainstream Rock charts and enjoyed success in the pop charts throughout the world.

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Critical response

Despite the strong sales response from fans, Meteora received a mediocre response from critics. The overall Metacritic score was 62, indicating a mixed response among the sources used to compile the score, while with a higher user score of 8.3.^[1] Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and books. ...

• The album received excellent reviews from E! Online and Entertainment Weekly.
  • E! Online rated it an A-, and expected it to "shoot straight for the stars". Best tracks: "Don't Stay", "Somewhere I Belong", "Numb".^[2]
  • Entertainment Weekly described it as "radio-friendly perfection".
• The album received good reviews from Dot Music, Billboard, and New Musical Express, .
  • Dot Music described it as a "guaranteed source of ubiquitous radio hits". Best Tracks: "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Lying from you", "Nobody's Listening"; rating 8 out of 10.^[3]
  • Billboard Magazine described Meteora as "a ready-made crowdpleaser". Best Tracks: "Somewhere I Belong", "Breaking the Habit"^[4]
  • The New Musical Express said it had "massive commercial appeal" but left the reviewer "underwhelmed" Rating 7 Best track: "Breaking the Habit".^[5]
• The band received average reviews from All Music Guide, Rolling Stone, Blender, Q Magazine, and ShakingThrough.net.
  • Rolling Stone said the band "squeezed the last remaining life out of this nearly extinct formula" (nu-metal) Rating 3 stars Best tracks: "Breaking the Habit", "Lying From You", "Figure .09", "Numb"^[6]
  • Allmusic.com described it as "nothing more and nothing less than Hybrid Theory Part 2". Best tracks: "Somewhere I Belong", "Lying from You", "Breaking the Habit", "Hit the Floor".^[7]
  • Blender described it as "harder, denser, uglier" (#15, page 128) while Q Magazine described it as "less an artistic endeavour than an exercise in target marketing".

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Trivia

• Brad Delson, the lead guitarist of the band, was the first person to purchase the album.
• The man on the cover of the album is Boris "Delta" Tellegen, one of the installation artists for the album. He appears on the enhanced portion of the CD called The Art of Meteora.
• Early versions of Somewhere I Belong & From The Inside can be heard on the band's first DVD, Frat Party at The Pankake Festival.
• The first time Linkin Park ever played Nobody's Listening live, it was extended and featured rapper Xzibit.
• The intro of the song "Nobody's Listening" was featured in Jetix Spain's advertisement for the anime series Naruto. [1]
• Track 12, "Session", is an instrumental. A similar track, an unnamed instrumental, is featured on the Hybrid Theory EP as a hidden track.
• Track 12, "Session" is featured in the movie & on the soundtrack for The Matrix Reloaded
• Track 12, "Session" and track 6, "Easier to Run", are used in AWAKEN, Riverside Drama Ministry, as part of their drama.
• Track 8, "Figure.09" is featured in the movie: S.W.A.T.
• Mike, Joe, Boris, and other people took over a year to paint the graffiti on the inside of Meteora.
• Every word of graffiti in Meteora has a meaning to the band.
• The album art colors for the special edition compared to the standard edition is similar to the 2002 Jurassic 5 album, Power In Numbers. Both standard editions have a yellow-ish cover while both special editions feature a blue cover.

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External links

• Meteora official lyrics page
• All Music guide Meteora article
• Meteora Metacritic summary
• Linkin Park's Official Website