Linkin Park, Nu Metal, And The Need For Big, Fun Rock
Indiecast
UPROXX
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Released only a few weeks after Radiohead's 'Kid A,' Linkin Park's debut studio album 'Hybrid Theory' turns 20 this month. It featured four major singles ("One Step Closer", "In the End", "Crawling" and "Papercut") and has sold 27 million albums worldwide since its release, making it the best-selling debut album since Guns N' Roses' 1987 debut 'Appetite for Destruction,' and the single best-selling rock album of the 21st century.
The record's success marked a transition moment to the mainstream for a type of rock music that was pioneered by bands like Korn and Deftones. With the emergence of nu metal came a through line that Linkin Park was able to capitalize upon, one that continues today with Machine Gun Kelly's new album 'Tickets To My Downfall,' which is currently sitting at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart. In this episode, Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen trace the lasting influence of nu metal and big, fun chart-topping rock music.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.0 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:17.6 | We review albums, we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.1 | In this episode, we'll be talking about |
| 0:21.6 | Lincoln Park in the era of new metal and whether that music has had any influence on indie rock. |
| 0:28.7 | My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? |
| 0:35.4 | Steve, I'm feeling great and I'll tell you why. |
| 0:38.7 | So just before we really get into the need of this episode, I just got to clarify some, |
| 0:45.2 | you know, official policies of this podcast, you see. |
| 0:48.7 | Indicast gets its rock news first and foremost from the New York Times. |
| 0:58.3 | And exactly a month ago today they were an article called guitars are back baby um talking about how in the how in the pandemic uh people are |
| 1:04.5 | buying guitars they got more time on their hands um i've been to the i've been to guitar center |
| 1:09.3 | um a few times and like they're cleaned out for the most part. |
| 1:12.9 | Now whether that's like due to an economic downturn or the fact that like people just cannot stop buying Gretch hollow body guitars because they think rockabilly's coming back. |
| 1:20.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:21.9 | But what we're looking at no less than a month later after the new york times declared guitars are back |
| 1:29.5 | number one album in the country is a pop punk record made by a rapper that's machine gun |
| 1:36.2 | kelly's tickets to my downfall now i don't know if this this promises newfound relevancy for |
| 1:43.1 | indecast or whether like tra Travis Barker is going to be like |
| 1:48.0 | kind of a Rick Rubin figure like going forward for like rappers who want to like go pop punk but |
| 1:54.0 | I don't know these are these are exciting times I mean have you heard this album yet yeah by the way |
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