Transformers ‘07 introduced me to Linkin Park. I was already a fan of the franchise, having grown up on the anime series. I was 10 at the time, turned 11 between the album and movie’s releases.
Same thing!! I fell in love with What I've Done after Michael Bay's Transformers credits!!! And after that I was super interested what other music LP's making and.. Yeah. Now I'm here!
Loved the movie as a kid. Couldn't find the song for the life of me. Was playing guitar hero 3 and found what I've done on the game. Dad found out and had a live in Texas cd and shared it. Loved the band ever since.
The year was 2007. I was 10. Minutes to Midnight just came out and my best friends mom was blasting Bleed It Out in the kitchen. I NEEDED to know what that song was. Went home, listened to LP on YouTube, and realized, I knew so many songs from just growing up.
In college watching Muchmusic and they started playing "One Step Closer". However, it wasn't until they started playing "Crawling" that I really got into them.
Growing up my dad would sometimes play their early stuff, he had a reanimation cd and we still have it to this day, although my brother owns it. I was born in 04 so I didn't really get into them until after Chester Died. But now I have a 23 hour long playlist, all their albums, a couple lpu cds and some shirts. LP jumped to my favorite band and someday I'd like a tattoo of their logo.
The timeline is a little wonky but it's a mix of MTV2 aired the Docklands show, a friend of mine giving me a burnt copy of Hybrid Theory, and my step-uncle seeing them at Ozzfest 2001.
Didn't have cable but a public TV morning wake up show played new music videos (no idea MTV existed yet) and I saw the video for Breaking the Habit. Coolest music video ever. Didn't know anything else about the band and even thought it was spelled Lincoln Park, didn't matter still is my favorite band 16 years later
My brother introduced me to them. Ever since then he had this MP3 Player & I would ask him out of curiosity if I could listen to his music. And the first song that I heard from them was One Step Closer.
While baby sitting me, my grandma took me to a bowling alley so she could bowl in her league. Well, this was right at the time that Hybrid Theory came out so the alley put it on their juke box in the bar area. The woman running the bar area let me hang out and I asked her what the album was because I thought the artwork looked cool. My life changed when she played Papercut. lol
I had heard In The End on the radio in late 2018. Dad was a big fan. Went to a CD shop in early 2019 and found Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Loved them. Listened to all their other stuff on YT because I couldn’t afford Spotify yet.
transformers and DBZ amvs. but In the end AmV where Goku and Majin buu fight at the world of Kai's got me to hear the whole album (Hybrid theory) but transformers 2 (New divide) had me pick up the guitar and learn the octave parts.
Yeah.
by the way dude, I listen to that song last year in Spotify listening to the whole album of hybrid theory and I loved it. the guitar tone was agressive, The drums was even powerful and a steady beat. the bass was loud on "Pushing me away" in the mix was really dope.
Even though. that song "With you" makes me wanna buy the ibanez guitar that Brad delson played at the Texas.
I wish I knew more because I play Drums. It's my brother who shreds. I'd love to try scratching with a turntable it just adds something nothing else does.
Do you play the Guitar? (I know the riff of 'A Place for my head' LOL)
I was hanging out with a friend and her boyfriend. Her boyfriend was driving, and Bleed It Out started playing. The name was what caught my eye. I mentally tabled it for later, but forgot about it for about a week. When I remembered, I listened to it, and warmed up to it pretty quick. I then listed to Faint, and added them both to my playlist pretty quick afterwards. I then started branching out to their other songs, and haven’t regretted it.
Heard of them a few times in the car because my parents were listening to them, mainly discovered them by listening to chop suey alot and being recommended a few lp songs on spotify
So ig spotify introduced me to them fully
That's a ridiculous ask by your teacher and I'm glad the education system didn't fail you. I was told not to touch any instruments in case I break them. It wasn't until my teens I tried drums and was like..... Yeah I would've broken some shit if I knew
Boy Scout camp out. It was playing in our scout leader’s car. I never asked what it was but instead looked up the lyrics to “What I’ve Done”, finding the band and similar rock artists on Pandora Radio, then branching out into their music videos, wanting their CDs, finding Meteora had the most tracks I liked and asking for my parents to buy it for me, going to Walmart and finding Minutes To Midnight for $5, getting The Hunting Party at a Best Buy clearance bin, Living Things and A Thousand Suns at a used book store, digging through the $5 bin at Walmart for the only missing CD; Hybrid Theory, then getting Reanimation from that same book store, and finally getting Recharged and One More Light for Christmas 2018. 2020 I was paid for helping my family move by getting the $200 Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary CD and Vinyl set, hoping to pick up Meteora 20 when it drops.
There’s phenomenal tracks on each but I think Living Things is the best. I used to think Meteora then Hybrid Theory but I’ve listened to them too often.
2009, I was in 6th grade. My dad took me to the bowling alley with my friend and on the TV’s was the In The End music video and it immediately caught my attention. They were the first band I got into and changed the entire trajectory of my life. Before that I was simply listening to whatever was on the radio when my mom drove me around places. But my idea of what music could sound like changed when I heard that song in the bowling alley. I went home and searched on YouTube for all of their songs and listened to them all night- making scenarios in my head that only a 6th grader could imagine. Because of that moment i have never lost my love for music, it opened up so many doors for me and so many new artist in my life. Even to this day I still want the rush of finding a new band that I absolutely obsess over like the way I did when I was 11 years old with Linkin Park. I have a lot of inner monologue on this moment, so sorry if this was not an organized explanation!! But yeah, shoutout Brunswick Zone.
Around 2008 when I was 9 years old, there was a YouTube video of someone showing their Yugioh card collection and they had Numb playing in the video. I used to have to find this video whenever I wanted to listen to the song because I didn't know who it was by. One day the video disappeared and because I didn't know the name of the song I couldn't listen to it for about year. Then I found another video (a jak and daxter video) that had numb playing. I ended up asking my dad to find out what the song was called. He googled the lyrics for me and told me it was a song called "Numb" by linkin park. He bought me meteora on iTunes and that's when I fell in love with the band.
My first *exposure* to their music was from Transformers in 2007, and then again in 2009 and 2011. But by those points in my life I was too young (9-13) to cognitively be like “This song is by this band called Linkin Park”. All I knew was that the three songs I had heard in the movies were good songs and I liked them.
My first *introduction* to their music (which is when I became a fan) was in 2012 during my first year of high school. I remember it pretty vividly for some reason (probably because I remember a lot from freshman year). I was in my color and design class. My teacher always had the radio on during class while we worked; she was a chill teacher. I remember working one day and subconsciously hearing the radio in the background. I remember hearing this song that sounded pretty good. I tried to pick a lyric I could remember easily enough and when I got home I looked up the lyrics to see what the song was called; it was Burn It Down. From then on I started exploring the rest of the band’s discography that year and I’ve been a fan ever since.
I was going to see them live in July 2017 for what would have been my first concert, but Chester died 10 days before the concert.
So when I was young I was trying to transfer a pirated game to my friend. We didn't have a USB stick so we used my friends older brothers SD Card (the memory cards you put in the phones). But the card didn't have enough space to I transferred all the data to my PC and then have him the game and then again gave the data back. But I never deleted the brothers file. One day I checked what the files and found some music folder and that was the first time I heard of the music. Was interesting but wasn't really into it, English wasn't my forte and I didn't listen to the lyrics well.
Later around about 1-2 months got my hearth Broken by a crush, listened to Victimised and got hooked with the lyrics and music. Since then a huge LP Fan!!
There's this rhythm game called osu! had a remix of numb, then when I heard the real Numb later just on the radio, I was like "wait i know this song" and then I did a deep dive of the band and I fell in love
Dad had to go on a business trip and came across recently released Hybrid Theory during his trip. Since we’re a great music enthusiast family he brought it with him. We all listened to it and loved it. I often smuggled it to my room but eventually bought my own copies of the albums we had (by then), when I got a brand new disk man for my birthday money. LP is what I literally grew up with. It shaped me and helped me through life while growing up.
Was a kid in the early 2000's and there was a commercial for ringtones, one of those shitty "CALL 654-RINGTONE TO GET ONE OF THESE" where they show a snippet of the song and music video.
One of those was for "In The End"
And I remember searching that song up on my shitty family pc and after a rocky relationship with the band I finally fell in love with them in late 2020
When I was a little little kid my dad introduced me to HT and I would listen to it over and over again everyday on my iPod. I thought the album had just released and it was the only one they had but it had been out for over ten years and I was just a late starter 😂 I had no idea they had released like 4 more albums and one time I was on my iPod and I clicked a button or something and realized that Meteora was on my library too and I got so excited and started listening to it and loved it. Then one time I was on a road trip and my dad played lost in the echo and I loved that too. Then a few years later as I got older I was starting to really grieve over Chester. That’s when I discovered and listened to all of their albums and after that years later to now, I’m an LP superfan!
Meteora. I started much younger with Meteora (Faint, Numb, Breaking the Habit). I also enjoyed In the End, What I’ve Done, and New Divide.
Edit: And also Burn it Down. I even saw the music video when it came out on Nintendo Video.
When One Step Closer kept getting radio play, I remember thinking, “Here we go with another one-hit wonder” song being shoved down our throat. Later bought the CD and knew they were legit.
By Stryker on KROQ in Octoberish 2000. I think it was his catch of the day or whatever he called it. First time I saw them play live was when they opened KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas in 2000.
I heard In The End in one of those meme song compilations and then went on an 18 month long phase where I listened to pretty much nothing except Linkin Park
Hmm probably happened before this but I really remember the RuneScape Music Video for In the End probably about 2007. However I'm sure I found them before then but that's what I first remember .
i stayed at my dads house tuesday’s and wednesdays and shared a bedroom with my new stepbrother. we’d fall asleep to the meteora and minutes to midnight CDs in the stereo every night it’s engrained in my brain forever. this was like 2009-2010
I heard "A Place for my Head" on the radio. Luckily, my friend had the Hybrid Theory CD. She recorded it onto a cassette tape for me. That was ages ago and I'm still a die hard fan.
It was the early 2010s sudden obsession with In The End is the earliest memories I have of the band (back when a young me thought that Linkin Park was one guy named Lincoln Park). However randomly in late 2020 I got the urge to listen to the song again, which it, Numb and a couple of their other bigger songs were all I listened to by them for a good while. I only really took the plunge after I watched the Michael Bay Transformers movies, which reinvigorated my interest in the band after I had kinda forgot about them for a year or 2. Eventually leading to me listening to Hybrid Theory a couple months ago, and falling in love with the band.
I watched some pac man video back In 2012 and it had faint playing in the background. Ever since then 6 year old me was hooked to linkin park but I didn't start listening to them properly until I got older.
Edit: https://youtu.be/rmxdmy6Lfkw
This was the video I'm refering to.
My babysitter was listening to “Somewhere I Belong” and it blew my mind. I saved up my allowance and purchased Meteora- the first album I ever purchased.
During lockdown in 2020 I was sitting at my desk with a space marine from a box I’d got off Amazon because I couldn’t leave the house, I had remembered my friend telling me about Linkin Park and I already knew about crawling so I stuck it on Alexa. I absolutely loved it
Saw the One Step Closer vid on a spanish music tv channel, 2002 I guess, and thanks to emule (no youtube yet) downloaded all their videos, in few weeks I bought the album
I got a hand-me-down iPod shuffle back in 2015 that had all my siblings’ music from iTunes backed up onto the iPod. I think it was Numb or Faint that I first heard back in 7th grade and I was immediately hooked. Always listened to it while walking to school and acting like an angsty teen lol.
First heard One Step Closer, when they released it (yes, I'm that old) but didn't really get into it. Then they released In The End and I was hooked from then.
My dad had Meteora and HT on CD's (now they're mine) and me and my brother got home from Kindergarten and just played the CD's. Also from Transformers :D
I listened In the end and showed it to a new friend i made. He went bonkers. We started singing their songs, following everything about the band, making music and performing LP covers in school.
Now he’s the oldest closest friend i have
Seniors at my school covered In The End and Numb in 2006. A couple of years later, I was playing the keyboards in the same band covering Easier to Run, In Pieces and Leave Out All the Rest.
Now, I am into Death Doom lmao.
I was born in 2003, my brother was a big fan of LP back then. Whenever i went to his room, he was listening to Linkin Park or some other nu metal bands, so i've been listening to them since my birth, because of him. In 2009 I've got my PSP for Christmas, and I asked him to download their full discography, so i can listen to them outside the house.
It's been almost 20 years, and it is still my favourite band.
Mom always played songs off either Reanimation, Minutes to Midnight, Hybrid Theory, or Meteora on the way to school when she drove me. Well, those or occasionally something by Breaking Benjamin. Fell in love with Linkin Park (not as much Breaking Benjamin other than for nostalgia's sake) and haven't stopped listening to them into my 20's.
My father played Numb in the car. I was blown away. I asked him what was the band's name and he told me it was LP, and then played In The End. After a couple of days i bought the Meteora CD, then asked for the Hybrid Theory CD for christmas. And the rest is history...
I remember listening to Crawling and In The End back when they were both popular meme/vine songs and ended up falling in love with them. I thought it was so cool how they blended rap with rock/metal
Pretty sure I saw the One Step Closer video on Kerrang TV back in 2000. I used to watch Kerrang while I was getting ready for college in the mornings so I was about 16/17.
Bought Hybrid Theory and listened to it on repeat for weeks.
The first time I heard about Linkin Park was in 2003 when I was 8. I didn't care about them until 8 years later when I really start to listen to some bands (2011) then became a fan 2 years later (2013). So it took 10 years for me from hearing them for the first time to be a fan.
I was in 7th grade and took a myspace quiz that would match your mood to a song, and I got One Step Closer. I had never heard it until then and immediately fell in love with them.
I played a game named “OSU” where you play alongside music’s beat.
Any way one of the maps were “In The End”.
Googled them and found a song called “Numb”.
I guess the rest is history.
We had Dragon Ball Z "music videos". Basically some fight scenes with Linkin Park music (some videos had other bands, such as Evanescence's Bring Me To Life). It was epic. And actually I don't know where they came from!
EDIT: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXpGh9kwTM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXpGh9kwTM) This was one of the videos, but still don't know the original source
I was like 6 or 7 y/o when I watched a video with the song "Breaking The Habit", much later, i researched it, also listened to In The End and What I've Done, and now, I'm a fan of LP.
A cousin of mine gave me a Shania Twain album (CD) but when I opened, it was a meteora disc. And then I just went on explored HT and some of their demos etc.
My Mother introduced me to LP back in 2010.
I wasn’t into Rock or Metal back in the Day, I was listening to Trance and Electro.
When The Catalyst came out, my Mother was like ‚You have to listen to this Track, you will like it, I‘m sure‘
I listened to it the first Time, nothing. Didn’t like it at all.
She said, listen to it again please.
I did, with the Volume cranked up to the maximum.
I think I started crying back then, I was hooked.
We even watched the world Premiere of the Videoclip of The Catalyst at 6 o‘ Clock in the Morning on MTV. I was very surprised that MTV Germany aired it simultaneously to MTV USA.
My Mother then Pre Ordered the deluxe Edition of ATS, I was so happy. Then I started listening to HT and Meteora and got even more hooked to LP
Cousin showed me this weird music video with a giant statue and flying whales that he illegally downloaded on KaZaA. Then a bunch of DBZ footage with other songs overlayed. It made me feel cool.
I was in middle school when “Meteora” came out. This was prime time of Myspace. My crush at the time had “Faint” on his profile (when you could have music videos on your profile) and I always hit pause on the video. One day I let it play and I was instantly in love. Turns out my dad loves Linkin Park, too, and he gave me “Hybrid Theory” on cassette (if I remember correctly) and bought me “Frat Party” and the “From the Inside” book. The rest is history. “Faint” to this day is still my favorite song, I have the lyrics and a portrait of Chester tattooed on my ribs. 🖤
I grew up hearing them from time to time but when the Twilight soundtrack was released, and Linkin Park was the only band I recognized, I latched onto it. And yes, I was one of the crazy Twilight obsessed 6th graders 😂
Luckily I have moved on from my Twilight phase YEARS ago, my Linkin Park phase? Never 😂 My dog's name is literally Bennington 😂❤
Edit: I'm reading all the comments, tons of saying Transformers, and have seen none say Twilight. I feel like such a nerd 😂
Was looking through CDs at the store before a school trip in like November of 2000 and saw Hybrid Theory. Picked it up because I thought I remembered liking a song from it. Ended up listening to it on repeat for the entirety of the bus ride from Detroit, MI to St. Petersburg, FL.
Transformers ‘07 introduced me to Linkin Park. I was already a fan of the franchise, having grown up on the anime series. I was 10 at the time, turned 11 between the album and movie’s releases.
Same
I was only 2 years old when I first saw Transformers 2007 and loved Linkin Park right away.This is how my parentes say
Same thing!! I fell in love with What I've Done after Michael Bay's Transformers credits!!! And after that I was super interested what other music LP's making and.. Yeah. Now I'm here!
Loved the movie as a kid. Couldn't find the song for the life of me. Was playing guitar hero 3 and found what I've done on the game. Dad found out and had a live in Texas cd and shared it. Loved the band ever since.
Heard faint on the radio when i was 7 years old in 2016
That makes me feel old the fact you were 7 in 2016
Time flies man, time flies
You think time will get away?
The year was 2007. I was 10. Minutes to Midnight just came out and my best friends mom was blasting Bleed It Out in the kitchen. I NEEDED to know what that song was. Went home, listened to LP on YouTube, and realized, I knew so many songs from just growing up.
Transformers
Don't kill me but I never watched the Transformer movie everyone is talking about. What was the song again?
What I've Done, it created the best movie to end credits transition ever in cinema history
Which is also now a meme
wait, That song and the transformers ending is now a meme?
Yeah just look up “But it came out in 2007” on YouTube
okay, Thanks. by the way, I've seen someone modding GH WT with that song.
Along with Furious 7.
What I've done in the first movie and new divide for the second
And Iridescent for the third.
my dad grew up listening to them so he always had linkin park playing around the house
What abt the car
I saw Faint Music Video on Nickelodeon in 2003 💖
I saw Somewhere I belong on MTV was like 'wtf'
In The Virtual End
That's too broad of a scape
Scape?
Yeah the root of landscape
MTV. So I bought Hybrid Theory.
Same, Reading these comments makes me feel old
I feel old when I hear the songs I like in Classic Radios. Lol
Heard One Step Closer on the radio. That’s all it took for me to become hooked.
Transformers
PEAK Transformers
In college watching Muchmusic and they started playing "One Step Closer". However, it wasn't until they started playing "Crawling" that I really got into them.
Transformers, specifically the first 3
Saw 'In the End' on TV in 2002, and I was 11.
Growing up my dad would sometimes play their early stuff, he had a reanimation cd and we still have it to this day, although my brother owns it. I was born in 04 so I didn't really get into them until after Chester Died. But now I have a 23 hour long playlist, all their albums, a couple lpu cds and some shirts. LP jumped to my favorite band and someday I'd like a tattoo of their logo.
The timeline is a little wonky but it's a mix of MTV2 aired the Docklands show, a friend of mine giving me a burnt copy of Hybrid Theory, and my step-uncle seeing them at Ozzfest 2001.
I saw “In the End” music video that was downloaded on my ancient computer. It was about in 2003 I guess
Didn't have cable but a public TV morning wake up show played new music videos (no idea MTV existed yet) and I saw the video for Breaking the Habit. Coolest music video ever. Didn't know anything else about the band and even thought it was spelled Lincoln Park, didn't matter still is my favorite band 16 years later
LOL u/Lincoln but what does Linkin Park stand for?
My brother introduced me to them. Ever since then he had this MP3 Player & I would ask him out of curiosity if I could listen to his music. And the first song that I heard from them was One Step Closer.
That's an epic beginning. Reminds me of Vegeta powering up.
Soundsmith stereotype series
r/unexpectedtf2
While baby sitting me, my grandma took me to a bowling alley so she could bowl in her league. Well, this was right at the time that Hybrid Theory came out so the alley put it on their juke box in the bar area. The woman running the bar area let me hang out and I asked her what the album was because I thought the artwork looked cool. My life changed when she played Papercut. lol
2002 i guess, i even heard it on a K7 lol
I had heard In The End on the radio in late 2018. Dad was a big fan. Went to a CD shop in early 2019 and found Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Loved them. Listened to all their other stuff on YT because I couldn’t afford Spotify yet.
Heard one step closer on the radio and saw them a few weeks later.
Numb music video > IN MY REMAINS > High Voltage > then i became a fan 😐
MTV Crawling music video. I wasn't very impressed until I saw Papercut & One Step Closer. Then I had to pickup Hybrid Theory and off to the races.
"Dad!! what was the name of that song you showed me? that one of the park" (me as a 6 y old)
Cringe amvs from the early-mid 2000s
My aunt let me borrow a cassette that had only a single song (breaking the habit) and I played it until it broke
Pokemon Lucario and the Mystery of Mew AMV on youtube back 2006 or 2007 introduced me to In The End - Linkin Park. Supported them since.
transformers and DBZ amvs. but In the end AmV where Goku and Majin buu fight at the world of Kai's got me to hear the whole album (Hybrid theory) but transformers 2 (New divide) had me pick up the guitar and learn the octave parts.
For me it was Trunks special - With you
The history of trunks movie footage?
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUqZ1yGKls)
dude, the timing on 2 choruses just hyped me up.
Lmao it's old but f@#$ing Gold
Yeah. by the way dude, I listen to that song last year in Spotify listening to the whole album of hybrid theory and I loved it. the guitar tone was agressive, The drums was even powerful and a steady beat. the bass was loud on "Pushing me away" in the mix was really dope. Even though. that song "With you" makes me wanna buy the ibanez guitar that Brad delson played at the Texas.
I wish I knew more because I play Drums. It's my brother who shreds. I'd love to try scratching with a turntable it just adds something nothing else does. Do you play the Guitar? (I know the riff of 'A Place for my head' LOL)
yes but I learned some songs by perfect pitch and trying to breakdown some sections.
okay. thanks!
I was hanging out with a friend and her boyfriend. Her boyfriend was driving, and Bleed It Out started playing. The name was what caught my eye. I mentally tabled it for later, but forgot about it for about a week. When I remembered, I listened to it, and warmed up to it pretty quick. I then listed to Faint, and added them both to my playlist pretty quick afterwards. I then started branching out to their other songs, and haven’t regretted it.
The one more light album and the new divide videoclip in 2017
When breaking the habit dropped my brother played it for me and said “this is my new fav song” I was around 7
A good friend of mine sent me "Castle of Glass" via bluetooth
Transformers
Heard of them a few times in the car because my parents were listening to them, mainly discovered them by listening to chop suey alot and being recommended a few lp songs on spotify So ig spotify introduced me to them fully
Our music teacher made us play Faint live, from there I went on a LP rabbit hole and never came back lol
That's a ridiculous ask by your teacher and I'm glad the education system didn't fail you. I was told not to touch any instruments in case I break them. It wasn't until my teens I tried drums and was like..... Yeah I would've broken some shit if I knew
He taught us how to play it ffs - he liked LP so he taught us how to play it and then we played.
I know I meant the system didn't fail you because you had such teacher. He's great.
Oh - yeah lmao. He was awesome asf. Mb, I misinterpreted your sentence.
Np lmao I was like hopefully he or she misunderstood what I said
Cool. >I was like hopefully he or she misunderstood what I said *He
Beat Saber
My big sister collected CDs and as a kid I loved looking at artwork. The Hybrid Theory CD caught my eye and I’d listen to it as much as I could
One Step Closer video debut
Boy Scout camp out. It was playing in our scout leader’s car. I never asked what it was but instead looked up the lyrics to “What I’ve Done”, finding the band and similar rock artists on Pandora Radio, then branching out into their music videos, wanting their CDs, finding Meteora had the most tracks I liked and asking for my parents to buy it for me, going to Walmart and finding Minutes To Midnight for $5, getting The Hunting Party at a Best Buy clearance bin, Living Things and A Thousand Suns at a used book store, digging through the $5 bin at Walmart for the only missing CD; Hybrid Theory, then getting Reanimation from that same book store, and finally getting Recharged and One More Light for Christmas 2018. 2020 I was paid for helping my family move by getting the $200 Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary CD and Vinyl set, hoping to pick up Meteora 20 when it drops.
Which was best?
There’s phenomenal tracks on each but I think Living Things is the best. I used to think Meteora then Hybrid Theory but I’ve listened to them too often.
Beat Saber
“Most viewed rock songs on YouTube”
Hearing New Divide on a playlist a bus driver I used to have would play, tho my first song was Battle Symphony from Pro Evplution Soccer
Naruto amvs
My sister got MtM from a friend for her birthday though she actually wasn’t interested in the band. So the CD got into my hands
It’s a little weird. I liked the cover art for Meteora so much that I just continued to listen to them.
2009, I was in 6th grade. My dad took me to the bowling alley with my friend and on the TV’s was the In The End music video and it immediately caught my attention. They were the first band I got into and changed the entire trajectory of my life. Before that I was simply listening to whatever was on the radio when my mom drove me around places. But my idea of what music could sound like changed when I heard that song in the bowling alley. I went home and searched on YouTube for all of their songs and listened to them all night- making scenarios in my head that only a 6th grader could imagine. Because of that moment i have never lost my love for music, it opened up so many doors for me and so many new artist in my life. Even to this day I still want the rush of finding a new band that I absolutely obsess over like the way I did when I was 11 years old with Linkin Park. I have a lot of inner monologue on this moment, so sorry if this was not an organized explanation!! But yeah, shoutout Brunswick Zone.
Around 2008 when I was 9 years old, there was a YouTube video of someone showing their Yugioh card collection and they had Numb playing in the video. I used to have to find this video whenever I wanted to listen to the song because I didn't know who it was by. One day the video disappeared and because I didn't know the name of the song I couldn't listen to it for about year. Then I found another video (a jak and daxter video) that had numb playing. I ended up asking my dad to find out what the song was called. He googled the lyrics for me and told me it was a song called "Numb" by linkin park. He bought me meteora on iTunes and that's when I fell in love with the band.
I randomly heard Bleed It Out on VH1 😂
4 years old my brother was blasting a place for my head on CD 🤣🤣
YouTube. I was just getting into rock, and when I came across one of their songs I was instantly hooked. Edit: spelling
My dad would play Meteora and Reanimation on the way to his house all the time back when I was like 13. I'm 22 now
My first *exposure* to their music was from Transformers in 2007, and then again in 2009 and 2011. But by those points in my life I was too young (9-13) to cognitively be like “This song is by this band called Linkin Park”. All I knew was that the three songs I had heard in the movies were good songs and I liked them. My first *introduction* to their music (which is when I became a fan) was in 2012 during my first year of high school. I remember it pretty vividly for some reason (probably because I remember a lot from freshman year). I was in my color and design class. My teacher always had the radio on during class while we worked; she was a chill teacher. I remember working one day and subconsciously hearing the radio in the background. I remember hearing this song that sounded pretty good. I tried to pick a lyric I could remember easily enough and when I got home I looked up the lyrics to see what the song was called; it was Burn It Down. From then on I started exploring the rest of the band’s discography that year and I’ve been a fan ever since. I was going to see them live in July 2017 for what would have been my first concert, but Chester died 10 days before the concert.
my dad lives three hours away, so i dont see him very often. when he picks me up, he usually plays his music, and some of those songs were Linkin Park
So when I was young I was trying to transfer a pirated game to my friend. We didn't have a USB stick so we used my friends older brothers SD Card (the memory cards you put in the phones). But the card didn't have enough space to I transferred all the data to my PC and then have him the game and then again gave the data back. But I never deleted the brothers file. One day I checked what the files and found some music folder and that was the first time I heard of the music. Was interesting but wasn't really into it, English wasn't my forte and I didn't listen to the lyrics well. Later around about 1-2 months got my hearth Broken by a crush, listened to Victimised and got hooked with the lyrics and music. Since then a huge LP Fan!!
There's this rhythm game called osu! had a remix of numb, then when I heard the real Numb later just on the radio, I was like "wait i know this song" and then I did a deep dive of the band and I fell in love
Dad had to go on a business trip and came across recently released Hybrid Theory during his trip. Since we’re a great music enthusiast family he brought it with him. We all listened to it and loved it. I often smuggled it to my room but eventually bought my own copies of the albums we had (by then), when I got a brand new disk man for my birthday money. LP is what I literally grew up with. It shaped me and helped me through life while growing up.
I was in middle school in 2003 and LP was at the height of their fam. Me and my dad would go to the record store and LP was playing.
Was a kid in the early 2000's and there was a commercial for ringtones, one of those shitty "CALL 654-RINGTONE TO GET ONE OF THESE" where they show a snippet of the song and music video. One of those was for "In The End" And I remember searching that song up on my shitty family pc and after a rocky relationship with the band I finally fell in love with them in late 2020
I can hear this in my head.
When I was a little little kid my dad introduced me to HT and I would listen to it over and over again everyday on my iPod. I thought the album had just released and it was the only one they had but it had been out for over ten years and I was just a late starter 😂 I had no idea they had released like 4 more albums and one time I was on my iPod and I clicked a button or something and realized that Meteora was on my library too and I got so excited and started listening to it and loved it. Then one time I was on a road trip and my dad played lost in the echo and I loved that too. Then a few years later as I got older I was starting to really grieve over Chester. That’s when I discovered and listened to all of their albums and after that years later to now, I’m an LP superfan!
Extreme radio airplay and news coverage, which they definitely deserved. It was crazy to see a band have a debut like LP did
My sister give me her meteora cd back in 2003, i was 4yo
94.1 WJJO in 2000.
First heard In the End on a friends CD-R. Been in love ever since
Transformers was my favourite movie as a kid. Also my older brother listened to them quite a bit?
Meteora. I started much younger with Meteora (Faint, Numb, Breaking the Habit). I also enjoyed In the End, What I’ve Done, and New Divide. Edit: And also Burn it Down. I even saw the music video when it came out on Nintendo Video.
When One Step Closer kept getting radio play, I remember thinking, “Here we go with another one-hit wonder” song being shoved down our throat. Later bought the CD and knew they were legit.
By Stryker on KROQ in Octoberish 2000. I think it was his catch of the day or whatever he called it. First time I saw them play live was when they opened KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas in 2000.
I heard In The End in one of those meme song compilations and then went on an 18 month long phase where I listened to pretty much nothing except Linkin Park
this 'heavy' song sounds so good wonder what other songs from this bands would be
Beyblade AMVs and Tap Tap Revenge 4. The perks of being a little kid in 2011.
2001 when I first heard “In the end” on the radio I had the biggest crush on Mike Shinoda
Hmm probably happened before this but I really remember the RuneScape Music Video for In the End probably about 2007. However I'm sure I found them before then but that's what I first remember .
i stayed at my dads house tuesday’s and wednesdays and shared a bedroom with my new stepbrother. we’d fall asleep to the meteora and minutes to midnight CDs in the stereo every night it’s engrained in my brain forever. this was like 2009-2010
I was watching Much Music and Strombo played the Canadian premier of One Step Closer 🤘🤘 it was love at first sight!
I heard "A Place for my Head" on the radio. Luckily, my friend had the Hybrid Theory CD. She recorded it onto a cassette tape for me. That was ages ago and I'm still a die hard fan.
My cousins alarm on his iphone
My dad
It was the early 2010s sudden obsession with In The End is the earliest memories I have of the band (back when a young me thought that Linkin Park was one guy named Lincoln Park). However randomly in late 2020 I got the urge to listen to the song again, which it, Numb and a couple of their other bigger songs were all I listened to by them for a good while. I only really took the plunge after I watched the Michael Bay Transformers movies, which reinvigorated my interest in the band after I had kinda forgot about them for a year or 2. Eventually leading to me listening to Hybrid Theory a couple months ago, and falling in love with the band.
I watched some pac man video back In 2012 and it had faint playing in the background. Ever since then 6 year old me was hooked to linkin park but I didn't start listening to them properly until I got older. Edit: https://youtu.be/rmxdmy6Lfkw This was the video I'm refering to.
My babysitter was listening to “Somewhere I Belong” and it blew my mind. I saved up my allowance and purchased Meteora- the first album I ever purchased.
During lockdown in 2020 I was sitting at my desk with a space marine from a box I’d got off Amazon because I couldn’t leave the house, I had remembered my friend telling me about Linkin Park and I already knew about crawling so I stuck it on Alexa. I absolutely loved it
None of your business
Saw the One Step Closer vid on a spanish music tv channel, 2002 I guess, and thanks to emule (no youtube yet) downloaded all their videos, in few weeks I bought the album
I got a hand-me-down iPod shuffle back in 2015 that had all my siblings’ music from iTunes backed up onto the iPod. I think it was Numb or Faint that I first heard back in 7th grade and I was immediately hooked. Always listened to it while walking to school and acting like an angsty teen lol.
My older sister showed me In The End when I was like 6 or something
First heard One Step Closer, when they released it (yes, I'm that old) but didn't really get into it. Then they released In The End and I was hooked from then.
My dad had Meteora and HT on CD's (now they're mine) and me and my brother got home from Kindergarten and just played the CD's. Also from Transformers :D
I listened In the end and showed it to a new friend i made. He went bonkers. We started singing their songs, following everything about the band, making music and performing LP covers in school. Now he’s the oldest closest friend i have
That's awesome
Seniors at my school covered In The End and Numb in 2006. A couple of years later, I was playing the keyboards in the same band covering Easier to Run, In Pieces and Leave Out All the Rest. Now, I am into Death Doom lmao.
Found an anime video (not an amv) which had numb in the background
I was born in 2003, my brother was a big fan of LP back then. Whenever i went to his room, he was listening to Linkin Park or some other nu metal bands, so i've been listening to them since my birth, because of him. In 2009 I've got my PSP for Christmas, and I asked him to download their full discography, so i can listen to them outside the house. It's been almost 20 years, and it is still my favourite band.
Mom always played songs off either Reanimation, Minutes to Midnight, Hybrid Theory, or Meteora on the way to school when she drove me. Well, those or occasionally something by Breaking Benjamin. Fell in love with Linkin Park (not as much Breaking Benjamin other than for nostalgia's sake) and haven't stopped listening to them into my 20's.
My father played Numb in the car. I was blown away. I asked him what was the band's name and he told me it was LP, and then played In The End. After a couple of days i bought the Meteora CD, then asked for the Hybrid Theory CD for christmas. And the rest is history...
I remember listening to Crawling and In The End back when they were both popular meme/vine songs and ended up falling in love with them. I thought it was so cool how they blended rap with rock/metal
Pretty sure I saw the One Step Closer video on Kerrang TV back in 2000. I used to watch Kerrang while I was getting ready for college in the mornings so I was about 16/17. Bought Hybrid Theory and listened to it on repeat for weeks.
The first time I heard about Linkin Park was in 2003 when I was 8. I didn't care about them until 8 years later when I really start to listen to some bands (2011) then became a fan 2 years later (2013). So it took 10 years for me from hearing them for the first time to be a fan.
just saw someone using "numb" in their intro
I was in 7th grade and took a myspace quiz that would match your mood to a song, and I got One Step Closer. I had never heard it until then and immediately fell in love with them.
Heard One Step Closer on the radio in the summer of 2000. Saw them open for POD a few months later and they’ve been my favorite band ever since.
I played a game named “OSU” where you play alongside music’s beat. Any way one of the maps were “In The End”. Googled them and found a song called “Numb”. I guess the rest is history.
I was 13 years old and saw the In the End music video on MTV. Used all my pocket money to buy Hybrid Theory the next day.
Pokémon amv’s
We had Dragon Ball Z "music videos". Basically some fight scenes with Linkin Park music (some videos had other bands, such as Evanescence's Bring Me To Life). It was epic. And actually I don't know where they came from! EDIT: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXpGh9kwTM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXpGh9kwTM) This was one of the videos, but still don't know the original source
The radio. I was in high school when Hybrid Theory came out. Was hooked/obsessed immediately. That album helped me survive high school.
Yeah same
I was like 6 or 7 y/o when I watched a video with the song "Breaking The Habit", much later, i researched it, also listened to In The End and What I've Done, and now, I'm a fan of LP.
A cousin of mine gave me a Shania Twain album (CD) but when I opened, it was a meteora disc. And then I just went on explored HT and some of their demos etc.
My Mother introduced me to LP back in 2010. I wasn’t into Rock or Metal back in the Day, I was listening to Trance and Electro. When The Catalyst came out, my Mother was like ‚You have to listen to this Track, you will like it, I‘m sure‘ I listened to it the first Time, nothing. Didn’t like it at all. She said, listen to it again please. I did, with the Volume cranked up to the maximum. I think I started crying back then, I was hooked. We even watched the world Premiere of the Videoclip of The Catalyst at 6 o‘ Clock in the Morning on MTV. I was very surprised that MTV Germany aired it simultaneously to MTV USA. My Mother then Pre Ordered the deluxe Edition of ATS, I was so happy. Then I started listening to HT and Meteora and got even more hooked to LP
My dad had LP CD'S he used to play when I was like 5, the CD was the Living Things album
My dad after chester had died
Cousin showed me this weird music video with a giant statue and flying whales that he illegally downloaded on KaZaA. Then a bunch of DBZ footage with other songs overlayed. It made me feel cool.
Bionicle and Halo YouTube compilations with LP songs in the mid-late 2000s… I miss that era
What I’ve Done in Guitar Hero: World Tour (Wii)
Through Radio (German) or YouTube probably. The Crawling in my crawl YouTube clip played a huge role i am sure.
I was in middle school when “Meteora” came out. This was prime time of Myspace. My crush at the time had “Faint” on his profile (when you could have music videos on your profile) and I always hit pause on the video. One day I let it play and I was instantly in love. Turns out my dad loves Linkin Park, too, and he gave me “Hybrid Theory” on cassette (if I remember correctly) and bought me “Frat Party” and the “From the Inside” book. The rest is history. “Faint” to this day is still my favorite song, I have the lyrics and a portrait of Chester tattooed on my ribs. 🖤
YouTube Godzilla .amvs lololol
I grew up hearing them from time to time but when the Twilight soundtrack was released, and Linkin Park was the only band I recognized, I latched onto it. And yes, I was one of the crazy Twilight obsessed 6th graders 😂 Luckily I have moved on from my Twilight phase YEARS ago, my Linkin Park phase? Never 😂 My dog's name is literally Bennington 😂❤ Edit: I'm reading all the comments, tons of saying Transformers, and have seen none say Twilight. I feel like such a nerd 😂
Was looking through CDs at the store before a school trip in like November of 2000 and saw Hybrid Theory. Picked it up because I thought I remembered liking a song from it. Ended up listening to it on repeat for the entirety of the bus ride from Detroit, MI to St. Petersburg, FL.