Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Gandalf » Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:46 pm

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I wasn't on yesterday!!! So that can't be true! ;)

Anyway, I'll take the gobshite banana split thing back, as long as you stop.....

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by LewisD » Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:52 pm

I'll shake hands to that.
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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by DML » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:03 pm

This is really sad. Love Linkin Park. :(

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by Corazon de Leon » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:04 pm

D_C wrote:Don't forget this banger



Static-X's drummer got done for kidnap a few years ago I'm sure :dread:

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by Corazon de Leon » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:07 pm

Lucien wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:Static-X's drummer got done for kidnap a few years ago I'm sure :dread:


The guitarist died of accidental overdose/possible suicide. His wife died too.


strawberry floating hell.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Mafro » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:07 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:
D_C wrote:Don't forget this banger



Static-X's drummer got done for kidnap a few years ago I'm sure :dread:

Didn't their guitarist get done for underage sex with a fan too or something like that? :dread:

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by CitizenErased » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:15 pm

Not a fan of them as an adult, but as a teen, who didn't love them? Very sad, his poor family.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Finiarél » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:17 pm

Johnny Ryall wrote:

I don't like my mind right now
Stacking up problems that are so unnecessary
Wish that I could slow things down
I wanna let go but there's comfort in the panic
And I drive myself crazy
Thinking everything's about me
Yeah, I drive myself crazy
'Cause I can’t escape the gravity

I'm holding on
Why is everything so heavy?
Holding on
So much more than I can carry
I keep dragging around what's bringing me down
If I just let go, I'd be set free
Holding on
Why is everything so heavy?

You say that I'm paranoid
But I'm pretty sure the world is out to get me
It's not like I make the choice
To let my mind stay so strawberry floating messy
I know I'm not the center of the universe
But you keep spinning 'round me just the same
I know I'm not the center of the universe
But you keep spinning 'round me just the same

I'm holding on
Why is everything so heavy?
Holding on
So much more than I can carry
I keep dragging around what's bringing me down
If I just let go, I'd be set free
Holding on
Why is everything so heavy?

I know I'm not the center of the universe
But you keep spinning 'round me just the same
I know I'm not the center of the universe
But you keep spinning 'round me just the same
And I drive myself crazy
Thinking everything’s about me

Holding on
Why is everything so heavy?
Holding on
So much more than I can carry
I keep dragging around what's bringing me down
If I just let go, I'd be set free
Holding on
Why is everything so heavy?
Why is everything so heavy?
Why is everything so heavy?


One of their songs that was released this year. The poor guy obviously had major anxiety and depression issue. Also notable that today is Chris Cornell's birthday and they were very close friends.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Drumstick » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:33 pm

Mafro wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:Got Hybrid Theory loaded onto Spotify for going home from work. Wouldn't have thought news like this would sadden me so much actually - they were pretty much the soundtrack of 2000/2001 for me though so it's a bit like a part of my childhood dying.

Yeah I'm feeling exactly the same.

Yeah ditto. I'm about 95% sure Hybrid Theory was the first album I ever got.

This strawberry floating sucks.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Knoyleo » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:34 pm

CitizenErased wrote:Not a fan of them as an adult, but as a teen who didn't love them.

I had to read this three times before I understood what you meant. :lol: :fp:

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by CitizenErased » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:43 pm

Knoyleo wrote:
CitizenErased wrote:Not a fan of them as an adult, but as a teen who didn't love them.

I had to read this the times before I understood what you meant. :lol: :fp:


Reading that back I get you :lol:

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by False » Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:22 pm

LP were the first band on my road to being a 'mosher' as a teenager. I fancied some girl and we used to hang around at her house (and on reflection her parents were never there) and In The End was the hot song on Kerrang. She was convinced it was rebellious and if I was to be her boyfriend I had to become a mosher too. Funny how little things like that determine the trajectory of your life for many years.

I liked all of their albums up until A Thousand Suns when I stopped following them.

Shame hes dead but at least his lyrics were legit, innit.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Rik_ » Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:33 pm

Gutted, Linkin Park were a big early influence on my music taste and got me into a lot of the stuff I listen to today. I've always thought people have turned their noses up too readily at their lyrics though, it's easy to pass it off as just angst but as this shows there are serious issues behind it all, I know I've always felt certain songs resonated with me during rough patches.
Fwiw, here are my personal favourites:



This was the one that got me into LP in the first place, was fairly young back then and when I got my first MP3 player I loaded it with some of my brother's music to see if there was anything I liked, first time I played Figure.09 I was immediately hooked <3


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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Miguel007 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:39 pm

Very sad, :wub: Linkin Park.

The gooseberry fool they got from so called hardcore fans over their latest album on FB & Twitter, I wonder if that had any influence. It's completely pop and mellow but I think it's great.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Rik_ » Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:40 pm

Gently-Parted Ringpiece wrote:
HT > Re > Meteora > Jay Z > The Rest


I'd say HT > Hunting Party = Meteora = Reanimation > Minutes to Midnight = Jay-Z = One More Light > A Thousand Suns > Living Things > Recharged, problem with ranking LP albums though is that their style changes so much over the years that it's hard to make a direct comparison.

Miguel007 wrote:Very sad, :wub: Linkin Park.

The gooseberry fool they got from so called hardcore fans over their latest album on FB & Twitter, I wonder if that had any influence. It's completely pop and mellow but I think it's great.


I was thinking that, can't have helped matters at the very least. Pretty much agree with you on it as well, very pop but still some very good songs and definitely didn't deserve all the gooseberry fool it got.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Lotus » Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:20 pm

strawberry float. :(

Saw this on the 10pm news having not been online or anything, so it just came outta nowhere. There isn't much that makes me say 'what the strawberry float' out loud watching the news, but damn.

Hyrbrid Theory is one of my favourite albums, and even after all this time I still know every word on that album. Meteora was brilliant as well. Both soundtracks to my school and college days. Reanimation and Collision course were great too, and while the later stuff didn't really do too much for me bar the odd song here and there, I've been listening to their more recent stuff over the last couple of weeks and been enjoying it.

Watching him perform at Chris Cornell's funeral, knowing they were close, it's being Chris' birthday today...wouldn't be surprised if it's related. I didn't know Chester was sexually abused as a child, but given some of the dark lyrics and general association between abuse and poor mental health, it's not a shock in that respect.

Just gutted though...they never reached the heights of Hybrid Theory again IMO, but he still wrote some brilliantly poetic lyrics and songs. The contrast of his vocals with Mike Shinoda's was excellent.

strawberry float.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Qikz » Fri Jul 21, 2017 7:31 am

People still talk about Hybrid Theory and it's one of the things I heard annoyed Chester and Mike a lot. Both of them said they wanted their music to evolve from what it once was as they never wanted to just sing one style forever. Their newer stuff while requiring a different taste (imo) was still decent. I still prefer older Linkin Park and they were sort of a gateway band for me into other things, but this is still horrible :(

I still can't believe it.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Eighthours » Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:14 am

I always thought that Linkin Park were terrible, but that was basically based on my general views about Nu Metal. This suicide is awful news, particularly considering his large family and his friendship with Chris Cornell. I will be sure to check out Hybrid Theory over the weekend to see if I got it wrong, back in the day.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by Drumstick » Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:35 am

I'm listening to Hybrid Theory at my desk. Still great.

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PostRe: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington dead at 41
by gamerforever » Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:36 am

Awesome band that defined my young adulthood and i only saw them a few weeks back at o2 brixton. He was a few metres away from me! So sad! Listening to the lyrics on one more light is quite sad, its a desperate cry for help.


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