Living Things
by Linkin Park

Living Things by Linkin Park
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-06-20
Overall rank: 5,138th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
62/100 (from 176 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2012 (100th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (943rd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,138th)

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Linkin Park bestography

Living Things is ranked 5th best out of 21 albums by Linkin Park on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Linkin Park is Hybrid Theory which is ranked number 541 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,207.

Linkin Park album bestography « Higher ranked (5,138th)
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Living Things
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Overall rank: 5,138th | 2010s rank: 943rd | 2012 rank: 100th

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62/100 (from 176 votes)
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From 04/14/2017 23:43 | #189325
Completely agree with what user Edwarda85 said. After their best album they released this which felt safe and a bit bland. Still I can't say it's bad since it has a couple of nice songs.
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65/100
From 05/16/2016 15:17 | #166173
After my personal favorite A Thousand Suns commercially flopped and left fans of their early work dumbfounded, Linkin Park was on the verge of extinction by lack of interest.

In Comes Living Things, a safe return to standard punchy riff rock with some mature screaming from Chester.

It's passable for the genre and at times feels like it is trying to serve two masters. The single Burn It Down doesn't sound like anything else on here. Makes you think it was a blatant attempt at a single on mainstream rock radio. It almost passes for hard pop.

The first track and Castle of Glass are highlights, if a bit repetitive.

It's good at what it does but Linkin Park trades in identity for survival; to stay a living thing as a band. And that is disappointing to me.
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From 02/20/2016 16:44 | #160336
There last couple of albums have not been popular at all, but I personally felt they were good. This, however, is their first underwhelming record for me, not a particularly memorable effort, it's not 'bad', it's just about passable
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25/100
From 01/03/2015 06:18 | #130678
I really do find it intolerable. The first tracks decent but after that it's just cringe worthy.
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From 12/17/2014 12:36 | #129513
Linkin Park at their worst...
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40/100
From 11/22/2014 03:36 | #127669
Eh, it's alright. Definitely better than their last two albums.
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30/100
From 05/09/2014 15:03 | #111299
It's alright.
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70/100
From 03/14/2014 15:12 | #106214
Surprisingly decent, by far their best album.
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From 10/24/2012 18:35 | #53312
They're on an adventure. The young scrappy kid is now traversing mountains, battling trolls, stoping at taverns and generally moving from A to B if you want it painfully simple. This was all starting from 'A Thousand Suns' where the group sounded like they had ambitions of recording THE NEXT DARKSIDE OF THE MOON, I AM BEING SERIOUS! Well the tap is stuck, lofty ambitions are there but not reached with out stretched arms. 'Lost in the Echo' the fire in the heart stills burns before going out to the mind with an envelope and a punch in the 'Burn It Down'. 'In My Remains' keeps enough thunder to sustain my interest even though it is wedged in between the two. The thing is, listening to this I am nodding along, hearing the occasional good sound, the whole time not running into something horrible all the day... yet... that's really it. It's a quest without finale
and all a bit too serious now. While a song like 'Castle of Glass' sustains my interest throughout, there is this feeling of some utmost importance. I want my rock exciting. I want fun. Here Linkin Park completely miss their medium, the words don't belong and the air is thick... it's all calculated. If you want a Linkin Park aiming to write something to put beside 'Ramayana' or 'Aeneid' this is and the album before will do just fine.
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From 09/13/2012 06:58 | #50488
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