I look at them and I feel like I’m looking at two roommates out of college. They had just come out of UCLA, having lived with one another for I don’t know how many years. Dave and Brad, in particular, you could tell they were college roommates. There’s a new DVD named Projekt Revolution 2002, and it’s all material that we shot at the time and never released - we were really young. Theoretically, I know we were about 20, 21 years old. In fact, critic Steven Hyden, in his great new book on Kid A, Radiohead’s seminal album that came out the same month as Hybrid Theory, makes the case that while Radiohead became obsessed with “evolving” rock music and bringing it to the future, Linkin Park were the future.īelow, Shinoda goes over all the highs and lows of 20 years of Linkin Park.īiggest revelation from revisiting Hybrid Theory (Any legacy rock band would kill to have a YouTube video with billions of views - Linkin Park has two.) And in a post-emo rap world, Hybrid Theory sounds even more ahead of its time. The Hybrid Theory boxed set, out this month, includes the band’s original 2000 debut LP with the 2002 Reanimation remix album, the 1999 Hybrid Theory EP (from when the band still went by Hybrid Theory), and loads of B-sides, rarities, and demos, including the elusive “ She Couldn’t” and “Pictureboard.” Even if you weren’t a fan then (or never became one), it’s fascinating to relisten to Hybrid Theory and realize that alternative and rock radio still lives and dies by the template perfected by Linkin Park. Shinoda remembers much of the process well, revisiting the work 20 years later. Shinoda is also one of Linkin Park’s main songwriters much of the Grammy-winning Hybrid Theory was born from him and his collaboration with his longtime bandmates, including late vocalist Chester Bennington. Initially viewed as one of the many “this too shall pass” nu-metal releases of its era, Hybrid Theory, released on October 24, 2000, became the best-selling album of 2001 in the U.S., achieved rare diamond status by 2005 (10 million albums sold), and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide since. “I know that there are younger fans who are just getting into the album now,” f ounding Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda nonchalantly says of one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century.
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