Linkin Park: Song Grades

Linkin Park is my favorite band of all time. I grew up with their music, I’ve attended a meet and greet in Denmark, I’ve flown to the United States to attend a concert for Chester Bennington’s Dead By Sunrise-project. I love Linkin Park.

Previously, I reviewed a couple of their albums on a 1-10 scale (Living Things & The Hunting Party), but seeing as my tastes have changed a bit those reviews won’t have an impact on these scores. I rewrote the original 1-10/10 scores in March 2016 to fit the A+ to F-scale. Any and all future studio or remix albums will be graded on the aforementioned letter grade-scale.

Hybrid Theory – 2000 – A+

1. Papercut – A+
2. One Step Closer – A+
3. With You – A
4. Points of Authority – A-
5. Crawling – A+
6. Runaway – A-
7. By Myself – B+
8. In The End – A+
9. A Place For My Head – A-
10. Forgotten – A-
11. Cure For The Itch – B
12. Pushing Me Away – A
13. (Deluxe) My December – B
14. (Deluxe) High Voltage – B-

Reanimation – 2002 – B

1. Opening – B-
2. Pts.OF.Athrty – B
3. Enth E Nd – B
4. Frgt/10 – B+
5. P5hng Me A*wy – B
6. Plc.4 Mie Hæd – B
7. X-Ecutioner Style – B-
8. H! Vltg3 – B-
9. Wth>You – B+
10. Ntr/Mission – B-
11. Ppr:Kut – B
12. Rnw@y – B+
13. My<Dsmbr – A-
14. By_Myslf – B+
15. Kyur4 th Ich – B
16. 1stp Klosr – B
17. Krwling – B-

Meteora – 2003 – A+

1. Foreword – B-
2. Don’t Stay – A
3. Somewhere I Belong – A+
4. Lying From You – A-
5. Hit The Floor – A-
6. Easier To Run – A
7. Faint – A-
8. Figure.09 – B+
9. Breaking The Habit – A-
10. From The Inside – A+
11. Nobody’s Listening – A
12. Session – B+
13. Numb – A+

Collision Course – 2004 – B+

1. Dirt off Your Shoulder/Lying From You – B+
2. Big Pimpin’/Papercut – B+
3. Jigga What/Faint – B
4. Numb/Encore – A-
5. Izzo/In The End – B+
6. Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer – B

Minutes to Midnight – 2007 – A

1. Wake – B-
2. Given Up – B+
3. Leave Out All The Rest – A+
4. Bleed It Out – A-
5. Shadow of The Day – A
6. What I’ve Done – A+
7. Hands Held High – A
8. No More Sorrow – A-
9. Valentine’s Day – B+
10. In Between – B+
11. In Pieces – B+
12. The Little Things Give You Away – A-
13. No Roads Left – A-

A Thousand Suns – 2010 – A-

1. The Requiem – B
2. The Radiance – B
3. Burning In The Skies – A-
4. Empty Spaces – C+
5. When They Come For Me – A-
6. Robot Boy – B
7. Jornada del Muerto – B-
8. Waiting For The End – A
9. Blackout – B+
10. Wretches And Kings – A-
11. Wisdom, Justice And Love – A-
12. Iridescent – A-
13. Fallout – B-
14. The Catalyst – A-
15. The Messenger – A

Living Things – 2012 – A-

1. Lost In The Echo – A-
2. In My Remains – B+
3. Burn It Down – B+
4. Lies Greed Misery – B+
5. I’ll Be Gone – B+
6. Castle Of Glass – A-
7. Victimized – B
8. Roads Untravelled – A-
9. Skin To Bone – A-
10. Until It Breaks – B-
11. Tinfoil – C+
12. Powerless – A-

Recharged – 2013 – B

1. A Light That Never Comes (Steve Aoki) – B+
2. Castle Of Glass (Shinoda Remix) – B
3. Lost In The Echo (KillSonik) – B
4. Victimized (Shinoda Remix) – B+
5. I’ll Be Gone (Vice) – B+
6. Lies Greed Misery (Dirtyphonics) – B-
7. Roads Untravelled (Rad Omen) – B
8. Powerless (Esterno) – B
9. Burn It Down (Tom Swoon) – B-
10. Until It Breaks (Datsik) – B-
11. Skin To Bone (Nick Catchdubs) – B
12. Until It Breaks (Money Mark) – B-
13. A Light That Never Comes (Rick Rubin) – B+

The Hunting Party – 2014 – A-

1. Keys To The Kingdom – A-
2. All For Nothing – A-
3. Guilty All The Same – A-
4. The Summoning – B
5. War – B-
6. Wastelands – B+
7. Until It’s Gone – B+
8. Rebellion – A-
9. Mark The Graves – A-
10. Drawbar – A-
11. Final Masquerade – A
12. A Line In The Sand – A

One More Light – 2017 – A-

1. Nobody Can Save Me – A-
2. Good Goodbye (feat. Pusha T & Stormzy) – B
3. Talking to Myself – B+
4. Battle Symphony – B+
5. Invisible – B+
6. Heavy (feat. Kiiara) – A-
7. Sorry for Now – A-
8. Halfway Right – A-
9. One More Light – A+
10. Sharp Edges – A

Other Notable Songs

1. Blackbirds – A
2. Darker Than Blood (Steve Aoki) – B+
3. New Divide – A
4. Not Alone – A-
5. We Made It (Busta Rhymes) – A-

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Notable Side Projects:

Dead By Sunrise (Chester Bennington):

• Out of Ashes – 2009 – A

1. Fire – A
2. Crawl Back In – A
3. Too Late – B+
4. Inside of Me – A-
5. Let Down – A
6. Give Me Your Name – B+
7. My Suffering – B+
8. Condemned – B
9. Into You – A
10. End of the World – A-
11. Walking In Circles – B+
12. In The Darkness – A-

Fort Minor (Mike Shinoda):

• The Rising Tied – 2005 – A-

1. Introduction – B
2. Remember The Name (w/ Styles of Beyond) – A
3. Right Now (w/ Black Thought & Styles of Beyond) – A-
4. Petrified – B
5. Feel Like Home (w/ Styles of Beyond) – B
6. Where’d You Go (w/ Holly Brook & Jonah Matranga) – A
7. In Stereo – B
8. Back Home (w/ Common & Styles of Beyond) – B
9. Cigarettes – B+
10. Believe Me (w/ Eric Bobo & Styles of Beyond) – A-
11. Get Me Gone – A
12. High Road (w/ John Legend) – A
13. Kenji – A+
14. Red To Black (w/ Kenna, Jonah Matranga & Styles of Beyond) – B
15. The Battle (w/ Celph Titled) – B
16. Slip Out The Back (w/ Mr. Hahn) – A-

Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic: Grades Coming Soon

Other Notable Songs (Not listed on official studio albums):

• Morning After (Chester Bennington) – B+
• Welcome (Fort Minor) – A-