RIP Chester Bennington
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Ugh, terrible. RIP.
The singer struggled with drugs and alcohol for years. He had said in the past he had considered committing suicide because he had been abused as a child by an older male.so fucked up
The lyrics to the new song Heavy are foreboding:
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
To 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?
RIP
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
To 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?
RIP
hard news to hear
not sure if i'll ever be able to listen to LP quite the same given the lyrical content.
not sure if i'll ever be able to listen to LP quite the same given the lyrical content.
I had just recently listened to the first 3 albums & live album that I consider the best things Linkin Park had put. That was after the release of the newest album. Chris's death was around the time of that coming out if I remember correctly. There was the great tribute by Chester and the Instagram post that I'm only seeing now. I know he went to the funeral and it must have continued to tear the poor guy up. I wish people with depression didn't have to suffer. What the mind can do to someone is vicious. I wish it was preventable. Sadly it is not. I hope that we can have compassion for others that suffer from this disease. It needs to be taken more seriously and not looked down on. You're not a lesser individual because you deal with those though. We should help our fellow person.
RIP Chester.
RIP Chester.
Great post, RAT. As someone who has been battling with depression for more than 15 years, I can understand how it can lead to this end.
Mental health is still a bit taboo in our society with people not fully understanding when someone goes through those issues.
It can affect anyone, no matter how rich they are.
Mental health is still a bit taboo in our society with people not fully understanding when someone goes through those issues.
It can affect anyone, no matter how rich they are.
The singer struggled with drugs and alcohol for years. He had said in the past he had considered committing suicide because he had been abused as a child by an older male.
And the fucked up circle of abuse ends with a suicide. I wasn't a huge LP fan. I did enjoy their first album a ton though. Hope his family is OK.
Loved L.P. Got me through some black authenticity issues especially during my freshman year in college.
"Numb" And "In the End" are good tributes.
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"Numb" And "In the End" are good tributes.
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Forever my favorite LP song. I loved the original but I was entranced by the remix. I used to lay in bed and listen to it on loop until I fell asleep.
edit: it's amazing just how good damn near every song on the first two albums are. Talk about being in the zone.
I hated how much shit they used to get from the internet loserbros and neckbeards. But man, I was obsessed with them in high school. I was telling Reilo that my first ever article for the school paper was a review of Hybrid Theory, and I just went and labeled that shit a 10. I'd still give it a 10 today. No regrets on that one. No one sounded like them and no one ever will.
I specifically recall mentioning Chester's chilling vocals and how visceral they were.
Years later in my late teens, I let this girl borrow the CD...she always wanted it on full blast when she was in the car with me. And then she wanted to borrow it. Well, when she made things sour with us (in a big way), I was more upset about her still having the CD! LOL. I saw her at the local billiards place, confronted her about the BS and lies she caused between myself and some others, and then ended it with "but fuck all that, bring me back my Linkin Park CD." She said she lost it. And my reply was, "give me cash to buy a new one then".
She's trying to apologize, and I just repeated that I wanted the damn CD back. She gave me cash on the spot and left crying. LMAO. Ahhh, to be 19.
But yeah, LP was a big part of my teenage years.
I specifically recall mentioning Chester's chilling vocals and how visceral they were.
Years later in my late teens, I let this girl borrow the CD...she always wanted it on full blast when she was in the car with me. And then she wanted to borrow it. Well, when she made things sour with us (in a big way), I was more upset about her still having the CD! LOL. I saw her at the local billiards place, confronted her about the BS and lies she caused between myself and some others, and then ended it with "but fuck all that, bring me back my Linkin Park CD." She said she lost it. And my reply was, "give me cash to buy a new one then".
She's trying to apologize, and I just repeated that I wanted the damn CD back. She gave me cash on the spot and left crying. LMAO. Ahhh, to be 19.
But yeah, LP was a big part of my teenage years.
Me and a buddy of mine would sing along when sharing headphones on band bus trips in high school. It was fun, even though I got made fun of because I absolutely can't sing and was always stuck with Chester's vocals. lol
e: Hybrid Theory was also the first CD I ever bought based off a music video. I didn't listen to the radio much but was flipping through channels and caught "Crawling" on either MTV or VH1 and thought it was so damn cool.
e: Hybrid Theory was also the first CD I ever bought based off a music video. I didn't listen to the radio much but was flipping through channels and caught "Crawling" on either MTV or VH1 and thought it was so damn cool.
Yeah i think like most of this thread, those first 2 albums were huge when i was in high school and i listened to them a lot. Sucks.