Meteora 10th Anniversary Retrospective Post - Louis' Meteora Moment

Dude, I used Yahoo music to get into LP too!

 

Loved your story Louis, especially the parts that I'm quoting. My story even though it's a lot different than yours, it still trigger the same kind of feelings.

I was a 13 year old when Meteora came out. I was in 8th grade and I had spent most of my 7th grade and the first half of my 8th listening to Hybrid Theory, I had fell in love with the band already.

I remember writing the lyrics to Somewhere I Belong on paper, because I didn't know english back then (feels weird when I say that), and I felt awesome because I knew the words to the verses and none of my friends did. There was a Making the Video episode on TV for SIB, and I remember being glued to my TV with my VHS on because I wanted to record it, and I did. It was great to see the band behind the scenes.

I didn't buy Meteora right away, because I didn't have the money, but my dad bought it for himself (he doesn't live with me) and since he noticed how much I liked it he gifted it to me and bought himself another copy. It was the 1st album I ever had. I listened to it every day, from beginning to end, with the booklet in my hand, memorizing all the lyrics. My favorite songs were Faint, From the Inside and Numb and I was super STOKED when those actually made it as singles! I use to record my favorite videos on VHS and Linkin Park was no exception.

Meteora is special to me because along with Hybrid Theory it marks the time where I started to take the english language more seriously, and also got me through my adolescence. Linkin Park's music made me want to learn how to play guitar, everything in my life was (and probably is) about them, especially from 2003 onwards, I would write their names everywhere, do drawings, even my assignments at school were about Linkin Park, so definitely this album means a lot to me, and like Louis said, even if Meteora didn't mean a lot for some, it meant the WORLD to me back then, and I treasure and cherish those memories, as they always make me smile.

To end my story I want to share this drawing I made back in 2003. I'm not sure if I had shared it with you on the Artists Corner but here you go.

Thanks Linkin Park! HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY METEORA!

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Great story - Weird coincidence, but I was also in Cyprus during the same time you were. There were many times I felt that (when I was growing up) Meteora meant much more to me than Hybrid Theory did. Great album, despite what people say.

 

I was 12 years old at the time and I was still in high school when Meteora got released. I can still remember till this day getting picked up after school from parents and heading to the store and picking up the CD including the CD/DVD (which I got signed at a later date in 2007). I also remember playing it for the first time and thinking that this album is insane. I became a fan of LINKIN PARK a couple of months after Hybrid Theory got released and fell in love with that album on the first listen front to back, but for some reason Meteora stands out to me from all the other albums and will always be my favorite album of all time.

Thanks LINKIN PARK!

 

I’m really glad to hear that some people here on LPA like Meteora. Meteora was the first Linkin Park album for me as well and I was 10 at that time too. But my situation was a bit different since I didn’t know that the Internet existed back then, so it took me a longer time to find all the information I wanted. Meteora is still my favorite album in the world!

 

Well written. Congrats!

I have never had any negative thoughts about Meteora and still appreciate it a lot.

 

For me, Meteora was the album that reinforced that Linkin Park were awesome. It felt like more of a good thing at a time when I needed it most. Like HT, I don't there there was an emotion or situation where Meteora failed me. I've used it for boredom, study, drinking, loss of family, break ups, anger, and so on. People can bag it out, but it has a place in LP history that millions of people appreciate.

 

That was a great story!

I went a different way from you guys, since I wasn't a fan when Meteora came out. I only discovered LP 2 years later, both HT and Meteora at the same time. I didn't even know which one of those albums had been released before the other, and which songs belonged on which album.

All I can say is...Numb made me a fan of Linkin Park. It was THE song that introduced me to LP, and to music in general. Don't Stay, Faint, Figure.09, and From The Inside made that new fandom even stronger. Those five songs remained my favorite pieces of music ever for 2 or 3 years, along with some HT songs. And to this day, I still like them for what they are. Not being a native english speaker, I never really cared for the lyrics of the album. What was important was the power behind the music, the melodies, the way I felt connected to the songs, even if I didn't understood the meaning of them. It's just... The guitar sound mixed along with Chester and Mike voices mixed along with the electronic elements...I just loved that mixture of sounds. It felt perfect for me.

And it still feels good to this day. Also, I have to thank that record for all the good times it offered me through the years. When I was studying. When I was training. When I was bored. When I was angry. When I was happy. And so on.

So yes, thanks LP for Meteora!

 

While Meteora wasn't my gateway into LP (Hybrid Theory had that honor), I so vividly remember everything about the Meteora release.

I was already an enormous fan after Hybrid Theory. Linkin Park was the first rock band I really got into, and after hearing In The End, and then the rest of the album, I was ridiculously hooked on them. For that reason, the arrival of Meteora was extra special to me. The follow-up to an album I loved by a band still trying to prove themselves. I remember their website uploading Somewhere I Belong, Faint, and Numb. I listened to those songs so many times on their website. I was about 11 at this point, so I didn't have money to buy the album when it came out. I got it for Christmas in 2003. I remember sitting up at 6:30 in the morning, putting the CD into my portable CD player, and listening to it from start to finish. If Linkin Park was my favorite band leading up to Meteora, I can safely say that they became a lot more to me after that release. They've been an escape, as they have for many of you, and I know without a shadow of a doubt no other band will ever have this same impact on me.

As a side-note, I got a very similar feeling after hearing Burn It Down for the first time last year. Minutes To Midnight is great, and I love A Thousand Suns, but hearing Burn It Down blasting through my speakers for the first time brought out feelings that no other band but Linkin Park can make me feel. The excitement and emotional attachments this band has made me feel over the years is ridiculous, but I'm not ashamed of it at all. I know the day will come when Linkin Park doesn't exist anymore, but until then I'm enjoying one hell of a ride with these guys. In a way I feel like I owe them so much.

 

This. It happened to me too. And while LIVING THINGS drew mixed opinions too like ATS, it's still to get old for me, even BID. The first time I listened to LIVING THINGS was super special, just like all the other albums and it's an undescribable feeling the only Linkin Park can give me.

I am a The Rasmus fan with the same passion as for LP, but there's still no question that Linkin Park takes the number one spot and always make album release day an extra-special day, while TR doesn't approach the release with the same intensity and intrigue.

Altough Meteora wasn't the 1st album I heard from LP, it was the first where I felt that level of expectation and excitement for a release.

Thanks again, LP.

 

I remember as a little 6 year-old kid watching TV and I saw the "Numb" video on MTV. I didn't really dig in to the video, but for some reason, it was the first nu metal song I kind of liked (The Beatles were the first rock band I loved). When I bought a hits compilation that had "Numb" in it, I saw that it came from Meteora, and since I was obviously 6 at that time, I thought it was their first album. Sure I caught up to Linkin Park again with "What I've Done" and "New Divide", but after I became a devoted fan following "The Catalyst" and ATS, I learned of Hybrid Theory's existence and streamed all of LP's songs on YouTube. When I listened to Meteora, I fell in love with many of the songs, from the whiplash "Faint" to the emotional "Easier to Run" to the spectacular "Session". It was my favorite of all the albums. And that was two years ago. Now, I'm more accustomed to a huge variety of music, and I've considered Meteora as superior to HT sonically, although lyrically inferior to their other albums. Still, I constantly play the album on my phone and holds a special place in my heart.

Hopefully you guys don't feel old with the beginning of my story.

 

I'm not from the people that write here very often, but i have to say that this topic got me excited! I really like all of your stories guys, but now it's time to write mine, although it may not be as great as the ones I read so far.

So here it is.

I was 10 years old when I found out about Linkin Park, thanks to my (still) best friend, when he gave me the Hybrid Theory CD as a present for my 10th birthday. But it was not the original CD, it was a copy that was burned on a Sony cd. He gave that as a present cause he found out that I like Linkin Park's Points of Authority (a differen story, maybe I'll tell you some other time). But since this topic is for Meteora, not HT, let's move on... SO! I'm 10 years old, ''hardcore LP soldier'' (you can and must laugh here) when I found out, thanks to a TV show, that Meteora is going to be released soon. My birthday is on March 17 so I immediately asked my parents if I can get it as a present for my birthday. So one week later I got my Meteora audio tape. I unwrapped it carefully and put it in the stereo. I blast it out so anyone in the neighbourhood could hear it! It doesn't sound like a cool story, but I can tell you that this was one of the best moments for me, cause my brother (six years old then) came in the room running and he was like that --> :O through the whole album... Me too ofc! I'm a little bit unlucky as it comes to listening to LP albums for first time, cause MTM came out a week after my grandpa died, ATS was released when I was in hospital, LT - when me and my family was in e big financial crisis and I couldn't afford to buy it right away... So I remember the release of Meteora as one of the greatest day in my life, and as the day that I introduced my brother to music. Now we are still LP fans, and every release of an LP album is a special moment for us. A moment that we enjoy together (when we can <-- black humor). As for the songs I can tell that I loved them all, ofc, but Hit The Floor and Sessions were my favorites back then and now too. The other thing is that I'm Bulgarian so you could pretty much tell by yourself how much I understood from the lyrics when I was 11, but fortunately my aunt is philologist (English) so she translated all the songs on paper for me!

So that's it! My ''Meteora story''. And for ending my post I will quote Andreina's words, cause this is what I feel and think too: ''Altough Meteora wasn't the 1st album I heard from LP, it was the first where I felt that level of expectation and excitement for a release.

Thanks again, LP.''

 

My story is Meteora is the only LP album I didn't "buy or get"

the end

 

Wasn't it like your favorite record ever not so long ago?

 

Meteora along with Hybrid theory got me through some really dark times in my life, and still to this day they both get me through
rough times in life. Those albums saved my life and they still save my life today.

 

I am 14, so I am pretty new to LP. I got LT back in July at a baseball tournament, and I absolutely LOVED IT! So.... I decided to buy another LP album. That album was meteora. It was the nail in the coffin . Since then, ive bought every album and appreciate them all for what they are. As hybrid said in her post, ive become the "Linkin Park kid". People rag on me and say LP sucks and isn't cool, but I really don't care. Listening to Linkin Park gives me a feeling like no other- its unexplainable. I am so pumped for another album and Mall. I will always think of meteora as the album that got me into LP. I cant wait for the memories I know I will gain in the future from the band! Thanks LP