Linkin Park: Leave the Reanimation to Frankenstein
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August 27,2002 THE RETI~IEVEI~ WEEKLY FEATURES Page 17 Linkin Park: Leave the Reanimation to Frankenstein JENNGIBSON remix LP songs, throw their own personal This version was one Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff slant on already incredible songs. I don't of the better remixes know if it was a way to let the band know on the CD - the first I love Linkin Park, the intensity, the that these artists respect their music or if minute of the song flow, the message they deliver. So I was the artists wanted to pretend they were features bagpipes and really looking forward to the new CD that somebody with talent. None of the remixes violins, something was coming out, I bought it the flIst day it improve on the original, which makes me one wouldn't nor was released. Of course, it was going to be think it was a complete waste of time for mally hear in any great - Points ofAuthority sounded phat, it this CD to be recorded. Aren't I being a lit thing released from was tearing up the airways. That was my tle harsh, you ask? The answer is no, for the Linkin Park. The mindset, and it was completely obliterated most part this CD is a disappointment. song builds into by the time I got halfway into the third There were a scant few songs that actu Lewis murmuring track. What the hell were they thinking? ally came somewhere close to touching the "Crawling in my What the hell was I thinking? greatness of the original song. One was My skin! These wounds, OK, now I know that Linkin Park is December, which was remixed by Mickey they will not heal! starting to be everywhere - laying tracks P., featuring Kelli Ali. I think the only rea Fear is how I fall! with the different bands like the X son why I liked this version is because I Confusing what is Ecutioners, on soundtracks, and various rarely hear the song, not because it's really real. .." His voice other places. That's cool, I respect people any good. Ali sings in haunting tones, echoes in the back who try to move out of a familiar place and "Give it all away..." but despite the fact that ground, offering the create something new and different. The she has an awesome voice, the remix hint of pain and only aspect of this branching out that wor lacked a certain something. The original anger that only Lewis Nate West / Retriever Weekly Staff ries me is the fear that LP will go the route musi~ has a simplicity that complements can convey. The dif Not the End of Hybrid Theory: Linkin Park should have left of Limp Bizkit, which is oblivion. Nobody the lyrics and with the bass that has been ference between the Reanimation alone and worked on a new album instead. hears about Bizkit anymore, and for a while added in the remix, the beauty of the song two renditions is in Fred Durst and his boys were everywhere. has been lost somewhere in Electronica the interpretation. From Hybrid Theory, If you want to get a Linkin Park CD, You couldn't turn on MTV or the radio or Land. these feelings are obvious, prevalent in go buy Hybrid Theory at Sam Goody or look at a magazine and not see them. Now? Another song that did not completely both the music and the lyrics. From MusicLand or wherever you buy your CDs. Poof, vanished, gone. suck was Crawling, remixed by Mike Reanimation, Lewis' voice communicates That is a CD worthy of the money you'll There are a number of people who Shinoda, featuring Aaron Lewis of Staind. the anger and anguish. spend, not Reanimation. Signs Not Shyanialan's Best Movie from SIGNS, page 15 Shyamalan's films, every little point, no holds both the home run distance record matter how insignificant, comes together and the record for most strike outs (go fig in the end. However, don't expect the sud ure). One seemingly normal morning, den, jarring, mind-boggling twist that Graham wakes up to find his children ended his previous films. If it's there, I standing in the field, staring at what is didn't see it (feel free to correct me if I'm obviously a crop circle. Things escalate wrong). The acting in this film was a bit from there and soon Graham finds himself over the top at times, but still pretty good, on the front lines of an alien invasion. considering the range the actors had to However, our hero doesn't become a play. One minute, they have the audience believer until he has his own close howling with laughter, the next, jumping encounter with an alien, making him the out of their seats in terror (literally-I've last in his family to do so. never seen an audience jump so much). While a tad cliched and melodramatic That kind of range-from light-hearted to at times, Signs made a fairly decent terrified-is difficult and I applaud the movie. All the little plot twists are there, actors for pulling it off so well. All in all, from the crop circles themselves to while not Shyamalan's best film (I don't Morgan's asthma and Bo's strange quirk think anything can top The Sixth Sense), about her drinking water. As usual for Signs is a film worth seeing. ©Touchstone Pictues. All rights reserved..