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Reanimation
08/02/2002 11:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Rob O'Connor
We live in an age of "Instant Nostalgia" where awards shows are talked about as treasured memories only seconds after the final superstar has trounced the red carpet. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that Nu-Metal avatars Linkin Park have managed to scrape together an album by letting their contemporaries "re-interpret" their voluminous career (that's one album, Hybrid Theory, and a couple of EPs and bonus tracks, folks) with a set of remixes. The guests, however, read like a who's who of modern rock and rap: Korn's Jonathan Davis, Staind's Aaron Lewis, Orgy's Jay Gordon, Jurassic 5's Chali 2na, and the Roots' Black Thought, among the chosen. The remixes are extremely liberal, cutting and pasting with little regard for the originals in question. New lyrics, new melodies interrupt LP's actual ideas as if they weren't even there. In essence, it's hardly a Linkin Park album. So, when's the live version coming, guys?
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