I’ve always liked Linkin Park. Their first two albums and their remix album (not the crappy one with Jay-Z) were all pretty good, even worth buying. And I never buy CD’s. But thank god I didn’t buy “Minutes to Midnight.”

Let’s put it this way; if you enjoyed Linkin Park’s previous work, you WON’T like this new installment.

Another way to put it is that this album pretty much sucks. I listened through the entire album twice and could only pick out one song that I actually thought was decent. The rest is total crap. The album is whiney and slow and the hard hitting, fast tempo guitar thrashing of Hybrid Theory and Meteora is nowhere to be heard.

And like all other bands lately, they decide they have to get all political with the typical Bush bashing. Real original, guys. Anyone with a brain of their own doesn’t care what you think about the country’s current political situation. This goes for all other bands who want to cater to their own personal agendas. Nobody cares!

So after four years since their last new album, Linkin Park gives us this. Makes me wonder what they did with the other three and a half years.