Hybrid Theory - 20th Anniversary Edition

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory - 20th Anniversary Edition
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
User Score
Based on 62 ratings
Liked by 18 people
October 9, 2020 / Release Date
Box Set / Format
Warner / Label
Nu Metal, Rap Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Sputnikmusic

All in all, Hybrid Theory is brimming with single-worthy songs. Any track on here would represent the record’s prominence admirably, but the historic choices are obvious ones.

100
Kerrang!

Unlike the lavish box design suggests, this isn’t all gold, but that’s not the point. It’s as much about the journey as the destination, and this is a 20 year celebration and exploration of how Linkin Park worked their way from lo-fi 1998 demos to flame-haired world-conquerers just two years later.

76
Pitchfork

The California band’s blend of rapping, screaming, and circuit-bending defied easy categorization. Their sharpest tendencies meshed on Hybrid Theory, the most popular rock music of the 21st century.

AndrewK
90

The Hybrid Theory/Reanimation double bill was, in my opinion, peak Linkin Park. The 1999-2002 era found the boys still balancing their rock/hip hop sound, before fully shedding the hip hop in subsequent releases. The songs back then weren´t as tight and chorus oriented as they became and some may fault them on that. But I personally engage with the looseness of these songs, especially Reanimation´s disregard for accessibility.
So getting about 2h40 of unreleased material from that ... read more

Tielur
NR

Linkin Park fans are fucking wet over this. Chester is loved!

etzharai
97

Like I said on the Meteora boxset review, this kind of boxset with unreleased material, and specially with all the love and respect that is made. Thanks to Linkin Park for keeping the band's and Chester's legacy alive nowadays.

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Track List

Hybrid Theory

  1. Papercut
  2. One Step Closer
  3. With You
  4. Points of Authority
  5. Crawling
  6. Runaway
  7. By Myself
  8. In the End
  9. A Place for My Head
  10. Forgotten
  11. Cure for the Itch
  12. Pushing Me Away

Reanimation

  1. Opening
  2. Pts.Of.Athrty
  3. Enth E Nd (ft. Motion Man)
  4. [Chali]
  5. Frgt/10 (ft. Chali 2NA)
  6. P5hng Me A*wy (ft. Stephen Richards)
  7. Plc.4 Mie Hæd (ft. Zion I)
  8. X-Ecutioner Style (ft. Black Thought)
  9. H! Vltg3 (ft. DJ Babu & Pharoahe Monch)
  10. [Riff Raff]
  11. Wth>You (ft. Aceyalone)
  12. Ntr\mssion
  13. Ppr:kut (ft. Planet Asia & Rasco)
  14. Rnw@y (ft. Phoenix Orion)
  15. My
  16. [Stef]
  17. By_Myslf (ft. Stephen Richards)
  18. Kyur4 th Ich
  19. 1Stp Klosr (ft. Jonathan Davis)
  20. Krwlng (ft. Aaron Lewis)

Hybrid Theory EP

  1. Carousel
  2. Technique (Short)
  3. Step Up
  4. And One
  5. High Voltage
  6. Part of Me

B-Side Rarities

  1. One Step Closer (Rock Mix)
  2. It's Goin' Down by The X-Ecutioners (ft. Mike Shinoda & Mr. Hahn)
  3. Papercut (Live from the BBC)
  4. In the End (Live BBC Radio One)
  5. Points of Authority (Live BBC Radio One)
  6. High Voltage (B-Side Rarities)
  7. Step Up (1999 Demo)
  8. My December
  9. A Place for My Head (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
  10. Points of Authority (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
  11. Papercut (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
  12. Buy Myself (Marilyn Manson Remix)

LPU Rarities

  1. In the End (Demo)
  2. Dedicated (1999 Demo)
  3. With You (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
  4. High Voltage (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
  5. Points of Authority (Demo)
  6. Stick and Move ("Runaway" Demo 1998)
  7. Esaul ("A Place for My Head" Demo)
  8. Oh No ("Points of Authority" Demo)
  9. Slip (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo)
  10. Grr (1999 Demo)
  11. So Far Away (Unreleased 1998)
  12. Coal (Unreleased Demo 1997)
  13. Forgotten (Demo)
  14. Sad ("By Myself" Demo 1999)
  15. Hurry (1999 Demo)
  16. Blue (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo)
  17. Chair (1999 "Part of Me" Demo)
  18. Pts.Of.Athrty (Crystal Method Remix)

Forgotten Demos

  1. Dialate (Xero Demo)
  2. Pictureboard
  3. She Couldn't
  4. Could Have Been
  5. Reading My Eyes (Xero Demo)
  6. Rhinestone (Xero Demo)
  7. Esaul (Xero Demo)
  8. Stick N Move
  9. Carousel (Demo)
  10. Points of Authority (Demo 2)
  11. Crawling (Demo)
  12. SuperXero ("By Myself" Demo)
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Added on: August 13, 2020