The year in which you became a Linkin Park fan

[Jgrosk]

2008 when Shadow of the Day was playing on the radio all the time, I loved the song and MTM was the first album I ever actually bought. I didn't became a hardcore fan until 2009 though.

[lpfan12]

i brought my first copy when i was in middle school.i was blown away when i first heard it

[Stranger]

Started to listen to them on 2000. Before them, I used to listened to Limp Bizkit but then, one day, my brother showed me a new band in the magazine which is Linkin Park. since then, i've started to collects all their stuff till now.

[BeardyWilderness]

Shortly after the video for In The End came out. My dads friend gave me a burned copy of HT but there were 2 missing tracks. I don't remember which they were but I think one was PMA...

[LPngdf]

2007, when I first heard What I've Done. Then I listened to MTM and I was so impressed. After that I bought Hybrid Theory and Meteora (no Reanimation btw., because I thought I had that, but that was a fake album ). Jep, since then I'm a fan

[SergSlim]

Spring 2004 for me.

 

I heard their songs before that, but never liked them.

 

Then in 2004 I saw few music videos in school (including fan-made video of In The End (Final Fantasy 9/ATOMX)) and fell in love with them since that time.

[nikolajlaulp]

I started listening to LP around 2007, i was hooked on Numb and ITE (Obvious right?). I would say i became a fan around 2008, when i bought MTM, and fell in love with that album. And they've been my favorite band ever since.

[Southpaw262]

What song made Linkin Park most known? Was it One Step Closer, Crawling or In The End?

[GlassCastles]

One Step Closer and Crawling are what got them radio play and some mainstream attention, but In The End was their biggest hit and drew in the most fans.

[Southpaw262]

One Step Closer and Crawling are what got them radio play and some mainstream attention, but In The End was their biggest hit and drew in the most fans.

Thought so. In The End is their "signature" song. It's what cones to mind when people think of Linkin Park.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

ITE was the Rolling In The Deep of the 2001, it was everywhere.

[Jen]

I probably have the strangest "how did you get into listening to LP" story ever. I was pregnant with my first child, in early 2001, and had mtv on, back when they actually still played music videos, and one step closer came on and my daughter started kicking like crazy. It, and she, both had my attention. I guess she liked it.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

 

That story is so fucking EPIC! I love it, you should tell that story to the band members!

Is your son a LP fan???

[linkin_boss]

Spring 2004 for me.

 

I heard their songs before that, but never liked them.

 

Then in 2004 I saw few music videos in school (including fan-made video of In The End (Final Fantasy 9/ATOMX)) and fell in love with them since that time.

 

:3 my story it's quite similar, I started to listen them around Winter 2004, I saw an AMV (It was about Shaman king, with Somewhere I Belong), I got really caught by the song (I didn't listened much music back then), I downloaded both albums and enjoyed them a lot.

[Tyleronlplive]

I knew a few of there songs before i became a big fan, and heard a lot more of them when MTM came out, but I chose 2011 because that was when I started listening to the majority of their songs

[LPMaskMan]

April of 2004 (I know the date becasue I found the files dates of ripping on some data CD few weeks ago. ). A classmate lent me HT and LB's Chocholate Starfish albums on CDs and I ripped them into my PC and listened alot, mostly LP. Also I discovered the music video search in WMP and some fansites like linkinpark2k.com (now defunct but works in archive) and seen pics and videos of the band. I easily got liked their music.

[lpplus]

The first song I heard of LP was OSC in LPU 4 and it was insane but I become an hardcore fan after watching WID music video in 2007.

[Exzero]

2003, I saw Somewhere I belong on MTV. I liked the music, but became not a fan immediatly, it was Numb which put me in a few months later. The music by the band influences me a lot, because of this I'm still a fan today.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

Number of fans according to a certain era:

 

Hybrid Theory era: 18

Meteora era: 19

2005-2006 Hiatus: 12

MTM era: 17

New Divide era: 2

ATS era: 5

LT era: 1

THP era: 0

[leftshoe18]

#HybridTheoryMasterRace

Edited June 12, 2014 by leftshoe18

[andydlp]

I was borderline between late 2000 and early 2001. I was aware of OSC but I think once I heard Crawling, I was like..."I'm getting that album!"

[Trumtram]

11/25/00 9:13pm

 

had the OSC file from napster for a long time. it had the bridge two times which I thought was right until february of 2001 when HT was released in germany.

[itworkedforkurt]

The earliest I could have heard of them might be 2004, but I became a dedicated fan in 2006, when I was nine.

[RiderSSPU]

After 'Meteora'

[thedamian58c]

85 members already voted, and I'm still the one who is a LP fan for the shortest period of time

 

I probably have the strangest "how did you get into listening to LP" story ever. I was pregnant with my first child, in early 2001, and had mtv on, back when they actually still played music videos, and one step closer came on and my daughter started kicking like crazy. It, and she, both had my attention. I guess she liked it.

Does she like LP now?

 

99' after the FYE demo handout.

What is FYE shortcut of? Did you were at any of their shows in 1999?