History Trivia / LinkinPark

** They've also grown wearing of "Crawling," now that they've become aware of it's [[MemeticMutation memetic status]] of mocking Wangst.

** Chester revealed in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UTX_GgNzEY Scuzz TV]] interview that, while recording "Hybrid Theory", execs wanted to fire Mike and make him the sole frontman. Chester outright refused because he knew if Mike was fired (as the band's primary songwriter and producer), the rest of the band would walk out with him and Chester would be out of a job.

* BlackSheepHit: "Breaking The Habit", an electronic song without distorted guitars in it, and "Numb", a ballad. Both from their album Meteora, and both would substantially influence the direction they would take afterwards. Notably, neither song features Mike Shinoda on vocals, and it contributed to the perception of Chester as the frontman.

** One of their songs being used for a ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' [[GundamVsSeries video game]] probably got a {{Squee}} out of at least one of the guys.

** Averted in that the band has to come to terms with their past and they have begun playing "retired" songs, like "Runaway", again while on tour for their newest album, ''LIVING THINGS''. As this album is seen as a melding together of the group's old and new.

** One of their songs being used for a ''{{Gundam}}'' [[GundamVsSeries video game]] probably got a {{Squee}} out of at least one of the guys.

** They had a [[{{Halo}} "Halo Bus"]] during 2004 where they challenged other bands to tournaments and were, by their own accounts, unstoppable. They also recorded a song that shares its name with the franchise and has a running time of [[AIIsACrapshoot three minutes and forty-three seconds]].

* TrollingCreator: The band's co-vocalist Mike Shinoda has had shades of this in the last few years. Teasing snippets of new songs only leading to unrelated YouTube videos or claiming that a band member had quit. Recently Mike sent a link out on Twitter touting new pictures from the upcoming fifth album. When clicked, the link sends fans to a picture of a [[VisualPun Troll]] [[LampshadeHanging doll]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:

** One of their songs being used for a ''{{Gundam]}}'' [[GundamVsSeries video game]] probably got a {{Squee}} out of at least one of the guys.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://wiki.lpassociation.com/index.php/Main_Page Yep]]

** There were several more artists lined up to remix tracks for ''Reanimation'', including Prince Paul, Z-Trip and Tricky.

* TheCameo: Frontman Chester Bennington has small roles in the movies {{Crank}}, [[{{Crank}} Crank: High Voltage]], and [[{{Saw}} Saw 3-D]].

* PromotedFanboy: Mike after working with Rick Rubin, the man behind some of his favorite albums such as ''[[RunDMC Raising Hell]]''. While recording ''A Thousand Suns'', he had a nerdgasm after getting to play with the same 808s drum machine used on that album.

** They had a [[{{Halo}} "Halo Bus"]] during 2004 where they challenged other bands to tournaments and were, by their own accounts, unstoppable. They also recorded a song that shares its name with the franchise and coincidentally has a running time of three minutes and forty-three seconds.

** And the fact they had a [[{{Halo}} "Halo Bus"]] during 2004 where they challenged other bands to tournaments and were, by their own accounts, unstoppable.

* HeyItsThatVoice: There are plenty of acclaimed underground rappers present on ''Reanimation'', such as Pharoahe Monch, Chali 2na and Black Thought as well as fellow nu-metal alumni [[{{Korn}} Jonathan Davis]] and Aaron Lewis of Staind.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Breaking the Habit" was originally conceived as an instrumental [[EpicRocking lasting over ten minutes]]. It was recorded at a more sane length, dubbed "Drawing" and that version eventually made it onto the ninth [=LPU EP=].

* HeyItsThatVoice: There are plenty of acclaimed underground rappers present on ''Reanimation'', such as Pharoahe Monch, Chali 2na and Black Thought as well as fellow nu-metal alumni [[{{ Korn}}Jonathan Davis]] and Aaron Lewis of Staind.

* "Session" or "Cure For The Itch" was used in a video for Apollo Anton Onno's background for the 2006 or 2010 Winter Olympics.