An ABSOLUTE GEM!! | LINKIN PARK - "The Catalyst" (REACTION)
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Alex Hefner please react to Myukokei Line “A Thousand White Mountains” here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/O8hr70VyBYU/v-deo.html I have it in the audio too so you can put the Album cover on the thumbnail
Gojira- l'enfant sauvage or the gift of guilt!!! 🤘🤘🤘
No, plz
Please react to:
*Disturbed-*
Stupify
Never Again
The animal
Prayer
Open Your Eyes
Another Way To Die
indestructible
*MCR-*
Blood
I Don't Love You
Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
I'm Not Okay
*Linkin Park-*
PB N' Jellyfish
What I've done
No Roads Left
A Line In The Sand
No More Sorrow
Carousel
Rebellion
Guilty All The Same
Bleed it out
Step Up
Lost In The Echo
And One
Reading My Eyes
Rolling In The Deep (cover to Adele)
*Chester Bennington*
~Grey Daze~
No Sun today (Full Album)
Wake Me (Full Album)
Amends (Full Album)
Dead By Sunrise *(Everything!)*
*Mike Shinoda-*
Post Traumatic album
Fort Minor
Fine
Open Door
Rapoligy13 album (by Mike Shinoda and Mr.Hahn)
*Grandson-*
Apologize
Blood//Water
Identity
Riptide
Dirty
6:00
Rock Bottom
Oh No!!!
Despicable
Bills
Bury Me Face Down
Destroy Me
Thoughs & Prayers
Kiss Bang
Best Friends
Stigmata
Happy Pill
*Red Band-*
*Red Band feat Gidi Gov- Hey Brother (cover to Avicii)
*Red Band feat Berry Sakharov- Paint It Black (cover to The Rolling Stones)
*Red Band feat Ninet- Can't Feel My Face (cover to The Weeknd)
*Red Band feat Ninet- Crazy (cover to Gnarls Barkley)
*Full Trunk*
*Full Trunk feat RedBand- Powerful (cover to Major Lazer)
*Damn Right
*Hey Hey
*More
*Let's go
*PLEASE* 🥺
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I dont know why this song is so underrated ... I think this is one of their classics
Underrated?! It has like 194 mln views
1-HYBRID THEORY
2-RE-ANIMATION
3-A THOUSAND SUNS
4-METEORA
5-COLLISON COURSE WITH JAY Z
My Top 5 LP Albums
@@tommasomedici8865 he means its not as popular as their other songs and tbh this is one of my favorite songs
@Christopher Bingham I agree with you a thousands sun is such a good album it's just that I don't think it's underrated
Same with crawling 🔥
Alex, you're on your way to discovery that Linkin Park isn't just Hybrid Theory and Meteora. No, Linkin Park is an experience, a band who didn't follow one riff, who dared to evolve with their music and bring it to the public despite an enormous hate they've been experiencing since 2010.
LP fan for life
Hell yeh!! You get it! Your a real lp street soldier!!
UA-cam should give an option to like twice😑
There’s another great band that’s done something like this.. Parkway Drive. My favorite band. Followed by LP
Thank you for this. I love all of their albums, but honestly, Chester's voice only improved over time and their musical experimentation went through the roof from Minutes to Midnight forward
In my view, they were good in the first 2 albums, but they became great in the 3 after that
The entire "A Thousand Suns" album is absolutely bonkers. Really out there stuff but arguably their best work. Highly recommend doing a start-to-finish listen of that album, IN TRACK ORDER, because it is loosely an apocalyptic concept album. Super dope.
I completely agree. A Thousand Suns and The Hunting Party deserve to be talked about WAY more than they are.
Calling "A Thousand Suns" their best work.... Do you even listen to Linkin Park?
@@HereticAnthem55 what is their best work, in your opinion?
For me its the best album i know... my Brother and i still hear it when we are on a road Trip tohether ☺
100% AGREE!!! IF there's one album to listen to as an "album react"...it's A Thousand Suns!! I really hope Alex does this!!
Linkin Park were honestly so far ahead of the curve for their entire career, always releasing projects that would have been so popular if they'd released a few years later. They got so much flack and hate for being so unique and forward thinking, but their artistic merit really should have never been in question even if the music itself didn't always appeal to some fans.
I feel the created a new music and became the foundation for many new bands. They truly created music.
All that and then *whoosh,* pop album.
I miss Chester so much. :( hate to think I missed him live and we will be without his future.
I know the feeling
Just know although you never got to see him live, his music will forever be immortalised in your soul.
I am glad I got to see them. But I would see them every year if possible.
You should react to whole "A Thousand Suns" album (it's that type of an album, that it's the best, when you listen to it from the beginning to an end). Especially "When They Come For Me".
Tried the ketchup mafacka!
When they come for me is one of my favs. I saw them playing it in a live show and was crazy amazing
@@ragingsavage9059 And all the people say
YESSSS
@@irkhan4505 OH, OH, OH, OH, AAH OH AAH!!
Do Waiting For The End. Chester vocals get to shine a lot there. It's so beautiful and the video is really cool too!
One of their songs that hits the hardest now that he’s gone.
@@drummerAVA yup. For me one of their best songs when they were on their experimental sound. Iridiscent is another great one, though I preffer the album version.
My fav lp song
And iridescent
@@rickf6375 yup, I said that in my other comment xd
Linkin Park - Blackout... another great one
I loved that song, I remember everyone saying Chester went soft and quit screaming and then boom, Blackout came in halfway through that album and I was pumped!!
Yes! Thank you!! Blackout is one of my favorite LP songs and it seems like nobody knows about it.
definitely one of the best of TS - great album though. Blackout is absolut killer - its intense and has a very uncommon mix of sounds. Normally I would say that things like that doesnt work but Blackout proofed me wrong.
All songs are great😉
Another experimental song off the same record as this would be 'When They Come For Me' it has tribal drum patterns, crushing blasts of electronic noise, rapping, screaming, Chester does some wailing sounds that remind me of south asian music, Brad is yelling in spanish through a microphone...it's got a lot going on.
Fuck yea! "When they come for me" would be awesome for Alex to review
When they come for me is so different and cool!
The ketchup song. 😂
I gotta be honest here... I’ve heard When They Come For Me thousands of times now... I can’t say I remember there being any screaming 😂 badass song though.
@@sebastianjennings1159 Brad is yelling on the megaphone in the back while chester sings hahah
Seriously??? How many times am I gonna need to remind you that you still haven't reacted to Guilty All The Same by Linkin Park!
A line in the sand, Until it's gone, Rebellion.... The Hunting Party got a lot of good songs
@@arthurfariasandrade2381 The Hunting Party is by far their most underrated album.
@@Ben_Jones I really don't know why he still hasn't reacted to this great album.....
Ben Kreviazuk I will admit I didn’t like this album a whole lot the first few times I listened to it. Now it’s one of my favorites. Underrated for sure
Yes please!!!!!!!!
Fun fact: This track was mixed by a fan who won a contest that LP held before the record was released. Also react to "lost in the echo"
Wow, but they didn't use his/hers song structure though right? Remember this competition well,
here is my version (yes, I was noob at mixing, but still like my idea) ua-cam.com/video/cxT0qAhcDuE/v-deo.html
@@DaP84 as far as I know they used the whole song. I remember Mike talking about it, saying that they pick that one as the winner because it fit the experimental sound of the record perfectly.
@@caddermeran the fan's name is NoBrain. His version is on UA-cam and it's not the one on the record that Alex is reacting to (don't know if that's what you're saying).
that's really poorly worded, it sounds like the record version was mixed by a fan. it was actually a remix
@Sairam LP THIS song wasn't mixed by a fan. a fan did a remix of it and won a contest and his version was also released officially
You gotta listen to "The Messenger" by LP!!
It's acoustic and Chester rules!
That's my favorite song he sung
That would be cool, of course!
The Messenger always hits me so hard emotionally
I immediately thought of those lyrics when I found out about his death. Like... to sing that and not feel it, that really hurt to realize. I wish he’d been able to take it to heart and hold on to that.
The message behind this song and this album as a whole is hinted at in the name 'A Thousand Suns'. It comes from the quote “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one," by J. Robert Oppenheimer who in turn, quoted it from the Bhagavad Gita (a Hindu religious book). Oppenheimer was part of the Manhattan Project and is known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb. He quoted this after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, mostly in awe and regret for what he had created. If I'm not wrong, the entire album is meant to reflect this - a sense of regret and despair that humanity is tearing ourselves apart, creating the tools of our own undoing.
how did you know the meaning behind this?
Also worth mentioning that A Thousand Suns has a track called Jornada del Muerto ( Journey of the dead) which is also the name of the road that lead to the testing site for the atomic bombs during the Manhattan Project.
The Catalyst has the lines "lift me up, let me go" which are also referenced in Jornada del Muerto, which lyrics are simply "mochiagete tokihanashite", which is Japanese for "lift me up, let me go".
So the song named after the road leading to the atomic testing site has Japanese lyrics referencing The Catalyst. This confused the hell out of me until I realized that atomic bombs were only used in war in one place....
The song that absolutely polarized the entire fanbase but comes down the line as one of the best f*cking songs Linkin Park has ever written, produced and played.
The first release from their first "non rock" Album, I remember that I hated this track (and the album) when it came out, but now it's one of my favorites (A Thousand Suns and Living Things)!
@@pauloh.2588 same it had to grow on me. Heard it first at the VMAs lol
Ok, The Cataylst done, now please do a reaction to Wretches and Kings, When They Come for Me and Blackout. You will not be disappointed, trust me :P
What about the little things give you away
if you are using songs of THE HUNTING PARTY album why not "rebellion"?
@@ricardobeltranmonribot3182 Well, because these are from A Thousands Sun, not The Hunting Party ;)
@@adk_jpg you are right, I have that album and i didn't remember the songs in it, that's the problem when you use the mix tape of youtube instead of using the play list from the official site
definetly blackout its pretty unerated
Alex: "Who does keyboard solos?"
Dream Theater: "Am I a joke to you?"
The keyboard solo in Robot Boy is over a minute long.
It's not a keyboard solo. It's Mr. Hahn solo.
@@michalfaic1332 In the tracks for the song it's titled DJ Solo but Mr. Hahn does it so you're not wrong.
3:27 the song starts so you don't have to watch raid shadow legends add 👍
Thanks 👌😂💪🏼
I wish I saw this before I waited for him to be done with his ad.
MVP right there
YES!THANK YOU FOR REACTING TO THE SONG!The whole album is great!
Yep
In my opinion it's there best album (maybe after Meteora)
No no sorry it's the best album
Fack I don't know
@@shmebulock4521 It is.Im saying the same.I like all the albums, but ATS is my absolute favorite
@@arcane3943 My conclusion is that all of their albums are my favorites😂😂😂
What a paradox
Linkin Park is my all time favorite band, and it gives me great joy to see someone discovering EVERY one of their amazing songs! I've enjoyed binging your LP reaction videos from the last few months, and I hope you eventually get through all their songs. Catalyst is definitely a cool track, with a great video.
A thousand suns is their most underrated album. Is one of those albums you gotta listen to it from beginning to end as 1. Is a whole
Story.
Linkin Park - Lost in the Echo
Yes just yes
I dont know what Linkin Park songs you've done, but here are my favorites.
In the End
Numb
What ive done
Breaking the Habit
Castle of glass
Faint
New divide
Burn it down
The Catalyst
One step closer
Crawling
Final Masquerade
Lost in the echo?
he’s done all in that list but what i’ve done and burn it down
Wastedland waiting for the end.
I just love watching how you're vibing to their music. The Catalyst is one of the best of their songs, in my opinion. The whole ATS album is a gem. They didn't deserve the hate they got for it, it's an amazing album
This song is amazing. Chester was a brilliant lyricist and Mike is a visionary.
More LP songs from the same album that you will absolutely love:
- BLACKOUT
- WAITING FOR THE END
- WHEN THEY COME FOR ME
Where burning in the skies?
Blackout is the top of the top for me
Robot Boy
I’m 36. I heard Chester’s voice at beginning of the song and started tearing. DAMN I miss him. Loved this electric/digital side of LP. This whole album jammed as a whole.
NEW DIVIDE
One of the most underrated LP songs ever... Known widely as the Transformers 2 song
he already reacted to that song, go check it out
How has no one mentioned the In The End Demo that just dropped last week? It’s so good
I don't know.
I wanted to add it to my list but everyone writes to me it's too long....
I've been waiting for someone to write he must react it.
Thank you
Sorry about my English
What do you think of Mike's verse in the Crawling demo?
PLEASE react to: in pieces by Linkin Park!!!!
It's so underrated.
And the complete album A Thousand Suns 😁😁😁😁Especially Wretches and Kings .... you’ll LOVE LOVE LOVE it - promised 👍👍👍
Do an Album marathon of Minutes to Midnight or A Thousand suns
both
Both please
Really, he just needs to do the full diskography. Everything is so unique to it's own album after Meterora
Ive always loved Chester's amazing voice, but damn does Mike have such a soothing singing voice too.
When youve reacted to all 87 linkin parks tracks, i guess youll stop reacting to linkin park tracks! Till then im sat waiting for the next linkin park track
Don't forget the demos and the demo's demos!
@@evolove3602 exactly lol
!tough to get anyone to react to the demos, believe me , i do try 😍
The 20th anniversary of HT has 80 tracks :D
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Thats my favorite LP album. The entire album is amazing.
It took me such a long time to like this album, it was so different from all of their previous albums! It's now one of my favorites ever!
WRETCHES AND KINGS!
"When they come for me" is fire mann, you should do that next 🔥🔥🔥
Let's be honest outside of that brief ad you've not played any of that game.
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I thought the same thing. It can't be that everyone suddenly absolutely "loves" that game at the same time
its disingenuous but at the end of the day youtubers make good money off these ads. respect to those who turn it down, but i cant fault the ones that don't.
@@silverblade43 It's just kinda annoying that every youtuber tells me about this "new" game that everyone has been talking about for months now. I know what it's about and I know that it's supposed to be AWESOME but I ain't gonna play it. It doesn't matter how many people tell me about it. No offense to you of course and no offense to him, I'm just really annoyed by this
@@cr1s1s0ff41th the game is just a trash cash cow. there are much better games. they just have the best advertisement. and no offense, i get annoyed as well by how almost every youtuber has this sponsor as well. just gotta think it helps the youtuber and forget about it.
I was having a crappy time and watched all your LP videos together and it's so beautiful to see that even today people feel exhilarated and right at home with LP music as much as I. ❤️
This honestly is one of my favorite songs. Live was such a joy to see LP perform this song.
You should also do Its Going Down - The Executioners feat. Linkin Park, Satic X
Such a great song!!!
pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Chester and Brad was there behind Mike in parts.
yo you gotta react to the entire A Thousand Suns album🖤🖤
Wretches and Kings! Wretches and Kings! Omg do it, you won't be disappointed.
The hunting part is a must listen, great newer album. Perfect blend of heavy and lighter songs wile still getting a message across
Rest in peace legend chester bennington
Dude, I said it when you finished the Meteors listen through. GO listen to the rest of their albums if you liked how different the Catalyst is check out the rest of A Thousand Suns, it's all very like this an album ment to be played through track by track
I love this song A Thousand Suns is my favorite album it's phenomenal, it's a lot different than other albums, which they tended to change it up every album, aside from Hybrid Theory and Meteora that are similar, but still different from song to song, and that's one of the things I loved most about Linkin Park, you can't get bored when every album was something new and unique.
This is EXACTLY my reaction every single time I hear this perfect song. Literally gives me chills always. I love so much. Linkin Park is my second favorite band of all time and I can't describe how much it means to me, when Chester died I felt like some part of me died too, it's really hard to think that I'll never have the opportunity of telling him personally all that he did to me and still does. I think you should listen to the album Post Traumatic of Mike Shinoda, is a masterpiece and helped me to pass through this whole situation, now I can listen and sing to Over Again without crying, but still hard and really sad. Anyway, I hope Chester is doing well , wherever he is, I will always be grateful for everything that Linkin Park has been doing to me and a lot of people out there
Alex, react to Burning In The Skies
yes please. Definitely in my top 5 LP songs. Love the intro music.
@@JohnnyThr33Tears Mine too
Yesss
yes its one of there best songs in opinion
Reacts to "Untils it's gone" by Linkin Park
Alex yesterday: Bring Me the Horizon is my favorite band
Alex today: Linkin Park makes THE BEST music
This is one of my favs of theirs (even though all of them are so good and i have a lot of favs) this one holds a special place in my heart cuz its so underrated and doesnt recieve the love it totally deserves
Yes! Finally another Linkin Park song!
Keyboard solos?
*Rammstein has entered the chat*
The first time i heard this song was on the mtv vma’s. That was the last great performance from a rock band on the vma’s. That was fucking awesome!!!
Knock knock. Okay
Behind this track:- The song's theme is war. It was featured in the trailer for the video game "Medal of Honour" made by Electronic Arts. Bassist David "Phoenix" Farrell told USA Today, "When we were talking with EA and being familiar with the 'Medal of Honor' title I think the song made a lot of sense. The song itself has got some dark undertones and it's got a lot of energy in it. It kind of just fits with the subject matter."
The line "Living under loaded gun" refers to the nuclear arsenal. The title of the album is a reference to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, who said, "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one."
Mike Shinoda explained the concept of the song's music video to MTV News, "If you could imagine when nuclear fission was invented, or a moment in time when something can be used for positive or negative. Something can be beautiful or it can be destructive."
1st listen to this song back in the day, I wasn't impressed because it was so different. Fast forward to now, this song is in my top 5 Linkin Park all time songs!❤
Same here, love the ehole album
Great song..
React to the whole The Hunting Party album by Linkin Park
Do you mean “hunting party “ not hungry party! Damn that auto correct 🤣👍
@@markhelyard6664 Hahahah I didn't notice! Thx lol
That’s the first song that made me love LP. The videoclip was released hours before my computer sciences class and I got sent to the principals office in junior high because I couldn’t stop watching it and that’s how I became obsessed with them.
I mean I already knew the band but was not that into rock metal or rap yet but they made me love them and along with them all the different genres they experimented with throughout the years.
I only have love for this band and it makes me happy whenever I see people enjoying their music.
Is one of their best creations, is simply their name, their personality in everything, I loved so much, nice video dude!!
Bro listen to "When They Come For Me" from A Thousand Suns. It's my personal favorite from that album. Mike's rapping skills are on point on that one
Please you need to react to “and one live rock am ring “ from linkin park!
more man more we need more of those linkin park reactions there are many songs....... thanku keep doing this..... you're great
Remember this was the song they did for the medal of honour game played at the end and was immense 😁😂
Listen to their newly released old demo songs Linkin Park Could have been demo. It is the best linkin park song released recently.
Finally ❤️❤️
Pls react to Guilty All the same by linkin park
Recently, I often listen to this track in training and after more than 10 years I still have nagging skin from it. Especially from the long version, not the clip. Super bursting ending, directly revives you from the ashes. One of the band's coolest songs. I miss Chester and the new material from the band, the state of anticipation for the release of a fresh new album. Sorry for bad English.
Your breakdowns of the music lyrics at the end of the video is the best part honestly and sets U apart from other reaction UA-camrs. Your ability to understand this stuff is amazing keep it up.
Still gotta Check out Wrethes and Kings by LP
Bro listen to “Hands Held High” by linkin park it does a great job showing mikes talents
I don't why nobody talk about these masterpiece.
Dude it's been my biggest bummer to never being able to see LP play live, I've been a fan of LP forever and seing somebody dicovering their universe and having the exact same thoughts on them that I've been having, it's an amazing feeling, knowing that their music touches people even now, even when they didn't know them when they were around... It makes me proud to be a fan ! So thank you for that man!
Thank you for all the positivity you bring in your videos, you're actually doing Chesters job, giving hope to the ones who need it!
The whole album A Thousand Suns is a masterpiece
All Shall Perish: Divine Illusion, or Awaken The Dreamers. Eddie Hermida has an insane vocal range!
"It can't be outfought
"It can't be outdone"
"It can't be outmatched"
"It can't be outrun"
Those lyrics literally describe how everyone feels about covid 19 its like an unstoppable thing that we can't beat
Gives me the creeps
we can't beat any other sicknesses either as well as other viruses so what is your point? Life goes on :D
Great reaction. I've always loved this song from LP. It wasn't loved by everyone when it came out but it's stood the test of time.
Waiting for the end is epic song, hope to see it eventually as well!
Hmmmm anyone wondering what next Full LP album when he hits 600k real soon!?!?
It's must be.....
Ahhh....
I don't know....
All the albums are so good....
But honestly I think it'll be minute to midnight....
He has react to hybrid theory and meteora (first and second) and minute to midnight is the third....
That's true yo.
@@samuelmachia6409 I hope it's true... 😅
Lol
I've just guessed
You have to listen to valentines day by LP
One of their best songs imo! So glad you reacted to this!
This takes me back to riding my bike to school in middle school. This and Crawling were my favorite songs back then. I keep seeing this one street where I rocked out to it like there was nothing else in the world, trying to get the lyrics into my brain
before you react to any more ATS songs, know that ATS is a concept album that tells a story, so it's best if you react to the entire album IN ORDER, to get the full experience :)
Also, please PLEASE react to Lost In The Echo, the music video is wonderful and VERY emotional
Dude when are u going to react to GRAY DAZE ....its got teenage chester vocals!!!!!and he still sounds so goood
The whole A Thousands Suns album is nothing short of pure brilliance
I love your video's. The positive vibes and quirky jokes never fail to brighten my day, along with your enthusiastic reaction's to songs
Please react to Waiting for the End or Burn It Down....that will be dope
Great reaction crack
Awesome Reaction Bro! Plz react to Waiting For The End By Linkin Park 🙌🏽
This is one of my favorite songs of theirs and I'm so glad you reacted to it.
This song got me into them ten years ago. It started my journey through their discog and into metal. It's responsible for who I am today. Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns (the album this song is from) is probably my favourite album of all time and means so damn much to me. Especially The Catalyst.
I'm glad you enjoy this other side of them as well, my man!
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Linkin park was the one band who was criticized a lot for evolving their music with time. But I find their music very very unique, always keeping it original.
It was Mike Shinoda playing the keyboard in all their songs😉
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Dead By April - Warrior
Amaranthe - GG6
Dead By April - Numb cover
Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
Sabaton - Lion From The North
I feel you man. I missed out on a LP concert in Amsterdam couple months before chester passed. Would've been my first and only LP show, I still regret not going.
Also, I've been a LP fan since the beginning. I never got to go to a concert, so I feel your pain as well. Seeing them was on my bucket list, a dream and it'll never happen now :(
Just keeping track for you, the likes for "Break In" are up from 205 (a week ago) to 210 as of today. Please consider the OVER TWO HUNDRED people who would like to see your reaction to "Break In" soon. 0_0 👍
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I subscribed because of your Linkin Park Reactions!!! I love all your videos but i stay for LP!!! Fly high and rest easy Chester, We miss and love you.
Honestly one of my favorite songs by then. I really think you would like the video to Waiting For The End. I have lyrics from that one tattooed on my arm. Fucking love it and the cinematography is awesome to boot.