Linkin Park is... a flash in the pan that pails in comparison to true rock legends. There I said it (and I suspect that's what the original poster wanted or needed to hear). I don't know but someone alert the spam police... oh wait...
Why would it be depressing? I don't enjoy their music at all but it's awesome that there are different views in our community! A bit unfair to assume he's young just because he likes Linkin Park lol. Regardless, it is a wind up - it's just over-spill from the Linkin Park thread. Let the poor guy think he's being funny
I could name 50 bands that are better in the last 30 years or so. I figure the OP has a strange sense of humor.
I bet you can't even list 40. Just noticed that my jerk phone auto corrected the thread title and changed the great Linkin Park to Linking Park. My apologies to all the Parker Brothers out there.
Everything's subjective to taste, there's no rulebook to donate which band is the best as it's a nonsense statement.
The only good song they have ever put out is Burn It Down. and that's only relatively good. That rapper dude sucks.
I know that post wasn't directed at me, but I'll list you almost 400 bands that are way better than Linkin Park. Clann Zu Fugazi World/Inferno Friendship Society Walt Mink Pavement Mission of Burma The Dismemberment Plan Red Animal War Marnie Stern The Constantines The Hold Steady Superchunk Mock Orange Burning Airlines Duvall Wild Flag Cap'n Jazz Drunken Boat Slint Black Taj Electric Six And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Sw!ms The Clean The Exploding Hearts The Marked Men Dan Vapid and the Cheats The Modern Machines The Briefs The Ramones X A.C. Newman The Bood Radleys Elvis Costello Of Montreal Air Miami The 6ths The Olivia Tremor Control The Mice Velocity Girl Les Savy Fav These Arms Are Snakes Le Tigre Pere Ubu Pinkish Black Ghosts of Modern Man Challenger Nation of Ulysses Unwound Submission Hold Sugar The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir Smog Frank Turner The Mountain Goats The Handsome Family Surjan Stevens Iron and Wine Bon Iver Roky Erickson Richard Thompson Screaming Females The Jesus Lizard Boris God Bullies Planes Mistaken for Stars Pissed Jeans Wool Ryan's Hope A Wilhelm Scream Strung Out None More Black The War on Drugs Silkworm Telekinesis Afghan Whigs Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Vampire Weekend Aloha Shearwater Braid Denali Morrissey Robert Pollard Office of Future Plans Hellbender Black Mountain Japandroids The Libertines The Promise Ring 12Rods Danielson Greg MacPherson Band Micah P. Hinson Even as We Speak The National Doug Martsch XTC Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Archers of Loaf Colossal The Silver Jews Ghost Good for Cows The Dirty Three Don Caballero The Pixies Sebadoh The Capstan Shafts Caustin Resin Polvo Dinosaur Jr. Sonic Youth Guitar Wolf Shallec Screaming Trees Ex-Girl Hardvark Bedhead Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Triclops Centro-Matic Surgery This Heat Throbbing Gristle Minutemen Erectur Monotone Wavves Squirrel Bait The Thermals Opal Murder City Devils Sharpie Crows Angst The Gun Club Love Battery Mudhoney The Leaving Trains Turbonegro The Stooges Black Sabbath Kylesa Mastodon The Sword Saint Vitus Harvey Milk Sweet Cobra Baroness Red Fang Akimbo The Melvins Kvelertak Pailhead Sleater-Kinney Disco Inferno Iceage No Age The Epoxies The Dodos Nomeansno Six Finger Satellite Hoover Hella The Evens 31Knots Wolf Parade Ride Interpol Oneida Medications Death The International Noise Conspiracy Reigning Sound Crystal Skulls The Magnetic Fields Modest Mouse The Mekons Liz Phair Red House Painters American Music Club Solomon Burke Fleet Foxes Foetus Dogbowl Wilco Elliott Brood Neko Case Morphine The Jesus and Mary Chain Minus the Bear Destroyer Big Star The Clash M. Ward St. Vincent Okkervil River TV on the Radio Sigur Ros Crooked Fingers Sunny Day Real Estate Stereolab Ween The Residents Eggs Troubled Hubble The Talking Heads Cocteau Twins Jim O' Rourke My Dad Is Dead Fingers Cut Megamachine Kathleen Edwards Jeff Buckley Tallulah Gosh The Last Yo La Tengo The Magnolia Electric Co. Julie Doiron Owen Pallett Bauhaus Granddaddy Brightblack Morning Light The Shins Tobin Sprout Ryan Adams Frankie Rose The Weakerthans American Football Drive-By Truckers Lambchop The Spinanes Bonnie "Prince" Billy Filthy Thieving Bastards Chisel The Glow Title Tracks Rowland S. Howard Servotron The Cute Lepers Los Campesinos The Urinals Ned's Atomic Dustbin Brandtson The Frenetics The Dead Milkmen The Undertones Black Lips Toys That Kill Fake Problems Lifetime Smoking Popes Jawbreaker Hot Water Music Jawbox The Observers Gray Matter Zero Boys The Angry Samoans Articles of Faith GBH Black Flag The Adolescents Negative Approach Fear Void The Dayglo Abortions Big Boys Die Kreuzen Circle Jerks Minor Threat Rites of Spring The Wipers Wire Bars of Gold Cloud Nothings Smart Went Crazy Crain Elastica Cosmic Psychos SSM The Birthday Party Other Men Superconductor Clinic Devo Paul Westerberg Bob Mould Beat Happening Valexica Jens Lekman Elliott Smith Perfume Genius Unrest Jeremy Enigk Spiritualized My Bloody Valentine Matmos The Faint Q and Not U The Flaming Lips Deerhunter Talk Talk Belle and Sebastian This Mortal Coil Thin Lizzy Televison Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Owen Chrome Dead Red Sea Low The Ex Chokebore Holy Rollers Come Loop Capsize 7 Gaunt Attack in Black Boredoms Sun O))) Neurosis Blut Aus Nord Today Is the Day Big Business Boysetsfire F*cked Up Dead Boys From Ashes Rise Naked Raygun Colossamite Desert City Soundtrack Life at These Speeds Black Market Baby Helmet Death of Samantha Buzzcocks The Cuts Radon Leatherface Descendents Screeching Weasel Off with Their Heads The Vandals The Lillinctons Sloppy Seconds Mean Jeans Discount The Spits Snapcase Coalsce The Dillinger Escape Plan Converge Pig Destroyer Big Black Tenement Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Shudder to Think Lungfish Sun City Girls Meat Puppets Built to Spill Zumpano Guided by Voices Future of the Left Torche Hot Snakes Alice Donut The Cows Embrace The Dwarves Didjits New Bomb Turks The Supersuckers The Damned White Lung Feedtime Scratch Acid Dead Kennedys T.S.O.L. Subhumans Avail No Use for a Name The Lawrence Arms Against Me! Bad Religion The Real McKenzies Dillinger Four The Arrivals Crimpshrine Male Bonding The Gits Nuclear Santa Claust Paint It Black Cave-In Zeke The Holy Mountain High on Fire Meshuggah Behemoth Buried Inside Obscura Jesu Killdozer Unsane Benton Falls The Deadly Snakes The Turpentine Brothers Dum Dum Girls The Men Parts and Labor Kurt Vile Blonde Redhead The Halo Benders Titus Andronicus The Fall Yeasayer M83 Washed Out Public Image Ltd. Animal Collective Cat Power Cass McCombs The Pogues 3Ds Grenadine The Wrens Tom Waits Killing Joke Parquet Courts Firehose The New Pornographers The Replacements Husker Du Jets to Brazil
And anyone can copy/paste lists, why bother. (Not disagreeing with list above, mind you.) Just debating about matter of taste is pointless. I bet for someone Lp is biggest band ever, who am I disagree with that even I cant stand it personally.