but I know they had that song "Faint" on there and "Figure.09", and I was a Linkin Park fan at the time (I wanted a rap album but my parents wouldn't let me get an Eminem album so I sold them on "rap with guitars"...smh. Used to jam to Hybrid Theory on headphones playing my PS2 copy of Time Crisis 2 all the time after school though!)

I don't see Nickelback surprising their audience with songs like I was by that stuff, or the Reanimation stuff. I was pretty much over Linkin Park by the time Meteora dropped 'cause I'd discovered the Pitchfork and Source lists and was getting heavy into all kinds of canon but, yeah, I'd wager Linkin Park's discography takes more risks than Nickelback's has or will. Which is pretty impressive for a band that was basically assembled by casting call if I remember right.

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