What car were you in, when you first listened to Linkin Park?

"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce) 07/20/2017 at 16:02 • Filed to: None

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Not to pile on with the reports, but I heard about the news of Chester’s suicide and like millions of others, memories of high school came rushing back to me. But there was one in particular - a memory of a dark green Plymouth Acclaim.

It was my friend Andrew’s. It was where I first heard the song “Papercut” and where a group of 4 of us belted out the lyrics to a good number of the songs on the Hybrid Theory album on our way to and from school. It was a pretty decent car with good paint and a clean interior. But he had spent a bunch of his money on the sound system and it broke at least one rearview mirror of his (and if you believe him, one of the passenger windows too). And I kinda realized while reflecting on this memory that linkin park was the quintessential type of music to blast out of your high school shitbox.

SO how about the rest of you? What car were you in when you first heard (or blasted) linkin park?

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:05

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Charcoal Gray Volvo 240 wagon. The local rock station pretty much only played Linkin Park. Crushing that car was a great decision. Such a shit car.

Ash78, voting early and often > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:07

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I was in my MkIII Golf in college, just a few years after I was listening to Korn and I started to get pissed off that someone could write bad high school poetry, tune their guitar to Drop D, and make millions of dollars.

But I digress...this is still a sad, sad tragedy to lose anyone like this. Reminds me of Slipknot’s bassist just a few years ago. It seems like suicide affects a lot of artists, both music and screen. I hope that these trends continue to keep putting depression and mental illness in the spotlight. That’s something very close to my family, as well as my wife’s.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:08

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I was in my friend’s dad’s Kia Sportage, same song as you “papercut.” Listened to them ever since.

Die-Trying > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:08

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still runs, still moves.......would like to make it more peppy though......

Arrivederci > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:09

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I’m guessing my first car - a 1993 Mustang LX hatchback. Hybrid Theory really was excellent.

EL_ULY > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:10

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One exactly like this with a 4cyl auto. 9th grade. I think the name of the band was Hybrid Theory when I popped the CD in. Must have been a demo? I know the first album was called that but on this bootleg disc, there was nothing that said Linkin Park

Tripper > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:11

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My first “car”. A Red Mazda Protege 5

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:11

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I’m. It sure but probably my sisters silver 86 Volvo 740 GLT. Man that was a nice car the blue crush velour interior has left mark in my mind. Our grand parents gave her a Pontiac Sunfire as a present to replace it. More of a curse than a gift.

Mercedes Streeter > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:15

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I was playing Gran Turismo, from what I recall it was Gran Turismo 4, and I was doing one of the cool 24 hour races. A friend brought over a Hybrid Theory CD and it was love ever since..

Robert Belvin > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:17

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I went to high school with their original bassist, and I bought an ‘80 Mercedes SLC 380 from his dad. I don’t remember when I first heard them though, cause it was everywhere at my high school

Jcarr > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:17

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1991 Isuzu Trooper. Like this, but gray. Remember hearing them for the first time on the radio sometime in high school.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:19

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A 2011 Ford escapes. We were heading to The Indy 500 and burn it down came on the radio. It was the same year franchitti won his last 500

Dave the car guy , still here > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:21

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My 1998 A4 B5 quattro.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > EL_ULY 07/20/2017 at 16:22

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Hybrid theory was their first album as the band Linkin Park but maybe they had a different name before? Idk. Maybe it was some bad bootlegging.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Robert Belvin 07/20/2017 at 16:23

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OOooooooooo. Sweet car.

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:23

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1995 Corolla, automatic. I looked, but I don’t think I have any digital photos of it. My brother was into Linkin Park more than I was, but I begrudgingly started to enjoy them. The Miami Vice movie cemented them as “good” in my memories.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Bryan doesn't drive a 1M 07/20/2017 at 16:24

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Awww yes, a proper high school shitbox car!

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:29

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Hey, you take that back! It was... ok, it was not great. I bonded with it eventually, though. I still remember my dad explaining to me that it wasn’t built to be a race car. A lot of people get confused when they see a 1995 Corolla and think it might be a race car. It is not.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:34

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Narrowing it down to family cars only, it must have been this:

This is the car we had up until we got a 2002MY Caravan (not even the grand one). Considering when they came out and how long it’s been, it could’ve been the Caravan.

Wacko > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:37

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My 91 Cavalier Z24

just like this

with my 12 cd JVC changer and a 12 inch BOSS sub in the truck.

Robert Belvin > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:39

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Crappy thing is that I never even got to drive it- I rolled it down the block to my apartment because it needed a fuel pump, and I ended up moving due to some extreme circumstances and had to leave it behind. So I ended up paying for the car, then paying for it to be impounded with no way to get it back. It’s all good though, I’m sure somebody somewhere still has it lol

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Bryan doesn't drive a 1M 07/20/2017 at 16:39

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And to be fair, the difference between a shitbox and a “proper” shitbox is that a plain shitbox is awful and terrible. A “proper” shitbox is bad/boring, but it has juuuuust enough personality and is solid enough to be admirable, in a way. I like proper shitboxes. I wouldn’t mind having a late 90s civic with clean sheet metal and worn seats to use as a runabout. Put an okay set of speakers in it and paint the steelies with fresh silver paint every year - BAM! Proper shitbox.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:41

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1993 Dodge Caravan SE short wheelbase with the 3.0L Mitsubishi V6....I miss that van. Mom was going through a divorce then, so it only got the most basic of maintenance and it never let us down once except for one dead fuel pump that let go 200m from the dealership...wish I had another just like it for posterity!

CaptDale - is secretly British > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:41

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Let’s see popular late 90's so I think it would have been my Mom’s late 7th gen Chevy Suburban much like this one

notsomethingstructural > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:45

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here on oppo we call them linkin drive, or ideally linkin dogleg first

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Wacko 07/20/2017 at 16:45

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YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS. SO HIGH SCHOOL!

cbell04 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:48

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1992 ford tempo I didn’t have these cooler wheels but best i could gis

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > cbell04 07/20/2017 at 16:49

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ooooooooooooooooo yes. Was it a coupe too?

cbell04 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 16:52

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Yep 4cyl 5 speed.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 17:03

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my grandparents old motorhome, my friend gave me a burned copy of hybrid theory to listen to when my grandparents and cousin and i drove out to the grandcanyon

Nibbles > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 17:49

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Certain it was my 1987 Toyota SR-5 pickup (man this truck has been brought up a lot lately; maybe I should see if I can find another one).

I had one of those motorized head units. When the truck was off, it was pitch-black. Turned it on and the buttons would whirr their way out from below the panel

KnowsAboutCars > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 18:15

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Taking into account that I rarely listen to music in a car there are few options.

Option #1 white N14 Nissan Sunny sedan, the first family car with a radio. But I listened to stations that I don’t think played Linkin Park so it probably wasn’t the Sunny.

Option #2 dark blue facelifted 5th gen euro market Toyota Hiace. I spent a short period of time working in a certain job that had me spending quite a lot of time in a van with few guys who almost exclusively listened to a rock station. We had two other vans too that weren’t Toyotas but I spent the first week or so in the Hiace and the radio station only had so many songs they kept repeating so if I heard Linkin Park during my stay there I first heard it in the Hiace.

Your boy, BJR > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 18:21

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Don’t know. Don’t really care. Lets not act like they haven’t been a punchline since 2008. I mean, when Chad Kroger dies, will people act like they respected nickelback?

Sucks that guy killed himself though.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Your boy, BJR 07/20/2017 at 18:34

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By all means, feel free to not like the band. Definitely not for everyone, but I never understood why they were a punchline in the first place outside of a collective “Yeeeeeeep, I liked this in high school when I was emotionally unstable and didn’t know how to feel things well”. I’m not about to sit up here and go on like they were idols for me or anything, but their music was part of a lot of my memories for a few years and I bonded with a lot of people over them. I never went to their concerts or bought shirt and merch or stuff, but I *still* have a couple songs of theirs in my rotations.

So again, by all means, I respect that they aren’t super amazing and perfect and wrote anything that you HAVE to listen to. If you don’t like it, it doesn’t affect that I did, and I still do. But no reason to be a fucking dick about it.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 18:45

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1991 Jetta eco diesel with a sound system that was worth more than the car.

I think was finishing up bleeding the brakes there.

fhrblig > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 20:01

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I was 25 when that came out, and I had just bought a 1993 Geo Prizm LSi to replace my beat up old Chevy Sprint. I didn’t care for them, tbh. Actually, when I found out that that’s how they spelled their name, I HATED them. Fun fact about me, sometimes I hold irrational grudges against musicians. Anyway, the older I’ve gotten the more I’m just merely indifferent to them. They have their moments, but they’re not for me. I can appreciate how this affects those who were into that band, though. My heart goes out to him, and anyone else who has ever felt that there was just no other way than to end it all.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > fhrblig 07/20/2017 at 20:09

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Did you have a sprint turbo?

fhrblig > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/20/2017 at 20:16

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Oh, no. I would have loved to, but instead I owned not one, but TWO non-turbo 5-door silver Sprints. One was a barebones model without even a rear defroster, but the other was damn near a Cadillac with its A/C and (I’m not joking) cruise control. Sure, the cruise only worked on flat surfaces and the A/C only worked as long as the temperature was under 80, but I’m nitpicking.

pip bip - choose Corrour > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/21/2017 at 06:38

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no idea!

jkm7680 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/21/2017 at 11:51

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Honestly, I don’t remember.

It would have either been a 1995 T-Bird or a 1993 Corvette.