minutes to midnight isn't as good in a sense cause they don't have that same sound, so if you expect that old sound then you will be hugely disappointed, but I had read up on the album before hand and they said it will sound nothing like their old stuff, so I expected a new direction which is why I like it, if I hadn't heard that it was gonna be a different sound, I probably wouldn't like it as much cause I would've been expecting something differentfor me I didn't like meteora mainly cause it didn't live up to hybrid theory, and I know it's hard to do that, but it bored me, yeah it has some very good songs on it, but I expected more out of it, so that's why <u>imo</u> it sucks...... and which is why <u>imo</u> minutes to midnight is better cause I got everything I expected and that's a whole new sound which I love, I don't mind the softer side, and that song giving up is the sh*t, probably my favorite song they've done