This North American Tour setlist was just a jumbled order from that, and a longer intro added for the show-opening With You. Papercut opened that setlist into Points Of Authority, followed by Don't Stay and Somewhere I Belong, with With You and Runaway further down in the set. The UK November 2003 setlist was very similar to this one, but the band changed a few things. The 2003 setlists all opened with Don't Stay, so Linkin Park went back to their Hybrid Theory-era opener for this tour, choosing to start with the oldschool run of With You, Runaway, and Papercut at the start of the setlist. The band used one setlist for the entire tour, with P5hng Me A*Wy being dropped at two of the shows for an unknown reason. Just when I thought I was done with them when finishing school and now we're doing all nighters for shows." Summary Phoenix commented about the rehearsal during the LPTV episode, saying, "I think it's probably 1:30. The band then took a few weeks off and got ready for the Meteora North American Tour.ĭuring the LPTV episode for the tour, it revealed that the rehearsal for the tour took place in Washington, D.C. Linkin Park ended 2003 by playing the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in Universal City, CA. Many dates on the tour were completely sold out, also making the tour one of Linkin Park's most successful North American tours. The show consisted of thirty five shows across The United States and Canada. If you don’t like loud noise, unique instrumental approaches, a metal singer duo’d with a rapper, then this album is not for you…at all.The Meteora North American Tour ran from January 16th to March 15th of 2004, making it one of Linkin Park's largest tours ever in North America. And if you haven’t listened to anything from Hybrid Theory, somehow overlooking possibly one of the most influential rock songs of the century “ In The End“, I suggest listening to both albums if you enjoy anything rock. With all of that said, I believe that if you liked their first album Hybrid Theory, chances are you’ll very much like this album as well. Not only that but great songs from the album such as “ Faint” and “ Breaking The Habit” has led to many great live performances, at times sounding even better than the studio version. Meteora also includes some of my favorite music videos to watch every now and then from the artistically creative “ Breaking The Habit” to the cinematic drama for “ From The Inside“. This is my personal favorite from Linkin Park, overcoming their debut studio album of Hybrid Theory. I prefer the approach that they took for this album, they kept the familiar feel that they had in their first one but they also toned down the anger when needed to instead of having Chester constantly screaming in every single track (although he does in most tracks, it’s still a step down compared to Hybrid Theory). It was also the last track on the album, wrapping up this unforgettable compilation of tracks listed below with their timed lengths. As said by Chester Bennington in an interview with MTV, “We don’t talk about situations, we talk about the emotions behind the situations.” The most well known single on the album is by far “ Numb“, topping the US Alternative Songs chart for 12 weeks and was later remixed as “ Numb/Encore” ft. This single set the emotions of the entire album, giving off a very angered,upset and depressed vibe all throughout. Beginning with a short instrumental opening titled “Foreword”, it leads into the first promoted single of the album, “Don’t Stay”. The album reached the top of the US Billboard 200 as well as 5 singles on the album reaching No.1 on the US Alternative Songs charts, something that’s never been done by another artist. It quickly became one of the best selling metal albums ever with more than 7 million units sold in the United States. Linkin Park’s second studio album, Meteora, was released on March 25th, 2003.