[djsFlames]

So there's nothing against "influential" but when I say "groundbreaking" you completely lose your ####?

They were influential because the music was groundbreaking. It tried something new. The elements it was comprised of were well known, but had never been used in such a fashion, and in the process it created a new sound that was fresh and well received. It spawned many imitations in mainstream music. It's gained them one of the largest followings in the world of any band, to this day. I call that groundbreaking. You can #### about the wordplay, but unless your specific definition of the words appears under it in the dictionary, I'm not gonna take it back.

RATM sound nothing like LP. Yes they did rap/rock before, but they sound nothing alike. Zack de la Rocha's "rap" and Shinoda's can't really be compared. RATM had no electronics. And definitely didn't have the same production value. I'd call their instrumental style punk more than metal too. Anyways, you can keep your definition of what that means to you, but I'll keep mine. Don't care to argue semantics. The point is to discuss the album and the music.