Farewell Chester

Chester Bennington died on Thursday. I did not know about it until Friday when a colleague mentioned that Chester died when we were making small talk about various artists in and out of the country. It was so out-of-the-blue that I had to blink back tears hard to prevent myself from crying. (I even texted a friend and fellow fan if the news was true.) Calmly asking what's the cause of death and knowing that he took his own life did not really deter me from mourning the death of one of the power duo that made me realize screaming is not really that bad in music.

I am writing this article as a tribute to one of those artists that made my college days bearable. This is a collection of music forced on me by roommates who loved to listen to Linkin Park when we are on the verge of exams and studying with music blaring at 3 in the morning makes sense.

If the prospect of failing major subjects like Math, Physics, and various Computer Science does not force you to depression, LP music will surely do that but then you can just scream, right?

So here are some of the songs in the playlist of our study days with Linkin Park.

It was mostly songs from their Hybrid Theory, Meteora, A Thousand Suns, and Minutes to Midnight albums. So that gives away our age.

1. Numb
   
2. Breaking the Habit
   
3. Easier to Run
   
4. Leave Out All the Rest
   
5. Bleed it Out
   
6. No More Sorrow
   
7. Iridescent
   
8. Blackout
   
9. Waiting for the End
   
10. By Myself
    
11. One Step Closer
    
12. In the End

Linkin Park music, especially some of the lyrics are as sad as sad can be. It gives away the feelings of the artist when they write the song, and when they perform, they always lose themselves in it.

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but this band have songs that mirror their life situations, and ours for that matter.

We can lose ourselves in their music and scream out loud our feelings with no one to bother us because its a song after all.

So thank you for writing songs that we can relate to. I know you fight so hard to overcome your personal problems but in the end, being by yourself did not really helped matters.

Goodbye and Thank You, Chester.

Depression took him away from us. Let us be happy that he was able to hold out as long as he can. His childhood was not a happy one. He had experiences that would drove any one mad. His means of escape was drugs and alcohol abuse and later on, his music.

The music was no longer enough for him to hold on because in a way it also reminds him of the tragedies that have befallen his career and personal life.

At least he belongs somewhere now:

NOTE: All videos and links in this article belong to Linkin Park.
https://www.youtube.com/user/linkinparktv
https://linkinpark.com/



Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!
I post an article once a week... :D just because!