Listen to something you don't like for the third time? :eek:
Besides, Linkin Park never immediately appealed to me, so it's perfectly logical for me to expect the effect to kick in on the third listen.
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And yes, it worked well as background music. If I express negative opinions about some music, as I did about this album, it simply means that it's worse than some other music, but it doesn't mean that it sounds bad to me in principle.