10 Great Songs That Never Made A Studio Album

Linkin Park were on top of the world in the mid 2000s. With 2006's Minutes to Midnight, the band successfully transitioned from their nu metal early days to a more electronic-tinged alternative band. The perfect kind of music to accompany a movie about robots fighting each other.

But Linkin Park got their game face on for this track for Transformers. The song plods along with a paranoid sense of urgency, with icy synths and Chester Bennington's impassioned vocal. The instrumentation also has a great sense of dynamics as the lyrics fluctuate from painful sadness to unbridled anger. But this song also signaled a turning point for the band.

Not only was this track a smash hit, but it also stood as better than anything they had done on their previous effort. This gave the band a newfound confidence to go in a more experimental direction with their next album, A Thousand Suns. While fans are still skeptical of that record, the band deserves kudos for melding electronica and rock so naturally. This paved the way for many new artists to adopt this electro-rock style in the 2010's. But Linkin Park got their first by breaking down barriers with this track.