From LP.com:

"To celebrate the release of their new album LIVING THINGS on June 26, Linkin Park has partnered with Spotify to release a set of "best of" live compilations to correspond with each of their albums. These Spotify exclusive albums contain some of the band’s favorite live performances of each song through the years and will be released each week leading up to June 26. Listen HERE starting May 31. To purchase full Linkin Park live recordings click HERE.

May 31 – Hybrid Theory: Live Around The World
June 5th – Meteora: Live Around The World
June 12th - Minutes to Midnight: Live Around The World
June 19th – A Thousand Suns: Live Around The World
June 26th – LIVING THINGS"

Basically, Spotify is going to stream each week an album by Linkin Park but live from around the world... This is really cool!! I'm sure someone will rip these official LP live compilations, since they're free anyways, they'd be nice to have. They're doing Hybrid Theory week, Meteora week, MTM week and then ATS week, leading up to the release date of LIVING THINGS.

I'm not expecting too much to be honest. No new shows I guess.

The idea is really really cool, but the lack of HT and Meteora shows in the database ruins it.

See, yeah, I'm interested in what we're going to get. I'm not like a lot of you guys on here, I'm not really aware of the best versions of each song ever played live and all that, so I'm excited to see what Spotify puts up tomorrow for HT and next week for Meteora.

Will this be worldwide or UK-exclusive? Because that'd be pretty shitty if it was UK-exclusive.

1 - Papercut - Live from Paris, 2010
2 - One Step Closer - Live from Frankfurt, 2008
3 - Points of Authority - Live from Sydney, 2007
4 - Crawling - Live from Athens, 2009
5 - In The End - Live from Melbourne, 2010
6 - A Place for my Head - Live from Koln, 2008
7 - Cure For The Itch - Live from Perth, 2007
8 - Pushing Me Away . Live from Dallas, 2007

How'd you get that info? I can't seem to find the playlist on Spotify!

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. I wish these compilations were available for download!!!

It's up.

I'm not sure what I expected, but I suppose this is precisely what I should have expected. No shows before 2007, it's looking like, and if a song isn't available from a DSP in that time period, it's simply dropped from the playlist. Fair enough.

EDIT: Then I heard the choice they made for Points. In Stereo verse sounds fucking great, if a little too short for the intro.

I'm totally digging this to be honest... I'm gonna be playing it all week, and I'll do the same for each album for each week, to get me pumped up even more for the album.

Anyways, I really like the selections they chose for some of the tracks, but it sucks that the songs that weren't played during the MTM/ATS tour are not included, but it does make sense because they are using the DSP vault. We won't be getting With You, Runaway, Forgotten or By Myself for HT, and we won't be getting Hit The Floor, Easier To Run, Figure.09 or Nobody's Listening for Meteora. Kind of sucks because I like all those songs live and a pro-shot version of HTF would have been nice to have.

Anyways...can someone rip this? I like how they fade in and out and it'd be cool to have on CD.

Is anyone else hearing PMA (Acoustic Live From AAC 2000) when they click on PMA live from Dallas 2007??

Just read it, that's awesome news!
When I first read 'best of' I was kinda scared, but a live best of is just way better. I hope they gonna release this in physical form aswell, but this is gonna be dope anyway

Physical release won't happen, I guarantee it. This is just a tie-in with Spotify to promote the album, and to indirectly promote the DSP archive.

I think I might be most interested in the MTM one. Will the whole album be represented?

Yes, because there is a recording of every song from the album in the DSP archive, just like ATS (minus Robot Boy obviously). Pretty exciting.

Which Darling Harbour show and which Melbourne show?

need help man,are they going to stream shows from 2000 to 2004 & so on?dsps?

Highly doubt that. The recordings should look like this:

METEORA
01 Don't Stay (Foreword included in this track)
02 Somewhere I Belong
03 Lying From You
04 Faint
05 Breaking The Habit
06 From The Inside
07 Session? (maybe)
08 Numb (or 07 Numb since they may not do Session since CFTI wasn't done)

MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
01 Wake
02 Given Up
03 Leave Out All The Rest
04 Bleed It Out
05 Shadow Of The Day
06 What I've Done
07 Hands Held High
08 No More Sorrow
09 Valentine's Day
10 In Between
11 In Pieces
12 The Little Things Give You Away

A THOUSAND SUNS
01 The Requiem
02 Burning In The Skies
03 When They Come For Me (Empty Spaces included in this track)
04 Jornada Del Muerto
05 Waiting For The End
06 Blackout
07 Wretches & Kings
08 Iridescent (no WJL I assume since it's cut from all future DSPs)
09 Fallout
10 The Catalyst
11 The Messenger

I just want 2 shows,summer sonic 2006,& yeah 2 more,one in greece,maybe that was performed in 2008,& sonisphere festival,u.k 1.8.2009

Got it, both are night 2.

Hopefully sometime they release older DSP's but I doubt they'll do that anytime soon with a new album coming up.

looks like all the packs will include just shows mixed by pooch (2007~2012)

My picks for the Hybrid Theory one:

1 - Papercut - Tampa 2008 (3, 2, 1 get the fuck up), Newcastle 2010 (alright, you guys ready? tear that shit up), Philly 2007 (crowd explodes to Mike's question of oldschool fans + 10 year comment + epic "let's go y'all" + smiley face in pit), Phoenix 2007 (Mike saying "thank you for Chester"), San Bernadino 2007 (hometown Papercut)
2 - One Step Closer - Auburn 2007 (first DSP, crowd blowing up), Atlanta 2007 (best "BREAK" ending I've ever heard from Chester), Mansfield 2007 ("you guys ready for some more?"), London night 2 2008 (Chester jamming big on bridge and ending)
3 - Points of Authority - Stuttgart 2009 (High Voltage/Bloc Party combo + Reading My Eyes for the LPU), Raleigh 2007 (Second To None), Melbourne night 1 2007 (Mike's flow is great), West Palm Beach 2007 (if he had nailed Step Up it'd be better, lots of energy after the intro), Dallas 2007 (respect for fucking grandma, how badass)
4 - Crawling - Camden 2008 by far my favorite (Chris Cornell + intro is nailed), I like the Milton Keynes 2008 version with keys over the intro but they're almost edited out of the DSP
5 - In The End - Cuyahoga Falls 2007 ("I think somebody licked my bellybutton", "loudest crowd of tour"), song wasn't experimented with a lot so one with a loud crowd on the bridge and good talking by the band
6 - A Place for my Head - Nashville 2008 ("looks like some of you knew to stick around" + silly string). St Paul 2008 also good. Hannover 2008 epic, cause it's god damn Germany.
7 - Cure For The Itch - Mountain View 2007, who knows what else, it's CFTI lol
8 - Pushing Me Away - Camden 2008, only a few DSP's of it

I wish HT and Meteora would had been from 2003-2006.

One Step Closer from RAR 2007 and Osaka 2009
Papercut: Phoenix 2007
PMA: Candem 2007... the piano version they ruined it after 2007
Crawling: none. it was only good til 2003 (this is one of the song the band should stop playing live, it sucks)
In The End: whatever
Points: From whatever show of 2008 with rap intro and outro
APFMH: Rock in Rio 2012

Hahninator, you think they won't put in The Radiance for the ATS one? I hope they do, I love the version on ATS+.

This is not what I thought it would be. I thought it'd be the best live shows in the HT/Meteora/MTM/ATS eras. But this is really cool. Though a small part of me hoped the ATS one would be the ATS release concert.

it's nothing new at the end... but nice idea actually. =) we should pick our favorite ones and make and alt tracklist for best live performances (pro-shots like DSP, but adding maybe b-sides from singles or EPs and live in texas too). so we could do a more complete setlist (as we got an easier to run proshot in numb single).

btw... it's legal or ilegal share the compilations that the band is releasing through spotify?... just in case.

EDIT: also I must say I cant hear it because spotify isn't available in my country. ... or any south american country either

It's streaming for free so I don't see why we couldn't rip it and offer it for download here.



I doubt it really, but you never know.

Breaking the habit ,summersonic 2006
New divide Sonisphere U.K 1.8.2009
High voltage Docklands arena,london 16-09-2001
With you,points of authority docklands arena 16-09-2001
Faint live rock am ring 2007
in the end sonisphere uk 2009
Much more ,I don't remember lol

Spotify streams everything for free, so with that logic, you could offer every piece of music for download :-D

Spotify still pays the artists (or at the very least, the labels) for every play of every song, so technically no, we couldn't offer them for download.

Of course, there are certain people who have already ripped it, if anyone's interested...

Oh this is a total let down.. Thought they'd be digging up some gold there... Maybe some unheard SBDs

Post it in the AUD section of the forums

I'm sure the line is drawn somewhere, because don't you have to have a Facebook account to even get Spotify now? Your payment is your personal information, so it's not truly 'free'.

Thanks for posting this SomedudeRemix. I hate this Spotify thing, so nice that you made it available for download.

what's the big deal? those are tracks that we already have and they wont offer anything rare, like a Forgotten SBD

seems like they are only using what Pooch mixed.

We already have Hybrid Theory the studio album too. That's streaming on Spotify, is it a good idea to offer that for free download?

The Meteora playlist is up. Seven tracks, just as Hahninator said. Not terribly impressed by it.

I see it.oh....The Usher new ablbum has been leaked.I'm listenting it right now.

I think the MTM one will be the best, next week.

I wish there was some background info on why certain performances were chosen, but I guess this is cool for what it is and if you are not the psycho "must collect them all" type like most of us are :-p

will you be able to upload it :S? u.u wanna hear it and I can't do it from my country.

Listening to "MTM Live Around the World" right now at work. Love the versions of "Hands Held High" (Osaka) & "In Between" (Paris) that were chosen!

Still wish there some additional insight from the band as to why certain performances were picked, but this is pretty cool for people that want to check out LP's live sound but are not as obsessed as my fellow DSP collectors.

shanghai .once again!!!

Is it just me or does LOATR seem too fast? Maybe I'm just used to the medley version

The MTM compilation is the best so far. Awesome stuff. I love what they chose for Valentine's Day and In Between, as well as what they chose for Given Up and What I've Done.

I thought you said your spotify wasn't working and couldn't listen to it?

Haven't given this one a listen yet and I was hoping for Given Up Mansfield 2008 or Bleed It Out Madrid 2011, but excited nevertheless to listen.

I'm using my friend's account to listen to it. I really wish I had it in my iTunes though.

well, you can just make it yourself... just pick the same songs from DSP and add a fade-in and fade-out effect in each song, it isn't that hard, isn't it?

The ATS edition of "Live Around the World" is up on Spotify...kind of. The track listing and info is there but it does not let me play any of the songs.

It's not up for me, but in other news, Spotify pulled the trigger and put up LIVING THINGS.

Did you rip MTM Around the World also?
Can't seem to find any thread about it

search the other HT/M threads, there are alot of people posting in those with rips to the later installments

it does have its own thread here

I guess I was blinded by all the Living Things posts. I found the thread. Thanks