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Saw no one talk about the Pusha T collab on "With You". Was this done prior to Zürich, too?

Yeah, that's fair, I can see that. It's definitely a special song.

TLTGYA? Wow. It's one of their absolute best songs to me from a song (and message!) perspective. The outro is timeless. But that's the thing about them I guess.

The comeback stream felt like a great closure moment for me. Seeing them back on stage, happy, energetic, and with strong lead singer vocals was great. To share it as a special moment in LP's history with the world was wholesome and fullfilling. It's so cool that the world still loves LP and took them back in with the most open of arms, granting them their biggest commercial success ever, establishing them for years to come. At the same time I'm super content with the fact that my personal fandom is just not there anymore. I'm not a hardcore LP fan anymore, caring for every little bit of what the band does, caring for setlists. There was a time and place in my life for that and I will always dive back into this nostalgia as long as the band let's me. I will gladly listen to every studio output they'll produce, but more on a fun level, not an emotional one. I haven't seen them live for 16 years, and I probably won't ever again. So, thank you Linkin Park for coming back, taking the world by storm again, and granting me peace with how I feel about the band.

It usually does, though. But yeah, LP definitely had an impact on sales.

Fucking AI thumbnails are such big piles of shit.

Geki with the hot take, I see?

This is actually an interesting aspect to consider on why the fans seemed so static at times. Wind levels at Rock am Ring can influence the sound in a really bad way. It can throw you off because it sounds disjointed on an ever-changing level.

A documentary about the rebuild. Awesome. Might contain some crazy footage from the times of the end till the new beginning

Wow, you can actually criticize something about LP? Now the world has gone truly dark ;). I agree, though. Technical difficulties aside, Emily was way off during the chorus. It's a shame that she doesn't utilize the raspiness of her voice much more like she did during the bridge.

I pretty much agree with you on everything. Only thing to add is iirc OML live was always supposed to happen regardless of what happened. But I could be wrong on that. LIT was made as a cinematic experience (it was shown in movie theaters during the release). It's cool for what it is, but the sound feels fakish, especially when you were listening to bootlegs from that time. What bothers me the most about it is the decision to use the support gig for Metallica as their first full live DVD release. It should've been a headline show that captures the feeling of seeing them live at that time. The P:R 02 show from HT20 would've been the better choice, but it would also have been total overkill, if they released that at the end of the HT cycle. People were criticizing the band (and label) back then for the constant releases with only one full (36 minute) album to their name. And if you want to include Meteora for the first live release, fine, take something from P:R 03.

That is so weird. They wanted to sell it in the first place. Now there is a whole dedicated platform interested, and the ignore it. So unfortunate.

I, for example, firmly believe that the rap verses in "Figure.09" were used because Chester wasn't able to record his intended singing parts at the end of the cycle alongside SIB and FTI because he still was too sick. I can't exactly recall all the details to this assumption from the top of my head, though. But there is a rationale behind it! What are your little LP conspiracies. You all have them... do you?

Yeah, the first iteration of LYF sounds super bland.

A wild Geki appears. Again.