Geki

Wow, pretty damn awesome for Chinese fans! Mike is really reaching a lot of places for this tour.

This is a great album...

Six songs is the normal set for a band there. Mike went over double that. That's cool that he really doesn't give a fuck.

 

NYC is going to be his first solo headlining show on his own without a festival or time constraints. Special night, and only 499 cap at Gramercy. It'd be cool if we get exclusive merch for that show too.

Yeah dude, that's pretty epic of Mike. Mike has always loved the fans, just like Chester, and Mike has always done everything to give the fans more. It's awesome he played over double it. NYC is going to be so awesome. It'll definitely be a night that I'll remember for the rest of my life, I can tell, and even though I can't speak for you or anyone else, I think the same goes for you. It will be awesome.

What a set. Fourteen songs, a normal show length pretty much. I like that he debuted three brand new songs. This gets me excited for the full length setlist for NYC.

 

That exclusive merch looks awesome, I'd buy that. Frank's artwork design for this album is good.

Couldn't agree more. Really cool that he played a 14 song set and debuted a few new songs live. NYC will be epic, no doubt. I also agree about that merch. Lol. Pretty badass.

I had a feeling that whoever equated Can't Hear You Now to UIB was going to be way off base.

I don't even understand how in any way it sounds like UIB at all. It sounds absolutely nothing like UIB. That's why I'm over believing reviews from people who review the album in the future for LP and LP related shit. I would get banned if I said what I really think about the person who said it sounded like UIB.

 

 

MGK had a solid verse, he really impressed me. One of the best I've heard from him, but he seemed like he was featured because Ryu and Mike fell out. It seems like that's exactly the track Ryu would be on, MGK no matter how good still sounds like a replacement to me, just because Ryu doesn't make much music now makes him worse? Dude has one of the most underrated flows in the game right now, he rides and bodies just about every beat he's been on. Don't need to bring irrelevant Reseda beach stuff up, that's not relevant to the conversation

 

 

I'll listen to Make it up as I go twice for you and you can just take About you twice. I think K Flay has two solid albums, I like almost anything she puts out now. Her voice, not unlike Skylar Grey, is incredibly polarizing IMO

Idk. MGK and Mike have been friends for a while now, as far back as Warped Tour in June 2014, probably even before. Mike has always kept up with rap and whoever is hot in the game at the time, and just rappers that he likes. He has mentioned years back that he loved Action Bronson and Tyler, The Creator who I think are both extremely talented and awesome. He just knows good hip-hop and rap, he's always been from that world, ever since he was growing up in the 90's. MGK was gonna also open for LP on the OML Tour in 2017, too. I don't think he's necessarily a replacement for Ryu. I could see what you mean that him and Ryu have a similar swagger but idk. I do respect your opinion, trust me, I am the king of opinions. Ryu was really awesome back in the day, I loved his shit on 2000 Fold, Megadef and the Fort Minor stuff. Some of Razor Tag was good, too. I also liked his solo shit he put out a few years back. I just thought Reseda Beach was wack. It was like SOB trying to go commercial and SOB wasn't commercial at all prior to that. But the songs were also just realllllllly cheesy. You know what I mean? And I shouldn't have brought up that SOB beef with Mike, you're right. But still that wasn't Mike's fault at all, anyone with ears can tell that album was garbage aside from like 1 or 2 tracks, maybe, 1 of them being Second To None. Overall I just think MGK is far superior to Ryu and I'm glad he is featured here. I've noticed a lot of LP fans don't like MGK over the years, I don't get why, he's good.

I always love when an album drops and fans talk about the songs and it's always cool to see people like certain songs more than others, etc. It's cool you like the K.Flay track, no disrespect at all. I have heard Blood In The Cut once back in like late 2016 I feel like and that was it, so I wasn't familiar with her. I don't not like her as a person, just not too into her voice.. I will admit that I like the song more than Heavy, though, and I like her feature more than Kiiara. I have always thought that Heavy should have been sang by fully Chester but that's besides the point. K.Flay delivers a good melody, it gets stuck in your head. The song was just a little boring to me, I didn't like it that much.

LOL I'm not gonna lie, I thought about Right Now when I first heard that Mike was gonna play The Tonight Show, but c'mon, he's not gonna play that. It would be cool but there's like a 99% chance he won't. He's obviously going to play a song off of Post Traumatic since that's the entire reason he is going on the show, to promote it. I agree with JZE too, Black Thought probably doesn't even remember that song, although it was a really good song, one of my favorite off of TRT.

MGK is nothing but a Ryu replacement to me, I feel like Ryu would have been on that track five years ago - and would have come with a better feature. Chino kills it though

 

I absolutely love the K Flay track, it sounds like she had a hand in the production

 

I love Brooding, I could listen to Mike's instrumentals all day

 

About You is still the least favorite song I have listened to, I wish Mike took his lyrics and put them on a better track.

 

HE GOES IN ON IOU HOLY GUAC. My jaw dropped about 25 seconds and and stayed until he finished his second verse

 

World's On Fire seems like it's the second weakest track on the album

 

Can't Hear You Now is a great ending to the album. So proud of Mike, so impressed by him

Nah, fuck that. No disrespect to you for your opinion. Kells is sick. I like a lot of his music and he's a huge artist. He's been friends with Mike since 2014 easily, when he first collaborated with LP at Warped Tour. Ryu had some sick shit back in the day, but he's extremely irrelevant now. And MGK would destroy him. Plus, SOB was pissed at Mike because their shitty Reseda Beach album didn't go super commercial, like it was his fault even remotely. That album was so extremely bad. I actually listened to it a few months ago after not hearing it since like 2012 literally and I couldn't even finish it, it was so cringey. But I don't want to get into all that. I actually really liked MGK's verse in Lift Off, it was my favorite part of the entire song. Mike's verse was sick too, it reminded me of Xero and Hybrid Theory era rapping and also lyrically. But MGK's verse was the best part. Chino also sang a great chorus but you can't compare that.

Brooding, that really is an awesome track. I enjoyed it a lot and I find myself replaying that one every couple tracks. Lol.

It's also funny too because I really still love About You. Solid track, IMO.

World's On Fire was a little bland but I did like it a lot, it's really kind of a different sound than the rest of the album, IMO.

100% agree on Can't Hear You Now, that's a fantastic song, I love it. I'm currently having a few drinks and just playing this album and it's awesome. Still not into the K.Flay track but that's ok, I can live with not liking only 1 track off of the entire thing.

Just listened through for the first time. The only track that I didn't like was Make It Up As I Go, I really hated K.Flay's voice a lot and I thought the instrumental and even Mike's parts were just kind of boring, it didn't capture me. Everything else was pretty damn epic. A really solid album, it's very rare that I hear an album and there is only 1 song out of 16 that I don't like! Respect to you Mike for making this and making a great album while you were at it. I'll post a song by song review once I listen a few more times, because I always love doing that. Out of the non pre-release songs, I absolutely loved Hold It Together, I.O.U. and Can't Hear You Now (wow that song is awesome), but like I said, I loved everything literally, just not Make It Up As You Go.

IF you were lucky enough to get the notice early enough to buy the bundle and get the signed print

i wasn't altho maybe i will have him sign it on monday

 

i dont get it, how does everything have the digital copy already? i thought they're all being released tomorrow?

I listened to the leak (half of it so far). I was dying to hear the album badly, I would have listened to the full album if it had dropped yesterday since I was free all day, but I'm busy today. So I only listened to half of the album during lunch time (first 8 songs) and am gonna listen to the rest later on tonight.

I think the album will probably be on Apple Music and stuff by midnight too, since Ghosts was the day it came out, etc. If not I still have the leak.

I don't have time today to immerse myself in the entire album, so I only have listened to the first half of the album so far (first 8 songs). Brooding is pretty cool and Promises I Can't Keep is a good song. I'm not sure what people were saying when they said Promises I Can't Keep was an upbeat song - the lyrical content is super depressing and I personally think it's a pretty dark song in terms of sound too, it's similar to Place to Start through About You. About You is also pretty depressing and dark to me, and all the other tracks on the first half of the album are too. The second half is supposed to be more upbeat and where the change is according to people. Crossing A Line is half way though the album as track 8 and that's where the shift in tone starts to happen, IMO. Pretty cool. I'm gonna listen to second half later tonight.. Brooding is also a pretty dark song in terms of sound. The definition of Brooding means ''showing deep unhappiness of thought.'' I also opted to use the EP cover over the album cover in my iTunes. I just think it looks cooler, and fits the tone more. The mixes also sound slightly better, maybe that's just me thinking that, then the pre release mixes did for the first 5 songs and CAL. Haven't listened to the mix for Ghosts or RFMS yet though.

I'm gonna listen to the second half (9-16) tonight when I can properly dedicate enough time today to immerse myself in the album. I love listening to music late at night too so it should be cool. When I hear the entire album in full a few times, I'll post a track by track of my thoughts like I usually do.

Brooding reminds me of a mix of Space Station and Drawbar, with under random instrumental demos from ATS, LT and OML mixed in. I've now learned that I should never ever judge songs based off of what people say in reviews, because I always have totally different experiences with the songs. Still only listening to the first 8 songs for now.

Yeah, it was Make It Up As I Go!

Thanks for clearing it up.

Did Mike say once that Promises I Can't Keep was originally a demo for One More Light, like how Place To Start was? Or was that the song with K.Flay? I knew it was one of those. Anyone wanna help me out?

So far I've listened to half of the album (the first 8 tracks). Brooding is pretty cool and Promises I Can't Keep is a good song. I'm gonna listen to second half later tonight.

Because god forbid Mike keeps fans waiting to hear the album a whole two days before the album's actually supposed to come out, what a monster.

Mike SHITnoda.

Is anybody looking for 2 tickets to the NYC show on June 20th for Mike Shinoda? Don't want to go anymore and want to make the money back.

I think Crossing A Line. Wouldn't be a big loss, my least favorite song released so far.

Good bet, why did I not think of that? Lol. It is the big single for the album. I guess because so many songs have been released that I forgot that somewhat.

Similar to when he did Conan few years back with FM. I signed up for tickets for that one soon as it was announced but never got them. Was such a bummer. Lucky those who get to see Jimmy Fallon and Mike though!

Damn, that sucks about Conan. I think the only U.S. appearances he did for Fort Minor in 2015 were Conan and that show in L.A., that was it. But yeah, if you were already attending Fallon on that day or you lived in NYC and got a ticket or whatever, pretty cool. I still wouldn't travel just for a song or two, but that's just me.

I wonder what Mike will play... Ghosts? Since it's the newest single off of the album? Although the album will be out worldwide for a few days by the time he plays Fallon so who knows. Probably Ghosts, though.

That's an awesome story Geki.

 

I went the day after the Hollywood Bowl show and the place had zero LP, because the international fans that came in raided it LOL. I bought a cool ass Foo Fighters shirt I found. When I checked out, the guy at the counter told me an awesome story about Dave Grohl coming in a few weeks before when there was some indie in-store event going on. Not many recognized him, and everyone left him alone. He rang Dave up and said he was the coolest guy... according to his manager Dave and Taylor Hawkins pop in every few months to find records.

 

Deftones played this in 2016 I remember. Six songs. I think that's what Mike will play.

 

Welcome

Ghosts (Live Debut)

About You >

Over Again >

Papercut

Crossing A Line

Remember The Name

Wow, that might be an even cooler story about Dave Grohl. LOL. Dave is awesome. I've heard he is a really cool guy too. It's also pretty awesome that him and Taylor Hawkins stop in from time to time. I wonder if Mike or any of the members of Linkin Park do. But yeah, that Hollywood Bowl show was massive with so many people traveling for it. It's funny in a cool way that the store had no Linkin Park left after it. Shows how big of a fanbase the band has. I wish I could have made it for that show.

Didn't know Deftones played Amoeba before, although, I think you may have mentioned it once, can't remember. But yeah, I think you're spot on with that set for Mike. It'll be that or something very similar, I'm willing to bet.

I went to Amoeba in Hollywood a few times. The first time I ever went to L.A. was in April of 2007 and I actually found a used Hybrid Theory EP (LPU 1 Re-Issue) in one of the used bins. I then got it signed a month later by the band at Bamboozle, which was also the first time that I ever met the band. I also visited Amoeba in Hollywood in August of 2013 when I visited L.A. for SSMF. Didn't find anything cool that time in terms of Linkin Park stuff but I picked up some other stuff. Amoeba is a really cool store.

Anyways, it's cool Mike is doing a signing and small show. You can't get much more intimate.

Would be nice to have the full show in HQ video, although the audience recording is great quality too! and when Felipe released it, it was all I listened to for like a week, no lie.

Yeah AUD recording isn't bad. But having the whole show in pro-shot video, nothing can compare. It's not a bad AUD recording, better than a lot of others I have heard.

It's the 14th in Australia right now. Wouldn't people who pre-ordered get the CD by now, only a day before it's available worldwide?

I hate how I have 3 CD copies of the album coming in the mail and I'm going to see Mike in NYC and yet I still have to wait until Friday.

It will leak in the next 24 hours and we'll start a News thread on it as usual so everyone can discuss.

I'm gonna do a full review of each track like I usually do in the thread once it leaks.

I actually don't agree with what Rick Rubin said at all. I know Linkin Park is and was Mike's band for the most part, but Chester was super unique and just as good of a vocalist as the guys Rick mentioned, even better, IMO. To me, Linkin Park was always the six guys. I know Xero had a different vocalist and Phoenix wasn't a permanent member for a few years, but the actual band name Linkin Park was just always those six guys to me. So now that Chester has passed, I think Linkin Park is the five guys. That's why I hope they continue as a five piece, if they decide to carry on. Not sure if Rick was suggesting to replace Chester and carry on or not, but that's kind of what I took from it. It's funny too that Mike said he realized after doing the Hollywood Bowl show that none of those awesome performers were nearly as good as Chester, and they just didn't fit, even though they were good.

As for the song descriptions, there are a lot of songs I want to hear. They all sound pretty cool.

Friday at 12pm.

 

If Mike plays KROQ Sound Space at that exact time (which is what the event page is showing, but seems so early for a performance...?) then LPFC will move it forward or backward.

I have never tuned in for a listening party before but I might do it this time. Usually I like to either drive and listen to the album or lock myself in my room and just play the album with no distractions. Lol. I'm weird about that stuff. Totally forgot about the Sound Space show, too. Friday will be cool. Hope I can hear the album tonight or tomorrow (still have hope).