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1. Announce a Greatest Hits collection - people remember what the band was and sounded like. 2. Insert a never-released song there from the last album cycle. 3. Promote it everywhere, generates a lot of attention (Lost-like). 4. Beautiful homage to put an "ending" in the old era. 5. Release a brand new song, promoting the start of a new era. Single out everywhere. 6. "Mike Shinoda and Friends" was all along a placeholder for Linkin Park coming back.

The supposedly new song being #14 on the tracklist seems so off. Right in the middle, between two randon songs. Doesn't fit even with the start/end of a vinyl side. Odd choice.

And this message right here gets buried in the middle all the non-sense. So expected release is Feb 22?

As I recall, RU was on Need For Speed (flopped movie), not FF franchise.

This discussion is what's awesome and unique about Linkin Park. The band has such a fusion sound that some of the hardcore fans are EDM influenced, some are HipHop influenced and others are Metal influenced. And obviously each one will think album X or Y is waaay better and the "true Linkin Park peak"

A Brazilian fan page called Road To Revolution BR is saying the Singles Collection is coming apr 12, and Friendly Fire os being release this month

Hm, a big Brazilian fan page is saying Frank Maddocks and other visual artist were involved and it's a new OML single.

I'm trying not to get excited over a random forum post. But i'm god damn hyped.

It's not about us dividing it the way we think we should. THEY (Mike/Warner/Management) divided it into all that many tracks. That's canon. As just as all LT songs being in ALL CAPS is canon too.

RTN rock version is freeeesh af. We need the full song. Great musicians and good AO version for a one special take for fun, but i agree it would bee too much for a real studio recording. [Slur removed] - Rasputin 93 Edit: [Sorry for using a slur, i mixed a way of speaking in my native language with english and it turned out to be a very bad mistake)

Go to japan, weird shit happens. That's a rule.

These session were such a great marketing idea, an almost genius strategy i would say, but it didn't brought the amount of result i bet they thought it would. Pairing up with big influencers of different medias (youtube, tiktok, instagram), knowing all of them would make lots of content about the session. Amazing potentially viral idea. The session are getting no more than 200k on youtube and AO on spotify hasn't even crossed the 10 million mark. Weird. They're probably releasing all of them faster now just to get it over and done. I think TOKYO is the one we know is still left, right?

i would blindly guess all of the Sessions were made with different takes.

My english isn't that good, but from what i got... Just Math chorus is genius. He sings about "halftime" and the syllables are in half time. He sings about different subdivision and the syllables are in triplets (1/3 time) Very meta.

That's awesome! Imagine what it feels like to those local musicians. In a hypotetical situation, imagine you're a garage/bar/instagram amateur musician and then you're invited to play a 40 min set with mike shinoda in the main stage of a festival. Great idea too keep LP alive without replacing LP. It's a tribute band with the "main" member being part of it.

We have a new meme born right there. Those AO versions surpasses all BID versions, remixes and releases we had.

Latest "mood" post on Shinoda's instagram has a new FM logo at the end

Wow, that girl vocalist got me jawdropping. Literal chills. Amazing voice. Seems like there's a series of other sessions like that one coming up in other cities around the world. Maybe that's what "Mike Shinoda & Friends" means? I totally dig a full Linkin Park concert always changing the guests in all songs (Hollywood Bowl-like)

"not having guests that scream" he said that specifically.

Damn i always forgot how i love release cycles and all the hype around it.

man, i'm really nitpicking here but i had to comment: why so many music videos show the drummer playing something that doesn't fit at all with the moment of song? Like, playing the wrong notes. Can't be that hard to match it with the songbeat/tempo. A little off topic, but: "It's even worst on animations, there's this amazing video "drums are never animated correctly"

Maybe it's a re-release to gather attention for a new tour coming up

I keep thinking what are those guys doing on all of their "spare" time in the last 5 years. Mike we all know, is busy still producing. But what is Rob doing with his life? I mean, he can't only be surfing all day long 24/7. And Brad, we heard of him producing only 2 songs or something like that. What are they doing in their lifes?

The singing in the outro is mindblowing

Sometimes LP team is outstanding at marketing decision and sometimes they make some incomprehensible moves. Lost was so big, why didn't they follow that up properly with Fighting Myself and More The Victim? Hope this move right now helps a little bit more.