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The scratch is super clear in the rap portion of the bridge, and then in the instrumental portion of the bridge Joe goes into a scratch solo similar to the one from The Catalyst!! 🔥🔥🔥

This is what i’m talking about!! 🔥

this makes me think of Madrid 2010 🔥 i like how 1-4 are all album openers, and then it’s an MTM single & MTM closer 🔥 This one is definitely worth putting together. I think the album transitions here would work well together 🔥

This might not be totally “new post” worthy, but 2 of the best music acts ever both (relatively unexpectedly) dropped amazing albums in 2024, within a WEEK of each other. I can’t get enough of either album so i just put one after the other, so i wouldn’t have to think about switching back and forth. It just so happens that that choir lead-in into the From Zero Intro that starts at the end of Good Things Go, also happens to be the perfect transition to “wacced out murals” (the first song on Kendrick Lamar’s new album GNX that just surprise-dropped on Friday) because it also begins with a choir sample. Idk i love surprises like that. The playlist is here in case anyone is interested:

Create your own sixer of cold ones from the last quarter-century of Linkin Park that hits every time. 6 tracks. No more. No less. Remixes & Live Versions are allowed, but they gotta be official releases (nothing unofficially leaked, etc.). For example:

you’re so right! Thank you! Idk how i missed that

I got 2 newsletter codes and a code from ticketmaster itself and none of them work 😕 am i making some kind of basic mistake?

Thanks for keeping the scratch alive y’all 🙌 I flipped my whole lid when i heard the scratches on Two Faced! Haven’t felt that way since they dropped W&K as a promo single back in 2010 and he hit us with that surprise solo in the outro. i’ll have to listen to the others listed by Paige & Juan more closely to make it out, but Two Faced for sure has that classic cure for the itch 🙏

I think the more i think about it, the more i feel guilty about maybe being unfair. Speaking out against Masterson directly or the cult overtly might even put her life danger. Those guys really don’t mess around.

Definitely glad to hear it’s better than before. I actually deleted twitter too (2 months ago, by accident) and it really helps not having that algorithm shove the absolute craziest takes in front of my face as soon as i look at my phone. i relate to this hard

A few things: 1. i didn’t even realize At The Drive-In had the same singer as the Mars Volta til i read his comments 2. i really appreciate everyone remaining respectful and nuanced in this difficult and important discussion 3. The Jamie stuff definitely adds yet another layer that can be activating for ppl, so i just wanted to do a temp check on everyone’s MH/well-being

I don’t think it’s just about denouncing Emily/Scientology at this point. At the very least it’s acknowledging all of this and explaining their choice imho

I totally understand your point. I think what i want to distinguish is the difference between “appeasing the outrage machine,” and meaningfully addressing a decision they made that’s causing genuine fans actual pain and confusion. I think they are capable of it. In my previous post i pointed out that there are people in this world that just want to believe the worst and get something out of that kind of engagement. We’re weary of them, but that’s not the point. I’m still holding out hope simply because the rest of the band hasn’t said anything yet.

Her whole instagram story is so wild and upsetting right now. Do you guys remember all the horrible things conspiracy theorists were saying after Chris Cornell’s & Chester’s deaths? Some nonsense about how they were “actually murdered” because they were going to expose some sex trafficking ring or whatever? All the unfounded and terrible things they said about Mike and Talinda, etc, which only compounded everyone’s grief? I hate to bring it up. I know it’s not related to this at all. I know the people creating/spreading that filth were misguided at best, and just plain cruel at worst. But in light of everything else on top of that, I just don’t understand why the band would involve themselves with someone who has some actual ties to a group much more credibly accused of something like that.

I really like the idea of adding the I’ll Be Gone Remix verse to Good Goodbye. It’s like replacing one Pusha T verse with another verse that accompanied another Pusha T verse lol I shared this in another thread but it definitely belongs here. I threw together my dream 10-Piece set with the highest quality versions available of my favorite performances. I’ll def update it if higher quality versions of the ones that could be better quality ever become available. Enjoy! New Divide (Moscow Intro, 2011) Guilty All The Same (The Wiltern, L.A., 2014) Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (The Roxy, WeHo, 2004) Numb (Numb/Encore Intro/Outro, The Wiltern, L.A., 2014) Waiting for the End (Remember the Name Intro; Wall of Noise Outro, Belgium, 2017) Castle of Glass (Experience Version; 2017 Ending w/ 'A Place For My Head' Verse 1, Belgium, 2017) Sharp Edges (Stripped Down [Brad, Chester, & Rob]; Ext. Intro, Berlin, 2017) My December (Acoustic Version #3, San Diego, 2002) Crawling (KRWlNG/Hands Held High Intro, Greece, 2009) Bleed It Out (Sabotage Bridge; Ext. Outro, Monterrey, Mexico, 2012) https://on.soundcloud.com/R2EGzQWXEjkRLvy26

I get what HybridParty is saying though, and it’s why I brought this up in the first place. At least one of Masterson’s victims was upset with Emily for what happened and was hurt enough to make it a point to publicly call her out for it, after Masterson was found guilty. This isn’t to put her on trial, but this was all a thing a long time before she was anywhere near Linkin Park, and our boys still decided to take her on. Not just Chester, but our fanbase includes survivors of sexual assault. I believe in the band’s judgement and hope they took into consideration the potential message it could send. If those survivors and their loved ones have a reaction to this, i can’t imagine the band’s intent would be to just brush it off. Again, i recognize it’s impossible for everyone to be able acknowledge all things at all times. She very well could also be a victim in the whole thing, we just don’t know, and it hasn’t necessarily all been addressed. There’s also a beautiful thing happening here in terms of what’s actually being communicated in the new song, the upcoming events, and interviews like the one above. I’m just very eager to see if they can also reconcile this particular issue a bit more.

Most definitely. Thanks for that 🙏

I really appreciate that take. Since you mention it I was also a genuine fan of That’s 70s Show. Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis were figures that i already knew and admired, and i still found their apology… weird. It prompted me to remember that Mila Kunis was actually only 14 when she started working with Ashton who was 20. Look i’m not trying to be ridiculous or paint some overly malevolent picture or anything. The world is a complicated place. I’m finding myself just missing the day before yesterday when my favorite band’s biggest “controversy” was getting accused of snitching on another band for smoking weed, and defending them when i got shit for it from the Amoeba Records staff ringing up THP for me when it came out. This is a tad different and i don’t know her! i also had a chance to scroll through the Chatbox (which often intimidates me) and see most everyone here is aligned that there’s a real issue to acknowledge here, but at the end of the day maybe it’s just better to give her the benefit of the doubt and take her statement at face value. I appreciate the opportunity to try and process this.

TRIGGER WARNING: references to news about sexual assault Maybe this isn’t the best time/place to discuss this, but i genuinely can’t think of a more appropriate group of people to try and work this out with. I value the community here as being a lot more thoughtful than run of the mill fan sites, and especially other social media platforms. I want to preface this all by saying how much i loved the Emptiness Machine, playing it on repeat my whole drive home from work yesterday. I want emphasize how brave I thought it was to actually bring in a female vocalist as a new member, and how excited i was to once again champion my favorite band for doing what they do: creating something bold that not everyone will accept, but doing it for the sake of their purist form of expression. When my sibling and my friends and other commenters tried to discredit Emily because “she’s Scientologist,” i initially brushed it off. I know that some of their views are problematic, but personal religious beliefs can’t be enough to simply cast someone aside. Then i saw she actually publicly supported Danny Masterson during that extremely unsettling multiple-count sexual assault case, and it was kind of like a punch to the gut. That whole situation was so dark and twisted, and the fact that Chester himself was also a victim of sexual abuse made it all the more unsettling. I know she just posted something on her instagram story to make it clear that supporting him was a “misjudgment” after he was found guilty, but anyone who remembers how some members of that community were behaving towards Masterson’s victims at that time might still have some apprehensions about this, especially if she’s still a part of that community. It adds a layer to all of this I’m having trouble wrapping my head around. i’m hoping people are able to discuss this respectfully, but if this isn’t appropriate to talk about here i understand.

Woah that clear, red and black one is dope! I might’ve gotten that one if I hadn’t already gotten the Zoetrope

Oh this one would be sick! That UIB to WFTE transition would be awesome. I love how ppl are still doing these

My one tiny nitpick is the exclusion of THP when the whole thing is 68 minutes, leaving time at least one (if not two) more songs. I think Final Masquerade would fit perfectly. Maybe the also wanted to keep the tracklist to 20, in which case Final Masquerade could replace LOATR imho

On my OML playlist i have Friendly Fire sandwiched in between Invisible and Heavy because FF actually has a similar intro to Heavy and so the “muscle memory” makes it fit perfectly in a fun way 🤌

see this is why i love this place. Thank you 🙏

Do you guys think it’s safe to assume that on the Double LP, each side will include 5 songs? So Side 1A starts with Crawling, Side 1B starts with In The End, Side 2A starts with One More Light, and Side 2B starts with New Divide?