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Just read the thread, I skipped the lyrics arguing though lol. I'm glad I bought only the standard vinyl, however I'm scared to listen to it

Well Rob's drumming is part of LP sound, isn't it? We've seen that with Friendly Fire live drums addition. He has specific feel and groove which fits into the music, does not overcomplicate things, but is precise and consistent, which is a really important feature considering their music catalogue

33 minutes ago, martinez said:

Phoenix said it.

Then this should be a part of the lore for the song on linkinpedia. 

2 minutes ago, martinez said:

No that much new content actually. Like half of the content was taken from the LPTVs which were released years ago.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

Working title for QWERTY was QWERTY.

 

whoa, didn't see that working title coming tbh

33 minutes ago, JZLP-NaughtyNottingham said:

Britney Spears 75%

Oh baby baby

4 hours ago, Chazy987 said:

Here's name of female artits who have associations with the band and the percentage chances that one of them will join the boys. It's clearly just a game, like old times. Let me know what you think and if you have any other names in mind!

 

Kelli Ali: 0%

Bebe Rexa: 1%

Holly Brook/Skylar Grey: 1%

Amy Lee: 5%

Lenny: 10%

Kiiara: 10%

Jennifer Weist: 10%

Ilsey Juber: 10%

PVRIS: 10%

Lzzy Hale: 25%

Nørskov: 25%

Damona: 25%

Alanis Morissette: 25%

UPSAHL: 25%

G Flip: 25%

Lacey Sturm: 30%

Demi Lovato: 40%

Kailee Morgue: 40%

Julia Michaels: 50%

Bonnie Fraser: 50%

Unknown: 50%

Courtney LaPlante: 50%

Sydney Sierota: 70%

K. Flay: 70%

Halsey: 70%

lol I'd update that to 0% in all cases

1 hour ago, Astat said:

 

5 bucks says he got a call from the band's lawyers lol

Lol thats exactly what I thought immediately

It's always nice to get an official instrumental version.

1 hour ago, lpliveusername said:

I love this band and this song.

 

Never this one.

Spiritbox are my favourite “new” band. Been a fan since the first EP, their career is so great, loved them in iwabo, but Spiritbox is miles ahead of anything they made in iwabo. Mike is a beast on guitar and you gotta love Courtneys vocals. 

Illenium did a cool collab with Spiritbox

13 hours ago, Somebodyangry said:

Why replicate the sound of 20 years ago ? That’s not what I would find exciting TBH

almost every modern metal/popmetal band did the LP sound is one way or another in past ten years.  it's time to show them how it's done properly

4 hours ago, leftshoe18 said:

With the exception of The Nothing, Korn has released b-sides for every album going back to SYOTOS. They release b-sides all the time!

Ok, SYOTOS had soooo many Bsides, but lately its mostly a song from japanese edition

9 hours ago, JZLP-NaughtyNottingham said:

Damn man what a list 

Add

Xx. Head Like a Hole Korn ft Chester

 

Actually that's my biggest holy grail, the song is done. I don't really understand what happened w Korn Kovers.

that's classic Korn, they start a project and they never finish it as it wasnt their top priority. they prioritize own music and touring, which is awesome. I love Korn, they are still sooo good live. However, Korn Kovers was planned sometime when Head left the band and they were basically searching what to do and how to continue. They worked some songs out, but I guess they lost interest in the project as it was not as satisfying as they hoped. I think we'll never hear that cover, even though I'd love to hear it. They rarely ever release b-sides or even demos

Its called supply and demand. 

2 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

 

I think it's pretty telling, based on Mike's comments that he didn't really want to do a greatest hits and this, that the band isn't in love with this release. I'm sure releasing Friendly Fire was cool for them but they haven't ever seemed like the band to want to do a greatest hits release. They are always looking forward, not backward.

True, true. Hopefully we’ll get some info regarding looking or even moving forward. 

25 minutes ago, Stranger said:

 

true! because FF is a brand new vault song and QWERTY is fan-club exclusive track. cant wait for people to hear QWERTY for the first time.

there might be a little bit more once the whole compilation is released, at least I hope

37 minutes ago, Stranger said:

 

maybe because it's a compilation/greatest hits album? not really a "new" album to them? unlike M20, it's celebrating 20th anniversary, they were really proud and hype bout it. besides, the band wasnt really into this compilation. 

yeah, it might be. Id expect a little bit more regarding FF or even QWERTY. 

Whats wierd is the lack of promotional interviews etc. regarding Papercuts. Or are there some new articles etc.? I have been busy this week so I might be out of loop

16 minutes ago, linkindan said:

Linkin Park, presented by Grey Daze

Not by a single chance. It is a common practice to release colour variants of vinyls. I’m surprised that there’s only a few variants tbh. Spiritbox did like 9 different variants with their latest EP and it was cool af

They probably changed the mix and did maybe some programming or added layers. I thought the mix was different than rest of OML as I said somewhere earlier in the thread, this confirms it basically. but nice thing is, that they got together to work on it some more. I dont think that those changes they made were major, but just minor tweaks

Here's a quote from Brad about Friendly Fire from https://consequence.net/2024/02/linkin-park-greatest-hits-album-friendly-fire-stream/

Speaking about the track, guitarist Brad Delson said, “Friendly Fire’ was always one of our favorite songs from the One More Light sessions. Something about it wasn’t quite right so as close as it got to the finish line, we chose to set it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, the sonic landscape and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time.”

Delson continued, “We got together to work on it and connect some of the missing pieces that for whatever reason hadn’t revealed themselves during the recording of One More Light. I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s such a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaking, hopeful story and it really resonates with me today.”

Well I dont think that the rushed comments are critical or whiny, it is just not regular for such release in comparison to boxsets for example. 
 

it might be a hint or something

3 minutes ago, Stranger said:

 

it seems like FRIENDLY FIRE a bit different (not much) than the rest of OML tracks. is it because they mix differently? but as Martinez told us, only "Numb/Encore" is new mastering.

yeah, it has the vibe like OML, but it is mixed a differently in my opinion. yeah, N/E is new mastering, as well as ND, but I think he mentioned that FF wasnt mastered before. they either mixed it differently back then or it is a new tweaked mix. 

and dude, the last post-chorus part is epic.

Love it, great prechorus, cool bridge, catchy chorus. Drums sound cool when it's their time to shine, same for guitars, they are louder than on some other OML songs. In my perfect little world, this song would be on OML instead of SFN which is my least favorite song, but I know most of you love it, which is good for you  gonna give it a spin again and again

4 minutes ago, WildernessHasLeftTheChat said:

How hilarious would it be if QWERTY is their new single after FF? 

it should be, shouldn't it? it's supposed to be a single collection, it would be wierd that it wouldn't become a single