ScottiePippo

When Unshatter live album was released I went to a record store and I bought the CD. Since I was there I looked for other stuff too. And I bought LIVING THINGS too on vinyl. I already had the CD version but the different artwork was enough to seal the deal (I like the vinyl's cover more than the CD's one). This new release of the album on vinyl with the standard album cover doesn't tickle my fancy. But as JZLP said it could be and indication the LP more than willing to keep releasing stuff from the past. I'm hopeful about MTM20

Boxsets are by definition made for hardcore fans because they are expensive as hell to buy. So I would not worry about it being risky business. LP will always have plenty of fans to buy stuff like that if they decide to release them. It all depends on how exciting is what you include, how you want to present it, how big you want to go, etc..HT20 and Meteora20 represent a golden stardard for those type of anniversary release. I've seen a lot of other bands put out similar anniversary releases and they are not as hot as what LP and Warner did. LP could also decide to do future anniversaries on a smaller scale, there would be nothing wrong with that, especially because those albums were infact "smaller" than HT and Meteora.

100%. A Sea of possibilities regarding MTM. Early stuff that sounded too much like Meteora, tons of demos of existing songs, a lot of demos with scat vocals and nananas, really cool LPU songs only known to the hardcore fanbase and possibly some more songs that got close to the finish line and didn't make it. Even the thought of the existence of another holy grail (maybe grecian, maybe Fire in the city, maybe a mysterious 17th song) makes me wanna open my wallet. I'd be down for any of this possibilities

Yeah that would be very unlikely. But tbh it's not necessary for the whole project to work financially. Lost is one of the most popular archival and posthumous singles of all time. Nothing from HT20 reallly blew up but the whole project was a very big success. MTM is not as huge as HT and Meteora but it's still very big. If they can put together a compilation of previously unreleased material like forgotten demos and lost demos I'm sure it will make sense commercially. They just have to want to do that. This is one of the times when I want Warner to pressure LP into grabbing my cash

She couldn't is a 5 minutes trip-hop instrumental-driven song. It couldn't have been more different from the typical Hybrid Theory sound. On top of that It was already known for years by the majority of hardcore LP fans so we didn't get as excited as for others unreleased songs. They also didn't make a shorter radio edit or a music video. So It was probably meant for Linkin Park fans only, they didn't give that Song a chance to blow up more. In the last couple of years Minutes To Midnight has been performing really strong and currently 3 songs from MTM are in the top 10 of most popular LP songs (just like HT and Meteora). Yeah obviously a hidden song in the style of WID with Chester's vocals would be huge. But even a hard rock/metal song like Given Up or No More Sorrow or a alternative rock ballad like Leave Out All The Rest or Shadow Of The Day would work. The key to success is obviously being previously unreleased and featuring Chester. Even Friend Fire (that being in the style of OML was not exactly in huge demand from fans compared to others eras) proved to be successful enough.

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You are confusing the topic. I'm talking about the success of a single that drives the popularity and sales of its album. Shadow Of The Day was a big hit in 2007-2008. It accomplished much more than what The Catalyst did in 2010. The Catalyst did not succeed in bringing back Linkin Park in the mainstream spotlight. ATS in general didn't reach the level of popularity that Linkin Park were used to. Hybrid Theory, Meteora and Minutes To Midnight are all in the very top of best selling/most popular albums of their respective years of release. A Thousand Suns is not at the very top of the 2010 list. A Thousand Suns Is probably my favorite LP album but these are facts. When Linkin Park released A Thousand Suns their level of popularity/success dropped

They can do the 2024 schedule with Papercuts and then From Zero. It could work for 2027 too, celebrating MTM a few weeks earlier than the real 20th anniversary

It all depends on what you mean by "hits". But I wrote that "ATS was their first album that lacked a proper big hit". You can't say that part is not true. All the singles you mentioned are relatively small compared to big hits like In The End, Numb, Breaking The Habit, What I've Done, Shadow Of the Day, etc. Not even close. If ATS would have had a much more popular lead single for example it would have been more commercially successful. Now that doesn't mean that the album would have been better. But to a huge band like Linkin Park the business of their album matters a lot, because all the people around them put a lot of pressure about It (they probably put a lot of pressure themselves too). That's why The Hunting Party was not on Papercuts and why they almost never play those songs live.

Idk if I'd call it poetic. Brad was very active making/promoting Meteora20 even if he was not really commiting to coming back in the beginning. So he was not participating in those early sessions making new music but he was still showing up for the band. Rob didn't, he didn't even write one of those notes from the band in 2022 when surely talks of coming back as a band were premature, just them hanging out together as friend. Like I want to believe that he's somehow enjoying life as a retired musician but sometimes I fear for his health, like he's not in a happy place. The new comments from Joe highliting the fact that they don't even keep in touch is not ideal imo. You would think that people that shared so much together for decades would stick together more through thick and thin, almost like a family.

What I find more strange about Rob is that even in late 2022/early2023 let's say, when LP were making/promoting Lost and Meteora20 he was already gone and that was probably before Linkin Park had decided to really come back as Linkin Park. They had just started to hang out together for a few months by then. And even way before then, he was also absent for basically everything regarding HT20 except for the LPU chat. I think he made his mind up about no longer wanting to be a part of whatever future the band could have had before a comeback was even considered. Even if LP would not have come back and stayed in a hiatus status for good only releasing archival media for anniversaries and stuff like that I think that Rob would have quit the same way. It may be hard for us fans to not have a proper closure on his chapter in Linkin Park and for sure it's difficult to read his mind on how and why things went down the way they did regarding his departure. The best thing we can do is respecting his choice. I can't lie tho. The new Joe's interview gave me a different prospective from what I had in mind. I thought that LP members had a better knowledge of the situation. I thought they had better conversations but it appears that Rob kinda ghosted them too.

They need to find a balance. I don't think they will ever repeat an experimental project like ATS. They were so mainstream that even if calling it unsuccessful might be ungenerous but commercially it was very far from the peaks of their first 3 albums. After all this years of data from streaming platforms they can clearly see that ATS and THP are their least popular albums and those are the albums where LP tried more to do their own stuff without minding too much about the market. Linkin Park never steered away from mainstream sounds like in those 2 albums. I think experimenting is still a key to their longevity but they also need to come up with big singles. ATS was their first album that lacked a proper big hit and it made the difference commercially.

Damn the video was watched 4.1 million times in 14 hours on youtube

They are making calculated and selected appearances, not everywhere or random. They always promoted new released with TV appearances. This Is not different from Jimmy Kimmel show or SNL. It probably reached a bigger audience too

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