ShadowUser

This release is epic. Can’t wait. Love that show a lot. Can’t wait to have it in full.

If it were up to me, I would only have 1 track from Living Things, The Hunting Party and One More Light on here and leave the rest of the tracklisting for others. Burn It Down, Final Masquerade or Guilty All The Same and Heavy. Castle Of Glass and One More Light don’t need to be on here. Were they really that big of hits? Not that I remember. Papercut, One Step Closer, Crawling, In The End, Somewhere I Belong, Faint, Breaking The Habit, From The Inside, Numb, Given Up, Leave Out All The Rest, Bleed It Out, Shadow Of The Day, What I’ve Done, Waiting For The End and The Catalyst all should have been on here. All massive singles everyone knows. Yeah it’s heavy on the early albums but that’s what the biggest hits are from, sorry. New Divide, I guess could replace maybe From The Inside or Given Up, but idk. It’s obvious Warner wanted Lost on here. So have to have that. And Friendly Fire should definitely be on it, of course. QWERTY is weird so maybe cut that for one of those other songs. Not having The Catalyst or Given Up is crazy to me. Final Masquerade too, even though personally I’d put Guilty over it. But idk I’m not the one choosing it all. Haha.

If you look at any social media that has Linkin Park communities such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., many, MANY, people have complained tirelessly about QWERTY not being on streaming for years and years. To the point it got extremely annoying, honestly. So it’s good that it’ll finally be available on streaming to shut these people up. It’s definitely their most well known non-album track besides My December. QWERTY has had a huge ‘’cult following’’ since 2006, even some casuals know about it, because it was always that song that people used as a complaint when Minutes To Midnight came out and that it wasn’t ‘’heavy enough’’. Even though songs like Given Up and No More Sorrow which are heavy as hell on on the album, people were all pissy that the band evolved with Minutes To Midnight. So QWERTY was definitely a big deal back in the the 2000’s if you were a fan at the time, anyone who was a fan and active back then will remember. As far as this release goes, I don’t think the band really wanted to even release this, but the label probably pushed them to release a ‘’Greatest Hits’’. Mike likely saw the release as an opportunity to put out Friendly Fire as he loved the track and mentioned wanting to release it a couple of years ago. Instead of making us wait until 2037, he saw this as a good time to release it to us. Makes sense to me. Honestly I feel like the band is being kind of tongue in cheek with this release, almost sarcastic in a sense without being overly sarcastic. The bright money green and I think they may be taking the piss out of the label and the mainstream casual fans by putting QWERTY on this. Because of the absolute randomness of it and it’s not the type of track that casual listeners or people who don’t know much about the band will enjoy, at least in my opinion. Overall this is just a little Greatest Hits compilation, not really a huge deal. It doesn’t mean the band is starting a new era without Chester and it doesn’t mean they are breaking up, either. People need to chill with that. When the band is ready, if they ever are, they will let us know. Mike has said this a million times. He said recently even that he is enjoying celebrating the anniversaries as they come and that right now they don’t have any plans to tour or make new music but the window is still open. Sometimes the fans gotta chill with pressuring them. There are other bands out there to listen to if you need ‘’new’’ music that desperately. The back catalog of Linkin Park is pretty large, personally I could be happy with listening to what we have now for the rest of my life, I never get bored of listening to the same songs I’ve been listening to for years and years. We still have many albums left to celebrate with 20 year anniversaries and what not. Many live shows to release. And also even the future of the band. It hasn’t even been 10 years yet. Maybe they will carry on as a 5 piece, maybe they will replace Chester, maybe they won’t ever truly get back together, but Mike and the band will let us know when they are ready, if they are. As far as The Hunting Party being left out, it is what it is. It wasn’t a commercially successful album. They left a lot of singles off of this release that are massive too from other albums like Shadow Of The Day, Given Up and others. If they really wanted to do a proper Greatest Hits they should have done a 2 CD/Vinyl with all the main singles from all 7 albums and 1-2 exclusive songs like they did. Maybe because the band really didn’t even want to put this out they didn’t put too much effort into making it a true Greatest Hits. Just some food for thought. But complaining that stuff like Numb/Encore should be left off for something off of The Hunting Party is ridiculous. The band won a Grammy for that track, remember the Paul McCartney performance? Wasn’t Jay-Z listed as the best rapper of all time last year? Massive, massive collaboration. And nothing on here besides QWERTY should have been left off for something from The Hunting Party. There was time still on this album to add a track from it without removing anything. For whatever reason, Warner probably didn’t want to include anything from it. Sucks but it’s not the band’s fault, really.