Fleur de Lys

This was exactly what I expected from the second I heard it was gonna be more electronic driven last year. I'm not surprised. And it's really nice and new. People calling it a mess: Are these rythms slighty to hard for LP fans to understand or what? Just because it's not 4/4, dosn't mean it's a mess. And I like the structure of the song, it's really hard to follow, it dosn't use the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-choruschorus. And that's great. You can just sit back and enjoy, not thinking about where in the song you are. It breaks out of some of the structural rules that have been there for ages. Also, this is very close to the original if you ask me, and I doubt there will be anything interesting on the last bits, but we'll see. You can't hear autotune. It's a common mistake that you can hear autotune, but you can't. It's easily done, and you have to have very trained ears to be able to hear it. I'm not saying LP never used it, but what you are hearing here, my friend, is just an effect.

I hope it's the album name, it sounds great in my ears. Much better than Minutes to Midnight.

I really can't wait, this will be good. The place selling tickets has this qoute on their show page. Joe Hahn: "We are working to create a special experience for our fans where each of these live performances is designed to be a transformative multi-media experience, blending our songs and art and featuring never-before-seen visual technology."

R.I.P. Ronnie. Your music kicked ass, heavy metal father.

What exactly does this have to do with Warner?

People were booing at the big festivals, and that's not funny, put yourself in the shoes of Chester for a minute.

The theory that Chester is doing this for more sales is bullshit. I guess that these comments will sell around 50 CD's, if not less, and to think such comments will help the overall sales is stupid and Chester knows that. I hate these conspiracy theories on the big bands, this is NOWHERE near a marketing trick. He is just reflecting on the bad sales, I believe he really loved this record, and it got a lot of negative reviews, bad sales, and people booed them off at concerts. That's a really big slap in the face, because he thought people would like it, I feel fucking sorry for him. And the band isn't really gaining any fans as far as I know, just LP fans saying: "It's allright, but I like LP better". And that's not what he expected. I do think it's a good record, and I love singing along to it, he has awesome melodies.

Awesome idea, I'll definitly pay for a download.

Sorry about that, Christmas holidays, haha.

Did you guys see the edit in the post? He played keys at the Chi Cheng / Deftones benefit show apperantly. I had no idea about this performance. Who was he playing with? Any YouTube videos up?

Wow, I always thought Chester was screaming his lungs out douring his growls, but apparantly not. When he says "My My" in the My Suffering video, he has a really low output, and it sounds exactly like his screams, just lower. Guess Chester really is one of those mic only screamers, I'm a little dissapointed.

The performance of What I've Done wasn't even anything special, I just hate the way Chester sings "Doooone". Anyway, pretty cool. But they should've picked Bleed It Out, since it was awesome there and it was a single too.

Exactly what I was going to say. I think they had the recordings, and just needed do a final mix and that's what Brad meant. Across The Line is mixed as good as the rest of Minutes to Midnight, which makes it more of a b-side than a demo actually.

The thing people think is "crazy" about the guitars on the Faint demo is the fact that the melody is played with powerchords only, instead of octaves and harmonizing powerchords, it might sound pretty cool and fresh to your ear now, but really, the real guitars in the real version are much much better musically in my opinion. That goes for all the demos, Figure 09 for instance, it sounds pretty fresh and new right now, but when you think about it, the guitars are much better on the real version. The bridge has much more rythm in the real version, just go back and listen and compare, it's much more developed, much more special on the real version. The tapping riff in the intro is much more badass on the real song, though the guitar sound is more raw on the demos, which is pretty dope. In my opinion, what you really get out of this is a deep inside look of Linkin Park's working process, and that's really really cool, so I love this LPU CD, it's the very best yet. But in my opinion all the songs are better than the demos, everything else would be stupid as it's demos. I like Across The Line, very unique track.

I think what you're missing is a storyline to go with the performance. They're are both just band performances.

Wow, that's very interesting! Where did you get this info?

Someone, please ask him how he keeps tight to the samples Linkin Park use live, I always wanted to know if he's using a click in his earmonitors or..?

This is 100 % the best performance I've seen from this band.

Crawl Back In is up now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvy6M0G11rU

I don't know how old you are, but they didn't look horrible back then at all. It may look horrible now, but they all had the "skater style" back then, which noone thought looked ugly back then.

I don't like their appearence either, but who cares? It's clothes. This is music. I think the "I wanna die" part is very honest actually. He might be 35 years old, yes, but his life was a fucking mess when he wrote that song, he thought he was never gonna see his kids again and he just got devorced. He was even living in a small apartment because he had no money. Who can blame him? At least he isn't writing lyrics that are tailored to fit whiny teenagers anymore. Like Runaway and Numb, which are both about hating your parents one way or another. In my opinion. Anyway, it's also very stupid to use "I wanna cut through my skin" as an example. If you were actually paying attention listening to the song, and not taking things out of context, you would know that the next sentence is: "and pull you within". So it's a love song. It has nothing to do with actually cutting through your skin. I guess you only hear what you want to hear huh?

I personally think the drums sound a lot better now. The band as a whole is, as you said, also better now. They're a lot tighter. Brad changed his amps from Marshall to Randall before the MtM touring cylcle. His distortion is a lot cleaner now, not as raw as back then. While I normally prefer cleaner distortion, I think his new distortion lacks bass and fill. That's why his guitar sounds so low on live recordings. So all in all, his old amps fits the band better in my opinion.

Condemned, Let Down, WIC sounds fucking awesome. The rest did not do anything for me. Yet.

It's an okay song. Best riff until now, all though that dosn't say much. The people talking about auto tune are wrong, you can easily get vocals in tune today and it's impossible to hear. That, people, is called an effect. Though, I don't like the sound of it either. And I'm not saying they havn't used auto tune, but that's definitely not what you're hearing.

Haha, I agree on Hybrid Theory and Meteora being overproduced. In my opinion a more raw approach would have been a better fit for this song though. You're not the only one, I like this version far better. I think the screaming in the chorus sounds out of place in the live version, and I can't hear the double bass drum. DBS live impressed me. They pretty much had whole crowds against them from beginning to end but they still rocked out. Also, Chester is ten times better live on these songs than he is on LP's. I know a lot of songs uses this progression, but it's not only that. The start-stop rythm of the guitar throughout the verses is very similar to Little Sister. The 2009 melody of the verse is also very close. I liked the 08 version better, I never thought of Little Sister back then and the verses had so much more energy.