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I disagree that "When They Come For Me" is against their old school fans. I am an old school fan and i didn't feel that song was directed at me. I think the song was more directed at the "fans" who can't keep up with the inevitable fact that the band is more than just Hybrid Theory and will branch out their wings to make other things besides Hybrid Theory and just want them to keep chugging out Hybrid Theory and nothing else even though reality dictates otherwise. Basically the childish group of people who don't care that the band gets bored doing the same things just like they do doing the same things. And that group of people is made up of more than just old school fans.

 

If you think the song is directed at you, then it probably is.

I think the song is more directed at the critics.

I think it's cool that Brad shows his skills as musician more and more nowadays. Look at The Catalyst, he played guitar, vocals (lol), drums (or how you call it) and the synths at the end.

i like the melody of "holding on to what i haven't got" at the climax. this is that song where they sing forth and back.

16. A Thousand Suns: The Full Experience [Explicit] [47:56]

The longest song LP has ever made lol.

James Montgomery, who writes a lot of articles on Linkin Park for the MTV website, posted a top 5 videoclips. Could be interesting.

At 12:01 a.m. on Thursday (August 26), Linkin Park premiered their brand-new video for "The Catalyst," the first single off their upcoming A Thousand Suns album. It's a dark, moody, abstract affair, full of swirling smoke, charred earth and rising tides, and, judging from the comments we got on MTVNews.com, Linkin Park fans totally love it. So that got us thinking: Is it good enough to rank among their all-time best videos?

Even though "The Catalyst" is barely 13 hours old at this point, it's clear the clip takes the band to places they've never gone before. But the short answer is ... no, not just yet. Sure, the video would probably land in the LP top 10, but we're talking about the best of the best here. So while it's undoubtedly good, it's not quite good enough to crack the band's top five. But give it some time. We're sure its impact will be measured in weeks and months, not hours. That's how Linkin Park videos tend to go. At least, judging by the ones we've selected as their five best:

Read more here.

Also interesting: Linkin Park's 'The Catalyst' Video: Kiss The Past Goodbye (New clip sees LP pushing the envelope even further), about how the band wants to go in a new direction with their sound and the video for "The Catalyst".

Well, I expected a high entry, WID debuted at 7 and ND at 6 but TC never made it to the first place at iTunes so I lowered my expectations. Prob because it's a totally different song than WID or ND.

Nice. What makes a song feature on Billboard Hot 100? Most plays?

Radio airplay + downloads.

Last is more energetic, how ironic that might sound!

The radio edit clocks 4.42. I saw it on a radio website. Removes the scratches in the beginning and cuts of some of the end sounds (those that fade out).

Radio Edit clocks 4.42.

It's going to be one long and epic video

They could use the radio edit for the video.

The radio edit for download and airplay and the full length on MySpace probably.

You know that Mike doesn't like it when people do things like that in dedication to the band? I read that somewhere.

By Myself.

The credits doesn't mention those songs with strings being recorded for, so they're probably synths.

Reanimation

-Opening (violins/cello by Phoenix)

-Ntr\Mssion (violins/cello by Phoenix)

-Krwlng (violins/cello by Phoenix)

Meteora

-Faint

-Breaking the Habit

Minutes to Midnight

-Leave Out All the Rest

-Shadow of the Day

-Hands Held High

-Little Things

-No Roads Left

-Blackbirds

And I was already in love with Snow Patrols 'A Hundred Million Suns'....

Ya know...

 

Remember that random blog post Mike made a long time ago about how they made a song so awesome, it vaporized Chester's arm?

 

There was a painting of a hindu deity hanging in the studio right behind Chester.

 

And that quote sounds a damn lot like what we translated the message as.

It was Lakshmi, the goddess of music.

Death to digital!

If I'm right, Amazon was right about DBS, MTM etc. So it's pretty plausible. And LP releases are usually released a couple of days for the US date. The special presale of MtM was May 11, while the international date was May 15.

The name..

Now, "How soon?" is the question.

Linkin Park's soon is eh.. not very soon.

doubt that's true. i went onto MTV and there was no such news as that there. It seems like a lot of people now are just bullshitting things to yield there own boredom. I highly doubt the release date would be revealed by MTV instead of LP. Plus MTV has gotten things wrong before....for now we have two sources:

 

- German Mag....Sept.

- MTV....Oct. (that one doesn't even have proof what so ever)

But MTV had a lot of things right, weren't they?

I don't think that the message was from MTV. I can't find it and the information doesn't feel plausible either.

The Genre-Busting Album

Something else you may find interesting...

 

It says that it already has been released in the UK. But I can't get to search Linkin Park on the UK iTunes so I couldn't find it.

Well, nobody knows what is in Mike's and others' minds. Maybe they want to release album fiirst, then going to tour?

That isn't they best way to promote your album.