ThePretender

Make an EP!

There has been shot a lot of footage but there's no intention by the band to release it.

I knew it but I hear it in the final chorus, never at 0.43 so ill have to give the song another listen.

I gave this topic some thought a couple of days ago, before this thread. This goes in-depth. In my opinion, I like to take A Thousand Suns as an example. I don’t want them to replicate this album, but to continue the great things they did on this album.

Lyrics

Firstly, I'd like them to reinvent themselves with the lyrics and to really get nitpicky with them. A song like Until It's Gone has a Linkin Park stamp on it. It’s so Linkin Park, while the band has the potential to write really good songs, like they did on A Thousand Suns. I don’t have problems with the personal nor political point of view. I just want it to be good.

Secondly, something I didn’t liked on It Goes Through, for example, is that the second verse is almost identical to the first, which I find disappointing.

Thirdly, I want Mike to get off his horse and not to brag so much. It made sense on a song like When They Come for Me because it matches the theme of the album, but since Living Things and especially on The Hunting Party (Keys to the Kingdom, All for Nothing, Wastelands, A Line in the Sand), he exaggerates it. Where are the themes he used on Papercut or Fort Minor?

Music

What bothered me on Living Things (and before actually, but it came to the front on this album) was the song structure the band used on many songs. Of course the AABA-pattern is a common thing in the current pop music world and it’s okay to use that. But you can experiment within this structure. So what have New Divide, Burning in the Skies, Lost in the Echo, I’ll Be Gone, and Powerless in common? The last four bars in the bridge consist of the first lyrical bars/sentences from the chorus. It’s so repetitive. It´s a way that the band became familiar with in writing a transition between the bridge and the final chorus. But every song in A Thousand Suns was different compared to another song on that album. The Hunting Party likewise. Did you know that Keys to the Kingdom, All for Nothing, Wastelands, Rebellion, Final Masquerade and A Line in the Sand all differ in their final chorus?

I’d love to hear them experiment with song structure, time signatures, creating amazing ambiances (like in Castle of Glass, Powerless, Final Masquerade, Until It’s Gone and all of A Thousand Suns), retaining energy with rock/metal sounds (Figure .09, Papercut etc.) and taking their best songs to a whole new level (A Line in the Sand, the Little Things Give You Away, Keys to the Kingdom (the second half).

Style

What I love about Linkin Park is that they are able to do anything. The only genre they didn´t do is R&B. Every album (except for Meteora) has its own sound. On Minutes to Midnight, the band tried to go astray from the nu metal sound, in which they succeeded. On A Thousand Suns, they tried to expand their barriers even more, in every way. Living Things was the commercial album, a commercial compromise, to reconnect with some lost rock fans but in their own comfortable way. The Hunting Party was the critical compromise, to gain some credibility with the rock critics but also as a response to rock radio, but again in their own way, once again, expanding barriers.

So what’s next? I really don’t know. But I bet I’m going to love it again. They could go commercial again, like they did on Meteora and Living Things, but I don’t think they will. I expect something slightly softer with more electronics in it and Chester more prominent. You never know it with Linkin Park. I think that the next album will come out in 2017/18, in a different music world with new influences.

Do Phoenix and Joe really sing during Waiting for the End, Iridescent, Lost in the Echo etc? I'm not convinced at all.

Does anyone happen to have some background on Rob Cavallo suddenly producing with Linkin Park? Wastelands and Mall OST?

Sent mine in!

I am too lazy to translate it, but here you go.

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SES Satellite Company in cooperation with Samsung concert that Linkin Park on November 19 at O2 World in Berlin provides live and unencrypted in Ultra HD on Astra 1 satellite.

It is for the first time in the world that a concert live in Ultra HD is broadcast. The concert by American rock bandLinkin Park is transmitted to the image resolution 3840 x 2160 pixels in 4K Ultra HD quality with the compression technique HEVC / H2.65. Satellite viewers with a suitable Ultra HD TV with satellite tuner can view the concert exclusively on the SES Ultra HD demo channel live. It is at the broadcast color depth of 10 bits used and the images are displayed at 50 frames per second. The program starts at 21:00.

I agree with Kruspe. I loved the show because I finally saw them for the first time, but the high energy from the start tempered when the ballad medley started and the middle section. The medley is okay, but they could have played an other midtempo song in that place. Burn It Down sounded great live, because the guitars weren't mixed to the back like on the album. It was also good to hear that Chester finally sang this song and LOATR rightfully, after the bad performances when they started to play these songs. Brad was at times being interactive with the crowd, but he played the guitar on PoA and Burn It Down like he wasn't really interested., though I get that a bit since they aren't very hard songs to play. I found it also a pity that the crowd got a bit uninterested about three quarters in. And that few people jumped on Bleed It Out, which is THE party song. As my final criticism, I missed the band talking to the crowd. They just played the songs. He longest talk was when Mike talked about RME.

Some asked Mike in the Summit to play Reading My Eyes so he did that at the start of Bleed It Out. Charlie Austin joined Chester for the grunts. I didn't find anything moreunusual for the show notes.

Not going to the Summit but so syched that I'm seeing my favorite band finally live after eleven years of waiting!

This list needs updating. Rock am Ring, Rock in Rio, the Yahoo! concert etc.

The other song will be on Neon Future II. I thought it was an article on Billboard.com.

I found it a great documentary. *spoilers*

Some insights about the beginning of the band and the disagreements with the label, some we already know. For instance that they wanted to make Joe the Doctor. Also that One Step Closer channels the frustration the band was having with the label and that when Chester recorded the Shut up-part, he almost destroyed his booth. Now we also really know, as a fact, that Mike wrote the lyrics of Breaking the Habit with Chester and his addiction in mind, and that the song was an attempt to help/wake up Chester. When Chester said that in the interview, he even almost got tears in his eyes. I liked that Don Gilmore shed a light on the band in retrospect. That was interesting.

Given Up

Hands Held High

Too expensive for my taste. I'd love to go but these prices are too high. I already paid the concert tickets, and now I have to buy a LPU membership ánd a Summit pass. It's a pity.

Hands Held High. I love Wake because it's a great introduction, kicking in eventually to a 3/6 rock song. The instrumental of Hands Held High isn't doing it for me though. The lyrics however are great.

Bump.

And the rest of the covers in high quality, perhaps?

No, probably a live album. Not necessarily the Download but another show.

It's The Hunting Party pt. 2.

Where are the pre sale codes for the LPU? Can't find it in my dashboard!

1. The Summoning

Becuase I love album intro's and find it a pity that the last two albums are missing one. So The Summoning / War functions like Wake / Given Up to me.

Recharged

Rebellion