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Realistic wish list: ♥ With You ♥ Overflow ♥ No More Sorrow ♥ From the Inside Miracle list: ✨ Easier to Run !!! ✨ Forgotten ✨ I'll be gone ✨ Figure.09 ✨ Hit the floor

Did anyone notice that they haven't played any song of One More Light? I mean I'm completely fine with that considering I think it's by far their worst album, but it's still interesting that they didn't play anything out of it.

I have mixed feelings. Emily is an awesome singer and she sounds good when she doesn't exaggerate it (She sometimes did in the live performance in my opinion, it's fine if some parts are sung in a clean way). I also think she fits for the songs, BUT what bothers me is that many songs have a shift in pitch, many of them are higher than the original and some of them sound silly and less energetic because of that. It just sounds off. I noticed that in Numb, Faint, Somewhere I Belong and Crawling, there are probably more. What I really love is the new song. It feels like Linkin Park, it sounds like Linkin Park, it IS Linkin Park! It feels more like Linkin Park than most of the album "One More Light" in my opinion.

Wow this really looks amazing. The only thing that REALLY bothers me is the fact that the not-yet-released live versions of Easier to Run and Hit the Floor are *only* on vinyl and not on CD. I don't have a vinyl player so I can't listen to them 😕 I mean sure I'll probably can download it from the Internet or listen to it on Spotify, but it's still not the same.

Is there a source for this that the entire band hates the song? It's a bummer to hear that my favourite song of LP is the one they hate the most lol

I really like the new songs, especially "Over Again". It's very touching and in the end I always have the feeling like Chester is singing the background vocals (These "ooo"s). Actually I think that Over Again sounds more like Linkin Park than the album "One more light". I know i'll probably get some hate for this message, but for me I hear more LP out of it than of any song in OML.

Actually I think if they continue, they'll keep their name. Just think about the name "Linkin Park". Everyone knows it, it's near to a brand than just the name of a band. They have Linkin Park Underground, a huge fan base and they are famous to at least two different generations. I doubt that they'll rename themself. They rather stop doing music at all

I also thought that "break up" is maybe the wrong term, but since my English skills aren't that advanced (yet), I just called it this way. It was hard for me anyway when I wrote the text. Personally, I hope they'll look for a new singer, that has a similar voice like Chester in his early years. This is going to be hard to find, but I think it is possible. Just look at all the nice singers at YouTube doing Linkin Park covers.

I know it might be too early to speak about that, but I made my thoughts about it anyway. If you feel unconfortable to speak about this topic, just ignore it for the moment. The really sad news from yesterday told us that we now have to live in a world without Chester Bennington (It's still really hard for me to write these lines). But what does that mean for Linkin Park? Chester's voice was, at least for me, the thing that made the band awesome for me. He and Mike were like 90% of the band. Now at least 50% of the band are gone, so what does that mean for Linkin Park? There are basically three possibilities that I consider: 1. They break up 2. They go on just with 5 members 3. They are going to look for a new lead singer For me, 2. is the unlikeliest since that means that they can't perform all the old songs with Chester as lead singer. I think 3. is the likeliest, since they have a really huge fan base and there are good singers out there who probably can take Chesters role. One thing is for sure: Linkin Park will never be the same without Chester Bennington. I don't know yet if I could listen to LP with a new singer. But otherway, I would be sad if I couldn't hear Mike again. What are your thoughts about this?

Here in Switzerland, OML debuted on #2. It's with Hybrid Theory and Living Things the third album which didn't debute on #1.

Uh nice, I hope we'll get an OML II in two years if it was such a success. (NOT)

I just listened through it. It's not a "bad" album like in "the songs are bad". I enjoy some of the songs. The real problem I have is, it's music from Linkin Park. Many of the songs sound like all the songs running at radio stations since three years, and that's not what I expect from Linkin Park. In past times, mainstream radio musicians were copying the music LP did. With this album, I think the opposite is the case. For me, it's the worst album by Linkin Park, by far. It has some decent songs, some bad songs, and a really bad song (Heavy). But nothing is exciting. This is going to be the first album which I don't buy.

Well. The song is, as some of you already said, not very bad, but not very good either. It's below average for Linkin Park for sure, but less annoying than Heavy or BS. Also I want to say, this is probably the first album where I think Mike sings better than Chester. 8 years ago, I never thought I ever would say this.

Are you kidding me? Easier to Run is the most underrated song Linkin Park has ever made.

It's really strange that they could answer the hard questions with information about things happened 15 years ago, but not how many tracks there are on ATS.