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Don't bother commenting on the awesome camera work.

Here we go for the hundredth time

Edit: Here you go

TC warm-up!

What the fuck is wrong with MTV letting Kanye West singing his whole "let's have a toast for the douschebags" fucking bullshit and nominating Lady Gaga's "Telephone" music video for the best video of the year, but cutting The Catalyst by 2 minutes? What a bullshit to be honest, the only things I liked about this VMA is the LP's performance, the fact that the fans screamed more for 30 seconds to mars than for eminem and b.o.b and when Cher said that her "time" was when Lady Gaga was Baby Gaga i lol'd at that a lot. But this whole thing is a stupid popfest, fuck that

ATS is basically a bitch slap to MTVers. 4.5-6 min songs, experimental sounds, not singing about random shit including strippers, drugs, sex, money etc...

Also, I dont know if its the first time or anything, but they performed bleed it out without mike on the guitar. HE was air guitar'n it lol

HA, yea Brad kept up pretty damn good tho. He was SMOKIN... Sorry had to do it.

Doubtful. They kept stressing "no phones or cameras" like CRAZY then when we actually got on the bus they didnt even check us .

 

EVERYONE in the band starting playing the intros to songs and we got all excited. WTCFM, WaK, Numb, Faint, Crawling. They were fucking playing with us .

I got video of BIO and the first TC. I'll put them up later as I am at work atm. Video is good, audio like I said earlier wasn't the greatest.

Got some shots. The audio quality was terrible. There is no reason why you should be 4 deep and struggle to hear the music.

http://www.facebook.com/editalbum.php?aid=...100000499825956

Off topic but I went to the VMA rehearsals tonight. They played TC three times and we heard snippets of Numb, Wretches and Kings, and Waiting for the End

Here is a link to the album I have on FB. Security was tight so I had to sneak a few pics with my Iphone.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4004...100000499825956

Sry if you don't have Facebook. Tune in because when LP is performing they will have aerial shots via helocopter and a shit ton of lights and smoke. MTV dropped a ton of money into this closer!

Mike wanted to play more tonight but MTV shut it down so we just got to hear TC in full. Fingers crossed for 4-5 tomorrow!

WIN, the word epic is floating around a bit too much these days but everything I felt is covered in this article. 9.8/10 (Missed the MS distortion in "womans voice"). Parts of me like to think that the FIF track (WTCFM) is a shot at the label, I will quote it till the day I die to the zomg bring back HT and Meteora people as I'd like to think a bit of that is directed at these fans stuck in the year 2000. Glad to see there is a reporter out there whos got a pair to actually voice this opinion.

Check LPL FB to see if you agree with my VMA local prediction

Wait those lucky bastards were supposed to get copies of ATS as well!

Stop Bogarting the album artwork and take some pics!

It's already confirmed that the filming for the VMA broadcast will take place earlier in the day in a secret outdoor location. The VMAs themselves are taking place at the Nokia Theater.

We are also going to be bused into this super secret outdoor stadium in LA

I feel 007 special now. 7 song set gogogogo

i wish they play "Wembley Stadium" soon

Play a double header with Muse next week!

Mike was reluctant to say how many songs but it is def more than 1!

Jeez the Q&A questions were dumb and rightfully so, were answered just as dumb.

I'll put up some youtube links tonight for the 20 min session.

Great song!

Im very dissapointed, the worst album of LP:

 

#1 A Thousand Suns

#2 Minutes To Midnight

 

There is almost no involvement of Rob, Brad and Phoenix in this album, Now I understand why Linkin Park wanted to get out of the Warner Records in 2006

I'm confused by your last statement. I'm pretty sure the things you've mentioned had anything to do with LPs issues with WBR. I think the three you've mentioned above are big boys and would have said something if Mike didn't pick them for kick ball at recess.

I think the best part is that every person on this thread loves/hates different songs. Previous cds seemed to jive with what everybody hated or everybody loved. This is cool because of how personal the experience is to each individual.

Wish it didn't leak until tomorrow because now I have to decide to DL it or wait until the haxxors LAZORZ show tonight to hear it again. (Already got the eargasm at the LA listening event)

Trust me. That intro of Wretches and Kings sounds GODLY when blasted. It really gets you moving.

Gotta love listening to it with a billion watt sound system! We should ask to go back just to use the speakers!

Still no one is mentioning how the guitar solo that's supposedly in Iridescent sounds?

 

The review kind of sucked. I mean, I can understand that it was probably based on one listen of an album he couldn't take home and digest further, but it still seems like he didn't even really try. Much preferred Ana's review.

Guitar solo wasn't as prevalent as I thought it would be (I imagined an In Pieces like solo). It's there just not very solo'y. Lots of layers people!

Maybe thats why I got the vibe that Ana didn't LOVE the album because she was busy jotting notes. At most I had the pen in my had for 15 seconds per song.

They took away our note sheets, we couldn't bring in cellphones or cameras. The album blends from track to track and some tracks have parts in them that make them sound like a different track it's hard to remember detail after one listen. There's a lot of depth to most of the songs, with very un-linkin park unorthodox song structures.

 

There is very little guitar, and when it's there it's not really in the foreground, it's more blended in with the other layers of sounds, like in the The Catalyst. The songs that have guitar as the loudest element are more used in a hip hop style beat loop, heavy as hell and they just sound different. I liked those songs the most.

Heavy as hell indeed! I shit brix when Grover cranked up the sound during Wretches and Kings! Thought for damn sure the windows were gonna blow.

From my friend Jen that went:

 

"They wouldn't let us keep our papers so I'll attempt to give a blow by blow account of the songs.

What I do remember, couple of bad ass songs. There are 15 tracks, 4 were interludes. Kinda pointless some of them.

For the most part, you have to listen to it in its entirety to get the meaning otherwise it just seems out of context. Especially the interludes. own bits.

 

I took this from Evan for the track list.

 

1. The Requiem - Hilarious when we heard it was Mike actually singing. Who hit him in the nuts to get him to sing like a choir boy

2. The Radiance - Interlude, sucked. My exact quote was WTF?

3. Burning In The Skies - This song has deep lyrics that are repeated in Fallout

4. Empty Spaces - Very wartime sounding. Another interlude again, WTF?

5. When They Come For Me - This one Mike raps, Chester has good lyrics. Reminds me of Fort Minor days.

6. Robot Boy - Don't remember much about this one

7. Jornada Del Muerto - An interlude. Yet again! And it is in Spanish like the title suggests.

8. Waiting For The End - This was actually a good song Just not a fan of all the electro beats

9. Blackout - This song really confused a lot of us. It builds up, fades, and rebuilds. You think it is the start to the next song.

10. Wretches And Kings - 2 words, BAD ASS! This song has more of the HT feel with Fort Minor peppered thru it

11. Wisdom, Justice, And Love - Yet another interlude, but this one distorts into a robot sound. Felt like a commercial for Droid phones, and yes, I said that to the execs.

12. Iridescent - I really enjoyed this song. Had almost a revival drum feel about it. Very epic and mesmerizing

13. Fallout - The lyrics from Burning in the skies are repeated here. I kinda liked it, felt very fluid and continuous.

14. The Catalyst - Wrong song to lead off the album with

15. The Messenger - This song was not good. The album flows then BOOM, picture any 80's hair bang power ballad set to acoustic guitar. Someone liked this song and wanted it in. The only thing I can guess, the lyrics worked with the theme of the album but not so much the music. I guess it is to represent a stripped down world after whatever catastrophe occurred but it still doesn't fit. A piano would have been better.

 

I was asked specifically what I didn't like and said it doesn't feel like a collaboration between all 6 members. I think Brad took a nap on this one. Almost no guitar. 1 of the execs agreed with me. M2M lost Joe and now he is back with a vengeance but they lost Brad and Phoenix along the way.

 

You can pick out HT influence, Meteora influence, M2m influence and some Fort Minor influence.

 

The record execs said "the band wanted to make an album that they wanted to hear but no one was doing"

 

HT and Meteora were kinda the same, M2m was the beginning of the change bit they ran with the new sound on ATS. "

Just for your hindsight Jen was one of the only vocal people were not instantly on board with this album. She stressed that she needed to hear an album repeatedly before giving any true answers. IMO she secretly had her fingers crossed for HTIII (Not saying that is the case, just the vibe I got)

With regards to not all 6 members collaborating, this is one I wanted to ask the execs. It either came down to what was mentioned above (Mike ft LP) or the guys truley went with what they wanted. LP wanted to make a record that they would like to listen too because they feel that nobody out there makes music THEY ALL like. People are quick to bash the fact that guys are not playing instruments, yes I know that is the point of a band, but we should know by now LP is not just a band.

I was also there, I should've copied down my notes from the sheet they made us fill out but oh well. You're all in for a real surprise the first listen through. Overall I found the album as a whole pretty shocking, Minutes to Midnight was baby steps, A Thousand Suns is running full sprint, in terms of uniqueness and how different of a direction they went. The songs are definitely better on multiple listens and the album really flows from track to track really well. It really feels like a full complete album, like each song just adds to create one big picture in the end.

 

My favorite songs were

When They Come For Me

Wating For the End

Blackout

Wretches and Kings

 

By the way if you already RSVP'd for the laser show, you're definitely in, that's what Adam and Jessica told us.

The four above hit me hard!

Things that come to mind about "When they came for me" is a NIN guitar shreding sound with Blue Man Group deeeeeep drums.

Blackout 30 seconds of it is pure insanity (NIN- Great Destroyer broken down in a New Divide bridge like effect)

Wretches and Kings I think I had "In Stereo" hard beat matched by "There They Go" pace. I think this is the song Adam is referring to as Fort Minor ft Chester.

In my opinion Ana and a few other reviews I've seen didn't convey that the listener was too excited or convinced the first time around. I think Evan and I plus a couple others in the party were just floored at the awesomeness of this sound.

I wasn't surprised one bit. The thing that surprised me is Mike/ LP were so concerned that this album would be hard to swallow for awhile. It sounded like LP. I'll say it again, the tempo is similar to M2M where it mixes up songs but I was more entertained because the less aggressive songs were more uptempo because of the electronic aspects of the song. HT/M were in your face non-stop and as a teenager thats great but along with the band I have matured and like to change it up a bit. There are no "In Between" tracks on this record. I liked every single song, which the same couldn't be said for M2M + Easier to Run.

If you fall into the category of I needz ELPEE to go bak to NU Metalz you will be dissapointed by the cd. No surprise. Maybe if all you like are guitar solos, you might be dissapointed, there are plenty of guitars, but there are also 8-10 different layers that you can hear at any given moment so they are not as prevalent as older stuff which would always draw you in with them. I don't think they will lose too many fans outside of these two reasons. Some people are stressing out way to much.

I found myself getting excited like I did for Meteora after I listened to it, I was reassured after listening to ATS and felt those same feelings which escaped me on M2M.

I want the previews clips now

The songs are so diverse and not too structured clips will not satisfy you. Do not look too much into the clips. Just like TC, you could hear 3-4 different chunks and not know it is the same song.

Lol funny.

 

I shall be back in the morning to answer any more questions people have. Only 2 more weeks .

If it leaks tomorrow then everybody at the listening event will have FBI agents knocking on their door tomorrow and then taken to the middle of the desert.

Thats all I remember off the top of my head

I was amped on the way home but after an hour and 20 minutes I forgot some of the details.

I will add that the 4-5 people from the label were very inquisitive of our feedback. OOO triple word score.

This is probably gonna leak soon. I give it one week tops.

Grover "The guy who runs the label" sure was waving the finished product around for show and tell. I was kinda depressed that there weren't any armed guards.

I just hope that I like the transition between both different parts of blackout. I can't wait to hear it. I will blast the cd. I will make sure of it. It will annoy my parents though

Basically if you didn't look at the track listing you would think it was two songs. They are basically both stand alones. It's the fact that they are both on one track that is confusing.

I have a question. Does hearing the catalyst before hand ruin the journey of the album?

Nah not really. IMO the interludes /stories define the story. That is really why they want you to focus on it as a whole.