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3 minutes ago, JZLP said:

This album is the best release since A Thousand Suns I'm pretty fucking sure, I never thought that they would be able to create something this GOOD.

 

They exceeded my expectations. 

 

The vocal collaborations were very respectful they were there only as a backup no one took Chester's place unlike OML that disrespected the whole band and made Phoenix, Rob and Joe as a joke. 

 

Are you saying Mike and Brad disrespected the rest of LP during the making of OML? It sounds like you are, and comments like that aren't going to make people excited to go listen to GD's album. You don't need to shit on Linkin Park to emphasize how much you love Amends. 

1 hour ago, castro78 said:

You guys take this stuff way too seriously. The merch stuff comes across kinda gross, and I believe everything Mark is saying about Sean, but the music they’ve released has been really good IMO. Everyone just treat it the way you want to and chill out. None of this overly important at this point. 

I agree with you. The quality of the music has never been the issue. The instrumentals are good, and Chester's vocals sound good for being recorded in the 90's.

Listen to it and support GD, or don't. It's everyone's personal decision to make. Given all that happened behind the scenes with GD and the LP ambassadors, it's weird to have expected an LPL listening party, but the post was still made here with details and the link.

12 minutes ago, Diaux said:

Why not adding what wesleylpbr asked about the Xero footage?

This was a summary of today's Q&A, and that was yesterday. 

I really enjoyed this stream! Lots of cool info shared.

I’m a huge hip hop fan, so I get your meaning. He said the same thing in Stan. “I say those things just clowning,” it’s still just weird to hear Mike saying those things because, like Astat said, we know his real personality, and he doesn’t bring out the braggadocios side very often.
 

I did say I really like the song, and I stand by that lol. One of my favorite Mike verses is on the STB remix where he says “Never been nothin’ short of a legend, you peasants will learn” LOL

That line just feels insincere from Mike lol. I actually do like the song though. The beat it great and the lyrics as a whole are good.

I like it much better than DTB, but it’s not as good as ALTNC in my opinion.

17 minutes ago, sordomuda said:

A controversy over a lq version of steve Aoki song featuring Mike 🤡 

 

i am still waiting for a hq version to judge it but tbh i am not a fan of that kind of music so i will probably listen to it once and forget about it, we will see. I literally dont listen to the other collabs with steve as well. Maybe i would more if they were on their actual albums i dont know. DTB is boring. ALTNC is ok but i never listen to the recharged so i the only time when i listen to this song is when i listen to concerts from 2014 lol 

DTB sucks. It's way too long and boring. Chester sounds cool on the last chorus, and Mike's "ahhh" part sounds good, but damn that song takes forever to go anywhere...

The ironic thing about this entire debate is that, with as many times as Chester and Mike have shown the willingness to go a totally new direction with their music, both inside LP and out, there are bound to be people who don't love everything they do. That's ok.

Criticizing a song is fine as long as the attacks against the artist aren't personal. That's the difference between Castro and Geki, for example.

5 hours ago, kiq fLP said:

 

I didn't saw "The Messenger" multi, they are out there too?

My bad, no we don't have that one. We have the separated stems from Rock Band (guitar + vocals + everything else), but not from the studio itself.

So we now have the entire albums of ATS and OML fully separated. Incredible.

51 minutes ago, LPLStaff said:

Can't believe they forgot And One, ha. First song they wrote with Chester.

"Is this Carousel?" 😛

No. None of this can be shared openly on this site because this site collaborates with LP management and record label. It's not allowed.

You also just asked this a couple weeks ago, and as you were told then: All of this stuff is pretty easy to find through simple Google searches, honestly.

15 hours ago, Garret said:

Well I just think some tracks on the 3 albums after ATS could have been replaced with better songs that they had. They have like 3-5 fully done songs for each record that are cut. Some I don’t even understand why they were developed so far to the point of making the album. THP for example could have been way better if they removed like 4 of the tracks for better ones. OML should have had TTM, Invisible and Heavy taken off for better songs. 

With Heavy, I remember initially being disappointed at how short it was, and how much more of the spotlight Kiiara's vocals got compared to Chester. I mean once Kiiara comes in for the second verse, the rest of the song is basically her on lead vocals and Chester doing background vocals. If I didn't know it was the first single from OML when I heard it, I would have thought it was Kiiara featuring Chester.

7 hours ago, sordomuda said:

I agree so much with your last part of the post @Garret. Unfortunately it was the death of Chaz that made the legendary status for them. 

To an extent, yes Chester's passing did cause a lot of casual/lapsed fans to check out their latest albums rather than only listening to Hybrid Theory and Meteora forever, but LP were already regarded as legends by many people in the music industry. It's not like Chester's death put them on the map. They had already been there and done it all as far as being on top of the music world. Their first 6 studio albums, plus Live in Texas, Reanimation, and Collision Course all went platinum (HT is diamond certified!), so it's not like they wouldn't have been considered legendary already.

My point is that 20 years from now, LP won't be remembered for an increase in popularity after Chester passed. They weren't a young band like Nirvana, who really broke out only 3 years before Kurt Cobain died. LP was a force for 17 years straight.

Honestly, the situation in the aftermath of Chester's passing is more similar to John Lennon than anything. John Lennon, already an established legend, was getting pretty bad reviews for his final album by mainstream critics. After his death, the album was viewed in a different light, and a lot of subsequent reviews were not only less negative, they were actually positive. That somewhat mirrors what happened with OML.

15 hours ago, Garret said:

I think if LP continues on in the years to come, they COULD potentially gain back the status they had during the ATS era, if they craft it very carefully. But they'll likely now always be remembered for their huge 2000's hit singles and remain a sort of legacy act that they are now, I don't think this would have been the case if Chester hadn't killed himself but he kind of cemented them by doing it.

I get your point, but LP was already being viewed as a legacy act by a lot of people. Not by us, of course, but even in 2014 they got a spot at Download because they agreed to play Hybrid Theory in full. As awesome as that was for us and everyone to see, that was a novelty show when they had a new album released the day before.

LP never accepted becoming a legacy act, and they continued to innovate and take different directions as they always did, but the public perception of them was becoming "The band that made ITE, Crawling, Numb, Numb/Encore, WID, and ND".

42 minutes ago, Subs said:

 

What was so stupid about the documentary ? It was cool. 

 

No matter how much they refer to GD as a brotherhood or how close they were, I don't see it as in they are taking shots at LP. Everyone loved Chester. Not to be naïve, there may very well be something going on, but most of the evidence so far is poor, just rampant fan speculation, seeing what you want to see. 

 

His family has literally taken shots at LP (Mike specifically) and Talinda by name. They’ve done so with the intention of splitting/reducing the LP fan base.

I agree that everyone loved Chester, but there’s also zero chance Chester would approve of the public mud-slinging that’s going on, regardless if there were legitimate issues behind the scenes.

I’m still going to stream the album because the reworked instrumentals thus far have sounded pretty good, and because it’s Chester, but this entire album cycle has been a lesson in how not to go about promoting an album.

2 hours ago, Subs said:

 

Amen its been fucking laughable on here lately. People making up their own theories and acting like its fact. 

Have you been reading their posts and comments online lately about this entire project? They come off as huge assholes and liars. You guys are calling people out for "talking trash" without looking at the source.

I resent the fact that the theme of their promo for the album seems to be to take shots at WB and thinly veiled jabs at Mike/LP, while also marketing the album as "The lost music of Chester Bennington". If anything is laughable, it's THAT tagline that implies this music has never seen the light of day, or that it's been suppressed somehow until now.

1 hour ago, Astat said:

I'm 100% convinced this is exactly why they got her to feature on a song. They want people to buy the album thinking it has a Linkin Park feature on it.

Yeah I saw the feature and knew who they meant, but I also got a strong feeling that it's a shitty thing to do. In a case like this, you would think you would use LP's full name. LP is a stage name, and artistic integrity is a thing I know, but still. It REALLY seems like they wanted casual fans to see the last song on the tracklist and say "Oh wow! They got Linkin Park to feature on a song with Chester's vocals!"

Also, can anyone explain why "The Syndrome" is more politically correct than "Syndrome"?

Whether or not we agree with LP/WB's stance on certain material being shared, it wouldn't be smart for LPL to throw away the goodwill and trust built up between all parties by sharing things they haven't been given the green light to share.

Don't forget how many multitracks alone have leaked since 7/20. Combine that with WAYW and I can understand the band and label feeling perturbed to say the least. I think it makes sense to run things by them first at this point.

2 hours ago, sordomuda said:

I was wondering if anyone Here can tell me if it is Mike who is singing the refrain in It goes through? I mean the high notes during a line it goes throuuuuuuuuuugh. For me it sounds like Mike with a lot of autotune. 

I think this is the correct answer. Mike, in fasletto, with some effects on his voice.

This should be in Newswire even if LP was fully active. Mike producing a song for another artist is still LP related news.

This is beautiful.

22 minutes ago, cesaraugusto said:

Hi, guys! Please, what is the source? 
 

I think these were the samples from a remix contest they did in like 2006 or something. Some of those sounds had their pitch and speed adjusted to match with whatever the other song was that it was paired with.

I have a question. Might be a dumb one, but still: there’s no chance that YouTube pulls some dumb stuff and tries to take all this down right? I remember a few channels that uploaded LP shows suddenly being gone. I love all the hard work that you guys are putting in to the channel, and I hope they leave it alone.

3 hours ago, KlaytonShinoda said:

What about RAZORS.OUT & SUICIDE MUSIC? Are the "rare" remixes like the Depeche Mode & Massive Attack ones count too?

Neither of those songs were Linkin Park B-Sides. Razors.Out was a Shinoda/Chino Moreno collaboration and Suicide Music was a GBC song that Mike made the beat for.