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"Give me a box set and we forget all of this." Gotta love this guy

Massive was my most played song last year from LP, it's almost hypnotic and it would fit with the current Metalcore sound heavily influenced by djent/Deftones, like Spiritbox or Wage War

We're getting a boxet in 2027 of Bleed it Out. Five hours of demos and remixes

I was just wondering, when it comes to different tastes between band and fans, songs like Runaway or Easier to Run always gets in our thoughts. They might be fan favourites, but despite this, they don't get too much highlight when it comes to setlists just because some band members aren't very fond of or they literally despise them. But what about the opposite case? Songs that, for whatever reason they love, but since most fans couldn't care less, they have to shelve them until further notice, since it would break the mood of the crowd. I always considered as such songs like In Between or ALITS, which have barely lasted in the live shows and I've never heard the band saying anything negative about them.

It would have been perfect for an acoustic/intimate show. That was one of the few things the band didn't tried.

I don't know about another countries, but in the European Union ones you have to pay royalties to the original owner if you include samples of other songs in your albums or play a cover for a live album. When it comes to simply playing live, as many bands do,it usually gets overlooked, because the band isn't gaining profits from something that isn't their "property". It would be quite reckless of them to publish a live show screaming at the world that they're using samples without have paid for them previously. PS: Correct me if I'm wrong, I am not an authority on this topic by any means. But what I mean to say is: Hold your superhero syndrome, Hybrid Theory isn't stealing anything from Linkin Park.

I meant samples. Anyway, if you use something like the Moscow intro to open your show, believe me that if they were doing that without paying anything, Warner would have noticed. We're not talking about an small underground tribute band.

They've paid for all the samplers they use in their live shows, so everything's legal, like it or not.

Satisfaction is the death of desire

Absolutely, Lost is a great song, but it has shined thanks to be released on its own. If Lost would have been released back in 03 I'm pretty sure that it would have been easily forgotten because it's "that song that sounds like Numb, but worst". You can dislike Nobody's Listening or Hit the Floor, but no other songs sounds alike, plus it proved that Linkin Park could evolve and not regurgitate the same songs over and over again.

Nope, just a note from Brad in the newsletter saying nothing relevant

Isn't point 2 contradictory with 1 and 5? Keeping up the classic LP sound but also going further than ATS

This might sound dumb, but I have to ask, what makes a song a demo? I mean, I've never thought of Qwerty as a demo, but a B-Side, that's why I'm very intrigued by your comment. What would be the difference compared to a song like Across the Line, which I also consider a complete track.

If they don't want to include Tokyo 2006 on the MTM boxset no problem! They can just simply release it separately in two years 😁

50$ for a brand new vinyl is fucking Insane

That encore is insane

In Between is QUITE underrated

Exactly, you can simply just ignore its existence, you're not less of a fan if you don't buy absolutely everything from the band. Personally I would have love the remix of Iridescent to avoid paying 100$ for the CD single, but it's not the end of the world

My opinion about Papercuts could have this headline: I could live without it. Besides my opinion about Friendly Fire, which I found enjoyable, but forgettable, there was no necessity to release this. To be honest, I knew that this "Queen-esque" movement was going to come, sooner or later, very glad though that it has been much later than what I would have expected. What I mean by "Queen-esque" is that LP has become a legacy artist, like Queen or Michael Jackson, whose label have been releasing compilations with a couple of new tracks/demos, to make happy both hardcore and casual fans. But during this time we had two marvelous boxsets, so I can't be mad. As some of you have pointed out, the fact that they're releasing 300 different vinyls it's a cashgrab... But that's how it works capitalism. Does make any sense at all to release this compilation on physical format? Maybe in 1989, but nowadays casual fans, which are the main target of this release, will just stream the record and won't spend anything. I can't see the sense of spending almost 20 bucks for a new track, even less to buy that pack with all the formats for almost the price of a box set. But the truth is, if labels keep doing it, must be because hardcore fans we're quite dumb sometimes. Has it always has been. Personally I'll buy it if the price lowers, but as I said above, it's existence doesn't bother me and I can live without it. One more thing: I don't think we will ever have a box set for LT onwards. Making those boxsets are huge investments and they're not popular enough to justify it. Perhaps we will just have a 2/3CDs edition or something like that.

Well, it doesn't sounds crazy. Wouldn't be the first time that some marketing campaign comes out late

Selling 1000 variants of a vinyl months few months after Chester's death Selling posters of Chester during his time in LP despite being a GD album Implying that Chester wasn't happy with LP and his true band was GD There are HUGE difference between what LP and GD have done. Please, don't fucking compare

Remember when OML came out? Many people saying "Linkin Park doesn't make metal anymore, what a bunch of sellouts". Same people who haven't heard of THP and repeat the same arguments from 2007 when MTM came out. Where have you been that decade?

Same here dude. It’s crazy to me. Tons of LP fans were begging for a more hard rocking album from them and when they finally delivered, nobody bought in. I thought the album was going to be huge in the rock world. Feels like I’m the only one who dug it sometimes. They didn't want a harder LP album, they wanted a Meteora 3. Nothing else.

The band played it safe with Papercuts. 90% of the tracks scream "you know us for this". Rather to try to impose their own tastes. ATS is the band's favorite record but they know casual fans still doesn't like it, it makes sense that WFTE is included, since it's very amicable. Even though tracks likeCatalyst and WTCFM are GREAT, somebody used to "classic" LP might find it weird. WFTE is a good teaser for those who really have curiosity. The saddest part, of course, is that they even don't trust in THP. I don't think they hate it, but everything related to that album was a trainwreck. It makes sense that omitted it. But the biggest oddball is Qwerty. I have the theory that, thanks to the success to Lost, LP knows that casual fans crave for that heavy-yet-catchy sound. Giving them an obscure track that reminds to the Nu Metal era, makes some sense.

Hope so!