bloodbath

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!

I always had my suspicious that the Berlin 14 DVD was scrapped because maybe the album cycle wasn't being as well received as it expected.

That's it, we usually speak of music like it's an ongoing civil war. If you stream music, you don't have digital music on your computer. If you collect vinyl, CD is the most absolute evil. There's no valid rules to listen your music, and you know what's best? All can be complementary.

Here's the deal: LP has two main audiences. The hardcore fans, aka: lurkers of this page, and casual fans. The boxsets were meant for us, even the success of Lost was totally unexpected. But now isn't the time for us, is for the casual fans who haven't heard of Qwerty. Yes, there are people who in 18 years haven't had the time, the occurrence or whatever it is, to discover the song. You have the right to feel disappointed, but this isn't meant for us.

If that's a song I don't have on physical format, like Qwerty or Across the Line, I'm happy with it. I don't mind if it's 5 or 10 years old.

B Sides and Rarities? Wild guess

Track 14 is Carousel No, seriously, I'd love they include a HTEP track.

We're OLD.

Anything but another OML track please

Some of you are disappointed with Friendly Fire. I don't get it, it's an outtake from OML, you know what to expect. There's no room for surprise.

Yes! Very easy for them to pull it off the rest of their set. Must be already mixed and mastered

Seems like somebody leaked the 14th track. Just a demo from the MTM sessions https://youtu.be/khFFIWg4WCE?si=yXWzmAERlLLvs-YM

That version is even great than the actual track!

That miscommunication between fans and artist sounds more like it.

I've always found Mike's answer quite... vague. "It's sound the same because I use the same keyboard". Well, you could use the same keyboard for a whole album and still don't "magically" create perfect transitions from the end of one song to the beginning of another.

But really was him?