NickDuffy

Joe Hahn at 0:30.

Like I said before the purpose of Fort Minor was to write songs that he feel didn't fit with Linkin Park.

They write whatever they want to now without restrictions.

Mike addresses critics and gives shoutouts in When They Come For Me, and speaks about moving on and starting new in Wating For The End. He raps about anything, in any tone now.

If I make a beat out of this, do I give you the credit or Linkin Park?

A decent remix of The Catalyst. A half assed remix of Blackout.

Linkin Park never fails to amaze me

Issho Ni was nice though.

Warner and money got to him. Unfortunately, they aren't allowed to be who they were anymore.

This is how much that made sense:

Today was one of those rainy days in Pennsylvania, and I decided to put my iPod on shuffle and relax. Here are some lyrics from the first song I hear:

Before the first song that you heard me on

There were people already trying to get me gone

Telling me to quit rapping / just play the keys / that

"My band had a singer", "They didn't need me"

But my band had my back, so we did the tracks

Put out the album and the talk went flat

Isn't it odd that Mike wrote an interlude about proving the people wrong? Now his mindset completely changed saying that the kind of music that they used to make lost it's freshness and originality throughout time. This song was released in late 2005, and Minutes To Midnight (which only had 2 songs with rapping) was released a year and a half later in mid 2007.

Maybe it was Rick Rubin that proved to them that they can change and create music of different styles, that they'l still enjoy, but whatever happened, resulted in two more good albums.

Blackout vs. The Catalyst.

That's what it is starting to look like.

What do you think their most original song is? This can be determined by the sound, structure, and overall atmosphere of the song.

I'd have to go with Blackout.

Blackout feels like a wave of every Linkin Park album put into one song The rapping/screaming back and forth reminds me of Hybrid Theory/Meteora. The vocal glitching "dubstep" section reminds me of Reanimation, and the end of the song reminds me of Minutes To Midnight.

The song is a classic.

Cure For The Itch is a way better opener than The Requiem. The Requiem is too haunting and it doesn't build Faint at all. That's like having Wisdom, Justice, and Love fade into QWERTY. Just doesn't feel right.

They always say that if they play Robot Boy or an older song, it will be in an intamite setting. Since this is a small venue, and the people who are going had to raise $500 for the tix, playing something rare doesn't seem totally impossible.

It's been said a couple times but I'll reiterate. The fan who is going to help raise $500 dollars for Linkin Park's charity is not the fan that only knows/wants to hear Numb and One Step Closer.

 

So, while I don't expect anything huge tonight (nor do I expect it any night, seeing as I coined "setlist trading card syndrome" ), this would definitely be the right time and place to play an old/more obscure song.

I couldn't agree more with both of these statements. Pure truth back to back.

Meteora>>>>HT

In my opinion:

Hybrid Theory is better than Meteora. The lyrics are less cliched, and the performance of Chester and Mike seems more passionate and less forced. Mike's rapping in Meteora sounds very dry and boring. Meteora is more creative instrumentally, but other than that I don't see how Meteora is better.

Mike is a decent singer. His voice and tone in songs like Iridescent and Burning In The Skies are really important. I think Chester would've ruined In Between.

Mike's tone in his voice is something that Chester doesn't have, no matter how good of a singer Chester is. A Thousand Suns has a perfect balance of Mike/Chester.

I would love for them to play more Hybrid Theory tracks. I'm a huge fan of A Thousand Suns, but damn guys, Hybrid Theory and Meteora weren't absolute garbage. Well Meteora maybe, but Hybrid Theory is a classic.

Am I the only one who doesn't care to see Robot Boy live? I'm a huge fan of the song, but I think that it won't sound to great live unless they touch it up a little.

They need to play In Pieces again.

I doubt they have any new songs to play. I wouldn't be suprised if this is just an old set list that they are playing.

They are going to have Robot Boy play throughout the venue while they are dressed in mime costumes doing the chicken dance.

If this doesn't happen, then they stumped me.

Every single album impressed me much. I would say that Minutes To Midnight impressed me soooo much. After years of waiting this brand new Linkin Park alternative rock style was blowing for me. When I first watched the full video of What I've Done I was like frozen, it was something mind blowing. After I heard the album and than bought CD from the 1st track intro Wake to the last TLTGYA track it was like symphony. This album has all, slow songs, fast songs, beautiful songs, a lot of instruments works, so much new energy of the new style. I can tell without ending how I love this but only will say that Valentine's Day is the most beautiful song I've ever heard for this DAY

I agree. "In Between" really shocked me. It was nowhere near traditional Linkin Park, but I loved it.

01. Slip Out The Back

02. Right Now

03. The Hard Way

I'm sure there will be lots of questions about this stuff next LPU chat.

Oh without a doubt. Hopefully these questions aren't dodged either.

I'd have to go with Minutes To Midnight. In 2001-2004, all I listened to was Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, and Meteora. I never was bored with their material. It seemed so diverse, and perfect. When What I've Done was released I became a nit-picker. I was like: "Mike isn't rapping, they're sellouts now", "The piano is a Halloween theme rip-off", "there is no screaming this is weak", but by the middle of April it became my favorite song at the moment. The lyrics were so much better than anything the band has written before (which is funny because after time passed I learned they made the song within a week).

The album leaked and I downloaded it. My mind was blown. There wasn't alot of rapping, but it felt better that way. The rapping was necessary where it was. Mike didn't need to spit a verse on every single song. The soft songs really touched my heart, and I knew this band did something that people thought they never would have done, they changed.

There is not one song on that album that feels out of place, or bad. The whole album feels right. It opened on an epic note and it ended on an epic note. Not to mention, the b-sides from this album were so kickass!

A Thousand Suns did change the face of Linkin Park, but Minutes To Midnight did it first.

Yeah HT is popular as ATS in some things, but it is also released in the year 2000 and now we have 2011.

I give you a Example, for this Example I compare HT with MTM, which single are playing often in Radios or TV Shows ? Most of them were Crawling or In the end or Leave out all the rest or Shadow of the day because there are not so heavy for people they don't hear often music with screams. Look at the singles in the charts are the MTM songs are better as the songs from Hybrid Theory, What I've done is probally the best selling single with New divide at that time...because in so many countries were both of them in the Top Ten Charts. This is a fact that MTM make better to a Album like HT.

So ATS is really softer, but that album has one problem it is too complex for some people but it selling out because the name Linkin Park is a selling fact, it works to the people and the die hard fans buy every shit.

Burning in the skies is a good single and Iridescent is a good ATS single. Iridescent is for me a MTM copy of Shadow of the day..it isn't new it is the same song structure.

 

So HT is the best selling Album of them, but it has not the best singles for that people out there, for us of course we are Fans. It is just not a selling fact, more what the people like to hear and LP think this is this what they make, probally.

First off, Shadow Of The Day is nothing like Iridescent. Iridescent is more piano based, darker, and features dual vocalists until the bridge, which has the whole band singing. I don't see the similarity at all. Plus Shadow Of The Day ends with a dark organ-like transition into What I've Done. You can't say they are the same because they are both long soft songs.

In 2011, it's easier to download music than it was in 2000. That is why A Thousand Suns didn't sell so well.

Linkin Park is a huge band. I can ask ten random people in my neighborhood if they've ever heard of Linkin Park, and i'm sure six people will say they have. At least six people. The thing is, they aren't as popular as they used to be. In this day and age there are millions and millions of bands competing for the spotlight. You have manufactured pop stars pumping out singles every month, and it's so hard to keep track of what's even going on in this industry anymore. The problem with music today is it's too forgettable. No offense to people who enjoy the following bands but is anyone going to remember Nickelback, Hinder, Puddle Of Mudd, and others down the road? These bands are forgettable at best.

Linkin Park is a band that blended many genres together at once to create a unique sound. A sound so rememberable that if you heard three seconds of any of their songs on the radio, you would know it's them. Now their music is starting to get softer and more abstract. Songs with structures so confusing, you would need a map to find out where you are. Their albums are becoming journeys. This was popular back then, but now, albums like these are often ignored in favor for three minute long pop songs about dancing and relationships.

Will Linkin Park be forgotten years from now, if not any sooner?

Minutes To Midnight is their best record. For sure. We were given alot of b-sides from that album though, I think we've had enough.

Linkin Park: Greatest Hits

01. One Step Closer

02. Crawling

03. Papercut

04. In The End

05. Somewhere I Belong

06. Faint

07. Numb

08. From The Inside

09. Lying From You

10. Breaking The Habit

11. What I've Done

12. Bleed It Out

13. Shadow Of The Day

14. Given Up

15. Leave Out All The Rest

16. The Catalyst

17. Waiting For The End

18. Burning In The Skies

19. Iridescent

20. New Divide

The new transitions were cool, but god damn...they've gotta get rid of the black & white.

I like the black and white theme, but not as much as I did in the summer of 2010. It is getting old. They'll probably switch to color in a few months.