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    Pictureboard = "In Yourself"/"Be Yourself"

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    10 hours ago, Astat said:

    Also, not sure if you've heard the song, but the style of bass playing on it is a lot more fluid and busy-sounding than anything Dave typically played (although he seemed to replicate it just fine on the live tease in 2001).

     

    Not a music expert but it's nice to know the diffference between them.

    Linkin Park Announces "Hybrid Theory 20" Release

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    4 minutes ago, sian18 said:

    Im in uk got the order from amazon uk for super deluxe so asked staff on amazon to make sure it’s the super deluxe and he said yes it it the super deluxe u get everything u see in the product picture 

     

    Hoping we didn't get this instead, lol still doubting: https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/eu/artists/linkin-park/hybrid-theory-20th-anniversary-edition-vinyl-deluxe-box-set-32.html

    Linkin Park Announces "Hybrid Theory 20" Release

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    1 minute ago, eXoBlackOut said:

    Amazing release. Instantly bought the super deluxe box, was a nobrainer with this iconic album and amazing band. Still have regrets not getting the biggest ATS box 10 years ago....

     

    Also love how they went with She Couldnt as a sort of lead single. Great song that shows a real Hybrid side to Linkin Park. 

     

     

     

    I got the ATS deluxe boxset last year, lucky me.

    Linkin Park's Old Band Computer

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    9 minutes ago, hahninator said:

     

    Who says that’s the only CD? This is just a teaser campaign. They haven’t announced anything officially. 

     

     

    54 minutes ago, jopevc said:

    "These should complete the collection with the ones we found on the old computer..."

     

    I'm afraid that might be the case, let's hope not.

    Mike Q&A Summary 6/30/2020: "Dropped Frames"

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    36 minutes ago, RYG4R said:

    I hope for once, they just have had stick to the folky sound for LT with minimal electronic elements. I think COG started as a folky acoustic demo same as Primo as well. 

     

    Not a fan of that specific sound but it complimented the rest of the record well.

    "Sorry For Now" Remix by zwieR.Z.

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    On 6/23/2020 at 7:38 PM, Masterli said:

    This is how this song should sound. Now i can listen :) Thanks zwieR.Z. Great work :)

     

     

    Funny cause I reaaaaaally like the original track. This guy has made very good remixes for a long time, my personal fav. might be WFTE.

    "One More Light" Turns Three

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    2 hours ago, Hahninator said:

     

    That's funny you mention that because the OML album has probably one of the best production sounds in the entire LP catalogue. The production quality and sound of each track is enormous. Crank it in the headphones and sonically it all sounds really fantastic, even the versions on the LP YouTube. You can tell whoever is responsible for the final sound really put a lot of work into it. It's refreshing compared to the deliberately raw sound of The Hunting Party. I will get into the production issues with Amends in another thread, but not in this one.

    Looking back at the One More Light album on my iTunes, quite a few of the songs have under 10 plays (Heavy, Good Goodbye, Battle Symphony, Invisible, Halfway Right) three years later. There isn't much replay value in a majority of the album for me and so inevitably, this is Linkin Park's weakest album for me. The Hunting Party is pretty close. For my personal tastes, the band peaked creatively with ATS and then slipped downhill with Living Things (a portion of which was composed of shortened ATS demos), further downhill with The Hunting Party, and even further downhill with One More Light. I personally enjoy Post Traumatic much more than those three albums.

     

    It's odd to me that after such a lengthy down time (canceled 2015 USA tour), all of 2016 off, etc, they came out with only ten songs. Mike wanted Place to Start to open it and we know they have other songs completed.... I'm just surprised the album was so short. Chester has two writing credits on the entire album - we are talking about the guy who is behind the Waiting For The End chorus (maybe the best in their catalogue?) and other highlights... I mean that just doesn't even make sense to me.

     

    Tracks like Halfway Right and Battle Symphony are some of the worst in the catalogue to me, alongside tracks like Lies Greed Misery, Hit The Floor, etc. Good Goodbye doesn't fit on the album at all as the only song with Mike's rapping, something the album actually lacks but with just GG on it, it feels so out of place. The "live from the genesis" verse is pretty good, and is leagues better than the two guest verses so I am surprised they cut it. I think the guests aren't noteworthy and actually contribute to the songs they are on being worse (Pusha, Stormzy, and Kiiara).

     

    Highlights: I do think Nobody Can Save Me is a fantastic track (loved seeing Mike play it on the Post Traumatic Tour), I love Talking to Myself as well (but it is better live), Sorry For Now is A+, and One More Light and Sharp Edges are great. So that's half the album, ha. You can't deny that the song OML is one of the best songs they have ever written. However, the weaker part of the album just drags it down so much and combined with how short it is, I just don't ever listen to it. Meanwhile, A Thousand Suns for me has had tremendous replay value in the past few years and I jam that album frequently. While the initial response to ATS was a huge backlash, the album aged extremely well and I think that OML is not going to age even half as well in seven more years.

     

    OML was an experiment with them to learn from other songwriters and I fully understand that (and even support it) but I know these guys can write better music solely on their own.

     

    With all that said, I thought the touring cycle was actually off to the best start since MTM. The small Chester and Mike shows were really cool and the band was in epic form on stage in South America and Europe. The European shows were next level for LP, playing the longest shows in the history of the band, changing the setlists to take some fan requests (APFMH, FTI, POA, SIB, etc), and I thought the set was structured well. While I think the album was not great, the touring cycle was a monster. While covering the tour and watching it show by show on YouTube I was shocked how many shows they would "hit a home run" in a row. Check out Rock Werchter into the next show in Sweden... some truly good LP stuff there.

     

    If you want to look at something positive that came from OML, it's that Mike can take some of these songs and sing them on future LP tours. Nobody Can Save Me, Battle Symphony, Invisible, Sorry For Now, Good Goodbye (some sort of mashup), and One More Light at the very minimum are able to be used for their new shows and I think that's very helpful.

     

    200% this.

     

    Aside of that, if this album didn't had the poppy sound many would've praised it very hard, kinda how I see Mike's Twitch chat at times people asking for guitars because as everyone knows, only 'real' instruments work for music.

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