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Post Traumatic vinyls postponed to June 21 according to LPCatalog.

Sometimes I forget that Heavy exists. Friendly Fire is better for sure. I agree that a version of Heavy without Kiiara could be more interesting than the album version.

I think Friendly Fire is just ok. Not awful, but nothing great. I can totally see why they would exclude it from an album, but there is indeed some pretty bad songs on One More Light. I'd say Friendly Fire is at least better than Halfway Right and Good Goodbye. Maybe Invisible too.

I listened to the entire discography yesterday and I had completely forgotten how annoying those vocals were, especially when you're playing the song loud. I also felt like skipping it when they started. I think the song is really good, Mike, blackbear and that other guy did great with it, but would be even better without those samples.

These were basically my thoughts about Heavy when it came out. They talked a lot about doing vocals first and paying a lot of attentrion to vocals while creating the album and you can really tell this was the only thing they were concerned about in those two songs. They're just vocal after vocal without anything in between. Friendly Fire even starts with the "vocals and very light instrumentation" format that the band said was the early stages of the songs on One More Light. Heavy has a great build up during its bridge that I thought would lead to something amazing, but it just ends abruptly and goes back to the chorus. They really grew a lot as instrumentists during The Hunting Party, so I expected the instrumentals to be a little more elaborate on the follow up. Not another heavy album, but at least something that showed they put a little more effort in the instrumentals than what we ultimately got.

Here's what Mark Fiore said during the YouTube chat in case anyone missed it:

Live In Monterrey came out with The Hunting Party in June 2014. They hadn't done any real touring for the album yet besides a few festivals in Europe that same month. There wasn't time to prepare a show from 2014 for release. Machine Shop as a record label died a long time ago. Warner wasn't interested in investing in the artists being signed. It's just Linkin Park's management company now. I still can't believe they included two versions of Numb. They could have picked any of the big platinum singles they left out or a The Hunting Party single instead of Numb/Encore.

"Listen to the KROQ World Premiere of @linkinpark ’s #FriendlyFireLP TOMORROW at 9pm PT! Tune in or stream us live at http://kroq.com/listen or the @Audacy app" https://twitter.com/kroq/status/1760487617932742663

It screams "I have a nephew who knows Photoshop and can do it cheaper." I agree. It looks really low effort, like they don't care about this project at all and they just see it as a quick and easy way to make some money with the Linkin Park brand.

Probably didn't know what people were asking about.

Jeff Blue also told us it was Pushing Me Away. A lot of people have pointed out that the strings at the end of Cure For The Itch transits into High Voltage. Mike said it's because he used the same keyboard and sounds on those two songs and By Myself. Jeff Blue actually owns a CD that has all 3 songs and High Voltage comes right after Cure For The Itch in the tracklist, so I believe that was the new version of High Voltage. It would mean that this version of High Voltage was created in the same period as other Hybrid Theory demos, not after the album was finished.

I disagree with this. There is a downside: this is a greatest hits / singles collection and the new mix was a single, the old mix wasn't. People listening to the song for the first time would have a different perception of it and people who are already familiar with the song would complain that it doesn't sound right. Yes. Unless they were considering a song without live drums for the album. However, a lot could have happened during that time. I know Jeff's book has the recording schedule for those songs, but does he at any point confirms they were actually recorded? I'm asking because I don't have the book. They could have simply decided to skip those songs because they were already settled on what would make the album. I feel that whatever song they had finished for Hybrid Theory would had been on Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary edition. It wouldn't make sense for them to omit finished songs in favor of rough demos. For Meteora for instance, they said over and over again during promotion for the album that 15 songs were finished and 12 were picked for the album, and we got all 3 remaing songs last year on the 20th anniversary edition of Meteora.

I believe the album announcement will come with the premiere of the new single as it usually does. Doesn't really imply anything. The last post could have 4 songs because 19 is an odd number. No matter how you divide it, it's never gonna be the same amount of songs everyday. Not saying I know for sure it's only gonna be 19 tracks, because I really don't and I do hope people here are right and we'll get two new songs instead of just one. But people should learn how to manage their expectations. As of now, nothing suggests that there are 20 tracks.

Last post could be 4 tracks. Would be great if there's a second previously unreleased song though.

New Linkin Park music is new Linkin Park music.

I think track 14 is Friendly Fire. A little more because of the new song. I'm starting to think that will be it, only 19 tracks. Seems to me they moved on to the next phase of the promotional campaign. First phase was revealing the songs by reposting them and the second stage is the tracklist order with the green dots on YouTube and the numbers on Spotify. The third phase will probably be some teasers of the new single next week.

Or a really bad year. Depends on how you look at it. So much to buy. lol

We seriously need to make this happen. Yes. After Chester passed they said they planned to use the Dead By Sunrise social accounts to post unreleased music. Unfortunately, Julien-K doesn't own any of the music, so they weren't able to do anything with it. Getting this release approved was huge for them. I hope this means more Dead By Sunrise is coming in the future.

People need to learn to link the source: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/ZWPE2hVzfXMicc5N/

The vocalists of Fort Minor and Dead By Sunrise should totally record something together.

Digital release coming too?

I'm entirely happy with this release for sure. This is a huge deal. Fans have been asking for the full show for years. Looking forward to grabbing this vinyl and listening to the acoustic tracks.

Mike always said he was against a greatest hits album, but he was also against doing anniversary box sets for their albums, so I'm glad the management convinced the band to do all of that. Always great to get new music.

01. New Divide 02. Keys To The Kingdom 03. Lost In The Echo 04. Rebellion 05. Castle Of Glass 06. Blackout 07. From The Inside 08. One Step Closer 09. No More Sorrow 10. In The End 11. Across The Line 12. Waiting For The End 13. Leave Out All The Rest 14. Final Masquerade 15. One More Light 16. Numb 17. P5hng Me A*wy 18. Papercut 19. More The Victim 20. Talking To Myself 21. The Little Things Give You Away 22. A Line In The Sand 23. Faint 24. Bleed It Out