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"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. Still cool to get new music though.

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 love the song too, but I don't really see it ever getting an official release. Mike doesn't seem very fond of it and he was really upset about the song leaking and blindly blamed Brian Howes for the leak even though it leaked among a bunch of other Linkin Park material, meaning it clearly came either from Warner or directly from Linkin Park's camp. Releasing What Are You Worth would mean giving Howes money and Mike made it clear he never wants to work with him again.

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

Finally someone said it!

We're at 58 minutes and 17 songs now. Keep in mind a CD has a limit of 80 minutes, so they still have about 20 minutes to fill if this a 1 disc release. 16 minutes if we assume Friendly Fire is somewhere between 3 and 4 minutes long which is the average duration of the songs on One More Light.

The official accounts are literally sharing videos of Linkin Park's greatest hits right now. Personally, I feel like Minutes To Midnight has really good songs, but if you listen to the album as a whole it can get quite boring because of how many slow songs they picked for the album. The outtakes are all spectacular too. Peak alt. rock Linkin Park.

The Hunting Party could have used some better production or direction. This was a band that has always followed trends trying to self-produce something they were not familiar with. The album could have benefited with an outside producer perspective. Still, the result was fucking awesome. Way better than One More Light or Living Things. Gold and Platinum as you can see here: https://lplive.net/forums/topic/15299-new-lp-music-on-the-horizon/?do=findComment&comment=323873c Saying Living Things didn't have successful singles is either straight up lying or being in denial. Mike was never one to address rumors. The Twitch stream was the closing of the Already Over promo. It's finally over. There's nothing for him to post about at the moment.

If they include something from The Hunting Party, Until It's Gone would make more sense because it was the biggest single from the album. Burn It Down is literally one of the band's biggest singles ever. It's at 3x Platinum with New Divide and Numb/Encore. The only songs higher than that are In The End, Numb, What I've Done and Bleed It Out.

Gotta love how every news post turns into a shitshow.

Ok, so assuming this is just a greatest hits compilation, here is a list of all Linkin Park singles (Numb/Encore not included) with Gold & Platinum certifications. This is considering worldwide certifications, not only US (RIAA) certifications. Platinum singles: Gold singles: And here is the list if you consider only US sales: RIAA: Platinum RIAA: Gold This should give us a good idea of what's going to be included in The Singles Collection besides the new song.