ChuckCheese

Fuck YES, Eminem!

New trailer, lots of Chester footage. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810129857/video/21820620

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It's funny how the music business works. Release an amazing debut album, and it is generally recognized as such by critics and laymen, helps to set a new genre standard, is replayed for years, and assists the band in building a huge fanbase. After that is when things get weird. If the band in question decides not to vary their formula, makes mediocre music that retains many of the elements of their original material, and plays it safe, their fans stick by them and the critics aren't too harsh (see: the response to my review of the new Goo Goo Dolls album). However, if the band realizes that to make a real, long-lasting impact on the world they must be fluid, maturing with every album, changing their sound, exploring new territory, they are vilified by former "fans" and critics alike. They are disparaged all over the internet, ignored and/or disemboweled by elitist music listeners, and their efforts at making cutting-edge, mature, different music are mocked, whether or not the mockery is justified. And in many cases, it isn't. Linkin Park is a perfect example of this phenomenon. Though they've certainly never been darlings of the critics, their 2000 debut Hybrid Theory kicked off the decade with an enormous statement: nu-metal can generate good music. Rap and rock don't have to battle - they can be melded together if you have a good, hot blowtorch. 2003's Meteora laughed in the face of the "sophomore slump," stating strongly that loud modern rock music could be good, and establishing Linkin Park as one of the most important and biggest bands of the decade. [...] For the whole review check the source below Source: http://www.reviewrinserepeat.com/artist/li...and-suns/review

http://www.linkinpark.com/page/a-thousand-suns In their entirety.

Here's the image.

http://www.myspace.com/linkinpark/music/al...d-suns-16586225 Here it is, the album in its entirety.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20419720,00.html

Chester was rocking in this episode. Awesome. He's playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonada, btw. Also, this is basically confirmation that Waiting For The End's working title was Meadowlands. Mike mentions it in the Meeting of A Thousand Suns DVD too, when he's talking about singles.

I actually really loved it. Very very personal for the band. Chester's speech at the end was the greatest Linkin Park moment to date.

And here's our confirmation!

For those asking about show notes, here's a review that someone posted on LPA. Same person also said Chester plays guitar and the entire band sings on Iridescent.

FUCK YES. Iridescent is seriously my favorite LP song now. It's been From the Inside for years and years, but this song blows everything they've ever done out of the water.

Can't decide between Robot Boy and Wretches and Kings.

Gang vocals seem to be on: When They Come For Me (maybe?) Wretches and Kings Iridescent The Catalyst

And then Iridescent.

Jornada Del Muerto: Testing site for the first atomic bomb. Atomic bombs were used on the Japanese.

Fantastic review. Have to agree that this is now my favorite studio album by the band as well. I'm pretty positive that Jornada Del Muerto is in Japanese (kinda funny with the name of the track being in Spanish), and I'm also positive that there is a sample of applause in Wretches and Kings. EDIT: Jornada Del Muerto was the testing site for the first atomic bomb...which was later used on the Japanese. So it's "Lift me up, let me go" being sung in Japanese. Whoa. Props, LP. That's heavy stuff.

Would just like to direct your attention to Blackout and Condemned.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad song. Love the vocal work and everything. I just really expected a track like it to be on the album, while I was hoping to be surprised from it like every other song.

Definitely my least favorite. Way too predictable, I totally saw a song like this coming.

Favorite tracks: 1. Iridescent 2. The Catalyst 3. When They Come For Me

I love the contrast of The Messenger compared to the rest of the album. it's so raw, no synth, no voice effects, just Chester, an acoustic guitar, and a piano.