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that vinyl is pretty cool, but it needs a few more tracks to be worth it to me

Honestly a very measured and respectful response, of course it's a bit of an awkward topic, but some comments I've seen made it sound like he was going to bash them when this wasn't that

There are 100% power chords in UIG, not even debatable https://www.linkinparkguitar.com/uploads/1/4/6/6/146660116/07_-_until_its_gone.txt The difference is there's a riff going on top that wouldn't be characteristic of meteora, but that's only in the intro/outro too And I feel like the UIG lyrics are criminally underrated given the band's explanation that it's about their kids growing up, which does actually foreshadow OML-style writing a little bit, but in a good way. Agreed that it's better than the "anti-something" generic lyrics on a lot of THP

I don't see this coming out specifically but it would be a shame if they didn't take advantage of all the wonderful live editions in some way. Grab the best of PMA piano, BTH with it's extended intro/outro, the ballad medley, Rolling In The Deep and stuff like that and you have an awesome release

Completely agree. By comparison, the stuff like Castle of Glass verses and ALITS intro sound so over-engineered and empty, like they're trying really hard to sound deep but don't have much to actually say. There are a few songs with great lyrics like UIG and Rebellion, but nothing from ATS-THP resonates as honestly and earnestly as OML to me. Invisible is so simple but so clear and approachable in its meaning, I think it's beautiful. Doesn't matter if other people chimed in to me, LP clearly heard a message there and the listener can clearly hear one too.

Nah not another take but a difference in tuning like Astat says. For that one it's hard to imagine it not being an intentional different pass rather than an accidental change of layers or chain in a re-export or anything

I wonder if the WFTE thing is possibly due to updating software, like the song was made on V1 of Valhalla delay and Ableton 9 or whatever, and when they open it today it's automatically transferring to Ableton 11 with Valhalla 2.0 and there are differences in how the software behaves today, so when they re-export there are slight differences Just a guess because yeah otherwise it doesn't make much sense why they would grab different versions

dude you already strawmanned the complaint in the shoutbox once, we're clearly not saying we wanna watch the old quality, we're saying we want to watch the best source available sans AI artifacts. basically the same convo DBZ fans have had with every home disc release lol

I'd be surprised if WTFE had a 4K version natively back then with all those VFX, I bet they just did a better handbrake-type conversion with the original uncompressed file but set the dimensions to 4K. But yeah I agree, I wish they didn't have the AI upscaling in and you can clearly see it in a lot of places. There also seems to be some jittery dropped frame-type issues in a few LOATR shots, I can't tell if that's an artifact from the upscale or something else

Oh I thought OP was talking about the light crash, but yeah I agree with this for that snare sound. And the technique you're talking about is most obvious in the beginning of Heavy imo To me it sounds like a clap stacked on top of the snare to give it some variety. I'd really love more breakdowns of OML instrumentals, there's a lot of interesting color in there

Finally some discussion about the actual music. I agree about the guitar, I feel like people don't give the OML guitar work enough credit for all the texture and interest it adds, LP really took to this pop sound flawlessly despite it being so far from work like THP before or anything else As for the drop style, I think that's just part of the sound. In the context of the song I think it sounds great, it's Chester's vocals that are really carrying the intensity of that moment imo

Seems like the acapella outro might have been one of the big changes, I'm dying to hear the 2017 version now Also really cool to see Brad is still into working with their older material, I hope that means we get more releases of some OML stuff or maybe even stuff like LFTA

I was gonna say, weird that this will exist but not for the rest of OML, also surprising they never did it for Lost or any M20 songs last year. A remix contest seems such an effective and simple engagement strategy these days

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Sick, I love Illenium and Last One To Know is one of my favs