What genres should LP experiment with next album?

That's true, most of yesterday's "classics" have taken a few weeks to be recorded, not even months.. But I guess times have changed now..

Like most of the people here, I want Linkin Park to start writing music as a band, not as individual songwriters. I remember watching some old pre-Hybrid Theory videos of them jamming together as a band. Now I guess they spend most of their non-touring time hunched in front of their computers, making "sounds"! All I'm saying is I'd prefer a more simpler approach. Then the music will be more improvisational and the song structures will not be so bloody apparent from the first listen (also something people pointed out here).

EDIT - U2 explains this much better than me! Here's an audio clip of them (from 1990) instantly coming up with a song from scratch through improvisation.

[video=youtube;mqSrBFhwOKI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqSrBFhwOKI[/video]

 

Thank you! I still think LP could do a couple songs like Violet Hill, Death and All His Friends and even Strawberry Swing. It'd be interesting to see how that would sound.

They started work for LT in March 2011, right? Six months after ATS. I thought they might go in the studio this month or after the Australia tour in Feb/Mar.

I think they can make great albums in a shorter time. So far, they have not even 10 shows in Australia, and one and only in NA. So, I don't think there's a big tour coming, they can go in the studio in the first quarter of 2013, work on it for maybe a year and a half, and have an album in the middle of 2014, which wouldn't be a long wait. I think all artists now try to put out music more quickly. Also, I think they didn't work on MTM for 4 years, it just came out 4 years after Meteora. Same for ATS.

I definitely don't think there's a new album coming this year. Maybe beginning of 2014 at the earliest.

 

That's what I said some times ago in an other thread! A jam/improvisation feel to their music process would be a great addition. I'm sure a record made from both computer experimentation and live jam methods would be great!

Improvisation could help them find great guitar/bass hooks and melodies..I mean, if the songs deliver well live in studio, the chance they become killer live songs is higher!

And then, the computer experimentation would make the songs weirder, add strange noises and exciting new sounds. They could even create a totally new song with protools, and just keep the cool riff they had found while jamming. As some said, the best of 2 worlds

 

A rock band jam session with electronics huh? That reminds me of a particular band -

[video=youtube;JrVKSKQKO1c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrVKSKQKO1c[/video]

 

Same here. In fact, I was thinking about their record "Hail To The Thief" when I talked about the jam/experimentation thing. While I hope LP won't copy Radiohead (or any bands in general) sound-wise, I think the method has proven it can lead to awesome albums.

 

Actually I'd love them to do a song with vocoder vocals. Something similar to Pendulum' Hold Your Colour, The Other Side and Visions

 

Hold Your Colour is amazing, but I think it'd sound weird for Mike and Chester vocally. Idk.

 

Yep, BID... and most of the rest of the record.

 

I'm so happy that LP didn't make another ATS with LT, though. It gave me some hope that they won't be making ATS style music forever. If that had been the case, I don't know how much I'd still listen to their newer music.

 

What's your problem with ATS? MTM is my favourite album from LP but still ATS is their best. I would like to hear an "ATS Part 2" with a mash-up with the Alternative Rock side from MTM. The best songs from the band is from the ATS-era IMO.

 

I agree with Geki. While I loved ATS as a one-shot, I would have been disappointed to see the band follow this road again. ATS lacked a lot of stuff I love from LP: Chester raspy voice/heavy + catchy riffs/raw organic songs/strings. And most importantly, POWER! ATS was such a sleepy record. It's not a bad thing at all, but a discography made of sleepy records tends to become boring to me. I think this reason justify how I wouldn't have liked an ATS-part 2.

However, I wish LP kept making weird and longer songs structure-wise. Just not ATS-sounding.

 

Who says it'd have to be Mike or Chester? I think maybe Joe might suit the vocoded vocals

 

Well, we got different tastes. You like different stuff from LP as I do. You like Power, I like great, slow melodies. You like heavy riffs, I like strings, pianos and synths. You like heavy records I like "sleepy" records like ATS. I rather listen to a "sleepy" record with full of experiments then a heavy record with the same heavy riffs and same song structures like HT or MT. As I said, a mash-up between ATS and MTM....with more experiments..that would be my favorite album. Until then, MTM is my favourite.

 

I like the way our respons to each other always sums up like "Well, we got different tastes" But no problem with that anyway, that's fine, ah. I would just like to add that I as well like piano, strings, and synths. And that an heavy record can be full of experimentation, NIN is a great example of that.

 

Yeah, NIN is a good example. Still, I think LP won't be that heavy again like in the HT/MT-era, even if they made songs like LITE or Victimized. But LT was has a great balance between slow/heavy songs. But for real, I don't care. I just want great, catchy melodies and experimentation. If that song is heavy or slow or Joe screaming in it... I don't care.

 

I wasn't a huge fan of ATS music. I know that 90% of the LP fanbase gets pissed off at me when I say that, but it's true. I'm not going to pretend that I liked that album just to fit in with everyone else. It had some decent songs, but I would never want to listen to another ATS with the same style of music again. It's just not the kind of music I like. I also do like pop music a lot, so when people say MTM is poppy, I feel no shame in that. I love all of LP's music. I still love ATS for what it was, but it's my least favorite thing LP has ever done and I'm glad LP decided not to keep doing that kind of music. Then again, LP is not the band to make the same record twice. The next album will be different than any of their 5 albums. It's fine that you love ATS and think it's their best album. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions! I was just saying I was happy they didn't make it again because I don't really like it. To me, Living Things seemed like it was made right before New Divide and ATS were made, which is partially why I love it. It still has the poppy radio structures, but also has an evolved LP sound (STB, COG, RU, Powerless, IMR). It has singing, screaming, rapping, heavy guitar/drums and it also has all the electronic stuff, too. I love that about LT. Something for everyone on it.

 

I don't get pissed off I don't have problem with it. Also, I don't think MTM is poppy. Valentine's Day isn't poppy, In Pieces isn't poppy too. I like ATS, I think it is their best work yet, but it's not my favorite. But I still like it. Mostly because I like slow, electronic stuff too and my favorite song is from ATS what is The Catalyst but still, my favourite albums are MTM and LT because it has that Alternative Rock stuff what I really like. I just hope that we will get rid of the poppy radio structures. That's the only thing I dislike in LT. And Lost In The Echo(and what it became from Holding Company).

 

I know that I'm just asking for it by saying this on a Linkin Park fan site, but for me the weak link in the band's material has always been adding vocals on top of the instrumentals.

 

You mean they can't add vocals to instrumentals for example like Pale or A.Six or any instrumental demos?

 

I mean that sometimes when they do it almost ruins the song. Lost in the Echo being a good recent example.