I had a random thought today. What if Linkin Park went down the same road as Down and started to release a series of EPs rather than full lengths? Not sure why I thought about this, but what do you think? Is it something plausible for them?
Only if they ditch the record company first. Idk what Down's label is but a metal label no doubt they're going to be more open to ideas like that. Not warner.
Well, dunno about totally scrapping normal LP's. But releasing some EP between their normal studio records would be really great!
Shinoda once said that Warner encouraged the band to make a series of EPs as opposed to a full-length album after "Minutes To Midnight". That, in turn, motivated them to create the "album" album, "A Thousand Suns".
Is that right? Is there any chance you have a link to an interview or anything? I'm surprised I hadn't caught that/had forgotten that. But yeah, I don't think a series of Linkin Park EPs is very plausible at all. Linkin Park is a very commercial band, so the big album hype train thing suits them well.
I think the point is to have something more available to the public without having to pay a $25-$60 premium for a club membership.
You don't have to. Because people always upload them to Youtube and you can just download them from that
I'm pretty sure in an interview they've said that they'd rather make albums than EPs. Forgot which interview though or what they said that they liked better about albums. I think it was along the lines of the experience of listening to an album in it's entirety rather than just listening to 3-6 random hits or something.
"Linkin Park - Ten A series of 10 EPs (each a different genre) released every month in anticipation for their much anticipated double album in December, with a B-side including their original sophomore album, remastered and remixed." One can only dream.
A series of EP's? No thanks. That's like going to beach and only going knee deep every time rather than running in and diving into that shit.
Yeah I'm thinking the same... give me another ATS, another thorough experience. It's likely though they could just release their typical "batch" workload as EPs but it wouldn't be the same, lol.
Considering that the only two EPs to top Billboard are Jar of Flies and Collision Course, it's more like the public generally doesn't care about EPs.
Well, I'll try my best EDIT: there's a mention of how the band thought about making EPs in this interview. I'm probably not gonna be able to find the interview I was originally referring to, though
"we had initially thought about doing three four-song EPs, then putting them all together on one album." well shit.
They need to release an EP for Transformers 4, Michael Bay will be happy .... they need to finish all transformers demo made by Mike when he was making a demo like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Starscream...