Dead by Sunrise gave us Chester embracing the post-grunge genre and talking about relationships. Out of Ashes was a good album, but it felt sluggish for me and I believed that Chester and Julien K can do more genre-busting music. Most of the songs sounded similar to other artists. Fort Minor gave us Mike embracing his hip hop roots and expressing his personal and political thoughts whilst jamming with awesome featured artists, mainstream or underground. It's amazing how Mike made The Rising Tied in such a short period of time and yet amaze us with how much skill he has. He made a hip hop album that avoided all possible stereotypes. He made us think about what was really going on in this world.
Dead By Sunrise definitely felt 5 years too late to me, good album but nothing on there sounded fresh to me, and they changed the original version of Let Down, which was 10 times better. The Rising Tied is a masterpiece, one of my top 5 albums of all time.
Neither of the albums really feel. . . complete to me, I guess. It's hard to explain. Both feel kind of mediocre, for lack of a better word. Chester's music is generic. Mike's lyrics often times don't flow properly. I do like both albums but both have very distinct flaws. Edit: @NoN, it would be I don't like either.
I love them both! They're both great in their own ways. Dead By Sunrise is better lyrically and overall. But Fort Minor is better technically...
Mike's rhymes and flow are way better in LP than in Fort Minor, but there are some awesome songs and all instrumentals are kick-ass on The Rising Tied... Apart from Let Down and Morning After, Dead By Sunrise is just "meh" to me...
Fort Minor by far. But a lot of good songs were on the dead by sunrise album like Fire and Too Late. I also like the 80's feel of Let Down. Its just the whole album is way too dark for me. Fort Minor at least at some high points like petrified and remember the name.