JDM fits easily into my top 10 LP tracks. Beats out everything on the last two albums bar Drawbar, no joke. Also by the way it's just "Fallout", not "The Fallout".
Guess this is what happens when it's a 7-year-old album and I didn't look anything up for help lol. Lumped it in with Radiance, Requiem both having 'The' in front of it, followed by two 'The' songs with The Catalyst and The Messenger right after Fallout. Oops. I've agreed with just about everything I've read from you but you actually have me stumped here lol... Jornada is 1:34 long and you can tell by the sound of it, on an album with 6 total tracks of this style/purpose, that it was written and is there only as a tie-in or interlude piece on an album they intentionally went with a concept style where listening front to back is the proper experience for a reason... and with (I'd think Spanish) lyrics repeated over and over while lyrics are present... ...and you're saying you like it better than : Lost in the Echo, In My Remains, I'll be Gone, Castle of Glass, Roads Untraveled, Powerless, Keys to the Kingdom, All for Nothing, Final Masquerade, Rebellion, Mark the Graves, A Line in the Sand ...? lol (I left out Burn it Down and Until it's Gone because I've seen them criticized around the LPA more than enough. I like them both but I'm realizing I'm in the minority on that) I'm curious now to see the rest of your top 10...
I consider Jornada a Regular instrumenta, if you leave out the fact that it connects to songs you can listen to it on its own just fine. For me ATS has 14 full length songs on it. P. S. The lyrics in Jornada are in Japanese.
Without talking to them and knowing for sure, I would think even the band sees Jornada as a connecting piece. I'm not saying you can't listen to it on its own, or that it isn't good (I like it) but it doesn't seem as fleshed out as other songs or instrumentals. And yea I really should've gotten that that sounds like Japanese. I focused too much on the title. I'm having a bad day.
I glanced at some comments on Facebook and they were pretty bad. My disgust for nu-metal fans is almost beyond words at this point.
Sidechaining to what? I'd assume there's a gate, compressor, or something somewhere in the mix that's being sidechained/keyed by some other audio source, but not really sure what you're referring to.
Just from memory, I'm fairly sure a good number of sounds duck against the kick, like the main keyboard at the start
Haha don't worry, I agree with you on most things as well but I'll accept that this one's not the most common opinion to have. I'll try to explain anyway. Honestly I've never cared if a song is written to be an interlude or a "full song". I don't really make that distinction. Many albums are made and broken on the quality of their interludes. Two of my favourite albums of all time are Hurry Up We're Dreaming by M83 and The Wall by Pink Floyd, both of which show just how important beautiful, short interludes are to the overall album experience. It doesn't really matter to me if a song is 30 seconds long or 20 minutes long, if I adore every second I'll consider it a favourite. And personally, I simply like every second of JDM more than the majority of the band's catalogue, so whether it's an interlude or not has never really come into the equation. I just like it more than other songs. It doesn't matter to be that it's largely instrumental, since I love instrumentals, and it doesn't really matter to be that it's short, since total length doesn't really change how much I enjoy each individual moment in a song, which is what's important to me. (I'd even go as far to argue that since Linkin Park songs are so short *anyway*, and since most of their songs are so repetitive, there's a comparable amount of unique musical development in JDM to many other Linkin Park tracks (for example, One Step Closer is only a minute longer, but much of that extra time is the exact same chorus repeated 3 times), but that's beside the point, since as I said above, length isn't an issue here). Basically, TL;DR, I totally get that it's not a full song, and no, I'd never really listen to it on its own as a song (mainly because 95% of the time I only listen to full albums anyway ), but to my ears it's just one of the most enjoyable and memorable tracks they've ever put out. ...that was longer than I expected.