Duuude, I didn't show up here for such a long time... Hope all you guys are doing well around here! It's really good to see there are still people hanging around in the realms of the LPA! Well... someone sent me a link to a re-recording of Soul Song... and it's so beautiful! So I immediately visited the LPA to get to know everything about it... But how come there's literally no info here about the new album Amends by Grey Daze (where the song is coming from)? Chester's voice sounds so fresh and crisp on this song! I'm wondering if he actually sung some of the album's lyrics in 2017, or if they really scraped everything from the old recordings... does anyone know more about that?
That LPU 9 to LPU 12 run was amazing. LPU 13 and 14 were quite disappointing. LPU 15 and 16 weren't bad tho
For me, Primo was the only highlight. The UIB demos weren't particularly that interesting to me. Holding Company was cool tho.
HAVE YOU ALL...... .......bought Meteora again at the stores lately. I’m assuming y’all american and last time we checked RIAA we were 3mil short of the Diamond breh. I bought Meteora in every form possible, but I’m european. Don’t count nowhere. Get on this brehs
I just started listening to LP again, after a long hiatus. Due to what happened with the band, I wasn't even sure I could go back, and enjoy the songs in the same way. It turns out that the music is truly timeless, and still holds up so well. I plan to go through all of their albums, and have begun with HT20. What an incredible value - over four hours of content from that era!
You ever think Shinoda’s soul shatters when he sees these “are ya gonna work with Eminem?” comments and then reads “Who the fuck is Rakim? Mike, you’re better than this rap crap! You should just do the verse by yourself!”
Seems to just be the standard for CDs these days. Why waste more money on packaging a dying format? Sucks but that's just how it is. Unless you're Japan.
Sometimes, he's smiling, other times, he's laughing, so which is it?? He just can't seem to make up his mind
For anyone who cares, Jason Lipshutz' AMA on r/linkinpark about his big LP book will start in 7 hours from time of writing - if you have anything you'd like to ask him, send your questions in before then. EDIT: questions and responses collected here.
Didn't know where to write it, I suppose this thread goes. So, recently, KTTK live made me want to revisit THP - it's been 10 years after all! Nowadays, it's a bit of a frustrating record to me. I feel that, if they'd kept the composition quality and pace of KTTK and GATS, and maybe Rebellion too, it'd be on par with their best work. Unfortunately, I think the rest of the record suffers from multiple issues, among which poor choruses (AFN, Wastelands, UIG, MTG, FInal Masquerade), anonymous tracks (Summoning, War), mismatch tracks (UIG), potato drowned vocals (ALITS), and overall questionable mixing. Still, I feel this album probably gets more shit than it deserves. I always thought part of it was simply due to it not being a "pretty produced" record, like much of the rest of their discography. Instrumentally, it's often navigating between decent and strong, and for a straightforward rock album, it is rather varied, alternating between sub-genders like hardcore punk, trash metal, SOAD alternative metal, and alternative rock ballads.