Linkin Park - One More Light (May 19, 2017) Album • Page 23

If the reformed a la New Order with Michael on all vocals it could be cool. Definitely couldn't be Linkin Park though

 

Would love to see another Fort Minor album.

You can't replace Chester he was Linkin Park! Anyone else singing would just be wrong.

 

It's a scary thought though. I mean Sublime replaced bradley, Alice In Chains replaced Lane, Journey replaced that one guy

 

I have mixed feelings, I totally get that they've been a band for a very long time and their identity is being Linkin Park and it's hard to find a band that works well and they did, I think Linkin Park is not going to exist at least in the distant future, but if in ten years they do the Sublime or Alice In Chains thing I won't fault them

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they kept the name and continue as a five piece with Mike alone on vocals

 

Linkin Park music will always live-on, even though Chester Bennington chose to end his life or maybe not as rumors stars to roam around.

 

THAT ONE GUY!?!?! C'mon...

 

that one guy

 

I bought Hybrid Theory (like 10 million other people) back in the day. And it didn't really grow with me, but I was always aware of their new singles and casually impressed that they kept growing and changing and seemingly keeping their integrity. Listened to One More Light and wasn't impressed, really. But I always had a sneaking suspicion I might like Meteora or Minutes or another album of theirs and would get around to it when I felt a little nostalgic about them. Hate that I procrasinated. I guess now is the time to finally listen.

 

Linkin Park’s Legacy of Artistic Ambition

Wrote an article about what I feel is one of the most important elements of Linkin Park's legacy.

 

They wouldn't be able to play so many fantastic songs though. I don't know what the correct answer is though. I honestly think it'll probably be like a +44 or something like that where Mike starts something new but still plays certain songs he can do on his own.

 

This is basically my idea as well. With a new name, the remaining members (or the ones who wish to continue together) could have somewhat of a clean slate and only play the LP songs they felt worked best with Mike only.

 

From when Hybrid Theory came out up until like 2004 or so, LP was hands down my favorite band. I'd honestly say that until that point, I never really truly had a "favorite band" and that I'd certainly never downright obsessed over one before like I did with them. I was on LPUnderground for a year or two, I watched a promo VHS copy of the Frat Party at the Pankake Festival doc daily. I even used to draw flame tattoos on my arm like Chester's. Honestly, I think they helped spark my interest in making music, and I can truly say they were pretty much the root to my entire musical trajectory.

By the time Minutes to Midnight came out, though, I had grown away from them. I think it was around that time I really noticed there was a stigma around the band and that kind of became a point of insecurity for me, so I adopted some type of "too cool for that band" attitude towards them. From MTM forward, I never gave a full album of theirs a chance, though I did come close with ATS, because I did see some mild praise on AP when it initially dropped but at that time I think I skimmed through it and wrote it off.

A couple months ago, around the release of their most recent album, I had a sudden desire to give their music another chance. At that time, I went through HT, Meteora, and MTM and kind of felt like they had a lot of really cool things going on from a musical standpoint, but felt like the lyrics were a big detractor. In my head, at the time, they felt a bit hollow and simplistic and I wrote them off a little bit again because their angst came off a little manufactured to me.

Fast forward to now, and Chester's death shocked me and hit me in a way I couldn't have imagined. Reading about his struggles through the years– that I never knew about because by the time I was old enough to identify with those struggles and empathize, I'd already wrote them off– made me kind of look at the lyrics I'd panned so hard a little differently. It also made me self-reflect a lot. I, too, am a survivor on childhood sexual abuse from an older male relative... it's something that I really blocked out of my mind until recently, but in the last few years I've realized just how much it shaped (and honestly probably fucked up) my life; it's trauma that haunts me and warps my perception of myself (which, due to the nature of my gender dysphoria, is already warped as hell). I have had suicidal thoughts run through my head more frequently in the past few months or so than I'd care to admit, due to many things, and seeing that an artist that I looked up to greatly at such a young age had taken his life was sobering, especially realizing we grappled with some similar issues.

So, sadly, it had to come to this for me to really, honestly give them an open-minded listen (I think I still went in with some preconceived notions and slight shame when I tried earlier this year), but really paying attention to the lyricism... it's obvious that Chester wasn't being ingenuine as I'd previously assumed. I feel sad listening to a lot of these songs because it's so painfully obvious that he'd grappled with these feelings very openly the whole time. It's obvious we still have so much progress to make when dealing with matters of mental health, suicide, and sexual abuse. I wish that it didn't take situations like this one for us to really recognize that.

With that I'll say, in an interesting turn of events, I've discovered Minutes to Midnight might actually be my favorite LP album.

 

I can definitely see them continuing on with a new name but still playing Mike led LP songs....but also throwing in some Chester songs as an homage. Mike can definitely sing One More Light. I can see him doing a less aggressive chorus of In The End too.

Honestly all this talk just makes me think of New Order and how they play Joy Divison songs.

 

New logo. Probably been discussed already.

www.imgur.com/AzX5wSk?r

 

Is that official?

 

It's Mike's Twitter pic.

 

If they go forward as a five piece, they'd probably do a more "full band" variation on Mike's recent Fort Minor sets.

Fort Minor Setlist at Scala, London

 

SOmeone baove mentioned Joy Division -> New Order (well, they mentioned New Order....)

I was going to say - that LP wouldnt continue, and agreed - they would go their separate ways...

But maybe not. How did Joy Division find Bernard? And continue...

 

I think Living Things has really great songwriting but the production is this weak ass EDM rock and it ruins it for me.

Like I've heard ukuleles with more punch than the guitars on Burn It Down

 

My fiancé and I listened to Hybrid Theory all the way through A Thousand Suns on our drive last weekend. We both teared up a few times. I'm gonna miss Chester so much.

 

This still doesn't feel real. I've had "One More Light" stuck in my head since he passed. I don't think a celebrity death has ever hit me harder than this.

 

Hi. I'd like to write something here about this. It's okay if people just skim over my post, since I won't be adding anything new and it will likely be very long and rambling. But I want to say some things.

Linkin Park was, like many others here, my first favorite band. I found them when I was 9 or 10, right around the time Minutes To Midnight was released. I heard What I've Done and everything changed for me; I never heard music that sounded like that before. I remember making my dad drive me to the store to buy Hybrid Theory, my dad driving me to get MTM and Meteora. I think I checked the internet multiple times a day for months searching for any scrap of news about what would become ATS. I still remember the day they released The Catalyst. I remember the poster I had in my room. I was enamored with music for the first time in my life.

Chester Bennington was my childhood hero. I mean, I loved all of them, but there was something about him. I wanted to be him the way other kids want to be Superman or Lebron James. I was lucky enough to meet him when they toured for ATS... I think I was 12. He was so sweet, and it really seemed liked he loved meeting every fan (this was a LPUnderground meet and greet). They weren't supposed to take pictures, but my nephew, who was 11 at the time, asked for one as he was leaving and he joyfully obliged. I shook his hand and fuck, that is probably still the best handshake I've ever heard. And then the show...for 12 year old me, there couldn't possibly be a better day.

I received the news that he had passed in a Big Boy at 3pm in St. Ignace, about 5 hours from home, at the very beginning of a vacation. I wasn't really able to say anything for at least 5 minutes. I was in shock. I still am. I have struggled with mental health problems for at least 5 years. They range from mildly annoying to utterly crippling. I've come dangerously and unspeakably close to suicide before, and hearing that my childhood hero lost his life to suicide is a really, really fucking big pill for me to swallow. I can't even think of the last time a "celebrity" death has rattled me as much as this one. I mean, the guy just seemed larger than life. It's sobering and humbling to be reminded that mental health can take down anyone. And it does make me so grateful that me and all my friends who suffer are still here. But damn, it hurts.

I guess I don't have much more to say. I could write for hours about what this band meant to me when I was younger. I think I'm going to attempt to run through their discography, or at least a portion of it, over the next two days. I haven't heard those first 4 albums in so long, and this feels like an appropriate time to revisit them.

I hope everyone is doing okay. Please take care of yourself, practice self-care, talk to a friend, tell them you love them. Be safe. Distract yourself with something fun and exciting.

I love this community so much, and I'm grateful to have a space to share these feelings.

 

Managed to find my deluxe edition of Meteora at my parents place yesterday. Gonna throw on that making-of DVD when I get home.