Linkin Park - One More Light (May 19, 2017) Album • Page 27

Listening to A Thousand Suns again and was looking through the lyric insert and the beginning introduction piece has always been my favorite part of the physical album:

"A Thousand Suns

We were not making an album.

For months, we'd been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination.

We didn't know if any of those unorthodox ideas could be incorporated into a traditional album, but we knew we didn't want our next album to be predictable. Sitting together in the same studio where we made our first record, all of us voiced a commitment to going out on a limb, to making something truly daring. We asked ourselves: Were we all earnestly willing, more than ever before, to abandon the precepts of commercial ambition in pursuit of what we believe to be honest art?

The inclination to begin writing conventional songs for a conventional album came and went. The temptation to adjust our creative vision to fulfill expectations beyond our studio walls yielded to the audacious ambition of what we hoped to achieve as a band. The two years of making A Thousand Suns marked our exhilarating, surrealistic, and often challenging journey into the creative unknown.

On the eve of its completion, this body of work, assembled through unconscious inspiration and unmitigated exertion, has revealed to us notions both stirring and surprising. The imagery personified herein is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story.

Oppenheimer's words resonate today not only for their historical significance, but for their emotional gravity. So, too, A Thousand Suns grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments.

Enjoy the music.

Linkin Park"

 

Also, if you haven't, watch the making of documentaries for both Minutes To Midnight & A Thousand Suns.

 

One More Light grew on me so much as a full album.

 

You guys remember when LP wanted to release A Thousand Suns as one, long 48-minute track?

 

I actually don't! Can you point towards an article or anything, I'd be interested to read

 

I can't find any links to it, but I definitely remember the band streamed it before its release as one, long track and said it was meant to be listened to front to back with no skips or on random and I thought I remember they wanted to release it on CD that way, but the label wouldn't let them. On the album's wikipedia page, there is mention that the "the band is going so far as to release an iTunes version that is one track, 47 minutes and 56 seconds long."

 

OK....One More Light isn't the typical LP album, but Its very good for what it is. Tons of catchy parts and I think the lyrics are good. Also, the more I listen to it the more I notice guitar. I recently watched a full live show of theirs with these song thrown in the setlist. The songs fit well in the mix and brought a nice change of tempo to the set. I think I'm going to buy it on vinyl now.

 

it certainly does work as one.

 

Yes, and the date chosen by him adds to all of this the arguments ...

 

Before going to sleep I started watching the Thousand Suns documentary. It's killing me seeing Chester in it so happy and euphoric. I wish he was always able to feel like this.

I'm also getting straight chills with the footage of him recording his vocals. That voice is just insane.

Here's the doc for those who haven't seen it:

 

The Making Of documentaries for LP have always been a fun watch. Shame they stopped doing them with Living Things (and I know there's that Inside Living Things thing, but it's nowhere near as in depth as Meteora through A Thousand Suns). I would have loved to see the process behind THP and OML.

 

Even though I didn't pay much attention to their newer records, I would still always watch any behind the scenes stuff that they would post on Facebook (which they did often). I always like watching stuff like that from any band, but especially from them because they're always so very collaborative and Mike and Chester seemed to have a very comfortable and honest working relationship.

 

I thought I'd put together a video covering their discography sort of like the Thrice one I did awhile back. Kept it as short as possible, but honestly it could have been a half an hour. Picking songs were incredibly hard. I love watching their style evolve and Chester is such a great performer, I hope I did him justice.

Edit: YouTube blocked it lol. Here's a lower quality on Vimeo

 

I just went through all 16 lpu cds and damn they had some pretty sick demos and unreleased songs

 

Yeah, I'm hoping there's an official b-sides/rarities release at some point. Maybe an official release of the Hybrid Theory ep stuff.

 

I had the LP Underground re-issue of the Hybrid Theory EP from the year I was signed up. I wish I still had it now. No idea where that could've gone to.

 

Only band I know of to have a subscription based fan club like that. And i think they had it from the beginning somehow

 

Yeah, I was in LPU for a long time when it was first around. I have a bunch of the EPs they released through there.

 

They pop up on eBay every now and then, i bought one last year for about 60 dollars.

 

Lol 60 for an ep I got a 320 version from somewhere for free

 

That's not the point.

 

Thanks, it is indeed not. I like to physically own music.

 

Wow. That's soooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Alright all you jerks I was just saying. And if you want it to be physical find it online and burn it to a cd there problem solved lmfao I also have the xero songs they did with mark. I think I have every song lp ever released