Music Linkin Park - Top 5

[Ludens the Red]

I just think it's a garbage stadium for something that cost so much to build and comes with extortionate ticket pricing 90% of the time. Been to a couple of gigs there and 4-5 football games.

Absolute ball ache to get to and from. Surrounding area looks like something from The Last of Us. Shite beers, shite prices and always seems to be some kind of stupidity/"we don't want to to pay for adequate staffing levels" related issue with actually getting in.

That said I'll still happily go if Germany isn't an option. Mainly Architects and Linkin Park are both on my top 5 want to see live list so it'd be pretty epic to see one support the other.

I missed Architects at download the other year where I just didn't bother getting a ticket or checking the line up, and could then hear them from my house clearly enough to make out which songs they were playing.

Yuh it’s not fit for purpose, not at all for gigs but there is some romanticism to it cos it’s Wembley and I grew up there so maybe I’m a bit blinded. But yeah front row standing makes the day a lot better. No queues and nobody breathing down your neck or pushing in.
When did you last go? Cos they have jazzed it up a bit..

Blimey you lived that close and didn’t go to the goat of downloads. But yeah they were amazing. I always wondered how they’d translate to an open field. I think that’s where the change in sound has helped massively (even though I prefer the older stuff). The newer stuff is far better suited for stadiums/festivals.

 

[noodlehair]

So the album....it's, OK?

All the best songs are the ones they already released imo. Overflow seems like it could be really good but it takes over 2 minutes to get going and then changes it's mind and ends. Similar with Stained...there's a great song in there but it doesn't seem to quite find it's way out. They both end up being good/decent instead of great.

Casualty and that one that's just a bunch of letters I will happily never listen to again.

It's not bad I just expected a lot more from the reviews and stuff they'd released. If you hold it up against their first two albums it disintegrates into dust... and I don't mean in terms of the change of style more the strength of the songs and identity of the album as a whole.

It can't seem to decide what vibe it's trying to give off. One minute its shouting in your face and the next it's murmering to itself and where every song struggles to get past 3 minutes it switches so rapidly between the two I can't settle into either. There's pretty much zero compatability between any one song to the next. Felt like I spent the whole thing trying to adjust to what I was listening to rather than simply enjoying it. Like trying to shower while someone's fecking about constantly with the water temperature

 

[noodlehair]

Yuh it’s not fit for purpose, not at all for gigs but there is some romanticism to it cos it’s Wembley and I grew up there so maybe I’m a bit blinded. But yeah front row standing makes the day a lot better. No queues and nobody breathing down your neck or pushing in.
When did you last go? Cos they have jazzed it up a bit..

Blimey you lived that close and didn’t go to the goat of downloads. But yeah they were amazing. I always wondered how they’d translate to an open field. I think that’s where the change in sound has helped massively (even though I prefer the older stuff). The newer stuff is far better suited for stadiums/festivals.

I think last time was England vs Germsny at the Euros but there might have been another trip since.

That in itself was a mess. Not enough staff and they bottle necked everyone on the stairs for fecking ages to check people's vaccinations/covid tests. Everyone I went with mysteriously had covid a few days later.

I also think we were the only people in the stadium who weren't insane, insecure coke heads. It's the least safe/most on edge I've felt at any kind of large event and I was literally in the middle of a stadium riot at the previous Euros.

Yeah annoying with download. I was put off by them increasing the capacity. I knew Metallica were playing but I've seen them loads of times. I'd have got a day ticket for Architects and a few others if I'd known sooner though. Will probably do that for the Sunday next year. I'm past the age of needing the whole weekend festival experience now. Especially when my bed is only about 3 miles away!

 

[tenpoless]

Outside of the 2 songs they released immediately, the rest of new album is uhh... underwhelming.
Is it a common practice to release the good ones first?