Linkin Park have taken a big step forward with their musical direction and created something truly unique music wise. Taken as a whole it is almost mind boggling how cohesive an album A Thousand Suns is. While there might be only 9 traditional songs, the 15 tracks on the album flow so smoothly into one another that if you weren't paying attention you might think the album was one 45 minute long so... read more
Description:Limited Edition CD+DVD includes a 'making of the album' documentary & 'The Catalyst' music video.
'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 samplLimited Edition CD+DVD includes a 'making of the album' documentary & 'The Catalyst' music video.
'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 album, all six 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 album's personified imagery is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story.
'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
Co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Warner Bros. Release date : 14 September 2010 EAN: 0093624963172 UPC: 093624963172
"The Requiem
Burning in the Skies
Empty Spaces
When They Come for Me
Robot Boy
Jornada del Muerto
Waiting for the End
Blackout
Wretches and Kings
Iridescent
The Catalys
The Messenger"
DevotedIdeal added this to a list 4 months, 1 week ago
"Iridescent-A Thousand Suns
Here's another song out of left field. A Thousand Suns featured some genuinely cheerful songs for the first time by Linkin Park. As foreign as it sounds, if anything it serves as a testament to how much the band-and its members-have developed. After hearing this, I found the angsty lyrics from previous albums to be immature. Not to say I found them them less appealing-not at all. But this song takes all of the aggression and pain of their old themes and, as the s"
Time Bomb added this to a list 4 months, 1 week ago
"They might call it A Thousand Suns but it has 10000000000 listeners.
Everybody is linked by the parks (songs) of linkin park.
Linkin Park - Burning In The Skies (International Video)
Linkin Park - The Catalyst (Official HD)
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“Linkin Park have taken a big step forward with their musical direction and created something truly unique music wise. Taken as a whole it is almost mind boggling how cohesive an album A Thousand Suns is. While there might be only 9 traditional songs, the 15 tracks on the album flow so smoothly into one another that if you weren't paying attention you might think the album was one 45 minute long song. And unlike many other albums, not one of the 6 other tracks is superfluous, they all contribute something to the overall feel of A Thousand Suns.
Linkin Park always have that one song that bridges the gap between their previous album and the latest one. That song on A Thousand Suns I believe, is Burning in the Skies. It has hints of Shadow of the Day and What I've Done from Minutes ” read more
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