RECHARGED

When I reviewed Linkin Park's album "Living Things", I gave it 4 stars. I felt that although it was good, it lacked the punch of some of LP's previous albums. So for me, to hear that 10 of the songs from "Living Things" were being remixed was not bad news, because I felt that they were basic enough to allow for some creative exploration. Under these circumstances, remixes of previously released good material can succeed. And, since many remixes tend to sound similar, they need to have varying creative elements. Most of these do.I like it that most of the tracks are full of dissonance, loudness, grunge, anger. The one song that is new, not from "Living Things", is "A Light That Never Comes". There are 2 versions, opening and closing the album. They are similar, both featuring a relentless galloping beat. But the first one is more aggressive, with a very hard, loud drumbeat every 4th measure. The other version is slightly more musical, with more prominent piano and a busy bass. There are 2 versions of "I'll Be Gone" also, tracks 5 and 12. 5 is slow and dramatic with lots of metallic percussion, and includes raps by I guess the creators of the remix (Vice, Pusha T). 12 has Chester's vocal backed by a beat resembling a musical metronome (if a metronome could be a synthesizer, that is). And, there are 2 versions of "Until It Breaks", tracks 10 and 13. 10 is mainly Mike's rap over a piano, a whiplike sound and what Bob Dylan called a "police whistle". I like the way Mike says "like THAT", and he says it a lot. In the middle of the track we hear Chester's vocal, altered. 13 is just as complicated instrumentally, and contains more actual singing than 10.The rest of the tracks have only one version each. "Castle Of Glass" begins soft and hazy, then takes off with grating industrial sounds, and continues later with harmonious electronified vocals. "Lost In The Echo" is similar, with soft sounds indicating tension alternating with sections of explosive grungy dissonance. "Victimized" opens fast and hard and stays that way. "Lies Greed Misery" makes good use of Chester's trademark screaming of the line "YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF!" backed by industrial noise and electronically garbled lyrics. "Roads Untraveled", the "ballad" of the album, starts out SLOW, then is livened up by a house beat, some rhythmic synths and ponderous drumming. And in "Skin To Bone", Mike's vocals are altered to run together almost unintelligibly (you do get to hear one spectacular f-bomb), but Chester's vocal of the chorus is altered very little.The 2 tracks that I do not like much are 8 and 9, "Powerless" and "Burn It Down". I liked them on the original album, but these remixes are pretty dull and repetitive. ("Repetitive" might be a redundant term to use on remixes, but these 2 take repetition too far.) Those tracks notwithstanding, I'd say this is a very worthwhile and successful project.

Right off the bat we know who will spit venom at this remix album.No, this album is not Hybrid Theory 2 or Meteora 2. It's not 2003. If you still think its 2003, consult your doctor, you may have brain damage, or just too much time on your hands to spend whining that a band isn't making music in the vein of a genre that died a decade ago.The other people who will hate this are the EDM elitists. Yes, there is some dubstep on this album, no we don't care how much you hate dubstep and/or it's not REAL dubstep, or how all popular EDM styles are terrible and we should all be listening to your favorite EDM artists whom produce music from their parents' basement.I can say my only complaint about this album is it's not quite as varied genre wise as "Reanimation" which makes sense because Linkin Park ditched the metal elements from their music, so "Recharged" doesn't contain any of that. "Reanimation" is also one of my favorite Linkin Park albums so that could also be a factor as to why I don't find "Recharged" quite as good as that album.What is on "Recharged" is solid. Songs such as "Castle of Glass" and "Burn it Down" were already begging for danceable remixes, so they turn out just as, if not more addictive than the originals. The new single "A Light That Never Comes" has the earwormy addictiveness that is remarkably standard for LP, and both the original Steve Aoki collaboration and the Rick Ruben remix are musically different it doesn't feel repetitive to have them open and close the album. Same goes for both remixes of "Until it Breaks" and "I'll Be Gone," which are even more stylistically different from one another. I also honestly like the Enferno remix of "Powerless" more than the original."Recharged" contains a wide variety of different EDM styles, plus styles hip-hop elements and artists, which blend together very smoothly. Considering I don't usually like hip-hop, it's a strong positive. The album has a great overall flow, rather than feeling like a soundtrack of songs with no real relation to one another.Linkin Park has once again done the impossible and put out another remix album that doesn't suck. I wouldn't mind if the band put one of these out after every future album.

I've listened to Linkin Park from day 1. I loved their first few albums, and had mixed opinions on the next few. When I heard that they were coming out with a new remix album, I was pretty excited, mainly because their other one was phenomenal. I listened to their track "A Light that Never Comes" when they released it on youtube, which I thought was pretty sick, so needless to say, I was amped for the album to come out.As I first started listening, I could tell the various styles of music they were trying to play with. Techno, Dubstep, Trance, all mixed in with their music. Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of dubstep, but it works with this for the most part. There are a couple songs that were just 'ok', but the rest were absolutely great. Definitely worth the purchase. I highly recommend this album to anyone who likes remixes, dubstep and their album "Reanimation"Favorite Songson the Album: Castle of Glass (M. Shinoda Remix), I'll Be Gone (Vice Remix), Burn it Down (Tom Swoon Remix), Until it Breaks (Datsik Remix)Least Favorite/Could do without: Lies, Greed Misery (Dirtyphonics Remix), Victimized (M. Shinoda Remix)**Side Note: For all of you people crying "ZOMG they need to go back to their first album" and "they suck now", just please for the sake of everyone, quit your b**ching and just stop listening already. I accepted this a long time ago and I appreciate the music they make because of the fact that it's different. To me, that's the beauty of it, your not getting fed the same stuff over and over again. If you learn to open your musical taste more, you'll appreciate this and a lot of other musical artists out there.

I just like Linkin Park’s music, thank you

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Ottimo

Comme toujours Linkin park est au dessus de tout .... le produit est arrivé au top et donc il répond à mes attentes.

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