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You Tube ^ | 04-05-2025 | sit-rep

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Taking a chance for a Saturday Night Music Thread! Post em If you Got Em!!

Surfing around Youtube I ran across a New Linkin Park release! I must say I was immediately impressed!! I hope you are as well!!

The Story...

In a Nut Shell, after Chester Bennington's death by Suicide, and Covid, Linkin Park started corroborating with Emily Armstrong:

Emily Armstrong

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humble Pie was a stable in my collection as a kid!! brings back big memories!!

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damn sr... StaPle!

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which one is more better...??

https://youtu.be/TR3Vdo5etCQ?list=RDTR3Vdo5etCQ

https://youtu.be/kIDWgqDBNXA?list=RDkIDWgqDBNXA

??

[gnarledmaw]

Hated their early work. Thats really much better than I was expecting.

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I only like 2 of their songs... In the End and Somewhere I belong. but when I heard that Emily for the first time tonight I thought her octave range was perfect...

[Fuzz]

Why you ruining your thread?

🤮

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lmao...

Sookie Sookie..

[moviefan8]

Zulu - Final Battle including “Men of Harlech”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Vfq4YaWJ0

[Lazamataz]

I don’t like a lot of Rollins’ work, but Liar is a masterpiece.

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The new Linkin Park is a completely different band, a completely different sound. I like to call them Linkin Park V2.0.

I prefer the Bennington era, greatly.

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My tastes run more towards Industrial, for example, Trent Reznor's NIN.

Every Day is Exactly the Same (Studio version)

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Boston was brilliant; it was staple of my youth.

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Mungo Jerry. Pretty awesome. The lyrics are a little dated, though: "Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find."

Updated for modern times, it might be "Have a drink, have a drive, go out and catch a DUI." 😂😂😂

As far as fun music goes, this one is on my playlist. All Star

[Lazamataz]

Another fun one: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

[mmichaels1970]

Trent Reznor's NIN.

Cleveland Rocks!!!! (that song is kinda sad to me though).

[mmichaels1970]

I’ve always argued with a music podcaster friend that Boston deserves the Rock Hall way more than many who have gotten there…..and Third Stage is in the regular rotation when I’m coding.

[mmichaels1970]

Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun can blow the doors off of a Chevy S10. Seen it.

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Always been a favorite of mine as well. dont understand why they are not in the RRHoF. totally surprised to hear they are not!!

Have you ever been to a live Boston Concert? I never have but always wondered how they sounded live. Its no secret they have a little studio enhancement in their music.

[mmichaels1970]

I never got to see Boston. But my brother did prior to Brad Delp’a death. They were late on in their careers, probably a year or three before he died, but I remember him telling me they sounded “excellent” and “played everything”. Wish I’d had a chance to see them.

[mmichaels1970]

dont understand why they are not in the RRHoF

My “podcaster friend” argues that it’s a “body of work” thing. Only a few albums with only a couple of them being hits. That they struggled to follow up a debut masterpiece. My arguments were that:

A. Most bands would have one or two hits per album where Boston was “cover to cover”. So how would you rate an album where every song is awesome against a band with ten or twelve albums where one song on each is awesome?

B. You don’t just hear ONE Boston song today. They have many that have stood the test of time and could be considered “immortal”.

C. Their debut was NOT their only great album. They had several. Namely “Third Stage”. I told him to listen start to finish and tell me that wasn’t a fantastic album. And “radio hits” shouldn’t be a determining factor in great songs.

I’d put Delp only slightly below Steve Perry as what I consider to be the greatest lead voices ever.