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Interesting perspective, to me it entirely justified the separate and self-standing release:-?
It was an entirely different take and vision. Granted, it’s almost exclusively old stuff, per se, but it’s so transformative, that I’d say they can’t even be called remixes. If you’ll allow a vidya related parallel, they’re to Hybrid Theory as Enderal is to Skyrim - same elements, completely different ethos.
Not even Shinoda’s reinterpretation of Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence is this transformative, and I think it’s due to his familiarity with the material he was using.
Edit: something just hit me, one could look at it not as a Linkin Park release, but as a Mike Shinoda release. My reasoning for this is thinking back to the days when they went as Xero and they just started recording their demos (Rhinestone, for instance), Mike Shinoda’s “quirkiness” is singificantly more evident, as he was the main creative voice shaping the sound.
Linkin Park themselves matured as a whole with Meteora, I’d argue, as Hybrid Theory still featured a lot of variability with the aesthetics, and their sound is very specifically not what we got in Reanimation.
Interesting perspective, to me it entirely justified the separate and self-standing release:-?
It was an entirely different take and vision. Granted, it’s almost exclusively old stuff, per se, but it’s so transformative, that I’d say they can’t even be called remixes. If you’ll allow a vidya related parallel, they’re to Hybrid Theory as Enderal is to Skyrim - same elements, completely different ethos.
Not even Shinoda’s reinterpretation of Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence is this transformative, and I think it’s due to his familiarity with the material he was using.
Edit: something just hit me, one could look at it not as a Linkin Park release, but as a Mike Shinoda release. My reasoning for this is thinking back to the days when they went as Xero and they just started recording their demos (Rhinestone, for instance), Mike Shinoda’s “quirkiness” is singificantly more evident, as he was the main creative voice shaping the sound.
Linkin Park themselves matured as a whole with Meteora, I’d argue, as Hybrid Theory still featured a lot of variability with the aesthetics, and their sound is very specifically not what we got in Reanimation.
Totally, this was kind of a new approach at the time, and the expectation then was that we’d get a new album of new songs.