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                  Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight
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Artist...............: Linkin Park
Album................: Minutes To Midnight
Genre................: Alternative Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) & PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-800A
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 67 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: 

Ripped by............: millennium2000 on 10-12-2007
Posted by............: millennium2000 on 10-12-2007

Included.............: NFO,M3U,Digipack,CD,Front


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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:01:41) - (55,22%) Linkin Park - Wake
   2. (00:03:09) - (76,31%) Linkin Park - Given Up
   3. (00:03:29) - (64,38%) Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
   4. (00:02:44) - (70,65%) Linkin Park - Bleed It Out
   5. (00:04:50) - (59,17%) Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day
   6. (00:03:25) - (68,83%) Linkin Park - What I've Done
   7. (00:03:53) - (63,19%) Linkin Park - Hands Held High
   8. (00:03:42) - (72,30%) Linkin Park - No More Sorrow
   9. (00:03:17) - (66,98%) Linkin Park - Valentine's Day
  10. (00:03:17) - (57,80%) Linkin Park - In Between
  11. (00:03:38) - (65,21%) Linkin Park - In Pieces
  12. (00:06:24) - (64,97%) Linkin Park - The Little Things Give You Away

Playing Time.........: 02:34:48
Total Size...........: 287,39 MB

NFO generated on.....: 10-12-2007 11:36:23


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Minutes to Midnight (album)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Studio album by Linkin Park 
Released  May 14, 2007
   May 15, 2007 
Recorded February 2006 – January 2007 at The Mansion 
Genre Alternative rock 
Length 43:30 
Label Warner Bros. Records
Machine Shop Recordings 
Producer Rick Rubin
Mike Shinoda (co-producer) 
 
For other uses for the term "Minutes to Midnight", see here. 
Minutes to Midnight is Linkin Park's third studio album that was released, 
depending on location, between May 9, 2007 and May 18, 2007. It has been 
certified 2x Platinum worldwide for sales of over 5.3 million copies, and has 
also been certified 2x Platinum just in the United States as well. It is 
also their first album with a parental advisory label.

The album debuted at #1 in the United States and in 15 other countries, 
including the UK and Canada, around the world. In the U.S. the album had 
the biggest first week sales of 2007 with 625,000 albums sold, but it was 
later surpassed by Kanye West's album Graduation. The album was certified 
Platinum (One million albums sold) in the U.S. and shipped over 3.3 million 
albums worldwide in its first four weeks of release.

There are two versions of the album cover. Both feature all six members of 
the band in black clothing. On the slipcase, the band members are looking 
away from the camera and on some of the standard jewel case covers, most 
of the band members are looking at the camera. The order of the band (from 
left to right) is as follows: Chester Bennington, Phoenix, Joe Hahn, Brad 
Delson, Rob Bourdon, and Mike Shinoda.

The lead single from the album, "What I've Done", was digitally released on 
April 3 in the UK and April 2 in the U.S. The CD single was released on April 
30.

All songs were written by Linkin Park.

"Wake" – 1:41 
"Given Up" – 3:09 
"Leave Out All the Rest" – 3:29 
"Bleed It Out" – 2:44 
"Shadow of the Day" – 4:50 
"What I've Done" – 3:25 
"Hands Held High" – 3:53 
"No More Sorrow" – 3:42 
"Valentine's Day" – 3:17 
"In Between" – 3:17 
"In Pieces" – 3:38 
"The Little Things Give You Away" – 6:22 

Release
Minutes to Midnight was delayed several times before its release. First 
scheduled for summer 2006, then fall 2006, then early 2007, the album's 
release date was finally set for May 15, 2007. In an interview in September 
2006, Shinoda explained, "When songs are pouring out you don't ever want 
to stop that. We already have over 100 roughs for songs. We've narrowed it 
down since but we're not ready to commit to those yet."

From the late stages of the demo sessions, "QWERTY", which was rumored to 
be on Minutes to Midnight, has appeared on the Linkin Park Underground 
v6.0 CD on December 5, 2006 in both live and studio demo versions.

"This was a year-and-a-half long process of really hard work and 
experimentation in the studio that yielded about 150 rough songs," guitarist 
Brad Delson told Billboard.com. "Not only is this album incredibly diverse, but 
the depth of the material is really strong."

The first single, "What I've Done", was released April 2, 2007, and debuted 
at number one on the U.S. Modern Rock chart.

"Given Up", "What I've Done" and "No More Sorrow" made their live debut on 
April 28, 2007 in Berlin. Live performances of these three songs at the 
Sessions@AOL were released on AOL on May 5, 2007.

On May 12, 2007, Linkin Park played "Bleed It Out" on Saturday Night Live, 
along with "What I've Done". Also, on May 18, 2007, Linkin Park appeared on 
Jimmy Kimmel Live, and again performed "What I've Done" and "Bleed It Out".



Clean Editions
There were non-PA releases of both the regular CD and the special edition 
CD. The songs "Given Up", "Bleed It Out", and "Hands Held High" were 
slightly edited, by the removal of profanities all together. In Malaysia, there 
are only clean editions available. The Clean Edition also has a separate hard 
cover for the album.


Overall Minutes to Midnight is Linkin Park's softest studio album, focusing 
more in layers and textures of the music, thus creating a more melodic, 
approachable sound. In an interview with Chester Bennington it is explained 
that the new album is a mix of punk, classic rock, and hip-hop beats. "Rick 
has brought more of a stripped down, classic-rock and hip-hop kind of feel."

In another interview with Chester, he stated "This time around, Mike Shinoda 
is singing a lot more. It may seem like he's not on the record, but he's doing a 
lot of the harmonies. He also sings a couple of songs alone. We're presenting 
ourselves in a different way."

"We were looking back at the things that we had done in the past… and I 
think we just figured that we had exhausted that sound. It was easy for us 
to replicate, it was easy for other bands to replicate, and we just needed to 
move on," said Mike Shinoda.

This is their first album where Mike Shinoda sings lead vocals for a full length 
track ("In Between"), rather than rapping. It is also the first to contain guitar 
solos (particularly on "Shadow Of The Day", "In Pieces" and "The Little Things 
Give You Away"). Unlike the two previous studio albums, Minutes to Midnight 
contains profanity and politically-charged lyrics.
Mike Shinoda performs his rapping vocals on only two tracks, "Bleed It Out" 
and "Hands Held High". This is a significant decrease compared to previous 
albums. The rap vocals on the album are much closer styled to Mike Shinoda's 
side project Fort Minor than his traditional Linkin Park verses. Despite a 
decrease of Mike Shinoda as rapper, he has two solo lead songs on the 
record. He raps on "Hands Held High", which features background vocals 
from the entire band (the "men's choir" singing "Amen" is actually each 
member of the band). He also sings solo on the bonus track "No Roads Left" 
in a much more aggressive rock style than on "In Between" with no backing 
vocals from Bennington. Bennington and Shinoda play guitar on "No Roads 
Left", the iTunes exclusive bonus track.

All scratching elements by Mr. Hahn that existed in the previous two studio 
albums are largely absent, except on the songs "What I've Done", 
"Valentine's Day", "In Pieces", "In Between" and "The Little Things Give You 
Away". Hahn contributes more with programming, electronica, and other 
elements to many of the songs.

Guitarist Brad Delson experimented with an E-Bow when the band was piecing 
together "The Little Things Give You Away". The band decided not to use the 
effect for the solo in that song and instead ended up creating "No More 
Sorrow" out of the effect (Brad shakes his finger on the strings of his guitar 
creating the long reverb effect similar to the sound of an E-Bow). In "Given 
Up" you can hear him jingling his keys while Mike Shinoda claps.

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