LINKIN PARK LIVE AROUND THE WORLD: MY PLAYLIST STARTS WITH POINTS OF AUTHORITY AND ENDS WITH THE MESSENGER

I chose 13 songs from Linkin Park’s live album series Live Around the World to make my playlist. The series contains the songs which the band had performed on various stages. You can listen to the studio version in four albums from the debut album Hybrid Theory to the 4th album A Thousand Suns.

One of my favorite LP songs is Points Of Authority included in Hybrid Theory. This song has the role to start my playlist. Mike Shinoda, who is a rapper, guitarist, and keyboard player in the band, had performed the new rap at the start of the song in this version. The new rap sharply passes a torch to the original rap. The stream of the highly condensed words makes me so excited. Make some noise!

Points Of Authority (Sydney, 2007) in Hybrid Theory
In The End (Melbourne, 2010) in Hybrid Theory
Don’t Stay (Shanghai, 2007) in Meteora
Somewhere I Belong (Köln, 2008) in Meteora
Lying From You (New York, 2008) in Meteora
One Step Closer (Frankfurt, 2008) in Hybrid Theory
Papercut (Paris, 2010) in Hybrid Theory
What I’ve Done (New York, 2008) in Minutes To Midnight
When They Come For Me (Paris, 2010) in A Thousand Suns
Numb (New York, 2008) in Meteora
From The Inside (Sydney, 2010) in Meteora
Breaking The Habit (Hamburg, 2011) in Meteora
The Messenger (Las Vegas, 2011) in A Thousand Suns

The last song in the playlist is The Messenger included in A Thousand Suns. Chester Bennington’s singing voice is very tough, beautiful, and tender. I love it. In the simple and gentle sounds, his song sounds sweet to me and resonates with my heart. He said “Sing along with us!” and then the audience sang along with him at the end of the song. It had finished up with the voices of Chester and many LP lovers. So impressive.

We can enjoy listening to Krewella’s new EP "Ammunition"

Jahan Yousaf, a member of Krewella, said "krewella is back? nah we’ve been here all along" on her Twitter page. Krewella, an electro/rock duo by Yamine and Jahan Yousaf sisters, released the new EP Ammunition on May 20. I love their new songs and celebrate their new departure as Krewella.

This EP includes 6 songs: Beggars, Broken Record, Marching On, Surrender The Throne, Ammunition, and Can’t Forget You. I am impressed strongly by Marching On, Surrender The Throne, and Can’t Forget You in particular. I want to shout the impressive phrase "We’re marching on!"

They delivered the message "We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it" to their fans called "Krew".

Stella.J.C – Stronger Every Day

Stella.J.C, a pianist and composer, released the song Stronger Every Day in Japan. I am in love with her sound and melody in this song. Three musicians play: Wouter Hamel as vocal, Yusuke Hirado on keyboard and Shingo Sekiguchi on guiter.

Left to right: Wouter Hamel, Stella.J.C, Shingo Sekiguchi and Yusuke Hirado

Stella.J.C will release the album in 2016. I know little about her. However, I am looking forward to her new sound.

Listen to the song: https://soundcloud.com/mono-creation/stronger-every-day/s-QWsMG

Autumn sea

I love autumn sky, sea and wind.

See more pictures: Autumn sea in my blog.

AVICII – Sunset Jesus

AVICII's new album Stories was released on October 2. Sunset Jesus is my favorite song in this album. The sound of the remix version of Dear Boy, one of his songs, is included in it. I want to dance and sing along to synthesizer riff of this song.

AVICII – Sunset Jesus (Lyric Video)

Azumino Autumn Aster

The pictures were taken in Azumino, which is my hometown. I used PENTAX K-3 to take them.

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Zedd – True Colors

Zedd’s new album True Colors was out. I want all of music lovers to listen to the album. He does not delivered his music to limited listeners, but persons who love both popular music and EDM. I hope that you will listen to some songs taken from the album if you are interested in popular music. Let me introduce my following text about my favorite songs included in this album:

Transmission [feat. Logic & X Ambassadors] Sounds like popular music which caught on the world in the late 20th century, for example, Jamiroquai. However, the synthesizer sound in this song is generated with software in 2010's.

Sound of software synthesizer such as reFX NEXUS2 has updated at short intervals. Old-time hardware synthesizers may not be able to generate the present electronic sound. You can taste present progressive sounds in this song.

Papercut [feat. Troye Sivan] I visualize a calm sea when listening to the early part. I do not see any waves. Troye’s song is like a monologue. The voice is floating away into a blank space.

The mode is switched in the latter part of the song. The sound changes to being dynamic. You will be swallowed by the world of the attractive sound. His song is like a dialogue for a significant other.

Daisy Your heart will be melted slowly by the voice of Julia Michaels and strings which is conducted by Ron Fair. Julia’s soft voice matches the melody written by Zedd.

All of the melodies are impressive. I love the melody of the part “When you running, running…” in particular. A stream of the melodies is beautiful and comfortable.

Note: the following is the story about the three singles on my Medium: “Zedd – I Want You To Know/Addicted To A Memory/Beautiful Now”.