Linkin Park -《Minutes to Midnight 》EU Tour Edition[MP3]
专辑英文名: Minutes to Midnight
歌手: Linkin Park
音乐风格: 摇滚
资源格式: MP3
版本: EU Tour Edition
发行时间: 2007年05月14日
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介:
码率：320kbps
专辑简介：
Linkin Park的第三张录音室专辑，Minutes to Midnight在当年5月14日发 行，厂牌是华纳兄弟。专辑在美国取得双白金的认证。据统计，全球发行时 首月销量高达330万张。专辑在15个国家/地区空降了榜首，其中包括英国和 加拿大。在美国，专辑以62万5千张取得了07年最高的首周销量。在滚石杂志 评选的07年50大专辑中排名25。截止09年3月份，在全球售出651万5560张 。
发行经历
专辑在发行之前几度跳票。最初定为06年夏天发行的专辑将近推迟了一年。 在06年9月的采访中，Shinoda对此解释道，“当我们的创作灵感犹如泉涌一 般时，我们并不想就这样停下来。我们已经有了约100首左右的样本，然后丛 中筛选出了一部分，但是还没有决定是否采用他们。”
而Qwerty一曲的demo在Underground 6.0得到发行之后，Linkin Park也在 现场表演过这一曲目，一度被认为它将是新专辑的一首曲目。
而频繁的跳票，导致歌迷有意无意恶搞出一些“泄漏”作品，其中包括 Chester之前的乐团Grey Daze和瑞典一个类似的乐团Tribal Ink的作品，拼 盘凑成一张M2M Advanced。
“在录音室里呆了将近一年半，我们大概弄出了150首作品，”Billboard的 采访中吉他手Brad Delson表示，“这不仅仅是因为专辑的风格多样，而且专 辑的题材有一定的深度。”
首支单曲，What I've Done在07年4月2日发行，首周位列Billboard现代摇 滚榜单的冠军。4月28日在柏林的演唱会上，LP首次上演了"Given Up", "What I've Done" 和 "No More Sorrow"。5月5日，他们在 Sessions@AOL节目上的表演得以发行。5月12日，LP表演了Bleed It Out和 What I've Done。而Valentine's Day的首演则是08年1月16在德国汉诺威的 现场上。
Chester Bennington在接受采访时表示，新专辑是朋克，传统摇滚和嘻哈的 混合体。而另一份采访中他称，“Mike Shinoda唱的部分会更多，因为他参 与了更多的合声，并且有些他独唱的曲目。我们用不同的方式展现自我。” Mike Shinoda则称，“回顾我们之前的作品，我觉得我们已经把那种风格做 到一种极致了。我想我们继续‘复制’那样的风格会很容易，不过我们的决 定是去尝试新的风格。”
Minutes to Midnight的曲目中间出现了他们首次的吉他独奏，尤其是The Little Things Give You Away一曲。与前两张不同的是，专辑出现了渎神以 及更多涉及政治的内容。
Mike Shinoda只在两首曲目"Bleed It Out" 和 "Hands Held High"展现了 他的饶舌技艺，与前两张专辑相比，这个比例无疑少了许多。而Hands Held High的rap风格更像是他的旁支计划Fort Minor而不是之前的LP作品。此外 他独唱了In Between和附加的曲目No Roads Left，后者的曲调比In Between更加激进，而且没有Chester的伴唱。
Joe Hahn在一些曲目中依然负责打碟，不过比起前两张来说少了太多。这张 专辑中他更多的是负责编曲，电子合成等。
吉他手Brad Delson首次尝试了E-Bow（电子弓Electronic Bow）。起先是想 要用到The Little Things Give You Away的那段Solo中，不过最后却是用在 了No More Sorrow上。
Shadow of the Day以及"No Roads Left，Chester负责了乐器的演奏，而 在演唱会上一般是Mike负责键盘。
Metacritic根据多份评价，最后给出了56分的打分，比上一张的62分要低上 一些。
发行版本
专辑发行的版本众多，其中包括一个CD/DVD的版本，收录了12首以 48kHz/24bit制式版本的专辑曲目以及制作的纪录片，以及What I've Done 的MV，此外还有PDF格式的小册子等内容。不过这个版本的DVD有一部分出 现了问题，最终被召回，再未见出售过。
此外还有一个审查版本，将歌词中出现的包括F开头的单词等等这样的脏字给 消掉了。这些曲目分别是"Given Up" "Bleed It Out"和"Hands Held High" 。
首版一年后发行的周年纪念版，则是附赠了10套封面。这些都是专辑制作时的候 选版本。
巡演纪念版，也就是这次压制的版本，是LP巡演促销的产物。在不同地区购 买的巡演纪念版，会得到一份下载几个现场录音的凭证。本次的欧版附赠的 下载是在伦敦O2体育馆的现场录音，3首曲目是What I've Done，One Step Closer和Faint。
引用
Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released in May 14, 2007 through Warner Bros. Records. The album has been certified double platinum in the United States and shipped over 3.3 million copies worldwide in its first four weeks of release. It is their first studio album with a Parental Advisory label.
The album debuted at number one in the United States[4] and in 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, around the world. In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold. The album reached number twenty-five on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. The album has sold 6,515,560 copies worldwide as of March 16, 2009. The album is named in reference to the Doomsday Clock.
Release history
Minutes to Midnight was delayed several times before its release. First scheduled for Summer of 2006, then Fall of 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, the song "QWERTY", which was rumored to be on Minutes to Midnight, 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 United States 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". On January 16, 2008, "Valentine's Day" finally made its live debut in Hannover, Germany.
Sound
In an interview with Chester Bennington, he explained that the new album is a mix of punk, classic rock, and hip-hop standards. "Rick has brought more of a stripped down, classic-rock and hip-hop kind of feel." In another interview with Bennington, 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 to contain guitar solos (particularly "The Little Things Give You Away" and especially "In Pieces"). 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 the amount of rapping on previous albums. The rap vocals on "Hands Held High" are much closer styled to Mike Shinoda's side project Fort Minor than his traditional Linkin Park verses. All the songs that contain rap vocals also contain profanity, unlike their other records. 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) and he sings on "In Between". 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. "The Little Things Give You Away" and "Hands Held High" also feature singing vocals from Shinoda at the end.
All scratching elements by Joe Hahn that existed in the previous two studio albums are largely absent, except on the songs "What I've Done", "Wake", "The Little Things Give You Away", ""Valentine's Day" and "In Pieces". 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. In "Given Up" you can hear him jingling his keys while Mike Shinoda claps.
The Church organ and military drumbeat on Hands Held High were originally to be used as the backdrop to melodic vocals, but Rubin recommended that the band try the opposite approach according to the album booklet.
"Shadow of the Day" is one of two songs (the other being "No Roads Left") to have Bennington playing an instrument. At concerts, Shinoda is generally playing the keyboard for this song.
Reception
The album received mixed reviews overall on Metacritic, with an average vote of 56/100, below the 62/100 score of their previous album, Meteora.
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