Road To Revolution. Live At Milton Keynes Review

Released: Nov 24, 2008
Genre: Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, Nu Metal
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Number Of Tracks: 18
Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes is the second live CD/DVD compilation by Linkin Park. It was recorded during the band's annual Projekt Revolution festival tour at the Milton Keynes National Bowl on June 29, 2008.

Sound:	9
Lyrics:	8
Impression:	8.5
Overall rating:	8.5
Users rating:	7.9
Comments:	32

Reviewed by: unregistered, on february 16, 2009

Sound: First I´d like to say I like linkin park, but I don't love them. The sound quality overall is good, technically, it comes very close to the sound quality of their albums, if not to the same quality. I´d say that Linkin Park can really be considered as a live rather than a studio-band, since the songs are really dynamic on this CD, which is makes this CD more enjoyable than their other albums.Here and there you get some riffs played by the band and some extra added vocal lines, otherwise nothing too special.Or, maybe the drum solo from rob bourdon during "bleed it out", which is decent, but nothing crazy if you compare for example joey jordison´s solo´s. Ahm, apart from that I noticed that brad delson made one or two mistakes during the solo at the end of "faint".And some floppy notes during "No More Sorrow". And "Pushing Me Away" is played on the piano, turning it into a ballad instead of the Linkin Park´ish Nu-Metal style song. // 8

Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are almost the same apart from some new added lines for example in "Points Of Authority", which is, sadly, only on the DVD. Apart from that, Chester Bennington provides good vocals, dynamic, but not as dynamic as on their other live CD/DVD "Live In Texas". Mike Shinoda does decent backing vocals and the rapping. The lyrics fit the songs good, but apart from that there´s nothing special about the vocals.Or, maybe, I get the impression that the vocals sound better on the DVD? Oh well. // 8

Impression: This is Linkin Park´s second live CD/DVD, it is a fairly good CD/DVD, with their first live CD/DVD "Live In Texas" beeing a bit better. But they bring out Jay-Z for "Numb/Encore" and "Jigga What/Faint".Performing "Numb/Encore" was a good idea, but I think they should have played "Faint" without Jay-Z... Why do they play the original "Numb" AND "Numb/Encore" with Jay-Z anyway? They´d been better of playing the orginal "Faint", and "Papercut/Big Pimpin´"instead of "Jigga What/Faint". What I like about this CD/DVD is, that you get a decent crowd on the DVD and you hear the crowd singing this time."In The End" without a huge, singing crowd? Rubbish.Thank God they did it. I was kinda surprised watching the DVD, and then after "Bleed It Out", I get the notice

"Congratulations!! You´ve unlocked:"
"Somewhere I Belong"
"Papercut"
"Points Of Authority".

lol? Reminds me of playing video games. If this DVD were stolen, I´d toss a coin and see if I´d buy this CD/DVD again or Avenged Sevenfold´s "All Exess" DVD. If I compare this CD/DVD with, Muse´s "Haarp", then, ahm, Muse have done a much better job with their CD/DVD.But, Muse isn´t from this planet so I won´t compare them two... // 8

overall: 9

Reviewed by: ASILAYDYING182, on february 13, 2009

Sound: First off I think Linkin Park is amazing and there talent really shows in this CD/DVD set, the concert is amazing and they play almost flawlessly in this concert. The concert at times sounds better than the studio albums they put out(which I've only seen a couple of bands I would say that about) with the whole band sounding like they do on there studio albums. Also they sometimes do extra little intros or outros for some of there songs to build anticipation or just have more fun I guess. Songs from practilly all there albums are here(they even do a performence with Jay-Z for the first time out of the U.S)so you'll find a song you'll like. Overall sounds good. // 10

Lyrics and Singing: Chesters singing is flawless he sounds almost exactly how he does on studio albums, mike does good backing vocals as well as the rapping. The lyrics to each song sound down to earth and are stuff that most people can relate too and have experienced. there's really nothing new to the lyrics, it's all the songs we've heard on there albums maybe a couple of added lines at the end of the song or more rapping like in Points of Authority but nothing spectacular. So overall the lyrics are great but could have had more original content to them like Points of Authority. // 8

Impression: This album is great I recommend it to anyone who likes Linkin Park or just to people who like good music. It can compare kind of to there Live in Texas album but with better production value and better perfomances. The stuff I love from this album is it have most of my favorite songs on it and they sound just great, what I hate about it is some of my favorite songs from Hybrid Theory and Meteora are missing and are replaced with Minutes to Midnight songs which is something I can live with but is something I do not like. If this album were stolen I would find the perosn who stole and beat them to a bloody f*ckin pulp and then get my CD back, if it were lost I would buy it again but still beat the shit out of someone just for fun, Overall this is a good album that anyone and everyone would and should like. // 9

Comments

[Symph.Core]

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

[xxmoshoutxx]

its a tight live dvd/cd fp, only complaints i have is the set choice, and chesters vocals towards the end
i know hes been screaming before, but on live in texas; even after hes screamed, his voice has always still been top notch

[Heminator89]

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")

[hawkdude9]

singing kinda sucks, besides that its ok, not the best from lp

[CelestialChaos]

It's a tight band performance, but Chester isn't as powerful as I've heard him. He was better on Live In Texas.

[chickrawker]

ya know, id like minutes to midnight moe if it wasn't lp.. they can change their sound if they want to but its just not lp for me..

[chickrawker]

CelestialChaos wrote:

It's a tight band performance, but Chester isn't as powerful as I've heard him. He was better on Live In Texas.

yeah

[RCH15]

I'm really not into Linkin Park. They don't suck or anything, but I really just can't get into them. The album is a good one, though.

[IggyMorrison]

their

[jetfuel495]

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")

Rap language? Please, what are you, some 40 year old English professor? And metal fan base? First of all, this is hardly metal. Secondly, he was not speaking in "rap language". I forgot what the word was for it, but it's a writing style where words are spelled as they're pronounced in order to achieve a greater level of characterization. I'm not saying that he was deliberately trying to be creative like that, but it is not "rap language." He's obviously just too lazy to type out full words.

That being said, I've loved Linkin Park for almost nine years now, and that's a pretty big chunk out of my ninteen year life. Their Live in Texas album was great, and I loved Collision Course (since I love Jay-Z anyway).

My only complaint is that Chester's voice can start to falter near the end. Whenever he screams live it's nothing like when he is in the studio.

Well, if the reviewer says that this has better production quality and better performances than LIT then I should probably check it out, although I may be a little disappointed to find out that half of the songs I want to hear are missing.

[biscuitiis.k]

this dvd is cool and it has all the good songs...BUUUUUT its sooooo boring

[David_Bowie=GOD]

the band itself plays pretty good live, but the singer sounds like a whiny little bitch when he sings live

[Xerothunder]

Heminator89 wrote:

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")

Stick around, because I may explain to you why that comment is insanely stupid on so many levels.

This LP album is not bad, tbh I think I liked Live In Texas better, probably because I liked the setlist better. It's something about MTM. I liked the album, but not as an LP album. It just wasn't Linkin Park for me.

[bsplayer2274]

The only thing I didn't like was the CD quality. The DVD performance was awesome, but on the CD its too distorted and has too much bass. It sounds like something you download from limewire.

[Eddie4President]

I want to hate Linkin Park, but. . . can't.

[bendog1909]

hawkdude9 wrote:

singing kinda sucks, besides that its ok, not the best from lp

i completely agree with you man. i actually went to projekt revo in a different city, and he sounded great at that concert, but here he doesnt sound so great. Now i will give Chester props on songs such as Pushing Me Away, he did great on that, but most of the songs he seemed to be off key

[ulique]

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")

er, why would you be worried about anyone other than yourself when it comes to a musical preference? is it because you are so socially insecure you must live up to a standard set out by closed minded elitists?

i don't like linkin park, but you are a complete moron. the only metal worth listening to is death metal, apart from that it is a very boring and stale genre, so stop raping your arsehole over it.

[Captain Penguin]

although i agree with the first thing that ulique said, i don't think he should be passing judgment on genres of music when his "Favourite Bands" section on his profile include The Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Kate Nash and Basshunter amongst others.

And yeah, Linken Park are OK...

[jetfuel495]

Captain Penguin wrote:

although i agree with the first thing that ulique said, i don't think he should be passing judgment on genres of music when his "Favourite Bands" section on his profile include The Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Kate Nash and Basshunter amongst others.

And yeah, Linken Park are OK...

Pfft, basshunter is awesome. I don't like him as much as LP but he's good.

[livingspeedbump]

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")

hahahhaha

[staindpants1]

i see a lot of people here bitching about how they don't like MTM because "it's not lp." on their documentary of the album they made a point that they didn't want to make a trilogy. personally i respect the move they made to step out of the box that they are used to and risk people not liking it. it is a solid album.

[savory_softy]

the only metal worth listening to is death metal

Hypocrite

[Teh Skisgaars]

jetfuel495 wrote:

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")Rap language? Please, what are you, some 40 year old English professor? And metal fan base? First of all, this is hardly metal. Secondly, he was not speaking in "rap language". I forgot what the word was for it, but it's a writing style where words are spelled as they're pronounced in order to achieve a greater level of characterization. I'm not saying that he was deliberately trying to be creative like that, but it is not "rap language." He's obviously just too lazy to type out full words.

That being said, I've loved Linkin Park for almost nine years now, and that's a pretty big chunk out of my ninteen year life. Their Live in Texas album was great, and I loved Collision Course (since I love Jay-Z anyway).

My only complaint is that Chester's voice can start to falter near the end. Whenever he screams live it's nothing like when he is in the studio.

Well, if the reviewer says that this has better production quality and better performances than LIT then I should probably check it out, although I may be a little disappointed to find out that half of the songs I want to hear are missing.

Chester cant sing like he used to because he sings whiny crap now IMO
old linkin park where chesters screams were like 5 voices all in one were amazing
ive love linkin park since before i was a metallica fanatic, their old nu metal stuff was amazing
but M2M was a piece of junk IMO
its whiny soft soft soft rock
not Nu metal
go back to your roots linkin park please
dont turn out like silverchair or gwen stefani

[Cresspo]

jetfuel495 wrote:

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")
Rap language? Please, what are you, some 40 year old English professor? And metal fan base? First of all, this is hardly metal. Secondly, he was not speaking in "rap language". I forgot what the word was for it, but it's a writing style where words are spelled as they're pronounced in order to achieve a greater level of characterization. I'm not saying that he was deliberately trying to be creative like that, but it is not "rap language." He's obviously just too lazy to type out full words.

That being said, I've loved Linkin Park for almost nine years now, and that's a pretty big chunk out of my ninteen year life. Their Live in Texas album was great, and I loved Collision Course (since I love Jay-Z anyway).

My only complaint is that Chester's voice can start to falter near the end. Whenever he screams live it's nothing like when he is in the studio.

Well, if the reviewer says that this has better production quality and better performances than LIT then I should probably check it out, although I may be a little disappointed to find out that half of the songs I want to hear are missing.

It's called phonetic

[Betzefer]

It really doesn't matter how perfect and flawless and "as good as the studio version" this performance is, because the band itself sucks ass and the songs are all shitty and lame. why even bother?

[Rockstar729]

I really wish that they'd put Given Up on there...

[never_give_in]

great CD but Live in Texas is better

[Teejay1709]

i bought it nd i love it!!!!!

[hiddeninromance]

Cresspo wrote:

jetfuel495 wrote:

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")
Rap language? Please, what are you, some 40 year old English professor? And metal fan base? First of all, this is hardly metal. Secondly, he was not speaking in "rap language". I forgot what the word was for it, but it's a writing style where words are spelled as they're pronounced in order to achieve a greater level of characterization. I'm not saying that he was deliberately trying to be creative like that, but it is not "rap language." He's obviously just too lazy to type out full words.

That being said, I've loved Linkin Park for almost nine years now, and that's a pretty big chunk out of my ninteen year life. Their Live in Texas album was great, and I loved Collision Course (since I love Jay-Z anyway).

My only complaint is that Chester's voice can start to falter near the end. Whenever he screams live it's nothing like when he is in the studio.

Well, if the reviewer says that this has better production quality and better performances than LIT then I should probably check it out, although I may be a little disappointed to find out that half of the songs I want to hear are missing.

It's called phonetic

I think in the case of Jay-Z it would actually be vernacular.

It was a good day out, went with my girlfriend...not my ideal choice of music; but a good atmosphere and a surprisingly diverse crowd

[Rocker_geek]

ulique wrote:

Heminator89 wrote:

Symph.Core wrote:

not bad not bad imma buy the album lol

People like that worry me about the future of metal fan base. (The reference is to the rap language used "imma")
er, why would you be worried about anyone other than yourself when it comes to a musical preference? is it because you are so socially insecure you must live up to a standard set out by closed minded elitists?

i don't like linkin park, but you are a complete moron. the only metal worth listening to is death metal, apart from that it is a very boring and stale genre, so stop raping your arsehole over it.

yay! i found a new idiot!

[SlashKirkSynG]

Rockstar729 wrote:

I really wish that they'd put Given Up on there...

....uhh.....Given Up is on the DVD

[Jester InFlames]

savory_softy wrote:

the only metal worth listening to is death metal

Hypocrite

what if not? i d say poser better. it s worse