Thursday, December 27, 2007

Frat Party at Pankake Festival... IS AWESOME.

I can't believe I actually found it.

And at the most unlikely place of all: CD-Rama at Causeway Point!

Seems like I get a lot of my LP stuff from CD-Rama outlets even though it's not really my favourite place to get CDs. But one thing: you wanna get something reeeeeaaaallly old (for instance, Frat Party at Pankake Festival was released in 2001, and Hybrid Theory was 2000), I guess you can't go wrong with CD-Rama. Just that don't expect to get Special Editions or first editions there. That one you'll have to head down to HMV (for instance the original cardboard version of Fort Minor's The Rising Tied instead of the CD+DVD version. Mind you I paid a fortune to have the cardboard version. $28!!!) but as I have mentioned they overcharge. A lot.

Frat Party at Pankake Festival is great if you liked Hybrid Theory a lot 'cause obviously, at the time of release that was the only mainstream album they've had. Bundled with it are good-quality music videos, loadsa interviews, funny stuff, etc. I haven't checked out the special features though, but the main content already looks so good. Sure, it's everything you could watch from YouTube, but watching it on your TV screen... it's just a different feeling, isn't it? It's just like watching a movie on DVD. Definitely feels better than watching on YouTube and having to tolerate the (at times) shitass quality of the videos.

However, at this point where LP has been out and about for 7 years now, Frat Party at Pankake Festival is something I wouldn't quite recommend for folks who see Minutes To Midnight or even just What I've Done as wholly representative of LP, partly because of the radically different style they have since taken on and, basically, for those who don't have a more thorough understanding of their evolution over the years, wouldn't appreciate this DVD or may even see it as something that's "not Linkin Park". But if you're a fan, it's not so bad. If you've followed them for ages you'd find the contents funny and very familiar. Rule of thumb is, you must be able to at least recognise each and every member. That way you won't get confused and put yourself through the kind of embarrassment I had during the bygone era when I couldn't tell the difference between Brad and Rob. Mind you, they used to look so similar.

So in short, Frat Party at Pankake Festival is not for LP beginners. Savvy?