Fort Minor - "The Rising Tied" Reviews.

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There are a bunch of album reviews going around the net for this much anticipated album and I just wanted to post them up and see whether you agree / disagree with them, or maybe they'll make you change your mind on whether you're going to buy it or whatever . I don't really want to make a new thread for each review as they're just opinions from people really, but here you go:

 

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Fort Minor The Rising Tied (Warner Bros.)

 

Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park demands more respect for his mike skills on hip-hop LP on the debut of his full-on hip-hop project Fort Minor, Linkin Park MC Mike Shinoda gets his Eminem Show on, self-producing dark, rock-schooled beats and dropping brassy rhymes about haters ("High Road"), his struggles as a rapper ("Remember the Name") and the internment of the Shinoda family during World War II ("Kenji"). On "Petrified," the album's club-shaking first single, Shinoda spits some surprisingly dexterous boasts, and on "Back Home," Common helps him work up sympathy for the urban poor amid a spare scratch guitar loop. With supervision from executive producer Jay-Z, tracks such as "Believe Me" translate Linkin Park's stylized angst into sleek boom-bap, complete with agitated pop choruses and deft instrumental ornamentation. Shinoda's weighty raps get wearisome over sixteen cuts, but Rising Tied has plenty of humanist appeal; in all, not a bad use of his pop-star status.

 

(CHRISTIAN HOARD)

 

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Source: Rolling Stones

 

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SHINODA'S SHOW. "The Rising Tied" (Warner Bros.), the debut album from Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda's solo project, Fort Minor, is ambitious and well-constructed, powered by clear thoughts, crisp rhymes and rap-rock-friendly beats. It stumbles, like a lot of solo debuts, because it lacks the system of checks and balances that comes with being part of a band.

 

In Linkin Park, Shinoda is part of a three-pronged attack, offering the rap counterpoint to Chester Bennington's howls and Brad Delson's guitars' roars. In Fort Minor, he is the sole focus and sometimes being good is just not good enough.

 

His vision is strong on the first single "Believe Me," which boasts a bigger groove and a speedier flow than the rest of the album. It also feels most like a Linkin Park song, with his raps mixed with a sung chorus.

 

"Kenji," a moving tale about Japanese-Americans' time in internment camps during World War II, is another example of the full realization of Shinoda's ambitious plans. His smartest track is "Cigarettes," where he compares gangsta rap to smoking, "I'm running out to get the next rapper's CD, just sucking up the guns, drugs and misogyny."

 

At times, Shinoda's conscious-rap vibe gets to be a bit preachy and his anti-media rants get raised to Eminem-level paranoia. For the most part, though "The Rising Tied" shows that Shinoda has plenty to say and will only improve at finding better ways to say it.

 

("The Rising Tied," in stores today; Grade: B)

 

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Source: Newsday

 

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Fort Minor, "The Rising Tied" (Warner Brothers): As one fifth of the multi-platinum, grammy-winning rock-rap group Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda gets to spit the occasional rap over lead screamer Chester Bennington's wails. "The Rising Tied," is a pure hip-hop album where Shinoda doesn't have to share scream time. Executive produced by Jay-Z, which means he had a cup of coffee with Shinoda, "The Rising Tied" proves two things: 1. Shinoda is a master beat maker as "Tied" has some of the phattest beats of the year -- "Petrified" and "In Stereo" come to mind. 2. Shinoda as a rapper is slightly above K-Fed territory. Luckily for him and us guest rappers abound including Styles of Beyond and Common. Despite Shinoda's lackluster MC skills, "The Rising Tied" is a surprisingly good album making Fort Minor more than a minor threat. GRADE: B-

 

Jason Karas / The Detroit News

 

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Source: Detroit News

 

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A minor disappointment

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda releases his latest, disastrous hip-hop album

 

By: John NH Patterson, Staff Writer

 

We owe our congratulations to Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda for finally releasing a solo album. We don't, however, owe him admiration or respect for a job well done.

 

Shinoda's self-produced The Rising Tied releases him from the supposedly heavy onus of carrying the better half of the Park's vocal crew, Chester Bennington. Or as Machine Shop Recordings' promotional Web site FortMinor.com puts it, "Shinoda's rap roots have always had to share space with other elements-until now!" [Mood-intensifying italics mine]. Chester doesn't know how lucky he is.

 

Linkin Park has sold more than 35 million albums, and as further proof that there's no accounting for taste, rap legend Jay-Z, who has worked with Linkin Park in the past, has ascribed his name to Shinoda's side project as executive producer. What does this mean for creative input? Absolutely nothing. Steven Spielberg was the executive producer for the 1995 lackluster blockbuster "Casper." As in the friendly ghost. So…

 

Shinoda mixed the samples himself for this album, which, despite being recorded from real-live instruments, sound completely canned. His electronically manipulated voice is disguised by the same structured, distortion-pedal like sound on every track, and like Strokes' lead singer Julian Casablancas, Shinoda uses it like a polio patient uses an iron lung.

 

But the backbone of any and all hip-hop - the beat - is where Shinoda's sound suffers most. Rather than being overtly negative about this crucial element, let me say the beats sound almost, but not entirely, like the Casio keyboard I got for Christmas when I was nine.

 

Hip-hop is merely a vehicle for lyrics, however. And as far as lyrics go - they're actually really good.

 

Just kidding. They sound like Dr. Seuss must have sounded as an angst-ridden, frustrated youth, scrawling tortured verse in his tattered black composition book.

 

For example, "Remember the Name" on track two has this to say: "Mike! - He doesn't need his name up in lights / He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic / He feels so unlike everybody else, alone / In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him."

 

Aww. One fish, two fish, Shinoda's a blue fish. And yes, he uses Mike to rhyme with mic. Not convinced? Here's a snippet from "Petrified" on track four: "My name is Mike / I'm fooling with the new s--- / I'm doing it all like / I like what I do / I do what I like / I could quit and get it back like I'm riding a bike." Bike, Mike, like, mic. Umm, pike, trike, spike, fyke. (It's a type of fishing net.)

 

Shinoda's sophomoric debut leaves no doubt that his name is Mike, but he isn't satisfied with smearing his own name. He also drags down label mates Styles of Beyond, Holly Brook, John Legend and the Roots' Black Thought by way of collaboration.

 

If you're a fan of Mike Shinoda, stick with Linkin Park. If you're a fan of hip-hop, stick with the real talent: Jurassic 5, De La Soul, The Roots, etc. If you're a fan of self-injury, look for The Rising Tied release Nov. 22.

 

Source: Traveller

 

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Whoa gosh that last one was harsh >.> What an ass lol.

 

Well if anybody finds any other reviews on sites, it'll be cool if you post them in this thread I think

 

Enjoy :thumbsup:

[Hyper]

lotta stuff, nice find

[Friðbjörn]

Nice finds Jen

 

yeah what asses, too bad so many people will actually listen to those motherfuckers...

[Hahninator]

http://www.d12world.com/board/showpost.php?p=4623020&postcount=5

 

This is my review. I'm not this guy but yeah I agree with him

 

out of a 5...

 

"I'd give it 4 as well.......

 

Some simply fantastic tracks are on the disc........Right Now, Kenji, High Road, Out The Back...

 

----------There's some filler shit also tho....Petrified (Basic track, basic beat), Where'd you Go (very predictable I miss you style song, reminds me of Linkin Park's My December), and Back Home (Continues to fortify my belief Common is a boring ass rapper with a worn-out style.........The man came boring on this disc, as well as Kanye's)...

 

^^ Other than that shit tho, the Fantastic tracks simply hurl this disc into the great category.........If better tracks replaced the filler, it would for sure of been a classic..."

 

100% agree with this. Well maybe not. I'm not convinced Whered You Go is a fillder track lol. Petrified, Believe Me and Back Home certainly are though

[Friðbjörn]

I love Petrified though, there's just something about it, silly as it may be...

 

I agree on Common though, never liked him that much, plus he's a racist beeyotch

[Hahninator]

Well I hate Petrified, The Battle and Back Home.

 

Every other track owns. If you took those 3 out and replaced them with Spray Paint & Ink Pens and two other unreleased GOOD FM tracks, you'd have a 5 star album

 

100 Degrees doesn't fit the album, so I wouldn't put it there. People say the same about Spray Paint & Ink Pens, but in my opinion, it'd be perfect :O

[Stenners]

I have said this before Petrified is a tight track, just out of place.

[misspiggy]

everyone here is reviewing the songs im going to review the album...i believe its awesome as some other people say but im saying that mike took this album and made it his life his story....if you listen to kenji you can hear the saddness of the story of his family in the 1940s. if you hear all the other songs it is very deep and sad but yet still hardcore and in your face. im just saying but other people have different opinions :thumbsup:

[Brkng_Th_Hbt]

I gave the album 8.2/10. If Petrified was not on the album, It'd be like a 7.5/10. I love Petrified. lol. I find it amusing... I don't see it as a filler, and I definately don't see Believe me as a filler, but Back Home... major filler. Don't like it that much.

[splitmyDNA]

Yeah I was wondering about Kenji, if you look at some of the LPU CD's and Hybrid Theory (haven't checked the others) there is someone credited as Kenji Koboyashi...

[twilightcrimson7]

Just bought it a couple of hours ago....

 

It's so awesome. Impressive... unique

I'm still sampling all the songs....

but so far my favorite songs are Red to Black, Beleive Me, Get Me Gone (XDDD lab coat and cowboy hat.... too hilarous)

[Hybrid Soldier]

Yeah I was wondering about Kenji' date=' if you look at some of the LPU CD's and Hybrid Theory (haven't checked the others) there is someone credited as Kenji Koboyashi...[/quote']

kenji is actually mikes middle name

[splitmyDNA]

Ooh. Didn't know that. Is Kenji Koboyashi just a coincidence then?

[Mc P Pamts123]

Ooh. Didn't know that. Is Kenji Koboyashi just a coincidence then?

Meteora

is better Fort Minor SUCKed sucks and will continue suck

[By_My-elf]

Vash can you try to do something or any-1

[DaEnemyz]

the cd is great guys.