Fort Minor – The Rising Tied (2LP) – Deluxe Edition Vinyl

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Fort Minor Album: The Rising Tied Released: USA, 2023 Tracklist: A1 Introduction A2 Remember The Name A3 Right Now A4 Petrified A5 Feel Like Home B1 Where’d You Go B2 In Stereo B3 Back Home B4 Cigarettes B5 Believe Me B6 Get Me Gone C1 High Road C2 Kenji C3 Red To Black C4 The Battle C5 Slip Out The Back D1 Be Somebody D2 There They Go D3 The Hard Way D4 Welcome Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Mike Shinoda didnt just make a side project with The Rising Tied. He built a world. Released on November 22, 2005 through Machine Shop/Warner Bros. with Jay-Z as executive producer, Fort Minors lone studio album still feels like a complete statement from a guy everyone knew as the quiet architect in Linkin Park. Here he steps forward, handles the production, writes with a diarists eye, and pulls in guests who slot into his stories like theyve always lived there. Start with the singles. Remember the Name became a sports soundtrack, the kind of track that rattles around arenas and TV promos long after its chart run. It works because the math in that hook feels both tongue-in-cheek and oddly honest, and because Ryu and Tak from Styles of Beyond toss verses like sparring partners trying to one-up each other. Then theres Whered You Go, a top ten hit built on a simple piano figure and a bittersweet hook sung by Holly Brook (who later recorded as Skylar Grey) alongside emo stalwart Jonah Matranga. Its not flashy. Its human. You can hear the distance in the writing and the production gives it space to breathe. What surprised me in 2005, and still does, is how deep the album runs past the obvious hits. Kenji is the heart of this record. Shinoda threads his familys stories of Japanese American incarceration during World War II with field-recorded voices from relatives, and he raps it plainly, like hes carrying a box of old letters. No melodrama, just details. Cigarettes goes the other way, using a sharp extended metaphor to poke at how the industry sells what isnt good for you while pretending its fine. Its clever, but the beat knocks, and that keeps it from feeling like homework. The guest list is smart rather than bloated. Black Thought shows up on Right Now and turns a cityscape into a time-lapse, while Styles of Beyond play anchor again. John Legend floats through High Road with a silky hook that softens Shinodas tightly wound barbs. Common joins Back Home, and the three-way chemistry clicks, three writers looking at the same scene from different stoops. Kenna and Jonah Matranga help Red to Black swing from fragile to defiant in a single chorus. It all feels curated, not crowded. Jay-Zs presence is felt in the intro and in the confidence of the sequencing, but the record is pure Shinoda. The drums pop, the bass is tidy, the samples and keys tuck in around the vocals rather than smother them. Hes always had an arrangers brain and a crate-diggers patience, and that balance gives The Rising Tied replay value. Believing Me, Petrified, and In Stereo scratch the itch for straight-ahead head-nodders, while Get Me Gone lays out the backstory with receipts, taking on early critics who wrote him off and label voices that didnt get the vision. If you discovered this while flipping through crates, that checks out. Fort Minor vinyl tends to draw the kind of shopper who wants hip-hop with craft and a point of view, not just a wave to ride. Ive spun The Rising Tied vinyl in the shop on a slow afternoon and watched people drift closer during Kenji, then grin as Remember the Name hits. If youre hunting for Fort Minor albums on vinyl, this is the keeper, the one youll lend to a friend and never quite get back. And if you prefer to buy Fort Minor records online, keep an eye out because clean copies can move fast, especially in spots where vinyl culture is strong. Ive seen it vanish quickly at a Melbourne record store and in a couple of the busier vinyl records Australia outlets too. Critical response at the time noted that Shinoda delivered a fully formed hip-hop record rather than a rock crossover detour. Thats the key. The Rising Tied sits comfortably alongside mid-2000s indie rap and mainstream radio, which is a neat trick. It has stadium anthems, yes, but also pages from a journal, a family archive, and a producers sketchbook. Two decades on, it still plays like a complete life in one LP, tied together by one voice taking the long way to the front of the stage. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review