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Trials and Tribulations was going to be the album title because in the February 2007 issue of Blender, Chester said that's what the album would be called. But I know Dave hated it and maybe someone else in the band did, too.

No. That's the interview where Chester said the album title was going to be "T______ and T______." The interviewer guessed "Trials and Tribulations," to which Chester gave a non-committal answer. The actual title he was referring to was "In Triumph and Tragedy"/"Triumph and Tragedy."

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Wow the info I told you guys when UIG dropped (from a reliable but source that wanted to remain anonymous) was printed in that interview. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul14/articles/it-07-14.htm" and a song with the working title 'Thanksgiving' that was destined for the fouth Transformers movie."

 

It's general knowledge of course but I have never seen it in print until now.

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So, I forgot that I've found song with title "Cha..." on MTM board. Maybe, that's Chance Of Rain and so it's finally 17th MTM track?

 

[...] The sixth track on the CD is called "Chance Of Rain". That's a song actually called "Voices". We went with the demo title cause it never really got out of the demo phase. We were making, as I recall, Minutes To Midnight. Most of the ones that didn't make the cut were the more mellow ones. [...] And to us, to include a song like this one, Voices or Chance Of Rain, and potentially lose a song like, I don't know, like No More Sorrow or something just seemed like not what we wanted to do. But we always liked this song and it made actually all the way to the mix process and, you know, just at the very last minute it didn't make the cut. [...]

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What about 'From The Top To The Bottom', that Dave Garrett and the band called it temporarily before it was renamed "Rhinestone"?

 

Also, what about "Thoughts That Take Away My Pride"? Isn't that supposed to be in the 'Meteora' section under the Unreleased section?

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On 5/9/2022 at 10:42 AM, lpliveusername said:

Not a real name.

Okay.

 

On 5/9/2022 at 10:15 AM, NJPLP said:

What about 'From The Top To The Bottom', that Dave Garrett and the band called it temporarily before it was renamed "Rhinestone"?

What about this then?

 

Edit: Nevermind.

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On 3/30/2014 at 1:08 AM, lpliveusername said:

I know we already have a thread for Living Things and another one for all the released material, but I made this list to include all the titles from studio boards and titles mentioned during interviews.
Suggestions about the list format are welcome.

RED = Working title is unknown | BLUE = Working title that stuck | GREEN = Final title

LINKIN PARK

Xero
  • Rhinestone
  • Reading My Eyes
  • Fuse
  • Stick N Move

Rapology

  • Closing
  • Drop
  • Fiends

LP Underground

  • Coal
  • Pods

Other

  • Dialate
  • Esaul
  • Pictureboard

Unreleased

  • Carousel
  • Deftest
  • Dreamer
  • Slip
  • Step Up
  • Weight

1999-2000 (Hybrid Theory)

 
Hybrid Theory EP
  • Carousel
  • Rendezvo [Technique (Short)]
  • Step Up
  • And One
  • Siamo [High Voltage]
  • Chair [Part Of Me]

Hybrid Theory

  • Papercut / Paper Cut
  • Plaster / One Step Closer (aka "Plaster") [One Step Closer]
  • Dust Brothers / Now I See [With You]
  • Points Of Authority / Points And Authority
  • Sky [Crawling]
  • Runaway
  • Super Xero / Super Zero [By Myself]
  • Untitled / Untitled (It Doesn't Matter) [In The End]
  • Esaul / Esaùl / A Place For My Head (Esaul) [A Place For My Head]
  • Rhinestone [Forgotten]
  • Mr. Hahn / The Cure / The Cure For Mr. Hahn's Itch / Mr. Hahn's Itch [Cure For The Itch]
  • Harmonic Song [Pushing Me Away]

LP Underground

  • Blue [part of it was reworked into Crawling]
  • Kids [Dedicated]
  • Grr
  • Hurry
  • Oh No [part of it was reworked into Points Of Authority]
  • Sad [part of it was reworked into By Myself]
  • Slip
  • So Far Away [part of it was reworked into Soundtrack]
  • Stick And Move [part of it was reworked into Runaway]

Other

  • Could Have Been
  • My December
  • Emo [She Couldn't]
  • Pictureboard
  • Stick N Move

Unreleased

  • AL_Intro
  • Ashes
  • Beatbits
  • Drum
  • Flower [part of it was reworked into She Couldn't]
  • Goop
  • Krak
  • LA
  • Mic
  • Midnight
  • Qua
  • Return
  • Swish
  • Tuff
  • Turn To Grey
  • Ugh

2001-2003 (Meteora)

 
Meteora
  • Foreword
  • Sick [Don't Stay]
  • Pretty Birdie / Pretty Birdy [Somewhere I Belong]
  • Cuidado [Lying From You]
  • Hit The Floor
  • Easier To Run
  • Faint
  • Figure.09
  • Drawing [Breaking The Habit]
  • From The Inside
  • Nobody's Listening
  • Session
  • Numb

LP Underground

  • A-Six / A.06
  • Attached
  • Broken Foot
  • Cumulus
  • Halo
  • Ominous
  • Pepper
  • Program
  • Rhinocerous
  • Soundtrack
  • Standing In The Middle
  • Unfortunate

Other

  • It's Goin' Down
  • Unreleased

Unreleased

  • Nocturnal
  • Nursery [or possibly Hearsay]
  • Plaster II
  • Resolution
  • Serpent [or possibly Quotient]
  • Shifter
  • The Wizard Song

Some of these need updated.

 

Over To Me (Blue) [Blue]

 

Husky [Hit the Floor]

Interrogation [Easier to Run]

Plaster II / Plaster 2 / Figure.09 [Figure.09]

Shifter [From the Inside]

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For Meteora:

 

Per the chat box it looks like Serpent has actually been Shortcut this whole time (and is the working title for Fighting Myself).

 

Also Interrogation can be added for Easier To Run, Nursery/Hearsay is probably Husky (which is Hit The Floor), Plaster II is Figure.09 and Shifter is From The Inside.

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19 hours ago, leftshoe18 said:

For Meteora:

 

Per the chat box it looks like Serpent has actually been Shortcut this whole time (and is the working title for Fighting Myself).

 

Also Interrogation can be added for Easier To Run, Nursery/Hearsay is probably Husky (which is Hit The Floor), Plaster II is Figure.09 and Shifter is From The Inside.

The second that beat hit i knew we have heard that somewhere else, drove me insane until I found it!

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Red: Unknown Working Title

Blue: Working Title that stay

Green: Working Title

Black: Final working Title

 

Hybrid Theory EP (1999):

Carousel

Technique (Short) - Rendezvous

Step Up

And One

High Voltage - Siamo

Part Of Me/ Track 7 - Chair

 

Hybrid Theory (2000) (1999-2000):

Papercut/ Paper Cut

One Step Closer - Plaster

With You - Now I See/ Dust Brothers

Points Of AuthorityOh No/ Points & Authority/ Points And Authority

Crawling - Sky

Runaway - Stick N' Move (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

By Myself - Sad/ Superxero/ Superzero

In The End - Untitled/ It Doesn't Matter

A Place For My Head Esaul/ Esaùl (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

Forgotten - Rhinestone (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

Cure For The Itch - Mr Hahn/ The Cure/ The Cure For Mr. Hahn's Itch/ Mr. Hahn's Itch

Pushing Me Away - Harmonic Song

My December

 

Meteora (2003) (2001-2004):

Foreword

Don't Stay - Sick

Somewhere I Belong - Pretty Birdy/ Pretty Birdie

Lying From You - Cuidado

Hit The Floor - Husky

Easier To Run - Interrogation

Faint

Figure.09 - Plaster 2/ Plaster II

Breaking The Habit - Drawing

From The Inside - Shifter

Nobody's Listening - Nocturnal

Session

Numb

 

Minutes To Midnight (2007) (2005-2008):

Wake - WAKE Album Intro Idea

Given Up - 21 Stitches/ Fire In The City

Leave Out All The Rest - Fear/ When My Time Comes

Bleed It Out - Accident/ Re-Fucking Write

Shadow Of The Day

What I've Done - Bang Three

Hands Held High - Song Q

No More Sorrow - EBow/ EBow Idea

Valentine's Day

In Between

In Pieces - Pictures

The Little Things Give You Away - Drum Song

 

A Thousand Suns (2010) (2008-2010):

The Requiem

The Radiance (Originally A Part Of "Burning In The Skies")

Burning In The Skies

Empty Spaces

When They Come For Me - Dingleberry

Robot Boy Voyage

Jornada Del Muerto

Waiting For The End - Meadowlands

Blackout - Pac-Manny/ Packmanny

Wretches And Kings - Rygar

Wisdom, Justice, And Love (Originally A Part Of "Iridescent")

Iridescent - Iridescent New

Fallout

The Catalyst - Under Bite

The Messenger

 

Living Things (2012) (2011-2012):

Lost In The Echo - Holding Company

In My Remains - One Forty

Burn It Down - Buried At Sea

Lies Greed Misery - Piledriver (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

I'll Be Gone - Primo (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Castle Of Glass (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Victimized - Battle Axe

Roads Untraveled

Skin To Bone

Until It Breaks - Apaches/ Foot Patrol/ Three Band Terror/ (Fourth Unknown Demo)

Tinfoil (Originally A Part Of "Powerless")(Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Powerless - Tinfoil (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

 

The Hunting Party (2014) (2013-2014):

Keys To The Kingdom - Coffee

All For Nothing - True Chainz

Guilty All The Same - Blinky

The Summoning

War - Warrior

Wastelands - Artillery/ The Wastelands/ Wastelands Of Today

Until It's Gone - Thanksgiving

Rebellion

Mark The Graves - Plato

Drawbar (Originally A Part of "Final Masquerade")

Final Masquerade - Drawbar

A Line In The Sand - Odyssey (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

 

One More Light (2017) (2015-2017):

Nobody Can Save Me - Nobody Can Save Me Now/ Nobody Can Save Me J Green 2

Good Goodbye

Talking To Myself

Battle Symphony - Battle Tymp Ony

Invisible - Invisible - MS w Justin Parker

Heavy

Sorry For Now

Halfway Right

One More Light

Sharp Edges

 

Others/ Miscellaneous:

A.06 - A6/ A-Six

QWERTY

No Roads Left - Patients/ No Roads Left But One

Across The Line - Japan

Blackbirds

New Divide - Megatron

Not Alone (Worked On During "Minutes To Midnight" Sessions)

A Light That Never Comes - Victorious

White Noise (Worked on during "The Hunting Party" Sessions)

Mal RX7 - Milk (Worked on during "Living Things sessions)

It Goes Through - Luna (Worked on during "Living Things" sessions)

The Last LineAmmosick (Worked On During "Minutes To Midnight" And "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Devil's Drop - Warm Spell (Worked on during "Living Things" sessions)

Darker Than Blood - Horizons (Worked on during "Living Things" and "The Hunting Party" sessions)

She Couldn't - Emo

Lost - Resolution

Fighting Myself - Shortcut

More The Victim - Cumulus

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Red: Unknown Working Title

Blue: Working Title that stay

Green: Working Title

Black: Final working Title

 

Hybrid Theory EP (1999):

Carousel

Technique (Short) - Rendezvous

Step Up

And One

High Voltage - Siamo

Part Of Me/ Track 7 - Chair

 

Hybrid Theory (2000) (1999-2000):

Papercut/ Paper Cut

One Step Closer - Plaster

With You - Now I See/ Dust Brothers

Points Of AuthorityOh No/ Points & Authority/ Points And Authority

Crawling - Sky

Runaway - Stick N' Move (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

By Myself - Sad/ Superxero/ Superzero

In The End - Untitled/ It Doesn't Matter

A Place For My Head Esaul/ Esaùl (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

Forgotten - Rhinestone (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

Cure For The Itch - Mr Hahn/ The Cure/ The Cure For Mr. Hahn's Itch/ Mr. Hahn's Itch

Pushing Me Away - Harmonic Song

My December

 

Meteora (2003) (2001-2004):

Foreword

Don't Stay - Sick

Somewhere I Belong - Pretty Birdy/ Pretty Birdie

Lying From You - Cuidado

Hit The Floor - Husky

Easier To Run - Interrogation

Faint

Figure.09 - Plaster 2/ Plaster II

Breaking The Habit - Drawing

From The Inside - Shifter

Nobody's Listening

Session

Numb

 

Minutes To Midnight (2007) (2005-2008):

Wake - WAKE Album Intro Idea

Given Up - 21 Stitches/ Fire In The City

Leave Out All The Rest - Fear/ When My Time Comes

Bleed It Out - Accident/ Re-Fucking Write

Shadow Of The Day

What I've Done - Bang Three

Hands Held High - Song Q

No More Sorrow - EBow/ EBow Idea

Valentine's Day

In Between

In Pieces - Pictures

The Little Things Give You Away - Drum Song

 

A Thousand Suns (2010) (2008-2010):

The Requiem

The Radiance (Originally A Part Of "Burning In The Skies")

Burning In The Skies

Empty Spaces

When They Come For Me - Dingleberry

Robot Boy Voyage

Jornada Del Muerto

Waiting For The End - Meadowlands

Blackout - Pac-Manny/ Packmanny

Wretches And Kings - Rygar

Wisdom, Justice, And Love (Originally A Part Of "Iridescent")

Iridescent - Iridescent New

Fallout

The Catalyst - Under Bite

The Messenger

 

Living Things (2012) (2011-2012):

Lost In The Echo - Holding Company

In My Remains - One Forty

Burn It Down - Buried At Sea

Lies Greed Misery - Piledriver (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

I'll Be Gone - Primo (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Castle Of Glass (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Victimized - Battle Axe

Roads Untraveled

Skin To Bone

Until It Breaks - Apaches/ Foot Patrol/ Three Band Terror/ (Fourth Unknown Demo)

Tinfoil (Originally A Part Of "Powerless")(Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Powerless - Tinfoil (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

 

The Hunting Party (2014) (2013-2014):

Keys To The Kingdom - Coffee

All For Nothing - True Chainz

Guilty All The Same - Blinky

The Summoning

War - Warrior

Wastelands - Artillery/ The Wastelands/ Wastelands Of Today

Until It's Gone - Thanksgiving

Rebellion

Mark The Graves - Plato

Drawbar (Originally A Part of "Final Masquerade")

Final Masquerade - Drawbar

A Line In The Sand - Odyssey (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

 

One More Light (2017) (2015-2017):

Nobody Can Save Me - Nobody Can Save Me Now/ Nobody Can Save Me J Green 2

Good Goodbye

Talking To Myself

Battle Symphony - Battle Tymp Ony

Invisible - Invisible - MS w Justin Parker

Heavy

Sorry For Now

Halfway Right

One More Light

Sharp Edges

 

Others/ Miscellaneous:

No Roads Left - Patients/ No Roads Left But One

Across The Line - Japan

Blackbirds

New Divide - Megatron

Not Alone (Worked On During "Minutes To Midnight" Sessions)

A Light That Never Comes - Victorious

The Last LineAmmosick (Worked On During "Minutes To Midnight" And "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

She Couldn't - Emo

Fighting Myself - Shortcut

More The Victim - Cumulus

"Lost" needs to be added. It's working title is "Resolution". The working title for "Nobody's Listening" is "Nocturnal". "And One" kept it's working title. "A.06" also needs to be added. It's working titles are "A-Six" / "A6".

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On 5/9/2022 at 10:42 AM, lpliveusername said:

Not a real name.

we know now it’s called Lost XD, had to call it TTTAMP though cause what else would we call it.

 

On 3/26/2023 at 8:49 PM, FigurePlaster92 said:

Red: Unknown Working Title

Blue: Working Title that stay

Green: Working Title

Black: Final working Title

 

Hybrid Theory EP (1999):

Carousel

Technique (Short) - Rendezvous

Step Up

And One

High Voltage - Siamo

Part Of Me/ Track 7 - Chair

 

Hybrid Theory (2000) (1999-2000):

Papercut/ Paper Cut

One Step Closer - Plaster

With You - Now I See/ Dust Brothers

Points Of AuthorityOh No/ Points & Authority/ Points And Authority

Crawling - Sky

Runaway - Stick N' Move (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

By Myself - Sad/ Superxero/ Superzero

In The End - Untitled/ It Doesn't Matter

A Place For My Head Esaul/ Esaùl (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

Forgotten - Rhinestone (Worked On During Xero Sessions)

Cure For The Itch - Mr Hahn/ The Cure/ The Cure For Mr. Hahn's Itch/ Mr. Hahn's Itch

Pushing Me Away - Harmonic Song

My December

 

Meteora (2003) (2001-2004):

Foreword

Don't Stay - Sick

Somewhere I Belong - Pretty Birdy/ Pretty Birdie

Lying From You - Cuidado

Hit The Floor - Husky

Easier To Run - Interrogation

Faint

Figure.09 - Plaster 2/ Plaster II

Breaking The Habit - Drawing

From The Inside - Shifter

Nobody's Listening - Nocturnal

Session

Numb

 

Minutes To Midnight (2007) (2005-2008):

Wake - WAKE Album Intro Idea

Given Up - 21 Stitches/ Fire In The City

Leave Out All The Rest - Fear/ When My Time Comes

Bleed It Out - Accident/ Re-Fucking Write

Shadow Of The Day

What I've Done - Bang Three

Hands Held High - Song Q

No More Sorrow - EBow/ EBow Idea

Valentine's Day

In Between

In Pieces - Pictures

The Little Things Give You Away - Drum Song

 

A Thousand Suns (2010) (2008-2010):

The Requiem

The Radiance (Originally A Part Of "Burning In The Skies")

Burning In The Skies

Empty Spaces

When They Come For Me - Dingleberry

Robot Boy Voyage

Jornada Del Muerto

Waiting For The End - Meadowlands

Blackout - Pac-Manny/ Packmanny

Wretches And Kings - Rygar

Wisdom, Justice, And Love (Originally A Part Of "Iridescent")

Iridescent - Iridescent New

Fallout

The Catalyst - Under Bite

The Messenger

 

Living Things (2012) (2011-2012):

Lost In The Echo - Holding Company

In My Remains - One Forty

Burn It Down - Buried At Sea

Lies Greed Misery - Piledriver (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

I'll Be Gone - Primo (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Castle Of Glass (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Victimized - Battle Axe

Roads Untraveled

Skin To Bone

Until It Breaks - Apaches/ Foot Patrol/ Three Band Terror/ (Fourth Unknown Demo)

Tinfoil (Originally A Part Of "Powerless")(Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Powerless - Tinfoil (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

 

The Hunting Party (2014) (2013-2014):

Keys To The Kingdom - Coffee

All For Nothing - True Chainz

Guilty All The Same - Blinky

The Summoning

War - Warrior

Wastelands - Artillery/ The Wastelands/ Wastelands Of Today

Until It's Gone - Thanksgiving

Rebellion

Mark The Graves - Plato

Drawbar (Originally A Part of "Final Masquerade")

Final Masquerade - Drawbar

A Line In The Sand - Odyssey (Worked On During "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

 

One More Light (2017) (2015-2017):

Nobody Can Save Me - Nobody Can Save Me Now/ Nobody Can Save Me J Green 2

Good Goodbye

Talking To Myself

Battle Symphony - Battle Tymp Ony

Invisible - Invisible - MS w Justin Parker

Heavy

Sorry For Now

Halfway Right

One More Light

Sharp Edges

 

Others/ Miscellaneous:

A.06 - A6/ A-Six

QWERTY

No Roads Left - Patients/ No Roads Left But One

Across The Line - Japan

Blackbirds

New Divide - Megatron

Not Alone (Worked On During "Minutes To Midnight" Sessions)

A Light That Never Comes - Victorious

White Noise (Worked on during "The Hunting Party" Sessions)

Mal RX7 - Milk (Worked on during "Living Things sessions)

It Goes Through - Luna (Worked on during "Living Things" sessions)

The Last LineAmmosick (Worked On During "Minutes To Midnight" And "A Thousand Suns" Sessions)

Devil's Drop - Warm Spell (Worked on during "Living Things" sessions)

Darker Than Blood - Horizons (Worked on during "Living Things" and "The Hunting Party" sessions)

She Couldn't - Emo

Lost - Resolution

Fighting Myself - Shortcut

More The Victim - Cumulus

Healing Foot

this looks accurate. great job on this!

I wonder if we’ll ever find out what Numbs working title was, if it even had one or if it was just untitled or even kept Numb all along or something. Still would be worth knowing.

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