Astat Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 It's only audible on the acapella, I not that sure it's Mike, but it sounds so. I think Mike's voice appears in One Step Closer too, in "Takes one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break", as a background voice, a lower clean voice than the rest of the background voices. I don't know if it counts as singing but Mike whispers in Crawling, in verses. The chorus on OSC is all Chester on the studio version. I was pointing that out (along with Breaking the Habit) as an example of an "all-Chester song" back in 2007 when the entire LP community was losing their shit over how Mike didn't have a lot of vocals on Minutes to Midnight and therefore must be quitting the band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 What is Chester's vocal range? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearOfTheDuck Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Sung range: G♯2-G5 Total range: C2-C♯7 This website is a pretty good source for finding out ranges for different singers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Sung range: G♯2-G5 Total range: C2-C♯7 This website is a pretty good source for finding out ranges for different singers. Thanks man, just had a look around. Still, not quite sure the difference between sung range, and total range. At first I thought total range maybe meant spoken, but nobody speaks over 5 octaves lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearOfTheDuck Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I think in Chester's case it includes screams. Some of the stuff they talk about is really technical and I still don't understand a lot of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSoul Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 but nobody speaks over 5 octaves lol.I beg to differ, pubescents speak in like 50 different octaves. I know this one fucker whose voice cracks so sharply he splits ear drums. Even the strongest vocalists stare in awe of his 50-octave crack' then promptly curse, "Motherfucker!" As their ears bleed. Never come to a New Jersey middle school. Or to New Jersey for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlassCastles Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) Never come to a New Jersey middle school. Or to New Jersey for that matter. I'm pretty sure everybody knows to stay the fuck away from New Jersey Edited March 15, 2014 by CASTLE OF GLASS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSoul Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I'm pretty sure everybody knows to stay the fuck away from New JerseyIt's common sense, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Skipees Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Who's singing the back vocals in Shouting Out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZLP-NaughtyNottingham Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Who's singing the back vocals in Shouting Out? Kimberly Rogers, she is or was a friend of the band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipees Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Kimberly Rogers, she is or was a friend of the band.I heard this name before, but where it was mentioned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirstie Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Sorry for the quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZLP-NaughtyNottingham Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I heard this name before, but where it was mentioned? Album credits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipees Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpliveusername Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I know I've already mentioned this on a lot of posts but I don't remember if I already asked this: I remember the band said they finished 17 songs for Minutes To Midnight. The standard edition of the album had 12 tracks, we got No Roads Left as an iTunes pre-order bonus track, Across The Line was released on LPU 9.0, Blackbirds was released on 8-Bit Rebellion!, and we got What We Don't Know on LPU X. So we have 16 out of the 17 tracks: 01. Wake 02. Given Up 03. Leave Out All The Rest 04. Bleed It Out 05. Shadow Of The Day 06. What I've Done 07. Hands Held High 08. No More Sorrow 09. Valentine's Day 10. In Between 11. In Pieces 12. The Little Things Give You Away 13. No Roads Left 14. Across The Line 15. Blackbirds 16. What We Don't Know My question is: what is the 17th track? Is it possible that we already have it? Grecian is shown on the Minutes To Midnight DVD but it was already confirmed that the song was never finished, so we know it isn't the missing song. Qwerty was recorded during the Minutes To Midnight sessions but we know the band never intended to release it on the album. I think we can say the same thing about Announcement Service Public because it was released (on LPU 6.0) before the album came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipees Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 My question is: what is the 17th track? Is it possible that we already have it?Pretend To Be and Not Alone are from the MTM sessions, not sure if they were actually done at the time of MTM release (and reworked later). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpliveusername Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 We had a demo [for 'Not Alone'] — the music was laid out, we had done the song a little while ago ... we just never used it because we never thought it was done. [After the tragedy in Haiti], we listened to the demo again, essentially scrapped all the words, rewrote the words ... when you've got that idea and emotional charge in you and you put that in the lyrics, for me it does make better lyrics. There's an authenticity and a passion that you can hear in Chester's voice on this track; we literally wrote [the new lyrics] via e-mail, before he had flown out from Arizona to L.A. [to record them] I also thought about Not Alone. Mike is talking like the song was already done and they only changed the lyrics. But he said "we had done the song a little while ago". This was in 2010. So maybe Not Alone was made in 2009 and finished in 2010? Pretend To Be sounds a lot like No Roads Left. I'm sure it was started during the MTM sessions, but it's labeled as "Unreleased Demo 2008", meaning it was only finished in 2008. Maybe they wrote the wrong year (like what they did with Blue, Slip and So Far Away)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_master Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Pretend to Be was written after MTM, as far as I know. Mike was writing some stuff for Linkin Park's fourth album, which he later abandoned as he felt it was too similar to Minutes to Midnight. Not Alone - I believe it was started during the MTM sessions. Whether it was a finished song and they just changed the lyrics or it was a rough demo, we could only guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geki Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) The only TRUE b-sides we have for MTM are Across The Line, What We Don't Know and Blackbirds. They were finished and the only ones to have the ''Unreleased 2007'' tag on them + Blackbirds was confirmed to be from MTM and they even showed a clip of it on the Making Of MTM that sounded the same as the version we got. All the other demos we got from MTM on LPU CDs and stuff are just demos that never were completed from the MTM writing period. As far as stuff like Pretend To Be and Not Alone go, they were originally demos from the MTM era that the band later reworked and used them for their releases. The band does that a lot. Debris is also one of those songs, it was written during the MTM era according to LPU12, but we knew it was on the Meeting of A Thousand Suns DVD, so they obviously worked on it during that time as well. We may never get the ''17th song'' for the original 17 songs that made the cut. We have 16 as of right now... Maybe it was a song that was later reworked or appeared on ATS or LT? I also think there was this demo constantly on the demo boards back in 2006/2007 that was called ''Ammosick'' or ''Amnesick'' something like that, maybe that was it, and we just never got the demo. I wish there was a way to ask Mike about the whole 17 MTM original track list or whatever. We basically have it solved except for 1 song!!! Edited March 31, 2014 by Geki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astat Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Qwerty was recorded during the Minutes To Midnight sessions but we know the band never intended to release it on the album. I think we can say the same thing about Announcement Service Public because it was released (on LPU 6.0) before the album came out. QWERTY actually was "written for the album," according to Mike, but obviously didn't stay in consideration for very long since it ended up on LPU 6. Pretend To Be and Not Alone are from the MTM sessions, not sure if they were actually done at the time of MTM release (and reworked later). I also thought about Not Alone. Mike is talking like the song was already done and they only changed the lyrics. But he said "we had done the song a little while ago". This was in 2010. So maybe Not Alone was made in 2009 and finished in 2010? Pretend To Be sounds a lot like No Roads Left. I'm sure it was started during the MTM sessions, but it's labeled as "Unreleased Demo 2008", meaning it was only finished in 2008. Maybe they wrote the wrong year (like what they did with Blue, Slip and So Far Away)? Pretend to Be was written after MTM, as far as I know. Mike was writing some stuff for Linkin Park's fourth album, which he later abandoned as he felt it was too similar to Minutes to Midnight. Not Alone - I believe it was started during the MTM sessions. Whether it was a finished song and they just changed the lyrics or it was a rough demo, we could only guess. Both Pretend to Be and Not Alone are confirmed to have been "started" during the MTM sessions and finished later. In the case of Not Alone, it originally had different lyrics that were scrapped for the ones written after the Haiti earthquake. However, it's not known if those original lyrics were in place at the time of MTM's release, they could have revised it more than once after the album came out. The only other potential b-side that I can think of that we may already have would be Pale, they could have potentially considered including that on the album (possibly in place of Wake). I find it kind of unlikely though, as it's labeled as a 2006 demo, which would seem to put it more in the realm of QWERTY and Announcement Service Public, as a song that was dropped from consideration earlier in the process. My personal theory is that the 17th song is "Ammosick," as we know that one got pretty far in the process, and was subsequently revisited during the A Thousand Suns sessions. It could even BE a song on A Thousand Suns, as we don't have working titles for a few tracks. Burning in the Skies (no, the working title was not "The Fog"), Wretches and Kings, and The Catalyst (no, the working title was not "Violent Lullaby") all fit that criteria, although we know The Catalyst was written later, and I believe Wretches was too due to the presence of the Electro-Harmonix HOG, which was not in LP's arsenal during the MTM sessions. I also always thought BITS sounded like the most "MTM-like" track on ATS as well...so yeah, that's my theory. I have nothing to back it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geki Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I agree with you 100% Astat, BITS did sound like it could have been a MTM track. Maybe that really is Ammosick. If I get a meet and greet this summer, I will ask Mike about Ammosick, maybe we can finally clear it all up with the whole 17 song thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hahninator Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 If we ever get a chance to interview Mike, this would be a great question. If someone says yo there were 17 full songs, 12 on the album + NRL, WWDK, ATL, Blackbirds. What was the last one? Was it Ammosick? Then bam he will know what you mean and explain. A M&G would be a great chance to ask this too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkramar Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 If we ever get a chance to interview Mike, this would be a great question. If someone says yo there were 17 full songs, 12 on the album + NRL, WWDK, ATL, Blackbirds. What was the last one? Was it Ammosick? Then bam he will know what you mean and explain. A M&G would be a great chance to ask this too. I'm guaranteed one in Camden, maybe I can ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[AndOne] Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 And you when you are at the M&G, aaaaaaaaaand it's gone ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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