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For once I'm on team "Strangelove about Mike Shinoda": I just don't care. Having remixes of 20+ years old songs feels out of place and unnecessary to me. It's a shame that we didn't get any leftover Reanimation stuff, though.

Yeah, I mean, I'm obviously within the LP bubble but it feels like Mike lost a lot of relevance the last couple of years. This whole NFT thing certainly is one factor of it.

"No Roads Left" is my most listened to LP song (scrobbling started in 2006, so it's probably some HT stuff, ah well :D). I love this song and think it's one of LP's strongest. Out of all sessions I feel the M2M era is the best. So many great songs on and off the album.

This is cool. Sparked an old flame. Let's see what happens. It is long overdue, to be honest.

It sounds more like a 4-track demo. Vocal tracks getting recorded at different times and bounced at different volumes. More like what you would expect these songs to sound like. Still there are notable differences compared to the released baby cassette. Cool stuff. Let's see what we'll get in the end.

They sound so much more like demos. The mixing is awful at times :D. Still, would be great to have those untouched versions.

Yeah, would be down for that. Should happen at the very least. We will be wiser in a couple of months I presume.

As far as I can tell LP didn't stand a chance in any category in 2011. It clearly wasn't a rock album and even the "Alternative" category had stuff like "Suburbs" (which didn't win, either). So I don't see them winning an award for ATS. Sure, for us, who listened to it many many times, it is deserving of a price (to some extend). Having it "deserving" a Grammy is a bit far-fetched for my taste, though.

Thank god this wasn't posted on April 1st. Amazing news for us even though I remain skeptical whether or not the band gave their ok for this.

Personally, I don't care much for single song releases. Especially with Mike who is mostly doing single song stuff these days, I just... have no interest in it. I mean, I've listened to some releases but not anymore. I like bigger projects and am always down for new ones (if they get released officially, won't care for anything NFT-related). But yeah, for the most part I pretty much ignore any new Mike Shinoda news.

Let's hope so. Maybe we will grow old and younger people will laugh at us like we did when our parents or grandparents stopped going with the times.

Thanks for the tweets and wow, what a mess...

Don't know what he said but the whole NFT thing started to creep in the gaming sector and was not received well at all. It went so far as many gaming companies scrapping their NFT plans because of the backlash.

Awesome! Can't wait :).

Well yeah, I have an opinion (or rather assumption) on this as well. But it doesn't matter and I don't want to unnecessarily point fingers. I just hope you didn't misunderstand my point as me taking position on it because this wasn't intended :). I like unpredictability generally, just think in this case it was kind of shame especially when you take the nature of the album into consideration. It was a perfect fit.

Personally, I felt that it was a missed opportunity. Tom Morello is one of the fathers of new metal-riffing in a way and seeing how the whole album turned out with all the guests being "representative" for their sound Tom's part felt lacking. Like with Daren on "Rebellion" I hoped for something similar with Tom. "Drawbar" is a nice little instrumental, sure. But seeing how motivated Tom was when he went in the studio it's a shame IMO that this was everything they came up with. Not putting any blame on anyone for it, though.

Yeah, but I think Warner has their own idea about that ;).

Nice find! From all we have now it sounds like it could be a cool song. Let's see in two years :D.

It's a fun song. Not the biggest fan of the mix and the fact that they changed the guitar melody in the chorus as this is something that appeals to me on the OG version. I probably prefer the OG version because Chester feels more connected and raw on it. Still, a good effort.

Yeah, I think it reminded me instantly of "Crawl Back In".

To me it sounds like DBS. Even though it's something "new" I don't feel it at all. Still it will be nice to get this one :). And yeah, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise with all the label stuff...

20+ years and stuff still gets found. Great work and thanks for sharing!

This is beyond silly, honestly. The only hope I have from this strange musical direction is that Mike is working with a lot of vocalists and maybe one is among them who can fill the gap in LP's line-up. I think it's cool that he tries to give artists a platform and well produced music.

Thanks Mark, for clearing that up, really appreciate it! The whole NFT thing: Even if we are puzzled by it and think it's stupid, Mike was always ambitious with new technology since day 1. LP were pretty much revolutionary in the way they used the internet back in 1999/2000. So that doesn't surprise me.

Hmm? I always was under the impression that there were plans (maybe not finalized, but still) of them getting together und re-record stuff. I mean, sure, OML would have taken up most of Chesters capacities for 1-2 years. Sorry, if I got something wrong here.