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Who the hell are you to tell them to put some decent thoughts in their post? They said they didn't like hip-hop and that they didn't like FM but they thought the album was good. They could have meant they thought Mike worked hard on it and for a hip-hop album, it's good, just not their cup of tea. I'm not a big fan of hip-hop/rap either and I'm not the biggest fan of FM but I still respect the album.

Don't really know why I wasn't picked but oh well.

I love what Chester says about authority. A lot of his views on things are similar to mine. I've noticed that in recent years.

If those were to come true, the second one would be the best.

Fire could have very well been written before Valentine's Day though. Also, you could place Shadow Of The Day in this category too since that song is also about death. Leave Out All The Rest is too but not in the sense that we're talking about.

It's pretty cool. For some reason, this video made me miss Mike and the rest of LP. It seems we've only heard from Chester and DBS since New Divide was released. EDIT: For those wondering, this video is really funny! Watch it.

Well, both of the songs are about death so I could get that from what you're saying. Lyrically they are a bit different though, and drastically different musically.

Seconded...is this interview worth downloading?

RTN is so overplayed. The song is old...2005, and it's been used in almost every sport event and sport like movie for the past like 4 years. Really, it's not that great of a song.

Not that good, not a big fan of hip-hop/rap. Apathy = epic fail.

I'm sure Mike meant musical work when he said Queen meets AC/DC meets hardcore techno. I don't think Chester is working on the new album with them right now, he's too busy with DBS plus the studio is in LA, Chester now lives in Arizona again.

The fans that went to Sonisphere in Finland treated LP better than the fans at Knebworth. I think the whole Summer tour was just an epic fail. Chester even said it was the stupidest tour they have ever done, with the crazy traveling and stuff. Plus a lot of crowds were horrible, such as Knebworth and Epicenter to name a few. I think they should have just done the make-up dates in Asia and left it at that. If they didn't do the Summer tour, the album could have possible been out sooner than it will be now.

Yeah but I'm assuming the album will leak on the 30th if it's released in Japan that day. We should already have the album!!!

We'll have the album by the 30th right?

I just saw this last night on myspace, I feel better now. I'm so excited for this show. Can't wait.

Hmm, that would be interesting to hear. Can't wait for the LP record.

Well why would somebody randomly put on Eric Burdon's page that he is touring with Chester Bennington? That would seem a little crazy to believe. I think this tour is entirely possible and is also most likely true. It would be kind of cool to see him live. Although, I hope he isn't going to be on the receiving end of items being thrown at him and him being booed because he's a respectable musician and an old man. I wouldn't put it past some LP or DBS fans though.

I found the one for MTM...pretty awesome. WAKE Mike: This is an intro track that starts the album - you can hear a needle going down on a record and i think it sets the tone for what's to come. GIVEN UP Brad: We had a really bad song called 'fire in the city' - the chorus actually had the words 'fire in the city' on it! Mike was the only person who liked it. rather than just scrap the song, we mined it for any good parts. Mike: It felt like brad stole my car and ripped out the stereo. Brad: I took the bassline and the drums and built weird sounds around it, which eventually became this song. Chester's screaming: 'What the fuck is wrong with me? Put me out of my fucking misery!' so, without explaining exactly what the song's about, it's pretty clear he's not happy. LEAVE OUT ALL THE REST Chester: We knew this was going to be a single from the very beginning, so we worked really hard on making sure it had great lyrics. I'm singing 'Pretending someone else can save me from myself' during it because it's supposed to feel like an apology letter, as though i'm moving on but i want people to remember the good things and not the bad things. A lot of the song is about humility. BLEED IT OUT Mike: I wrote the lyrics to this about 100 times. it's always frustrating as a lyricist to come in with a new version that you spent hours on and have the band tell you that it's not there yet. in one case, they listened to my lyrics for 30 seconds and told me to start over again. that was pretty hard. it felt like i was bringing in the lyrics, getting punched in the face and then going back to the drawing board. When it finally came together i said to the band 'I don't think anyone but us could have made a song like this'. It's a fucking bizarre death-party-rap-hoedown! SHADOW OF THE DAY Brad: This was probably the most difficult arrangement to nail. It sounded very derivative at first but then we kept replacing different elements on it. We put an acoustic guitar on it, then an electric banjo and then a marimba. It’s definitely one of the best songs we’ve written. WHAT I’VE DONE Mike: on the other albums, Brad and I started every song together. But this was the only song we wrote together and the last one we finished. We wanted a song that encapsulated the feel of the whole record and I think this is that song. You’re going to get something different out of this every time you listen to it. HANDS HELD HIGH Mike: Rick said to us that, if something sounded like it needed rapping, then we should try singing and vice versa. That’s why this song has rapping on it. Brad: a lot of the greatest accidents occurred when we combined elements that shouldn’t have worked together. NO MORE SORROW Rob: this is probably the heaviest song on the album. It was initially called ‘EBow idea’ Rick told Brad that he should use an EBow [guitar effect] on a different song. When he went in to work on that, he got frustrated and came up with the opening to this. Chester: I think this is a record you should listen to on headphones because you’ll hear different things, this is a song that shows there is depth to this record. VALENTINE’S DAY Chester: It’s definitely one of the poppier songs on the album. We have to be very careful sometimes that we don’t lose the integrity of what we’re doing – we’re a very dark band and we like it like that. We talk about uncomfortable things and try to make you comfortable with that. We tried to do that here in a more poppy song and I really like that aspect of the album. IN BETWEEN Chester: I knew that Mike should really sing this song. I tried it once, I did a good job, but it just didn't have the power of Mike's performance because he really believed what he was singing. Whatever it is the motherfucker is apologising for on this track, he's fucking serious! It comes from the most sincere and heartfelt place. IN PIECES Chester: I got divorced recently and that was very difficult. I also got remarried so there was a big contrast in my life. For a while I couldn’t be completely happy with the new life I was starting and I couldn’t end the last one. This is a song about that. The music has a kind of reggae vibe to it, almost. It’s really cool watching how the song goes from that, through pop and emerges as a full-on rock song at the end. THE LITTLE THINGS YOU GIVE AWAY Brad: this is our favourite song on the record. It's the biggest statement that we've ever made. Nothing could go after it as everything would get eclipsed by it. The thing that really makes it is the guitar solo. Mike: Brad has always avoided solos because he doesn't like to show off. But when he played that solo, though, it was one of the most emotional moments we've recorded. It says what the lyrics are saying without words.

Where can I download the whole Winter 08 US Arena Tour? In my opinion, that was the best tour of the MTM cycle because they sounded the overall best, brought back APFMH and My December and also had good opening acts. I love Coheed And Cambria and Chiodos.

Most likely it's fake but you never know...no other supporting acts have been announced yet which is odd. Usually they release the dates and bands at least a few months before the tour. If the tour is in late 2009, we only have 4 months left if you count the rest of this month... I'd like to see DBS tour with a more alternative band on their album tour. A Day To Remember, Escape The Fate, Chiodos again?

Well, he did say that his own stunts were much like Ashley Simpson's in the making of the WID video.

It's not. I've been looking at a lot of the CDs I have from the 1999-2001 era and almost all the bands thank god, while all my recent albums don't at all. Idk.

I just read this on wikipedia for ''Chester Bennington'' under solo work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bennington and apparently, Eric Burdon is scheduled to be the opening act for a late 2009 tour? If this is true, which I HIGHLY doubt, that would be cool with me. Here's his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Burdon I also just found out under Eric Burdon's wikipedia, it now says ''A tour with War and Chester Bennington, the lead singer from Linkin Park, is scheduled for late 2009.'' Isn't War his old band?" I'm so confused right now...

A lot of bands do that. It's cliche, which LP was at that point and time. Since then he has said he doesn't believe in a religion. I personally don't believe in any religion either and never will, so I can understand where he's coming from. I will try and search for the quote where he said that. I wonder if this photo is really recent, if it is, that would suck because that means he got rid of the Live In Texas hairstyle he had going!!!

Yeah...when I first saw this video when it leaked, I thought the same thing. These movements aren't really his style. I want LP to go back to the old style of music videos, and maybe DBS could inherit some of that too. Just my opinion.