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On March 24, 2023, exactly 20 years after the original release of Meteora, Linkin Park released "Fighting Myself" from the Meteora 20 box set for fans. Originally premiered on Howard Stern in February by Mike Shinoda, the song was not released until March 24, likely due to the massive success of the first single "Lost." When discussing the song, Mike said that he had to build a chorus and the bridge/ending vocals himself from parts that Chester had recorded, but were not in the latest version of the song that existed - they were just in the multitracks. "I thought all we had was a demo and me rapping verse one and verse two and that was it, but Ryan from management found a version where Chester was singing and then we found the session of that song and I went into the multitracks and found different chorus ideas. It went from a rough sketch to a finished chorus, so now we have a full song with vocals. I remember writing it and working on it but it didn't make the cut so we just stopped working on it, so now I found the sessions for it." "Fighting Myself" is out now and features signature Mike Shinoda rapping along with a unique bridge/ending to the song and more. What do you think of the song?

We'll get to Linkinpedia. Have been out of the country for a week getting married.

Would not be surprised to see the songs, or a song, released next week or the week after for the promo. Lost is just doing so great that it doesn't make sense to drop another song this week, but let's see how it goes over the middle weeks of March. Lost is topping charts still.

He said the short version of And One has a studio recording? The version LP played live? And is it confirmed Harmonic Song is Pushing Me Away?

Uploaded by mistake for sure.

No. This is something that has never been released.

LPU chat in 2003. We'll see if it's on the box set. Box set will answer a lot of questions. A6 question, which song is Rob's drum track, which other songs had actual drums on them (meaning they were one of the 18 they did drums for), etc. The demos of the album songs will be fantastic. Really looking forward to it.

But then why does Brad say it's in A6 if it was just a joke? lol

For the Meteora|20 promotion, Linkin Park has uploaded both series of LPTVs dealing with Meteora to their YouTube. Season 1 of recording Meteora is available in an upgraded quality for the first time ever, and Season 2, which was originally released digitally in 2007, is now available officially from the band for the first time on YouTube.

Mike also has another song he produced for someone else coming out shortly too. Wow.

Hopefully so. There is a month and a half to go before the release, so another band reacts video would be awesome. Rock am Ring is a great show to do it for, but something like KROQ Acoustic Christmas or anything else that we haven't seen would be nice too. Even a Meteora arena tour show, or the LPU Tour Detroit show.

Wouldn't be surprising but would be funny. Lost is pretty perfect the way it is so now after listening to it for weeks, they probably got it right with not including the TTTAMP lyrics on the bridge. The bridge in the song is awesome.

Even though they fully demoed 15+ songs in that exact spot, Mike's home studio, plus Wizard Song, A6 and countless others? Brad said it's A6.

Some stuff is on the band for not paying attention to details like Instrumentals on the shirts, titles of the DVD and placeholder text on the graphics, and the LPTVs being the wrong versions, but the Lost video stuff has nothing to do with them. No way they'd know ahead of time Facebook screwed the video with geo restrictions and even while some USA people could see it, others had it completely muted in the USA. So that's completely on Facebook. The LP team/Warner (Ana) got it fixed really quickly. Overall, the excitement of Lost, the epic box set, and more are way, way bigger than any of these small mistakes. Surely the box set isn't printed with the placeholder text. The DVD title, LPTVs, etc can be fixed ahead of time digitally. It's an extremely exciting time.

Keeping with tradition, Linkin Park has released their second music video for "Lost", this time an alternate reality version based on the Meteora art day and more. Check it out exclusively on Meta (Facebook). In the later stages of their career, LP has kept to their tradition of releasing multiple videos for singles, from "Heavy" to "Talking to Myself" and "One More Light" and now with "Lost."

Lost is STILL trending on YouTube. The song is doing so good. Picking up steam is what it looks like. Wow.

We would like to thank someone that went out of their way to find this information, but was kind enough to help us fill in an important missing gap in Linkin Park's live career. They wish to remain anonymous but without their help, we would have never been able to confirm this setlist. In July 2004, Linkin Park and Jay-Z surprised fans with their epic Roxy Theatre show for the Collision Course DVD. The DVD would not be released until November 2004. A week later after The Roxy, Projekt Revolution 2004 kicked off and six shows into the tour, they shocked fans in Holmdel, NJ just outside of New York by bringing Jay-Z out in the encore. Show reports varied on what they played together and while we can see clips in the LPTV 8: Projekt Revolution 2004 episode, the setlist was not confirmed until now. Just in time for the Meteora 20 box set release, here we go with what Linkin Park and Jay-Z performed that night in Holmdel! As far as we know, this is the first time the confirmed setlist has made its way online. This is an important set because Collision Course songs were only performed a handful of times with Jay-Z live - Roxy 2004, Holmdel 2004, Music For Relief 2005, Live 8 2005, the Grammy's 2006, New York City 2008, and Milton Keynes 2008. From those 7 performances, only Holmdel's setlist wasn't completely known. 01. Don't Stay 02. Papercut 03. Points Of Authority 04. With You 05. Runaway 06. Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down 07. Somewhere I Belong 08. Figure.09 09. From The Inside 10. Breaking The Habit 11. Numb 12. In The End 13. Wish (Nine Inch Nails cover) 14. A Place For My Head ---------- 15. Crawling 16. Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You (w/ Jay-Z) 17. Big Pimpin'/Papercut (w/ Jay-Z) 18. Jigga What/Faint (w/ Jay-Z) (Jay-Z then leaves the stage) 19. One Step Closer As you can tell, Wish being moved up into the main set made it the only time that ever happened with Linkin Park that we know about. Jay-Z performed the first three Collision Course songs in the encore. And while Linkin Park skipped Lying From You and Faint in the setlist in favor of performing their Collision Course counterparts, they elected to keep Papercut in the setlist - probably because the mashup on Collision Course uses the instrumental base of Big Pimpin' whereas the other two use instrumentals of Lying From You and Faint, which makes sense. All of the standard intros for the songs were used, just with these song selection changes being made. This was also the longest show song-wise of the tour, with the Mountain View encore coming in a close second but lacks a full A.06, aborted Wish, and Sweet Child O Mine. And there we have it! A historic show and now we finally know what was played!

Imagine if Waiting for the End had been the lead single for A Thousand Suns. Phew. Would have been big.

Yeah, only informed speculation and nothing confirmed. Just guessing. Mike said something in an interview about "5-6 songs with vocals" or something? Not sure what he means by that. We'll see what happens when the box set comes out.

Fighting Myself at 1:55 is wild. It's been there the whole time lol. Mike recording the riff.

There's no way the single was released a week before the album. We'll update it. Edit: Feb 24 is correct. Updated the page.

Do not have this but will contact LPU HQ to see if they can find it. Adam sent me all of the LPU videos in 2009 on the website and that file was actually broken and did not work. Will see if they found it. It surely exists somewhere.

That Meteora song board is still too iffy to know what's going on with it. Where are Numb and Nobody's Listening? Figure.09 is on twice (under F09 and under Plaster II). Where is Fighting Myself? Etc. LP's formula in this era is just great, it could really make some masterpiece songs. Mike: rapping Chester: sings one beautiful pre-chorus line Mike: one rap line here Chester: chorus A+. These songs kick ass.

Exactly. Almost unbelievable they were just sitting there for so long. Wow. Shockingly great tracks. More the Victim has a different/higher pitched sample in the intro/loop in the song, it's slightly different than Cumulus. Has live drums, bass, scratching, different guitar riff slightly, it's all really really good.

These songs are GREAT.