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This sounds so much better than the snippet. Phone recording of a clip played over a PA aside, this one sounds much more punk rock than punk pop. As much as I hate the “MaKe aNoThEr HyBrId tHeOrY” people, I’d love a more rock-sided pop album from Mike in the same way Hybrid Theory balances the pop/hip-hop electronics with rock.

Yeah, can we stop with the Mike is in Australia stuff? Cause I literally just found out and could have gone to the conference had I known in advance. First time in 10 years/3 albums and I miss it

I can’t imagine he’d go to this level of effort for a just a track - Welcome was the only time he did a big tease, but that was in preparation for a FM “revival” tour I’d imagine an EP or album, especially as it’s been 5 years since Post Traumatic

Well I was in fucking Australia for the Welcome Tour, The Hunting Party World Tour, One More Light World Tour and Post Traumatic World Tour.

Who looked more bored - the band or the crowd?

This made me bang my head against a brick wall, which incidentally both sounded better and was less painful

I was happier without the 100gecs OSC remix And 8 hours ago I was happier without the whoever-the-fuck remix of Lost

How long until we get a disappointing remix with the promise of more to come and no more actually come?

The biggest problem with the mixing on THP is that it’s all over the place. KTTK and AFN are great, GATS is awful, Wastelands sounds like it was mixed for Meteora then redone for MTM and half of the songs sound somewhat empty.

The videos are geo-locked, so they won’t be available until their time zone aligns

Just checked out the 2002 mix of Lost - the sampled beats are in the foreground so much more, with the electronic sounds suppressed more. Guitar rhythm is more noticeable and distorted sounding. Everything about it is clearly Meteora and Andy Wallace aha

I’d much rather have had Nocturnal or Serpent

It’s 95% the Faint Demo from LPU 9 which is also on this release. There has to be another version they could have put on this, with or without Chester.

I’ve had the night (Aus) to process my thoughts, calm down and relisten to some tracks. And I’m still pissed off about the Faint Meteora|20 demo

Some big disappointments on the lost demos - SPOILERS PS - Resolution is NOT a demo of Lost PPS - Live In Texas is still censored, Nottingham is not

Maybe not a completely re-recorded and mastered track, but something in “proof of concept” stages like “hey, these songs work well together” but they went for the six on the EP as the final set. It’s implausible that from Jays catalogue at the time, there wasn’t at least one other hit that would make a great mashup with a hit from LPs catalogue. Certainly unlikely they ever finished or recorded another track in the studio, but surely Mike fooled around with some other mixes.

The best bit was Healing Foot being “released” on my birthday 😂 It would be something wouldn’t it - imagine a new mashup that didn’t make the EP 🤯 I have to believe there’ll be at least new merch for it, but I’d be AMAZED if there’s anything else

Actually blown away by “Just drag it out, remember “ being a Numb demo Amazed they didn’t put it on the demo CD, seeing as we already have demos of songs they’re giving us new demos of and have never given us a Numb demo (or Don’t Stay, or Nobody’s Listening)

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if all the Lost Demos have vocals, same as the Forgotten Demos on HT20

For every reason you said it’s amazing (which you’re 100% correct), is why it wasn’t finished. If this was made in the MTM, ATS, even THP era, it would absolutely have made it. But it’s too different to even the different tracks on Meteora. I’m holding out hope that, like Fighting Myself, there’s a version on a lost (now found) hard drive or Pro Tools session

Just imagine, if it’s The Wizard Song WITH vocals 🤯 Thank y- “2002 guitar distortion”

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT WAS RELEASED ON MY BIRTHDAY (*local Australian time aha)

I put all the forgotten demos (minus the couple we already had) from HT20 in an album called “Hybrid Theory - 20th Anniversary Edition” with the box set cover on iTunes (as I had all the other tracks already), then added the leaked Pictureboard - Xero Demo to the end of it. Was going to do this with M20 and Lost - 2002 Mix too, but as it’s being officially released on the Meteora disc I’m conflicted aha

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! FINALLY A NEW LINKIN PARK SONG ON MY BIRTHDAY! AND IT’S THE EPIC INSTRUMENTAL I’VE LOVED FOR YEARS WITH VOCALS!

I mean, LPU9 Faint demo? Debris? Fucking most of LPU14?