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Except then Mike spoils it and says exactly what it is. Does that seem like something Mike would do?

I always thought this might have been a "lost in translation" moment. Like, maybe Mike said something about how Living Things "use all the tools" or "everything they've learned along the way" or something along those lines and it got misconstrued into a "greatest hits album." I just find it weird that Mike would randomly say this in some Romanian interview, but nowhere else.

I'm pretty sure When They Come For Me/I'll Be Gone HAS to be on purpose. "When they come for me, I'll be gone" was the original lyric. That's no coincidence.

I don't think Linkin Park has a problem with being recognized, they've sold over 50 million albums worldwide. They are just as recognizable as Katy Perry. They don't have to put their songs in these movies and games if they don't want to. But, there's nothing wrong with them doing it either I guess.

http://blackchester.de/?p=4430 it was announced by Warner Germany.

That seems to be it. LP described Tinfoil as "the intro" as well as the "original vibe" of Powerless to MTV.

I think it's Powerless. You can hear the piano in the live recordings well enough to hear differences.

^ we have our winner.

I remember I happened to be watching the shoutbox when some brave soul first posted the link to the leak. Ahhh. good times.

Chester: Challenge Accepted.

He actually said that about MTM. But I'm sure the same sentiment applied to ATS, probably even more-so.

I'm just gonna post what I wrote on LPA: Oh my god. "Blackout." What the government does to official documents when they censor them. They black them out. The song is about government cover-ups. How the fuck did I not get this until it was pointed out to me? "I'm stuck in this bed you've made, alone with the sinking feeling." The idea that the government has made and continues to make a bunch of shady, corrupt deals, and that the citizens are the ones who pay. "I saw through the words you said, to the secrets you've been keeping. It's written upon your face, all the lies how they cut so deeply" "You push it back down, blackout" "You say that it's not your fault, instead that I am mistaken. You said it's not what it seems, no remorse for the trust you're breaking." The idea of "blowback," that the U.S. government's involvement in shady deals with foreign countries leads to terrorism. But the government says no, how could it be our fault, we're the victims. "Suffocate in the mess you're making, you can't get enough, you take and take and take and take and take..." This could be interpreted a little more domestically; super-PACs? politicians who accept money from banks and corrupt business men? I'm still not quite sure what to make of Mike's part. Sarah's interpretation of the viewpoint of the people killed by the atomic bomb is good. Also, and this is kind of silly, Mike's imagery makes me think of aliens/UFOs. "Floating down, as colors fill the light, you look up from the ground, in fields of paperwhite." "And floating up, you pass us in the night, a future gazing out, a past to overwrite." "So come down, far below, we've been waiting to collect the things you know. Come down, far below, we've been waiting to collect what you've let go." This could all sound like a "believer" making his inner appeal to alien life. "what could these things tell us if we could communicate with them?" or maybe it's about satellites/drones, floating up in the sky, watching over us and working to rewrite history, for the future.

I mean...I've already pre-ordered the album. If it leaks in good enough quality, I won't feel bad downloading it. But it's funny Mike brought this up, because I actually had the exact same thought recently. When I first get the album, leak or pre-order version, I'm going to call up a couple friends and get us all together before I listen to it.

here's Tinfoil and Faint.

not necessarily. it could be played anywhere in the set. but it was just a rumor to begin with.

How much more time until the show starts?

AMC Hoffman?

Maybe the crowd just responded especially poorly to Lies Greed Misery because it's pretty new and, to be honest, I don't think they quite figured it out live yet. They definitely have the energy in the live performance, but the instruments aren't sounding as full as they should.

I'll be at one of the Alexandria or Fairfax, VA theatres. Seems like there's a lot more participating places than last time.

Yeah. I got excited cause the link was listed under the "Linkin Park" tag on tumblr. So that put "LP" into the Linkin Park context for me. GOD DAMN IT TUMBLR IS THIS HOW YOU REPAY ME.

Hahahaha. well fuck, my bad. NOTHING TO SEE HERE MOVE ON.

"LP performs live at Warner Bros. Records' Summer Sessions concert series, live streamed from The Warner Sound on Friday, June 1st at 1 pm PST. Warner Bros. Records Summer Sessions concert series is a string of exclusive intimate live performance showcasing WBR artists streamed live every Friday on The Warner Sound." Apparently a performance is going to be streamed in 30 minutes? An "intimate live performance." EDIT: Apparently this is for the band called LP, not Linkin Park. Sorry. (LPL staff note: Never heard of a band called LP.....)

We already have Hybrid Theory the studio album too. That's streaming on Spotify, is it a good idea to offer that for free download?

Eh, sort of. But the real point of the scavenger hunt was Living Things promotion. So at the end of the day, it leads to a new song premier that we get an mp3 of soon after, and spreads word about the album, so not totally "pointless."

I actually disagree. After speeding up the tempo and rocking out on Sabotage, going back to normal tempo would kind of be a buzzkill. I don't think the sped up Bleed It Out sounded that awkward.