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Skin to Bone is one of my favorites.

I would love:

Fort Minor 2006 Club Tattoo show

Julien-K show where Chester filled in

Linkin Park's Mountain View 2004

I won't go to the tour if they drop Given Up.

Given Up is a perfect live song. It's high-energy and fairly easy for the band to translate to the live setting. It's status as a single is also a great reason to keep it around. Dropping Given Up would be a bad decision all-around.

I think that Until It Breaks could essentially be played the following way:

Song A has extended outro including Mike's first part,

transition using Chester's mini-verse,

Waiting for the End with Apaches intro

and sorry Brad but we gotta cut your part

Anyways, I feel like Victimized could easily be rotated with Lies, Greed, Misery. similar energy and length would make that prime for rotation

Lost in the Echo, In My Remains, and I'll Be Gone are for sure going to be played since they'll likely translate well to a live setting.

Powerless could be a good song for closing the main set and I could definitely see that being played.

Skin to Bone, Castle of Glass, and Roads Untraveled will be hard to pull off I think

I think that they should bring back When They Come For Me and play I'll Be Gone after it.

Completely redone from before:

1. Waiting for the End: I fell in love with this song right away and it continues to be one of my all-time favorite songs. If you break it down, it's a simple pop ballad with rapping around it. The experimentation with the structure and instrumentation really helps and Mike and Chester nail the vocals to bring this song to the next level.

2. Until it Breaks: Mike delivers some of his finest rapping on this track flexing lyrical muscles most probably didn't realize he had. Chester's mini-verse/chorus thing sounds amazing and puts a nice little breather between Mike's monstrous raps. Brad's singing at the end really ties everything together sonically and reminds me of Hands Held High in a way. The crazy structure alone made this a standout track on Living Things but it's the execution that puts it here among my favorite Linkin Park songs.

3. One Step Closer: This song will always hold a special place in my heart as my first favorite song. It got me into the band, into music, and I will always love it because of that. The song itself isn't anything special really and is simple, angsty nu-metal. It's fun to rock out to though.

4. Roads Untraveled: Mike's voice is just perfect for this song. He sounds so wonderfully vulnerable on this track as he sings the first two verses. "The love that you lost wasn't worth what it cost/and in time you'll be glad it's gone" is probably my favorite set of lines from any Linkin Park song and then dropping all lyrics for the next minute or so really lets that one sink in. The vibe, the build, and the lyrics are just amazing. Having Chester sing after everything drops our was also a nice choice as his voice definitely gives a different feel and is perfect for his compassionate verse before everything explodes once more in a dramatic flourish to finish the song.

4. In Between: Tied with Roads Untraveled is our first experience with Mike singing a whole song. His vulnerable voice once again shines on this one and fits the mood of the song perfectly. This song made me love Mike as a musician even more than I already did. After Rising Tied opened the world of hip-hop to me, this song opened the world of soft music to me. Without it, I wouldn't have given Minutes to Midnight another chance and I'd probably be stuck in the "if it doesn't have heavy distorted guitars, it ain't worth listening to" mindset that I was in pre-2007.

6. And One: Speaking of heavy distorted guitars, this is probably the BEST song out LP's nu-metal days. Chester sounds angry on this one and growls out some of my favorite pre-MTM Linkin Park lyrics. The catchy, heavy chorus and some experimentation with the structure that was mostly absent from other Hybrid Theory and Meteora era tracks are also big reasons why this is among my favorites. Mike's rap at the end is also pretty great.

7. Blackout: Linkin Park is really at their best when they experiment. Chester's angry vocals sound crazy against the poppy synthesized background but somehow manage to work wonderfully. After the second chorus, we have one of my personal favorite moments from any LP song in that crazy glitched-out bridge before settling down into that amazing outro.

8. Part of Me: Some of my favorite verses from Mike in a farily standard rap-rock tune. Combine those raps with some of my favorite riffs in any Linkin Park songs and you have a winner. Also, I love the way Chester sounds on all these HTEP tunes. He sounds so angry and has that nice grunge tone to his voice. I wish he'd sing like that more.

9. Victimized: Linkin Park being heavy AND experimenting a bit? Yes, please! Having one verse sung and the other rapped definitely caught me by surprise on the first listen. Hyped up as LP's heaviest song to date, it didn't disappoint as Chester screams over distorted guitars to intersperse Mike's verses. If it had been a little longer (maybe a guitar solo?) it would have been even higher on this list.

10. Figure.09: I don't know what it is about this song, but I can't get enough of it.

Honorable Mention:

11. Jornada del Muerto

12. When They Come For Me

13. Skin to Bone

14. A Place For My Head

15. Castle of Glass

16. Hands Held High

17. Iridescent

18. No More Sorrow

19. Nobody's Listening

20. The Catalyst

Edit: formatting

BEST: Until it Breaks, Until it Breaks, Until it Breaks, Roads Untravelled, Until It Breaks

GOOD: The rest of the album except:

AVERAGE: Burn It Down

WORST: none

I listened to Meteora by accident. Was listening to another band and then it went into LP on my media player and Meteora was the only album I had in there for some reason. I got a nice nostalgic feeling because I hadn't listened to the album in probably two years before that.

That was a pretty cool video. I kind of wish that the sound from the movie wasn't playing though.

Could somebody tab out the guitar and piano chords of

lol.. that was a joke.. he was just repeating the chorus..

I realize. lol

"and saying never again"

My bad. I wont be a victim of my haste...never again. lol

There was a thread like this for A Thousand Suns so why not make one for the new record?

My thoughts:

1. Burn It Down - already released as the first single

2. Powerless - being promoted with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter so it would make sense.

3. In My Remains - a good intermediate single between the promotional tie-ins of Vampire Hunter and Medal of Honor

4. Castle of Glass - apparently will be the theme for the new Medal of Honor being released this October

5. I'll Be Gone - a good choice for a single and doesn't seem to fit elsewhere

Burn one, swap out the CD tray for a 2CD tray when you have the physical album, and bam. Making of DVD right in your hands.

Not a bad idea actually.

As revealed in the new LPTV:

It's kinda about being victimized and stuff and saying never again.

It's kinda about being victimized and stuff. Never again.

In case anybody missed it: Powerless working title was tinfoil. That just lends more credence to Tinfoil being nothing more than an intro to Powerless.

I'll Be Gone aka What Ive Done Pt.3 (since Burning In The Skies is Pt.2): Seems perfect towards the end of the year & i think it was the same single number as WID, Correct me if im wrong.

What I've Done was MTM's first single, not fourth...unless I misunderstand what you're saying.

That was cool but I feel like it could have been a lot longer. I know that I'll probably end up editing the LPTV's in there somewhere to make it feel more complete.

You could've picked any song from Meteora (sans Session) and had it be a hit. That album was packed front-to-back with singles waiting to be single-ified...um yeah...

I made a Hip-Hop Medley 2.0 containing Fuse, Believe Me, and Hands Held High that turned out great.

Nominating for thread of the year.

It's currently LIVING THINGS but that could just be because it's fresh. I'll give it a month or two before I decide for sure.

I wonder if we'll be getting any exclusive music for the new game like Blackbirds for 8-bit Rebellion.

Burn It Down is the only track on the album that felt like a single to me. They're gonna have a heck of time selecting the next singles.