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I sure hope Brad was taking notes from that.

I believe it's time Linkin Park adds a new closer song to their setlist.

• No More Sorrow (Extended Intro/New Extended Outro)
• When They Come For Me
• Lies Greed Misery
• Papercut
• Given Up
• What I’ve Done (AMBO Intro)
• Blackout
• New Divide
• Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro/Extended Outro)
• Leave Out All The Rest/Shadow Of The Day/Iridescent (Medley)
• Castle Of Glass
• The Catalyst
• Burn It Down
• In The End
• Roads Untraveled
• In My Remains
• Tinfoil
• Powerless
• With You
• Victimized/Qwerty
• Bleed It Out (Reading My Eyes Intro/Sabotage Bridge/Extended Outro)

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• A Place For My Head (Extended Intro/Extended Outro)
• One Step Closer (Extended Outro)
• Faint (Extended Outro)
• Lost In The Echo (Extended Intro)

Honestly, I've recently been thinking something along the lines of

Wretches And Kings/Victimized/QWERTY

Shorten Wretches by playing verse/chorus 2/bridge/outro and then transition into the intro from Victimized. Maybe even make a "Blood, Anger, Suffering" 2.0. Then just play the rest of the mash-up as we've seen it before.

Another thought I've had for the longest time is a Pushing Me Away medley.

Start with the piano version, then bring out the guitar/drums/etc, and finish with a full restart into P5hng Me A*wy.

01. With You (Game of Thrones Intro)

02. Papercut

03. Given Up

04. In My Remains

05. Lies Greed Misery

06. New Divide

07. When They Come For Me (Forfeit the Game Intro)

08. Castle Of Glass

09. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro/Extended Outro)

10. Burn It Down

11. Leave Out All The Rest/Shadow Of The Day/Iridescent (Medley)

12. What I've Done

13. The Catalyst

14. In The End

15. Roads Untraveled

16. Blackout

17. A Place For My Head (Extended Intro/Bridge/Outro)

18. One Step Closer (Extended Outro)

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19. No More Sorrow (Extended Intro)

20. P5hng Me A*wy

21. Powerless (Extended Piano Intro)

22. Bleed It Out (Sabotage/Extended Outro)

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23. Lost In The Echo (Extended Intro)

24. Wretches And Kings

25. Victimized/QWERTY

26. Faint (New Extended Intro/Extended Outro)

sure, the intr's cool but the rest of the song... ehhhh

I respectfully disagree. NMS to me is just the pure hard rock beast the band needs in their setlist. IMO its less worn out than Given Up.

I miss that song so much live

Agreed 150%. That intro is still the most epic they've ever had. Chester wasn't the greatest sounding on it during the ATS tour, but the rest of the band more than made up for it. There's always hope for it being on set B!!

I do think they need to put more LT songs into the set. old material is cool to hear, but isn't much of a promo on the new album, BID isn't going to cut it

It reminds me of the MTM preview concerts that had No More Sorrow, Given Up, and What I've Done... Except in this case the album's already been out for over a month.

I'd be deeply disappointed to get this setlist after hearing about Set C. Cutting out In My Remains was an awful idea, not to mention no new Living Things songs. And that encore is literally one of the worst they've ever had.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I want at least one really heavy song with no screaming. Something where the vocals are melodic but the music is ball-kickingly heavy.

Skin To Bone? In My Remains in it's own right is also fairly heavy, although not "ball-kickingly".

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I want Linkin Park to release music that is structured abstractly like The Catalyst yet powerful like Lost In The Echo.

And then there's In My Remains which sounds incredible as well when translated live. That chorus is so explosive and Chester nails those high notes like a champ!

In My Remains

Not to mention Victimized. These songs are blowing the shit out of A Thousand Suns live, and they've barely even premiered. Can't wait until the band gets comfortable with them.

For all those that can't find videos of the concert:

Lost In The Echo

Sick. As. Fuck. Especially those screams. Holy shit did Chester ever nail them!

I actually think playing these songs "shortened" is a brilliant way to fit in as much music as possible into their setlist. It's not like we haven't heard LFY/Papercut a thousand times before.

After all the positive talk I've heard from the band members about Canada in recent years, I'm still waiting patiently for the day they announce a full cross-Canada tour.

01. Buried At Sea (Burn It Down Demo)

02. Unreleased ATS Demo

03. Unreleased Meteora Demo (Thoughts That Take Away My Pride?)

04. Megatron (New Divide Demo)

05. Battle Axe (Softer version with gang vocals)

06. Blackout (Demo)

07. In Pieces Demo (Without Guitar Solo)

08. Living Things B-Side/Demo (Bruiser?)

09. Heavy Minutes To Midnight Demo

10. Powerless (6-7 Minute Version)

That right there is what I would die for

I want you to tell me which Blackout performance is your favorite

 

i've heard the one from Berlin from this year and it sounds fucking cool, if you havent heard it check it out

IMO Chester's verses sound incredible from Berlin, but he sounded out of breath for the screams. But to be honest, Blackout is one of those few songs that, whenever the band plays it, is solid no matter what.

It's my playlist, so I can consider it heavy if I want And I actually don't care for Victimized or Qwerty.

And yet you have My December and She Couldn't on it? I'm not bashing those songs but I'm confused at what you think is heavy lol.

Just made this playlist after seeing this thread. I think it's pretty sweet I tried to make it so each song blended into the next one (for the most part) It's my heavy playlist.

A "heavy" setlist that lacks motherfucking VICTIMIZED? Now I've seen it all. Not to mention no QWERTY.

Whatever floats your boat I guess.

Holy shit! I hadn't watched any of the Berlin performance until now and Chester was on fucking FIRE. The raspy voice was in full force!! Faint hasn't sounded that good in YEARS and With You sounded straight out of 2004, minus the "COME ONNNNN!!". We need this DSP!!

Obviously a casual poll. The only songs I would even remotely consider for a top 10 out of these would be Papercut, Waiting for the End, Faint, and A Place for My Head.

neither do I it just sounds weird when I listen.

 

On another note, anyone like the sublties thrown in throughout the album like the synthesized voices in the very very background of In My Remains, or the way that Victimized sounds like a record.

 

Or just how layered the album is in general

Agreed. I find myself listening to the minute details in the background and finding little pieces of awesome. Pretty sure I've heard what sounds like Chester screaming a few times in certain intros.

They need to bring back No More Sorrow first.

This. This. This. This. THIS!!!

No More Sorrow was such a staple to their live set. That extended intro has yet to be outdone. And just imagine if they unleashed a new epic outro to the song as a "welcome back" surprise.

Can't...Stop....Drooling.

Yeah you're right, but the band can't play too much songs in a show so some songs have to be dropped

 

An Alternative setlist for the tour could be similar, but with Victimized, In My Remains replaced by I'll Be Gone, POA replaced with Papercut or Lying From You, Somewhere I Belong replaced by From The Inside, BTH replaced by BITS, RU or Tinfoil/Powerless replaced by BID.

 

Oh and as you see, i don't want Numb, New Divide, Runaway and other songs in the set anymore...and I don't like BID live so for that reason i didn't mentioned that song xD

 

(Sorry for my english xD)

This is true, but considering Victimized is shorter than 2 minutes long they could easily fit it anywhere in the set. It's just begging to be played.

I forgot about Roads Untraveled! It's actually one of my favorites as well.

 

You made some pretty decent points about their fusion too. I don't hate this album just because it isn't experimental, but for the fact that it so pop and in-your-face that it feels like candy. It gets old and stale so quickly. It leaves you wanting more, and most of it doesn't deliver.

Fair enough, I just don't understand the 2/10.

Even A Thousand Suns was considered pop. It may have been more thoughtful or artsy, but it was still pop. And the following songs were nothing "new":

Burning In The Skies: old Linkin Park with Mike singing verses instead of usual rapping over a What I've Done re-skin.

Waiting for the End: a regularly structured pop song with a little more experimentation and a rap over the intro.

Iridescent: Shadow of the Day II ft. gang vocals.

Wretches And Kings: Hybrid Theory with a speech over the intro/outro and a distorted guitar that barely sounded like one.

While the remaining songs were indeed a bold new direction(minus The Messenger, although it was new for the band), the above could just as easily be defined as regular Linkin Park pop with a new coat of paint. The interludes were nothing more than artistic filler, like those meals from expensive restaurants that are all look and no substance.

This leaves us with 4 experimental songs from A Thousand Suns, and 4 experimental songs from Living Things. Suddenly the albums aren't so drastically different.

- I gave it two points for "Skin To Bone" and "Until It Breaks", and for some of "Castle Of Glass". This album is everything the nu-metal fans wanted is what I meant to say.

 

- This album didn't have to be A Thousand Suns Two, but it's crazy to see how much their mindset has dumbed down within a year and a half. That's why I quoted Mike.

Alright, that's fair. Although saying you like those songs but not Roads Untraveled is odd. It's just as experimental I'd say.

I can't agree with the nu-metal fans part though. Being an active member both here and at LPA I know for a fact that nu-metal fans are still not pleased with Living Things, although they're literally unappeasable at this point. Go on YouTube and you will still find that for every fan that acknowledges and loves the experimental shift the band has taken, there's a fan dissing the band for "not being the old Linkin Park" they "know and love".

I wouldn't say the band's mindset has dumbed down. They've acknowledged time and time again that A Thousand Suns is the peak of their experimentation. I think they are perfectly aware that they will be returning to this boundary expanding in the future, but for now they're content with fusing all of the sounds in their repertoire to create something that is purely Linkin Park.

You ripped on the first half of the album for the sole reason that "this sounds too much like Linkin Park" which is ridiculous. And the fact that you've acknowledged characteristics from albums past in these new songs means the band's toolbox conception was fulfilled. How many times have they said now that this album was a fusion of all their previous sounds? About as many times as you said these songs sound familiar.

Saying Victimized was a mistake is foolish. The song was created from Mike and Brad's fondness for short, in-your-face punk music. If it was any longer you'd just attack it again for sounding "too Linkin Park".

Then you go on to saying how you love the second half of the album, and yet you come to the conclusion that the album is a 2/10. Then you say this was everything the fans wanted, yet clearly you're disappointed. Contradictions much.

Nowhere did Linkin Park ever state that this album would be A Thousand Suns part 2. So while that quote is nice, it serves as little firepower to gunning down Living Things.