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Yeah, LP doesn't record eight million fully complete songs like some other bands do - they don't have the material to do a full b-side album and continue to release yearly LPU CDs. And I highly doubt the songs that we get would be nearly as good as the LPU tracks if they did decide to put out a b-side album.

Oh my god I want that.

EPs in the wake of digital downloads usually just used as stopgaps between albums anyway, and LP has never been interested in that.

Mike is Linkin Park. That's it. That's all there is. It's his baby, if he leaves, then the band collapses, especially because Chester will probably bolt right after Mike does.

Or it was just a mistake on Mike's part. Dude's human.

I don't think it'll happen ever.

I actually think it'll do the exact opposite - Chester will satisfy his apparent desire to rock out like a teenager with STP, and LP will probably dive even more into the electronic side of things because of that.

@spraypaint (as usual): Bro, he's doing LP and STP at the same time. They won't even need him in the studio most of the time.

Kind of reminds me of Grey Daze when you look at it like that (Chester singing more grungey shit).

I always thought Mike had actually confirmed that he released it early as a "work-in-progress" version of the track, but I guess not (in reference to QWERTY).

Scott was probably kicked out because he's a fucking mess that can't take care of himself and they got sick of it. Pity and sympathy can only go so far when you're trying to make a living. The song was probably released for free to build up hype.

Oh my god, what? This is totally out of the blue. It's awesome, but also entirely out of nowhere. Now we'll see if Chester can untether himself from LP by being in a completely separate band. Untether in the public eye, rather.

Before I really got into music, when I would listen to pretty much whatever was on the radio, Numb/Encore was in pretty high rotation on my favorite station, and - for real here - I thought that Jay-Z was a member of Linkin Park that had left and came back. Then I started really getting into music and realized how stupid I was. Also, I thought that LP formed in 1990 for a while, for no reason whatsoever. My friend told me a funny story that fits this topic: back in 2001, the video for In the End came on MTV, and he was like "I don't remember this Eminem song."

No, I get you. The reason Left and Right have different covers is because that's how they came when originally pressed, so for faithfulness I used the covers originally printed.

What do you mean by "correct tags"? It's listed as track 20 of Stereo: Right, and has [bonus Track] in the song title, which is the usual practice for bonus tracks. It also has the cover art of the compilation it was originally released on, as does Gage Park.

How did any of you take that seriously?

Game You Can't Win is the leading track because it's the first track of the Machine Shop Demos, which come before anything else. Admittedly, the tracklist for those demos isn't set in stone, so they can be swapped around. I'm leaving Out Out where it is because it and Gage Park fit together to an extent - they were both tracks made for (or included on) compilations - the same compilation in two different years, no less.

In the current track list, Out Out is still attached to the end of Stereo, just because. If you guys think that should be changed, then I'll retool the demos list. Out Out struck me as a finished track anyway. The current Demo tracklist is the following, in (approximate) chronological order: 1. Game You Can't Win DEMO 2. Rediscovering Omaha [Machine Shop Demo] 3. Sick Nationalistic [Machine Shop Demo] 4. Headlight 5. Where's Your Man 6. If Your Friend Was Drowning... 7. Hush 8. A Beginning to an Ending [Plugged] 9. Disco Voltaire 10. All of the In Betweens 11. You Can't Stop Me 12. Hiding Too Long 13. Black Market Love 1-6 are the Machine Shop Demos, 7-8 are the Big Bear Demos, 9-10 are the November Demos, 11 is the January EP, and the last two are the unsorted final demos.

Release 1.4 of The Complete Rosewood Fall is now available in the main post (link in my signature). Hiding Too Long and Black Market Love are super-rough acoustic demos - you can ever hear the pages being turned in Black Market Love. The plugged in version of Beginning has less impact for me than the acoustic version - I don't know what it is that's making me think that. Hush isn't anything special. They're also all quieter than the official releases, which never fails to annoy the fuck out of me. Now then, release 1.5 is coming up, and .5 releases generally denote big shake-ups, so I have a proposal for all of you: The Complete Rosewood Fall, in its current incarnation, consists of nine albums. Two of those are Demonstrate and Stereo, one is the Sampler, and one is the live album. That leaves five demo albums, nearly all of which consist of no more than two tracks each. I preserved these track listings for the sake of authenticity according to the original LPA release, but I think perhaps we can do a space-saving thing here and put all the demos together under one album title. That would be the Big Bear Demos, Machine Shop Demos, January EP, November Demos, and the Unsorted Demos. I'd put the original album sources in the Comments section in iTunes to preserve them, but otherwise the tracks would all be sorted under a generic "Demos" album. Would any of you prefer that for release 1.5?

Hello children. Don't forget that when I put the original archive together, I was using files provided by Hahninator specifically because I couldn't find the original LPA archive, or any addendums to it. That, of course, isn't intended to put the blame on Hahninator - just an explanation for why these tracks would be missing. Hush, Black Market Love, Hiding Too Long, and Beginning (Plugged) will be added to the archive tonight. Sorry for the delay - I saw this last night, but decided to wait until today to do anything about it so more people would see. With this, we'll hopefully have everything that has been discovered so far in this archive. Thanks, Skipees, for providing the download.

Uh, I think that was a quirk of deleting dupes. I can guarantee there are no missing songs; I re-tagged all of these around 11 pm the night I did them, so I might have messed up the numbering and no one noticed until now. But, as I said before, the archive is guaranteed to have every song - there is no track 1 for the Machine Shop demos. Really, the numbering for the demos seems pretty arbitrary - there's no flow present, and as far as I know these demos were never officially released anyway.

So that means we're just waiting on the film. See you in 2016.

A Decade Underground always struck me as nothing more than a promo for LPU10, sort of like how Songs from the Underground was a promo for LPU in general. You could put the exclusive recording of Crawling in the Decade Underground tracklisting as track 9 and you'd have the same album with two bonus tracks.

3,000 seems very, very reasonable. Maybe some of you are overestimating the demand for HT on vinyl outside of the diehard community. RSD worldwide really is a bit of a disaster. The entire thing suffers from bad management issues.

Whoa, now that was unexpected. The archive will be updated with the new cover art and also the audio rip of the show, which I neglected to add when it was posted. Thank you very much, bullettrain, for the find, and Skipees for the higher resolution art. I messed with the URLs and found the high-res art for the 1999-2000 compilation, too: