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5 minutes ago, Hahninator said:

 

Researching threads with Peppe for Linkinpedia and it's funny how accurate this was lol

 

Except it was ten songs and not even twelve.

Yeah, and then Mike makes comments like he did a few weeks ago on a stream, about how they only have a certain amount of material in the vault, like almost implying they're running low on demos and stuff like that... So either they don't record nearly as much as they claim they do, or there is more in the vault than he's claiming there is. Both can't be true lol

1 hour ago, NimaLP said:

 

HE ANSWERED MY QUESTION! God, I'm so happy now!

It was a good question and an interesting answer! The questions like those, that actually make him think, are his favorite ones.

58 minutes ago, RogueSoul said:

 

 

When they speak they don't really have an accent per se... every state has like an "accent" (everyone knows the goddamn New Jersey accent) but it's really just a small group people within each state who actually speak like that. They sorta just speak like normal white guys lol

 

For what it's worth, when he raps Mike really goes for like... a big Compton tough-guy

When I think of "the New Jersey accent", I just imagine everyone walking around NJ with the Sopranos accent. LOL

Chester and Mike have never spoken with an accent... but yeah Mike's Compton-bravado influence comes out in his raps sometimes.

2 hours ago, Hahninator said:

 

I'll gladly do it if it means we just get one LP song, I mean I'm spending like $0 on LP this year at all until Mike sells CoronaJams (if he does) or LP drops a HT release. Ha.

Oh I'm going all out for the HT release. Pre-ordering the biggest package available as soon as I'm able to. We don't even know the details yet, but I'm already 100% in lol.

I'll consider buying a ticket if they stream the set in full. I don't want to buy a ticket to watch a mash-up of all the performances featuring like 1-2 songs from each performer...

That's good news. Some of these jams have turned out to be really awesome.

1 minute ago, Hahninator said:

It just seems so weird, if that was the case (I’m not saying it ISN’T; it likely is), that Chester / all of the band wouldn’t just get a writing credit on every song like every other album. I mean Chester has a writing credit on Session lmao. He was heated it got nominated for an award. 

Lmao was he really? He probably was like “So we put out this album, and the song up for an award is the only song with no vocals.... nice.”

It is different. I’m not at my home computer to compare the guitar at the end to the album version, but the newer rip has the vocals completely separated from all background instruments, and the “song” file is actually the studio party sounds and the piano mixed together.

2 hours ago, leftshoe18 said:

 

Mike said in a promo video or behind the scenes thing around the time of the album's release that Chester and him would brainstorm ideas for songs and then take those ideas and go from there. I really think that Chester contributed ideas and themes for songs that he doesn't have a writing credit on because none of the actual words on the song actually came from Chester. I don't know if I'm wording what I want to say correctly. I just woke up and I'm kinda tired still. lol

I would think that’s correct. He and Mike have done that since HT days, where they just talk openly about their issues and come up with ideas from there. Chester may very well have provided the concept and Mike turned it into song lyrics.

7 hours ago, RogueSoul said:

This is what JZE hears when he's complaining about chipmunks

I was waiting for him to say something like "Sounds like Sorry For Now" lol

It's ok to be cynical as long as you're talking about Mike being a dictator in LP and playing favorites with Brad to make OML.

Don't you dare say a cross word about Grey Daze though. Money is the last thing on their mind. All they want to do is honor their friend.

3 minutes ago, OfficerDoofy said:

At what part does he start talking about the Houdini House? Anyone have a time stamp? Would be very appreciated. 

2:02:13

7 minutes ago, OfficerDoofy said:

You’re actually mistaken about MTM and WID. Mike said that when they completed the album, FRIENDS close to him told him that it felt like it was missing a piece, it was missing one more thing. So he wrote it in a night and brought it to the band the next day and Chester quickly laid vocals on it, etc. Read the MTM superbook which has longer song facts and bonus facts all throughout, even longer than the CD/DVD book one. The label actually wanted LOATR as the big single. It was also one of two songs (the other being TLTGYA) that the band sent out to mixers at first, that was confirmed in the MTM super book. Makes sense if they were looking at it as the single at the time. They were also talking about it a lot and Mike said they worked very hard on the song because they knew it would be a single from the beginning, as did Rick Rubin. WID is a fantastic song but it wasn’t the label that forced Mike to write it. That’s been a common thought for a while but it’s not really true, Mike wanted to write it because of what people were telling him. They had full creative control during MTM, just like ATS, THP, etc. And Joe also said once it came out nicely because it sort of bridged the old style with the new. 
 

EDIT: Also, a bonus fact. I’ve seen people in the past refer to Mike on the ATS DVD saying ‘‘I’m not on some WID shit’’. He was referring to the fact that he couldn’t just go write a huge song like he did with WID, because he said ‘’that’s all I’ve got’’. Like he had exhausted all options and that’s all he had to work with. Like he worked hard is what he meant. Watch it in the context of the DVD. 

If WID wasn't on the album, I would think LOATR would be the next best choice for lead single.

Also I referred to that recently. I haven't seen the DVD in a long time, but I always thought he meant "We're doing some really different, experimental stuff, nothing like the past or what people are expecting us to come out with on this album." You may be right, though, because if my memory is correct he said that while clicking through a bunch of different small demos for the band. So in that context, I could see him meaning it more in the way you said it.

You're suggesting that WBR sabotaged THP. That's the kind of thing we would have heard about by now. Concerns about lack of marketing and support is exactly what prompted LP's original dispute with WBR 15 years ago. If they were willing to stand up to it then, when nobody knew if LP would be successful with MTM, they would have definitely made noise about it in 2013... by which point they were already an established legendary act.

Your last point, that OML isn't on the level of THP, is subjective. I enjoy OML as an album more than THP.

THP has some good songs, but sometimes I can't shake the feeling that the opposite of what you said is true. To me, THP feels more like the forced album, and OML is the one that feels more natural. THP happened because Mike got the itch to make a heavy record, and we know Chester was down to do something heavy, but it didn't sound like a logical progression to me. That album is like an outlier to me in some ways from their discography post-Meteora.

Even in the band members' interviews prior to each album, they seemed more excited and happy with OML to me than THP.

With all that said, this album is probably my 2nd least favorite overall. This sounds like a first step towards a new direction, but I personally wasn't a fan of bringing in outside songwriters to actually assist with lyrics. LP didn't need help with their lyrics. I understand the band wanting to work with others to get new ideas and learn from how other people go about their songwriting, but they didn't need people to actually write LP songs with them.

It's not a coincidence that SFN is one of the best songs on the album and it just so happens to be the only song written by one person.

2 hours ago, Comfortinthepanic92 said:

Yeah I think he intended that. Also, I really didn't like the "dead dad jokes" but it was probably his way to take it slightly lighter. I think he's a good guy

Some people use humor to cope with awkward and/or painful subjects. He is a good person.

6 minutes ago, JZLP said:

His voice is unpleasant. 

That's the most polite criticism of singing vocals I've ever seen lol

2 hours ago, lpfan2843 said:

Someone needs to ask him about the 17 MTM tracks since it’s the anniversary. We could finally know what they were! We know all but the 17th one. So if we ask him we would say the 12 album songs, NRL, ATL, WWDK, Blackbirds and the last one. We have guesses but never knew for sure. I feel like he would answer it!

I guarantee you if you asked Mike to say the 12 album songs of MTM, he would need to look them up somehow. There's no way he would just be able to rattle off all the songs that specifically made the standard edition of the album, and then he would probably say something like "17? Where did you get that number? That's weird. I don't know that we had 17 tracks ready to go specifically but... For that album we did like 150 demos. So... yeah I don't know" and then move on lol

I have what must be an unpopular opinion of NMS since I haven't really seen anyone say it: I like the song but the intro is so long... The extended intro live made it feel even more interminable. The song itself and Chester's suitably angry delivery is awesome though.

That's what I'm saying. The date wouldn't have been 3/20 specifically because this isn't a memorial release for Chester. It's the 20 year anniversary of LP's debut (and most successful) album. It'll be dedicated to him probably, but there was no way the 20th anniversary of HT would have ever just passed by without a release of some kind, regardless of the circumstances.

My question now is: Do we think the rest of their albums will have a 20th anniversary release of some kind as they start coming around in the future? Or is this only a thing because it's Hybrid Theory?

1 hour ago, Diaux said:

 

I wonder what is going to happen with the sample, if they are going to clear it or just delete it from the song

For She Couldn't, they might just pay to get it cleared to keep the song in tact. It would sound weird without the "Won't be long 'til everybody knows" part, and She Couldn't is so well known by now among hardcore fans that they may pay to get it cleared, knowing they'll more than make up for that with sales lol

1 hour ago, mrfox said:

When do you think it will be released or was possible release date 03/2020 postponed because of covid-19?

No, I don’t think the release date was ever going to be 3/20, even though obviously I know what you were getting at. I think the release was always planned to be in late 2020, because HT was released in October of 2000.

Maybe I’ll be in the minority on this, but moving it up to March to match Chester’s birthday is one of those things that would have felt weird to me. Would have been a nice sentiment I guess, but it also would have been blatantly using Chester’s birthday as a  marketing tactic to sell more albums, and they don’t need to do that. HT will sell on its own merits, without LP being like “Celebrate Chester’s birthday with us by buying this package!” Lol

Just as a side note, 2005 wasn’t a good year for Eminem either. He released Curtain Call that year, and named it that because he didn’t know if he was going to ever do another album, and he didn’t release another album for almost 5 years... A lot of personal issues going on for him too. So if 2005 was when LP/Mike might have reached out, the timing was bad for everyone for sure.

12 minutes ago, Diaux said:

Everyone is throwing some really good ideas. but nobody mention more rehearsal footage, I'm not believing that Esaul was the only song recorded in video that day (The one that came as a bonus on the Frat Party DVD).

I doubt that we gonna see the ostrich tapes cause i don't think the band is stupid to pay like 10K for that. but i'm sure they recorded more stuff themselves.

 

Also getting OSC from the BBC Radio session would be cool if that exist

Isn't Ostrich the guy who was charging one price, but then abruptly raised it by like a few hundred percent when he realized there was real interest in the footage?

9 minutes ago, JZLP said:

My dream release

 

CD 1: HT Remastered w Bonus tracks (MD / HV) 

 

CD 2: Unreleased demos 

 

CD 3: HT live (only 2000/ 2002 shows )

 

Blu-ray with a documentary & Docklands 2001 full

 

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Stop saying DVD it's fucking 2020 right now not 2004 DVD's quality is fucking awful 

A proper documentary that covers, in-depth, from the origins of the band all the way to HT being released and being the massive success that it was would be amazing.

3 hours ago, Vinescence said:

 

Second that. Also hope whatever they release isn't like 1000 exclusive copies

With something as big as HT, I doubt WB would intentionally limit themselves to 1,000 sales.

Once this release is properly announced, I expect a promo campaign the likes of which we haven’t seen in a long time. HT is a diamond certified album. This release will

be bought by hardcore fans, casual fans, and even lapsed fans who checked out after Meteora. This is going to be huge.