Justin

It'll be a really interesting interview if Fantano stands by his criticisms. Somebody asked him after Chester died if he's reevaluated his view of OML and he said he hadn't and that it's still terrible to him. So it'll be an interesting chat.

None of this makes sense when you realize they're paying that much money to have the feeling of ownership of some gif files lol but if these people have that much money laying around and Mike wants to sell a few gifs, more power to him.

1. QWERTY 2. Blackbirds 3. Not Alone I was torn between QWERTY and Blackbirds because I love both songs, but QWERTY just gets me so hyped up every time I listen to it!

If he sold a 30-40 second clip of a Twitch jam for $30,000 and is now selling his typed out name, it seems like he's not doing this as a way to give the top 1% of the fanbase exclusive items but it's rather his way of saying "If these guys want to give me tens of thousands of dollars for pretty much nothing, I'll take it. Why not?" Which is kind of weird but it's not like he's putting up LP demos or unreleased music for sale. This still isn't a Once Upon A Time In Shaolin situation. Yet.

I would think they would do something similar to the shortened songs they did in 2014. I think they would definitely do the obvious ones like ITE (although the lyrics are opposite of the whole SB theme lol), Numb, WID, and ND. I could see the chorus of Iridescent making an appearance. Faint would probably be in there somewhere. For sure BIO would have closed it.

True, but also Mike didn't set the price to be what it is. I think he started it at $0. Fans bidding is why the price is insane lol

I don't really like the idea of this, and I disagreed strongly with Mike saying how cool the concept was when Wu-Tang did it. There's a lot about the Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album that was pretty crappy. For one thing, it wasn't even created as a Wu-Tang album. RZA was convinced to call it that after their producer pitched the idea of being super artistic and selling one copy of the album. Some members, like Method Man, thought that idea was stupid to begin with. The price quickly disqualified like 99% of their fans, and it was bought by a corrupt scumbag who wound up imprisoned a few years later. I don't see how Mike saw all that, and 6 years later is still saying it was a cool concept and a good idea lol. I think Mike is just doing what he's always done, and trying to experiment by doing something different. That's fine, but I personally don't like the idea and I hope this doesn't become a thing he does with all the Twitch jams from now on instead of further Dropped Frames releases. Actually, on the subject of Wu-Tang: Yes the album sold for $2 million, making it the single most expensive musical work ever sold. Didn't they still lose money on that, though? I mean if a regular album in stores these days costs like $15 let's say. That means OUATIS sold the equivalent of 133,333 units if it had been widely released. The thing is, they sold all that at once, but there's a cap on it. They'll never see another dime from that album ever. It can't be sold commercially until 2103. People born today won't even be able to hear that album until they're 82 years old.

You mean Matt lol

I had literally never heard of 100 Gecs before this remix. If that makes me a boomer, so be it lol. It's better than most of Recharged, which has some amazing remixes (IBG, STB, UIB, Victimized) that are ultimately brought down by the fact that they share an album with some really boring and generic remixes.

Dude you must really dislike those specific songs. This isn't the first time I've seen you compare these songs, specifically, as a way to say something else is better. Lol

These are the clips, I believe. Mike made this to play on the LP website during the promotion for MTM.

Yeah I don't think they're going to officially release more songs with Mark. If they were going to officially release any more Xero songs with Mark on vocals, HT20 would have been the time to do it. I would love to hear them for their historical significance, but nobody outside of really hardcore fans would be clamoring for any more songs that completely predate Chester's involvement. The only way we'll hear these is if they leak like Mark's version of PB did. Any unreleased material with Chester is different, as there will always be the possibility that Warner/LP may want to hold some stuff back for future releases. Astat made that point recently in another thread and it makes sense.

Probably because those are the only songs that hardcore fans like us didn't already have. I'm sure a lot of casual fans just got (for them) plenty of brand new material. There were rock media sites writing about She Couldn't as if it had never been heard before. For us, though, the upgrades in sound quality were amazing but there were only a few songs that we had never heard at all. The DVD's and the book are the best parts of the package for me!

Yeah, but can they actually veto releases? I know the band would include them out of respect, but do they have standing to legally veto a release that both the band and Warner are in favor of?

The Syndrome is going to sound amazing. I wonder if they’re still doing instrumentals and acapellas.

Great find. The lack of true B-sides and unreleased material from the Meteora era would make me way more excited for a Meteora anniversary release than I was even for HT.

It's not Could Have Been. I get why you say it sounds similar, and it kind of does stylistically, but it's a completely different melody. Based on how Phoenix does a slight variation and Mike says "Wow, you really do know the whole song", I would guess that he was playing the guitar part for the verses of whatever song this is.

Just the latest chapter in that weird situation...

Just another instance of demand for LP apparently being underestimated.

It used to be $10,000. After Chester passed, the price was raised to $50,000. Astat or Mark can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those were the exact numbers and the reason it was raised.

It's definitely "play it down". Genius, Apple Music, etc. regularly have mistakes because those lyrics are user submitted.

He’s saying there’s nothing that could have been done about the chorus. If the winner had used Mike’s solo vocals instead, it wouldn’t be the winner because it would have been disqualified.

That's amazing!!!

I agree with you, but I think they made the decision that the amount of people upset by the CD situation is outweighed by the amount of effort and money it would cost to fix the issue for every person who received discs with the shortened versions. It bothers me, but as a company I know Warner is looking at the bottom line.

I really don't think they will lol. The LPU Rarities CD was messed up for all of the original pressings worldwide. That means they would have to manufacture a replacement and send it out to every single person who ordered a boxset up to that point. The other issues mentioned were specific to the EU version of the set, and also much more egregious in my opinion. In 2020, not many of us are playing the audio from the physical discs. Most are either streaming, or they downloaded the audio from the official site. The minority of those who are really upset about the CD is far outweighed by issues like the lithograph, laminate, and DVD's being labeled incorrectly.