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8 minutes ago, KlaytonShinoda said:

Although I wouldn't deny that Mike's comment about "Radio these days plays mostly Disney music so it may be a reason why we decided to make the record sound like that" really caught me off guard and came off as goofy and a bit pretentious.

I very much agree. I never did like that part of THP's promotion. He shit on pop music basically and even named some examples. That was definitely odd and felt out of character for him both before and since.

The most ironic part was that he spent that time talking about how music has gone soft and all that, but then the first single from LP's next album was Heavy.

1 minute ago, OKCrew said:

Actually one more thing: there’s an irony in that in THP was LP returning to “their roots” likely in part because there had been so much pressure for 10+ years at that point from “fans” and the public to do so, and then it basically flopped, whereas OML was LP trying something that was actually a new approach for them because they wanted to, and got accused of “selling out.” I remember feeling so frustrated for the band in May/June 2017 because of this, and it’s actually immediately where my mind went when I got the news in July 😔 

Some people saw THP like "Lol these guys are in their late 30's trying to make music like they did in their early 20's", then heard OML and said "Why don't they make more music like HT and Meteora?!"

You just can't win with some people, and I think LP accepted that a while ago. 

32 minutes ago, Bambitt said:

Oh ok cool, I misunderstood that

Yeah his review of OML was fairly brutal and I disagreed with a lot of it, but I at least respect the fact that, while he acknowledged that it's tragic that Chester is gone, his opinion of OML hasn't changed.

I should also point out that while his review was indeed brutal, it wasn't just a mindless hate fest like a lot of people had when OML came out. Meaning it wasn't "THIS IS POP! POP IS BAD!" Fantano is knowledgeable about what he does, so I could see where his criticisms were coming from even if I disagreed.

9 hours ago, Bambitt said:

Why should he re-evaluate? It was his opinion, he didn't mind other LP albums, he didn't like OML. It's not like OML is the greatest LP album tbh. There are some good songs (NCSM, TTM, SE or BS) but overall it felt a bit underwhelming at the time and still feels like it to me regarding the circumstances which happened later on. I still skip Invisible, Good Goodbye or Sorry For Now. The interview's gonna be interesting nevertheless. I do not think there should be any apologies. LP did an album they strongly believed is good, a reviewer didn't. It's not like that OML is the only album ever with negative reviews. There's ton of them. I know positive reviews make the artist feel good and the negative just tear them down, I lived through that myself as my band's album received both very positive and some negative reviews. And the negative always tend to hurt. But I wouldn't want anyone to apologize for a bad review of my album. 

I wasn’t saying he should reevaluate. I was saying it’ll be more a interesting interview because he won’t. 

5 minutes ago, JZ-AmendsStripped29 said:

Time for some hypocrisy 

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. 

12 minutes ago, RayGun4200 said:

Ah fair enough, I don't really know what Zora is only heard about it cause of MS. But that makes sense guess I misunderstood it my bad. It's just weird cause its not the full file $30k is worth a snippet of the track but whatever makes em happy.

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.

1 hour ago, PurpleFlinstoneVitamins92 said:

If you’d buy a copy of every  existing version of Amends and Amends stripped you wouldn’t probably spend 500 $. Like, lol. 
 

 

 

ignore me, I love being a dick around here 

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.

4 hours ago, PurpleFlinstoneVitamins92 said:

Mike Shadows maybe ? 

You mean Matt lol

On 1/9/2021 at 10:04 PM, RogueSoul said:

this remix has really weeded out the boomers of this forum

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.

6 hours ago, PurpleFlinstoneVitamins92 said:

Better than Prove You Wrong, Ghosts, Welcome and Open Door, even tho those were meant to be serious songs🙃

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

34 minutes ago, KlaytonShinoda said:

Amazing, thanks! I also wonder what 'Minutes To Midnight Website Clips' is.

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

9 minutes ago, PurpleFlinstoneVitamins92 said:

HT20 was a really good release, didn’t mean to say that at all. But I just don’t get the hype for demos they didn’t consider worth a HT20 release, considering that they threw in a lot of stuff 

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.

2 hours ago, PurpleFlinstoneVitamins92 said:

If they didn’t consider to include those songs in HT20 I doubt it’s gonna be anything worth freaking out for. 
Don’t get the hype at all, last time I played anything from HT20 demos besides PB or S&M, CHB was middle October. 

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!

2 hours ago, lpliveusername said:

Talinda and Samantha too.

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. 

1 hour ago, Astat said:

I'll try to confirm this, but if so that would pretty much mean the original version of the song is "out of print" at this point.

Just the latest chapter in that weird situation... 

7 hours ago, hahninator said:

I don't understand why the LP store would have these for 30 minutes and not restock them. Makes no sense to me. I understand there is a demand for them but why would they not have enough to even last for a day or two?

Just another instance of demand for LP apparently being underestimated.

On 10/31/2020 at 11:39 AM, Hybridtheory said:

wow i thought it would be $ 10,000
it's a more acceptable high price, plus $ 50,000 is unrealistic.

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.