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Indeed. There's far too many versions of the original release, and of course there's now multiple versions of the deluxe edition, releasing only 6 months after the initial release. Back in the day there used to be a few different releases that people could choose from, and now it feels like every band is going full FOMO mode with all the limited vinyl releases, different boxsets, different limited releases for different retailers - it feels like way too much is being shoved in our faces. That and I'm also still a little bitter that I paid $83 for that CD boxset and it came in a super fragile looking corrugated cardboard box after the listing said it would be "housed in a collectible custom box".

Warner trying to make their money back on the tour costs? I mean this is getting a tad silly. This is what, 9 vinyl versions of this album now?

Further to this which is worth mentioning. Nick was the one who bought the Projekt Revolution Breaks vinyl and sent it to me to rip. He just sent it to me at 0 cost provided I ripped and released them.

This is a sad one and completely out of nowhere. Nick and I were very close online friends back in the days before LPLive, (on MSN messenger - now I feel old) tracking down not only show recordings but physical items. I still have the Hybrid Theory skate deck he traded to me for an original release HTEP. We often did bulk buys of collectable lots and would split them - it was a really fun time. He truly cared about the community. the recordings and and was a super nice and kind person to boot. He once trolled me by telling me he had an early snippet of Somewhere I Belong. I thought about it all day, got home and he sent it to me. It was a clip of this ringtone - Here's an old picture I found circa 2007-2008 (per the file marker, could be older) of a pair of sunglasses he rigged up to record LP at a festival. I was always entertained by his stories of what he had to do in order to smuggle recording equipment into shows and festivals: RIP Nick, you were a truly great friend, family man and member of the LP community.

Overflow is SO good. Starts sounding like a Radiohead track, then transitions into Rammstein style piano, verses sound 21 Pilots inspired, fusions of Shinoda rap demo throughout. This honestly might be one of my favorite LP tracks of all time. This is very much the experimentation that attracted me to ATS.

The Prodigy have been doing something like that during Firestarter and while I know it comes from a good place, I find it kind of ... offputting in a way. Then again that might be because I know that Keith really disliked that everyone just thought of him as the crazy punk when he was actually a really small town reserved guy offstage.

Personally I question this. IMO One More Light was very clearly rife with label meddling - too many features, too many ghost producers, and you can tell the 2-3 songs (Good Goodbye, Sorry For Now and One More Light) that were organically created by the band and there's a stark difference between those and the rest of the album which all sound very very similar.

I think Chester's bit at the end goes:

Man, whoever video edited that did a bad job at covering up the address, which is 3247 by the way.

PUT ON YOUR SERIOUS FACE FOLKS, SOMEONE'S COME TO COMPARE LP TO EARLY 90s BANDS AGAIN. That's nice you think all these bands are much better. Kindly tuck back your mullet and leave.

2:10 and 2:16 uses past footage of Joe from the making of New Divide videos. Interesting, I wonder where Joe was when they did this?

Excited to see: 30 Seconds to Mars Three Days Grace Dead By Sunrise Muse Metric Mostly DBS and Metric. There's not enough Metric bootlegs floating around, so seeing a webcast would be nice.

Nono, THIS is what happens when you do it to Muse.

Oyakodon by far.

Aside from fire, the only song from the previews I'm really into is 'Too Late'