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I wonder how much...COLLUSION took place with Russian WeDemand voting??? I demand an investigation.

Lmao there is zero vocoder on this song that I can tell but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ people who don't know vocal production gonna try to talk shit about vocal production. He probably read LPA's track by track review, saw it compared to Until It Breaks, and because he doesn't like Until It Breaks he's already made his mind up about the song even though he hasn't heard it, lol.

Definitely not. The only known TRT outtake that's still unreleased was Watch Their Mouth (feat. Tak).

I can think of a lot of good ways to promote an album. Having a gag order in place less than two weeks from release is not one of them.

They probably took Mike's credits for the full album and applied them to every song.

Sounds like a Hammond organ to me.

I think if anything, they'd just do another Songs from the Underground type of compilation rather than reissuing the CDs. Maybe a HTEP reissue on vinyl for Record Store Day, I think that'd be a cool idea.

Who says either one of them is even playing guitar on the track?

You're missing Runaway and Good Goodbye from that list. Remember the Name too if you're including everything LP-related.

Just the previously released version with synced audio and all of the stereo tracks split into mono (which they really shouldn't have done in some cases, as some of those tracks were actually stereo in the first place, like the drum overhead/room mic tracks).

How dare Mike Shinoda perform songs that he wrote. Pretty sure you weren't complaining about all the LP stuff in his solo sets a couple years ago. And besides, when/if LP gets back together you'll just complain about them doing it without Chester anyway.

Eww, K.Flay. Eww, MGK.

The whole multitrack is like that. Any tracks that were mono were put on one side of a stereo file, presumably to allow them to fit everything on one CD since OSC is a shorter song/doesn't have as many instrumental elements as a lot of the other HT songs.

No. Everything is definitely there.

With a couple exceptions (In the End, DOYS/LFY), nearly every Linkin Park song he put on this list can easily be identified as having been 90% or more composed by Mike.

The rest all seems legit. *Edit* Stems for Heavy and Good Goodbye have both leaked.

The guitar track in the LOATR multitrack is fake. Someone actually took my isolated tracks from my Youtube guitar cover for the song, combined them together (incorrectly, no less - the rhythm guitar that's supposed to be in the last chorus is in the first chorus, LOL), and is trying to pass it off as the real thing. The remaining multitrack isn't even close to all the layers from the song, either. It's mainly just the strings, piano, synths, and beats. No drums/guitar/bass, plus some other synth stuff is also missing. There's also a full instrumental and acapella. The full thing is probably out there somewhere and whoever has it is purposely sharing an incomplete/inferior version because they still think they can make money from the full thing.

Listen to how strained Mike's voice is trying to sing the WFTE chorus at the beginning of the Hollywood Bowl performance and tell me again that he could sing any of those songs, lol. Mike literally used Chester's voice as a compositional tool to sing parts of songs that he wasn't capable of singing himself. If Mike could do all of that stuff Linkin Park never would have been a six-piece band to begin with. And lmao @ people already taking this out of context and running with the "Mike said LP won't hire a new singer" narrative. He didn't fucking say that.

Sidebar on the right: https://web.archive.org/web/20010615174955/http://www.linkinpark.com:80/tour/ It was originally the U.S. to Australia Tour but the name was changed after more dates were tacked onto the end of it.

I think Blackbear's part is the only good thing about the track, actually. Save for the clever AC/DC and Raiders references, Mike's verses largely sound like a bunch of uninspired and/or recycled bits and pieces that he just slapped together. Hell, he even reuses the "puke my fucking guts out" line from Over Again.

The fact that Mike has taken to using the phrase "all the sudden" lately is REALLY fucking disappointing to me. *Edit* Why do quotation marks disappear after they're posted? *Edit 2* Apostrophes too. What the fuck? *Edit 3* Only happens when posting from my phone. Huh.

I feel like this actually would have worked on OML if it were just at a bit faster tempo with more simplified percussion. Yeah it's kind of dark, but the overall vibe is still probably closer to OML than any other LP album.

Yeah this is definitely an alias situation. The theme song is the only track "Warrior Blade" has online anywhere, theres no artist bio or anything for them on any of the streaming services the song is on, and the only reference you can find to them even existing is all from the last 9 days or whatever its been since the soundtrack was released.

No guest vocals there, just pitch shifted Mike singing.

Yeah I'm sure WB will agree with the guy who paid money for multitracks that he "owns" them and can do what he wants with them. If someone fucked up enough to allow this stuff to get out in the first place, surely they didn't fuck up enough to try making money off of it, right? RIGHT? There's DMCA/cease and desist territory, and there's "you're probably going to jail for a long fucking time if the wrong people find out about this" territory. Trying to sell multitracks whose various rights belong to a lot of people who aren't you, who have a lot more money and legal power than you, is a pretty good way to get from the former territory to the latter. There are so many more layers upon layers of licensing, physical ownership of masters, etc. when it comes to multitracks vs. a regular old song that one person could feasibly have like 20 different parties sue them over something like this, lol. I'm so glad I've never been in it for the money...