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You mean the one that has stolen every single piece of worthwhile news and media they have posted over the course of their entire existence from other fansites without giving any credit whatsoever?

100% positive they will never perform She Couldn't. They can't even legally TALK about that song in public, according to Mike. They only played 3 songs from Minutes to Midnight at the beginning of the touring cycle (they made it 4 by adding BIO pretty quickly though), and they claimed that was "a lot." Don't be surprised if you can count the number of new songs on one hand for the first leg of shows coming up. Who says they have to, or are even able to, play every song from the album live at some point? I highly doubt every song the band releases for their entire career will be feasible to translate into a live setting - Hands Held High flat-out did not work live because they didn't have a choir of voices to back them up, which is exactly why they stopped playing it, Mike's said as much. I'm sure if they would've known ahead of time that they'd come up that far short of doing the song justice on stage, they'd probably never have attempted it in the first place. If the band's always seeking to move forward sonically, the probability of there being songs on new albums that don't translate live is only going to increase over time. I'd say we see 8-10 songs from the album performed live within the first year, and a couple more stragglers added to the set near the end of the cycle as "experiments" that never really end up being played much (like In Between and Valentine's Day). With this many songs on the album, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it takes more than one album's touring cycle before they play all 15 tracks, IF they ever play all 15 tracks live.

There's a possibility they might stick the PA logo on the back cover as well, I've seen that done with a few albums in the past. If they release a tour edition of this album somewhere down the line like they did with Meteora and MTM, I'd bank on that being the cover for that version.

I don't think there's much of a connection between the two albums other than the time period/subject matter their titles originate from. The title, artwork, and song titles of A Thousand Suns seem to indicate that it'll be a concept album (at least in part) based around the atomic age in general.

I'd be extremely surprised if that were the case.

UK/Australia/Germany are the main markets for CD singles, so that's probably where you'll see it released. Wouldn't be surprised if there ends up being a 3-track version as well, either as a maxi or (more likely) a digital version.

Annnnnd survey says, option #1!

THIS THREAD IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW!!!!!

Not a big deal really, it's the first time a live version of New Divide has been released on a physical format. The contest winner's remix will be a bonus track on the Best Buy edition of A Thousand Suns. We've known that since day one of the contest. The winner of the contest is announced on July 26th and the single comes out August 2nd...no way in hell could they pull off that quick of a turnaround for any kind of physical release.

A couple other working titles Mike mentioned were "Fucking Awesome" and "Chicken Basket." I forget what blog entry they're from, but it was in October. Actually, I'm pretty sure anything this band wants to put out on CD is a "Linkin Park album," regardless of your narrow-minded opinion. We really don't - There's practically zero chance that this is incorrect. It comes from the same internal WB site that had the correct release date of the single weeks before it was announced. One of 2 things will happen soon enough: 1) The band will rush-release the tracklisting as a result of the information leak, or... 2) Management will make all the fansites pull their news about the tracklisting, much like they did with the release date of The Catalyst.

Robot Boy was a working title that Mike mentioned on his blog over a year ago.

I haven't seen the pre-order clip, but if it's 50 seconds, it's probably the same thing.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but I have only seen it once. I just had to laugh at how it was Johnny Depp's first major film and he gets obliterated like that.

Same one that was posted earlier in this thread before it was changed to another video: http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showforum=4

You realize that the majority of presale tickets end up in the possession of scalpers, regardless of whether or not the presale is LPU-exclusive, right? I honestly believe that the concert industry should do away with presales of any kind, it only makes it more difficult for the average concert-goer to get their hands on the tickets they want.

It is.

Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street, anyone? *movie starts* "Oh look, it's Johnny Depp!" *15 seconds later* "Oh look, he died!"

Sounds like they're talking about the 3rd track from the 6-track sampler review.

Meteora was a double vinyl, it really has nothing to do with length, just the manner in which they choose to split the tracks up. A vinyl can hold more music than a CD - up to 45 minutes per side, so they could've fit the album on one if they wanted to (over 90 minutes would mean a double album, which the CD version is not).

If you order something else with the deluxe edition, I'd imagine you'll get the other items around album release, then they'll send the deluxe edition later. I'm surprised they aren't doing a CD+T-shirt bundle, they usually do with their pre-orders.

Probably because 3 of the 4 items on that page (the CD/DVD being the exception) are only available at LP.com, at least for now.

There is, the regular CD just isn't on the LP.com preorder. The colors are just reversed for the special edition.

Judging from the ending, sounds like The Catalyst will have some scratching on it. Sweet.

I'm doing the opposite - I'm going to bank on the deluxe box set being discounted/made available elsewhere later on, so I'm probably just going to order the CD/DVD and pick up the regular CD version (probably from Best Buy for the winning remix of The Catalyst as a bonus track) a bit later.

Holy SHIT. I thought the superfan package for MTM was badass, this one easily tops it.