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Haha, forgot about that one. Randomly placed poorly-drawn snake FTW!

They have a "theme song" for the X Games every year, The Catalyst is probably it for this year. That means it'll be the background music in a lot of their montage videos, music leading in/out of commercials, intro music for each broadcast, stuff like that...you probably won't hear the entire song at any single point, but they'll use different chunks of it at different times. *Edit* Actually, I forgot they've been using that "X Games Without Frontiers" song as their official theme music the last few years, so The Catalyst probably won't replace it. I'm sure it'll be used more than once during the entire X Games though.

The only thing I don't like about this cover (and the apparent art direction of the album in general) is that it's black and white, and so was MTM. Having those 2 albums back-to-back on your CD rack or whatever...they're not going to stand out the same way Meteora stands out compared to Hybrid Theory or MTM stands out compared to Meteora. However, those crying "worst album cover ever" clearly aren't very well-versed in album cover history. Alice Cooper - Zipper Catches Skin and Black Sabbath - Paranoid come to mind in that department (with an honorable mention to Scorpions - Virgin Killer...look that one up at your own risk)...which are fantastic albums, by the way. Ultimately, an album cover means nothing.

Oh jeez, WHY?!?! Talk about one of the most unoriginal movie franchises of all-time that wasn't even deserving of ONE sequel, let alone six of them. Apparently this is going to be the last movie in the franchise? One can only hope...

They wouldn't release a clip of anything other than the first single at this point.

Same here.

Second link doesn't work, says download limit exceeded. I figured there'd be strings in The Catalyst, it sounded like that type of song already even based on the stems from the remix contest.

For anyone who cares to know, here's the original version of the song they were butchering attempting to play: Best LPUTV ever IMO.

They match up perfectly, actually.

Ahh. Well considering I'm one of about 3 people left in the world who doesn't have a Twitter, that makes sense.

Where does that sound effect play? I don't hear anything on the splash page...

The contest details state that the winner will be announced on the 26th, the day after voting closes.

*throws my hat into the ring* http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/23712 - The Catalyst (A. Staten Remix) Didn't think I was going to be able to get a submission done for this, but everything came together over the weekend in a pretty awesome manner. Got my recording interface working, found a place to record where I could crank my amp really loud, and found someone who let me borrow their bass to finish the track. About 30 hours of hard work later, this is the end result.

Wow, I had completely forgotten about that one actually. I don't think it's really an "EP" though, more like a sampler.

There's no reason to believe that it's not real. Why make a fake of this now when the Linkin Park collector's market is nowhere near what it was a few years ago? Why wait this long to make a fake of something like this when it's just a plain CD with no artwork in a clear jewel case with a paper insert? Why make a fake of a niche item that isn't even guaranteed to sell in the first place, when you could just as easily make a fake HTEP and pretty much be guaranteed that some unsuspecting fool will hand over at least 50 bucks for it?

Magic Doors isn't FM, Petrified Los Angeles Remix was in the original post, and there is no We Major EP...there's a vinyl compilation with clean/dirty/instrumental versions of S.C.O.M., Dolla, Spraypaint & Inkpens, and Get It, which have been mentioned already. Here's the Remember the Name remix: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XMO5N4AS That's the only way to get it on CD, yes, but the first place it was released was actually on the enhanced content on The Rising Tied, there was a link to a sub-site on fortminor.com that had it in a streaming player.

Answer doesn't take much searching, it's the first video in the related videos box. It's just Ronald Jenkees screwing around with a guitar-sounding patch on his keyboard. This has also been posted countless times over the last year and a half.

It happens every once in a while, sometimes you go to step on a pedal and miss, or the pedal doesn't press down all the way, or you just forget, whatever. It was a lot more common for this to happen to Brad pre-Meteora though, when he used to have to change all his effects individually instead of being able to change several at a time through a MIDI switching system. The biggest offender with something like this is Somewhere I Belong, there have probably been at least a dozen times where Brad played the intro distorted when it's supposed to be clean.

That's not official, but if you're going to list it, there's a PRYDE remix of Remember the Name too. There's also the Remember the Name remix by Kaschke Mauer, which was the winner of the Remember the Name remix contest, that's pretty much official. Fort Minor - Street Team Sampler Mixtape: 01. Intro 02. Remember the Name 03. Dolla 04. Get It 05. Petrified (The intro track is only found on this mixtape, and the other 4 tracks all have various differences from their respective album versions) Fort Minor - The Rising Tied Instrumentals: 01. Remember the Name 02. Right Now 03. Petrified 04. Feel Like Home 05. Where'd You Go 06. In Stereo 07. Back Home 08. Cigarettes 09. Believe Me 10. Get Me Gone 11. High Road 12. Kenji 13. Red to Black 14. Slip Out the Back 15. Be Somebody 16. There They Go 17. The Hard Way (It should be noted that the instrumental version includes the bonus tracks and omits Introduction and The Battle) The following instrumentals/acapellas have all been officially released on various singles/promos (some are doubles from the TRT instrumental album, but that wasn't an official release technically): Remember the Name (Instrumental) Remember the Name (Acapella) *Not sure if there are both clean/dirty versions of this or not* Petrified (Instrumental) Petrified (Acapella) *Not sure if there are both clean/dirty versions of this or not* Where'd You Go? (Instrumental) Where'd You Go? (Acapella - Clean) Where'd You Go? (Acapella - Explicit) Get It (Instrumental) Spraypaint and Inkpens (Instrumental) S.C.O.M. (Instrumental) Dolla (Instrumental) Lastly, Fort Minor's Sessions@AOL performance was released on iTunes, I believe.

He's one of their original fans from the very beginning (I believe his first show was in 2000 before Hybrid Theory came out), he's been to something like 50 shows total, been invited up on stage with the band a few times, he's even been in a few LPTV/LP Newscaster episodes.

The odds of this ever being released in any official manner were reduced to practically zero the second Korn decided not to re-sign with Sony. That's just how the music industry works. In theory, Sony COULD release the album anyway since they own the rights to the recordings, but the project is likely nowhere close to completed and never will be. I'm just glad Korn is finally giving up the ghost on this, because they've been saying for the last several years that they'd release it soon, or they'd release it after their next album, or whatever, when the honest truth is that they likely haven't done ANY work whatsoever on this project in 5 years or so. Stuff like this does have a tendency to randomly leak years down the road though (see: She Couldn't, State of the Art, Plaster), so who knows.

It's already been established that he does.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F8EXB0NQ Moaning noises starting at 1:06 = 100% Chester. There's a lower-pitched one at 1:19 that totally makes it obvious (although I think it's pretty obvious anyway, a guy doing girl-like moans in falsetto sounds TOTALLY different than a girl doing them), and then he does one of those shrieking noises he did all the time back in those days at 1:33. At 2:15, he whispers "this sucks" twice, then he does another moan at 2:29. As I already said, Chester did female-like moaning noises at multiple shows from that period.

Piano is in tune, tempo is consistent. I'm playing along with the chord progression (Dm, Am, C, G) on my guitar and it sounds just fine. And I can get all the stems to line up just fine tempo-wise. Anyway, I have a GREAT concept for a remix, but I doubt I'll be able to actually finish it...I'm back in Ohio right now and expected I'd be able to record, only to discover that some of the cables I use to hook my interface up to my computer don't work anymore.

That's just Chester making moaning noises, he did that many times at live shows in the 2000-2002 period.