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Due to the quality of the recording, any lyrics you see for that version are going to be, at best, a semi-accurate transcription involving a lot of guesswork. I spent several days trying to transcribe the lyrics to that version a few years ago, and even my interpretation is probably 75% correct at best. The "aztec moon" line has always sounded right to me, though.

I will never understand why there is so much animosity toward DBS, it's like everybody seems to think it's nothing more than a nuisance and all they want is a new LP album. Hell, I remember some of the reviews of the album when it leaked having "can it be LP time now please?" in them, before the damn album was even officially out! There was no talk like this while Fort Minor was still active, despite the fact that promotion for it lasted well into the recording process for Minutes to Midnight in the summer of 2006... If I was Chester, I'd tour with DBS for another 2 years and intentionally delay the new LP album as long as possible, purely out of spite.

A.06, Lying From You (intro/bridge), Given Up (bridge), those all sound similar... Chevelle - Wonder What's Next Velvet Revolver - Slither I'm sure there are other songs that are similar too.

Bumping this, I just heard Too Late on the radio in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area earlier today and the deejay referred to it as the "new single from Dead By Sunrise" afterwards, so I'd say this is pretty much official, but I'll wait for some kind of press release before moving this to the news section.

As far as I'm aware, Tak hasn't even spoken to anyone from the SOB/Spytech crew in well over a year. So there's no way he was working on finishing the album with Ryu 9 months ago. Tak has made rather harsh (and largely unfounded) comments toward some of the other people involved with SOB, but regardless of how you feel about his statements, he's also said the reality of the situation is that this album will likely never see the light of day.

This is Linkin Park we're talking about here, not Tool. 15 seconds is more than enough to make a judgement on the song's tempo, which is pretty run of the mill. Total opposite of the reality of the situation here - Not Alone is the only one of the three that stands ANY chance whatsoever of being played live, it was part of a huge promotional effort on the band's part to raise awareness of the situation in Haiti, and even had a music video. No matter how good Across the Line and Blackbirds are, the blunt truth is that they're rejects - they didn't make Minutes to Midnight because the band didn't think they were good enough. Why would the thought of playing them live ever cross their mind? 90% of the audience at a Linkin Park show (perhaps even more) wouldn't give a shit about them playing a song from a fan club CD or a song that was an unlockable track in an iPhone app. "That's nice...play Bleed it Out!" - attitude of the average concert-goer after hearing a song they aren't familiar with. If the band thought Blackbirds deserved to be played live, they would have put it on Minutes to Midnight, or at least waited less than 3 years before releasing it as an afterthought. I don't get why people bring up this topic every time a b-side/previously unreleased track comes out - 95% of the time, there's no chance of it being played live. And even if they are, look how long QWERTY and Reading My Eyes lasted in LP's live sets. The last non-single, non-album track to be played live with any regularity was the piano version of My December. Before that, you have to go all the way back to My December and It's Goin' Down being played regularly in the first half of 2004 (or the medley from the second half of 2004, if you want to get technical). It's time to wake up, guys. If a song isn't either A) an album song, or a song that received substantial commercial promotion, the chances of LP playing it live are slim to none.

8-Bit Rebellion is a game where you play as a single character, moving through a large, multi-faceted, interactive fantasy world, completing missions, collecting items, and fighting enemies. It clearly fits the definition of an RPG...and it's on an online network where you can interact with anybody else who's playing the game, so it's also MMO. How can it NOT be an MMORPG? The size of the game world or the amount of time it takes to beat it is irrelevant.

Worst LP record by far. I hope one day they'll have released enough non-derivative and/or formulaic albums that everybody will be able to look back on Meteora and laugh at how poorly it stands up to the rest of their discography. There are 6 good songs on this album. The rest can be completely deleted from history as far as I'm concerned.

Hmm, let's test that theory... Songs played on the Meteora touring cycle: Papercut One Step Closer With You Points of Authority Crawling Runaway By Myself In the End A Place for My Head Pushing Me Away (Piano version) Foreword Don't Stay Somewhere I Belong Lying From You Hit the Floor Easier to Run Faint Figure.09 Breaking the Habit From the Inside Nobody's Listening Session Numb P5HNG ME A*WY FRGT/10 My December My December (Piano version) It's Goin' Down Hip-Hop Medley Wish QWERTY Reading My Eyes Total: 32 songs played over a span from February of 2003 to August of 2006. Songs played on the Minutes to Midnight touring cycle: Papercut One Step Closer Points of Authority Crawling Runaway In the End A Place for My Head Cure for the Itch Pushing Me Away Foreword Don't Stay Somewhere I Belong Lying From You Faint Breaking the Habit From the Inside Session Numb Wake Given Up Leave Out All the Rest Bleed it Out Shadow of the Day What I've Done Hands Held High No More Sorrow Valentine's Day In Between In Pieces The Little Things Give You Away My December (piano version) QWERTY Reading My Eyes We Made It New Divide Total: 35 songs played over a span from March 2007 to August 2009. Not only did LP play more songs on the MTM cycle than the Meteora cycle, they did so in far less of a time span. So once again, your argument makes no sense. I also find it HILARIOUS that you would argue LP "played the same setlist all the time" starting in 2007 when 2007 was when they started the rotating sets - Up until then, if you went to two shows on a Linkin Park tour, barring unusual circumstances, you were almost guaranteed to see the same setlist. Nope. And generally speaking, MTV2 covers Bamboozle every year but there is hardly any actual proshot footage of the performances that gets aired on television - Most of their coverage is backstage stuff, interviews, stuff like that, and if there is any live footage, it's usually filmed from the crowd and doesn't have SBD audio on it.

This is far from a "minor game," it's been in development for over a year and is essentially a full-blown MMORPG in mobile format.

Yeah, Julien-K needs to release more live stuff (the exact opposite of LP with their non-album tracks). Why not release the video of the whole Moline, IL show or some more stuff from PR07? They obviously have a lot of live stuff in the can, and they don't sound bad live at all, so I don't see any reason for them not to. The majority of their remixes suck anyway, to be honest.

And the press release from DBS stating they're on hiatus came out when...? Christ, they were still on tour less than a month ago.

The album was "Redneck Games," the mixtape was "Redneck Olympics." You're probably thinking of the former.

I had this years ago (although I lost the mp3 quite a while ago, so thanks for the download), this mixtape came out in late 2004/early 2005.

Too Late is being used in promos for the series V on ABC now, so this may actually have some merit.

It's from a live version, no idea what show.

Get It was produced by Scoop DeVille - no involvement from Mike.

Why on earth would this NOT happen at some point? You guys are way to quick to rule things out. Any LP song without screaming in it is pretty much game for being translated to an acoustic version...

All iPhone/iPod Touch apps are automatically iPad-compatible. This is a non-issue.

That thing on FTI at Brisbane is purely a DSP editing issue - The sample plays just fine throughout the intro on the audience bootleg from that show. There were several times early in the MTM cycle where Chester came in too early with the "put me out of my misery" part on the Given Up and totally screwed up the song. The version from Berlin '07 was a total train wreck because of that, and he did the same thing at Webster Hall too.

If they're asked, I see no reason they wouldn't do it.

Well when 75% of the Linkin Park fanbase is openly sick of hearing about DBS news and just wants him to can the whole thing and work on the new LP album, I don't exactly blame him. If the majority of my fans were ungrateful for me giving them an album's worth of new music and touring the world to play it for them, I'd want some answers too.

When has he said that? Minutes to Midnight didn't sell as well as LP's first 2 albums, but he still talks about it being one of the greatest things they've ever done...

22.08.2004 Spring, TX, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Projekt Revolution Tour 05.08.2007 Woodlands, TX, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Projekt Revolution Tour 24.08.2008 Woodlands, TX, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Projekt Revolution Tour Same venue/location, two different cities listed. Pretty sure Woodlands is correct...

Music For Relief is the type of organization that you can "help" without having to donate money or even take part in one of their official projects. If MFR is doing a tree-planting campaign in the U.S. and you want to help from Europe, organize a tree-planting campaign in your area. It doesn't have to have the MFR name on it, if you're working towards a common goal, it's much appreciated. Another thing you can always do, since MFR is a nonprofit organization, you can organize an independent fundraiser in their name and then donate the money to them.