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Not yet because I didn't really make any big changes to it (a lot of my past revisions have involved re-categorizing songs, creating separate entries for acoustic/piano versions, etc.). I'll get it sent in this weekend though.

IF they decide to revisit Meteora on the next cycle and start a sort of pattern, I think Don't Stay is the only song they'll really "revive," but I also imagine they'd start playing Lying From You and From the Inside regularly again.

I actually just updated it last night! Not really a lot of new stuff other than BIO/RME on this leg. The rest was just updating the "last known performance" dates for everything that's been played throughout the Living Things tours.

I was looking at an archived version of LP:Fuse earlier, and I happened to stumble across this (I cleaned this up a bit, as the archived version of the site is only available as raw HTML): This was before LP's summer European tour was officially announced. As you can see, the non-U.K. dates are spot on. But we also know that none of the dates after Lisbon (the U.K. dates) actually happened. So what was the deal here? Were these dates tentatively scheduled, then pulled in favor of the November U.K. tour? Was this info compiled from different sources, one of which was making stuff up? It seems unlikely that one source would have a bunch of correct dates and venues before they were announced, but also have a bunch of fake ones in the same list.

It's pretty much the same thing as how we abbreviate all of the song titles that have 3 or more words in them.

I have a feeling ALTNC is the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger non-album project. I'm in "wait and see" mode right now, but I've heard a few things that really make me think this isn't going to be something that's JUST part of LP Recharge.

Possibly an "LP album reject" song, much like some of the DBS material? Curious to find out more about this.

The "Last 5 Shows" list on the homepage has the wrong date for Hong Kong.

To be fair, if he's still under contract with them, they either have to honor the terms of the contract for the duration of it or agree to a buyout if they want to sever ties with him early. It's kind of like when a sports team decides to release a player when they still have years left on their contract - they have to pay them the money they would have gotten for the remaining duration of the contract, unless the two sides agree to a smaller portion as a buyout. It's basically a severance package. It sounds like the main issue here is that Scott thinks if he's still under contract, he should be the lead singer of the band. Depending on how the contract is worded, that isn't necessarily true. Assuming STP is still paying Scott what he would have been getting anyway, there may not be much he can do about it. One example I can think of is when Peter Criss was fired from KISS in 1980, he was kept on the band's payroll until about 1984, even though Eric Carr had long since replaced him as the band's drummer.

One noteworthy one missing from the list is that there was a CD single released for Leave Out All the Rest from Road to Revolution. Lying From You was more or less released the same way from Live in Texas, except radio stations played the studio version while TV stations used the live video from LIT. Not really sure what the reasoning there was, other than maybe the idea that radio stations wouldn't want to play a live track.

Update from Steve Aoki at the bottom of the source article clears this up. Total non-issue.

The only reason it would concern me if the band went in a more EDM-style direction AS A WHOLE (I'll never be bothered by them experimenting in any particular genre, provided they don't suddenly start writing entire albums of songs that sound the same) is that the nature of EDM wouldn't exactly provide the best creative backdrop for instrumental contributions from Rob, Brad, and Phoenix. I think the band has always done a pretty good job of balancing out whatever styles they incorporate though, so as long as EDM just becomes another element of the same "hybrid theory" the band was founded on, and not a "new direction" as whole, I'll be fine with it. The same could be said for a lot of other styles - if The Rising Tied/Out of Ashes were Linkin Park albums, I'd probably hate them.

LOL @ quoting the Linkin Park Wiki as a reliable source of info. http://lplive.net/features/exclusivehtdemo.php - "There has been some conflicting information about the timeframe this CD was produced; the seller of this disc on eBay reported that it dates to 1998, but in fact, the earliest it could've been made is the summer of 1999. This is because 'She Couldn't' features a prominent sample of the song 'B-Boy Document '99' by High & Mighty, and that song was released in the summer of 1999. That puts this demo CD in the timeframe between the release of the Hybrid Theory EP and the 9-track demo CD, which still makes it some of the earliest demo material from the band." I'm pretty sure Anna Shinoda's convenient timing of posting all the Xero flyers wasn't coincidental. We can probably consider that the extent of Mike's "getting to the bottom of it."

I've seen 7 of those 9 songs live (8 of 11 if you include LOATR and By Myself). The only ones I haven't seen are Pushing Me Away studio, By Myself, and My December. Had an opportunity to see My December (Cleveland 2004), but couldn't work out a way to make it to that show.

This touring cycle started off with SO much potential with the resurrection of a bunch of songs that hadn't been played in recent years, but it just kind of...fizzled out afterwards. We only got one new song debut post-HCT (Castle of Glass), and of the 5 songs from early in the cycle that wound up being dropped (In My Remains, WTCFM, Blackout, FTI, Runaway), at least 4 of them are almost universally considered fantastic live songs. Instead, we got to hear more played-out singles. Yay. The Game of Thrones intro to With You being ditched was also a bummer. For the next cycle, I'd like to see the following songs dropped, at least temporarily: -Points of Authority -Breaking the Habit -Given Up -Lies Greed Misery -Ballad Medley -Victimized (okay, I don't WANT this one dropped, but we all know it's gonna happen). In exchange for those 6 songs, here's 6 that could be added to spice things up a bit: -Crawling (I'm normally not one to suggest singles being added, but this one is MUCH higher on my list of must-plays than half of their other singles. Drop Given Up, and maybe Chester will actually be able to sing this one decently for the first time in 5 years) -Don't Stay (if this cycle was one where they "gave love" to Hybrid Theory by resurrecting some songs from that album, let the next one be one for Meteora) -From the Inside (see above - also, play Lying From You regularly!) -No More Sorrow (this would be a VAST improvement over Given Up in terms of MTM material) -Iridescent (full version - more ATS material should be in the set, and this song is vastly superior to both LOATR and SOTD anyway) -Either In My Remains (in exchange for Lies Greed Misery), or another Living Things song that hasn't been played yet. I don't expect them to debut all of the untouched material from this album on a touring cycle for another album, but at least give ONE of those songs a shot. There's no reason I'll Be Gone can't be played live, at the very least. -

Yeah, Studio Finals = Now I See. The version of One Step Closer on the Studio Finals disc is also identical to the one on the ECW Anarchy Rocks soundtrack. It was basically the same thing that happened with Blackout in Fifa World Cup and The Catalyst in Medal of Honor years later - the songs were submitted before the final mixes were done.

Disregarding the Reanimation and piano versions, the original version of Pushing Me Away was actually longer.

It's both. It's a vocal part doubled by a synth and a guitar track.

As is the case 9 out of 10 times "eww autotune" comments are thrown around on the Internet...LOL. The effect you people are bitching about is literally almost the EXACT same vocoder-style effect used on Mike's voice in Fallout and Chester's voice on the chorus of Lies Greed Misery. The only difference here is that it's being used on a clean, relatively non-effected vocal track.

I Have Not Begun is all Mike, and there are a few unfinished-"half-done vocals" tracks that have been released through LPU without Chester on them (Asbestos, Debris, etc.). All of the "main" vocals on Hands Held High are Mike too. I'm sure Chester's mixed in with the gang vocals, but I've never been able to specifically pick out his voice.

Heh, if you were to go post that over on the LP.com or LPU forums, just about every single person on there would probably believe it.

Am I the only one who thinks COG DOESN'T sound very good live? Pretty much any song where Mike sings the main melody and Chester's supposed to harmonize with him (or at least double him), Chester usually way over-sings his part and goes off key. This goes all the way back to the MTM era with In Between and the outro to Hands Held High, and has continued with songs like Burning in the Skies, Waiting for the End (it sounds okay live now, but it took a LONG time before it got to that point), and now Castle of Glass. Actually...you can even take it farther back to when they did Numb/Encore/Yesterday and he tried to harmonize with Paul on the last few lines of the song. That was easily the only weak point of an otherwise legendary performance. Chester definitely isn't a backing vocalist.

Reanimation's song titles are generally referred to in all caps too, but I think that's more for aesthetic reasons like QWERTY. With all of the symbols and numbers in the song titles, it looks a lot neater in all caps: "P5HNG ME A*WY" vs. "P5hng Me A*wy"

QWERTY was never mentioned anywhere NOT in caps, although a lot of the official places it showed up are places that would typically list a lot of stuff in caps anyway (back cover of LPU 6, show setlists, etc.). I guess it just makes sense because of a regular QWERTY keyboard being stylized in all caps (the phrase "QWERTY keyboard" also typically uses the same capitalization). I believe the Living Things "ALL CAPS EVERYTHING" deal came from Adam? I recall someone with an official connection saying that they chose to incorporate that as part of their marketing for this particular album. I still don't even adhere to that, personally.

I thought it was on PR07, but it was definitely at some point on the MTM tour when they were doing the consistent rotating A-B-C/R-S-T/X-Y-Z sets.