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If you were to delete all the posts from the LPA thread that were off-topic/pure speculation/didn't add anything to the progress of the scavenger hunt in general, their thread probably wouldn't be much longer than LPL's. Just sayin'. LPA members historically tend to be more "chatty" whenever stuff like this happens.

Someone didn't watch the video in the opening post. Totally had a hunch of what this exclusive was going to be, but it obviously isn't what I thought it was.

We've gotten plenty of stuff from the MTM sessions. I obviously wouldn't object to more, but the "non-album stuff" from the first 3 albums has become a lot more common in recent years, especially with the last few LPU CDs. I'm really interested in hearing some outtakes from the ATS sessions.

Especially with ATS being a concept album, it's entirely possible there were songs from those sessions that they really liked, but didn't fit in with the rest of the album.

"Primo" is yet another song that was also around during the A Thousand Suns sessions. That makes two so far that we know of that were leftovers - Primo and Tinfoil. Also, this is one of the few times Mike's ever been shown recording vocals in an LPTV episode.

Ambassadors are good, I think I like the Emperor series a little bit more though. I've always liked multi-ply heads a bit more, I don't know if it's just because I hit hard and like the added durability or what.

I agree that there's some type of vocal playback going on there, but if the only live part was just his regular vocal in the second half of the song, there'd be no reason for him to be using the vocoder mic as opposed to his regular one. He definitely sings Fallout using the same microphone he uses on the live version of The Radiance.

His singing is live throughout the whole song, the unprocessed sound just gets gradually brought up in the mix as the song progresses (at the beginning it's all vocoder, by the end it's about 50/50, kind of the reverse of what they did with MLK's speech on Wisdom, Justice, & Love). The same thing actually happens on the album version.

Cool poster and all, but these shows were already announced last month along with the rest of the Honda Civic Tour dates.

I have no idea where the most appropriate place to post this would be, but I think this is a pretty noteworthy thing that hasn't been mentioned anywhere yet: Tinfoil is actually a song that dates from the A Thousand Suns recording sessions! I was going through some of my old notes on working titles/demos and stuff like that, and "Tinfoil" is one of the track titles that shows up on either the Meeting of A Thousand Suns DVD or one of the LPTV episodes from the album recording sessions. To my knowledge, this is the first time a song that didn't make one LP album wound up on another.

I can honestly say this is the first time I can recall that Mike has blatantly lied in an interview/Q&A. They use prerecorded tracks for backing vocals on a TON of songs from ATS, along with a few instrumental parts as well. Their use of "several tracks of playback" has been confirmed in interviews with LP's production crew as well. Stay classy, Shinoda.

Also, here's a full list of working titles: Plaster - One Step Closer Now I See - With You Oh No/Points & Authority - Points of Authority Stick N Move - Runaway Sad/Super Xero/Super Zero - By Myself Untitled - In the End (pretty sure it was always just "Untitled," not "The Untitled") Esaul - A Place for My Head (one demo CD also listed the song as "Esaul (A Place for My Head)") Rhinestone - Forgotten The Cure for Mr. Hahn's Itch - Cure for the Itch Sick - Don't Stay Drawing - Breaking the Habit WAKE Album Intro Idea - Wake 21 Stitches - Given Up (21 Stitches also originated from a discarded track called "Fire in the City") Fear/When My Time Comes - Leave Out All the Rest Accident - Bleed it Out Bang Three - What I've Done Song Q - Hands Held High Ebow Idea/Ebow - No More Sorrow Pictures - In Pieces Drum Song - The Little Things Give You Away Patients/No Roads Left But One - No Roads Left Japan - Across the Line Megatron - New Divide Dingleberry - When They Come For Me Meadowlands - Waiting For the End Pac Manny - Blackout Buried At Sea - Burn it Down Working titles that stuck (I'm only listing confirmed ones here): Faint Figure.09 Shadow of the Day Robot Boy Iridescent Dead By Sunrise working titles: N2U - Into You Darkness - In the Darkness "Shifter" was never confirmed as a working title for Somewhere I Belong, it was only mentioned in one interview dating from January of 2003, along with two other tentative track titles from Meteora (the other ones mentioned were "Nocturnal" and Breaking the Habit). It's still never been confirmed if Shifter and Nocturnal were working titles for songs that made the album or if they never made the cut. A lot of people started making guesses as to what they could be, the most popular ones were that Shifter became SIB and Nocturnal became Numb, and for some reason Shifter started getting attributed to SIB after that.

Pretty sure "The Cure for Mr. Hahn's Itch" was the working title for CFTI and "The Cure" was just some kind of labeling error on the CD. It makes no sense for those titles to be arranged the way they are, as the longer of the two is clearly the CFTI demo title, but it was used on track 12, which was PMA.

The demo lyrics have a couple good lines that might have been worth keeping, but the finished product is a far superior piece of writing.

My prediction for the European tour: 01. New Divide (w/"Moscow Intro") 02. Given Up (extended outro w/extra note) 03. Points of Authority 04. Lying From You 05. Burn it Down 06. Waiting For the End 07. Somewhere I Belong 08. Numb (piano outro, into...) 09. Breaking the Habit 10. When They Come For Me (w/Empty Spaces intro, most likely) 11. Iridescent 12. Leave Out All the Rest 13. The Little Things Give You Away 14. Crawling (w/Reanimation intro) 15. What I've Done (album transition intro) 16. Faint (extended outro) 17. One Step Closer (extended outro) ---------- 18. The Catalyst (either with Fallout, or some other type of extended intro) 19. Papercut 20. In the End 21. Bleed it Out (extended) I have a feeling they won't do anything TOO shocking at first. They've indicated that BID will likely be the only song off Living Things that they play in Europe, although I wouldn't be surprised to see them add in another song or two as the tour progresses (think how Bleed it Out was added after the first handful of MTM shows). I have a feeling they'll rotate a few of the singles/"radio songs" that they play, with some tracks that either didn't get played much on the last cycle (LFY, LOATR) or didn't get played at all (SIB, POA) making appearances. I also have a feeling they'll drop No More Sorrow, as it's starting to get kind of stale live, plus it's a non-single. I'm sticking my neck out here and predicting that they'll dust off TLTGYA, as they should theoretically be able to pull it off better live now that they have the full band (save for Rob) singing backing vocals regularly. I also have a feeling a couple of their intros we haven't seen much of lately (the KRWLNG intro and the keyboard interlude before What I've Done) will get dusted off too.

The issue isn't with WMG, it's with Pictureboard having an unlicensed sample from a song by another artist in it.

It's totally common for bands to have commemorative picks made with each individual member's signature. I'm pretty sure they exist for all 6 members.

I'm assuming the missing track was "Hive," because he uploaded 100 Degrees under that title (but it's safe to assume that was an error, because that song was always called 100 Degrees, even when the "short version" of the VMA score came out in '05 and the full version on We Major hadn't come out yet). But nope, nothing ever became of that. I remember it being mentioned in comments on his blog, but he never acknowledged them.

I always like listening to early material from any band I'm into. During the early stages of a band's career, they rarely have an idea of what their overall "sound" will end up being, so they just make whatever kind of music comes to mind. I like to use the analogy that they're throwing several handfuls of darts at the board all at once and seeing which ones stick. It can result in a huge variety in musical output, and LP's no exception. Their pre-Hybrid Theory material ranges from the brilliant (Part of Me, And One, Reading My Eyes) to the unrefined (Slip, Rhinestone, a lot of other early versions of Hybrid Theory songs) to the derivative (High Voltage - the original version is really just an attempt at copying the Beastie Boys' Intergalactic) to the really experimental/bizarre (She Couldn't, Blue).

Pardon Me. /thread

If they made Muse lipsync, I'd be very surprised if LP doesn't do the same.

Whether or not they do a "playback" performance (whether fully lip synced or a combination of live vocals/canned music like DBS did) depends a lot on what the venue they're playing is equipped to handle. Usually when you play a TV performance, you have to use whatever PA setup they have in-house instead of using your own, and often times they won't have the necessary gear to handle a full live performance. Given that this is a similar type of program to DBS's 2009 performance, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they perform in a similar manner (especially since LP's show/stage setup is far more extensive than DBS's was).

Okay, I'll bite and actually post something I put some effort into: I find it surprising that people just take it for granted that there's any significance at all to "Living Things." I wouldn't put it past the band at all to deliberately put a red herring in the coding for the Burn it Down puzzles, and then mention it in passing (i.e. Mike using it as a hashtag on a tweet and asking passive-aggressive questions like "you guys know the album title already, right?") just to throw us off. The band is well aware of the fact that a good portion of their fanbase will literally believe anything they say (people took Phoenix seriously when he tweeted that one of the song titles was Enter Sandman, for fuck's sake), and always seems to be looking for meaning where there is none (I'm having flashbacks to Live 8 in 2005 when everybody was convinced the title of their next album was going to be "Iodine" because it was part of some of the screen footage used during their performance). Why do you think all of the band's "trolling" started in the first place? They wouldn't be keeping up with their silliness they've displayed as of late if people just took it all at face value. Living Things might be the album title. It might not be.

This thread = lulz.

Because lyrics booklets are never wrong. Ever. "Crawling in my skin Consuming all I feel"