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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).

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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"

It was basically the "label" that Hybrid Theory put their music out under prior to getting signed by Warner. I don't think it was really an official organization or anything like that, probably just something they came up with because it sounds cooler/more professional to put your music out under a label with some kind of name, instead of say, "Hybrid Theory Records" or something like that.

That's odd, because from what I've been told, Burn It Down is being sent digitally to all radio stations/distributors simultaneously in mass-email form the morning of the 16th, which is exactly the same way What I've Done and The Catalyst were delivered to radio as well. Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed. Typical LPBR behavior, really.

He also apparently missed the fact that the official working title for What I've Done was "Bang Three" and the demo was released on LPU 11, because he just uploaded a really poorly-made fake one (using the Guitar Hero multitracks) like 2 weeks ago, and it's still labeled with that stupid "Forgiveness" title that's been going around for ages.

That's the intro from the Summer Sanitarium tour shows in 2003. The majority of the instrumental is sampled from Dead Skin Mask by Slayer, the speech at the beginning is from the movie Cromwell. Most of HybridSoldierLP's Youtube videos are bullshit anyway. They either have fake titles/are intentionally mislabeled (as is the case here) or are completely fake tracks altogether. He deletes your comments as soon as you call him out on it too.

This has more or less been confirmed as fake... ...and so has this.

"Super Zero" was the demo of By Myself from the 9-track demo CD (the one without She Couldn't on it). That's the only one of the By Myself demos where it was spelled with a Z instead of an X. It does bear some slight differences from all of the other By Myself demos (I believe there are 4 different ones in total), but none of them differ too drastically from each other.

The second one is correct (you can clearly hear the "m" in "enemy"). It should read like: Common enemy: Hypocrisy Common enemy: Theocracy Common enemy: The war machine

Haha, I'm not bad with the FM stuff, but I never kept up with SOB much, and I honestly don't think I'd ever even heard a GBC song until Suicide Music came out on The Raid soundtrack the other day.

Just asking, I figured somebody would know better than me: The original version of "Hard" (which I'm assuming will still be on Resada Beach) was produced by J. Dilla, and the Razor Tag version was remixed by Mike, right?

If that's the final tracklisting, it's completely different from what was listed on the preorder: - Prayers - The Arrival - Gear Up - We're Alone Here - Quaking Old F**k - We Have Company - Hole Drop - Moving Up, Part 1 - Trapped - Moving Up, Part 2 - One Way Out - Close Shave - Chair Slam - Rama's Family Dream - Jaka Caught - Dirty Cop - Uncle Andi - Dog Fight - Dead Already - Machete Standoff - Andi Strung Up - Misfire - Drug Lab - Putting A Mad Dog Down - SUICIDE MUSIC - RAZORS.OUT Song order changed around all over the place, and the track "Andi Strung Up" was apparently dropped...hmm.

I kind of doubt it. Brand New's lead guitarist tweeted a couple weeks ago that they'd be headlining that tour, and the tweet was deleted soon afterwards, so I'm guessing he let that one out of the bag prematurely. Even if that wasn't the case, LP just doesn't seem like the kind of band that would be chosen for that tour. That one is usually liked "Warped Tour Lite" in that it mainly caters to the punk/emo crowd (except for in '06 when they pulled a total "WTF" move and had the Black Eyed Peas and Pussycat Dolls on the tour).

One band that came to mind as a good candidate for an opening slot on a potential LP/Incubus tour would be Middle Class Rut. They sound really good live (although they do rely pretty heavily on backing tracks since they only have 2 members), and they definitely have a unique sound going on. LP/Incubus/Middle Class Rut would also make for a tour where all the bands are based out of California, which would be kind of cool.

2006 was the first time, I think Chester did that again a couple times in early 2008 (Crawling didn't have the Reanimation intro in 2007), but it probably didn't happen more than a handful of times.

I was gonna say, I thought Joe had already done this at least once before. Glad I wasn't imagining things.

MCR's song was Mama, HIM's songs were Passion's Killing Floor and Killing Loneliness (I forget which songs were mashed up with which LP songs). I THINK the Taking Back Sunday song was Makedamnsure, but I'm not 100% positive on that. I have all of those samples somewhere, I'll have to dig them up and check. *Edit* Yup, I was right: Bleed it Out vs. Makedamnsure Bleed it Out vs. Passion's Killing Floor Faint vs. Killing Loneliness In the End vs. Mama

The feature itself isn't actually new, they just didn't have anything you could redeem the points for until now.

Doubtful. The Machine Shop Mixtape effort was supposed to be a rare case of the band going into the studio and jamming together to write a new song in one day. Divided sounds more like something Mike came up with on his own, much in the vein of his 2005 VMA score tracks.

They have the CDs from 5 onwards. They did a sale of a limited bundle of the 1-4 CDs last week but they sold out in a matter of minutes.