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The "hook" of Place To Start, first verse of Hold It Together, the chorus of Promises I Can't Keep, and the entirety of Nothing Makes Sense Anymore all hit really hard for me.

No shot Mike could sing WFTE in full. If that song is gonna stay in the set, it has to be a mashup of some kind. I honestly think the more solo songs, the better. I'm far more interested in hearing Hold It Together, Promises I Can't Keep, Nothing Makes Sense Anymore, Can't Hear You Now, IOU etc. than LP/FM songs. In my ideal world, the set would be 17-18 songs: 3 for LP (ITE, COG, and a rotation of SFN/RU), 3 for FM (RTN, Kenji, and either Welcome or Where'd You Go), then 11-12 PT songs

I wouldn't say it's not a fan favorite, but it's definitely not a fan favorite in the same way that, like, Kenji or APFMH are fan favorites.

Pretty much the only iffy parts of the set to me are GG/BIO and WFTE/WYG. I'd be fine with cutting both of those for PT songs (PICK, NMSA, IOU, CHYN, HIT etc.)

I would go ahead and throw the new version of Castle of Glass in there as one of the peaks of Mike's set. He sounds incredible on it and the new arrangement is perfect both for the solo show and for when LP comes back.

I'm more than a little certain at least most of them want to continue to some degree. Mike, obviously, is down. Phoenix has been incredibly vocal about wanting to join Mike on tour. Joe is playing shows and guested on COG. Rob apparently got back to Mike really fast about LFAA. Brad was in the studio with Mike during the PT sessions and helped write Running From My Shadow. It's just a matter of all of them not quite being on the same page yet, which is incredibly understandable. It hasn't even been a year yet. It's obviously still speculation, but I would be very surprised if LP is done.

Pretty sure it was after Chester. He talked about how the song was about him trying to write songs that weren't about Chester and mentioned that Blackbear's verse was written about the memories of them working together.

1. Brooding (Shortened) 2. Place To Start (Ext. Intro) 3. Castle Of Glass (Piano Style) 4. About You (Shortened; Transition Ending) 5. Over Again/Papercut 6. Running From My Shadow 7. Kenji 8. Can't Hear You Now 9. Promises I Can't Keep 10. Nothing Makes Sense Anymore 11. In The End (Piano Version) 12. Ghosts 13. World's On Fire 14. Hold It Together 15. Make It Up As I Go 16. Remember The Name (Shortened) -------------- 17. I.O.U 18. Crossing A Line 19. Watching As I Fall

First impressions: - It starts and ends really strong, but some of the stuff in the middle is a bit eh. None of it's bad (except maybe About You), but it just doesn't compare to first and last 4 songs except Promises. Love that one - Production is fantastic on the whole thing - Mike is a really strong vocalist. Dude kills it here. Can't say the same for most of the guests. Grandson and Chino were good. Don't care for the rest - The writing is the strongest aspect IMO. You can feel how personal this whole thing was to Mike, and it adds so much to it Top 3: Nothing Makes Sense Anymore, Running From My Shadow, Promises I Can't Keep Bottom 3: About You, Make It Up As I Go, Lift Off

I think the little line at the beginning was more referring to him making the music video, not the song.

Ghosts is ok. The chorus is fine, but I really am not a fan of the verses. Probably my second least favorite track after About You.

The 2006 shows are definitely up there, too.

This is probably my second favorite after NMSA. Dude is killing it with this album so far

I think, thematically, ATS really HAD to close on The Messenger. Sure, The Catalyst is probably a better fitting closer sonically, but the message of The Messenger (ha) is really the best fit to end ATS. I do agree with OML, though. Sharp Edges is a bit of a weird closer, and OML works much better there.

1. Welcome (Ext. Intro; Transition Ending w/ 'Good Goodbye' v1; Shortened) 2. Good Goodbye / Bleed It Out / A Light That Never Comes / Lost In The Echo (Mashup) 3. When They Come For Me / Right Now (Mashup) 4. The Hard Way 5. High Voltage (2018 Remix) 6. Castle Of Glass / Kenji (Mashup) 7. Until It Breaks / Waiting For The End / Where'd You Go / Hands Held High (Mashup) 8. Running From My Shadow 8. Sorry For Now (Ext. Intro) 9. Roads Untraveled (Shortened) 10. Ghosts 11. Crossing A Line 12. In The End (Piano Version) 13. Nothing Makes Sense Anymore 14. Invisible 15. Cigarettes (2015 Version) 16. About You ('The Requiem' Intro; Transition Ending; Shortened) 17. Over Again / Papercut (Mashup) ----------- 18. Place To Start (Ext. Intro) 19. Watching As I Fall (Bridge w/ 'Slip Out The Back') 20. Remember The Name (Shortened)

Why, because other people helped write those songs? Would you be complaining if Chester played something from LT, THP, or OML at a solo show? Why should LP as a whole have been allowed to play Invisible? That was all Mike and people not in the band! Were you upset when LP covered Wish or My Own Summer or Rolling In The Deep? They didn't write those songs either. Cmon man

This was also his second show of the day while also being his one of his first ever solo performances (he did a few back in 2015 as Fort Minor, but circumstances are definitely way different now). I agree that some of the songs didn't sound great (BIO chorus is sort of rough, SFN was a bit of a struggle etc.), but dude is doing great otherwise, all things considered.

yay... Machine Gun Kelly... Other than that track titles sound great. Really intrigued by the closing three tracks.

I mean, "Stuff I Made" is clearly just a tongue in cheek title for a playlist rather than a definitive "Yeah, this was all me"

I think using old Chester recordings on new songs would send the wrong message. Release those tracks through the LPU or something.

Good Goodbye is up there as one of the band's worst. Can't believe it made the album

This is very easily my least favorite of the 6. I think the hook is pretty poor and Blackbear's verse is just awful. Mike's verses really save this track

Eh. It's fine. She has a good voice, but the song isn't really anything noteworthy.

He does, I was more referring to having some significant role, which I wouldn't really consider the harmonies to be

Jesus, you act like Chester wasn't on 9/10 songs on OML (doing lead vocals on 7/10 tracks), that Mike isn't just as much one of the lead vocalists in the band, that there are no "real instruments" on OML, and that there are more than ~6 LP songs with guest features.