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I must've missed that, don't they call it Villain? Maybe Two Faced is called Plaster 3

Always cool to see whatever BTS we can get I really wish though that these focused more on the “why” of the songs. Like we heard this demo got started super late in the process, I wanna know why they thought they needed it, what sound they were trying to fill out etc.

Holy hell Ziiggurats yes! That EP is so underrated!

I think it's just some light EQ and mastering of the song for the context of the video editing to get the crowd noise in there cleanly and such, not a different source

The Moscow intro feels weird to me and doesn’t really fit, I wonder if it’s just to kinda fill time I have to admit it’s my least fav song besides Unshatter, but it was more fun live than I expected kinda weird they took one where Mike messes up the verse lol I really want some pro shots of stuff like Catalyst and WFTE from this era!

I didn't know this existed, very cool

Mike doesn't want to seem stuck in the past and he has a very mature way of looking at music. He wants fans to gain that maturity, you can see it all the way back in LT interviews when he talks about incorporating folk influences and hoping fans can embrace the variety, or when feeling proud of the double meaning behind UIG They're asking him if it's about Chester and he's saying no, I don't really see what else he'd say besides "I don't wanna say" which is basically the same

3 Meteora songs in a row is really surprising. The band used to be obsessed with making sure every album got its fair share with stuff like the NMS/Catalyst/UIG/ALTNC mashup, Blackout/Papercut, Runaway/Wastelands etc. There's still lots of mixing albums together but I'm surprised something like 3 M songs in a row would happen bc of that, and that OML still has 0 representation

It feels like there’s always one kinda mysterious song that is also super interesting that the band never talks about. Skin to bone, mark the graves, halfway right and now stained Also they all have a similar spot in the tracklist! I still love these episodes but it’s weird how all over the place they are lol. No studio footage for this one, no other discussions about the songs place etc

Yeah kinda feels like from this that it was just Mike and Brad being like "we need a song that calls back to HT/M for the comeback" and they whipped it up rather quickly. The way Emily asks what part is the bridge reinforces that. Maybe guitar/bass/scratches were just filled in after those two basically did all of it and everyone agreed it was worthwhile. I would've liked to see the actual conversations about returning to this sound in such a committed way, it still blows my mind how it sounds right at home from that era. Also kinda funny Mike calls out the two minute song then when OEO and a lot of OML is optimized for length too

I feel like a big rap track like WTCFM or IOU is a given for the next album, but other than that I’ve honestly got no predictions. Probably a super soft track thrown in? I feel like Overflow and Already Over Nothings There kinda came from the same place, and that there must be more material of that style sitting around. I’d personally love a lot more atmospheric stuff like that on LP9 I also want the ideas explored during LT to come back like Three Band Terror or Animals

oh I agree, I just think it’s a little funny to hear them praise him in this light when the big comeback album feels pretty far from hip hop compared to a lot of the other albums. Like the opening would have felt a lot more natural to me if he had a Wretches and Kings type track on FZ rather than the reality of there not being a ton of hip hop beats on the album

I felt a little awkward about this at the beginning of the interview lol. No doubt Mike’s a legend, but his rhymes are pretty simple and poppy on FZ, with the only big Hip Hop type moments imo being the verses of Two Faced and GTG I hope the hosts peeped Ziggurats, that thing is so underrated Knowing Mike he was probably sitting there thinking “damn yeah I need to go make something for these guys to show I’m still connected to this side” and wrote 10 new hip hop demos in the hotel

I think he probably just mixed them up That being said, it seems silly to ever make an assumption about where a song came from. animals/roads untraveled sound nothing alike CTB lyrics go all the way back to 2013 OML demos started with just lyrics, so the end result could really sound like anything

With OEO and potentially GTG and LYF being OML era demos, I wonder if there are versions with any Chester vocals OR if Friendly Fire or other OML ideas like Tidal Wave or Ricochet got Emily vocals (or other singers) also I wonder if they’ve basically locked in what we’re getting with an LPU cd and that’s what these BTS are built around. Like we might not get Overflows alt chorus since we heard nothing of it, but we’ll get Mike singing an early version of OEO for example