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50 minutes ago, RentEznor said:

More old unused lyrics? Nice.

So much teasing, and the deliberately blurred computer screen too. Hopefully this year we get LPU demos, a demo version of TEM and such would be the perfect way to reignite those songs a bit and get it to the billion stream mark 

At least Second To None got into Transformers, I probably would not know it without that. 

On 11/23/2025 at 3:15 PM, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

There's an extended version of this track probably not many people know. 

 

 

Did not know! I love still finding stuff like this

The album is incredible, I'm sure the most interesting stuff though is probably any tracks between now and back then that Mike considered for a follow-up. Like those that we had heard about around Welcome and stuff we've seen like I.O.U.

On 11/21/2025 at 6:18 AM, BartBart91 said:

 

The only thing LP could have really done without back then was LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent (Ballad Medley). It's really not good; they should have just played Iridescent instead, it would have been much better. And they could finally replace Burn It Down with a different song; that one is incredibly annoying, I don't like it at all.

Ballad Medley is one of my favorite things they've ever done live lol, imo much more interesting than just Iridescent. Super cool way to get 3 choruses people love into one coherent experience. 

IMO they should just change GTG to acoustic or something like Lost or Crawling 2017, let her sing it in a super comfortable key and don't try to make it powerful, cut the rap, etc. It's a great song that could easily carry over into something beatiful and it doesn't work super well trying to be replicated live rn 

I wonder if we'll get the instrumental/acapella of the deluxe tracks, LYF instrumental is here 

I often think that Mike overdoes the harmonies  live, but here they really come off well, and his singing in the verses sounds better live than I thought they would too

This is overall actually so much better than I ever imagined this song sounding live 

Anytime we get a clean recording of the faint outro it's a win

I kinda wish Emily locked in for the HITC scream here tho 

With all the 2026 dates, maybe they don't wanna release the whole show in digital form just yet. Videos like this keep people wanting to come without giving away every moment 

But yeah I'm certainly eager to get a proper release of so much, like the 2017 LOATR, there WYG/WFTE combo etc. 

Oh I want them to record these so badly 

17 hours ago, Soeffingnaive92 said:

They are probably sitting on thousands of demos, some with other singers we'll never get to hear. 

We already know GTG has a few other singers. I wonder if Friendly Fire, Tidal Wave, Ricochet and other OML stuff ever got considered or reworked like OEO did. Also curious if In My Head or any MS stuff was ever shaping up in LP style 

On 9/8/2025 at 7:00 AM, silverwing said:

Album was supposed to be 10 songs. I guess they felt something missing and created IGYEIH last minute.

Like others say, I don't think the count is evidence of that, but it does seem clear that IGYEIH and Casualty came together late after Brad said the whole "let's make something heavier" comment. I do wish they showed more of that side of the creative process and not just tracking instruments. I wanna see them talking about what songs work together, what to cut, what sounds are missing to make the album feel whatever way etc. 

On 8/25/2025 at 11:31 AM, LPLStaff said:

UIOP being a working title is pretty funny since it is what comes after QWERTY on the keyboard lol

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. 

22 hours ago, TPhil said:

Crazy good show. Loved the production and my voice is shot. Not much talking to the crowd, which is a shame cause I was hoping Mike would reference the 2015 show here that they had to cancel after Chester broke his akle (and then the whole tour got canceled).

 

Mike did the first verse of "Richard Bachman" from his Ziggurats album during the WRCFM/RTN medley - pretty sure that's the first time anything from his Twitch streams has been done live.

 

Right before that he gave a boy in the audience a hat signed by every band member and a girl gave Mike some glasses to wear. Emily put them on later in the set.

 

Collin wore a Steelers crop top and I got it when he tossed it into the crowd, then I met Adam during the clean-up.

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 

5 hours ago, Soeffingnaive92 said:

Doesn't need to be like that, nobody would ask about stuff off FZ since there's clearly no nod to Chester and that's super fine, starting over and not get stuck in the past grief after 7/8 years, but we are talking about letting the door open to an interpretation about just 1 song.  

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 

13 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Somewhere I Belong, Lying From You, From the Inside to open is really fucking great. Like, who would have ever thought 3 Meteora songs would open in 2025 this many years later? Like the album or not, many of their best live songs are on that record.

 

Love the set and how they are changing it up. They will drop New Divide to play Waiting for the End, etc. And A Place for My Head was in there.

 

Nice show.

 

https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/Live:20250622

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 

1 hour ago, Trumtram said:

Mike is recognized because he carried the Hip-Hop aspect with the utmost respect since day 1. I think people with a strong Hip-Hop background can acknowledge him because he always showed that he knows what Hip-Hop is about. Unlike many other "rappers" in rock bands back then, he "lived" and respected the culture (plus, you know, wrote some killer rap parts and produced a LOT of amazing beats).

 

I doubt many people from the genre would call him one of the best to ever do it, but they most certainly respect him for being "real" in a way. At least that's my feeling.

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 

1 hour ago, ScottiePippo said:

Yeah it's not about quality. It's about the focus. The focus so far has  definitely not been on hip hop. There's no real hip-hop first song yet from the new lineup. 

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