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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

Color me very surprised that LYF got played live I really felt like it and Unshatter would never see representation beyond their YouTube visualizers. They clearly both represent sounds that didn’t really fit the album imo Now I’m wondering what the next surprise will be. All for nothing, friendly fire, lost in “full” and LYF were all surprises for me

very cool find, I agree that the lyrics and “cut bars” feel very OML. I could tell OEO was OML immediately but this one didn’t cross my mind hopefully we get the soft demo one day that Mike alluded to

I just think it’s great how these dlx songs all offer something distinctly different from the main album. Like UFTB feels kinda like TEM but is solidly differentiated by the rap bridge and prechoruses, Unshatter feels kinda like CTB but not really and has a totally different bridge feel, and LYF feels unique too You have to imagine some demos and other tracks must have been more redundant and they chose 3 great ones to give us. Can’t wait to find out what the blurred song is on Phoenix’s phone amongst other demos that surely exist from this timespan

So who's gonna go looking for his raps on the boards? Did we know about those before? He claims it's a new tidibit of information in this video and says the fans will add it to his wiki pages

I'm surprised Stained came befoer IGYEIH It'll be cool to get IGYEIH and finally have a complete LP album again Also if we don't get a proshot of Mike's solo one day it will be a huge miss, it's so fun

I think it would be sonically interesting but awkward for them to play a couple in a song What I would really love is a song like COG between them, or for us to get a proshot COG because I feel like that song sounds amazing with a female vocalist

I find it so weird still that COG and BID are in that rotation at all when the songs themselves are not being rotated. I figure RU or some other melodies would be there, in the same way that The Catalyst appeared there when it was no longer in the full set I also wouldn't be surprised if FF never reappeared, but here's hoping that some OML representation gets in there soon

It’s not wildly different, it’s still guitar driven and melodic. I think the track that comes to mind for me is TooLegit

agreed about Unshatter, but LYF doesn’t seem like a song they’d add either having heard it. It’s a very different feel from the rest of FZ and it would make a lot more sense to promo the stuff that sounds like the “main sound” with adding the rest of FZ and stuff like QWERTY

I feel like one of them is a safe debut, or at lest something like LGM or Blackout (maybe shortened)

these are the songs 80+% of the audience is there for I do wish they’d cut BID and ND in half tho to make room for something more interesting, I miss all the mashups

One thing I would love to see is the COG interludes replaced with melodies like Final Masquerade or Nobody Can Save Me, it would be the perfect way to sneak all the albums into the show Add in a bar of the Krwlng strings and change COG to have the remix outro and we’ve got all the albums represented Also I think it’s funny how many more times Mike has done the 2nd verse of UIB over the first, he must really like it Also There They Go feels like it’s shown up a lot, but maybe I’m just thinking that bc I really loved the 2008 intros for points