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YRQRM0

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  1. Well there it is, sounds awesome! Can't wait for our first OML b side, hopefully it's the first of a few
  2. Yeah, everyone who calls a greatest hits compilation or any of the MS AO remixes pointless is missing this effect. This will no doubt generate a few thousand discoveries of songs by casual fans who want to re-listen to the limited hits they remember. You'll have people who never gave the other stuff a chance, and people who didn't like it at the time but have evolved their tastes since. I played Blackout for someone the other day who was aware of LP's change of course but not a big fan past MTM, and he was like "this was actually way ahead of its time". This is why I'm especially bummed there's no THP, that's probably the album that needs the most help getting discovered by fans of their first 3 records
  3. If 4 insta posts are coming in groups of 5, then that implies a 20th. Do we only think Friendly Fire is one because of the "Final Sessions" note? I feel like if there's a second one, it'll be from another era. Probably nothing left to share from Meteora, but we have those HT sessions and I'm sure plenty of MTM. That would give the larger fanbase of their earlier stuff something else to get excited about, since I feel like the average reaction to Friendly Fire will be "cool, but I still don't care for anything after the first 2/3 albums"
  4. Wow, we are getting spoiled over the last 12 months. Will this be on streaming in any way?
  5. Yeah I'm aware, but I figured if FF was coming by end of February, we'd have a little website revamp, some kind of puzzle or something that was more obviously teasing. Casual fans aren't really gonna think anything's coming just from seeing the accounts reposting fan vids
  6. But I mean the M20 campaign with the "BBB tape" thing came out a lot earlier, there's nothing like that right now Also yeah, greatest hits will most certainly include songs from every album and probably a few from left field that Mike is really proud of or something, like Rebellion. I think RU will be there too since the band seems to really like it and it also had a moment after being in Fast and Furious
  7. Lost was teased quite a while before it dropped right? I feel like the end of this month is too soon for a new single given the home page of LP is still all about M20 with no hint at anything else. Unless they've just decided to not do the teaser marketing this time for some reason
  8. Since OML was started with lyrics and melody, I assume there are a lot of "acoustic versions" of tracks with vocals tracked over acoustic guitars/piano or really basic instrumentation. Hopefully we get some of those some day
  9. It'll be great for casual fans who only know HT/M/MTM to get another listen to stuff like WFTE, especially if the album order is like you have here
  10. If this is indeed Friendly Fire, I'd guess it's either: 1. Because of the huge success of Lost, they wanna continue the momentum 2. The band wants to start a new phase by giving some "proper" closure to songs written with Chester
  11. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Friendly Fire by name given that Mike confirmed it was finished and mixed I wonder if this is just the label trying to recreate the success of Lost or what. I'm gonna set my expectations for an anniversary release or greatest hits of some sorts, but damn I'll be thrilled if it's truly a new song written after 2017.
  12. It would've been pretty neat to have a new set of demos on a disc, like the most complete tracks of M20 and HT20 combined. People who Lost reached could be exposed to stuff like Step Up or Blue for the first time
  13. Exactly, I'd rather just experience and comment on it for what it is instead of bemoaning its existence. new original music that is for us will likely come eventually, and we're so lucky that it's still coming at all imo
  14. That's kinda depressing and my point exactly, why turn every forum into a space full of complaining? What ever happened to "If you don't have anything nice to say"? Criticism I don't mind seeing: "I get Mike wants to maximize his reach and market his new song, but these remixes aren't very musically interesting and I wish he'd hold a remix contest or something to get more sonic variety" Criticism that I think is more annoying than 10,000 Already Over remixes: "The front page of a site/forum dedicated to discussing MS/LP releases and activities is littered with MS activities that I happen to not like. I'm sick of listening to every version of AO when, in fact, I am choosing to do so. I could just not listen and wait for the next original interesting track from Mike but instead am coming here to complain and critique the mere existence of these releases, even though he and his label are just following best marketing practices today"
  15. I bet we'll get a video or a few on YouTube of performances of the song and that'll be it
  16. Pretty cool tbh. You don't have to click on new AO stuff if you don't want guys. Mike is not rehashing the song for us hardcore fans, he's doing it because he can and to spread his reach as a solo artist. In the digital marketing age, you reuse content as much as you can to maximize engagement with your brand. It's not any different than LP doing gimmicky music videos like GATS or LITE, the 360 Welcome video, putting out "Live around the world", teaming up with Mercedes, 8-bit rebellion remixes, recharged remixes, remix contests, releasing acapellas and instrumentals etc. All of these are just maximizing the life and reach of the brand separate from new original pieces of music. We could either sit in silence between AO and the next original Mike song, or see stuff like this that makes us say "neat" and move on. Or, you can choose to be upset and complain, but why waste time like that?
  17. I totally agree with New Divide, GATS and all the Monterrey tracks, but I feel like there are many more recordings of WFTE that are better, although idk if they wouldn't have the intros/outros Can't wait for THP 20th so we can get a few live recordings of those songs on streaming, especially GATS and Wastelands
  18. seems like it. Hopefully a tour is on the horizon and/or another new track in the same vein as AO
  19. Easily Tokyo, the instrumentation is so exciting, and Mike's vocals are pretty stellar too. It's too bad the other songs aren't on this, COG and RTN are such unique versions. I figure he'd want RTN to draw some attention too Anyone know why he has two mics in the Tokyo session? One for dry vocals and the other for verb?
  20. I think Heavy sounds very LP, it just depends on what aspect you're listening to. The drums/guitars in Heavy are there, but they're not mixed to the top like other LP, and obviously stuff like Kiara makes it feels different Since we've gotten the twitch streams and so much Mike solo stuff, I feel you can really hear his production style tricks clearly across everything when you try to figure out what's similar. Like he loves the vinyl texture or some grit that is in everything from Heavy to Not Alone to Wake. He loves panned double guitars no matter what sound. There's almost always secondary percussion to "real" drums, he loves "dead notes" on electric guitars, harmony/double vocal layers that are stereo and add width, etc.
  21. I would have assumed MTV got a final mix in 2002, but the only doubt I have is the quote from Mike that says they tried to revive it later on. Makes me think maybe they tucked it away assuming more work would be done on it. Either way, there's nothing about the song that sounds unfinished to me at all, and with the "15 tracks" quote, it seems completely plausible. I'd love to hear that because MTV has slowly become one of my fav LP tracks ever.
  22. I was a little bummed that it wasn't an LP song but it's cool to have our first live rendition of iMH. The instrumental also sounds more interesting to me when you can hear the organic sounds of the guitar more clearly Also wow, this came out so soon after the last one. I wonder if there's another song on the way or if we're closing out this little era soon, we've gotten quite a lot of content. Maybe I could see an official AO music video since the existing one feels a bit more like a visualizer, or an MV for part 2 or FM mix? One final EP with all the sessions including the LP songs? Maybe a remix contest? Otherwise I feel like they've pulled out nearly all the stops here
  23. I didn't expect him to pull out COG for these sessions, that was really nice. It's also one of the best LP songs for other singers imo with the great harmony parts and the fact it has both a folky but also alternative vibe Now I wanna hear some other melodic LP stuff in these like Roads Untraveled, or even some deeper cuts like Until it breaks (the outro/3 band terror part would be awesome with new voices), In Between or maybe No Roads Left with Mike and new harmony parts
  24. I always loved There They Go and Be Somebody, nice to be able to give those a spin. Idk if I ever listened to the hard way, if I did I didn't appreciate it back then but I'm loving it now! If only the full EP was just uploaded as is
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