When questioned about the song on Twitch on October 15, 2020, Mike said: "So this off of HybridTheory20. This is an old, this is when Chester first joined the band. So that's just live, that's live guitar mic'ed up, MPC for all the rhythm tracks, and then bass through like a bass pod emulator like, a little like laptop one I think. We were just using an SM58 mic. Yeah, this is not live drums. This is MPC drums. Yeah, this is an early Chester, like it's an early Chester demo. We're playing around with the back and forth. So I think this is the moment the crazy bass stuff begin, right? Yes, so this is when we first tried out this guy Kyle as a bass player. Dave had left. This is Kyle at the end. Like, he was real... he loved like Primus and like slap bass stuff so he was gnarly. He loved all that, like, fast slap bass stuff. So I thought like 'let's give him a bass solo spot.' Yeah, and then, yeah, that solo is Kyle. That was interesting. I actually thought we weren't gonna be able to put this track on the HybridTheory20 box set because it was, yeah, cause like we haven't talked to Kyle that long so I was like 'I don't know how we're gonna track that guy down.' Like 'good luck.' And I didn't know if he would approve it. Like he'd might be like 'give me all the publishing.' Like 'I wanna 100% of the publishing or else you can't have the song.' And he was apparently, I mean, I have to imagine he was cool because it all worked out fine. I actually didn't talk to him. Yeah, that was that era. Like, it was very much in transition and Chester was like pretty new in the band."[4]
A lot of people have been giving Across The Line a lot of love. As an exclusive demo, I love it too. However, I can't agree with anyone saying it should have been on MtM (you In Between hater people! One of my favorite LP songs. THOSE lyrics are beautiful.), at least as the song is on this CD. I'm sure if the song had been completed and put on MtM the lyrics would have gone through some fine-tuning. "It's your time" is just filler. The song is extremely poppy, so as for the song itself, it's not going to be getting a bunch of plays from me.
A.06 (Original Long Version 2002) - I really like this demo. Way better than the short demo we got on LPU 2.0. I feel like this song could write it's own lyrics. You can tell that the Linkin Park format is there and you can almost hear the words scream from the song. A-
Fear (Leave Out All The Rest Demo 2006) - Mike is AMAZING! I still prefer the final version's lyrics, only if Mike sang The chorus lyrics are my new favorite Linkin Park lyrics. The rapping aspect of the demo would have been great on the final version. 'Don na na na!' B+
Fear - I'm loving the feeling and structure on this more so then the original, it packs more "punch", they could have fixed this up nicely to become a much better final song, like with most of the tracks, this was very demo was only made to be what it is, a demo. The lyrics are simple but a lot more affective to me, I actually prefer the "danadana" to the LOATR chrous. I'm definetly going to enjoy listening to this, as its own song.
Drawing - I can't really see why this could have been thrown out as an instrumental, lyrics fit over it perfectly (with obvious tweaking to some of electronic break-down). The more electronic feel, I'm defiantly enjoying enough to listen to this as its own song.
Drum Song - Very intresting to hear this, and I feel LP cheated a little bit on this, they took a complelty un-political demo and made it all of a sudden about Katrina. I've always hated the fact LP have gone all political on some of there newer tracks, it doesn't suit them, they are too specfic and opionutaed (not that I don't agree with anything they are putting across). This had potential to have turned into such a better song.
Like seriously, it's just absurd when people expected the demos to be polished, and finished songs with full lyrics. demos most of the time are not play worthy as a song. I'm glad the Stick N' Move we got was that 30 second instrumental. Serves people right for demanding something they have no understanding for. You requested demos, the band gave it to you. They never said you'd like it. Obviously they didn't like it hence how it transformed into the finished product.
I just picked the CD up at a Best Buy in Philly, and there really isn't anything bad about this LPU except the really short and vocal lacking hybrid theory demos. Everything else pretty much kicks ass. A-Six isn't a copy paste version of A.06 and has a kick ass chorus. Mike sounds like his old young self on Faint's demo, and I liked how they used the power-chords that they showed Brad playing in the making of Meteora. Fear really took me by surprise. Its a completely different song and yet it still fits really well. Figure.09 was pretty cool, but I would've liked to have heard the original rap verses that Mike had on there. Across The Line is growing on me with each listen. LP was definitely right in keeping it off of MTM cause the feel I got from that song isn't the same vibe that track list gives as a whole, and I like how you can still hear the old Japan demo melody. Drawing was pretty sweet. I love when LP uses live strings and hearing them along with the crazy beats and samples really hit home. Plus I liked how Brad's guitar riff had some effects thrown on it. Drum song, in my opinion, is the best song on this CD next to ATL. I like the absence of all the guitars and the added keyboard through out. Plus I just think Mike really did great with the vocals and harmonies. Overall, great LPU CD. Most likely the best, and a definite improvement over last years disappointment.
These last couple years seem to be a more experimental phase for the band. Coming off of A Thousand Suns, you could have went in any number of directions with this new record. Can you talk about how you discovered where you wanted to go with this one and embracing a lot more of the electronics?
Linkin Park has a new song! I should be thrilled about this as the band delves into its back catalogue to unearth previously recorded tracks that have never seen the light of day before. Meteora, the 2003 album that features nu-metal classics like Numb, Faint, From the Inside, Breaking the Habit, and Somewhere I Belong is receiving a revamped release to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and with it the reveal of an ancient demo once lost to time. Fitting, given that's precisely where the track finds its name.
This was the debut album for Linkin Park. It launched them into world fame and suddenly it has been 20 years since its initial release, showing how much time flies. A lot has changed for the band in those twenty years, from the changes in musical style and the devastating loss of their lead singer Chester Bennington a few years ago. But still, this album and the legacy of the band lives on and now we get to enjoy some rare demos from the making of this record.
Listening to the unreleased songs and demos made me think how different the album could have been, and what that would have done to the future of the band. Would Hybrid Theory have been the huge success it ended up being? We will never know.
Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on May 14, 2007 through Warner Bros. Records This album showed some change of genre of linkin park from nu metal to other experimental genres. The album has been certified double platinum in the United States and shipped over 3.3 million copies worldwide in its first four weeks of release. It is their first studio album with a Parental Advisory label.
Few could have imagined a gaggle of angsty teens from the modest city of Agoura Hills in California could have had such an incredible, longstanding effect on the evolution of rock music, but one only need dip into some of the earliest videos of Linkin Park to see that the potential for greatness was always there.
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