Best of Linkin Park: Demos/Features/Other Songs

Hello Guys, I'm sure this thread has been made at some point in LPA's lifetime (Probably by me too ) but I was unable to find a recent thread so I felt it would be more appropriate to make a new one.

The reason I decided to make this a thread is because my friend is a huge Linkin Park fan but hasn't heard a lot of the unofficial songs from Linkin Park so I decided to make a mixtape for him because I truly believe he is missing out on some great songs. He's heard a few like Across the Line and Blackbirds from me before but not most of them. When making this mixtape I thought this would be a good idea for a thread on LPA as well to see what everyone opinions are!

So my question to you guys is the following: If you were to make a mixtape or a "best of" for Linkin Park's demos, features, and other songs, what would you include? Below is my list and the tracklist I made for the mixtape for my friend. Note, I just copy and pasted the tracklist that I had from a word document which I why it says where all the songs come from, that part is obviously optional

LINKIN PARK- DEMOS MIXTAPE [NOT IN ORDER OF FAVORITES]

1. Across The Line (Minutes to Midnight Demo)
2. Blackbirds (Minutes to Midnight Demo)
3. Animals (Living Things Demo)
4. Dedicated (1999 Demo)
5. Wish (Live) [Nine Inch Nails Cover]
6. Slip (Hybrid Theory Demo)
7. Blue (Hybrid Theory Demo)
8. Asbestos (Minutes to Midnight Demo)
9. So Far Away (Hybrid Theory Demo)
10. It’s Going Down (Feat. X-Ecutioners)
11. Unreleased (With The Visionaries)
12. What We Don’t Know (Minutes to Midnight Demo)
13. I Have Not Begun (A Thousand Suns Demo)
14. It Goes Through (2009 Demo)
15. Chance of Rain (Minutes to Midnight Demo)
16. Can’t Hurt Me (The Hunting Party Demo)
17. Reading My Eyes (Live) [Xero Demo]
18. Closing (Xero Demo)
19. A Light That Never Comes (With Steve Aoki)
20. She Couldn’t (Hybrid Theory Demo)
21. Qwerty (Minutes to Midnight Demo)
22. White Noise (The Hunting Party Demo)

I should note "Not Alone" would make this list but I personally view it as an official song.

 

No Pictureboard

 

With how much hype it gets, it will probably be massively disappointing when if we finally hear it.

 

Primo, Holding Company, No Roads Left, Drawing, Fear, Three Band Terror

 

This is fun. I'll do a 12 song tracklist, like a normal CD by LP would have. I don't know all of LP's unreleased songs, I'm still learning them all, but I like these ones.

01. A.06 (Meteora Demo)
02. Qwerty (Minutes To Midnight Demo)
03. It Goes Through (A Thousand Suns Demo)
04. Across The Line (Minutes To Midnight Demo)
05. Blackbirds (Minutes To Midnight Demo)
06. White Noise (The Hunting Party Demo)
07. Slip (Hybrid Theory Demo)
08. My December (Hybrid Theory Demo)
09. She Couldn't (Hybrid Theory Demo)
10. No Roads Left (Minutes To Midnight Demo)
11. Pale (Minutes To Midnight Demo)
12. Devil's Drop (Living Things Demo)

 

All of them is the easy answer, but I think there should be a limit.
If I had to choose 12, I'd do a hip hop mixtape:

Linkin Park: The Hip Hop Mixtape
1. Slip
2. Blue
3. Dedicated
4. Drop
5. Fiends
6. It's Going Down
7. Unreleased (Ft. The Visionaries)
8. I Have Not Begun
9. Like Riding A Bike (Ft. Hot Karl, Abnormal and Intuition)
10. Rock'N Roll Part 2
11. We Made It (Ft. Busta Rhymes)
12. Closing

 

Really solid list! I wouldn't count HTEP and My December/High Voltage myself in this category but I don't blame anyone for including them. This would be a really good album if it was an album.

 

Probably most of the MTM stuff. I'll do 12 or it's too easy:

1. Blackbirds
2. Across the Line
3. QWERTY
4. Pretend to Be
5. Dedicated
6. She Couldn't
7. Chance of Rain
8. Carousel
9. We Made It
10. ALTNC
11. Devil's Drop
12. Part of Me (with the outro thingy)

I definitely would include Primo if it was a little more finished, but something about it feels really demo-ish and unpolished to me. I still think it's amazing tho.

 

Pretend to Be
What We Don't Know
Not Alone
Issho ni
No Roads Left
Primo
High Voltage Remix
My December
The Last Line
Halo

 

Primo
Pretend To Be
No Roads Left
Dedicated
Debris
It's Going Down
Qwerty
What We Don't Know
Chance Of Rain
Devil's Drop

 

Since everyone is doing 12 tracks, I'll narrow it down to my favorites and try to order it.

1. What We Don't Know
2. Across the Line
3. Qwerty (Live)
4. White Noise
5. Blackbirds
6. Animals
7. She Couldn't
8. Dedicated
9. It Goes Through
10. Chance of Rain

Minutes to Midnight could have been the best album of all time.

 

In no real order, going with 12 tracks:

Basquiat
Across the Line
What We Don't Know
Three Band Terror
Blackbirds
Devil's Drop
She Couldn't
Issho Ni
It Goes Through
The Last Line
No Roads Left
Primo

 

You know, when all of a sudden they started calling this a 2015 demo, I was really hoping that it'd show up on the new album in some form, reworked or just as a part of the track. Unfortunately...

 

I read something about this, that it is not a 2015 demo, but it says 2015 Demo on the LPU 16 CD track listing. To me it sounds like music from A Thousand Suns. But it is true, they could have made it into a full song. Sometimes I wonder what a lot of the instrumental unreleased songs would sound like if they were completed.

Anyways, I agree with Deliveranze, you don't want to have too much tracks on one mix for your friend, that's why I did 12, and also to follow LP's usual format of 12 songs on most albums.

 

Shit, totally forgot about these. They would definitely be in my 12 actually.

 

Across The Line
Blackbirds
What We Don’t Know

These are probably my favourite LP Demos, Blackbirds and What We Don´t Know are just masterpieces which could have been released in a previous album or could be released in an upcoming one, I´d be happy with the idea of a Demo album, but would also be satisfied if LP explored another genre, for example Symphonic Metal, which is a genre I listen to a lot apart from Nu Metal and some Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge,

 

"Burberry" was originally titled "Space Station", and was relased back in 2012 as part of Mike's Stagelight projects. "Space Station" is almost three minutes long and I've been wishing for a while that the band/Shinoda do something with it. It's way too good to be buried so deep that even the core fanbase is unfamiliar with it.