With the release of The Catalyst, I was curious as to where I'd really rank it among all LP songs ever (excluding remixes). Here's my list: 1) Papercut 2) Breaking The Habit 3) Faint 4) In The End 5) Don't Stay 6) Lying From You 7) The Catalyst 8) Points of Authority 9) Easier To Run 10) New Divide So it does rank in my Top 10, and I tried to be as completely honest with myself as possible here. I tried to take the "new" factor out when thinking about it, but I would definitely place it in my Top 10. Here's the remainder of my list: 11) From The Inside 12) Figure.09 13) Numb 14) Leave Out All The Rest 15) Across The Line 16) My December 17) Part Of Me 18) Pushing Me Away 19) She Couldn't 20) Runaway 21) A Place For My Head 22) In Pieces 23) Hit The Floor 24) One Step Closer 25) Blackbirds 26) High Voltage 27) Given Up 28) Bleed It Out 29) Crawling 30) Valentine's Day NOTE: The version of "High Voltage" I ranked was the B-Side for Hybrid Theory, not the EP version. However, the live version of this song included in one of the earlier LPU's would rank much higher, possibly Top 10. 31) What I've Done 32) No More Sorrow 33) The Little Things Give You Away 34) Carousel 35) No Roads Left 36) Somewhere I Belong 37) Cure For The Itch 38) QWERTY 39) Forgotten 40) Dedicated 41) By Myself 42) Session 43) And One 44) Nobody's Listening 45) Lockjaw 46) Hands Held High 47) Step Up 48) With You 49) Shadow Of The Day 50) In Between There's my list. A result of absolute boredom. Feel free to comment or post your own ranking.
Yeah it took me a good half an hour. Kind of interesting though. I've never thought about every song in comparison with the others.
hmmm. maybe just take each song and add it to your list one at a time (is this better than #1? no. better than two? yes. so it's the new #2). Maybe I'll try it right now. My nerd powers tell me i should not have to make more than 625 decisions, worst case. Is it odd that I cant do a top 10 without doing this first? In the End Breaking the Habit From the Inside By Myself And One Part of Me Pushing Me Away Lying From You Faint No Roads Left Dedicated Across the Line Papercut Bleed It Out Don't Stay Announcement Public Service A.06 (full length) The Little Things Give You Away Qwerty Carousel Figure .09 A Place For My Head One Step Closer Somewhere I Belong In Pieces Easier to Run A Cure for the Itch Crawling She Couldn't What I've Done Forgotton Hit the Floor Nobody's Listening Leave Out All the Rest Step Up In Between My December With You Lockjaw No More Sorrow Blackbirds Runaway Points of Authority Valentine's Day New Divide Numb High Voltage Hands Held High Shadow of the Day Not Alone Session Wake Technique (short) Given Up Forward I can't fairly include The Catalyst yet, my favorites up there have a legacy with me. verdict: tedious but not difficult to do. Just do one at a time. EDIT: and now color coded roughly by album cycle