Man, people would have been disappointed with anything, short of a complete derivative nu-metal album.
Man.. I like the sound.... About the lyrics, you guys remember Breaking The Habit Demo? LPU XIV (?)? Same thing I guess. Mike's just blabbing to find the right rythm, right rhyme, before they finalise the lyrics. Just my guess. EDIT: Kinda fits FM more.
I just see this as a really awkward time to be doing another FM song, maybe a few months ago when they were just diving back into recording the new LP album but they're so far into the process now that it seems like it would be a huge distraction. I can't envision something this sample-based ending up on an LP studio album either, so unless this is for some other unknown side project, the Lonely Island track is really the only thing I can think of right now.
That guitar is funky, I want less Mike rapping though, I want some regular singing over rap like beats, that'd be great, because the rap beats are usually really good, but the rap is not.
I guess I'm falling behind, I haven't heard anything about a LI track. But this doesn't sound like an LP track lyrically, and if that's a sample and not original guitar, it seems much less likely that it would be a FM track as well. I would be happy to hear guitar like that on LP7 though.
which is sorta surprising because all they've talked about for this record was the lyrics and how "personal' it was.
Lonely Island track info is two news posts below this one. Save for the more hip hop-styled drum beats, the music in this is entirely sampled from Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart."
I was under the impression all these years that Pictureboard was meant to originally be released all those years ago
Yo guys the song is a Hot Karl aka Jensen Karp song called "Like Riding a Bike" his memoir Kanye West Owes Me 300 Dollars comes out June 7th along with the track, he premiered the song on his podcast Get Up On This, which Mike Shinoda was a guest back in 2011 on the very first episode. Listen here https://soundcloud.com/getuponthispod/246-jensen-matty#t=1:00:25 It's fuckin straight fire, you could melt steel beams with this shit.
It was on the preliminary LPU 9 tracklisting (hence it having an entry in the BMI database), but was replaced with Across the Line at the last minute after said sample clearance issues arose. Probably was written as a demo with the idea of potentially including it on the debut album but obviously never got any farther in the process than stuff like She Couldn't, Blue, Slip, etc. did. No need to spend the time/money clearing the sample if the song doesn't make the cut. Still, waiting 10 years before trying to get a sample clearance isn't really any better than waiting 15 or 17, lol.