"Session" - Song by Song, Let's Talk Linkin Park

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  1. Christøffer

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    One Step Closer

    "One Step Closer" is the lead single and second track from Hybrid Theory. The song is an icon of the band’s debut, propelling both the band and their debut album to stardom with the momentum from its very successful release as the album's lead single. It is among the band's most recognizable and successful songs, and a fixture of their live performances.


    "One Step Closer" began as a demo conceived around a similar time as "Papercut," revolving around its hook guitar riff and entitled "Plaster." The earliest circulated recording of "Plaster" appears on a six-track internal Warner demo CD from the Hybrid Theory sessions, alongside five other songs that also made the album. This demo is close to the finished product, with the differences lying in a few vocal takes that were changed, as well as a lack of bridge scratches, since Joe's turntable parts were often among the last parts tracked.

    Brad, Mike, and Chester have all made reference to the fact that the main guitar hook of "One Step Closer" was spontaneously written while the band was doing an amateur photoshoot. The band had asked a friend to take pictures of the group, and Brad had brought his guitar along. While sitting in his Honda Accord playing in drop D tuning, Brad came up with the melody, and recorded it to a pocket recorder he had on him.

    In his autobiography about developing Linkin Park, Jeff Blue recalls that he heard a demo of early “Plaster” alongside “Papercut,” when Mike and Brad brought a cassette to his office at Zomba Music Publishing. This was just before Blue started as Warner Bros. A&R Vice President and Hybrid Theory started their sessions at NRG Recording Studios with Don Gilmore. He also mentions that “Plaster” remained the song's title until after recording and even mixing, with the name change to “One Step Closer” occurring sometime during mastering and sequencing. Blue was a strong advocate for “Plaster” throughout recording, and was thrilled with the song at first listen, as he had been advocating for a strong rock single to push to radio.

    However, throughout recording their debut album, the band received some pushback from certain parties at Warner Bros. Records. This came to a head with "One Step Closer" when David Kahne, the President of A&R and Jeff Blue's direct supervisor, intervened on several occasions. Kahne was a strong opponent of the band's sound, wanting to remove Shinoda from vocals, and took it upon himself to do his own mix of "Plaster." In addition to the mixing choices the band disagreed with in this mix, Kahne also copied Chester's "Shut up" vocals to the intro, a move that drew strong criticism for taking away the surprise element of the bridge. This seems to have been one of the moments that broke down the relationship between Jeff Blue and Linkin Park, as Mike has mentioned the "political" element of Blue's relationship with the label in this situation as a sore point for the band at the time.

    The audio of the "Plaster" mix by David Kahne surfaced through Linkin Park Association in 2008, and Mike also gave further insight on this mix of "Plaster" on his blog after hearing about its appearance and circulation online:
    "One Step Closer," being the band's debut single, played a significant role in the success of Linkin Park and Hybrid Theory. The song was notable for defying several conventions of the music industry at the turn of the 21st century. It began gaining traction early when the unpolished "Plaster" demo began making rounds long before the planned single release, as Warner gauged reactions from radio. Several radio programs picked up earlier mixes of the song, and it was featured on segments such as 99X Atlanta's Rate-a-Record with Chris Williams, where it received favorable audience feedback.

    Following mixing and mastering, the song made rounds again, now being sent out with samplers to Linkin Park's burgeoning street team and to radio stations in the summer of 2000. The reactions to “One Step Closer” were far beyond what the band and label had anticipated—so great, in fact, that highly influential alternative rock radio station KROQ-FM contacted Warner to say they would continue rotating the song despite it not being officially released, a move extremely uncommon in a radio-label relationship. KROQ had received such strong positive listener feedback on "One Step Closer" that they urged Warner to officially release it as a single to radio as soon as possible.

    Chester mentioned the surprise reaction of Warner Bros. to the radio success of "One Step Closer" in October 2000 in their first magazine cover interview, with No Cover magazine:
    The unexpectedly strong response from KROQ and similar reactions from other stations forced Warner Bros. to rethink its strategy. The label fast-tracked the official release of "One Step Closer" as a single to capitalize on the momentum, releasing it to radio in August 2000, while queuing up CD manufacturing to have a physical single released later. Moreover, Warner made the highly unconventional decision to move Hybrid Theory's release date up by nearly five months, from February 2001 to late October 2000, positioning it in the competitive fourth quarter—a release window traditionally dominated by marquee artists and established acts who could compete in the holiday season. This bold move underscored the exceptional traction "One Step Closer" had gained through grassroots and radio-driven momentum, establishing Linkin Park as a force in the music industry even before their album debut.

    Ironically, according to Chester, "One Step Closer" was actually one of his least-favorite songs during the sessions for Hybrid Theory. Whereas most of the band was convinced of its power as a single, Chester felt that the song was "ignorant" in a way, and didn't measure up to some of the other songs written for the album. He would occasionally voice reservations about the song for a few years after, even as late as 2006 mentioning that he had a distaste for it, though he would eventually soften on these opinions. During the recording, Chester was also initially unsure of the simplicity of just screaming "Shut up" in the bridge section, as Mike mentioned during a stream for the 20th anniversary of the album:

    The "Shut up" portion was a rough idea the two vocalists came up with, but after Chester's performance recording the part, both producer Don Gilmore and the band were convinced that it was the missing piece to the track.

    Also of note is that "One Step Closer" is the only track on Hybrid Theory to feature the band's touring bassist, Scott Koziol. Since Phoenix would not rejoin the band until after the release of Hybrid Theory, bass tracking for “One Step Closer” was done by Scott Koziol, who toured as the band's bassist until Phoenix's return in late October, and also featured in the song's music video.

    In terms of composition, "One Step Closer" leans very heavily into nu metal and rock, with the hip-hop and electronic influences found on other Hybrid Theory songs more subdued. The song opens immediately with its signature guitar hook, played in drop C-sharp tuning and utilizing natural harmonics to create leaps in the melody. This guitar riff is central to "One Step Closer," and forms both the rhythmic and melodic basis for much of the song. The song focuses heavily upon rock and metal instrumentation, and while there are flourishes of Linkin Park's other influences, "One Step Closer" boasts its guitar, bass, and live drum parts.

    The intro guitar hook is accompanied by a drum loop buildup, consisting of sampled drums and a swelling, repeated synth. As this reaches a peak, the song launches into a heavier take on the opening hook, using power chords and octaves on the guitar to mimic the jumps from fretted notes to harmonics in the intro. The percussion on "One Step Closer," in contrast to many other tracks on Hybrid Theory, is almost entirely centered around live drums performed by Rob. The drum parts focus on an accented groove, with triplet rhythms further emphasizing the syncopation of the song. A distorted sample of a camera shutter on offbeats also serves to accentuate this percussive groove.

    The choruses shift the guitars from an adaptation of the hook to a driving, methodical power chord sequence, which continually descends down an octave and emphasizes the syncopated sections with muted strums, pairing with Rob's groove on the drums. A persistent high-pitched synth stab, repeated in eighth notes, adds dynamic to this mix as the guitars and bass emphasize the low end. Chester's vocals, doubled and even tripled at parts, feature a mix of him in his distorted singing tone, screaming, and almost rapping the lyrics to the chorus.

    Following the second chorus, "One Step Closer" returns to its intro, reprising the opening guitar hook and intro elements as a buildup to one of the most memorable moments in Linkin Park's catalog. As the synth builds in intensity, the track unfolds into the breakdown, with Chester repeatedly screaming "Shut up" and "Shut up when I'm talking to you" over heavily-synchronized instrumentation. Joe Hahn scratches a vocal sample in a call-and-response fashion with Chester's vocals, filling the gaps between Chester's parts. This sample Joe interprets on his turntables is another sample of Chester screaming, using the "Myself" scream from the track "By Myself" later on Hybrid Theory. The guitars support both of these parts, chugging in a triplet-heavy pattern in time with the vocals and turntables, which creates a heavy start-and-stop syncopated pattern combined with Rob's dynamics on cymbals. This explosive bridge transitions into a final chorus to cap off the track.

    While the instrumentation of "One Step Closer" came to the band very quickly and cemented itself as their potential lead single, the lyrics of the song took considerably more work to finalize. "One Step Closer" was famous for being directly inspired by the band's relationship with producer Don Gilmore during the recording process, as he rejected their lyrical ideas and pushed them to rewrite countless times. Chester has said this was the direct inspiration for a large portion of the lyrics to the song:

    "One Step Closer" draws some parallels to other nu metal contemporary hits, channeling a simple spirit of anger and frustration in a straightforward way. Nowhere is this more seen than in the bridge of the song, with its screams of "Shut up." Mike came up with the prolific bridge vocals on a whim after the band had remained stumped on how to match the aggressive energy of the instrumental bridge section.

    Producer Don Gilmore mentioned that Chester's vocal tracking for the bridge of the song was extremely intense. Gilmore frequently set up vocal "forts" with sound dampening materials to help with unwanted sound reflections, and he said that when recording "One Step Closer," Chester channeled so much energy into his performance of the bridge that he knocked this makeshift booth apart. The take that resulted was beyond Gilmore's expectations.

    "One Step Closer" was released on several different CDs and samplers prior to the release of Hybrid Theory. Among these were a sampler including both "One Step Closer" and "With You," multiple promotional single CDs, and eventually in December 2000 an expanded import CD single release. This enhanced CD single additionally included the music video for "One Step Closer," alongside two Hybrid Theory B-sides: "My December," which the band wrote for a KROQ Christmas album while on tour with Kottonmouth Kings, and "High Voltage," a reimagining by Mike of the original song recorded on the band's 1999 Hybrid Theory EP.

    The music video for "One Step Closer" was filmed in Los Angeles in early September 2000, shot sixty feet underground in the abandoned Hollywood Subway system. Directed by Gregory Dark, a former adult film director, the video shows the band performing in a section of the subway tunnels, accompanied by monks clad in red, who float around the band and perform acrobatic stunts during the performance. As the song unfolds into the bridge, Chester is featured upside down as he performs the "Shut up" portions. Linkin Park also brought out several of their friends to graffiti the walls of the subway tunnel, as can be seen in some shots of the video.

    Following its own smashing success as well as that of Hybrid Theory, "One Step Closer" was remixed for Reanimation, as the penultimate track on the album. For Reanimation, "One Step Closer" was reimagined by the Humble Brothers, a Canadian production duo most known for their work in film and video games, particularly with songs placed in Electronic Arts game franchises such as Freekstyle, Need for Speed, or The Sims. Entitled "1stp Kloser," the remix also features Jonathan Davis, frontman of nu metal band Korn, for a bridge verse leading into the "Shut up" section, as well as additional vocals for the final chorus. The Humble Brothers remix takes the short and fiery "One Step Closer" from two and a half minutes up to nearly six, relying on atmosphere and electronics to create extended buildups, and holding back on using most of the original song's instrumental elements until reaching the bridge.


    "One Step Closer" was then used in a three-song mashup on Collision Course in 2004, mixed together with its fellow Hybrid Theory track "Points of Authority" and Jay-Z's "99 Problems" from The Black Album. The remix uses Linkin Park's instrumentation, transitioning from "Points of Authority" to "One Step Closer" following the second chorus, with the "99 Problems" lyrics set to the instrumentals. Mike Shinoda performs the first verse of "99 Problems" and raps the part of the police officer in the back-and-forth dialogue during Jay-Z's second verse. Eventually, following a third chorus of "99 Problems," the song fully transitions into the "Shut up" bridge, leading into a final chorus alternating the lyrics from "One Step Closer" and "99 Problems."


    "One Step Closer" also received special attention during the 20th anniversary for Hybrid Theory in 2020. As the song that catapulted Linkin Park and their debut album, it was the focus of several interviews and reflections by the band. "One Step Closer" also received a special remix by the hyperpop duo 100 gecs, which was credited as a "Reanimation," harkening back to the intentions of the 2002 Reanimation album.


    "One Step Closer" was also included as one of the 18 songs selected for the band's greatest hits album released in 2024, Papercuts. Like the other tracks on Papercuts, "One Step Closer" received a short video with commentary by Mike, Brad, Phoenix, and Joe.

    "One Step Closer" has been a fixture of Linkin Park's live sets since its inception. Other than "In the End," no other song from the band's catalog rivals the number of times it has been played live throughout their career. "One Step Closer" has been played for nearly every full-length performance by Linkin Park since 2000, only being dropped on very rare occasions.


    As their debut single and the introduction to the band for many people, "One Step Closer" was reserved as a closer for every show Linkin Park played during the Hybrid Theory and Meteora cycles. During most of their early performances, the band would lead into the song by using a dialogue excerpt from the 1993 film Falling Down as intro. With the release of Reanimation in 2002, they then began incorporating various elements of "1stp Klosr" into their live performances of the song: one such example can be heard in their performances from the Live in Texas Summer Sanitarium shows, where the Reanimation bridge is included. The band also featured Jonathan Davis of Korn on several occasions in 2004 to perform his verse from "1stp Klosr," as Korn was part of that year's Projekt Revolution lineup. An officially released recording of one of these features was included on the fourth Linkin Park Underground CD release, taken from Linkin Park's show in Atlanta, Georgia, in August 2004.


    "One Step Closer" continued to close nearly every show leading up to the Minutes to Midnight cycle, only being moved on a couple of occasions in the years leading up to their third studio album. This occurred most prominently during the band's 2006 Summer Sonic festival run in Japan, where "Breaking the Habit" served as closer for the six shows. Starting in 2007, the band began flipping its position entirely, using it as an opener with an extended intro. This format stuck, and throughout 2007 and 2008, "One Step Closer" was used as an opener often, incorporating one of two variations of the "Gunshot Intro," named such for the gunshot samples used at the very beginning of the intro. The Gunshot Intro also prominently featured guitar feedback, an extended scratch part by Joe, and a guitar intro using the bridge guitar riff, leading into the main riff of the song. During the Projekt Revolution 2008 tour, one of Linkin Park's fellow touring acts, Street Drum Corps, often featured on the song to perform either an intro when it opened the set, or provide additional percussion for the bridge and final chorus when "One Step Closer" was the set closer.


    Linkin Park would go on using "One Step Closer" mostly as a closing number throughout the A Thousand Suns era, with its most frequent position being the main set closer, adding an extended outro that reprised the bridge. As touring moved into 2011, "One Step Closer" shifted slightly, as the band began rotating it and "Bleed It Out" between the main set and encore set closers. The song stayed in these two spots for the entire year, with the exception of the band's Formula One Grand Prix performance in Singapore, where they moved the song into a non-opener or closer position for the first time.


    Throughout the Living Things cycle, Linkin Park maintained the standard of using "One Step Closer" as a closer for either the main or encore set. This would change in 2014, however, with the band's May 24th performance leading up to the release of The Hunting Party. Starting with this performance at the KFMA Day festival in Tucson, Arizona, Linkin Park began segmenting their setlist into acts, and "One Step Closer" was used as a closer for Act 1 of the setlist. Additionally, at the band's surprise performance for the Ventura, California, stop of the 2014 Vans Warped Tour, Nate Barcalow of post-hardcore band Finch joined the band onstage for the song, performing the bridge vocals and final chorus with Chester.


    Linkin Park's setlists in 2015 eventually dropped the acts structure, but "One Step Closer" remained in similar positions as either the fourth or fifth song in their setlist. When the band began touring in promotion of One More Light in 2017, they kept "One Step Closer" in this mid-setlist spot, featuring a new intro that featured guitar feedback, a strings melody, and buildup of the opening guitar hook.


    "One Step Closer" was performed at the Hollywood Bowl tribute show for Chester Bennington on October 27, 2017. This performance featured Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck of Julien-K, who were Chester's bandmates in Dead by Sunrise, playing additional guitars. This performance also brought back Jonathan Davis for the first time in 13 years, who sang Chester's parts. However, the performance did not include Davis' Reanimation bridge parts as other guest appearances by him did.


    Though "One Step Closer" was not played by Mike during his solo tours in support of Post Traumatic, it made its triumphant return for Linkin Park's LPU-exclusive comeback show on September 5, 2024. With the new lineup of the band, the song's key was transposed from C-sharp minor up to E-flat minor in order to accommodate Emily Armstrong's vocal range more comfortably. The 2024 live iteration featured an extended intro somewhat similar to the 2017 intro, without the strings or ambient elements, as well as a reprise of the chorus guitar riff for an extended outro.


    The song went on to be featured at all shows for the band's From Zero 2024 arena tour. Linkin Park's 2024 return also brought back the division of the setlist into acts, and "One Step Closer" served as the final song in Act 2, leading into a stage transition for the next act. Its final performance of 2024 was during Linkin Park's Soundstorm festival performance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This performance was accompanied by fire effects on the main Big Beast stage of the festival.

     
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  2. StevenCressler

    StevenCressler Not at all biased towards metal

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    OSC is one of my favorites. It's heavy asf, especially the bridge, I love the chord progression in the chorus, and Chester's vocals are great as always. No longer my favorite on the album as it's not as dynamic/deep/whatever as others and it's a little short, but I love it for sure.
     
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  3. Atticus

    Atticus Bullets lance the bravest lungs

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    Can't say I've ever been the biggest fan of One Step Closer on the album. It's a little too straightforward and leans heavily into that stereotypical "Break Stuff" nu-metal. But that guitar riff is probably the most iconic in the band's legacy.

    That said, it's an absolute behemoth live and the most sonically fitting closer until Faint levelled up in 2007. The bridge is just such a cathartic boiling point at the end of a setlist, and Chester's screams always sounded better live on this track.

    P.S. - please bring back the "blood is pouring" verse in the bridge in 2025. Thank you.
     
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    WHAT A POST

    I loved reading it and especially going back over all the demo leaks and various live iterations. I think the live show is where "One Step Closer" really lives, and I love all the various intros and things they've added to it over time
     
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    Awesome post again - I love how the narrative is supported by the multiple quotes from the members. Great work!

    OSC has maybe the most iconic guitar riff from the band. It's a riff I've heard a billion times, yet it still gets me pumped, and I'm confident this statement applies to many other fans. Note-wise, it's not a complicated riff or anything, but there is beauty in that simplicity. And then, it is backed by that legendary electric/digital distorted tone.

    Beyond the riff, there are other gems to find in this song. The drum work and specifically the hi-hats play in the verse is super subtle and adds a lovely, nice touch of finesse to an otherwise heavy-agro song. The melodies in the verse and chorus do a great job of evoking that feeling of growing anger and reaching the point of no return, transitioning from an eerie beginning of the verses, with a lower density of words, to a more mouthful end of the verses, to the chorus where the "Takes me one step closer to the edge" and "I'm about to break" are delivered rapidly and fiercely.

    And then, it all finally explodes in that cathartic bridge. The very chopped-up feel of the guitar riff, the scratching, and the "SHUT UP" all combine to create a legendary short moment of chaos. Whether it's headbanging alone in your room or going crazy in a mosh pit in a crowd of thousands, that short moment has fueled emotional releases for millions of listeners.

    At first sight, OSC may be disguised as a simple 2:30 track built around a simple guitar riff - just your basic heavy rock song. However, tracks like those are counted by the hundreds of thousands, yet few have achieved the instant massive success OSC has. The fact is, I believe OSC has that extra touch of magic, that little something, that distinguishes it from all its close cousins in the rock and metal world. And it all starts from that simple riff Brad made up on that photoshoot day.
     
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    StevenCressler Not at all biased towards metal

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    Qwerty put it to words better than I could, but 100% agree
     
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    Shouldn't that be: "One Step Closer" continued to close nearly every show leading up to the Minutes to Midnight
     
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    So I think an interesting throughline here is, remember how the vinyl of LPU9 had the alt mix of "Across The Line" with the bridge as the intro? I kind of wonder if maybe that was an older, wiser Mike reflecting on the David Kahne mix and wondering if there was any context in which putting the bridge first "could" work-- that just because an idea was terrible once doesn't make it always terrible.
     
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    I've been OUTED :ninja:

    There was bound to be a goof I didn't catch with no external proofreading :lol:
     
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    I've been struggling to think of what to say about this song as I don't feel particularly strongly about it. It's probably the most iconic "break stuff" nu-metal song ever made; great main riff, great angsty vocals, classic overlapping of clean vocals and rapping in the chorus, and a screamed breakdown, all with edgy lyrics. It's a banger for sure; my favorite parts include the intro with the nice production on the drums (and the way it builds up the atmosphere before exploding into the full instrumentation), as well as the way the first and second pre-choruses are distinct as the second one has those extra guitar "chugs" right at the end, adding another dramatic flair. The SHUT UP breakdown is kinda just funny nowadays, and doesn't really grab me, although I don't dislike it at all.
    The studio version is definitely lacking compared to the live versions, not only because of that extra section that they added in some performances but also the extra elongated screams from Chester in the "I'm about to break" lines. That being said the live version misses some of the layering from the studio version because obviously you can't have both Chester and Mike doing the rap part while Chester is simultaneously singing (and neither Mike nor Chester even bother to sing "just like before" and just let the crowd sing it most times)
    Overall I'd give this song a solid 8.5/10. Maybe 9/10 on a good day.
     
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    I give it an 8.787/10
     
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    Fantastic as always Chris, you fucking legend.

    I think how the label wanted to control a lot of stuff with this song f.e. shows especially how fucked up and hard the band has it in the beginning. The "rock" mix definitely wasnt a good idea lol.
    Its definitely one of the most icopnic tracks of the band which also starts with this great intro riff.

    On record i prefer propably the Reanimation version of the track just because it has such a different and more mystical vibe. Still would love to hear the brige in live shows, i fucking love the way the Blood is a-pouring... part transist and mixes into the SHUT UP part.

    On the Colisioun Course mash up i feel the One Step Closer part, especially bringing the song in full in feels kinda forced, dunno. Definitely my least favorite part of that mash-up.
     
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    Personally, I like "One Step Closer" but it's not among my top songs from the album. I used to really love it though. This was the song that killed my eight years of classical piano lessons essentially, as I wanted to play it on guitar. I finally convinced my dad to buy me one, and OSC was among the first songs I learned to play. Piano was old news and I started playing guitar in bands and stuff. Good times. :lol:

    I also think OSC is a perfect case study on how the band knew what they were doing so much more than Warner. The label had extremely low expectations of them and continually tried to change their sound, with Kahne even trying to oust Shinoda. As Warner's top A&R guy, that dude was respected as someone who knew how to pick a hit song out. And the band gave him the middle finger and said, "No, you don't get the band or this song, sorry."

    And in spite of the naysayers, Linkin Park went nuclear with this song and their debut album. With distance from the early 2000s I think it's easy for people to be dismissive of this song and the album, but LP was a phenomenon for their less "frat-rock" lyrics that focused rather on emotion, and their unique authentic blend of their influences.

    I don't know - for me, it's hard not to appreciate just how incredibly expectation-defying this song was.
     
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    This song doesn't rank as highly for me as it used to, but it's still in my top 10
     
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    Probably the weakest song overall on HT imo but I can’t deny the chorus, the riff, and the bridge being iconic and a staple at live shows. But yeah, it does feel a lil too straightforward in that angsty Limp Bizkit-esque nu-metal compared to the rest of their songs from this era.
     
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    The riff in the chorus is also great, doesn't get talked about enough
     
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    Serious Dave Fighter of the Nightman

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    Be quiet when I'm speaking to you
     
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    Papercut into OSC was one hell of a one-two punch for the time when I think about it, personally. My younger self squeezed every last drop of serotonin and or dopamine from LP’s high octane firecrackers from there on. I lived for that unfiltered angsty edge. It released something in me that I didn’t know needed releasing in the first place. I didn’t think twice about it. The twitchy guitar personifying volatility. The bluntness. The supersonic screaming. The beauty is not overthinking this one. OSC is all it ever needed to be and will forever be iconic and timeless to me.
     
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    ^This

    I really just wish I had discovered LP when I had depression. They could have helped a lot.
     
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