So that’s why when I heard Pretend To Be for the first time. not knowing its full title (2008 demo) I thought it’s 100% MTM demo…
[quote=Henrik][quote=Astat][quote=Henrik][quote=Astat]Protip: Referring to QWERTY as “Behind Your Lies” is a guaranteed way to get yourself laughed at.
Anyway, the CONFIRMED b-sides from Minutes to Midnight are No Roads Left, Across the Line, What We Don’t Know, and Blackbirds. QWERTY was NOT one of them.
QWERTY was released on LPU 6 prior to MTM’s release, so it was cut from album consideration long before it ever got to the “final tracklisting selection” phase. The same can be said for most of the instrumental/“unfinished” demos from that period (Announcement Service Public, Pale, Debris, Bunker, Clarity, Yo, Homecoming, Asbestos). Not Alone and Pretend to Be were both songs that were “seeds” from the MTM period, but weren’t finished until after the album was released.
So yeah, we have 16 of the 17 songs that were in consideration for the final tracklisting. No idea what the last one is, or what became of it. HOWEVER, I have a theory…there was a song title that was seen on the “tracking boards” in the studio numerous times in LPTV/Making of Minutes to Midnight - “Ammosick.” We’ve never heard this demo, BUT it appeared on studio tracking boards again while the band was working on A Thousand Suns, meaning it was carried over to the next album’s recording sessions. We don’t know if Ammosick ended up making A Thousand Suns or not (we don’t know the working titles for all of the songs on that album), but either way, it very well could have been the 17th song from MTM.[/quote]
Yeah it might be Ammosick, I’ve wondered about that one for quite some time.
QWERTY is the demo version, where you can hear before the first chorus ‘’ A victim of your pride’’
- Broken down a victim of your pride. Fire so out of control. Every memory and confession born out of your soul. And Like that. Broken down. A victim of your lies. You hide behind…[/quote]
QWERTY was never called “Behind Your Lies.” Both versions are on the LPU 6 CD, and both are called “QWERTY.”[/quote]
But QWERTY sounds like a demo name, if the song had been on the album, the title of the song wouldn’t had been QWERTY but most likely Behind Your Lies!!, the demo is QWERTY, but the unreleased song is Behind Your Lies. but it hasen’t been confirmed as a unreleased song. the demo version is the one you can hear on LPU06. They made the song for MTM, and if it had been on the album, it whouldn’t fit in with the title QWERTY![/quote]
So you’re basically saying that because “QWERTY” as a title doesn’t really have any relevance to the song itself, they’d have to change the title if it made an album? Tell that to Points of Authority, Faint, Figure.09, Jornada Del Muerto, Iridescent, The Catalyst, and The Messenger.
Blackbirds is on the ATS bonus or something like that I think
They do sing about blackbirds in ‘‘Blackbirds’’ And ‘‘The Catalyst’’, ‘‘Faint’’, Figure.09’’, ‘‘Points Of Authority’’, ‘‘Iridescent’’, ‘‘The Messenger’’ are all actuall words. They mean something, like why is ‘‘Papercut’’ called Papercut instead of say ‘‘Paranoid’’ or ‘‘Paranoia’’. because it got some meaning to it. But Qwerty is not a word, is just the 6 top left letters on the keyboard. PS. Jornada Del Muerto Means Journey Of The Dead.