LP Underground 9.0
Occupation
- Singing Chester Bennington
- Rap, keyboard, guitar Mike Shinoda
- Drums: Rob Bourdon
- Lead Guitar: Brad Delson
- E -Bass: David Farrell
- Turntables: Joseph Hahn
Underground 9 - Demos ( also: Linkin Park Underground 9 - Demos, LPU9 - demos) is the ninth edition of the annual CD of the official Linkin Park fan clubs Linkin Park Underground ( LPU ). It contains B-sides and demos that have arisen over ten years. In contrast to most of the eight older editions, all songs were previously unreleased.
Content
For release of Underground 9 - Demos Mike Shinoda said, "Songs are constantly changing during the creative process, so we thought it would be cool to publish early versions of familiar pieces. The versions in this collection represent important moments in the evolution of each song: different vocals, music variations in, and missing parts. They are snapshots of our ongoing work. "
A- Six is the long version of A.06, a short instrumental piece that was released on CD Underground V2.0.
The demo to Faint sounds overall somewhat rougher than the finished version. However, the biggest difference is the lack of chorus, in its place comes an instrumental part.
Sad is a short instrumental demo of By Myself.
Fear, the Leave Out All the Rest Demo is sung as opposed to the final version of Mike Shinoda. The lyrics are completely different.
The demo of Figure.09 is comparable to Faint: It sounds a whole rough and aggressive. Also striking is the song title, confirmed that the name Figure.09 is originally a name for a demo that was kept.
Stick and Move is an early instrumental demo of Runaway. It differs also from the same version from 1997, when the band was called Xero yet and the song had a text yet, although completely different from Runaway, and was sung by Mark Wakefield.
Across the Line is not a demo, but a B-side. After a brief excerpt from the demo Japan was recorded in an episode of LPTV ( Linkin Park TV), many fans asked the band afterwards. Due to the positive response the band decided, therefore, the demo that was actually made for the album Minutes to Midnight, but still complete. The product of this is Across the Line.
From Drawing is known that previously existed a shorter version. The version on the EP is an instrumental that is similar to relatively strong the album version.
Drum Song, the The Little Things Give You Away Demo is sung as Fear Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington of not, as is the case on Minutes of Midnight.
Publication
In the LPU online shop the EP was released on 23 November 2009 - as usual towards the end of the calendar year. For the first time, and so far for some time an LPU CD in the German trade was available. Outside of the fan club, the EP was released on February 5, 2010.
Reception
Criticism of devastating Laut.de fell from: Reviewer Yan Bird Album and Others " rip off " and "sham par excellence " and subtitled " frequency Castrated synthetic products in the demo stage ." He also criticizes the " loveless compilation ". Other reviews fall out negative, albeit somewhat milder. Thomas Copper of Rock Hard finds the songs " more or less revealing " and the concept is well-intentioned, the EP the average consumer can not recommend it though. Brian Banks of musicvice.com sums up the album with the word " unnecessary" together.
Many fans praise that the first time an LPU album contains only unreleased tracks, but complain that the EP, as also the sampler songs from the Underground, which contains some tracks from previous LPU CDs, even outside the LPU stores appeared, since the exclusivity perish.