Linkin Park - So Far Away (Unreleased 1998) Lyrics

is that mark wakefield's voice ?

LPU 2001 to LPU 2019

There is so much potential in that song 🎸🔥 Like, maybe, 10 other LP demos over the years.
R. I. P. Chezzy ✊

Sounds like Deftones. I like it a lot.

This is too good to be unreleased.

Me encanta!!! Excelente!!! LP😍🎶

Limp bizkit meets blink 182.

One of them bands similar in sound to Palisades needs to cover this track, STAT!

These demos reveal just how much Linkin Park experimented with their sound. The band had boundless options to move their craft in whatever direction they wanted. Truly talented individuals with sincere and unique vision.

Just love it

reminds me of early IRIS synthpop in a weird way, not the chorus though

If this wouldve had backing vocals of chester this wouldve fit perfectly with meteora

This has a very NIN sound to it, very cool.

Mike sounds so ... Ahhhhhhhh I can't describe ummm but I like it... It's sounds like how he sings now... I live his voice

#RIPLINKINPARK

maybe mike can sing this song in his concert now

like Hey now of MAN WITH A MISSION

DAAAMNNNN

20 years ago

If this was on Hybrid Theory it would probably replace By Myself or Forgotten.

Tbh I would've preferred this over By Myself

I’d say replace it with in the end

Didn't realise this was a 1998 song feels like something from minutes to midnight. They should've made their new album like this.

This does not sound like anything of MTM

You can clearly hear this is a song of the Hybrid Theory era

I kinda disagree. It sounds a little bit in-between. It has a feeling of both HT and MTM.

This version was recorded in 1999 and. It is notable for being the only known pre-Minutes To Midnight song idea where Mike sings (instead of rapping) lead vocals for the entire song.

This is freaking good.

is Chester second vocal?

Chester didn't join until 1999, 2nd vocal is most likely Mark Wakefield, the lead singer before Chester

i mean in the song, no in the band xD, i already knew that info, just for the name but thanks

Chester😢

I LoVe YoU CheSter😢💔💖💘

Good times

FUCKING OUTSTANDING

R.I.P :(

Marvel Godzilla is the Green Cetus style.

When Linkin Park think they're Nirvana 😂😂

Crimson Is Primal nirvana? Buddy that is incredibly wrong

Might be overrated/overused but RIP Chester.

SORAW441 fuck u. LP is great. Go fucking troll somewhere else.

underrated song ....SO UNDERRATED

Why LP do not release it?

1:59 scratch awesome 😍

just imagine, they probably have hundreds of such demos unreleased

Unbelievable, when you remember a simple fact : LP demos are better than actual songs from any band.

Main riff is awesome!

R.I.P :.(

I love this song these songs should last they come out with a unreleased album I love Linkin Park classic material love it before Hybrid Theory sessions and demos they should put it out in long decade ahead I love there music always have love there music Its amazing this 1998 that year I know things I know myself I got everything I love there music Linkin Park our legends of our generation of music and still doing what they love putting new music out but they come out with a new album a year awhile or two that's Linkin Park with there music I love it all I love myself I love music while I was in school and at through my years Linkin Park was out there doing music while I was in school getting a education.

Not bad track ! Rly

Had to come back here after listening to Heavy. Sigh.

xIlIl LUXX AnG3L IlIlx I had to come back here too after Heavy: too many idiots that have nothing to do but ruin others happyness created by the awesome song. Sigh.

Their new album kinda gay imo.
I respect what they do though...

technically This would be Xero

@//Cassiopeya Plus\\ With the year being 1998, that would be Xero. However, you can hear Chester doing backing vocals. Chester joined in March/April 1999. When he joined, the band was renamed to Hybrid Theory and released Hybrid Theory EP, likely in summer 1999. This was probably recorded shortly after that, but definitely not in 1998. Over the years we found out Mike is bad with dates, as he would often think Chester joined the band in 1998. That's also why he marked all the early demos with Chester as being 1998, because he remembered they were recorded the same year when Chester joined the band, but simply didn't remember which year it was

@//Cassiopeya Plus\\ in my opinion the vocal is mark wakefield, not chester, or both them saying this song

@Alfa Otomasyon you're clearly deaf if you think this is Mark lol




Jk

That's actually Chester singing backing vocals. And this version of the demo was recorded in 1999. Mike usually organizes the LPU tracks and he has a history of mixing up dates. Basically, some of the LPU tracks are mislabeled.

Linkin Park made So Far Away before it was cool.

20 years since they've made that song...and still sound better then the shhity music now..

Bela Nagy That's not for you to decide.

@Béla Nagy you even in your sense or what... You Justin Bieber fangirl?

@immortal XD lol i didnt even remember that i commented this a year ago. I was upset because there were too many people like 'only ht and meteora are good the others are shit' my response meant that everyone should appreciate the whole discography(but in a dispolite way of my 14yrs old mind so sorry)

@Béla Nagy right bro...I get it now and I agree with you. After all, Linkin Park made music out of passion and t'was absolutely upto them what genre they would have chosen or the path they would have followed.
However, your thoughts weren't very clear with your initial comment. Anyways, cheers!

@immortal XD yea glad you see it this way too

The song is dated as 1998... yet Chester didn't join the band until 1999. Anybody else see the problem here?

Maybe the song was composed in 1998 but they sang it later with chester. Just theory.

speznaz212 what's the reason to do this? They've decied not to put this song on any album. Your theory feels broken if you will hear the quality of the record.

Alex Rayzor They recorded tons of songs and did not put in albums. Thats the point of lpu.

this is the highest quality version I've heard of this so far and it sounds like it couldve been made later

Someone else can hear the rap of Easier to run in the scratches of the end?

is it possible to hear the content of a scratch, just from listening to someone scratching?

Maybe they somehow based Easier to Run's rap on those scratches?

I see it.

essa música é muito boa!!!

This is a really awesome demo. I think one of the reasons why this didn't make it to Hybrid Theory was because of the song's title. For those who don't know, So Far Away is the name of a song by Social Distortion.

So what ? Runaway is the title of a song by Linkin Park and We Are The Empty and they both are different bands...... Both songs are awesome..... For your kind information, please keep your illogical information to yourself !

Chester joined in 1996, he even has a few vocals in this song...

@Talhe Mark Wakefield was in the band that years, but he left the band and in 1998 Chester joined.

Ye ur right but he's still in the song

Mike Shinoda and Mark Wakefield started the band in 1996 after Relative Degree broke up. Before, they used to just create joke songs for their friends before taking their musical interests more serious. They enlisted Brad to help layer down some guitar. Mark later left in December 1998 due to stagefright and was annoyed by the number of times they were denied an record deal. Chester joined the band in March 1999 (as he had been stating for nearly two decades) from receiving a call from Scott Harrington after overhearing from Danny Hayes about a band from Los Angeles that was in need of a new vocalist.

Some of the demos found in the LPUs are mislabeled due to Mike's history of mixing up dates and he usually organizes the tracks for the release.

If you guys wanna hear more of Mike singing listen to No Roads Left. ^.^

@Julio Rodrigues tips fedora

@ddk y2 that one hurts so much and I still keep getting back to it. Same with Nothing Makes Sense Anymore.

You’re right, Mike’s voice sounds GREAT in that song. One of my very favorite of Mike’s vocal performances

BTW: This song is DOPE!

Skin To Bone

Or the entire album of Post Traumatic

This kinda sounds like a track from ATV: Off-road Fury

I can sort of hear that. Brings me back to my ultraspank days

algun soldier argentino?? diganme que no soy el unico :(

no eres el unico jaja

Que paso? Jjjasja
Soldado

Amei demais essa musicaLove

DEMAIS ESSA MÚSICA.

The intro reminds me a LOT of James Bond...I can tell the chords are not the same, but I can't not think of it when I hear it. Anyone else feel the same or could shed some light on this?

haha i thought i was the only one. I immediately thought Goldeneye, brosnan. Wbu?

this doesn't even sound like deftones you fgt. quality of life has improved since the 90s so you fail.

National Socialist sounds like deftones - my own summer if you ask me

BodyBuildBoss fuck Deftones

caralho , e eu nunca mais tinha ouvido essa música

Tiene buena calidad como para que sea un Demo de aquel año.
Creen que sea falso, realmente es de 1998, o lo volvieron a hacer para que suene mejor?

+Nitram Odrallag `para mi q lo hicieron denuevo, antes mike cantaba mas grave y ahora como esta en este video

Eso es porque es una demo para un disco oficial, por lo tanto fue remasterizada en un estudio

save me now, i'm the mess i have created

will never get tired of this *sighs happily*

Awesome for a demo.... As ever

Yeah most of their unreleased demos are just instrumental and no lyrics.

reminds me of lostprophets early stuff

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y de la nada, un comentario en español...

mal, me sentia re solo chabon... todo en ingles, portugues Y EL CASTELLANO por donde m...se metio

This should've been in Hybrid Theory.

jetpackaidan I thought the same too

PR0D1GY Gaming i think this would be better in the hybrid theory EP

This would've fit perfectly onto the Hybrid Theory EP

This whole discussion is why LP was amazing and just that, a Hybrid Theory band

Joe Hahn 1:59-2:15 the sounds that he makes in the back really sound like the begining of Somewhere I Belong

Nico, or maybe he made somewhere I belong really sound like so far away

he just used the same sample for somewhere i belong

It really doesn’t

omg Mike singing in 1998 wut ;-;

al112v5 The reason why some of these demos are dated 1998 is because they were written with Mark but not recorded until 1999 with Chester. I believe you can find Mark Wakefield credited on most of the 1998 demos.

@The Mansion World Chesters voice use only back-vocal.

@xSAxShadows "Before the first song that you heard me on"...

@Shinobi Xero that was definitely Chester

Some of the dates on the LPUs are mislabeled. Mike has a history of mixing up dates, and he usually organizes the tracks for the release. This version of "So Far Away" was recorded in 1999. And by the way, Chester joined the band in 1999 as he had been stating that for nearly two decades as well as Mike stating back in 2000 of how Chester skipped his 23rd birthday to sample his vocals over their music.

Its just me or it remembers a lot a song of NFSU ??? Its very good, I have this CD and its worth every cent do packing to brazil and every minute waiting....XD

Joe Hahn - Badass mode.

1:59 - 2:15

Mr.Hahn please return from your vacation already..

He used to scream along with Chester in live shows as well. Pretty sic.

Exactly! People say that Mike can't scream but he has!

Bullshit, LP is the best thing ever! You just don't know how to appreciate good music.

Linkin Park will always be Linkin Park (Unless one of the band members leaves which I highly doubt) Linkin Park will always have songs with meaning, and personally I love that Mike is one of the only rappers who doesn't rap about 'hoes' or whatever these womanizing men rap about.

Tessa_Isaacs "Unless one of the band leaves" :( Tecnically he has not let us but something so anyway

This hasn't aged well, has it? xD

Sorry but linkin park is dead now

Chester Left.

Nah he just copied it 'cause he wants the top comment.

Exactly my thoughts for the last years. They even said Rick told them to drop their way of production in favor of a more "rock band" way. The way they produced their music was what made it that much more unique. Of course, there are also things like genre shifts (influenced by way of production), changing voices, etc.

Old Linkin Park or new Linkin park, whatever, they're both good.

And now Linkin Park is dead

@ddk y2 unfortunately, but not forever, they will reunite again

ddk y2

You don’t know that

Yes, Chester is gone but that doesn’t mean the others are.

They might still keep Linkin Park together. They might not.

Only time will tell

Rick Rubin is partially reasonable for their stylistic shift I think, because right before start of Minutes to Midnight, they wrote the song Qwerty, which is a pretty heavy sounding song, and Mike said they had more stuff coming like that, then in a few interviews, Chester was talking about the stylistic pointers Rick was giving him for the coming album. Yes age might be some of a factor behind it, but also the albums Rick has produced, sound soft compared to their older stuff.

Completely agree with the Rammstein comparison. Compare them back to back and you would see that Rammstein is consistent in their own style for years yet still satisfy fans and new listeners. Linkin Park however got so inconsistent that there is hardly any parts of their nu metal style left in the new records, so obviously people complaint about that.

Wikipedia also shows that the "Forgotten" demo is the only song from LPU12 that has Wakefield's vocals in it.

Actually no. The version of "Rhinestone" found on the 12th LPU was recorded in 1999 with Chester on vocals. The same version can be found on the Warner Bros internal demo CD — 9-Track Demo.

Mark is there too :D

You're so wrong I just have to correct you.. They originally wanted to be all nu-metal, that's what they are rooted from. Not until Meteora's tour was over did they experiment, and ditch Don Gilmore.They never "quited" Warner, they are still with them.. Warner wanted them to be a strict rock band because they didn't think rock/rap would sell, but it did. THEN they did what they did, and they made a good choice. If they had never changed, they would of ended up like Limp Shitkit.

Apparently you weren't directly paying attention to anything Linkin Park stated... the band never wanted to labeled "Nu-Metal" as they just wanted to make whatever music they wanted, that inspired them at the moment. By 2006, they just felt like they were trapped, repeating something they've already done before, they wanted to try something new that resulted in MTM. It's true Warner Bros tried turned them into an regular rock band as Mike stated in his "Get Me Gone" track. Mike also stated in the [email protected] 2005 interview that the mainstream came to them since their music was unique. Linkin Park was thrown into the spotlight during the peak of Nu-Metal by mainstream.

they have grown up. you should try too!

What? Mike could sing way back in 1998?!

The best thing about this band is that you cannot put a label on them. Long live LP.

It's a shame LP didn't want to keep making nu metal because they were damn amazing at it.

they never wanted to make only nu-metal. warnerbrosrecords wanted them to do! and after two albums, they quited with the label and started a new album, where they made the music they wanted and not what warnerbros wanted....they did it for themselves and not for some profit..

so you want the same style over and over again? this would be boring and linkin park would lose many fans...every band tries new things out ...only people like lady gaga does the same over and over....because their mainstream....do you want linkin park to be mainstream?

You need to be very ignorant to don't see the difference between LP style from 1999 to 2006 and LP style after 2007. It's they own style? Yes, I never said it wasn't

what a fact?!
no fact!
same band. having fun in making music. their own style.

There is a old LP and there's a new LP, it's a fact

1. Bleed It Out is not that good.
2. You obviously haven't listened to the last three albums.

Can you sing that song by yourself? Or at all? .. then you cant say it ain't good cause.its.good just ain't your cup of tea

sounds like 007

Jerry Serrano the fucks that supposed to mean

I get the feeling that this is the direction they would've went in had they'd stayed with Nu-Metal. But, since y'all are reading this, you gotta realize that the guys in LP have built themselves off the hybridity (is that a word) of their influences -- and like many musicians, they have a wide array of influences. Having said, I believe the release of these demos also serve the purpose of illuminating the fact that they have more than 4 or 5 emotions they can transform into their music.

Holy crap. This is better than any song they have released on any of their last three albums, besides Bleed it out perhaps.

you can hear chester sing in the background of the chorus!

es del 98 chester se unio en el 99

Guys, this is Mike Shinoda singing lead. It's surprising to hear him sing lead on a song so early in their career, as I'd thought he'd only done that around Minutes to Midnight.

The core song is the same as "Soundtrack" from LPU11, they must've really recycled a few of their demos. Brad's guitar playing was much more involved in the song back then, it's got a cool layering going on.

Linkin Park reused some elements from this song for both "Hurry" and "Soundtrack."