NBA Inside Stuff is a show that's been around since 1990, it used to air on ABC and NBC before moving to NBA TV. The title was credited to Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda and Mark Wakefield, which is the Xero line-up. The last two songs were previously unheard of and remain unreleased.Ī BMI entry named "NBA INSIDE STUFF-BG CUES (Legal Title)" was discussed a few times on LPAssociation and LPLive message boards over the years. Jeff Blue's One Step Closer: From Xero to #1: Becoming Linkin Park book released on Decemfeatures a picture of a Xero DAT tape with the following tracklist: "Rhinestone", "Dreamer" and "Weight". So you can tell just right away, from the name itself, that it is not a grail.
It's D-E-F-T-E-S-T by the way, not D-E-A-F, because Mark was a big fan of the Deftones. Deftest, Mark and I did like a four track cassette version of it and it sounds like shit. Pictureboard, you hear it, "Wow that's cool, I'm so glad we were so focused on that song." No I never said Pictureboard was a bad song. I strongly suggest you don't start putting your attention on Deftest. If you were to hear that, you would not be. He was questioned about it on October 20, to which he said, "LPLive is now trying to get locked on to Deftest as the new Pictureboard. It was first mentioned by Mike on Twitch on October 15, 2020. "Deftest" was an early Xero demo written by Mike Shinoda and Mark Wakefield around the same time as " Dialate", before the band was formed.
Ranging from tossed studio ideas to full demos that haven't seen the light of day to collaborations with other artists, we covered the most noteworthy songs in this list to fill in Linkin Park fans on what exactly is still "unreleased" that we know of.Īs of 2021, Mike Shinoda says Linkin Park have "six or seven digits" of demos. With any band that has been around for as long as Linkin Park has, there is bound to be an extensive list of unreleased songs.