How we feeling about this one? I think it would be kind of difficult for ERB to pull off, especially casting a live action Eminem that pulls it off well, but I saw this matchup in a comment a long time ago and have always wanted to see a creator try to pull it off.
Sorry this is my second post about this but the improvement in the last decade from all the guys is absolutely crazy! Johnny hasn’t screamed like this live on stage since like 2009 I’m impressed.
Hearing J-Dog perform his verse in the big 26 was actually amazing. His vocals have improved so much since the last time they performed this song. I do wish that they would let Charlie do this hook instead of Danny but I understand why they let Danny do it. What a great throwback to add to the set list. I’m hoping they switch it up every couple shows and add in a song they haven’t done in a long while.
Did not include All My Friends because I didn’t want features on this. Thoughts if hypothetically this was the next album we got and the solo stuff never happened on its own? I think this would be their best album personally.
Edit: When I put a new member on a verse they didn’t originally do you don’t have to imagine them performing the verse that exists, you can pretend they wrote their own that we just haven’t heard.
Let’s see how many of these takes are hot or cold.
The Natives and The Loss over No Other Place and Pimpin’.
Lump Your Head, Street Dreams, Mother Murder and SCAVA over Glory, My Town, Levitate, and Tendencies.
One More Bottle, Delish, and New Day over Pigskin, Kill Everyone, and Outside.
Sing over Live Forever.
Gotta Let Go over Ghost Beach.
Evil, First Class Suicide, and Ransom over Go to War, Dangerous, and Trap God.
Here’s what I got so far:
3 Tears CD - CONFIRMED
* Mixtape from when Deuce, Johnny, J-Dog, and Charlie’s brother Jake were in a band called 3 Tears before HU. Johnny still owns the CD. No songs ever made it to the internet and live shows have never been recorded and posted online.
Old version of City - UNCONFIRMED
* 2005-2007 era
* Shady Jeff has vocals allegedly
* Booklet of old self titled album says Johnny & Deuce do the bridge instead of Charlie & J-Dog, could be an error in booklet or how original version sounded
Old version of Paradise Lost - UNCONFIRMED
* Titled Paradise Lost (His Dark Material), some sources online say old version had different lyrics and instrumental but this is not confirmed for sure
Old version of The Only Ones - CONFIRMED
* Snippet heard at the end of Story of a Snitch
Unknown song where J-Dog screams “what the fuck” - UNCONFIRMED
* Could have been intended for second album or cut vocals from Dead in Ditches bridge maybe? Heard in Undead Story documentary at 11:50 in (https://youtu.be/brTCoD_aq1k?is=uF-W7VIeodzbyRfc)
Uncensored version of I Am - MORE THAN LIKELY CONFIRMED
* In NFTU lyric booklet, it says Johnny raps “I hear you cluck but you duck duck chickens” but on the released version the word chickens is censored.
Love Sick Radio / Make Money Take Money / So Dead & Gone - CONFIRMED
* Cut from scrapped Christmas EP, Day of the Dead era, Charlie says they suck and aren’t worth releasing but they exist - CONFIRMED
Whatever it Takes with Da Kurlzz vocals - UNKNOWN
* Da Kurlzz posted a pic on IG of him in the studio with “whatever it takes” as the caption, so he probably had vocals on the song before release. Although demo came out on Undead app and he isn’t present on the song so maybe not true.
Careful What You Ask For - CONFIRMED
* Charlie said it’s a Griffin Boice demo, still unknown if it was intended for HU or not but snippet came out around Five sessions
Second Jelly Roll collab - CONFIRMED
* Johnny and Charlie recorded another song with Jelly Roll in the same session as House of Mirrors, maybe was going to be on Jelly Roll’s album at the time but didn’t make the final cut or was supposed to be a single
I know Dead Bite & Comin in Hot came from free downloads to tease their albums, we got some from music videos, the Five demos from the fan app, but I’ve always wondered where Street Dreams demos came into play. Such an odd song to have like 4 different demos leaked considering it was a iTunes only bonus track on release. Anyone know the details?