Felt like putting a proper list of every working title of Linkin Park songs. Still, there are quite a few songs' working titles we are yet to know.
-This is info as of 2024 only
-Some songs have multiple working titles, and I tried to include them all or at least the most different ones for each. Many later songs have working titles that are the same as the final ones, so I intentionally put just the same title.
-This is also only "Full" Linkin Park tracks that could be considered a "song". I also might have missed a track or a couple, so please feel free to let me know, Linkin Park has a LOT of songs, obviously. This is really only tracks from the 7 main albums, and Linkin Park standalone singles.
Hybrid Theory (2000)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Papercut | Paper Cut |
| One Step Closer | Plaster |
| With You | Dust Brothers, Now I See |
| Points of Authority | Oh No, Points And Authority, Points Of Authority |
| Crawling | Sky (also derrived from "Blue" demo) |
| Runaway | (No working title known) (the song was reworked from "Stick N Move" demo) |
| By Myself | Sad, SuperXero/Super Zero |
| In the End | Untitled/Untitled (It Doesn't Matter)/The Untitled |
| A Place for My Head | Esaul |
| Forgotten | Rhinestone |
| Cure for the Itch | The Cure For Mr. Hahn's Itch/Mr. Hahn/Mr. Hahn's Itch/The Cure |
| Pushing Me Away | Harmonic Song |
Hybrid Theory Extras and Demos/EP
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| My December | (No working title known) |
| High Voltage (EP Version) | Siamo |
| Part of Me | Chair |
| Technique (Short) | Rendezvous |
| She Couldn't | Emo (evolved from another demo called "Flower") |
| And One | And One |
| Carousel | (No working title known) |
| Could Have Been | (No working title known) |
| Step Up | (No working title known) |
| Dedicated | Kids |
| Blue | Over To Me (Blue) |
| Slip | (No working title known) |
| So Far Away | (No working title known) might be "Hurry" but that demo was supposdely made later using parts from So Far Away |
| Pictureboard | (No working title known) |
Meteora (2003)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Foreword | Foreword |
| Don't Stay | Sick |
| Somewhere I Belong | Pretty Birdy/Pretty Birdie |
| Lying from You | Cuidado |
| Hit the Floor | Husky |
| Easier to Run | Interrogation |
| Faint | Faint |
| Figure.09 | Plaster 2/Plaster II, Figure.09 |
| Breaking the Habit | Drawing |
| From the Inside | Shifter |
| Nobody's Listening | Nocturnal |
| Session | Session |
| Numb | (No working title known) |
Meteora Extras
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Lost | Resolution |
| Fighting Myself | Shortcut |
| More the Victim | Cumulus |
| A.06 | A6/A-Six |
| Healing Foot | Healing Foot (track is likely a reworked version of "Broken Foot" instrumental demo) |
Minutes to Midnight (2007)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Wake | WAKE Album Intro Idea |
| Given Up | 21 Stitches (evolved from an older demo called "Fire In The City") |
| Leave Out All the Rest | Fear, When My Time Comes |
| Bleed It Out | Accident |
| Shadow of the Day | Shadow Of The Day |
| What I've Done | Bang Three |
| Hands Held High | Song Q |
| No More Sorrow | Ebow/Ebow Idea |
| Valentine's Day | (No working title known) |
| In Between | (No working title known) |
| In Pieces | Pictures |
| The Little Things Give You Away | Drum Song |
Minutes to Midnight Extras
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Across the Line | Japan |
| No Roads Left | Patients, No Roads Left But One |
| Blackbirds | Blackbirds |
| What We Don't Know | (No working title known) |
| Chance of Rain | (released with working title) final title for track was "Voices" |
| Pretend to Be | (No working title known) |
We Made It (2008 Single) (No working title known)
New Divide (2009 Single) - Megatron
A Thousand Suns (2010)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| The Requiem | (No working title known) |
| The Radiance | (No working title known) |
| Burning in the Skies | (No working title known) |
| Empty Spaces | (No working title known) |
| When They Come For Me | Dingleberry |
| Robot Boy | Robot Boy |
| Jornada Del Muerto | (No working title known) |
| Waiting for the End | Meadowlands |
| Blackout | Pac-Manny/Packmanny |
| Wretches and Kings | Rygar |
| Wisdom, Justice, and Love | (No working title known) |
| Iridescent | Iridescent New |
| Fallout | (No working title known) |
| The Catalyst | Under Bite/Underbite |
| The Messenger | (No working title known) |
Not Alone (2011 Single) (No working title known)
Living Things (2012)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| LOST IN THE ECHO | Holding Company |
| IN MY REMAINS | One Forty |
| BURN IT DOWN | Buried At Sea |
| LIES GREED MISERY | Piledriver |
| I'LL BE GONE | Primo |
| CASTLE OF GLASS | Castle Of Glass |
| VICTIMIZED | Battle Axe |
| ROADS UNTRAVELED | Roads Untraveled |
| SKIN TO BONE | Skin To Bone |
| UNTIL IT BREAKS | Apaches |
| TINFOIL and POWERLESS | Tinfoil |
A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES (2013 Single & Recharged) - Victorious
The Hunting Party (2014)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Keys to the Kingdom | Coffee |
| All for Nothing | True Chainz |
| Guilty All the Same | Blinky |
| The Summoning | (No working title known) |
| War | Warrior |
| Wastelands | Artillery, The Wastelands, Wastelands Of Today |
| Until It's Gone | Thanksgiving |
| Rebellion | (No working title known) |
| Mark the Graves | Plato |
| Drawbar and Final Masquerade | Drawbar |
| A Line in the Sand | Odyssey |
Mall (Film Soundtrack, 2014)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| White Noise | White Noise |
| Mal RX7 | Milk (shortened version of "Buttermilk" demo) |
| It Goes Through | Luna |
| Devil's Drop | Warm Spell |
| The Last Line | Ammosick |
| Dancer (Instrumental) | Dancer |
Darker Than Blood (2015 Single) - Horizons
One More Light (2017)
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Nobody Can Save Me | Nobody Can Save Me Now, Nobody Can Save Me J Green 2 |
| Good Goodbye | Good Goodbye |
| Talking to Myself | Talking To Myself |
| Battle Symphony | Battle Tymp Ony |
| Invisible | Invisible - MS w Justin Parker |
| Heavy | Heavy |
| Sorry for Now | Sorry For Now |
| Halfway Right | Halfway Right |
| One More Light | One More Light |
| Sharp Edges | Sharp Edges |
One More Light Extras
| Final Title | Working Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Friendly Fire | Friendly Fire |
| Out of Reach (unreleased) | Out Of Reach |
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Emo/She Couldn't evolved out of another demo called Flower.
Healing Foot is not an evolution of Broken Foot.
Part of 21 Stitches/Given Up came from an earlier demo called Fire in the City.
Leave Out All the Rest also went by the title "When My Time Comes" at one point.
"The Five" has nothing to do with Burning in the Skies. This misconception comes from the Meeting of A Thousand Suns DVD where Brad says "let's listen to the five," as in a batch of five songs, and Burning in the Skies happens to be the first one.
"Milk" (Mal RX7) is a shortened version of the demo title "Buttermilk."
Devil's Drop's working title was Warm Spell.
Dedicated's working title was Kids.
Universe (I forget which LPU album this is on) was the demo of Resurrection by Kenna and Lupe Fiasco.
Burberry is a shorter version of Space Station.
World's On Fire off Mike's solo album came from a pair of Living Things seeds called Gadd9 and Gyoza.
Welcome's working title was Last Straw.
Catharsis from the VMAs soundtrack was originally called Neo.
The Instrumental by Lupe Fiasco was originally called Never Lies.
Dead by Sunrise had a couple: Into You was originally called Fadeaway, and In the Darkness was just called Darkness.
Got It, thanks.
The Five situation seemed strange to me. I initially thought it was just as in 5 songs to listen to. It is still a very MTM/ATS-like working title. I'm like 90% sure you're right on that though.
But I'm still pretty positive Broken Foot evolved into Healing Foot. It's not just the name similarity. I've listened to them back to back several times and they are extremely similar and it's obvious to me they abandoned Broken Foot and created Healing Foot to try to rework the song, and give it a lighter, less angsty/angry approach. After hearing the two many times, really Healing Foot is just a less heavy version of Broken Foot, with piano, strings, and of course vocals.
Edit: It's only the chorus parts of Broken Foot, they clearly took to make Healing Foot.
Also we may consider Berlin One Version C as somewhat of Burning in the Skies' demo since those two share the similar (or the same) chord progression
It's similar notes being played but faster progression and a bit slower tempo. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a very early idea the song came from, but I don't think it's directly a demo of it.
The tempo of the demo may vary - Faint being most notable example. Originally it was 2 times slower
Out of all I've heard, demos tend to not change the tempo from demo to the final in Linkin Park's history. Linkin Park's tracks have a lot going on in them so the changing that could mess things up a bit. I can't think of one that ever did it but I also I'm sure there's demos I haven't heard. Faint being originally half time is still perfectly parallel to its final tempo.
How do you know this?!
Linkinpedia
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I believe that the second title of Chance of Rain was Voices