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562:"Ingenious", "Blame Me", "All I Have", and "Clean the Slate" were all available for streaming well before the album released in various forms. A demo version of "Ingenious" was made available for streaming as far back as May 2005. A demo version of "Blame Me" was available for streaming a year later in June 2006. respectively on the band's Myspace. An early acoustic version of "Clean the Slate" was made available for streaming from the band's acoustic Myspace account in 2007. A live acoustic version of "All I Have" was performed in 2007 and made available for streaming in 2008.
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As some of you seem to have heard, Lo-Pro has indeed parted ways with Geffen records. Were still a part of the 413/records family however, and were alive and kicking. Weve been using our down time to write record #2 which were really excited about and think youll be very happy with as well. I dont
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572:"A Life That's Just Begun" is based on a scrapped rock version of "Letting Go". Once the band realized that "Letting Go" worked better as an acoustic track, the band used some of their prior work on it, most notably the drums, and wrote "A Life That's Just Begun" around it.
569:"Wasting Away", "Say", "Early Morning Anger", and "Novocaine" were the only songs that had never been heard previous to the album's release. "Novocaine" was written very late in the process of making the album, so it was included at the last minute as an iTunes bonus track.
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