Tinfoil

"Tinfoil"
Song by Linkin Park from the album Living Things
Working title	Tinfoil
Recorded	2008 - 2012
Length	01:12
Stems	Stagelight: Linkin Park Edition Open Labs SoundSlate Pro
Time signature	3/4
Tempo	70
Key	F Minor
Live debut	May 18, 2012
Last played	August 19, 2013
Writer	Linkin Park
Producer	Mike Shinoda, Rick Rubin
Label	Warner Bros.
Living Things track listing Lost In The Echo In My Remains Burn It Down Lies Greed Misery I'll Be Gone Castle Of Glass Victimized Roads Untraveled Skin To Bone Until It Breaks Tinfoil Powerless

"Tinfoil" is the eleventh track off of Linkin Park's fifth studio album, Living Things. It serves as an intro to the album closer, "Powerless".

Background

"Tinfoil", initially, was included as a part of "Powerless", but eventually was separated into its own track.

"Tinfoil" is one of only two Living Things songs to not receive an official remix, with "In My Remains" being the other.

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Tinfoil	Living Things	1:12	2011-2012	June 20, 2012	Intro to "Powerless".
Tinfoil / Powerless (Instrumental)	Living Things (Acapellas and Instrumentals)	5:03	2012	September 11, 2012	Official instrumental version.

Live

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Faint	Live At Admiralspalast Berlin, Germany		June 05, 2012	March 29, 2013	With "Tinfoil". DVD only. Living Things+ bonus DVD.

Live

"Tinfoil" has never been performed in full, but a shorter version of the song in C# minor was used to open either the show or encore in conjunction with "Faint" throughout the Living Things cycle. It debuted at the Music For Relief/Power The World as the opener for the show, and was played at every headlining show of the European tour. Starting with Honda Civic Tour, "Tinfoil" opened the show with "Faint" in Set A and opened the encore with "Faint" in Set B. It was never played in any other position. In 2013, it was dropped from the festival version of Set B, since there was no encore being played in that set.

Mike played guitar, almost always backstage, on "Tinfoil." A few times, he has come on stage during the song, like at the Adelaide, Australia 2013 show.

Throughout the short three show run in January of 2014, "Faint" always had a brief sample of "Tinfoil" at the start since the opening sample of "Faint" always cross-faded with it near the end of the Living Things cycle, and the band never got rid of that version of them.

Variations

Last Updated: December 25, 2015

Type	Description	First Played	Last Played
Alternative	Shortened	May 18, 2012	August 19, 2013