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Gerard replied with "Who's better than you?!"
And Mikey posted this.
Called 'Piglet Fuckin' Tree'
http://twitpic.com/15vck
And Mikey posted this.
Called 'Piglet Fuckin' Tree'
http://twitpic.com/15vck
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Plug In Baby
Slow Motion Suicide
McBowden
NØthing_At_All
Slaughtermatic Sounds
Angel Of Unknown
Black Mariah
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Hopeless Heart
Make Believe.
everything is
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Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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Registration date : 2008-07-06
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Oh and Bob hates crocs too.
bob: Best thing about chicago... Too cold for crocs shoes.
bob: Best thing about chicago... Too cold for crocs shoes.
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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“DESOLATION ROW” RELEASE
My Chemical Romance has made a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” which will be featured on the soundtrack for the movie “The Watchmen.” The soundtrack is going to be released on March 3, 2009 so mark your calendars and get ready to see what MCR has in store for you.
Also, the Watchmen Music Collectors Edition 7” Box Set will be released on March 24th. The box set contains 7 double-sided 7” picture discs of each Watchmen character on one side, and images in the likeness of the graphic novel on the other. The Watchmen Music Collectors Edition 7" Box Set will include My Chemical Romance's "Desolation Row," along with 13 tracks by Tyler Bates.
And don’t forget that the limited addition Watchmen Vinyl Pre-Order on sale now so be sure to get your copy HERE before they are all gone!
My Chemical Romance has made a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” which will be featured on the soundtrack for the movie “The Watchmen.” The soundtrack is going to be released on March 3, 2009 so mark your calendars and get ready to see what MCR has in store for you.
Also, the Watchmen Music Collectors Edition 7” Box Set will be released on March 24th. The box set contains 7 double-sided 7” picture discs of each Watchmen character on one side, and images in the likeness of the graphic novel on the other. The Watchmen Music Collectors Edition 7" Box Set will include My Chemical Romance's "Desolation Row," along with 13 tracks by Tyler Bates.
And don’t forget that the limited addition Watchmen Vinyl Pre-Order on sale now so be sure to get your copy HERE before they are all gone!
joanneosaurus- Just A Ghost
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that's interesting for them to chose to cover a dylan song. has anyone heard it? is it aranged like an mychem song?
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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You can hear it on this page.
http://www.mikeywayonline.net/
http://www.mikeywayonline.net/
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Oh! Go to their page.
What is the countdown for?
And a new shirt.
What is the countdown for?
And a new shirt.
Slow Motion Suicide- Shotgun Sinner
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yeh i cant work out what its for... its bugging me
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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Aha!
bob: Does anyone know what this bloody countdown clock on the website is for?
4 hours ago
gerard: Our Watchmen song
15 min ago
I'm with it now!
bob: Does anyone know what this bloody countdown clock on the website is for?
4 hours ago
gerard: Our Watchmen song
15 min ago
I'm with it now!
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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Plug In Baby- Bad Motherfucker
Number of posts : 2844
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Location : South Auckland
Registration date : 2008-08-15
yee thanks!
Oh god when ever i go on MCR.com the screen switches to an itunes pop up.
does that happen for you?
its annoying.
Oh god when ever i go on MCR.com the screen switches to an itunes pop up.
does that happen for you?
its annoying.
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yeah...
It's happening to me too :S
It's happening to me too :S
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Blog G Way posted.
"Yay new song!
Actually it's not a new song, it's a cover song, but it's the first music we've recorded since Black Parade.
As we are gearing up to start the next album I wanted to pop in and talk about the track we were asked to cover for the Watchmen film by Zack Snyder, which you can get HERE.
Firstly, I'd like to point out that we have never recorded a song for a film. We have allowed a couple of our songs to be used in trailers or end-credits, but since we are usually pretty busy with either recording or touring there has never been time to do something like this before, and even this was kind of tight, as we started it before even finishing our last tour. There have been other offers to do this kind of thing, and usually the timing always made it impossible, but more often than not the project never seemed to fit the band, and we have always passed. But when the chance came to do a cover of one of my favorite artists, Bob Dylan, for a film version of my favorite work of fiction of all time we had to jump at the chance.
Sometimes an interviewer will ask a musician "What's the one record or musical experience, like a concert, that made you want to make music?". Usually people will mention some sort of 7 inch record or a show they saw in a basement that really changed their lives, got them into punk rock, and shaped the Way they looked at the world. For me it was Watchmen. At 15 years old, just as I was discovering The Misfits "Walk Among Us" I was reading the first chapter of the graphic novel. It is the one thing I can pinpoint that shaped my views and aesthetics, even down to the Way I dressed at the time, not that I walked the hallways in a stained brown trench coat, but I definitely chose more antisocial articles of clothing, like an army jacket, picked up after watching Taxi Driver for the twentieth time, a film I was lead to by the comic. So I would definitely say it's pretty important to me and the band.
The talks started about the same time as Projekt Revolution, and I remember getting on the phone with Zack, who was as excited as I was, somewhere in the middle of the desert as out bus rolled to the next venue.
We talked about the comic and he asked what I felt the approach
to the song should be, which was to take a cue from Jim Carroll, who is not only the author of The Basketball Diaries but also a musician, and a pretty great one at that. On his album, Catholic Boy, he has a song called "People Who Died", which I love, as does Frank, as he always includes it in our "Front Of House Mixes" you would hear during set-change during one of our concerts. Zack responded to this approach right away, as he actually used that song to end his remake of "Dawn Of The Dead", which I had totally forgotten about, even though the whole band saw it on opening night and loved it. So the tone was decided upon and then came the length, which initially Zack wanted to be the full version of Dylan's.
Now, I would consider myself a pretty big Dylan fan, especially after having worked with Scott Allie on my comic, as he really got me into him even more than I was before. And while I didn't want to alter the song at all, I found that I had to, due to the new approach and the aggressive nature of the cover. There was simply no Way I felt you could make it feel like a trashy punk song and play it for ten minutes...I think it's impossible to keep that kind of energy up without either burning out or boring yourself, as anyone will note that most Ramones songs don't exceed three minutes, and there's a reason for that.
Down-strummed til your wrist breaks! Fast and fucking hard!
So back at a hotel in Arizona I sat in a hotel and did a rough arrangement, which clocked in at around 2:40, and I paid careful attention to the lyrics, while losing some of my favorite verses I managed to keep the ones I felt were represented by Alan Moore in the comic. We then started playing the song at sound check, and had so much fun doing it that we decided to play it live, to get warmed up for the recording.
We did some initial tracking in Nashville and then just lived with it for a while. When crunch time came, and after seeing some of the film, I became increasingly unhappy with my vocal performance, and we felt we could get more out of the guitars.
So we asked our friend Rich
Costey to help us finish the track and get some new sounds, which he did, in NYC at Electric Ladyland, with the addition of some sweet old Marshall Plexi's, to get a kind of Sex Pistols tone, and we had a blast.
And thats pretty much the story of the song. We're really proud of it, and really excited you finally get to hear it.
Hurm,
G
PS- Special thanks to Bob Dylan for letting us cover the song and for not getting really mad at us for hacking out some of the best lyrics ever written.
"
"Yay new song!
Actually it's not a new song, it's a cover song, but it's the first music we've recorded since Black Parade.
As we are gearing up to start the next album I wanted to pop in and talk about the track we were asked to cover for the Watchmen film by Zack Snyder, which you can get HERE.
Firstly, I'd like to point out that we have never recorded a song for a film. We have allowed a couple of our songs to be used in trailers or end-credits, but since we are usually pretty busy with either recording or touring there has never been time to do something like this before, and even this was kind of tight, as we started it before even finishing our last tour. There have been other offers to do this kind of thing, and usually the timing always made it impossible, but more often than not the project never seemed to fit the band, and we have always passed. But when the chance came to do a cover of one of my favorite artists, Bob Dylan, for a film version of my favorite work of fiction of all time we had to jump at the chance.
Sometimes an interviewer will ask a musician "What's the one record or musical experience, like a concert, that made you want to make music?". Usually people will mention some sort of 7 inch record or a show they saw in a basement that really changed their lives, got them into punk rock, and shaped the Way they looked at the world. For me it was Watchmen. At 15 years old, just as I was discovering The Misfits "Walk Among Us" I was reading the first chapter of the graphic novel. It is the one thing I can pinpoint that shaped my views and aesthetics, even down to the Way I dressed at the time, not that I walked the hallways in a stained brown trench coat, but I definitely chose more antisocial articles of clothing, like an army jacket, picked up after watching Taxi Driver for the twentieth time, a film I was lead to by the comic. So I would definitely say it's pretty important to me and the band.
The talks started about the same time as Projekt Revolution, and I remember getting on the phone with Zack, who was as excited as I was, somewhere in the middle of the desert as out bus rolled to the next venue.
We talked about the comic and he asked what I felt the approach
to the song should be, which was to take a cue from Jim Carroll, who is not only the author of The Basketball Diaries but also a musician, and a pretty great one at that. On his album, Catholic Boy, he has a song called "People Who Died", which I love, as does Frank, as he always includes it in our "Front Of House Mixes" you would hear during set-change during one of our concerts. Zack responded to this approach right away, as he actually used that song to end his remake of "Dawn Of The Dead", which I had totally forgotten about, even though the whole band saw it on opening night and loved it. So the tone was decided upon and then came the length, which initially Zack wanted to be the full version of Dylan's.
Now, I would consider myself a pretty big Dylan fan, especially after having worked with Scott Allie on my comic, as he really got me into him even more than I was before. And while I didn't want to alter the song at all, I found that I had to, due to the new approach and the aggressive nature of the cover. There was simply no Way I felt you could make it feel like a trashy punk song and play it for ten minutes...I think it's impossible to keep that kind of energy up without either burning out or boring yourself, as anyone will note that most Ramones songs don't exceed three minutes, and there's a reason for that.
Down-strummed til your wrist breaks! Fast and fucking hard!
So back at a hotel in Arizona I sat in a hotel and did a rough arrangement, which clocked in at around 2:40, and I paid careful attention to the lyrics, while losing some of my favorite verses I managed to keep the ones I felt were represented by Alan Moore in the comic. We then started playing the song at sound check, and had so much fun doing it that we decided to play it live, to get warmed up for the recording.
We did some initial tracking in Nashville and then just lived with it for a while. When crunch time came, and after seeing some of the film, I became increasingly unhappy with my vocal performance, and we felt we could get more out of the guitars.
So we asked our friend Rich
Costey to help us finish the track and get some new sounds, which he did, in NYC at Electric Ladyland, with the addition of some sweet old Marshall Plexi's, to get a kind of Sex Pistols tone, and we had a blast.
And thats pretty much the story of the song. We're really proud of it, and really excited you finally get to hear it.
Hurm,
G
PS- Special thanks to Bob Dylan for letting us cover the song and for not getting really mad at us for hacking out some of the best lyrics ever written.
"
everything is- Shotgun Sinner
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haha, I reeeeally want to have a conversation with Gerard about Watchmen.
Has anyone here read it?
I like the Way MCR did it, it's just nowhere near as good as the original.
It's like, if it was an original MCR song, then it'd be good, but because there's already another much greater version of it, then it's crappy in comparison.
Has anyone here read it?
Yeah, I agree.Caitlin...IsNotOkay wrote:The original is better if you ask me.
Its like 11 minutes long.
I don't like the Way Gee screams the song, it sort of takes away from the poetic lyrics, so people don't really get to fully appreciate the lyrics.
I like the Way MCR did it, it's just nowhere near as good as the original.
It's like, if it was an original MCR song, then it'd be good, but because there's already another much greater version of it, then it's crappy in comparison.
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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Yeah Gerard said they had to cut chunks out of it.
But I like it. Like, the Way they sang it I'm just a bit gutted it's like a 1/5 of the original length.
But I like it. Like, the Way they sang it I'm just a bit gutted it's like a 1/5 of the original length.
Plug In Baby- Bad Motherfucker
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I do how ever like the 2nd half of the solo how it sounds like a disgruntled version of the american national anthem. [it is the national anthem righ?]
Make Believe.- Shotgun Sinner
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"The new video for "Desolation Row" will be available at iTunes tomorrow, but you can get a taste of it by heading over to this MTV.com article now."
McBowden- Oh So Famous
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i know.! squee.
but isnt that only available to watch in the US?
but isnt that only available to watch in the US?
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gahhh i wanna see the whole video so bad!
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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I'll give it 2 days before it's on youtube.
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I just watched the clip.
It's very "Teenagers"-ish.
It's very "Teenagers"-ish.
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i cant wait to go home and see it.... =]
Slaughtermatic Sounds- Shotgun Sinner
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eeee I'm very excited for this movie.
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And they added some fucking awesome stuff to the sale.
EDIT: Image codes failed.
http://store.warnerbrosrecords.com/detail.php?p=82331&v=wbr_my-chemical-romance_sale
http://store.warnerbrosrecords.com/detail.php?p=82301&v=wbr_my-chemical-romance_sale
http://store.warnerbrosrecords.com/detail.php?p=82295&v=wbr_my-chemical-romance_sale
EDIT: Image codes failed.
http://store.warnerbrosrecords.com/detail.php?p=82331&v=wbr_my-chemical-romance_sale
http://store.warnerbrosrecords.com/detail.php?p=82301&v=wbr_my-chemical-romance_sale
http://store.warnerbrosrecords.com/detail.php?p=82295&v=wbr_my-chemical-romance_sale
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