24th July 2008 - MCR to cover Bob Dylan track for Watchmen movie.

the trailer is SOOO mindblowing. and yeah Desolation Row is the confirmed song...

i'd better go check out the song, i dun even know what it sounds like, bugger.

watching the Gerard interview on mtv.com. i feel like doing a happy dance!!! this is probly the best i've felt in weeks, i've been depressed n shit but ... with the excitement of this, its impossible not to feel a little hyped. woooo!

*le sigh* well, at least the kids are reading the book now...f'n bandwagons and other such comic elitist mumblings......gah, I remember seeing that shit in serials back in the day.....waits for the whatthefuckwasdrmanhattananyway questions to abound......

Tallulah; Schechter:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2008/jul/25/my.chemical.romance.cover.dylan
Just another verison of the story from the Guardian newspaper.

I love how the caption beneath Gerard says 'Closet comic fan'

Yes. He hides it so well. :

I LOVE Watchmen, so I'm super excited the bands getting involved. Not surprising at all though considering Gerards hobbies

^ oh yeah! the video will come out around that date too, right? perhaps even a day or 2 earlier?

Surely the video would be out before the single? So that it gets more views, so more people buy it?
Idk.

I am really excited about a new single, but with it being a cover, it kinda takes some of the excitement away... I can't wait until they come out with some new stuff that they wrote... I'm still excited about hearing the new single tho! It's kinda like a late bday present to me since it comes out a week after my bday!

Mmmm. I can't wait! New music! And all of them together. <3


And they all looked REALLY good in that shoot.

Am I the only one who found the article to be a bit smarmy?

"Emo gods MCR...frontman Gerard Way currently writes a strange superhero title called the Umbrella Academy...says Watchmen / Desolation Row is a road test for the band's new stripped-down punk sound. They promise to unveil more of this new style later in the year. This is backed up by the fact they're currently in the studio recording a new non-concept LP".

here's the lyrics just for kicks....
supposedly they aren't covering the whooollle thing, but just picking out some parts...that's what i heard at least, on here i think, but i can't remember =]



Desolation Row

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
"You Belong to Me I Believe"
And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend
You better leave"
And the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortunetelling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid

To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
"Have Mercy on His Soul"
They all play on penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

Across the street they've nailed the curtains
They're getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They're spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words

And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row"

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

well, the single will most propably be the same as the version they performed live on tour right? they did 3 verses on that, if i remember correctly. anyone else remember? (i saw it on youtube once or twice) Think it was the first, second and 10th verses

Rose Red.:

Erm, I'm a tad bit scared now.

Whatever, that's just his opinion. My Chem have always received very mixed reviews.

^ yeah, that's true....

i mean look at how gerard sounds in astro zombies...[the review stated how fast he sings it] i thought that was fantastic...of course i did know the lyrics already pretty much so i don't know if i can say anything as far as that goes. but hey, i'm sure it'll be pretty good.
=]

From the times they sang it live, I pretty sure these are the lyrics they picked:
Desolation Row

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
"You Belong to Me I Believe"
And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend
You better leave"
And the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

Yeah its too bad they cut my favorite verse about the Good Samaritan, but oh well. I just really hope they put in the last bit before the final verse:

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name

^ It gives the song more dimension and story: All the previous verses are about letters Bob Dylan got from his home town and he gave all the for mentioned people different faces and names, hence the countless analogies and double meanings.

I wouldn't worry to much about that review, it wasn't even accurate. Bob Dylan has known about the cover since the summer and is cool with it.

I'm so excited, Bob Dylan + MCR must simply = Musical Genius!

http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blog/jeff-watson/new-my-chemical-romance-cover-song-vinyl-%E2%80%93-pre-order-now