Watchmen + Bob Dylan x My Chemical Romance = Wha!??

TotallyNotNick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:21:16 +0000

The Watchmen soundtrack has released its first single and its one of the most bizzare covers in a long time.The album’s opening tack is a My Chemical Romance cover of the Bob Dylan classic “Desolation Row.” Now, as much as I love MCR (The Black Parade was pretty much on constant rotation during my Freshman Year of high school.) this just didn’t feel right. The song originally appeared as the final track of Highway 61 Revisited and was a melancholy, 11-minute opus. The MCR cover is a fast, ferocious, 3-minute cut that won’t let down any hardcore MCR fans that were worried they were going soft. the experience of the first listen was kinda jarring, but after another two or three tries the song grew on me and now I actually really dig it. Hopefully this is the kind of sound we can look forward to when My Chemical Romance release their new album later in 2009. According to Wikipedia, the song will play during Watchman’s closing credits.

The film’s soundtrack also includes songs by Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Janis Joplin and Leonard Cohen.

2009: What I’m looking forward to

TotallyNotNick — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:29:44 +0000

With 2008 nothing but a fond memory (hopefully) its time to begin looking forward to the year ahead; 2009. Here’s a list (divided into helpful sections) of the things that I’m just dying to see/hear/play in the new year

Music- As lame as this is going to sound, the album that looking forward to the most is the new Green Day record. When American Idiot came out in 2004, it was the coolest thing I had ever heard and it rocked my eighth grade world. Will they’re new record be just as fantastic five years later? Also, I’m really excited about Lily Allen’s sophomore record It’s Not You, It’s Me; the new disc from Panic at the Disco (I hated their first album but loved Pretty. Odd.) The Decemberists’ The Hazards of Love and a rumored Yeah Yeah Yeahs record.

Film- Look, we all know about star Trek, Harry Potter, Wolverine and Watchmen. But I’m also dying to see I Love You, Man, James Cameron’s Avatar, the Johnny Depp/Christian Bale crime epic Public Enemies, the looong awaited Where the Wild Things Are and Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones.

Television- Lost. Lost. Lost. Oh, and I’m seriously considering getting Cinemax just so I can watch the Diablo Cody/Steven Spielberg love-child, The United Sates of Tara

What about you guys? What are you looking forward to?

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Watchmen + Bob Dylan x My Chemical Romance = Wha!??

2009: What I’m looking forward to