Watchmen + Bob Dylan x My Chemical Romance = Wha!??
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
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.
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Makes perfect sense and just from reading the title I new it was Desolation Row. The song is excerpted at the end of the first chapter
“at midnight all the agents
and the super human crew
come and round up everyone
who knows more than they do”
well i love My Chemical Romance Music
The story takes place in the 80’s right? This soundtrack should be loaded with The Cure, Depeche Mode and New Order. Not crappy punk-pop!
There not crappy and there not Punk-pop
Sadly that wouldnt move alot of soundtracks for the younger audiences.
Wait, Depeche Mode ISN’T crappy? Well my world just got turned upside down…
Thanks Nick! Now I have to go spend an hour proving you wrong…and listen to Depeche Mode.
Definitely not crappy. Dated – yes, but I think that was Rachel’s point.
It wasn’t crappy in the 80’s, it was ground breaking. They pioneered a music genre, they were not a symptom of a stale one.
Personally I don’t care what music is in the movie as long as it feels right. I have faith that he won’t drop the ball on the music.
Not my fav, but theres a version of “in my room” I have that blows my mind.
Well, I wouldn’t call My Chemical Romance crappy either. A tad goofy? yes.
Plus, MCR are huge comic book fans, it makes sense that they would contribute to a soundtrack for a comic book movie
The song sounds fine me.
I wonder if it will actually be in the movie since they are the only contemporary band on the soundtrack. Since the rest of the tracks are dated it gives me the impression that it will either be just for the soundtrack and video or play during the credits, like the Manson song on the Matrix reloaded CD.
Either way they picked a good song to cover.
Hey, I’ll be fair here: it’s not as atrocious as when Britney Spears covered “I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)” or *shivers* Hillary Duff singing “My Generation” and changing the line ‘I hope I die before I get old’ to ‘I hope I DON’T die before i get old.’
One of these things is not like the other…
I think the song is just alright. I think it would’ve been awesome if they used the “The End Is The Beginning Is The End” By Smashing Pumpkins (the fast version of the song they played in the trailer) for the end credits. That would rock, but hopefully isn’t tainted by being on the Batman and Robin Soundtrack.