Dude! I had not seen it yet!

Dude! Fun, no?

Teppy, MCR has a good video page. [link]

You can also listen to about half a dozen songs on the first page of their website. (It is annoyingly automatic)

I'm Not OK was my first love. (The alternate Old Skool version is fun too -- but probably more fun once you fall in love with them or grew up seeing all the things in the video. There IS some Jersey Shore! Where you experienced The __________ of My People!)

Then came Helena, I Don't Love You and the rest.

After watching videos for a while I started listening to The Black Parade which is their most recent, most epic, most polished concept album. I now enjoy the earlier albums too (even though the first one is not my traditional "hook-mad and logical lyric" tastes at all).

My favoritest song of all, however, is a B-Side called Kill All Your Friends.

Here is the audio from You Tube. [link] There is a LOT of MCR audio on You Tube.

Panic At The Disco:

I Write Sins Not Tragedies: [link]

But It's Better If You Do: [link]

Nine In The Afternoon: [link]

Mad As Rabbits: [link]

eta: The second two are from a different album from the first two, so expect a shift in style.

This post: [link] is one of the more comprehensive lists of covers-by-bandom.

There *is* some awesome stuff in there.

t marks for later

This is Ivy League's my space page has a nice selection. [link]

(Clicking from My Space page to My Space page is my favorite way to hear new music)

Apparently tomorrow is Record Store Day, and Metallica will be in Rasputin Records in San Francisco. [link] Cool. Official site: [link]

juliana - I did get your email, but I am being thinky-meat about it.

Cool.

Crue video: so Nikki and Tommy are still the good-looking ones. Some things never change.

I first became interested in MCR when Pete (my Pete, not Pete Wentz) showed me the major label video for "I'm Not Okay". I thought the video was a clever concept, the song was very catchy, and ohhhh, wasn't the band just a DARLING bunch of eyeliner boys?

Then I started reading interviews with the band, and the self-aware geeks who want to save your life angle completely hooked me. I bought their first album, and while it was a little rougher than what I usually listened to, the lyrics dragged me in. My parents gave me their second album for Christmas that year (with much teasing about how they hadn't expected to be buying me rocker-boy albums again), and the second album lived up to the promise of the first one. And then, The Black Parade. Dramatic, bombastic, the lovechild of Queen and David Bowie, with guest vocals by Liza Minnelli, and gothy marching band uniforms. It was like they designed it just for me.

I've liked pretty much everything I've heard of MCR.

FOB sometimes catches me in the right mood and I like it. Other times I don't.

Same with Panic at the Disco.

However, MCR once covered Bowie/Queen's Under Pressure (along with The Used), a song I considered sacrosanct. I *loved* the cover.

I loved the video of the cover. It cracks me up so hard.

I loved the video of the cover. It cracks me up so hard.

I haven't watched it, because I have irrational Bert issues. I don't even own the cover.