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.
However, MCR once covered Bowie/Queen's Under Pressure (along with The Used), a song I considered sacrosanct. I *loved* the cover.
It's so good. I adore it.
Ooooh!
Now I want to see the video.
I never really watch videos any more. I mostly blame this on MTV, for not really playing videos any more. (Don't know if that's actually still the case, what with not watching any more, but it's why I stopped)
I never really watch videos any more. I mostly blame this on MTV, for not really playing videos any more.
MTV still does not, but this is why I love YouTube. All of a sudden, videos again!
Speaking of covers, probably my favorite is the Stripped version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" sung just by Patrick, with his electric guitar. It's raw and imperfect and gets me
every single time.
I ration myself on it.
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