WATCHMEN! THE MUSIC VIDEO!-Ugh...ok...more on the MCR story we heard about earlier...

[StorminNorman]

Well for the time being, wouldn't you want to hear part of the score? There's always a possibility of a Dylan/MCR vinyl, but right now I'm personally happy to hear some of the score.

I have heard a part of the score and no, I would prefer Dylan.

 

[Motown Marvel]

I had to see them twice when i went to see Muse open for them, and they weren't that bad live.

then clearly we have different standards on what makes quality music.

 

[Symbiotic]

MCR's 12" "picture disc" with Desolation Row doesn't release 'til Tuesday, yet their website and their Myspace have a roman numeral clock with blood heading towards it and a countdown. The interesting thing is that the countdown ends at 9am tomorow morning. (Eastern). Maybe we'll be able to hear the song in full starting tomorrow.

 

[Rezzo]

Maybe we'll be able to hear the song in full starting tomorrow.

It's already available.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

It's already available.

where?

 

[Symbiotic]

where?

Seconded. I know that there's live versions, but the full studio version?

 

[Rezzo]

Seconded. I know that there's live versions, but the full studio version?

The studio version.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

The studio version.

"WHERE IS IT" (in a batman voice)

 

[CrimsonMist]

then clearly we have different standards on what makes quality music.

You like The Stooges. You win!

t:

P.S. Devastating news about Ron Ashton. I played Fun House all day when i heard about it.

 

[spida-man]

HERE(no joke..follow the link on the right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgvPMcMqWY0

 

[benhs1898]

then clearly we have different standards on what makes quality music.

well, i don't care but i didn't say i thought they made quality music, the live versions of their songs just didn't sound like crap.

 

[spida-man]

i've listen to the song twice now..and it's honestly not as bad as it seems in those low quality vids on youtube
(nor does it sound "emo")

 

[Symbiotic]

Oh I like that.

 

[CrimsonMist]

first off, that's one of the crappiest vinyl rips i've ever heard. It's so miserably lo-fi it hurts. I'm anxious to hear a digital version, so atleast it'll be clear. And if it's not the rip, it's an atrocity to put on vinyl. The same thing happened with a band called The Sword. Great band, but their new album and single sound like crap on vinyl. A shame.

But i downloaded it, and it's not all that great. It's decent at best. And they're trying too hard to be edgy. Overproduced "punk" has always been crappy though. And aside from being a sub-par cover, i still think it'll be inappropriate to end the film with this version. Far from being powerful enough to accentuate the ending.

 

[spida-man]

first off, that's one of the crappiest vinyl rips i've ever heard. It's so miserably lo-fi it hurts. I'm anxious to hear a digital version, so atleast it'll be clear. And if it's not the rip, it's an atrocity to put on vinyl. The same thing happened with a band called The Sword. Great band, but their new album and single sound like crap on vinyl. A shame.

But i downloaded it, and it's not all that great. It's decent at best. And they're trying too hard to be edgy. Overproduced "punk" has always been crappy though. And aside from being a sub-par cover, i still think it'll be inappropriate to end the film with this version. Far from being powerful enough to accentuate the ending.

oh ye of little faith

 

[CrimsonMist]

oh ye of little faith

God forbid...

 

[I Am The Knight]

I heard it. It's really nothing special...Quite forgettable, but not as insulting as I thought it would be.

 

[CrimsonMist]

I got to thinking just now. I'd much prefer to hear the version of "Desolation Row" from No Direction Home: the Bootleg Series Vol. 7. It's more ominous and haunting than the released version and a bit more moody.

 

[Motown Marvel]

just listened to the full version, and its everything i thought it was gonna be. extreley generic, uninspired, and all together a waste of time. damn, those "guitar solos" blow.

You like The Stooges. You win!

t:

P.S. Devastating news about Ron Ashton. I played Fun House all day when i heard about it.

the stooges always win! and yeah, i was sincerely shocked to hear ron died. im good friends with the dude thats been his guitar tech ever since the band reformed, and i was lucky to have met and chatted with ron when my friends band opened for the stooges. he was nothing short of a phenomenal and sincerely generous person. i've missed him every day.

well, i don't care but i didn't say i thought they made quality music, the live versions of their songs just didn't sound like crap.

ha, i know. i was just saying when i saw them live it sounded like...i dont even know....it was offensive to me that they're regarded as musicians. ha.

 

[Motown Marvel]

by the way, in case anyone is interested, here's dylan's full lyrics to the song. in red are the lyrics MCR used for the cover. (this may not be perfect, its just based off one quick listen. correct me if im wrong)

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

 

[Bubastis]

well, um, does anybody have the full version of prison fight?

 

[Rezzo]

well, um, does anybody have the full version of prison fight?

You can hear the full version on the official soundtrack site.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

by the way, in case anyone is interested, here's dylan's full lyrics to the song. in red are the lyrics MCR used for the cover. (this may not be perfect, its just based off one quick listen. correct me if im wrong)

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

Haha, ''Let's rape it AND chop it up!'' Unbelievable.

But then again......that means it won't be an unendurable ten minutes. right?

 

[Bubastis]

Haha, ''Let's rape it AND chop it up!'' Unbelievable.

But then again......that means it won't be an unendurable ten minutes. right?

Never thought of it that way. Cool!

 

[spida-man]

From MCR official site blog:

New song today

posted by Gerard on Jan 26, 2009 9:54am

Yay new song!
Actually it's not a new song, it's a cover song, but it's the first music we've recorded since Black Parade. As we are gearing up to start the next album I wanted to pop in and talk about the track we were asked to cover for the Watchmen film by Zack Snyder, which you can get here.
Firstly, I'd like to point out that we have never recorded a song for a film. We have allowed a couple of our songs to be used in trailers or end-credits, but since we are usually pretty busy with either recording or touring there has never been time to do something like this before, and even this was kind of tight, as we started it before even finishing our last tour. There have been other offers to do this kind of thing, and usually the timing always made it impossible, but more often than not the project never seemed to fit the band, and we have always passed. But when the chance came to do a cover of one of my favorite artists, Bob Dylan, for a film version of my favorite work of fiction of all time we had to jump at the chance.
Sometimes an interviewer will ask a musician "What's the one record or musical experience, like a concert, that made you want to make music?". Usually people will mention some sort of 7 inch record or a show they saw in a basement that really changed their lives, got them into punk rock, and shaped the way they looked at the world. For me it was Watchmen. At 15 years old, just as I was discovering The Misfits "Walk Among Us" I was reading the first chapter of the graphic novel. It is the one thing I can pinpoint that shaped my views and aesthetics, even down to the way I dressed at the time, not that I walked the hallways in a stained brown trench coat, but I definitely chose more antisocial articles of clothing, like an army jacket, picked up after watching Taxi Driver for the twentieth time, a film I was lead to by the comic. So I would definitely say it's pretty important to me and the band.
The talks started about the same time as Projekt Revolution, and I remember getting on the phone with Zack, who was as excited as I was, somewhere in the middle of the desert as out bus rolled to the next venue. We talked about the comic and he asked what I felt the approach
to the song should be, which was to take a cue from Jim Carroll, who is not only the author of The Basketball Diaries but also a musician, and a pretty great one at that. On his album, Catholic Boy, he has a song called "People Who Died", which I love, as does Frank, as he always includes it in our "Front Of House Mixes" you would hear during set-change during one of our concerts. Zack responded to this approach right away, as he actually used that song to end his remake of "Dawn Of The Dead", which I had totally forgotten about, even though the whole band saw it on opening night and loved it. So the tone was decided upon and then came the length, which initially Zack wanted to be the full version of Dylan's.
Now, I would consider myself a pretty big Dylan fan, especially after having worked with Scott Allie on my comic, as he really got me into him even more than I was before. And while I didn't want to alter the song at all, I found that I had to, due to the new approach and the aggressive nature of the cover. There was simply no way I felt you could make it feel like a trashy punk song and play it for ten minutes...I think it's impossible to keep that kind of energy up without either burning out or boring yourself, as anyone will note that most Ramones songs don't exceed three minutes, and there's a reason for that. Down-strummed til your wrist breaks! Fast and ****ing hard!
So back at a hotel in Arizona I sat in a hotel and did a rough arrangement, which clocked in at around 2:40, and I paid careful attention to the lyrics, while losing some of my favorite verses I managed to keep the ones I felt were represented by Alan Moore in the comic. We then started playing the song at sound check, and had so much fun doing it that we decided to play it live, to get warmed up for the recording.
We did some initial tracking in Nashville and then just lived with it for a while. When crunch time came, and after seeing some of the film, I became increasingly unhappy with my vocal performance, and we felt we could get more out of the guitars. So we asked our friend Rich
Costey to help us finish the track and get some new sounds, which he did, in NYC at Electric Ladyland, with the addition of some sweet old Marshall Plexi's, to get a kind of Sex Pistols tone, and we had a blast.
And thats pretty much the story of the song. We're really proud of it, and really excited you finally get to hear it.
Hurm,
G
PS- Special thanks to Bob Dylan for letting us cover the song and for not getting really mad at us for hacking out some of the best lyrics ever written.