I know they will hang me for this one...

I don't want to go into a long blog about this, because I know you probably don't want to spend a whole day reading what I think; so lets keep this short. MCR released a video recently for their cover of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" and you can go here to see and hear it...

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51474710

And you should try to catch the original version if you can here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RenHNO19XKs

Now I am the FIRST one to say, Bob Dylan is the GOD of folk music and a real poet, and that MCR is an abomination to the entire music industry and the GODs of pretentious, emo, out of key, nonsensical lyrics, ear raping "music." With all that said (truly this next part is hard for me to say), I like their cover of Desolation Row. (Please fell free to gasp and yell at your computer screen now.) Hear me out for a minute before you nail me to the cross. I like their cover because it pretty much does not resemble the original, it's fairly punk, and it may get people listening to more Bob Dylan.

Like I said, I did like it because it had nothing to do with the original, except for the lyrics. I have a big problem with covers, because the majority of them tend to sound so similar to the original it makes me think to myself, "Why don't I just listen to the original?" However, MCR took this song, and they made it their own so I can respect that they didn't think they should play anything resembling a folk song.

Also, the song just sounded pretty punk. Punk music is more or less dead in America, dead, dead, dead. Punk somehow became emo, and emo music sucks. Yet, this song was punk, I liked it, it was raw, it was fast, the singer sounded like shit, and it just made you feel like jumping around in combat boots all pissed off.

Finally, the main reason I like this cover, is because of what I saw on the youtube comments for the Bob Dylan original. So many kids are coming to youtube to hear the original, and many of them seem to be enjoying it. This gives me hope, that maybe a few kids will go out and by a Dylan album, and then show their friends the album, and their friends will show their friends, and so on until even more people know of the magic that is Bob Dylan.