Birthday

George Harold Harrison, born on February 25, 1943, was the lead guitarist for The Beatles. He was born in Liverpool, England and today he would have turned 66.

Happy Birthday George <3

The Poison

Ah, yes. Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison. I just picked up this album, along with Scream Aim Fire, at FYE. So here is their album's review:

Tracks (US reissue version):

[~=single, **=tracks on reissue version not on standard version]

1. Intro

2. Her Voice Resides

3. ~4 Words (To Choke Upon)

4. ~Tears Don't Fall

5. ~Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow (What Can I Do)

6. Hit The Floor

7. ~All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)

8. Room 409

9. The Poison

10. 10 Years Today

11. Cries In Vain

12. Spit You Out

13. The End

14. **7 Days

15. **My Fist, Your Mouth, Her Scars

16. **Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

17. **Tears Don't Fall (acoustic)

I'm a fan of BFMV. I have to give props to Matt Tuck for having some scream! Really, he can scream like no one I've ever heard and he still has a voice. I think that's pretty impressive.

My favorite part about BFMV songs have always been the guitar. I think they have really great guitar parts and great solos. I also love how they start their songs, with just enough energy to get you interested, but building up so you keep listening.

By themselves, each song is pretty good, but put together in an album it starts to get..... boring. They're not unique to eachother. It's just the same technique over and over. The same intro, the same build up, the same bridge, etc.

I also feel like Matt covers up his voice with his screaming. He has a powerful scream, we can all agree on that. But when it comes to singing straight, he really builds himself up to be more than he is. And he ALWAYS resorts back to screaming. It's always the climax in all of the songs.

I do have to say that all the repetitiveness does give BFMV a uniqueness over all. If their song is playing I know it's them even if I don't actually recognize the song.

The End stuck out to me because it's so different. I like how we can hear Matt sing straight out and I actually like the use of all the screaming and guitars in that song.

I also like 7 Days because I think the chorus and bridge are kinda catchy :P

I actually like all the songs that are in addition to the standard version. I love My Fist, Your Mouth, Her Scars. I do admit that BFMV has a good sound. It's the kind of music you want to blast when your parents aren't home, lol!

Eh, all in all I rate this album a 3 1/2 stars. It's tiring to listen to straight through, but each individual song is pretty good :)

Desolation Row (cover)

Am I nuts???!!!! How could I forget to review My Chemical Romance's cover of Desolation Row? MCR (as you should all know) covered Bob Dylan's Desolation Row for the end credits of the upcoming movie Watchmen. The cover was released on January 26 and became available in vinyl the next day. The video just came out on February 3rd and I completely forgot to post about it!

It's so good to see MCR back onstage (even of it is in a video). It's like, 'The boys are back!". I thought that everyone looked good in the video. It was great to see Gee put on the amazing performance he always does.

I thought his voice was really good and my favorite thing about him is how much energy and emotion he puts into his singing.

I DEFINITLY like My Chem's cover of Desolation Row much better than the original. I know that's probably outlawed in the world of music or something (lol) but it's true!

Great cover, great video, need I say more? Enjoy ;)

Desolation Row (cover by MCR)

My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row


Desolation Row (cover version)- My Chemical Romance

They're
Selling postcards
Of the hanging
Well they're painting
The passports brown
And the beauty parlor
Is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
And now here comes
The blind commissioner
Well they 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
"Well it takes one to know one"
She smiles
And she puts her hands
In her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And now in comes Romeo
Moaning
"You Belong to Me I Believe"
And someone says
"You're in the wrong place
My friend
You better leave"
And then the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now at midnight all the agents
And superhuman crew
Go out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
They're gonna 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 no one is escaping
To Desolation Row


'Cause right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you gonna mail them
From Desolation Row

Fidelity

This is a song by Regina Spektor. I really like this song, because I love the simple lyrics that mean so much. I can really relate to the first line :) I like how she admits that she's hurt herself by protecting herself. That sometimes you need to let your heart go to be truly happy.

I think she has a gorgeous voice and I like that you can tell she has technique behind her singing and she's not just singing because she thinks she can. I also like that she doesn't get really loud, but she still has different levels of emotion in her voice.

The song is very deep and yet light. If I say nothing else, I will say that it's different. New. So I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do. Here is Fidelity.

Fidelity

Fidelity- Regina Spektor

(Shake it up) 
I never loved nobody fully 
Always one foot on the ground 
And by protecting my heart truly 
I got lost in the sounds 
I hear in my mind 
All these voices 
I hear in my mind all these words 
I hear in my mind all this music 

And it breaks my heart 
And it breaks my heart 
And it breaks my heart 
It breaks my heart 

And suppose I never met you 
Suppose we never fell in love 
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft 
Suppose I never ever saw you 
Suppose we never ever called 
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall 
Just to break my fall 
Just to break my fall 
Break my fall 
Break my fall 

All my friends say that of course its gonna get better 
Gonna get better 
Better better better better 
Better better better 

I never love nobody fully 
Always one foot on the ground 
And by protecting my heart truly 
I got lost 
In the sounds 
I hear in my mind 
All these voices 
I hear in my mind all these words 
I hear in my mind 
All this music 
And it breaks my heart 
It breaks my heart 
Breaks my 
Heart 
Breaks my heart