I’ve said this before and was mocked for it, but I weirdly prefer the Twenty One Pilots version of cancer. I think they’re a bad band generally, but I think that material works better with something closer to the dreampop sound they gave it. Would rather someone like Cigarettes After S***do it instead of them.

you are in fact the only person who thinks that, maybe it's my nostalgia but the 21P version is cancer to me. but fair enough.

it's not just the dreampop though it's also the cringy electronic s***

I actually like a few 21p songs lol

famous last words was the song that got me into MCR back in the day. funnily enough now it's the one song on TBP that I don't like

A girl I was dating showed me that cover and for the longest time I never realized it was them. When I found out there was people who hated that version—it just came across to me like projection of preconceived notions about the artist onto the material. I find the try hard vocal inflections in the original version way cringier than the electronic sounds in the cover. Again I still think if an actual dream pop group did it then it’d be better.

i'm not knocking you for enjoying it. to each his own. what I like about the original is that it's the only stripped down "acoustic" song on the album (at least in the first half)... Which I think fits it better given that the themes of the song are better served with simplicity. Some songs carry enough emotional weight that they don't need the extra melodrama (and if you think Gerard's voice is melodramatic or cringy that's probably just not growing up with their music so I can see that but for me it's just how the band is)

also I remember crying to that video as a 12 year old and I never cried as a child

Reminds me of this list I made 2 weeks ago and am slowly trying to fill. (I will not be doing a rap list for KTT2 because the outcome would be boring af)

docs.google.com/document/d/1yif93R9WtVcSJqfR6BNoOm3C52UkAtlKyMnbXCI8qeg/edit?usp=drivesdk

It’s honestly something I can’t enjoy anymore since everyone makes me feel like a weirdo for it. Obviously you’re not doing that, but anytime I hear it all I can think about is the conversation around it. But yeah it’s definitely a difference of perspective and context. I just don’t think anyone would passionately hate that version if it existed in isolation. I wasn’t introduced to MCR until much later in life and I never really resonated with them when I tried, but I always acknowledged Gerard as having an incredible ear for melody. When it comes to the song—I actually always more so imagined something closer in style to The Antlers and not just because they have a whole album about cancer.

what is the list

edit: oh

that cannibal ox album that high, huh?

love this song though

My mother said, "You sucked my p**** when you came out"

I remember playing this song in front of my friends family and my friend getting pissed when he heard that line

Hip hop, it was '88, Even at the age of 10, phrases levitate

that album has some wicked lyrics i'll admit. especially that song first verse. one of my favorite ever rap songs lyrically

Should put it in my 9s tbh. Been one of my favorites for over a decade. Peak El-P production on that s***. Mastapeece.

Real Earth is full of gems

This ain't a space race so why you rushin'
To be the first to catch a concussion, from El-P's percussion
Watch me throw a sentence in the air, say word up
That's just a phrase for my action, like a bum with a cup

OH YEA, reminder to get a stylus upgrade (and possibly a cartridge one) i been rockin w the stock vmn95e for a while, just bought a new one of those but i gotta step my game up once this one wears out

I’ve tried a few times to get into this album and I always end up turning it off halfway

Is Eric from Tony Hawk’s Underground the biggest d*** of all time?

Probably. Only an a****** is named Eric.

also that short piano refrain throughout the beat is so sick.

@HeyFella

First time listening to this new one. It's pretty cool.

Yeah other than their debut this is my favorite album from them.

man up and listen to the whole thing damnit . I mean if you don't like those first two songs The End/Dead then maybe the album isn't for you because that's peak MCR right there

Alright