Top 5 mcr songs!
ookay here we go songs that weren't included in my previous top 5
it's not a fashion statement it's a fucking deathwish - i've been really into this one lately for the simple reason that it fucking rips. absolutely unrelenting from the very first seconds, the way the guitar kicks things into ultra-turbo gear at "from the razor to the rosary" (a seminal line!) then i! will! a-venge! my! ghost! with! ev-very! breath! i take! does you gender ever nip at your heels so you run a little faster until you can't see it anymore but you know it's still there waiting to catch up to you? do you ever hide from yourself because you know it's the only way to stay alive? do you have to drag your gender behind you like a corpse? do you have to drag your ill-fitting self behind you like a corpse because you cannot bring yourself to let it go also what a title...i think about about the truck stop eyeliner quote and the polarize/irritate/contaminate quote and all the time they got things yelled at or thrown at them in a scene that didn't want any part of them until it could be marketed, until it was clear that people loved them. unrelated but this song is wuthering heights to me. i will not explain.
house of wolves - i think this was the first non-single that i got really into in late high school and then refused to check out any of the other tracks (besides the singles) bc i was Scared and intimidated. it's okay 16-year-old me, you'll get there. another ripper straight from the duelling guitar slides in the opening seconds. the guitar drops in after "you better run like the devil 'cause they're never gonna leave you alone" and my heart falls out of my ass every single time. casual blasphemy IS always sexy
the sharpest lives - thank you bert mccracken for inspiring one of the best songs on a record with no skips (except for blood). fuck you bert mccracken for inspiring one of their best songs that they cannot ever play because it's going to activate a kill switch in frank's mind and he will subsequently break every bone in his body. i know they've played it since prorev i just find the whole thing hysterical. while i do find the instrumentals in this one a little bit repetitive but the production for the first few lines alternating on headphones really makes it something special. some of my favourite lyrics especially in the second verse, wonderfully crunchy bassline right before the breakdown mikey way i owe you my LIFE
you know what they do to guys like us in prison - if you held a cup up to my tilted head after ray's solo my entire brain would pour out like a melted slurpee. i have nothing intelligent to say about the gay prison sex song because, like the band, it activates the part of my brain that wants to howl and climb the walls.
hang 'em high - YEE THE FUCK HAW. a 100m sprint in song form. we NEED to make more fanart for this one maybe this is just because i've been writing a western for the past almost two years but we NEED to embrace hang 'em high's yeehaw punk. it is ESSENTIAL. manages to be its own self-contained story while also working within the context of the demo lovers; some of the songs on revenge work better as parts of a whole, but i think that hang 'em high's versatility isn't given its due because it stands alone in its' western influences (which is laughably fitting). some very fun vocals and weird pronounciations from mx gargling into the mic
