The seventh track in my All-Time Top 25 Tunes is number nineteen, ‘Famous Last Words’ by My Chemical Romance.
It’s far too easy to get sniffy and write off teenage angst-ridden emo music. After all, they’re only kids and what do they know about anything?
Kids like young Lennon and McCartney, you mean?
So sit down and give this a good listen.
I’m confident that you will discover, once you’re past the melodramatic introduction, that ‘Famous Last Words’ is a fast-paced rock-n-roll number that screams deliciously tight vocal and instrumental harmonies, and sounds as if it could be the illegitimate child of Jim Steinman and Phil Spector.
Really.
Ummmm ….. normally I concur with your music choices because they are beyond excellent. But I just found this one loud. With no harmonies …. and a bloke shouting into the microphone with no tune. But that could be me being a heathen again!!
I love the energy, enthusiasm and motivation. And of course the lyrics. I think there’s more emo in me than I’m comfortable admitting to. 🙂