They have a pretty big legion of loyal fans. I knew a dozen kids that were constantly listening to "I brought you my bullets", and they were big advocates of the genius of MCR. Anymore, they're revered by the same young girls that comprise the Twilight fanbase.
But Yeah, I loved the original version. It's a great, and while I get what MCR was trying to accomplish, especially with the quasi-punk flare they tried to incorporate into the song, I feel that Dylan's original was better. That's not to say that there aren't better versions of it waiting to be done....I mean, Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" puts Dylan's version from "John Wesley Harding" to shame.
Dylan admitted that himself. But other than G&R's cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", I feel like the My Chemical Romance cover was the worst Dylan cover I've ever heard.
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