Mongo Nation

Sign of the apocalypse or just the natural progression of things?

I was reading an essay by Chuck Klosterman the other day that was about Gene Simmons recording a song with Bob Dylan, and how that signified the logical conclusion of rock and roll.

When the most commercial individual in rock does a song with the one guy who is generally considered to be the single most “credible” person in rock… there just isn’t anywhere else to go from there.

That was true until just recently, when gothic nerd band My Chemical Romance did a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row”, pretending to be the Dead Kennedys, in a video that was shot by Academy Award winning DP Guillermo Navarro, exclusively for the soundtrack to the as yet unreleased Watchmen film, based on the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore. How’s that for meta?

Check out the video in question here: