New My Chemical Romance song titles: Origins
A few days ago on formspring, one of my followers asked about how I knew the titles of the new tracks from My Chemical Romance's upcoming release.
To answer, I "tracked" back through my blog archives to find all of them and their origins (initial mentions) and evolutions (name changes or typo-driven errors) within the press. I think this is a pretty complete list of all the titles they have publicly announced; so, I thought I would post it here as an information reference.
Before any new songs came about, there were:
"Stay" (fan-titled)
"The World is Ugly" (also fan-titled)
Tentative titles from Mikey's "practice cam" blog entries:
"The World is Ugly"
"Teenage Girl"
”Drugs”
”Pretty[..?]”
“Gun”
“Tokyo Death”
“Monster Jam”
“City Lights”
“Trans-Am”
“Still Alive”
July 22, 2009: "Siren Song" ? (probably just the video title)
The Roxy Songs:
"Death Before Disco"
"The Drugs"
“L.A. Heavy” (as it was called on the setlist)
October, 2009: Toro hints that the best material was written AFTER all these tracks.
November blog entry from Ray Toro:
“Still Alive”
”Save Yourself”
”The Only Hope for Me is You”
“Trans Am”
”Death Before Disco”
“Kiss the Ring”
(previously known “L.A. Heavy”)
Black Dragon Fighting Society
November Kerrang!
“Save yourself, I’ll hold them back” (as opposed to “Save Yourself”)
December Alternative Press:
“The Light Behind your Eyes”
”Hail to the King” (new title of “Kiss the Ring”)
November 30, Spinner:
”Light Before Your Eyes” (that could be a typo)
December NME
“Bullet Proof Heart” (previously “Trans Am”)
“Black Dragon Fighting Society”
“Save Yourself” (“I’ll Hold them Back” is gone again… LOL)
May Nylon Guys
”Detonator Baby”
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Remember that members of the band have said that the best material they have written has come after many of these announced songs. So, some of them may not end up making the final cut.
Which songs do you hope stay based on the descriptions you've read of them?
XoXo
c.
Oh, If you have any more titles I forgot to mention here, leave a comment and a link to the source!
Comments
Yes, I know. I wrote about that too. :]
I was under the impression that that was an old picture because the description said that it was the lyrics when they were first being written and also foreshadowed that things had changed since then. :]
We shall see!
XoXo
c.
Woah i've only heard of a few of these titles, but I saw in a recent interview that it was still Bulletproof Heart. And one of the shortlist album names was something like
"Conventional Weapons - We're No Match For Them"
xoxo
Yup! This post just wasn't updated after DD came out. :]
-c.