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  • I like this better than the real.:)

  • Ya know, It's nothing near the original but I love it. Meh, can't help that I like Mcr's sound and style.

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  • wtf is this?!

  • No. No, no, no... This is just terrible. Completely destroys the mood.

  • How they have slayed an amazing song.

    It's not even healthy.

  • What the fuck is this shit? Why did they even bother to cover such a classic? Failures.

  • even if you dont like this version, dont give them shit for making it, because they obviously made it out of their love for Morrissey!!! if you were in a band, you would want to cover your favorite bands songs too!!

  • Coming from an MCR fan: I hate it. They killed such a beautiful song. (AFI was a little better, but not quite 'good')

    Personally, I think nothing comes close to the original.

  • @ColoredGrayscale I think AFI's version was good. This version isn't so great. So what? It's a band covering an artist they like. Who cares what it sounds like? Nobody's destroying the other versions.

  • "Jack the Ripper" is an incredibly creepy song. This completely destroys the feel of the song. The words don't even have the same meaning when done in this manner. This is a complete and total fail of a cover. I mean, it's good to put your own spin, or whatever, to a song when covering it, but don't destroy what it's about and how it feels. This is just terrible.

  • obviously no one can beat the original morrissey version. this is so raw being that its live. but afi's cover and this aren't too awful. but anyone is free to disagree. we don't all have to like the same things.

  • ..This is Pretty, Others may not like it..'cause it is live..But if it's recorded in a studio..It will be AMAZING..!!!

  • I like it because it's raw and hard. It doesn't sound that good because they didn't clean it up or autotune the Hell out of it.

    And AFI's was just amazing. I think both covers were 100x better than the original.

  • it's not toooo bad.. i gues.....

  • You guys are stupid. This was recorded with a shitty camera in a basement while thye were drunk. Of course it sounds like shit.

  • afi will always be sellouts as well.

  • RIPOFFS

  • horrible

  • No offense to MCR fans, but this cover is SHIT

  • plus most ppl forget that afi was punk before they where alternative so they are way more popular then mcr for a good reason

  • omg are u serious there are plenty of shity emo kids that can yell random shit like him and he took a shit on this song afi is amazing they where huge in hardcore and they are still huge now the only thing gerard has ever done right in his life is get that hot chick from msi

  • i love this version, AFI's version, and the original :] SCREW YOU HATERS.

  • he cant sing for crap..... literally.. i use to love mcr THEN I TURNED 12... x)...lol. he only uses computers to edit his voice. >:/

  • why???

  • AFI = the perfect creepy tone of Jack The Ripper

    MCR = Bad

  • this is horrible, please tell me it was recorded a long long time ago Dx

  • Mcr is like AFIs little brother that somehow became more popular, but still not as good.

    Still a good band, and a rough, different, but somehow enjoyable cover

  • I Love MCR but honestly AFI's was way better!

  • Ya know, I like MCR, I like Gerard's voice. But this was just kinda bleh. I kinda expected better... I have to say I liked AFI more. <3

  • Sing with me: all the posers of the world... unite and destroy great music....MCR and AFI, BBD and the whole east coast family must die!!!!!

  • @idiotbox000 yep, your nick describes you perfectly. get a life dude.

  • @XxRunAndScreamxX I am fully aware of this, I have actually read a book about him. But the killings were hostile and that's what I meant. I do completely understand though that he was unbelievably charming and attractive and smart, which is why nobody suspected him. Just the whole killing ordeal was not so tame, but very brutal.

  • MY FUCKING GOD. I wish someone could pour bleach in my brain to make me unhear that. It's so godawful it's not even entertaining to LOL at. I wonder if MCR actually did this cover, or if someone else is just passing it off as such? Because MCR honestly isn't THIS bad, although I don't much care for them.

  • What a God awful version of a great song... the AFI version sucks too...

  • im sorry but AFI's version was so much better. this is horrible. MCR this is horrible.

  • OH THIS VERSION JUST SUCKS...........LONG LIVE MORRISSEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The TRUE CREATOR of this SONG

  • I love My Chem with all of my heart but this isn't my favorite song by them. It seems rather immature. It's not terrible but not the best of their material. However, listening to this makes me think of Jack The Ripper himself, their cover seems hostile and angry just like the serial killer...

  • @rokkrchik I'm pretty sure that was their idea. :)

  • MCR, I love you, but you could have done a better cover. I'm with Saralyn...

  • I was listening to AFI's version, lookin over the comment war of "these people are fags" and "fuck off, AFI is awesome". I've never been a huge fan of MCR (please don't kill me), but I saw people talking about this and I decided to check it out. It's pretty good. :) So, I dedicate this next sentance to all AFI/MCR haters;

    FUCK YOU VERY MUCH AND HAVE A NICE DAY.

  • i dont care wat anyone says i like this version of the song best

  • People have to get over the fact mcr is NOT emo. What the hell even makes them emo?!?

  • that was hideous.

  • ouch that hurt me . it was butchered. poor moz i know it hurt him the most to hear =(

  • I love MCR, however, this is repulsive. Gerard's style clashes horribly with Morissey's. Gerard's is a very fierce, straight forward kinda style, while Moz has a more eloquent, open to interpretation, style.

    Basically Gerard likes anger, Moz likes beauty. This song is beautiful and is ruined when sung with anger.

  • @Saralyn Now that's a great way of saying it. I'm with you Saralyn.

  • AFI is better

  • THIS FAILS.

    AFI's cover is way better.

  • emos ruin all things good. morrissey is an amazing band and they go and ruin it with this shitty cover

  • i don't understand..... i love this cover! i also liked the original tho. and i think the afi cover is shit!!! MCR OWNS AND AFI IS A BUNCH OF COCK SUCKERS :/

  • @4everxatxthexdisco you're a faggot who needs ears this cover is sooooo shitty he's off key 24/7 and ugh its just so bad i like morrisseys and AFI's versions i like AFI's better but morrisseys is still amazing this is just retarded it's not an angry song why is it fast paced and with screaming in it

  • @AFIForever1 haha! i don't really give a FUCK! This is live, you prick! of course its not perfect.. they took a different approach to it.. better than coppying like AFI did. :)

  • @4everxatxthexdisco you're clearly retarded and have no eyes if you'd look at other ppls comments saying how afi's version is wayy better than mcr's and have like 6 thumbs up, via the comment right above yours dumb ass

  • @AFIForever1 you're an idiot. i'm not gonna try to convince you otherwise, because that's probably a waste of my time. but i will say like i said in my last comment.... AFI got the chance to record this and everything. MCR didn't so fuck off.

  • Why meddle with a masterpiece? Shocking!!!

  • jesus, this one is even worse than afi's version..these shitty new bands need to leave the classics alone

  • i hate this version it sucks

  • what is this shit

  • i think mcr version does nt sound great cuz they did this song when they're still new. at least its more original than afi version which sound so similar to morrissey. xP

  • This rendition is seriously terrible.

    Whether it's their "interpretation" or not.

    They do not deserve to even be connected with Morrissey.

    VIVA MORRISSEY.

  • Um.........no.

  • This is a fucking shocker, the original version is a thing of beauty, this is just a terrible plain and simple.....FAIL!... just a fucking painful racket

  • Collin Meloy has the best Jack The Ripper cover out there

  • I'm sorry, I like MCR in general, but this sounds like a bunch of little kids banging pots and pans. AFI did a way better cover.

  • well, they didnt butchered the song dudes... firt of all this was made at their very beginning as a band so cut them some slack lol (gerard was always drunk) and it was more for the expirience than anything

    and I think the song is cool and passionate anyways, even if AFI is good too. its not a competition lol

    MCR rocks and sorry for my english

  • Your English is probably better than most Americans.

  • this is bloody awful and some might ask, "well, why watch it" but i just had to hear the sound of both AFI & MCR ruining a classic (morrissey).

  • @ohgimemo yah same i'd put

    1. Moririssey obviously first

    2.AFI

    3. this is just too bad to put in third place so i'll put it in 4rth XD

    4. Mcr

  • @ohgimemo haha that's the only reason why I saw either one of these... Morrissey/The Smiths is one of my favorite bands... This version just makes it sound like donkey puke.

  • @icutmaiownhair donkey puke. hahaha. a vivid image... if only these c**ts could hear what we do. still, they're too half-witted to have changed their minds about releasing this.

  • afi will always be better than mcr

  • @pomm100 anybody who disagrees with you is a fag afi is a freaking awesome band!

  • @pomm100 Idiot. Post that somewhere else. Gerard Way's voice will always be one of the greatest things in music, to me at least. AFI sucks....

  • @pomm100 uh no... :L

  • @pomm100 uh...no :P Mcr has better songs and will always be awesome well that's my opinion but if you don't like mcr just don't listen to them...(:

  • Sorry, but if you don't like MCR, why are you watching their videos? It seems to me that the only reason a person should be putting down any band or any person should only be because they have no life and no friends, and not even then. Don't you people have lives?

  • @TheyCallMeQuiggles maybe because they're morrissey fans and want to see how mcr have covered one of their heroes' best songs?

    just an idea...

    p.s. they dragged it through a ditch and left it for dead. struggling for its last breath of air after they jumped on its ribcage and broke its dignity and fight to live.

  • ... There aren't words. Why did they have to butcher this one?

  • afi did this 1000 times better. sorry.

  • It is better i agree but this one is a good cover in my opinion

  • @borsudge yah way better

  • This band sucks at everything they do,

    Nuff said. They are all a bunch af tossers.

  • THEY FUCKING BLOW AT THIS SONG

  • MCR did what AFI could have done, and added a bit of themselves to the song. I have to say that Iike this version more than the AFI cover, AFI could have done a lot better. I guess I'm too much of an AFI oldfag to like stuff like that from them.

  • i really like this version. the original didnt seem to connect with jack the ripper's personality. he was a murderer, but the song was slow, but also kinda creepy. AFI's version is pretty much the same as the original. but mcr have added their own touch. i like all versions but prefer this one.

  • i liked the chorus but thats it

  • Agreed

  • This cover licks penis

    AFI had best cover

    Morrissey had best version

  • Morrissey Owned the song and still owns the song. AFI and MCR don't hold a candle to mozz

  • AFI owned this song mcr not so much

    but then again AFI owns so

  • my chemical romance=fave band

    gerard way=sex:)<3

  • hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmmmmmm

    its not bad

    all these people bellow me seriously need a life

    if u dont like it thers no need to tell everyone about it

    it aint that interesting what ever happend to if you dont like a song/band dont listen to it

    i think its reli sad that people leta hatred for a band take over there lives

    i know people who have made you tube an myspace pages devoted to hating a band wtf

  • fuck this....morrissey would be so bummed out if he had the time to know who this piece of shit band is

    seriously what a shitty band..anyone who says otherwise, wait a year or two and youll be like how the fuck did i like this shit...

  • God damn it!!! These fuckheads murdered this great song by Morrissey!! I fucking hate these fudgepacking bastards!!! DIE!!!!

  • It's a cover. That's why covers were invented. To ruin songs and piss people off. Chill

  • if you don't have anything good to say then don't say anything that people could hate for

  • You have a point, but...if you listened to the original version, you must agree that this cover blows!!!

  • No.

  • if they recorded this properly, then it would be the better cover

  • gerard is so quite but he's really cute blonde or black hair or short or long hair it dosen't matter to me :)

  • der afi song ist !0000 mal besser das hir ist der letzte schrott was für ein müll das ist keine musik

  • i prefer still A Fire with-in (AFI)

  • the name of the band is a fire inside you dweeb

  • Its "A Fire Inside"

  • i like this version better than AFI's. this one is more upbeat and reminds me more of jack the riper or a murderer, AFI's version is too slow for my liking and is more f a lovesong. too me anyway. still good, just prefer this one. =] <3

  • I think AFI's cover is better. I don't really like this one, though I do like My Chemical Romance.

  • great cover

  • Wow! is this really MCR? I'm not saying MCR is a bad band, in fact I think they are a very talented group, but what the fuck?! I know that this band can do much MUCH better than this, and I know for a fact Gerard Way can do ten thousand times better than he did in this cover.

  • haha understood lol =D

  • I also agree. I like the fact that this one is a bit more upbeat, but the fact that he screams in it just kills it.

    Therefore, AFI's is wayyyyy better

  • This is awesome!

  • OH NOOOOOO...

    Poor Morrissey.

  • sweet thanks! and i know right. ps, its dying to live lol

  • love it!!! i was in school and trying 2 remember the bass intro thing and i couldn't ='( BUT NOW I DO =)

  • i admtit Morrisey is legend..and i admit the song is by them..i respect them then! but sincerally i like MCR's version! :) it's my fucking taste! ^^ right? :)

  • Well, this is a cover... it's not supposed to sound like the original. Though, I do prefer the original more, I don't hate this.

  • They messed this classic up.

  • AFIs was better

  • i agree

  • seriously why are these fuckers still around..

  • these "fuckers" are still around because they are motherfucking good at what they do....telling people like you to fuck off!

  • well if what they do is 'be gay' then ive got to say.. theyre pretty good at it. i'll admit that i listened to them.. back when i was a fat 6th grader.. i suggest you listen to real music instead of this shit. nahh, nevermind youre probably just another scene prick that thinks theyre different from everyone else. totally brutal, yo

  • scene?? i dont think MCR is scene. and they can't "be gay", they are all married to WOMEN. that isnt gay to me.

  • oh sorry did i say scene? excuse me.. i meant mall-goth hot-topic-core emo faggots that make 'music' about how theyre overly dramatic pussies. im sure half their 'wives' are secretly she-males anyway. shitty music yields shitty fans. thats how it always will be. c u @ xwarpedxtourx HARDXCORE!!!!! emo 4 lyfe!!!

  • PFf stop All to say " hoho o.O they hacked this song " , ,they're NOT , OK? it's just the COVER of MCR ... <3 =) Love

  • what the fuck? they hacked this sond apart. it sux.  viva morrissey

  • oh my god they hacked this song apart? what the fuck????

  • Whining little maggots. Fuck off and never tamper with a legend! Moz should be thoroughly ashamed!

  • why do they have to cover every song that AFI covers?

    Im not trying to bash, but seriously o.0

  • they did this cover in 2002 afi did it around 2005 i think

  • MCR covered this song before AFI did

  • i like this cover.. but then again i love mcr so yea.

  • AFI's Covers way better!!

  • The music overpowers the vocals. I wish they had a better recording of this song. That being said, I think their own interpretation of this song is just that...theirs. When covering a song I think it's best to put yourself and your ways into it, otherwise it's just a black and white faded print of the original.

  • Neither AFI or MCR deserves to cover this song.

    Not to mention they are freaking awful on it.

  • Agreed =]

  • this is all down to personal opinion andi can honestly hold my hands up and say i love this.

    although its performed live and the recording sounds fuzzy, i think they made the song their own.

    although i like the original, i cant help but think this cover and the rawness about it sets the scene behind the song a whole load better.

    can you honestly imagine jack the ripper crooning to the prostitue he was about to f..k up? no he'd be screaming insanitys at her.

  • ur rite a 100%. this here is a fucking genius *no sarcasim*

  • thts the reason behind why i prefer this version. the other one, to me, is too sweet.

  • The point of a cover song isn't always to do it the way it really is, with your voice. If a rock band covers some rap song, they're not going to try and rap. They put it into a rock form.

    It's common. MCR did this their way. I, for one, think it really expresses it better than say AFI's version. You can get the more creepy sense of who Jack The Ripped really was.

  • well they tried to put it in a different genre

    but in my tastes I can't really say that this is a good cover...the whole dreaming feeling is completely fucked up...

    AFI made it way better, maybe because they kept closer to the original version....

    I don't know, I can't like that one...

  • this is fucking amazing

    and so is the AFI version

    you stupid crybaby people need to shut the fuck up.

  • gerard i fuckin sexy respect it biach

  • Sorry to say this, but it sounds like they tried to make a joke of this song :(

  • 1.) Moz

    2.) AFI

    100.) MCR

    In order from best to worst. I dont know how but MCR fucked this up big time.

  • haha this songs sucks, but not as bad as those AFi poser cunts.

  • blasphemy! you know that's not true, and so does the "better" part of the world.

  • I'll kill you.

  • he was sick when they did this btw i should know cuz i was there wen they recorded it

  • me too, but seriously the cover is horrible without his vocal "talent" we'll call it. the guitar soloing for ever and ever sounds like shit.

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  • ffs, mcr sucks so fucking hard. emo bands are so gay, and they all sound like a camel chopping off its balls!

  • and besides you gotta admit this sounds a million times better than tenagers!

    bullets rocks a ridiculous amount of socks

  • Has the same sound as Stay at the start

  • this is live isn't it?

    of course it's gonna soudn bad, all demos/live versions sound bad unless they use proper equipment

    which they probably haven't cos this is from around when bullets was released and they were poor

    don't judge it on the quality of the recording

    if you hate the cover fine, at least they had the balls to do a different arragement unlike every other band that covers a song

  • Morrissey is better

  • THIS SSSSUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKSSSSS!!!!!­, mcr is "ok" though... kinda ish not really but ok...

  • shit. complete bull shit

  • agreed. fi's jack the ripper 1000000000000000 times better

  • it sounds like it wasn;t professionally recorded-- like they took a regular tape recorder and did this in their basement

  • and?

  • and the quality would be better and more clear if it was professionally recorded

  • Yeah, but some songs are recorded so they sound like this. Alot of people think Demolition Lovers was recorded badly, it was meant to sound that way.

  • I thought demolition lovers came out great!

  • Same, I love Demolition Lovers. I listen to it when I can't sleep :)

  • I listen to early sunsets over monroeville to drift off to sleep sometimes

  • Morrissey's version is the best.

    AFI's is quite good.

    But this. . . sorry, MCR. . .