Immortality Meant Never Dying - MCR Live Mix

[exsequar]

I love listening to live performances, often more than album versions. There must be other people out there who feel the same, so I've decided to share a little project I've been working on! I've ripped the audio from various live performances by My Chemical Romance, all (except one) professionally recorded for TV or other purposes so the audio's quite decent. There are all the usual unpredictabilities of live performances - Gerard getting the audience to sing a line, messing with the melody a bit, adlibbing here and there - but I think that's what makes live recordings so much fun.

So without further ado, I present...



TRACKLIST
1. Helena (Jersey)
2. Give Em Hell Kid (Download)
3. To The End (Jersey)
4. You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (MTV2)
5. I'm Not Okay (I Promise) (MTV)
6. The Ghost Of You/Our Lady Of Sorrows (Download)
7. The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You (Hove)
8. Thank You For The Venom (Jersey)
9. Under Pressure (with The Used) (MTV2)
10. Honey This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us (Jersey)
11. Vampires Will Never Hurt You (Hellfest)
12. Our Lady Of Sorrows ($2Bill)
13. Demolition Lovers (Orangevale)
14. Welcome To The Black Parade (House of Blues)
15. Mama (House of Blues)
16. Famous Last Words (The List)

DOWNLOAD "Immortality Meant Never Dying" - My Chemical Romance LIVE
ETA: Thanks to lord_spamulon for noticing, I forgot to include Under Pressure! Here's a link for that: Under Pressure. Sorry!
Key to Locations and Videos
Note: I could only find some of the videos again, so those are linked. The ones I downloaded at The Immortality Project are linked there.

• Jersey - Starland Ballroom, New Jersey, 12/30/04. This is that amazing night that most of the LOTMS DVD live performances are from. Helena. To The End. Venom.
  
• Download - Download Festival 2005, Donington Park, England. GOY/OLOS.
  
• MTV2 - Just a couple random MTV2 performances. No idea about dates. Under Pressure.
  
• MTV - A set of in studio live performances they did for MTV. They're all pretty fabulous. I'm Not Okay
  
• Hove - Hove Festival in Norway, June 2007. Kind of crappy quality, but it's the only decent live version of Jetset I've seen. Can't seem to find where I downloaded it though :(
  
• Hellfest - Syracuse, NY. July, 2004. Vampires (I recommend downloading this one from TIP, along with Gerard doing Jet Black New Year with Thursday and the ridiculous little interview ♥)
  
• $2Bill - Philadelphia, PA. MTV. 9/6/06. OLOS
  
• Orangevale - California, 10/08/03. Demolition Lovers (This whole set is also amazing, download from TIP. Lots of great Bullets!)
  
• House of Blues - LA, 10/31/06. WTTBP and Mama at TIP
  
• The List - Myspace's The List, 10/05/06. FLW

Phew, that was more work than I expected! I hope someone enjoys listening to this as much as I enjoyed making it :) And maybe I've pointed you in the direction of some live stuff you weren't aware of! MCR is an absolutely phenomenal live band, and they've given us a lot of brilliant material to revel in :) If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!

(X-Posted at chemicalromance)

Comments

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you so much ♥ I don't think I've ever heard Demolition Lovers live before. Guh, so much love.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm really glad you appreciate it :) Oh man, I know, that song is just gorgeous live. You need to WATCH the whole Orangevale set, it blows my FACE off. So tiny and enthusiastic!

[airgiodslv.livejournal.com]

I love live tracks, thank you so much for this!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Yay, you're welcome! I hope you enjoy it!

[givesyouhell.livejournal.com]

Oooh, okay, I have a question that I'm thinking you can answer because you know a lot about MCR. I saw them at the Starland Ballroom on 12/30/04, and the whole thing was taped for MTV, who aired a half hour special a few weeks later, and I know it was the show I was at because I recognized it. And I really thought that was the stuff that was on the MCR DVD. I mean, I haven't watched it carefully, but now I'm just so confused wondering how MCR played near me on 11/11/04 and I didn't know about it. Was that show, like, private or something? You probably don't even understand my question, but omg I'm so confused, hahaha.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I do understand your question, and what I'm thinking is that The Immortality Project got the date wrong, because that's where I got the 11/11 date from. I have seen videos on Youtube that have MTV's logo on them that match the videos that are on the DVD (which I have watched obsessively, um *is totally not watching it RIGHT THIS SECOND, of course not*) so they must be the same set. I think the only logical explanation is that TIP fucked up on the date, if you're sure that the show you saw was on MTV.

.......

It only just hit me that YOU WERE AT THE FUCKING STARLAND BALLROOM SHOW OH MY GOD I'M TRYING REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD NOT TO HATE YOU RIGHT NOW. *flailyhands* Pretty much ALL my favorite live performances are from that show! Glorious, all out performances of Honey, Vampires, Sorrows, sdlkfjlsdkjfd! Nghhhh I haaate that I didn't know them earlier D: D: D:

[givesyouhell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I checked my lj archives, it was definitely 12/30/04. They also played there on either 12/31/04 or 1/1/05, but I wasn't at that show, and I'm not sure if that show was also taped. I do know that I definitely recognized most of the MTV footage I saw on TV, but I haven't watched the DVD stuff all that carefully, mainly because it looked like it was the same stuff as was on MTV. But yes, I was at the show! I actually really didn't like it at all but only because the fans sucked, it was not a band issue. That was also the last time I saw them that they played anything off of Bullets, though. If only I had known, I would have cherished it more! I saw that at the Starland earlier that year, too, and that was an awesome show. The best was the very first time I saw them in '03, though, opening for TBS. Gerard had his little leather jacket! I fell in love immediately.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Definitely snagging it. Thanks so much, sweetie!<3

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Yay, you're welcome! Enjoy! <333

[stereomer.livejournal.com]

oh dude, how awesome are you? v. awesome. fact. :D thank you for this!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Teehee, well gosh! ;) You're very welcome, I hope you enjoy it!

[pushingyouaway.livejournal.com]

*is in awe of your awesomeness*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! Hope you enjoy it!

[nightxparade.livejournal.com]

I love you SO MUCH for this! <3333333333

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

And I love YOU for your truly glorious Frankie icon :D His faaaace. I hope you enjoy it!

[trinity_clare]

Snagged!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Woo!

[walking-paradox.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, THANK YOU so much for this!

♥ ♥ ♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome! Enjoy!

[atomichatred82.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! Downloading right now.

Am friending you too, btw, if that's okay.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome! And of course it's okay, friending back :) I always love meeting more fellow MCR obsessives \o/

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

YAY I'm downloading :D

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Enjoy :D

[affectations.livejournal.com]

OMG this is so awesome. I love live albums, Life on the Murder Scene is one of my favourites because MCR is really amazing live and I've always wanted more of their live songs! Thank you so much for doing this, I'm definitely snagging. I love that you included songs from all three albums pretty equally!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I have 45 live MCR songs NOT including LOTMS O.O So clearly I love them live too! Hee. You are very very welcome :) I tried to be kind of diplomatic regarding the album distribution, but it was hard to find Black Parade performances that I enjoyed (the album is amped up so much by production (WALL OF GUITARS SMASH!!) that it REALLY loses something live, I find) but I did try! And I wanted more Bullets but it's really hard to find good Headfirst or Skylines performances, which I would have loved. For 3 Cheers I tried to get the whole album, but it seems they strongly favor the front half of the album because I got all of that but none of the back end! *hands*

Enjoy! :D

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Ooh awesome. Live music is always the best. *snags*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

It absolutely is :D I hope you enjoy it!

[coverlies.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT OMG THANK YOUUUUU ♥♥♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Heee, you're welcome! <3

[spvinter.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *loves*

[spvinter.livejournal.com]

Also, may I ask what program you use to handle your ripped mp3's? I've been looking for a program with which I can embed (and change the embedded) album art in mp3's like you've done here, but I haven't found any that works like it's supposed to. Right now I'm stuck with putting a .jpg file in every album folder, which sucks and is of absolutely no help when one of the songs already has art embedded that I cannot change or remove.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I use the magical and all-purpose iTunes, I'm afraid. I'm rather in love with it. It didn't even occur to me that that could be a problem! I'd recommned it, if you don't have it - only downside is that it can't play wmas.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I've downloaded.

Thank you so much!

[keepingtime-ca.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for doing this! I snagged the zip and the cover art, and will treasure it.